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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Brisbane, it has been far too long. Excited to present a talk at Yeast Products and Discovery (YPD) hosted at The University of Queensland next week! So many connections to make, so many ideas to exchange.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

UPDATE (v1.2): now allows for more complicated 3-list scenarios (Euler plots included)

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Switch between simple or ratio-based sizing, apply a blind-friendly palette, and customise fonts. Spread it around and leave feedback on any features you'd like to see in v1.3. Made using Claude Sonnet 5. Credit to Juan Carlos Oliveros, creator of Venny, whose tool inspired me to build this one.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Need a Venn diagram? I've just built a web tool for that: "so much VENNING", link (& UPDATE) in the comments ☺️ It's not just for visualizing overlaps: you can also pull out the overlapping entries (e.g. gene or protein names) by hovering over data points or as a downloadable .csv summary.

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined VIIN workshop 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙: 𝙀𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝘼𝙗𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 🎉 Big thanks to @faolivier.bsky.social @duckswabber.bsky.social and @drnatsampaio.bsky.social for their insights on abstracts, presentations & science comms. Q&A was a highlight 🙌

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Congratulations to @helenisinthelab.bsky.social for winning the Suspended! challenge at #lorneiandi 2026! She had great competition from Long Huynh. Thank you to VIIN and all the sponsors for making this amazing event possible.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Dr Helen Stölting now leads! 🎮⚡#lorneiandi

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Hahahah Long submitted a few new scores as well 🎮

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The leaderboard heating up! Long Huynh currently in the lead ⚡ #lorneiandi

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Announcing my Suspended! competition just for #Lorneiandi 26 🎮 Play my video game (grow into a C. albicans biofilm). Highest biomass wins a Suspended! t-shirt ❤️ More details on poster 158, or play game here: gd.games/frankcandida...

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Great work from Leanie Kleynhans showing that alveolar macrophages from diabetic patients have impaired responses to Mtb! #lorneiandi

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Legend. I will take pics for you if it happens!

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

You on aurora watch tonight Shane?

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Useful for reaching audiences outside of academia with an interest in research news. Not fun in any way

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Dr Sarah Kidd @thefunguskidd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Pssst! Mycology Masterclass enthusiasts! Details are on the website and registration opens April 7th. Places will fill up quickly. www.adelaide.edu.au/mycology/nod...

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Mycology Masterclass

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I'm doing my first pulse chase experiment and I like that it sounds like an action film. PULSE CHASE starring Françios Olivier It also sounds like a sick run club. An absolute winner of a name.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Thanks Shane, you were fantastic (as always)

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Dr Shane Huntington OAM @drshanerrr.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This guy was just awesome today - not often you have a guest bring you science gifts, do a great interview, and then sing about their work as well!

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Just a lovely time hanging out with @drshanerrr.bsky.social, ChrisKP and Dr Scarlett on Triple R today 🎙❤️ Also my first time singing about fungi on radio... a love song about Candida 😍 Definitely harder to do live! Listen here: www.rrr.org.au/shared/broad...

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Thank you to Monash Micro Imaging and Thermo Fisher Scientific for awarding me 2nd place 🥈 honours in the 2024 MMI Image competition 🤩 Well done to all the winners, there were some truly spectacular images and I am so proud to be featured alongside them all.

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Norman van Rhijn @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

With more #MycoSky arriving here by the day, lets gather everyone and rebuild. Please let me know if I’ve missed out on you or anyone relevant 🍄‍🟫😎 go.bsky.app/FYRJn6M

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Oh my! What a surprise to see the buzz on this app ❤️ Goodbye X 👋

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Everyone meet “Billy” my new desk mate, already has a long induction waitlist 🔬 Safety SUNglasses recommended for use, which involves staring directly into an LED. The blindness that results is temporary and absolutely worthwhile for the outstanding imaging achieved.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

This (the distance) is a very Melbourne problem, its something I miss about NZ

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

New year, new toys 🍄🔬 Wishing everyone a happy 2024, keep pioneering and discovering!

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

This method can be used for many microbes and immune cells. I really love protocol papers, stoked to have finally written my own! Thanks to Volker Hilsenstein and Ana Traven for making this one possible.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

I used this workflow to show that C. albicans escape from macrophages using candidalysin + gasdermin D, published in @CellReports last year C. albicans forms a kind of “poisonous sword” to cut its way out of the macrophage, leaving a mess behind.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

New paper! STARProtocols actually let me write a big ol’ protocol: live cell imaging to quantify Candida albicans escape from macrophages. star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/3144 I’m talking notes, video demonstrations, troubleshooting, sample data, MATHS!

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Oh right, let me get back to you!

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

So happy to see awesome scientists migrate here! Twitter/X has so many problems, it’s just not the vibe for science anymore.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Could you make one for the paper Im working on with Kelly & co? We’re working on a methods-focussed manuscript? I mean that would just be epic to have an animation for it.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

You’re very welcome. Just keen to get the fungal path community on here!

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a brief etymology saccharon = sugar 🍭 myces = fungus 🍄 cerevisiae = latin for "of beer" 🍺 Think I'll have a cerevisiae tonight...

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

I’m excited to announce my grant-writing think tank. Already a few strong opinions expressed.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I should add the strain was first made by Robert Wheeler, for zebrafish work I think.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Absolutely and this is a good one. I’m in Aussie, should mention we got this from Mihalis Lionakis, would he be a bit closer? Otherwise, I’ll be back in the lab mid November (on a break at the moment) and can arrange that for you.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

We shall by morning Inherit the earth

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Fungal pathogenesis researchers, I’ve started a Bluesky feed for us here: bsky.app/profile/did:... If the link doesn’t work: search “Fungal Path Researchers” Please follow and message me if you wish to be added. There are only a handful of users for now, this will take a few weeks to build.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Ive tried this a few times for distributing to-do tasks across a week. The ability to iteratively improve a schedule makes it a game changer imo. It makes my google home feel rather unintelligent.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

How human pathogenic fungi escape from macrophages- lovely review from Sonnberger & co onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

This is meant to be exclusive to researchers. I am thinking if creating a feed or two that users filters for all Bluesky posts, for example, “candidalysin”, “hyphae” or other specialised terms worth filtering for… maybe a broader mycology feed.

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Yes that is correct, I never felt more alive

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Yesterday I was bestowed with a superb farewell gift from @drlachie.bsky.social… “The Francois Line” on the lab’s table tennis ladder, showing my final score 🥹 I am honoured. 🫡 @ngeo.bsky.social

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