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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I buy my books at @orellfuessli.bsky.social. They get me books I want. They have a nice shop. I just wish they dropped their flirting with "protection money" racketeering when they try to sell me insurance for ordering a book online and picking it up at their store.

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Wow. #Frontiers fights back with an opinion piece shouting "The fault is in the researchers, leave Frontiers alone!" And with the piece having no disclaimers of funding and donations, and apparently no editorial revision this opens the possibility of Frontiers paying for propaganda.

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Riccardo Baroncelli @riccardobaroncelli.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thrilled to see this finally out!! Our new work suggests #Starships helped #Colletotrichum acquire the genes needed to infect lupin. A glimpse into how fungal pathogens emerge through horizontal transfer and genome reshaping. biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Fungi #Genomics #Pathogenicity #evolution

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 17/05/2026

After having consulted the #DRC & #Uganda where the #Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus is known to be currently occurring, I determine that the epidemic constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), as defined in the provisions of IHR. My statement: bit.ly/4wGGiwX

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Angeliki T. 💎 in NYC @ellinidata.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

#bugsky 🐛🪲🐞 I love the view of Onychophora on a Saturday morning

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Seems the UK needs to acknowledge it has a white supremacy terrorism problem. And it wouldn't be hard to find out who's been promoting hate in politics.

An article in #TheGuardian dated Sat 16 May 2026 with the header: Neo-Nazi obsessed teen jailed for trying to kill Kurdish man in Bristol with axe

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/15/neo-nazi-obsessed-teen-jailed-for-trying-to-kill-kurdish-man-in-bristol-with-axe?CMP=share_btn_url

An article in #TheGuardian dated 17 Jan 2025 with the header:

Nazi-obsessed terrorist given life sentence for Worcestershire attack on asylum seeker https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/17/nazi-obsessed-terrorist-callum-parslow-life-sentence?CMP=share_btn_url

An article in #TheGuardian dated 3rd Dec 2021 with the header:

‘Head of propaganda’ at British neo-Nazi group National Action jailed https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/03/head-propaganda-british-neo-nazi-group-national-action-jailed-ben-raymond?CMP=share_btn_url

An article in #TheGuardian dated 15th of May 2026 with the following headline:
Far-right activists barred from UK before Tommy Robinson rally https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/15/far-right-activists-barred-uk-tommy-robinson-rally?CMP=share_btn_url

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:

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The Biggest Attack on Abortion Since the End of Roe

A federal court wants to end mifepristone by mail—it's not happening

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Who would've thought cuts on food security (3500 FDA jobs, 9% Food Safety and Inspection Service jobs, cut on Safety programs, cut on 17 Inspector Generals, having the grifter Marty Makary as FDA comissioner, blocking a rule proposal aimed to reduce Salmonella in poultry) would have consequences.

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Every time I am pushed an iHerb (the vitamin supplement Big Pharma company) ad on YouTube, I will repost this link to the time when the California State found dangerous levels of the heavy metal Cadmium in iHerb products #BigPharma #VitaminScam oag.ca.gov/system/files...

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

#Job opportunity! We are looking for a post-doc with experience in quantitative #ecology, preferably with modelling plant dynamics at large scale, to work 2 years with the fantastic @climatecocentre.bsky.social at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social .

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Eddie Yang @eddieyang.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

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TeePee Cider @teepeecider.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Fireblight of apples and pears was the first plant infection to be diagnosed as caused by bacteria in 1880 by Burrill, he called it Micrococcus amylovorus. In 1920 the bacterium was reclassified as Erwinia amylovora by Winslow. Photo Roberta Pastorelli #fireblight #apples #pears #disease #bacteria

Electron microscope picture of the bacteria Erwinia amylovora.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Thank you to @sciam.bsky.social for letting me dig into the protein enhancement fad. 1. If you are an elite athlete, OR elderly/frail, maybe you do need extra protein. 2. That's not you. You're not an elite athlete. 3. If it is you: consider yogurt. www.scientificamerican.com/article/prot...

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Are protein-boosted foods and drinks actually more healthy?

Extra protein can be found in everything now, from potato chips to Pop-Tarts. Does this benefit the average eater?

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Gerrich @gerrich.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Is there a good colony counting tool for images as this one out there? I tried OpenCFU here and it didn't work at all. 🧪

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MyPet Health by Vetcation @vetcation.com · 09/05/2026

🔴 In Australia, two paddleboarders rescued an exhausted wallaby that had been swept out to sea. Now he'll go and tell it in his own circle, and none of them will believe him either.

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Everyone is freaking out about hantavirus, so I read my notes from my MPH and a bunch of articles so you don't have to. Long story short - it's shit for people impacted, but you are very, very unlikely to be impacted. gidmk.substack.com/p/you-probab...

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You Probably Don't Need To Stress About Hantavirus

Some facts about the new outbreak that's worrying the globe

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

At first I thought it was a sleeping bee, & it moved very quickly when I tried to touch it. But then it stopped moving again and I finally saw why. Such good camouflage, a white crab spider in a white pear blossom. 🌱 #inverts

A closeup view of 2 white pear blossom flowers, with a small native bee.

Another view now that the bee has moved a bit, that shows the bee hanging from the jaws of a white crab spider.

And a third view that finally shows the crab spider more clearly though it is still very hard to see against the shite flower. #gardening.

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Lee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Scientists isolated a fungus—A. calidoustus—from NASA’s clean rooms where Mars-bound spacecraft are prepped. Then they tried and failed to kill it with conditions mimicking Mars and deep space. The implications... aren’t great. www.scientificamerican.com/article/coul...

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Could this fungus live on Mars? Maybe it already does

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary quarantine

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The most embarrassing moment of being a scientist of the 21st century is watching the tsunami of misinformation in nutrition, health and microbiome research while witnessing the actual expert scientists produce the most ridiculous excuses on why its not their job to correct such lies.

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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

#MicroSky people, have you ever grown a Staph aureus biofilm that forms a crispy or hard exterior crust (not in urine)? My MBio student Izabela has, and we are not finding much literature on this.

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Some serious analyses on replicability rate as a measure of reliability. Worth reading the thread and the preperint!

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Seppo @sepponet.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

#WildBees and #pollinators need our help. You can help some of them with bee hotels. They also need food, pollen and nectar. So use less #lawnmower, and let #wildflowers bloom in your yard and garden! #bees #bumblebees #wasps #wildlife #backyard #beehotels

Tho wild bees at the beehotel.
A man cuts the lawn in the yard, no flowers.
One bee says: Fantastic! A bee hotel!
Another bee yells: ...But no restaurant!

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🪲🐞🐛🐜🕷🦋🦟🦗🪰 #InverteFest #BugSky #pollinator #wildbee #nativebee #Bern Another furrow bee for this season. Lassioglossum politum

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Megan Behringer @megbehri.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Every young genome biologist around 2007 knew just how influential and complicated Craig Venter was. Learning about the human genome, and yacht expeditions collecting ocean microbiomes, were major contributors to my interest in bioinformatics when I was an undergrad finding my way in science. RIP.

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I just heard Craig Venter died. I can't think of anyone who inspired nearly as many heated discussions in biology by the turn of the century as he did. And in science, discussions are good. My life would have been unrecognizably different without his impact. And it feels like the end on an era 🧬🖥

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

I guess I should re-post from the Bird Site "The Rules For Academic Success here": I always get asked for advice about starting/surviving the tenure track. Here are the rules I've found useful. Thought I'd put it out there for the masses... This list gets longer all the time

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Our memory gets worse as we age, but this isn't true for common wasps. Annaline Mattens &co show that as they age, the parts of a wasp's brain involved in memory make up more of their brain size. This is handy in their new role finding food for the nest journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A queen wasp on a comb with larval wasps and pupae. Photo credit: Anneline Mattens.

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What should Europe do when demand for #ERC funding keeps rising? Restrict access or invest in excellence? Please read our open letter calling for reconsideration of the ERC 2027 resubmission restrictions & for constructive alternatives that preserve openness Consider to share & sign - see below 🧪

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#erc | Johanna Joyce

What should Europe do when demand for its most successful frontier research programme keeps rising? Restrict access, or invest in the excellence it has created? A new open letter, spearheaded by Sara...

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Benjamin Towbin @betowbin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Two more weeks to submit an abstract for ***Theory across Biology***. Great speakers, no distractions, only the best ideas in their purest form. What's not to like?

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🪲🐞🐛🐜🕷🦋🦟🦗🪰 #InverteFest #BugSky #pollinator #wildbee #nativebee #Bern A very serendipitous encounter with a furrow bee (maybe Lassioglossum? Maybe L.calceatum?) While waiting for the tram.

A very tiny furrow bee sitting on a finger

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Our new #BIEN biodiversity data workflow paper is out! BIEN is an ecosystem of modular, open-source BIEN tools for collecting, harmonizing, and validating biodiversity data -- and an integrated global database (BIEN db) of plant occurrences, traits & geographic ranges. doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪🌐🌾🌵

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BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data

The rapid expansion of biodiversity data presents new opportunities to understand and forecast biosphere dynamics. However, disparate and dispersed data, taxonomic and geographic inconsistencies, ...

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 28/04/2026

It's cloudy today in Seattle, so here's an older photo of a mason bee wearing a pollen hat and boots for #InverteFest.

a shiny black/dark green bee with yellow pollen on its head like a hat and on its legs like boots. it's hovering in front of a bright yellow flower shaped like a sunflower

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Nugget (in red) ❤️ Metaphycus wasp, being the most adorable Hymenopteran ever today #InverteFest

Miniscule nugget-y red wasp with the tiniest wing stubs and little flappy clubbed antennae, running along a dry pine needle

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - April 2026 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1RJ5m... #Art #SciArt

a promo image showing various pages from the book, each page showcasing different animals like a moth, jellyfish, octopus, shrimp, beetle, among others. the art featured shows a range of different medium, including digital, watercolor, oil, and so on.

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

🪲🐞🐛🐜🕷🦋🦟🦗🪰 #InverteFest #BugSky #pollinator #wildbee #nativebee The mason bee Osmia cornuta feeding and polinizing an apple flower

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Abejas Silvestres @abejassilvestres.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

¡Nuevo estreno! ¿Quieres ayudar a las abejas? Planta flores silvestres: aportan alimento a las abejas silvestres y otros polinizadores, y mejoran el suelo y el clima. Valen balcones, jardines o campos. Pero… ¿qué plantas elegir? Os ayudamos con esta lista. 👉 www.abejassilvestres.es/resources/pl...

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Last week of April means it’s time for #InverteFest! This time along with the collections of #invertebrate #sciart, they’ve published an anthology! They paired up authors and illustrators and made a marvellous invertebrate themed online book. Check out our sweet board book introducing the little 🧵

The cover page of our insect board book has a creamy background and title ‘Meet The Pollinators’ in minty green. In a dull purple it reads “Written by Lisa Jaffe and Illustrated by Ele Willoughby’. My linocuts of plants and pollinators run along the bottom illustrating a screen with flying Great Spangled Fritillary butterfly over California poppies, a lupine and baby blue eyes flowers with a western bumblebee on one of the poppies.

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

🪲🐞🐛🐜🕷🦋🦟🦗🪰 #InverteFest #BugSky #pollinator #wildbee #nativebee A swiss carpenter bee Xylocopa violacea on a chinese Wisteria

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

🪲🐞🐛🐜🕷🦋🦟🦗🪰 #InverteFest #BugSky #pollinator #wildbee #nativebee Red #MasonBee Osmia bicornis coming out of her tube nest. #WildBiene+Partner

Frontal picture of a red masom bee smcoming out of her tube in her bee hotel that has some tubes already closed with clay

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

🪲🐞🐛🐜🕷🦋🦟🦗🪰I forgot yesterday was the first day of #InverteFest! So here is a Melanostoma hover fly, pollinator of apple flowers. iNaturalist says its species is Melanostoma scalare. #BugSky #pollinator #hoverfly

A hoverfly pollinator standing on the stems and styles of an apple flower

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