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Goldschmidt Conference @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🚨 Final call: submit session & workshop proposals for Goldschmidt 2027 in Paris next July - deadline October 15. More details: buff.ly/Xq7f3P0

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Enrico Sandro Colizzi @escolizzi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

How common is multicellularity in bacteria? And archaea? And how does it evolve? We wrote a short review "On the architecture and evolution of prokaryotic multicellularity". Preprint link: bit.ly/4ta06Gq Sharing and comments are much appreciated. 1/4

An overview of bacterial multicellular formations: biofilms, filaments, free-floating aggregates, motile collectives and fruiting bodies. For each form, we mention an analogous eukaryotic multicellular form (respectively animal epitelia, filaments in fungi, Volvox, Dictyostelium/social animals, Dictyostelium and other slime moulds)

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Neha Mehta @mneha.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

@cnrs.fr needs to do A LOT better to truly be a home to not only french speaking researchers but also non-french ones! They preach this message loud and clear on website and brochures...time to put that message into action!

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Neha Mehta @mneha.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

this has been the status for at least for past 15 yrs, based on my discussion with other colleagues...It is no longer an excuse!!!!

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Neha Mehta @mneha.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

its a mix of academic and higher level of admin staff!

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Neha Mehta @mneha.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I don't think having slides in english cost "significant" time and and budget, especially in the age of artifical inteligence :) The awareness about this issue has been there for a 'very long time" as I was told by my fellow researchers...I hope for everyone's sake, @cnrs.fr acts now on this issue!

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Neha Mehta @mneha.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

If @cnrs.fr wants to position itself as an international employer, then moments like this matter. A “welcome day” should actually feel like one—for everyone in the room (5/5).

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Neha Mehta @mneha.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I also recognize that not all colleagues are comfortable in English, and #inclusivity should go both ways. The point is not to replace French, but to avoid creating situations where some new recruits are effectively excluded from the start (4/5)

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Neha Mehta @mneha.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

There are practical ways to address this: 1) Providing live English translation for key sessions 2) Offering parallel sessions in English and French @cnrs.fr is well equipped to do so from a technical resource point of view! (3/5)

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Neha Mehta @mneha.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I fully understand that learning French is important in the long term, and I will likely do so. But on day one, at an event explicitly designed to welcome all new hires, it is reasonable to expect some level of accessibility for those recruited internationally without a language requirement. (2/5)

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Neha Mehta @mneha.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I found it difficult that the entire event—speeches, slides and workshops on key topics such as career development and funding—was conducted exclusively in French. This made it hard to engage with what is meant to be a welcome experience for everyone. (1/4)

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Neha Mehta @mneha.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

A few days ago, the @cnrs.fr Welcome Day for new permanent staff took place. Far from feeling welcoming, it highlighted some questions about how international talent is included—or excluded—in the system! See 🧵below about my experience! @cnrs.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrs-paris.bsky.social

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EAG @eageo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Job alert: Assistant Prof. in Paleoclimate/Paleoceanography/Sediment Geochemistry, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego (USA). Apply by 15 March, 2027. More info: buff.ly/XzcJ1y0

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Widespread promiscuous alkaline phosphatases underscore ancient microbial phosphite utilization www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Wound healing is a hallmark feature of all life, including single cells. In a new preprint, Ambika Nadkarni @biochembika.bsky.social investigates a new dimension in cellular wound healing: how cells recover AFTER the wound has been closed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sean McMahon @seanhmcmahon.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

‼️New PhD project in Edinburgh: "Animals, traits, and oxygen in the Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia". Supervised by Rachel Wood (Amelia Penny and I co-supervising) — big UK+Namibian team — help us understand early animal evolution! Apply by Dec 14th #paleontology e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

Members of Rachel Wood's research group conducting geological fieldwork in Namibia. Geologists in hats gather around a rocky outcrop under a clear blue sky, with a hilly, sparsely vegetated Namibian landscape in the background.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing 500 million years ahead of schedule. His critics say they are — literally — fool's gold. At stake? The question of when and how complex life arose at all. My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!

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These Enigmatic ‘Fossils’ Could Rewrite the History of Life on Earth

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once

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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

📣New preprint alert! Check out this new preprint by Zhu et al. that quantifies and compares labile exometabolites from six axenic strains of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to identify key chemical currencies within the marine chemical-microbial network! 🧪🦠

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EAG @eageo.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Job alert: Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences: Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry and/or Geobiology, Dartmouth College (USA). Apply by 1 Dec 2025 or position open until filled. More info: buff.ly/w7LPFMv

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