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Nicole Dubilier

@nicoledubilier.bsky.social
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Director Max Planck Institute Marine Microbiology Head of Symbiosis Department www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Department-of-… Prof at Uni Bremen, MARUM symbiosis, microbiome, marine microbiology

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
3/17 Graduate students and postdocs: we strongly encourage you to apply! The Gordon Research Seminar (GRS), organized by Noah Houpt (@noahhoupt.bsky.social) and Duhita Sant (@duhitasant.bsky.social), runs June 26–27, immediately before the GRC.
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2027 Microbial Population Biology (GRS) Seminar GRC
The 2027 Gordon Research Seminar on Microbial Population Biology (GRS) will be held in Andover, New Hampshire. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
2/17 Meet the GRC organizers: Will Ratcliff (@wcratcliff.bsky.social) and Heather Hendrickson (@drhhnz.bsky.social), with co-organizers Kate Baker (@ksbakes.bsky.social) and Dave Baltrus (@surtlab.bsky.social). We got our evo/eco, bacteria/eukaryote/virus, lab/field/theory bases covered.
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
1/17 Submissions are now open for the 2027 Microbial Population Biology GRC! We expect this meeting to be extraordinarily oversubscribed. If you want to come, time is of the essence--apply ASAP! June 27–July 2 • Andover, NH www.grc.org/microbial-po...
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
9/17 Evolutionary Dynamics of Genetic Mobility: what happens when genes move between microbes? Discussion leader: Eduardo Rocha (@epcrocha.bsky.social). With Nandita Garud (@nanditagarud.bsky.social), Ramunas Stepanauskas (@rstepanauskas.bsky.social) and Ami Bhatt.
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
8/17 Molecular Interactions and Signaling: the chemical conversations shaping microbial communities. Discussion leader: Karine Gibbs. With Deborah Hogan, Matt Traxler (@traxlab.bsky.social) and Leonor García-Bayona (@lgbacteria.bsky.social).
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
7/17 Symbioses Across the Tree of Life: living together changes evolution. Discussion leader: Britt Koskella (@bkoskella.bsky.social). With Nicole Dubilier (@nicoledubilier.bsky.social), Michael McDonald, Stephanie Porter and Benjamin Kerr (@evokerr.bsky.social).
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Nicole Dubilier @nicoledubilier.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hiding in plain sight: Animals eat the natural bioplastic PHA We discovered that many animals can break down PHA. And many of these enzymes had been sitting unnoticed in genome databases. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Animal degradation of microbial storage polyhydroxyalkanoates - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This study shows that the degradation of microbial storage polyhydroxyalkanoates is not just restricted to microorganisms by finding that some animals also have the enzymes required to break down thes...
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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Unexpected insight: Natural #bioplastic is food for animals! 🤩 #Biodegradable #PHA #plastics can be broken down by many different animals such as earthworms, seastars & oligochaeteas, a study @natureportfolio.nature.com reveals! DOI: 10.1038/s41559-026-03153-8 mpi-bremen.de/en/Page6746....
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Ralf Michaels @ralfmichaels.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Da ich jetzt Morddrohungen bekomme für diesen Artikel (nachdem bild ihn skandalisiert) hier nochmal zur Klarstellung: gewaltfreier Widerstand hat eine lange prodemokratische und verfassungsschützende Tradition, und das befürworte ich. Gewalt ist antidemokratisch und hilft der AfD, ich lehne sie ab.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting
Screenshot of the article's graphic, showing color swatches derived from the Earthcam archive, illustration the color of the reflecting pool calibrated against satellite imagery, from 8 June to 19 June 2026. I chose yesterday, 19 June, so it rendered the US American flag with a green hue instead of blue.
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘹 - a honorary member of the #ProtistsOnSky club? @nicoledubilier.bsky.social @prakashlab.bsky.social
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I predicted someone like Trump many years ago, in THE DEAD ZONE. So now I'm saying this--in the next 12-16 months, we're going to find out if the two machines for the removal of a man unable to fulfill his duties actually work. They are impeachment and the 25th amendment. He is deeply unwell .
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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 27/03/2026
Choanoflagellates — our closest animal relatives — form multicellular colonies in two ways: cell division AND aggregation. This previously unknown "mixed multicellularity" suggests our animal origins are more complex than thought. 📄 @thibautbrunet.bsky.social ↘️
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Evolutionary biology: what an aquatic microorganism can tell us about our distant origins
Over a period of two to three billion years, the only living beings on Earth were single-celled organisms. In what conditions did living organisms with multiple cells emerge? How did life become more ...
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥 We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 05/03/2026
#OnThisDay in 1938, American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis was born. Margulis is most known for developing and popularising the endosymbiotic theory, which explains how eukaryotic cells evolved organelles from simpler prokaryotic organisms that resided within another and became incorporated.
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Nicole Dubilier @nicoledubilier.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
VERY cool - congratulations!
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Should biology put complexity first? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - excellent essay by @philipcball.bsky.social. I would add epistasis to polygenicity and pleiotropy as a ubiquitous and fundamental phenomenon, not some optional complication that we can try to account for afterwards
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Should biology put complexity first?
The dictum “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” poses a problem for biology. How simply can it be told without doing dama…
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Nicole Dubilier @nicoledubilier.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Beyond Mendel. FINALLY. Brilliant, thought-provoking read! This new perspective argues that our obsession with single genes and clean knock-outs is holding us back. Couldn't agree more, and I hope Reviewer #2 reads this. academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
Image from a lecture by Nick Barton, one of the coauthors, from this site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTvFal-zh1M
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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Finally out in @nature.com: a new piece of the puzzle of how complex life evolved. Lead by @archaeal.bsky.social & @katyappler.bsky.social. Great collab with @greening.bsky.social and @kassipan.bsky.social. More pieces to follow soon! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New paper from my team detailing a greatly expanded genomic database of Asgard archaea revealing of high energy metabolism those related to eukaryotes! Led by @katyappler.bsky.social lots of help from @jameslingford.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @kassipan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Alright bsky science + art community, I need your help. I was p confident we could get a grant to fund our upcoming biodiversity mural in Kensington. Last night, they called to say our partner school is 2 blocks outside of their service area. But ya know what? We're gonna do it anyway.
a slide with 3 pictures of schools with brightly colored murals stacked on top of one another under the words "Schools in service area". On the other side of the slide, a blank wall of a school under the label "Our partner"
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16/02/2026
🧵 New preprint! Our 4-lab team evolved Streptococcus pneumoniae in antibiotic-treated mice of varying immune states and discovered something surprising: bacteria rarely evolved resistance. Instead, they found a different way to survive — by rewiring RNA turnover. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Our latest preprint: Together with the team of Jan Löwe, @danieltamarit.bsky.social and many others we discovered and characterized several Asgard tubulin genes and propose that microtubule architecture and dynamics evolved in Asgard archaea prior to eukaryogenesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Hassan Salem @hassansalem.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
How specific are heritable symbioses? And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species? We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com! 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Two more weeks to apply - come join us () in The Netherlands as a postdoctoral researcher on large-scale metagenomic exploration of new lineages!
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ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @isme-microbes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The ISME20 abstract submission deadline has been extended to 22 February. Microbial ecologists worldwide are invited to submit abstracts for oral, short talk, or poster presentations and contribute to the ISME20 programme. isme-microbes.org/isme20-abstr... #ISME20 #MicrobialEcology
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Nicole Dubilier @nicoledubilier.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Many thanks for the invitation and great hosting @imibirmingham.bsky.social! It was a real pleasure to meet so many interesting scientists and hear about the fascinating research at IMI. Special thanks to @pathogenomenick.bsky.social and @halllab.bsky.social for nominating me!
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Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We’re looking for the discoverers and the ones who inspire a generation of scholars. Nominations are now open for the @psumbiome.bsky.social 2026 Microbiome Medal —the highest honor for extraordinary contributions to the global scientific community. Submit by April 10. www.psu.edu/news/researc...
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Nominate the next Microbiome Medal Laureate | Penn State University
The One Health Microbiome Center is seeking nominations for the next Microbiome Medal scholar, an honor established in 2025 to recognize outstanding contributions to scientific discovery and service.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 19/01/2026
This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.
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EMBO @embo.org · 17/01/2026
We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: www.embl.org/news/embl-announcement…
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In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL
EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General. 
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Nicole Dubilier @nicoledubilier.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Toby Kiers is the Jane Goodall of underground fungi (paraphrasing @rosemarcario.bsky.social)
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Florian Trigodet @floriantrigodet.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Now published in Nature Biotechnology: go.nature.com/44P7nSm If you missed it, the TL;DR is in my April thread below
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Troubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes - Nature Biotechnology
Long-read sequence assemblies from metagenomes contain frequent errors.
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
in 2013, Elio was so fascinated by the 'heterologous multicellularity' of 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘮 that he chose a cross-section to celebrate STC's 10th anniversary 🙂 👉 smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2... #MicroSky
𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘮
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
all fans of 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘹 take note 👇(including @nikobiota.bsky.social, @nicoledubilier.bsky.social, @grubervodicka.bsky.social et al.) super cute video by charlotte brannon and great 🧵from manu prakash's lab #MicroSky
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Tri­choplax & Com­pany I.
by Christoph — Take a few thousand small eukaryotic cells, allow for a few different cell types, and season the cells generously with endosymbionts (no, not mitochondria, they already have these!)…
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
When I’m on here yap yap yapping about merch I’m selling or needing monthly donors or whatever, it’s so I can run events like this for projects like the native plant project, which will distribute 10,000 packets of native plant seeds across the city this winter/spring. The system is working 😎
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SeqCode @seqcode.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🎉 The #SeqCode has reached a significant milestone: with the validation of the genus Skiveiella, a total of 1,000 #names have now been validly published under the SeqCode. This achievement marks a major step forward in the adoption and impact of the SeqCode within the scientific community.
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Our recent collaborative paper is now published in the latest issue of Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social accompanied by a cover image highlighting how Bacillus gathers iron in the biofilm for promoting plant growth www.cell.com/issue/S2211-...
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"...and a new member, 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘻𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴" according to nicole @nicoledubilier.bsky.social , 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘻𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 is the "𝙀. 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙞 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻" (no rumor, she confirmed it) #MicroSky
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Anna Mankowski @oceanna.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Preprint alert 🔔 Organosulfur compounds support carbon and energy metabolism in chemosynthetic symbiosis. Happy to see this cool collaboration with @organosulfur.bsky.social and others out 🥳
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Eileen Kröber @organosulfur.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
New preprint! We explore how gutless marine worms and their bacterial symbionts use organosulfur compounds like DMSP and DMS - key molecules in marine sulfur cycling. Our results show that these compounds support carbon and energy metabolism in the Olavius algarvensis symbiosis.
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Nicole Dubilier @nicoledubilier.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
And vice versa, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria are masters of colonizing marine hosts! This was a wonderful collaboration with Sam Vohsen, Eslam Osman, Mandy Joye, Matt Saxton, grubervodicka.bsky.social, @ibaums.bsky.social
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 30/10/2025
We are really proud of this report from our 3 colloquia convened by the AAM and supported by the Moore Foundation. A few experts even said they would use it as their introductory textbook for this area. Please check it out!
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Maria Elena Martino @memartino.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Extending microbiome research across diverse organisms is key to understand the complexity of host–microbe symbioses In our latest study, we developed a protocol to generate #gnotobioticclams We hope it will be useful for a wide range of bivalves to test microbial traits in nature and aquaculture
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Generating gnotobiotic bivalves: a new method on Manila clam (Ruditapes philippinarum) | Microbiology Spectrum
The extensive diversity of host-microbe symbioses across ecosystems requires the use of different models to identify conserved and specific processes underlying such relationships. The need for novel models is particularly relevant in the context of the ...
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Nicole Dubilier @nicoledubilier.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
What a fruitful and valuable meeting - so grateful to @memartino.bsky.social and Raquel Peixoto for organizing! I learned so much about #marine #symbiosis. Looking forward to the next meeting!
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Maria Elena Martino @memartino.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Thank you to our inspiring, diverse, and brilliant keynote speakers @symbionticism.bsky.social @momedinamunoz.bsky.social @jcamthrash.bsky.social Laura Steindler, Morten Limborg, Lone Gram, @cibiocm.bsky.social, @nicoledubilier.bsky.social, Jens Walter, @reefgenomics.bsky.social, Torsten Thomas.
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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 @bruzos.bsky.social lab is seeking a highly motivated #PostDoc & a #PhD student to investigate the marine transmissible cancers. 🧬🌊 #sciencejobs #jobalert #researchjob #cancer #marinescience #symbiosis #bioinformatics #MaxPlanck
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/10/2025
Oh www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.
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Kaiser Lab @clocksevolution.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
WE ARE HIRING! Please spread widely! #Postdoc in #Evolutionary #Genomics -> www.mpg.de/25524526/ #Postdoc in #Molecular #Biology & #Cell #Signalling -> www.mpg.de/25524509/ @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de #ScienceJobs #EvoBio #MolBio #Ecology #Chronobiology #Marine #EntoSky #Biodiversity
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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