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Nonia Pariente

@npariente.bsky.social
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Editor in Chief of the #NonProfit, #OpenAccess journal @plosbiology.org Former Chief Editor of Nature Microbiology. #Virologist. #Feminist. #Spaniard in the UK. #Galician. #European always. Views my own. orcid.org/0000-0002-3666-5683

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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Summer livin’ in #Galifornia
Sunset in Illa de ArousaSeafood fideuáEstrella Galicia beer bottle and a book (Maite by Fernando Aramburu) on a table. In the background sand, trees and a beautiful sunset
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Welcome to the #Galibbean
A beach in the ría de Arousa, Galicia, Spain
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Oh my, this was so stressful! Enhorabuena equipo! Ganó el fútbol
The Psanish men’s football team celebrating winning the FIFA World Cup
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Looking forward to attending @ihmc2026seoul.bsky.social later this week, connecting with the community & meeting new people Please reach out to chat about @plosbiology.org, publishing, @plos.org' new developments, microbiome research ... I'm also hosting a meet the editor session on Friday 3pm 🧪
Details of IHMC conference
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
El Deportivo es de primera 💙🤍💙! Tantos años esperando por esta vuelta. Forza Depor!
A sign saying in Galician “believe it, to see it”The Hercules tower lighthouse with the colors of Deportivo A Coruña
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Happy Easter everyone! Feliz Pascua
A basket of decorated Easter eggs and a vase of yellow and white daffodils
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Having a teenage cat is stressful - Gandalf has spent 5hrs outside this afternoon (he usually does this only at night) and nerves were high here, but he is just peachy 🤣🐈‍⬛
A relaxed grey cat
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Throwback @newyorker.com cover of 2016 seen yesterday at the V&A museum in London. It was clear at the time already, but how right they were…
The New Yorker cover from a 2016 issue showing a British business man in classic attire walking off a cliff
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
So true, unfortunately @xkcd.com
Cartoon suggesting that all modern digital technology is dependent on a project some random person has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
CDC issued a Global Polio Level 2 Travel Health Notice advising enhanced precautions Tragic. We had polio almost eradicated, but disruption to vaccination campaigns due to COVID, global instability, defunding & vaccine hesitancy have led us here #VaccinesWork 🧪 wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notic...
World map highlighting countries where polio has been detected in the last 12 months
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Stunning library at MOP foundation in A Coruña
A photo of the MOP foundation library
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Would you look at that? Even fast food chains pay homage to #phage 😝🚀🧪
Window art depicting a happy meal box as if it were a rocket (but also looking like a phage)
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
How your email will find me tomorrow and next week
Cartoon of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, water logged due to heavy rain
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Wonderful evening with @felixrandow.bsky.social belatedly celebrating my birthday at Restaurant 22, Cambridge. The food and the service were outstanding Had a blast and these passion fruit and ginger jellies, part of the petit four offering, are a-mazing. Tart and wonderful.
Passion fruit and ginger jellies - delicious
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The names of 72 female scientists will be added to the Eiffel Tower, to accompany those of 72 male scientists that are already engraved there tinyurl.com/e2satnyp 👏👩‍🔬 🧪
View of the lower arch of the Eiffel Tower
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Wearing a 30yo “pellizca” coat today. Was a gift from my parents when I left home for uni in the cold Madrid. I don’t use it often now, but when I do I always get a bit nostalgic
Photo of a brown sheepskin coat
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
As always, on the eve of 6 January, we are preparing to receive the Three Kings and their tired camels. Through snow this year! 👑 👑 👑 🐫 🐫 🐫 #Epiphany #ThreeKings
Food and drink for the Three Wise Men and food for the camels
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Un año más, esperando a Sus Majestades, como cada 5 de enero esté dónde esté #DiadeReyes
Avituallamiento para sus Majestades los Reyes Magos de Oriente y sus camellos
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Lovely supermoon today 🌕 Helped me with my resolution to find at least one beautiful thing per day this year, among all of the dross. For my mental health’s sake I hope to keep this resolution 🤞🏼
Supermoon over trees and a field
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Reading these heartbreaking news while at a lovely library is specially poignant
View of Gonvillle & Caius College, Cambridge University
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
A beautiful dusk at Wicken Fen during a New Year’s Day walk. I hope the year continues as it has started
Sunset at Wicken Fen natural reserve on 1 Jan 2026
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I hope everyone can find some joy and connection with loved ones this Christmas
A photo of the Magdeburg Christmas Market
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Just given my annual State of the journal address (thanks to @jkpfeiff.bsky.social for the original idea) It is always great to compile the year's achievements & what a year it has been for @plosbiology.org! I am immensely proud of my team of enthusiastic & committed editors 🥂 to a great 2026!
Title slide for PLOS Biology State of the journal address 2025
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I'm excited about our recent mini-collection on #interoception! Our Editorial highlights four pieces showcasing the breadth of the field: hepatic, gut and cardiorespiratory interoception & an exploration of how this could all inform “Whole Person Health” #neurosky 🧪 🧵 ⬇️ plos.io/4r2SRzL
Artistic rendering of a brain in communication with different organs - generated using ChatGPT with scientific input from Wen G Chen and Helene M Langevin
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Retuning here always warms my heart ❤️
View from Heidelberg main train station
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Starting the final leg of my journey to the @embl.org symposium “The Human Microbiome” It’s been a surprisingly long travel day! I am really looking forward to seeing everyone there, and to Heidelberg itself, where I lived 9yrs. It’s always a pleasure to visit Come say hello this week!
Poster for the EMBO-EMBL symposium “The Human Microbiome”
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Just back from Spain and demoralized at what passes for produce in the UK. Are all plants bonsai now? Full prize for miniature tomatoes (wrapped in plastic) and toy-sized aubergines 😰
Tiny tomatoes (my thumb for scale)A pocket-size aubergine
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This is how your email finds me #IlloteAreoso #Arousa #IlladeArousa #Galicia #GalizaCalidade
Photo of Illote Areoso, Galicia, with white sand, blue water and kayaks
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Amusing way, in Vilanova de Arousa, of saying that they don’t split the bill 🤣🤣
Message that says “We remind our costumers that the table bill is charged as a joint”
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The book "The Doctor of Hiroshima" is a really poignant read about the bombing - I can highly recommend it
Cover of the book "The Doctor of Hiroshima"
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Back cover art in the #NSV25 program courtesy of @socialinfluenza.bsky.social ❤️
“Viruses of Montpellier” by Ed Hutchinson
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Let #NSV25 begin!
NSV25 welcome reception at the Montpellier historic Academy of Medicine
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Arrived in Carcassone en route to Montpellier for the XIXth Negative-strand RNA Virus Meeting A community-driven & very positive conference all about RNA(-) viruses Reach out if you’d like to chat - seeing old friends and meeting new people is always the best www.negativestrandvirus.org/home
Logo of NSV2025 conference with a drawing of the Montpellier skyline
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Visiting @mrccmm.bsky.social and @exeter.ac.uk biosciences today. Nice morning walk to get here. Looking forward to a day of science!
Photo of Exeter Uni campus
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
One of the most important men of my life, the one without whom I would not be here, was born 85 years ago today. Happy birthday dad, thanks for so much! Really happy that I got to be with him on his birthday ❤️
A photo of my father
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The #Pyrenee villages are also spectacularly beautiful
CerlerAínsaAnsóSos del Rey Católico
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Spent a few days in the #Pyrenees, #hiking and visiting goergeous villages. Beautiful and highly recommended- almost empty this time of the year and weather was perfect.
Monte perdido from Ordesa CanyonAñisclo CanyonLooking toward Maladeta National ParkBeautiful valley close to Cerler
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Gordon doesn’t let us post about the science, so apologies but you get only photos of the beautiful setting. Excellent talks today - diversity of topics and systems. Hans Georg Krausslich introduced HIV in the 4th session, which must be a record. Great talk! #LoveVirology #GRCViruses #Virosky 🧪
View from the Castelldefels Rey Don Jaime hotelMediterranean shore at Castelldefels
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
And our chair @sesmalab.bsky.social kicks off the #GRCvirus 2025 meeting. Exciting few days of virus research, split almost equally between DNA, RNA viruses and a few other (ahem, looking at you retros). It's a great, vibrant crowd
web screenshot showing the name of the conference (GRC viruses and cells) and a photo of the venue
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Grandola vila morena Terra da fraternidade Parabens 25 Abril Felicidades Happy canrnation revolution anniversary to all my 🇵🇹 friends and the Bluesky Portuguese community
A photo from the Carnation Revolution, which brought democracy to Portugal on 25 April 1974. A military truck can be seen full to the brim with cheering civilians, while more march on the sides.
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Since 1499… hard to believe! Through Black Death, flu, COVID and wars… I was here over 22 years ago and it has not changed a bit I ❤️ Praha
Coaster from the brewery and restaurant U Fleku in Prague, open since 1499
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Find out the ins and outs of Registered Reports at the Responsible Research #FREEwebinar on 30 April Join to learn what a registered report is & how it differs from other publication formats, & the benefits of registered reports for authors & science Find out more & register at: lnkd.in/ed3csppN
Announcement of a webinar about Registered Reports. Free registration at https://lnkd.in/ed3csppN
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Curious post sequence in my timeline @hitenmadhani.bsky.social
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Very pretty! Coincidentally @plosbiology.org has the structure of this retrotransposon in our cover this month, as it was so nice. The Copia gag protein forms virus-like capsids that transfer its RNA across the Drosophila neuromuscular junction to regulate synapse formation. plos.io/3X71IDa 🧪
Structure of the capsid of retrotransposon Copia, as determined by cryo-electron microscopy. Credit:  Travis Thomson and Brian Kelch
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
@spiegel.de poignant as ever “Betrayed. First Zelensky, soon us? The radical departure of the US from its allies”
The front page of the German weekly, Der Spiegel
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Cambridge Open Drinks are back! Thanks Iratxe Puebla for organizing 🙏🏻 18 March, 7pm, Panton Arms Are you interested in open science? Come along for some socializing 👇🏼
LinkedIn post from Iratxe Puebla announcing Cambridge Open Drinks on 18 March
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
For years I’ve read @nytimes.com @elpais.com & @theguardian.com (at least headlines) every morning I’m not one to hide my head in the sand but I think I need to stop for a while because it’s like doomscrolling & seriously affecting my stability Off for a run 2 compensate. Nice pic for ur timelines
Beach in La Baule, France, at sunset
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery. We can all use some beauty right now. Peonies from our garden
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Colorado is sooo beautiful ❤️
Me at the top of the Keystone gondola with gorgeous mountain views The majestic Rockies from Keystone
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Wish me luck
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