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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge that neither universities nor journals are ready to face.Some use paper mills to their advantage. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research

A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct.

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Prof Cynthia Whitchurch FAA🏳️‍🌈 @cwhitch.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm recruiting! I'm looking for a motivated postdoctoral scientist to join my new team at SCELSE in Singapore. The role will explore various aspects of how #eDNA is produced and utilised in #Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. #Microsky #phagesky #Science ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

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Research Fellow (eDNA in Biofilms)

The Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) is a unique interdisciplinary Research Centre of Excellence (RCE), funded by National Research Foundation, Ministry of Educati...

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Daniela Barillà @danielabarilla.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Can colleagues amplify this appeal to journals and journal editors to open accounts on Bluesky, please? @MicrobioSoc @TrendsMicrobiol @CellCellPress @JBacteriology @jbiolchem @Nature @ScienceMagazine @PNASNews @MolMicroEditors @NAR_Open @NatureMicrobiol @NatureComms @ASMicrobiology 🙏 🦠🧪🧫🧬

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 06/11/2024

Endorse this outstanding essay by @hormiga.bsky.social written in 2016, republished here: TLDR: 1. Keep up our research. 2. Teach critical thinking. 3. Advocate publicly for evidence-based decision making. 4. Build diverse and inclusive academic communities open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...

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Being a Scholar in Trumpian times

Some thoughts about doing the right thing as an academic in an autocracy

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of vaccines. THREAD👇 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7 #history #skystorians

An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Dear scientist, You will NEVER know enough to do a perfect piece of work. Everything you do can only be as good as the knowledge you currently have. That means 1) keep learning, 2) keep an open mind, 3) don't be ashamed when you discover you did something wrong. Welcome it; that's growth!

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Jan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com · 23/02/2024

You can now read what I have been up to in Victor Nizet's lab UCSD during my sabbatical. Very grateful for this great experience, my colleagues at DMF for taking over my duties at UNIL and @snsf-ch.bsky.social for making this scientific exchange possible! #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Dutchscientist (the real one) @dutchscientist.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Come and join our Infection and Immunity section at the University of Surrey School of Veterinary Medicine, as Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Virology. Lot of opportunities for great research, and teaching on our BVMSci RCVS-accredited veterinary degree.

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Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Virology

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Tim Barnett @tbarnett.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Please come join us! Postdoc job opportunity working on Group A Strep infections and Rheumatic fever. Closes 19th January 2024. #ScienceJobs #AcademicSky jobrxiv.org/job/telethon...

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Research Officer – Strep A Pathogenesis and Diagnostics

Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/12/2023

If you’re going to be gathering with people over the holidays, you can potentially save your loved ones a lot of pain and grief by doing a rapid test first and staying away if you test positive or feel at all unwell. Missing out is no fun but being the cause of someone else’s illness would be worse!

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Jessica Blair @jessicamablair.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Cool new paper from Ian Paulsen and co - Systematic analyses identify modes of action of ten clinically relevant biocides and antibiotic antagonism in Acinetobacter baumannii www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Tim Barnett @tbarnett.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Is there any good information on which covid vaccine to get? I’ve only had mRNA vaccines so far, never had covid as I know, and 8 months since my last vaccine. Options are bivalent mRNA or novavax. Any suggestions where to look? Thanks! 🦠🧪

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Anna Vlasits @annaintegrated.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Many people take "non-traditional" career paths in academia. My Leading Edge colleagues and I did! We wrote for PLOS Biology about how non-linear careers are increasingly common, but funding agencies and search committees penalize these paths. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Supporting nonlinear careers to diversify science

Those who follow non-linear career trajectories often face disadvantages in academia. This Perspective looks at why individuals might choose non-linear careers and how these benefit diversity in scien...

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James Marsh @jmarsh.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

I didn't know there were so many microbiologists here! 🦠 It's fantastic that we can start building a community on this platform. I've stopped notifying every new person because there's too many of you.. but if you've filled in the sign-in form then you've been added (and I'll continue adding people)

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 07/09/2023

Whoa. Redux of a paper from 12 years ago with the opposite effect: sweeps and persistence not brief perturbation 🧪🧬

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

A reminder we have two completely open search prof posts going the IMI at Birmingham Microbial Genomics: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DBJ457/c... Infection Biology: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DBJ427/c...

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 04/09/2023

Even if you know the story and the cast of characters, and especially if you don’t, this is a great story 🧪🧬https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/11/the-transformative-alarming-power-of-gene-editing

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The Transformative, Alarming Power of Gene Editing

A rogue scientist showed that CRISPR gives humans the ability to transform ourselves. But should we?

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Tim Barnett @tbarnett.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Hello BlueSky! Look forward to being part of the new science community over here. About me: - Group leader at Telethon Kids Institute (Perth, Australia). We study Group A Strep pathogenesis (Strep throat, rheumatic fever, AMR) - Postdoc at Emory and Uni Queensland - Love cycling, running, coffee

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Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

We are hiring!!! Assistant Professor in Emerging Zoonoses - based in the departments of Integrative Biology & Public Health aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04076

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 30/08/2023

🚨Psst: we are hiring in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in Pitt’s School of Medicine. Microbiologists wanted! 🧪🧬🦠 (ad soon to follow)

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