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Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The legendary Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria is coming to Cambridge, UK. Mark your calendars for 20-22 July 2027. Registration now open!

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Sternberg Lab @sternberglab.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

1/5 Telomerase has long been linked to chromosome maintenance in eukaryotes. Now, we show that telomerase-like activity is also present in bacteria, shedding new light on its ancient origins. Excited to share that our work on DRT10 is now out in @nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Antiviral immunity via telomerase-like reverse transcription in bacteria - Nature

Nature - Antiviral immunity via telomerase-like reverse transcription in bacteria

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

everyone owes it to @helenbranswell.bsky.social's memory to take a moment to read about her life and how she made this world immeasurably better. www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h...

Thanks to Branswell’s leading coverage, the New York Times wrote in late March 2020 that STAT “was early to a story that would dominate the news,” in an article in which a Harvard University expert referred to Branswell as “a godlike figure to people who are infectious-disease epidemiologists.”

Throughout the pandemic, she saw around corners, and her coverage showed it. She wrote in May 2020 that Covid vaccines were more likely to be strongly protective against severe outcomes than to put a stop to transmission — something the world only caught onto a year later when faced with that reality. She described in August 2020 how the upcoming winter “could be Dickensianly bleak,” previewing a season during which 3,000 Americans a day were dying from Covid.

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jessamine finch @seedystudies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

📣Atlanta Botanical Garden seeks a Research Scientist in Ecology! 🌿 🥾 Priority research areas: restoration, fungal/microbial interactions, conservation translocations/reintroductions, adaptive mgmt, demography/population dynamics, population viability.🌎 recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J...

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Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc - Research Scientist, Ecology

The Atlanta Botanical Garden seeks a Research Scientist, Ecology to join the Southeastern Center for Conservation (SECC) within the Department of Conservation & Research. The Research Scientist wi...

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Pennsylvania reports its 6th measles death, in a Franklin County resident The 39-year-old woman had underlying health conditions, including a previous measles infection. Read more: bit.ly/4zy3w9a 📷: CDC/ Dr. Erskine Palmer

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Dr. Lawren is Openly Ya Ya @lwpedsmd.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026

Measles cases have surpassed 4,000 this year, according to CDC data. In the past week it rose to 4080, the highest since 1991. Measles is a vaccine preventable illness. publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

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Measles cases top 4,000; flu increasing

The tally increased by 193 cases over the past week to 4,080, the highest since 1991.

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Can you tell a science story in one minute? Sure you can. Looking forward to this again, am on the judging panel. Wheee. Deadline for submissions is: December 2. www.youtube.com/shorts/titlY...

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Science in Shorts Is Back: Researchers, Get Filming

YouTube video by Nature Partnerships

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

'Up to' doing a lot of heavy lifting here

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Ricardo Henriques @henriqueslab.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🚀 Rxiv-Maker is now peer-reviewed and open access! Write your manuscript in Markdown and get a typeset PDF or an editable Word file, with figures, citations and cross-references numbered for you. Led by Bruno Saraiva, with @guijacquemet.bsky.social's lab 🔬 doi.org/10.1242/jcs.265183

Top of the first page of the published article 'Rxiv-Maker – an automated template engine for streamlined scientific publications' by Bruno M. Saraiva, Rita Carlota, António D. Brito, Iván Hidalgo-Cenalmor, Guillaume Jacquemet and Ricardo Henriques, showing the title, authors and abstract.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A bit more on allyship in my podcast With Lucas Lixinski from U of NSW Faculty of Law and Justice open.spotify.com/episode/4Pt2...

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Being an LGBTQ+ ally: a conversation with Lucas Lixinski

Conversations with scientists · Episode

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A bit of that, pros and cons, are in this work of journalism — is there too much hype in your view? www.nature.com/articles/s41... will post an openly accessible version soon , am just on the road

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Reality check for organoids in neuroscience - Nature Methods

To better study human neurodevelopment, researchers advance organoids as brain models.

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Wolfgang Hess @cyanolab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Bakteriopolis, now in Freiburg. A cool, interactive exhibition about the tiny ones. Mo-Fri 10:00 to 16:00, other times can be arranged.

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh my three convos with people who find “reasons” to not get a COVID vax. 😩🥺😳😢

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The author is science journalist Mariana Lenharo.

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CNN @cnn.com · 10/10/2026

Many people were wounded in a blast at Riyadh's international airport on Saturday, according to two eyewitnesses and two people briefed on the matter, and travelers were evacuated from parts of the facility. cnn.it/4ykqm2V

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Again, their business model is theft

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

« A key uncertainty remains the absence of a confirmed diagnosis in the deceased laboratory worker. » source : WHO press release

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Interesting! That's been quite a discourse. Just so you know, and you might already know, @nytimes.com gift articles are lovely...still require signin. Which some people might not like.

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

De novo protein design in an expanded chemical space www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

📰 CIDRAP News reporter Chris recaps 3 news stories: -Measles-related “immune amnesia” bit.ly/4zppJGg -Health consequences of measles bit.ly/4dWC6RM -Study: sugary foods, gut microbiome & antibiotics bit.ly/4AT90fS 🔔Subscribe: bit.ly/4ygphdu

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 09/10/2026

She is the defender of the persecuted, the vulnerable, the voiceless and the excluded. Of the rule of law over the right of might. In a world that needs justice more than ever, her courage and moral clarity are a precious compass.

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Manatee w no propeller scars ✅ Healthy staghorn coral thicket ✅ Water below bleaching temps ✅ Juvenile grunts and snappers ✅ Life is good in Coral City 😎 ✅✅✅ #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #staghorncoral #acropora #coralcitycamera

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 09/10/2026

Planning to attend #AHA27 in New Orleans in January? Apply by November 15 for grants to support your travel costs. Check out the full list of available grants at the link.

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Annual Meeting Funding - AHA

The AHA offers several grants and fellowships to assist graduate students and early career historians with childcare and travel costs for the annual meeting.

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ack goggles not googles 🌊😉

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Swimmers: Swimming is awesome even for a slow-poke in the pool like me. But wow am I tired of raccoon eyes. I have tried different Tyr googles. Not quite. Currently trying Snake & Pig's Basilisk. Not quite working, alas. Will keep trying them but any and all goggle tips are welcome. Merci!

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hi @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social - quick thought re LLM outputs - I feel like their prolix, dull prose is due to their most-likely-token selection process minimising surprisal, & thus reducing the rate at which information is conveyed - does that make any sense?

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Jordan @cocktailchem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I used one of these until 2020 because my car had been built in 2000 and that was the only way to get it to connect to my phone.

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lovely! Whee am keeping the post open, so it runs in a loop. 🦋♥️

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DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thomas Mann returns to war-torn Germany in search of his "Heimat", in Pawel Pawlikowski's rigid and bleak historical drama From the BFI London Film Festival: dmovies.org/2026/05/15/f...

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Fatherland - DMovies

BEST DIRECTOR EX-AEQUO PRIZE AT CANNES: Thomas Mann returns to war-torn Germany in search of his "Heimat", in Pawel Pawlikowski's rigid and bleak historical drama - from the BFI London Film Festival/ ...

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 26/08/2018

“I’m saying I started over. Proust is an education in the language of Proust.” Anne Carson interviews are a performance art. believermag.com/a-microinterview-wi…

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It appears that many big institutions are gearing up to do biology with #AI and #robots. I remain skeptical, since, for example, #smartmicroscopy is still more of a buzzword than reality. The price tag on the infrastructure required will be enormous - unreachable by 99% of the research community.

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

On it thanks to sleuthing of @florianjug.bsky.social Until then- You should be able to just access the open letter is here tinyurl.com/OpenLetterSW... If you agree with it, please sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open letter to Nikon Small World in Motion

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey so, science and tech that was developed with gov't funding--as LLMs/AI/etc. were--should BENEFIT not HARM the public.

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Gregor Weichbrodt @gregor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Die Deutsche Bahn hat im offiziellen Katalog 65 Verspätungsgründe („Reparatur an einem Signal” etc.). Mir waren die zu konkret. Deshalb gibt es jetzt das „Bahnhoroskop”: Man trägt die Verspätung ein und bekommt den Grund, berechnet aus der echten Sternkonstellation zur Abfahrt. bahnhoroskop.ggor.de

Sharepic mit Zug, Ziel, Abfahrtszeit und Begründung für die Verspätung:

DEINE ABFAHRT
RB21
Potsdam Hbf
10:14 (neu: 10:34)

Grund für die Verzögerung im Betriebsablauf
ist der Spannungsaspekt zwischen dem Jupi-
ter und dem Pluto. Solange sich der Mond in
Konjunktion zum Merkur befindet, bleibt die
Bereitstellung des Zuges blockiert. Erst im
Zusammenspiel mit dem Trigon des Mondes
zum Neptun löst sich die Spannung, sodass
die Fahrt fortgesetzt werden kann.
Der Himmel lässt keine andere Disposition zu.

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Day 4 of Nobel week: ♂♂♂♂♂♂♀😅

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

FWIW, Austria's military got rid of MS Office over the course of about three years; 5 years from risk identification to full transition. They ID-ed MS as a security risk in 2020, began a volunteer pilot project in 2022, finished the transition in September 2025.

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This European military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice - here's why - ZDNET

It's not about the cost savings, either. Many government organizations are replacing Microsoft software for a more important reason.

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

📸 albert․susana

A tabby cat curled asleep among stacked eggplants and wrapped daikon on a market shelf beneath bundles of green leafy vegetables, with oranges and foam-wrapped pomelos nearby.

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