🎓 This month, we welcomed our new PPU PhD students to the Institut Pasteur campus. During their Orientation Day, students got an introduction to the program, met their peers and mentors, and discovered all the opportunities ahead.

👏 We are excited to see them embark on their journey!

The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness

Well written and sobering take-down of the blue origin flight. Worth a read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Being a scientist in Paris has been such an amazing experience. The French culture of healthy debate has pushed me to ask more and more creative questions by examining my initial hypotheses from other perspectives. I am very happy to be in France and to work on some really cool projects coming up!

It was an honor for my lab and myself to host the meeting on the Immune Systems of Bacteria. Such a high from all the incredible science and sharing with scientists from the whole world the greatness of Paris in the spring.
Vive la science, et vive Paris!

Trump and Musk have ushered in a terrible era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it | Julia Steinberger The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is dizzying, but if we organise resistance now we can stop this, says Julia Steinberger of the University of Lausanne

"The climate and ecological implications of this shift are as disastrous as they are deliberate. We need an appropriate name for this new era of fossil and tech bros accelerating attacks on democracy and the planet: cataclysm capitalism."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very promising!

Transmission dynamics of the 2022 mpox epidemic in New York City - Nature Medicine Analysis of genomic and epidemiology data from 2022 in New York City show similarities between the dynamics of MPXV and HIV transmission, and highlight the role of heavy-tailed sexual contact networks...

Crazy this project I worked on got published the same week cuts to genomic surveillance were announced. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am an unapologetic lover of “jaded New Yorker” books. Although half the book takes place in MA, the cutting descriptions of New York really hit home. Reading about depression written with such illustrative description was beautiful.

First book of the year. Controversial opinion, I love the Witcher universe (even the series). The stories were very entertaining and it added to the world. Excited to read the next book to see better character development.

Hi everyone, here’s a blurb about me: I have experience in plant ecology, pathogen genomics/ emerging infectious diseases, and now microbial ecology and evolution! After some years working in public health, I am so happy for the switch back to academia. Let’s share paper and book recs!