Really pleased to have this project out - a nice collaboration between @socialinfluenza.bsky.social
and @prmurcia.bsky.social looking at the risk of H5N1 spillover into commonly used cattle breeds 🦠 🐮
Had the pleasure of interviewing @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social for her 2026 Outreach and Engagement award from @microbiologysociety.org . The blog is out now microb.io/4bV2Nps
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
The cell biology community mourns the loss of Catherine Rabouille, an exceptional scientist whose determination, innovation, and fearless engagement with ideas reshaped how we think about cellular organization. #InMemoriam from @adamgrieve.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Germany does not lack talent, and it does not lack funding. But we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies. We are asking brilliant young scientists to build the future of the German economy, but refusing to give them the lab space, the job security, or the scientific independence to actually do it. If we want to reclaim our place as an industrial superpower, we have to stop the rat race of trying to keep every technology and structure alive that made us successful in the 20th century. Instead, we must fix our system that pushes our most ambitious scientists away. The money is there. The talent can be there. Now, we also need the courage to fix what’s broken.
“we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies.” This essay gets a lot right about problems with German science. I would add that the hierarchies and precarious contracts lead also to systemic abuse and scientific misconduct. open.substack.com/pub/realimag...
NYT headline: First 6 days of Iran War Cost US $11.3 billion, Pentagon says
The ERC budget for 2026 is 2.7 billion euros 🧪
@embl.org at its best: collaborative, open, transformative, and just the right amount of crazy. Dreaming of mechanistic cell biology *in the natural environment*? Dream no more, rent the AML.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jepb...
#WeFreezeOnTheBeach #ProtistsOnSky 🦠🌍🧪
Even as antivaccine and disinformation is spreading in the west, it is wonderful to see India’s efforts to eliminate cervical cancer through vaccination
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-...
New preprint from our Gates-funded Modjadji initiative showing that whole-genome surveillance of measles virus from wastewater greatly expands our ability for monitoring and control.
Here, with our colleagues in South Africa - U.S., unfortunately, likely up next.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
How does extreme heat shape who is born — and where?
New study by @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social out in @pnas.org today links high temperatures to changes in sex ratios at birth in sub-Saharan Africa and India. 🔬📊
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/new-lcd...
Chart showing recent confirmed measles cases per year in England ranging from 1,414 in 2013 to 2,911 in 2024 and 91 in 2015
🧵What is going on with Measles in England?
UKHSA has reported 96 confirmed measles cases since 1 Jan 2026, concentrated in London (64% of cases) and the West Midlands (26% of cases).
But what does this all mean? Is 96 a lot? Why is it happening? And what can we do about it? 1/8
A data figure showing a phylogenetic tree of H3N2 with 2025-K highlighted, the structure of the HA trimer with mutations characteristic of K highlighted, and box and whisker plots showing % neutralisation of the 2022 H3N2 vaccine strain, and of 2025 clade K, by various human antisera
🚨New Pre-Print🚨
Although H3N2 subclade K has multiple mutations in HA, neutralisation assays with pre-epidemic human sera show only moderate antigenic drift, and vaccines used in the 2024/2025 flu season induced cross-neutralising immunity
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Cryo-EM structure reveals how influenza A virus NEP binds the viral polymerase at a regulatory hotspot, coordinating RNA synthesis and nuclear export. Fantastic collaboration with @loiccarrique.bsky.social and Jon Grimes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Figure showing that the PMC facilitates color mixing analysis in samples that exhibit substantial overlapping background signal.
In their Tools and Resources article, @owfpuls.bsky.social, @scopeshifu.bsky.social @hhmijanelia.bsky.social and colleagues redefine colocalisation analysis using a novel phasor mixing coefficient.
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Last Friday over dinner, we talked with @svenklumpe.bsky.social and @jnoms.bsky.social about this very creative paper—and quickly went off track. Why? Because, as Sven put it, Vaults ( #Vaults ) remain the “siren 🧜♀️ of cell biology 🔬” intriguing and attractive, but maddeningly hard to figure out. 1/3
If Nobel prizes are transferable can somebody give me their ERC please? #thoughtoftheday
It's hard to educate people. When my brother visits me, we both wear respirators, the window is open, and the air purifiers are running. It doesn't affect the quality of the visit in the slightest. In fact it's better, because I can relax, knowing we're keeping each other safe. 🥰
Weekly respiratory viruses update:
- #influenza activity is high but has peaked
- #RSV circulation is elevated and increasing,
- #SARSCoV2 circulation remains at low levels.
More info: erviss.org
#ERVISS #RespiratoryViruses #IDsky #EpiSky #COVID19
“What we found shows that same-sex [sexual behavior] is not like something bizarre, aberrant or rare. It’s everywhere, it’s very useful, it’s very important,” says Vincent Savolainen, co-author of a new study that shows 59 nonhuman primate species take part in same-sex sexual activities. Here's […]
Great news! @mariaingaramo.bsky.social 's company (Nonfiction Labs) made a remote-controlled antibody.
Its binding turns on and off with a magnet.
This is a HUGE step towards our dream of magnetically controlled drugs. Imagine a cancer drug that ONLY attacks the tumor, not the rest of your body.
Human eggs must segregate their chromosomes with exquisite precision — yet errors rise with maternal age, causing miscarriage & infertility.
Our new article on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social shows why chromosome cohesion fails in aging eggs & how to improve it.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/10)
This is a really good article, and is particularly worth reading if you normally prefer not to think about these things
Super excited to have arrived in Lisbon for our collaboration with the Amorim lab and @thecourtneylab.bsky.social
Looking forward to all the exciting science that will transpire from this month long visit funded by @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social agility fund.
Still time to register for our hybrid-Autumn All-Ireland RNA club meeting on the 5th of December. Prof. Angus Lamond will be delivering the keynote. ECR talk prizes will be sponsored by
@rnasociety.bsky.social and Lexogen
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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I cannot agree more! The cost of making all vaccines free will be completely offset by lives saved and all the morbidity & hospical costs averted
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free
@crof.bsky.social
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...
Stress granules formed during different RNA virus infections show remarkable plasticity and substantial virus-specific differences in their formation and composition www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08....
“Unfortunately, we have a Labour government seemingly determined to outflank Reform on immigration . . .These attacks are having a severe impact on the financial health of the sector” - @drjogrady.bsky.social in the @theipaper.com today
inews.co.uk/news/flag-wa...
Hand drawn picture with a legend
I wish my all my students labeled their figures as well as my daughter.
Excited to share my postdoc work from the Eggeling lab in Jena (@leibnizipht.bsky.social, #FSUJena, #KTHuniversity) on bringing smart microscopy to super-resolution MINFLUX: event-triggered MINFLUX microscopy.
