Microbiota mitigate antipsychotic-induced cognitive impairment
Antipsychotics deplete Cyanobacteria & ergothioneine, leading to cognitive impairment. Ergothioneine treatment rescues cognitive deficits by inhibiting hippocampal oxidative stress & PTP1B
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Postdoc Position in Experimental & Computational Plant Biology. Utrecht, The Netherlands.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Review by Andreas Messer, Leonardo Oña, and @kostchristian.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
Point 21 is the giveaway, some cultures produce "wonders," others are "regressive and harmful." Once you accept that hierarchy, you've quietly been given permission to apply different standards of verification to different actors. The form of verification stays, but the democratic function doesn't.
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
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Identification of a plasma membrane complex that interacts with phyB to regulate ROS production
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📄Excited to share that our comprehensive review on the importance of sulfur in plant–microbe interactions is now out! From sulfur-containing volatiles to nutrient cycling, immune signaling, and microbiome assembly—we bring it all together Check it out!🌻
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Excited to share our new preprint on rhizobacterial biosensors mapping sucrose exudation 🌱
Work spanning my TomKat postdoc in @josedinneny.bsky.social's lab to my own lab at @universityofga.bsky.social; co-first with my PhD student Gretchen Brinkman: 🧵
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I'm very excited to announce that the Jo Lab is hiring our FIRST EVER PhD candidate! f you're eager to drive discovery in plants, join us at UU Plants!
More info:
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Lab website:
thejolab.org
#Plantbiology #Phd #Job
Reconstructing plant beneficial bacterial consortia by integrating dilution-to-extinction microbiome perturbation with genome-resolved synthetic ecology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
Scary experiment: create a FAKE disease & upload FAKE studies to preprint servers to support and PRESTO AI thinks real.
Ugh. Good example of how easily AI can warp knowledge base...
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Happy to share our work on soil-emulating plant growth media! 🌱 ArtSoil supports a self-repopulating complex microbiome, promotes plant growth, avoids sucrose artifacts, and enables reproducible, cell-type-specific root responses 👇
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Huge congrats to Dr. Eliza Loo! The associated MibiNet researcher has secured a "Klaus Tschira Boost Fund" grant to explore targeted programming of plant microbiomes. Fantastic news for @hhu.de and the MibiNet team!
#MibiNet #HHU
@elizaloopi.bsky.social
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Graphical abstract Diab (2026)
New publication: Plant Coumarins #Modulate Natural Product #Biosynthesis in a #Streptomyces #Root #Endophyte, by @gillesvanwezel.bsky.social and others.
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Spatial organization of plant defense at the infection front www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA)
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning.
@exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int
"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."
Now imagine what being surrounded by sycophantic humans for your entire life does to your brain.
My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently."
Microsoft: LOL
Mayor Spencer needs to pull the plug on the #ArmoryDataCenter
Just like Lyda pulled the plug on the airport privatization scam in 2019.
You must picture Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berner-Lee's throat. We are in a truly existential level of danger when it comes to the survival of the open web, across every front. This year is when it all comes to a head. www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/e...
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I am excited to announce that we have two open positions on our recently funded MYBstery M-WEAVE (NWO-DFG) project!
1) Postdoc in my team at Utrecht University (NL). www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
2) PhD in the team of @lauraragni.bsky.social at University of Freiburg (DE). (See thread)
well this is ridiculous and awesome, best science usually is #ScienceSky #NeuroSky 🧪
Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.
Today in AI:
Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials.
Everyone involved should be fired.
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The fact that Americans thought Auxin was a “Hoax from Europe” rightfully got some attention in my latest #PlantScienceClassics post. But it’s actually even funnier if you learn about the context & consequence of White speaking these words to Went at the AAAS Meeting in Pittsburgh. #PlantScience 🧪
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These medical X-rays are all deepfakes — and they fool even radiologists
Radiologists and large language models alike have a hard time picking out real medical images from fake ones.
@jennaahart.bsky.social writes for @nature.com News. With a quote by me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
