How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism:
merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...
Sehr spannend zu lesen und ich kann hier nur zustimmen. Mut zu neuen Regeln für die Nachwuchsförderung und mehr Geld um Forschung und Bildungsstrukturen zu verbessern ist gefragt und das darf nicht auf Kosten der Chancengleichheit gehen.
Congratulations to Tobias Richter - now Dr. Richter - who successfully completed his phd at TUM @edfm-tum.bsky.social! Thanks for your hard work, Tobi, which led to these three very nice papers: doi.org/10.1038/s420... doi.org/10.1111/1365... doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
@regierungbw.bsky.social @bundestag.de @gruene-bundestag.de was hindert uns eigentlich in der momentan globalen Lage mit grüner #Energie durchzustarten? Nur der Wille! Jetzt grün und weg vom Öl!
New paper in mSystems! 🧵 - how much of your metagenome is actually bacterial/archaeal DNA? For many samples, nobody knows.
We built SingleM prokaryotic_fraction (SPF) to answer this, then ran it on >100,000 public metagenomes. 🧬🖥️🦠
Here's what we found 👇
doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01062-25
Job 🚨 Please share!!
We have a teaching track faculty opening in our undergraduate behavioral biology program at Johns Hopkins University
Teaching animal behavior plus self-developed courses
facultyjobs.jhu.edu/Positions/De...
@jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social
Krass: Robert Habeck hat einfach schon 2024 bei Maybrit Illner dem späteren Kanzler Friedrich Merz eine präzise Verkehrsprognose für die Straße von Hormus geliefert und was es für Folgen haben wird.
Merz wollte nicht hören. Jetzt haben wir den Salat!
The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out
@regierungbw.bsky.social @bundestag.de @gruene.de ist die Ölkrise nicht der perfekte Zeitpunkt, #Autofreie Sonntage und Erneuerung des 9-Euro #Deutschlandtickets wieder ins Gespräch zu bringen? #greenerisbetter
Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis!
Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠
@johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social
This Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science Nectar-loving tree frog likely moves pollen from flower to flower
It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023.
Learn more on #WorldWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4riUU1G
Fieldwork in the Kalahari following #meerkats and yellow #mongooses (if you can spot them) - total bliss
When pets devour biodiversity. My new article on the European edition of @uk.theconversation.com about the impacts of pet-wildlife interactions and the opportunities for their legal regulation in the EU. theconversation.com/our-pets-are.... Related paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Great work which I was looking forward to reading the final print since the preprint dropped! Well done to everyone involved
Heading to the Kalahari Research Centre to spend time in the field with yellow mongooses and meerkats, catch up with collaborators, and carve out space to #think about the bigger picture.
#Fieldwork, #ideas, and moonshoot #science — exactly where I need to be.
Photo Credit: Sofia Forss
I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...
Super happy that the AllTheBacteria hypothetical proteins are now in AFDB - hopefully we can start to understand the function of some of them at least 😁
#DarwinDay The "Origin of Species" is deeply enriched with a symbiotic lens. Here's a 15 minute seminar from @BIRS_Math on 25 yesrs of peeling back two layers of speciation to show reproductive and gut microbes have agency in the formation of new host species. youtu.be/DBlkt8UXc_8?...
Finding the natural reservoir for a pathogen and its transmission chain to humans is a great feat- well done @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This system is incredibly cool and provided another outstanding example of rigorous epidemiological science - congrats to all authors
Jacket design for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks. It features a historic, drawn image of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive female patterning on its left side and male on its right. Against a black background, the image and text (title and author's name) are brightly rendered in a spectrum of colours resonant of the Progress Pride Flag.
My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏
UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵
US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
🚨Podcast launch🚨
We are happy to announce: the #MVIFconversations podcast episode 1 will be available for listening on Monday via
▶️Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/1f4lBWv...
▶️Podcasts: apple.co/3NBLjonAmazon
▶️Music: music.amazon.com/podcasts/81c...
▶️Podcasts: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.
New preprint out - using a cosmopolitan neotropical #bat, we asked whether Astrovirus infections affected its gut #microbiome and whether land use change amplified infection effects #OneHealth doi.org/10.21203/rs....
Naja, ... also da fliegen halt dauern Großwale ind die Propeller und außerden bekommt man davon bestimmt auch Gehirnkrebs.
Oder?
Spoiler: NEIN!
Ich hatte die dämlich Walstory mal für Volksverpetzer debunkt:
www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/...
Published today in PNAS:
www-pnas-org.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/doi/10.1073/...
Mark Urban, Chris Elphick, and I argue that conservation programs should pay more attention to heritable within population variation, enabling rapid evolutionary response to environmental changes.
Gosh! That would be the best way to swim if it works. Curious about your review
(1/8) 🚨Thrilled to share our new research, now published on the cover of @science.org ! 🌳🦠
We discovered that tree #Bark — largely regarded as inert — hosts vast #Microbial communities that actively interact with the atmosphere. 🧵👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The Research Ireland Pathway Programme is now open. Supporting postdoctoral researchers across all disciplines to build their track record and become independent research leaders. Hear from awardee Dr Jonathan Briody @rcsi.bsky.social below. Learn more: www.researchireland.ie/funding/pathway/
