Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

One last rt for the Saturday folk - I need as much traction as possible so my book doesn't end up being one of those nice things that no-one buys.

Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism Study The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it

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...

Photo of myself in front of the poster 'Culturing for the win: a student course to assess underrepresented taxa in isolate collections' by Laura Chatterly (PDRA); Peniel Bakulu, Holly Lambton, Qabas Al Raisi and Ellie Spratt (my outstanding y4 undergrad team!); David Kerrigan, Francesco Baldini and Emilie Pondeville from Uni Glasgow who kindly provided us the smashed mosquito samples!

Such a pleasure to present the great work my y4 @unistrathclyde.bsky.social undergrads did, this year at the @microbiologysociety.org #AC26 ! Papers will be coming, watch this space! Just give us a minute, ~8 -80 boxes + data to sort through 😅 #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬 🧪

Good morning, especially to everyone in Hungary 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 growing up in Vienna I have such nice memories of trips to your wonderful country, so happy for you 😊

Off to Belfast, cool data in the luggage, but not sure about where or when to submit? Come see us - #Microbial #Genomics #MGen pitch-a-paper session @microbiologysociety.org annual conference (aka SGM, for my generation 😅), 11:30-12 at the society stand!
microbiologysociety.org/event/annual...

Today, 4 years ago, on April 8, 2022, ruZzia deliberatly attacked the #Kramatorsk railway station with ballistic missiles, killing 61 people including 9 children and injuring 150 - while they were trying to flee to safety.

Never forget. Never forgive. 🕯️

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

If you're at @bspparasitology.bsky.social #BSP2026 next week, come say hello 😊👋 I'll be around with my @microbiologysociety.org #Microbial #Genomics Editor-in-Chief hat on, to talk all things publishing for the community 🤓 💻🧬 #MicroSky #parasites 🧪 1/2

Feel free to ask me about society publishing, publish-and-read deals, pitch a paper for MGen, maybe even for our Microbial Eukaryote genome collection... maybe for a taster, take a look at all the cool stuff already in there! 2/2 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

If you're at @bspparasitology.bsky.social #BSP2026 next week, come say hello 😊👋 I'll be around with my @microbiologysociety.org #Microbial #Genomics Editor-in-Chief hat on, to talk all things publishing for the community 🤓 💻🧬 #MicroSky #parasites 🧪 1/2

How to Operate a Human A Complete Owner’s Manual for the Human Experience

If anyone needs something positive these days (I mean who doesn't...), here it is! @theawkwardyeti.bsky.social never fails to tell the tales of how our poor hearts, brains, stomachs etc despeartely try to keep us humans functioning... 😂
#IDSky #art #SciArt

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Great week for #Klebsiella papers - what happens to an ST that is long-time associated in a hospital? See what Allan Zuza found out in the course of his masters (!!!), outstanding work 😊
#MicroSky #IDSky #MedSky 💻🧬 in #MGen @microbiologysociety.org
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

Human systemic and mucosal immune responses support further exploration of a Klebsiella pneumoniae protein-based vaccine Neonatal sepsis caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major cause of under-five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, and the rapid increase of infections caused by bacteria resistant to most or all availab...

News from the #Klebsiella world! #Protein #vaccine targets might be worth a look... Human systemic and mucosal immune responses support further exploration of a Klebsiella pneumoniae protein-based vaccine. 💻🧬
#MicroSky #IDSky #MicrobiomeSky #AMR #MedSky #GlobalHealth
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Make your Bluesky experience better

#academicsky #medsky #newskies

Liebes @ZDF, ganz kurz zum Wording!

FALSCH: „Personenzüge geraten ins Visier“
RICHTIG: „Russland bombardiert Personenzüge“

FALSCH: „Lviv wurde von Drohnen getroffen“
RICHTIG: „Russland hat Lviv bombardiert“.

Bitteschön, gern geschehen.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Oh nothing, just a peer reviewed paper my colleagues found...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
"1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min."

Even AI knows what's wrong here, but @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doesn't.

if i see the SLIGHTEST whiff of genAI in your add not only will I avoid you, I will tell EVERYONE to avoid you

I don't "feel" my work has been stolen.
I know it.
This kind of language use by the NYT is part of the problem.
Framing it as some kind of emotional woo woo instead of a clear copyright breach...

How to Operate a Human A Complete Owner’s Manual for the Human Experience

If anyone needs something positive these days (I mean who doesn't...), here it is! @theawkwardyeti.bsky.social never fails to tell the tales of how our poor hearts, brains, stomachs etc despeartely try to keep us humans functioning... 😂
#IDSky #art #SciArt

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

This is why I truly believe researching, checking and evaluating sources, branching out into teaching yourself about mundane and complex things is so important

They have such little else to take from us, they’re trying to make using your own intelligence harder and behind a paywall

Don’t let them

I think about this a lot.

We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

This should become a case study in global health ethics courses

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

Make Art (1/4)

Just 10 more subscribers, and the SciArt Feed with be the #40 most popular Feed on Bluesky!

Please help Like, Pin, and Share if you enjoy the intersection of art & science (with _no_ generative AI).
#academicsky #medsky 🧪🐡🎨🩺

Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper?

Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.