I think most people would prefer this. #Science

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country. Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

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A welcome editorial message.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Look for the helpers"
—Mister Rogers

Focus on the good, compassionate people acting during crises rather than fearing the disaster itself to reduce anxiety, inspire hope, and highlight humanity's inherent goodness (even it’s very hard to believe in this).

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

Congratulations Maitreya!

“The Nation” Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”

1. The people of Minneapolis were formally nominated for the
2026 Nobel Peace Prize by The Nation magazine in January 2026. The nomination honors residents for their nonviolent resistance, community solidarity, and protection of neighbors against ICE.

www.thenation.com/article/acti...

“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader. A great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.”

~Eleanor Roosevelt.

Image: National Portrait Gallery.

Thank you,Nick. Much appreciated by someone who couldn’t attend.

Nice story, Ben!

Genetic and environmental determinants of multicellular-like phenotypes in fission yeast Abstract. Multicellular fungi have repeatedly given rise to primarily unicellular yeast species. Some of these, including the fission yeast Schizosaccharom

Proud of our new paper just out in the @genetics-gsa.bsky.social's #GENETICS journal academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...!

Enjoy! Sorry I am not able to come.

A Toni Morrison quote embedded in a yellow, black, and white graphic design reads: "I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.’”

As of today, I am a FULL professor. I do not care much for occupational status markers. Still, it is not lost on me that only 2% of full professors are Black women. This goes beyond personal accomplishment. It is a responsibility to do as much as I can for others. That is exactly what I aim to do.

The most dangerous

Sharing this important article... for no reason whatsoever.

"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."

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Mechanical confinement governs phenotypic plasticity in melanoma - Nature Mechanical confinement of cancer cells at the tumour–microenvironment interface induces phenotype switching through chromatin remodelling by HMGB2, leading to a more invasive and drug-resistant state ...

Confinement induced switching -https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09445-6

Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host - Nature Microbiology A mycovirus infecting the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus enhances its stress tolerance and virulence in mice.

#NewResearch

A mycovirus infecting the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus enhances its stress tolerance and virulence in mice.

@shlezingerlab.bsky.social #Mycoviruses #FungalPathogenesis #Aspergillus #MicroSky

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Can creativity in science be learnt? These researchers think so Time pressure gets in the way of ideas. Developing ‘creative oases’ and small grants for risky ideas can encourage innovative thinking in science.

Time pressure gets in the way of ideas. Developing ‘creative oases’ and small grants for risky ideas can encourage innovative thinking in science

go.nature.com/459cPQz

Candida albicans Goliath cells pioneer biofilm formation | mBio Goliath cells, known for their large size and stickiness to plastic, are triggered by limited access to the essential mineral zinc. They are a specialized cell type of Candida albicans, a fungus that ...

Candida albicans Goliath cells pioneer biofilm formation | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Congratulations Iana and Duncan on your beautiful paper! Goliath cells could be the key to many processes that we don't understand well.

Excellent thread.

If you're American, you are literally safer from violence and theft than your parents or grandparents were. But almost no one realizes that.

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

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Hypermutable hotspot enables the rapid evolution of self/non-self recognition genes in Dictyostelium Cells require highly polymorphic receptors to perform accurate self/non-self recognition. In the amoeba Dicytostelium discoideum, polymorphic TgrB1 & TgrC1 proteins are used to bind sister cells and e...

I'm excited to announce our new biorxiv preprint, wherein we investigate the evolution of the weirdest genetic locus I've ever seen! Behold the tgr genes of the social amoeba, which mediate self/non-self discrimination during facultative multicellularity 🐅 🧵 1/
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Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
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Excited to report that Joy Bergelson (bergelsonlab.org) and I will be running a brand new GRC conference on the Function of Evolving Systems in the summer of 2026. The 2028 one will be chaired by Mikhail Tikhonov (physics.wustl.edu/people/mikha...) and @asanchezlab.bsky.social! Stay tuned!

Our body is a mosaic of fungi. Some scientists think they could be influencing our brain The fungi within our bodies may have a much greater effect on our health than we've long given them credit for.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Fungus among us