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Nicolas Fanget
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Senior Publisher at the Nature Partner Journals series. Microbiology and bicycle as transport fan, climate change worrier. He/Him.
My journals: npj Biodiversity, npj Drug Discovery, npj Metabolic Health and Disease, npj Veterinary Sciences & npj Viruses
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Nicolas Fanget @nfanget.bsky.social · Nov 24
Everyone interested in #virus loves a #bacteriophage right? It's amazing they are the most abundant and diverse biological entity on the planet, yet were discovered just over 100 years ago! To give them the attention we believe they deserve, npj Viruses has launched three collections on #phages:
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Join Senior Editor of Nature Briefing, Flora Graham and Nigel Topping, Chair of the UK Climate Change Committee in this special episode of in Conversation, marking ten years since the signing of the Paris Agreement.

Watch the full video here: youtu.be/1QB4T0gW-FQ

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December 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22d
I'm so tired of measles.

I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.

Show what measles looks like.
datareport.bsky.social Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 22d
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
nfanget.bsky.social
Everyone interested in #virus loves a #bacteriophage right? It's amazing they are the most abundant and diverse biological entity on the planet, yet were discovered just over 100 years ago! To give them the attention we believe they deserve, npj Viruses has launched three collections on #phages:
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Trust in science and media matters more than ever. AI offers incredible opportunities—but can also fuel distortion. Joyce Lorigan and @lingenhoehl.bsky.social share insights on combating false narratives and maintaining public trust in science.

spklr.io/63320BMUVg

@spektrum.de 🧪
The image displays the text "TRUST IN SCIENCE AND MEDIA IN THE AGE OF AI" written by Joyce Lorigan and Daniel Lingenhoehl on the left. The right side shows an abstract design in blue and red lines, with "SPRINGER NATURE" logo at the bottom.
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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A new, first of its kind, report from Springer Nature, in partnership with @overton.io, offers the most comprehensive picture yet of how academic research is influencing real-world policy tied to the #SDGs.

Explore the report here: spklr.io/63327BMYgH

🏛️ #policysky #SciPol
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Antimicrobial resistance is a global health threat, causing 1.27M deaths yearly and could reach 8M by 2050 if we do not act. Protect our future. Explore more here: go.nature.com/4hGfHsI
#WorldAMRWeek #AMR #SDG3
World AMR Awareness Week 2025- Act Now: Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future
World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness week is celebrated every year from the 18th to the 24th of November. The campaign is one of the World Health Organisations official campaigns and aims to raise awareness of AMR and promote global action to tackle the spread of drug resistant diseases.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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#Review

Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠

#MicroSky

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Exploring the concept of bacterial memory - Nature Microbiology
This Perspective discusses the concept, mechanisms and evidence for memory in bacteria at individual and community levels.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Here’s the @natureportfolio.nature.com crew at #SVP2025 - @joaovascoleite.bsky.social @devinleaward.bsky.social @lukegrinham.bsky.social and me. Come and chat.
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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I'm really looking forward to this npj Viruses collection on plant viruses! Send us your wonderful virus manuscripts, whether on an obscure pathogen of wild plants or an economically important disease of cash crops, we want it all. #plant #virus
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Plant viruses
Plant viruses are economically important pathogens causing serious crop losses, yet no effective or durable control measures exist despite growing genomic and ...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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@mackayim.bsky.social Hi Ian! I couldn't find a recent email for you so I am contacting you here. I have exciting plans for one of my journals, and I would like to you if you would be interested. Would you like to talk? My email is n [dot] fanget [at] nature [dot] com
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” This Collection recognises the achievements of the Laureates. #chemsky 🧪
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
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October 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit." This Collection celebrates the contributions by the awardees. ⚛️ 🧪
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical ...
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October 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.” This Collection celebrates the award and recognizes the winners’ achievements. #medsky 🧪
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries ...
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October 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Funding and public support for vaccines in the United States is at an all-time low. Promising research is resulting in effective antivirals, but they should not take the place of vaccines go.nature.com/4gijtYv
September 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Near-complete local extinction on Red Sea reefs!

During the 2023 heatwave, 100% of host anemones bleached, 94–100% of anemonefish disappeared, and 66–94% of anemones died, collapsing an iconic mutualism.

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#coral #bleaching #RedSea

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Anemonefish in front of coral in the Red Sea, courtesy of Red Sea Imaging and the authors
September 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Saving the bees does not include honeybees. Honeybees are effectively livestock and part of the problem.
The island that banned hives: can honeybees actually harm nature?
On a tiny Italian island, scientists conducted a radical experiment to see if the bees were causing their wild cousins to decline
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September 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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The power of vaccines
154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines
But public-health specialists worry that misinformation and funding cuts could affect vaccination rates.
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September 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Very cool approach

"Italian still life paintings as a resource for reconstructing past Mediterranean aquatic biodiversity"

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Italian still life paintings as a resource for reconstructing past Mediterranean aquatic biodiversity - npj Biodiversity
npj Biodiversity - Italian still life paintings as a resource for reconstructing past Mediterranean aquatic biodiversity
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September 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions

www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ... theverge.com The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5 successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting with in 2023. Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output." The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can give incorrect responses." Copy Share Select all Web search Dictionary ...
August 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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New collection open at #npjVetSci! We’re looking for exciting advances in #AI for animal care, whether #pets, #farm or #wildlife
#veterinary

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Advances in technologies and AI for improving and monitoring animal health, behaviour and welfare
This collection invites research on recent advances in technologies and AI for improving and monitoring animal health, behavior and well-being.
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August 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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RFK has announced that he is developing a vaccine against all viruses. Yes, every single one. The whole, uh, "phylum"
RFK Jr: “We're developing a universal vaccine at NIH which is a vaccine that addresses the entire phylum of viruses.” “It's a vaccine that mimics natural immunity and it is effective against any kind of mutation.” “We believe it's gonna be effective against not only coronaviruses but also flu.” “And it's gonna be a much safer and a much more effective vaccine.”
August 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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#Perspective

In this perspective, the authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of these ecological principles to improve microbiome functionality.

#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠

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Applying ecological principles to microbiome engineering - Nature Microbiology
This Perspective discusses the application of ecological principles of macro-ecosystems to microbiome engineering. The authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of th...
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August 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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This is pretty amazing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The brain fires up immune cells when sick people are nearby
When people viewed virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brains triggered an immune response.
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August 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM