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Jonathan Andrew Eisen is an American evolutionary biologist, currently working at University of California, Davis. His academic research is in… more

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Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

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Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.
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"In unison."

Amen.

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Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules
After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.
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Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Simon Roux, Mart Krupovìč

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Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s41...

PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature
Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.
nature.com
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Looking forward to the "Deepfaking Sam Altman" documentary. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
This Director Couldn’t Get An Interview With Sam Altman. So He Deepfaked Him In a Documentary
The latest film from Adam Bhala Lough (who co-directed ‘Telemarketers’) charts the filmmaker’s journey to commission and interview “Sam Bot.”
www.hollywoodreporter.com
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merz.bsky.social
As I mentioned elsewhere, our friends in tech call this "feature creep."
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Well, this shows how clueless I am. I thought this was satire.

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Sam Altman announces new chatbot day after Newsom passes restrictive law
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a new version of ChatGPT set to launch December.
www.sfgate.com
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Donald Trump is NEVER winning the Nobel Peace Prize and he is NEVER getting into Heaven.
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Report proposes new framework to prepare for future pandemics

The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board says countries need to to bolster primary healthcare systems, establish a pandemic risk monitoring system, and strengthen cooperation.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...
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🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology:
“A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia
Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...
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Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, John R. Hutchinson

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Remarkable recovery of the Klamath River salmon. Many thanks to the agencies, Tribes, and NGOs who came together to remove dams and monitor the recovery of the Klamath River salmon. And kudos, too, to the indigenous youth who paddled source to sea on the newly freed river
Colorful kayaks in a circle on the water
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Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Stephen M. Walt, John R. Hutchinson

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Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.
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#BlackInMicro's Research Symposium is coming this Wedensday. Swipe left to see who's presenting. Come hear from 25 Early Career researchers from around the globe 🌎

Pre-register to attend: tinyurl.com/BIMW25
Donate to Early Career scientists: tinyurl.com/GiveBiM (all links in bio)
Black in Micro Week 2025 Early Career Research Symposium held on October 15, 2025, from 9 AM to 12 PM EST. Presenters include Katelyn Nicole Ward, Larisa Chila Kiki, Mallory Evans, Savannah Nicole Lewis, Enycé Fairbanks, and Khadijat Oluwapelumi Adefaye. It features six research presentations by early career scientists from various universities, covering topics such as drug repositioning for fungal infections, bacteriophage adaptation to silver ions, inflammasome responses to LPS, NK cell dynamics in malaria, organoid modeling of bacterial toxins, and protein disorder in Hepatitis E virus. Early Career Research Symposium featuring Aureliana Filomena Chambal Chilengue, Hassan Abbas, Nazik Elmekki, Immaculata Chika Ede, Audrey Randall, and Justin Durunyamunwu. Topics include tuberculosis transmission analysis using reference-free clustering, gut microbiota comparisons in ulcerative colitis, fitness determinants of Phocaeicola vulgatus, wound biofilm modeling, the role of Parabacteroides distasonis in type I diabetes, and microvascular modeling in dengue virus research. Early Career Research Symposium showcasing presenters howcasing presenters Nadia Holness, Deus Kamya, Trinity Moore, Caitlin Wiafe-Kwakye, Drea Darby, and Teni Shosanya. Topics include the role of Staphylococcus aureus in skin inflammation, the impact of Candida albicans on oral epithelial cells, the role of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron in gut inflammation, the effect of Enterococcus faecalis on colorectal cancer, the influence of Streptococcus pneumoniae on lung immunity, and the use of Escherichia coli in synthetic biology applications.
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Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Monica G. Turner, Elena Litchman , and 1 more

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I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Poster with QR code linking to the position
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This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap. "I've always loved museums," she says, "but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards' We do the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."
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Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

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Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage
A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…
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phylogenomics.bsky.social
I did the exact same thing when I first tried sushi. Well, the swallowing part. Not the acid part.
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2111 days and counting.

Posted observations to iNaturalist.org every day for last 2111 days.
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phylogenomics.bsky.social
Maybe they don't like how fish taste
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phylogenomics.bsky.social
Great egret having a fishy snack.

Two pics. Zoomed out and zoomed in.

#birds
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Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Nandita Sharma, Robbert Sanderman , and 19 more

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After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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🦠Join the legendary @viromegirl.bsky.social lab

Jobs in marine micro, virology & genomics
💻 Viral 'omics in seagrass
🧬 Marine microbial & bioinformatics
🧫 Vibrio phage + iron biogeochemistry
🎓 sea urchin–ciliate diseases

👉 www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...

#MarineVirology #Phagesky #Microbiome
Welcome to the Breitbart Lab - Genomics
We are modern virus hunters, using metagenomic sequencing to discover viruses in a wide range of environments and hosts. Have fun exploring the marvels of microbiology on this website!
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phylogenomics.bsky.social
Nice - I want to hear it sometime
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Lazy Susan, but, like, literally
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Silvia Secchi , and 2 more

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Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!
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phylogenomics.bsky.social
Stopping to get lunch and pie first
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Heading back to #DavisCA after an excellent @ucdavis.bsky.social Host Microbe Interactions meeting at Granlibakken
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Hey buddy my eyes are up here
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You, sir, have no leg to stand on!
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