Germán Bonilla-Rosso

Diagram illustrating "feed the enemy's enemy": ampicillin inhibits Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Citrobacter freundii acidifies the environment, further inhibiting P. aeruginosa.

New preprint from our lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Andrea Dos Santos and Clément Vulin combine experiments and models showing how adding glucose can strengthen negative interactions between microbial species. This can be used in tandem with antibiotic treatment to inhibit pathogens!

Meta-virus resource (MetaVR): expanding the frontiers of viral diversity with 24 million uncultivated virus genomes Abstract. Viruses are ubiquitous in all environments and impact host metabolism, evolution, and ecology, although our knowledge of their biodiversity is st

🦠🧪🧬🚨 New paper and database alert: the new IMG/VR release is now MetaVR ! We have a new website - meta-virome.org - with quick search capabilities for the >24M viruses, >12M vOTUs, and >42M protein clusters (including >790k with predicted structures !). academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Two plots side by side showing time in weeks on x axis and probability of returning to work on the y axis. The left hand plot shows the trajectory of two groups (self-efficacy improved or not improved), while the right hand plot shows the probability difference between the two groups.

geomtextpath can really help make a plot easier to interpret. Nice to avoid using a legend. #rstats #dataviz

I didn't like #Wikipedia when it came out because I feared the democratization of knowledge would result in disinformation.

Today I think it might become the last bastion against misinformation.

Donate to #Wikimedia in this fundraiser, before the rich monopolize truth again.

A synthetic bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate) Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the fourth most commonly used plastic worldwide. Like all plastics, post-consumer PET is poorly managed and accumulates in the environment, posing significant ecolo...

Paper alert!
We have created a bacterium that eats plastic! We named it PETBuster! Great work by PhD student Dekel Freund @dekel-freund.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An obviously AI-generated figure with AI slop and fake text all over it, recently published in Scientific Reports.

Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing.

Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this?

Background readings:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?

Full story, among other places, here

nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

Yes, even errata and corrections are really hard to find, journals should make a better effort to include them with the main manuscript.

I hope your lettwr gets published soon!

I mean if you don't publish the response together with the critique.

I agree with you, I'm just trying to see how it would impact otherwise.

On the other hand, if you unlink the response, your critique might end up lost and ignored by the field?

To think that the genus 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑜 only became dominant with the appearance and spread of modern 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠 humans around 50'000 years ago, and it seems entirely uncertain if we are gonna make it into the next millenium!

To think that the genus 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑜 only became dominant with the appearance and spread of modern 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠 humans around 50'000 years ago, and it seems entirely uncertain if we are gonna make it into the next millenium!

I don’t know a lot.

But I know a lot about dinosaurs.

Now we all know dinosaurs lived for millions of years right?

But does you mind actually wrap around how long they dominated for?

Lets get a little perspective.

Did you know Allosaurus never saw flowers but T.rex did?

One thing that really bugs me about the junk published in Scientific Reports is that Springer Nature have been giving libraries the hard sell about how much more investment they put into articles compared with born OA commercial publishers, which supposedly justifies the higher price.

Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

My quote of the day

The best time to fight corruption was ages ago, the next best time is now.

Amit Kalantri

Any authoritarian regime hates science because it searches for and distributes facts and truths that they cannoc control

Correlated expressions do not mean "gene networks" exclusively. Or what do you think "gene networks" should exclusively mean?

Many misuse of terms arise from a facility in naming a complex concept or extrapolation from other areas of research.

Hi, I don't know you but you did not stated what you believe the correct term should be.

A frieze showing Death as a skeleton on the left, and Medicine as a man on the right holding Death back. The man, representing Medicine, is holding a caduceus, the symbol of commerce.

Sharing again because... 👀

This frieze from Fulton County, Georgia shows "Medicine's battle with Death." Note the rod with two snakes. Many mistake it for the Rod of Asclepius (the traditional symbol of healing). However, this is the Caduceus, symbol of commerce. A common error in the USA.

“The president of the Spanish Research Ethics Committee, Dr. Jordi Camí, has called for further action. ‘We must clean up this mess,’ he proclaimed. In his opinion, ‘we must continue to introduce measures to discourage, almost penalize, publishing for the sake of #publishing.’” #science

This is an astonishing story. Journal 'Science of the Total Environment' published *10,000 articles a year* Many were bogus.

Great summary of why our publication culture needs to be changed.

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...

Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.

english.elpais.com/science-tech...

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The "dodgy" paper-mill journal Science of the Total Environment gets delisted by Clarivariate, in part due to an apparent scam run by Guilherme Malafaia, who gave fake emails from well known researchers as potential peer reviewers.

#PublishInSocietyJournals

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If you are still publishing in for-profit journals, ask yourself:

what have those journals done for you? Or for science?

Publish, cite and review in society journals!

This is why a con man shouldn’t have been allowed to become President!
This 👇

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Next week is #GivingTuesday and we need your help to raise $100,000 before the end of this year! Support our large-scale response to unchecked AI development. Join us with a gift!

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It’s time for Austria’s Krampus Parades 🖤