Karim Majzoub

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Really neat and elegant Virology by @samjwilsonphd.bsky.social and team ! Watch out for these avian PB1 pol subunits ! Congrats to all co-authors ! @science.org

Really neat and elegant Virology by @samjwilsonphd.bsky.social and team ! Watch out for these avian PB1 pol subunits ! Congrats to all co-authors ! @science.org

🧬🛡️How are new immune mechanisms created?

We show how Lamassu antiphage system, originated from a DNA-repair complex and evolved into a compact and modular immune machine, wt Dinshaw Patel lab in @pnas.org.
👏 @matthieu-haudiquet.bsky.social, Arpita Chakravarti & all authors!

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Welcome to Bluesky Sam ! here is two Starting PAck lists I made of virologists on Bluesky that you might be interested in following : go.bsky.app/DmphBCT go.bsky.app/6bSDmrW

My lab is recruiting a post-doc ! please share ! emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Bravo @mkrupovic.bsky.social and team !

Selective RNA sequestration in biomolecular condensates directs cell fate transitions - Nature Biotechnology Stem cell differentiation is controlled by manipulating RNA condensates.

P-bodies , microRNAs and cell fate ! Not everything is transcription in cell fate decisions ;)

Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️
Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Just out in @science.org: Together with the lab of @wilhelmpalm.bsky.social, we used sequential in-vitro/in-vivo CRISPR screens to decipher metabolic adaptations in tumors. We find that acidosis is a dominant factor that shapes energy metabolism and stress resilience. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Acidosis orchestrates adaptations of energy metabolism in tumors Malignant tumors are characterized by diverse metabolic stresses, including nutrient shortages, hypoxia, and buildup of metabolic by-products. To understand how cancer cells adapt to such challenges, ...

Shout out for @johanneszuber.bsky.social and team ! Beautiful work with new biology !

I tried it and it s pretty impressive

q.e.d Science Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation

Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com
@qedscience.bsky.social

Boa Constrictor Brain Cells Slither into Focus From reptiles and Tasmanian devils to humans, one researcher zooms in on unseen features of the brain and liver cells, like the cytoskeleton.

@viroscope.bsky.social (@karimaj.bsky.social team) partage dans The Scientist ses travaux sur les deltavirus et l’imagerie de cellules, des cellules humaines aux cellules de boa constrictor 🐍.

👉 Lire l’article : “Boa Constrictor Brain Cells Slither into Focus”
www.the-scientist.com/boa-constric...

It is now on air.
Please look it up and join us!
Great science and wonderful venue👍🏻

www.isdv2026.com

Thanks nath !

Great crowd and attendance for our France-Japan Virology workshop we kicked off this morning !

Thank you to @viroscope.bsky.social and @carogoujon.bsky.social for nicely answering the very important question I’ve been receiving after more than a decade of seminars.

And the mechanism…

Quelle surprise!!! 😮 🤩

Meet us in 2 days in Montpellier for the French-Japan Virology symposium!

Lead by postdoc in the lab Ruiqi Ge and in collaboration with Bob Coffey’s lab, we are happy to share rPAL-seq for rapid and sensitive sequencing based profiling of glycoRNAs @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks Maria @morielab.bsky.social , first time I heard about this journal/platform was thanks to a paper from your lab ;)

New paper (micro) from our lab : “No evidence for human or rodent deltavirus replication in yeast”. A collaboration with Dom helmlinger’s lab .

Boa Constrictor Brain Cells Slither into Focus From reptiles and Tasmanian devils to humans, one researcher zooms in on unseen features of the brain and liver cells, like the cytoskeleton.

Our @viroscope.bsky.social Joe McKellar interviewed by The-Scientist Magazine ! Look at all these beautiful cells we have in the lab :)

🧬 𝐋’𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐝𝐞́𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐠𝐞̀𝐧𝐞𝐬
Des scientifiques de l'IGMM utilisent l’embryon de drosophile pour démontrer que la répression de l’expression des gènes est un mécanisme beaucoup plus complexe qu’attendu.

📖 👉 lnkd.in/dPqUREuf
📷 © Mounia Lagha et Virginia Pimmett

Meet us at Genopolys , Montpellier for a France-Japan virology workshop ! 9-10 october 2025 ! 2 exciting days with many viruses! Co-organized with @systemsvirology.bsky.social Kei Sato and Monsef Benkirane @igmm-montpel.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

Naiavirus: an enveloped giant virus with a pleomorphic, flexible tail - Nature Communications Rodrigues and Queiroz et al. report the discovery of Naiavirus, the largest enveloped virus, isolated from a Brazil biome. With an oval capsid and flexible tail, its giant genome holds many novel gene...

Naiavirus: an enveloped giant virus with a pleomorphic, flexible tail
nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63463-6

Registration link : www.eventbrite.com/e/billets-st...

Meet us at Genopolys , Montpellier for a France-Japan virology workshop ! 9-10 october 2025 ! 2 exciting days with many viruses! Co-organized with @systemsvirology.bsky.social Kei Sato and Monsef Benkirane @igmm-montpel.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!

Endogenous viral elements in termite genomes reveal extensive diversity of deltaviruses and provide insights into their origins Deltaviruses are subviral agents of animals, which, in humans, require a hepadnavirus helper for transmission. The absence of deltavirus-like endogeno…

Endogenous Deltaviruses (EVEs) in termite genomes !