Antoine Zboralski

Canadian graduate students... how do you feel about members of parliament going through your transcripts and the personal information you disclosed in your applications in order to question whether you deserved your fellowship or not?
@supportourscience.bsky.social

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

Happy to see the data from the main paper of my PhD being used to build this tool!

People arm in arm while drinking coffee and holding papers, with text: Why scientists should take more coffee breaks.

Here's a reminder on #InternationalCoffeeDay: It's OK to take a (coffee) break. ☕

"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb

🧫 Happy International Microorganism Day!

Exactly 342 years ago today, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled organism for the first time in a letter to the Royal Society of London. After several centuries of research, there is still much to discover! ✨

#InternationalMicroorganismDay

Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) | 12844852 A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, Université de Montréal.

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

We started a Starter Pack at the #RPB2025 meeting on Plant-Bacteria Interaction Research in Aussois, France 🗻. Let me know if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/MgodMB4

Coexistence ecology of pathogen-inhibiting microbes in the phytobiome Certain microbes have considerable potential as biocontrol agents against various pathogens, but they coexist with other microbial species in complex networks of interactions that influence their func...

Coexistence ecology of pathogen-inhibiting microbes in the phytobiome

#Pseudomonas "bacterial coexistence and interactions in host plant–microbe and microbe–microbe relationships" 🌱

@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social Review from Heribert Hirt

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Sowing success: ecological insights into seedling microbial colonisation for robust plant microbiota engineering Manipulating the seedling microbiota through seed or soil inoculations has the potential to improve plant health. Mixed in-field results have been attributed to a lack of consideration for ecological ...

Sowing success: ecological insights into seedling microbial colonisation for robust plant microbiota engineering
by
@microbialmarie.bsky.social et al

In Trends in Plant Science

www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Thank you for putting this together! Could you please add my account as well?

TONS to dig into here on the meteoric rise in publications from China - a trend that is unambiguously good for science, but has outpaced adaptation at Western journals, their reviewers, and their editors/editorial board members.

July issue of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social is now online, with our review by @xinmingxu.bsky.social @neftalyl.bsky.social on Composing a microbial symphony and a matching cover illustration by @lizahaart.bsky.social

#SynCom #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

🌿 Happy to share the latest paper published today from my postdoc at Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada!

🦠 Specific #lipopeptides produced by a #Pseudomonas strain inhibit the plant pathogen #Sclerotinia sclerotiorum for effective #biocontrol

doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

#peptin #mycin #brabantamides

‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species Science speaks with conservation scientist Kent Redford about why microbes need protection from extinction—and how to achieve it

Science covered our recent meeting, as we try and get microbial conservation integrated into the IUCN.
‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Not only will this create a network effect, but because bioRxiv is intended to be an enabling platform that stimulates evolution, it will allow _other people_ to do great things e.g. connect.biorxiv.org/news/2021/05... 2/2

Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🚜 Excited to see our paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Amazing effort by @y-song.bsky.social in collaboration with TU Delft (Neil Budko, Elisa Atza) and the Dutch potato breeding industry to harness the power of the microbiome! 🥔🔬@utrechtpmi.bsky.social

I just published: How to hire the best people

Steve Jobs was obsessed with hiring “the best people.” You should be too.

link.medium.com/SAqkMnHlnPb

Journal clubs 2.0: An update for the 21st century Do you run a journal club? The non-profit, scientist-driven ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in Biology) promotes transparency and innovation in life science communication, and they are offering funding to organise preprint review clubs. Find out about their other activities, too.

14. There are huge benefits to converting your current journal clubs into preprint review clubs.

*Share usable feedback and improve science
*Help ECRs build a public track record
*Actual training

op-ed: buff.ly/3zjLltQ

You could post the reviews to @prereview.bsky.social too!

#PreprintAdvent

Pyoluteorin-deficient Pseudomonas protegens improves cooperation with Bacillus velezensis, biofilm formation, co-colonizing, and reshapes rhizosphere microbiome - npj Biofilms and Microbiomes npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Pyoluteorin-deficient Pseudomonas protegens improves cooperation with Bacillus velezensis, biofilm formation, co-colonizing, and reshapes rhizosphere microbiome

Pyoluteorin-deficient Pseudomonas protegens improves cooperation with Bacillus velezensis, biofilm formation, co-colonizing, and reshapes rhizosphere microbiome

-in #NPJBiofilmsMicrobiomes

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

The activity of soil microbial taxa in the rhizosphere predicts the success of root colonization Plant-beneficial microbes have great potential to improve sustainability in agriculture. Still, managing beneficial microbes is challenging because the impact of microbial dormancy on community assemb...

A nice preprint where the team of @stl.bsky.social used a non-canonical amino acid to tag metabolically active bacteria in various soil/plant compartments, from bulk soil to nodules, and sorted them with FACS before 16S rRNA sequencing

Advising governments about science is essential but difficult. So train people to do it A great scientist doesn’t necessarily make an effective science adviser — but schooling and practice can help to bridge the gap.

How does science advice to governments need to change over the next 10 years?

In a Nature survey, respondents said that training scientists in politics & policy is top of the list.

Our editorial outlines what's required
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The plant microbiome starter pack is far from complete. Let us know if you want to be on it! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

Thank you for this! Could you please add my account?

I initiated a plant pathology/plant microbe starter pack, feel free to self-nominate 🥀

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Read here: www-sciencedirect-com.erable.inrs.ca:2048/science/arti...