Jan Gogarten

AHhhhhh!!! What about the rather obvious interpretation that men are socialized to be entitled to success and privilege - so they cut corners and oversell findings to get there. Sigh... men commit more violent crime than women, men typically have worse self control than women etc...

E.g., "men are more visible in science in general, their work is getting more scrutiny" or “men are socialized to be risk-takers” — to “have these big, bold ideas that are often valued in research... On the flipside, women are socialized to be more detail-oriented.”

Gender disparities among authors of retracted publications in medical journals: A cross-sectional study Background Gender disparities in scientific authorship are well documented, yet little is known about gender representation among authors of retracted publications. Methods We analyzed 878 retracted...

Women are underrepresented in first / last author positions of retracted medical papers. Shocked to see the hand wringing about potential mechanisms in the coverage of the work, trying desperately to turn this into a positive for men. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mapping Phage Diversity through Population-Scale Metagenomics in the Hunt for Novel Antimicrobials at University College London on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Mapping Phage Diversity through Population-Scale Metagenomics in the Hunt for Novel Antimicrobials at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

A PhD Position! Aim is to use pop-scale metagenomics to map global phage diversity and uncover evolutionary signatures that could point to new antimicrobials. Work with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social + Joanne Santini - two creative scientists who are also very fun to work with!
tinyurl.com/phagehunt

Vampire bats may have contracted H5N1 bird flu in Peru, raising worries about further spread Bats could form a bridge between marine and terrestrial mammals, scientists say

Fascinating story about evidence that #H5N1 #birdflu infected vampire bats in South America, raising the prospect of a potential new & dangerous host for the virus. Some good news: The virus didn't appear to spread well among the bats. By @martinenserink.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...

Elektronenmikroskopische Aufnahme von Pseudomonas aeruginosa, infiziert mit dem Jumbophagen ΦKZ (rot).

Große Phagen, kleine Phagen, Phagen aus Primatenkot... 💩Die Forschenden am @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social, @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social & HZI gehen in ihrer Bakteriophagen-Forschung an die Grenzen!
@jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social @jenshoer.bsky.social @gerovac.bsky.social @jangogarten.bsky.social #WAAW2025

💦 Weiter geht’s in der Vortragsreihe „Neue Moorlandschaften“!
Am 17. Nov, 18 Uhr spricht Dr. Tjorven Hinzke über: „Wer isst wen in wiedervernässten Mooren?“

📍 @wiko-greifswald.bsky.social in #Greifswald oder online
Mehr Info: tinyurl.com/wetscapes2

Ethiopia reports suspected viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak Health authorities in Ethiopia are carrying out further investigations and ramping up response after suspected cases of viral haemorrhagic fever were reported in the country’s South Ethiopia Region.

"So far, eight suspected cases have been reported. Laboratory testing is ongoing at the Ethiopia Public Health Institute to determine the exact cause."
Always worrying when viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak is suspected anywhere, definitely something to watch.
#IDsky
www.afro.who.int/news/ethiopi...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Come join us - we are recruiting a postdoc in phylodynamics and epidemiological modelling to join an exciting project on foot-and-mouth-disease virus in African buffalo
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Please share widely!
#jobs #disease #ecology #evolution #phylodynamics

Are you interested in studying RNA phages? We are looking for a PhD student and a postdoc to join the lab!

For more information and how to apply, see below 👇

Please RT!

A fruitful collaboration with Mueena Jahan, @christinalynggaard.bsky.social, Hjalmar Kühl, Mimi Arandjelovic, the PanAf team, and @scs22.bsky.social. Thanks to the @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social, @dfg.de, @villumfonden.bsky.social, @mpifg.bsky.social + @restoreideu.bsky.social! Thanks everyone!

An Exploration of DNA Extraction Methods of Fly iDNA for Scalable Biodiversity Monitoring Metabarcoding of invertebrate-derived DNA (iDNA) is an excellent tool for assessing terrestrial mammal diversity, but the time and costs associated with sample processing constrain its wider adoption....

A paper for the #eDNA crowd, in particular those using flies for terrestrial biomonitoring. We show that massive pooling works well, reducing costs + time, bringing us a step closer to scalable terrestrial eDNA biomonitoring. doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not discovered a foolproof way to evaluate colleagues’ work that doesn’t involve reading the paper

Architectural immunity: Ants alter their nest networks to prevent epidemics In animal groups, spatial structure shapes social interaction patterns, thereby influencing the transmission of infectious diseases. Active modifications to the spatial environment could therefore be ...

New in @science.org, a paper from my PhD showing that ant groups fight epidemics by modifying the structure of their nests, giving them “architectural immunity”!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

With comments and insights by @eddieholmes.bsky.social, @lucyvandorp.bsky.social, Tom Gilbert, and Hendrik Poinar, who summed up his excitement about ancient RNA with "I think there’ll be a revolution in this space very shortly". @science.org @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social

A scientist (Tim Urich) hammering a core into the permafrost in the Arctic, while in the background, the cores are being sampled.

Fantastic reporting by @kakape.bsky.social on @scs22.bsky.social's work in the Arctic looking for sequenceable ancient RNA viruses. Amazing pictures (including this gem), and as always great story telling and commentary on the topic. Excited to see what they find. www.science.org/content/arti...

We're already at the hiding people from the secret police phase?

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...

EXTREMELY COOL BAT STUFF: A study out in Science today found that the greater noctule bat, Europe's largest, hunts and catches *migrating birds* while in flight. In at least one case, a bat climbed to more than 1200 feet, then chased a robin downward FAST until it caught it near the ground.

Characterising a species-rich and understudied tropical insect fauna using DNA barcoding Background: West Africa has high biodiversity that is relatively understudied, especially for insects. Studies of West African arthropod diversity can therefore help address important questions regard...

New preprint alert! We DNA barcoded 95 thousand Ghanaian arthropods, more than doubling the number of BINs (a species proxy) available online from West Africa. In doing so we’ve released a huge amount of new data to scientists studying the region 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The NSF GRFP was a huge help for me along my academic journey - and I had to apply multiple times to get there. These last minute changes to eligibility are cruel and if you are impacted - please do sign.

laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Permethrin-Treated Baby Wraps for the Prevention of Malaria | NEJM Malaria remains a major cause of childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa. We leveraged the traditional practice of mothers carrying children on their backs in cloth wraps to assess whether treating t...

What a clever intervention to reduce malaria risk among babies! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Three researchers preparing samples for high-throughput sequencing in the laboratories of the Genomic Surveillance Platform of the Institut Pasteur de Bangui.

New study by the Institut Pasteur de Bangui and HIOH examines CAR #mpox outbreaks via genomic #epidemiology. High frequencies of independent spillovers highlight the need to strengthen systematic surveillance & identify animal sources to prevent future outbreaks www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The 16th Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Bulape Health Zone, Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A new spillover event from an unknown reservoir host Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently facing concurrent outbreaks including mpox, cholera and malaria (1-4). The Ministry of Public Health, DRC has declared the 16th Ebola...

Great and fast work to sequence the genome of the new Ebola out break in DRC. Impressive! virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance - Scientific Data Scientific Data - A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance

Except this one :) www.nature.com/articles/s41.... I will try to keep it in mind for upcoming studies and then you can donate the 20 dollars :)

I hope there is a good way though to create a easily accessible and useable collection of all the efforts people are making - would be great to see :)

These sorts of data on the other hand are perhaps less likely to be used by most of the data generators - so there might be less uptake to upload and figure out the process? Not sure though what the psychology is.

Mandates to make sequence data available also did wonders and perhaps that’ll work down the line, once uptake has shown it to be a community resource people bought into. I feel like sequence databases worked well in part also because sequence generators were also publishing using other’s sequences.

And acknowledging all the work data generators are doing to drive meta analyses forward seems fair somehow. Even if just for the ,here is this resource introduction paper’ for a database. Bringing field people and lab folks into these efforts from the ground up might help if they weren’t already.

But I guess the idea of doing all of this is that folks can use the data to do publishable things with them - and I imagine you will have an idea or two for meta analyses too ;) All that to say, publications are a key metric for many and might be a better motivator than 20$ but just an idea.