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📣 We are pleased to announce that recruitment for 2025-26 Crowd Preprint Reviewers & Leads is open!

📝 The goal of the Crowd Preprint Review initiative is to provide an engaging environment for researchers to participate in giving feedback on preprints and support public reviews of preprints.

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

Es ist alles sehr bizarr

A poster shows a cyclist riding in a bike lane separated from car traffic. The text reads: “The world would be better with more cycling lanes that PROTECT CYCLISTS. Yet very few roads have them!”

Did you know❓ Cycle lanes account for just 0.2% of the current road infrastructure.

It’s time to demand safer streets that put the health & safety of pedestrians & cyclists first 👉 bit.ly/4jPzXsa #RoadSafety #StreetsforLife

3 weeks to go before #pint25!!

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All the details here. Join the party! pintofscience.com

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🧠🍻 Pint of Science #Pint25DE is coming to Bonn!

Join us 19–21 May to grab a drink and listen to fascinating talks (english or german) on neuroscience, astronomy,...!
Check the program 👉 pintofscience.de/events/bonn

Not in Bonn? #Pint25 is happening around the world, look for the one close to you!

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international)

We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc.

Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Warum stand dieses Geld denn nicht vorher zur Verfügung für all die Forschenden, die schon hier sind? Warum kommt es erst jetzt darauf an, attraktive Jobs (mit längeren Vertragslaufzeiten) zu schaffen? Wer sind "the best and the brightest"? Bitte nicht antworten, ich muss im Bad die Wand anbrüllen.

Auditorium of the Wolbachia conference. The slide shows "Welcome Remark, and Information from the Organizing Committee"

Thanks @symbionticism.bsky.social
It was a long journey - after 28 h I arrived at the Welcome Reception yesterday (there was Saki!).

And here we go #WolbachiaConference2025!

#Wolbachia

A disinfectant wipe I got at ESCMID Global last year. It says "See you next year! Vienna, Austria 12-15 April 2025"

Therefore, I unfortunately won’t make it to #ESCMIDGlobal this year but found this while packing. Enjoy Vienna! #ESCMID2025

So excited to be on my way to Okinawa for the #WolbachiaConference2025! Looking forward to great science and (re)connecting with old and new #Wolbachia peers. 🌸

Bis ich heut gecheckt hab, woher die ganzen Raumfahrtwitze kommen, hatten andere schon die ersten Anträge eingereicht 🤪

It’s incredible to think that just 30 years ago there were 3.5 million cases of #GuineaWorm disease globally every year.

In each of the last four years, there have been 15 cases or less. We are on the brink of an historic achievement.

🔬The application deadline in our program "CURIOSITY IS INFECTIOUS" is less than a month away!
👉 Apply by April 20 for one of 16 exciting PhD projects - from host-pathogen interactions and novel antiinfectives to molecular mechanisms of infection and immunity.
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...

Timeline 'R' Us — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us Of superbugs and superheroes. Timeline 'R' Us – Explore devastating infections through the ages, alongside crucial scientific discoveries to help control them.

Check out our interactive timeline of some of the most devastating infectious diseases in history, alongside major advances in science and medicine that have helped control and prevent them.

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#CelebrateVaccines

We have 3 positions for students who want to start a PhD in the next 12 months. If you like advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques and S. aureus cell biology, check links and apply(April 4)

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While I generally agree with you, as is often the case, it's not that simple. Mosquitoes are not only a nuisance problem, but also highly effective transmitters of diseases, e.g., malaria, dengue fever, lymphatic filariasis, to name but a few.

Nevertheless, this is an important point to consider.

Florestan (spokesperson of the GBM Postdocs) introduces our group on stage. The board with its 4 members (including myself) is shown on the slide.

The "Alte Mälzerei" in Mosbach, where the conference is taking place. The building’s windows reflect the bright blue sky.

Already Day 3 of the #MosbacherKolloquium! Yesterday, Florestan introduced our relatively new group of #GBMPostdocs. Join us today at 7 pm if you’re interested (open to final-stage PhDs). No GBM membership required - however, the first year is free if you register before March 31. @gbmev.bsky.social

#PubMed now back for me, but the damage is done. When you suddenly realise you maybe can’t rely on something you absolutely need to rely on, that’s when you start to look for alternatives. And that’s happening over & over again with anything USA-related right now 😢

But: We need safe, decentralized long-term alternatives to avoid these disruptions in the future. In the meantime, #EuropePMC (europepmc.org) is a solid alternative for accessing much of PubMed’s content and more. 🔍 #OpenScience #PubMed #PMC #NIH #AcademicSky

Set up 1.1.1.1 on Windows · Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 docs Take note of any DNS addresses you might have set up, and save them in a safe place in case you need to use them later.

For now: The servers are still up, and access is gradually returning. If you're still locked out, you can speed up the process by switching to e.g., Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) - or just wait it out. It worked for me following this protocol: developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/setu...

Apparently it's a temporary DNS issue. Whether you can access the sites depends on your ISP’s caching DNS server, which explains why some people can reach them while others still can't (🙋🏼).

🚨 Yesterday a bit after 4 pm CET (#PhDlife), I lost access to #PubMed & #PMC, and at first found no other posts on here (no wonder on a Saturday…). But, turns out: I wasn’t alone – users worldwide had the same issue. #NIH #OpenScience #AcademicSky

Same here. Has been like this for around 2 h...

Two ways to get your PhD in Germany - Research in GermanyChat-Icon Ready for a PhD in Germany? Learn about individual and structured programmes and start your academic journey!

This is not meant as encouragement to do another PhD but I feel like it's important to mention that a PhD in other countries doesn't necessarily include grad school. E.g. in Germany, grad schools are less common than the "individual doctorate". www.research-in-germany.org/en/your-goal...

I'm not a clinician, but I agree it’s a challenge, especially in severe cases. My focus was more on highlighting that antibiotics don’t work against viral infections, rather than on decisions in hospitalized patients.

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Antibiotics fight bacteria,
Not the seasonal flu.
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#AntibioticStewardship #AntibioticResistance #AMR #FluSeason #AcademicSky #IDSky

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Today in global Neglected Tropical Diseases. These diseases place a devastating and unacceptable burden on some of the most vulnerable communities in the world. Working together, governments, communities, NGOs & researchers can #BeatNTDs #NTDs

Learn more and see how @who.int is tackling 🧵

@unibonn.bsky.social & @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social are developing Corallopyronin A (CorA) as an antibiotic to target #Wolbachia. Beyond its antibacterial activity, we studied CorA’s resistance development - key for long-term efficacy. Read more in our recent study: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... (2/2)

Today is #WorldNTDDay! 🌍 Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as river blindness and lymphatic filariasis urgently need new treatment options. These diseases are caused by filarial nematodes, which rely on #Wolbachia bacteria for survival. (1/2)

#NTDs #AMR #Antibiotics #OneHealth