@npariente.bsky.social
Editor in Chief of the #NonProfit, #OpenAccess journal @plosbiology.org Former Chief Editor of Nature Microbiology. #Virologist. #Feminist. #Spaniard in the UK. #Galician. #European always. Views my own. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3666-5683
#VaccinesWork
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I currently have a few OpenCTD kits left to move before the end of the year. If you've wanted to build your own oceanographic instrument, now's your chance.
Details about the project: oceanographyforeveryone.com
OpenCTD Store: oceanographyforeveryone.bigcartel.com
#VaccinesWork
Quackery, disinformation and an irrational anti-science and anti-expert stance are harming our societies
Please get vaccinated and vaccinate your kids. Your life and that of others depends on it
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#VaccinesWork
Quackery, disinformation and an irrational anti-science and anti-expert stance are harming our societies
Please get vaccinated and vaccinate your kids. Your life and that of others depends on it
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elpais.com/argentina/20...
Enrichment of root-associated Streptomyces strains in response to drought is driven by diverse functional traits and does not predict beneficial effects on plant growth
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As a US journalist, it is notable that the most accurate headline in this collection is by the non-US Guardian. Which is owned by a trust, not a billionaire.
(The NYT hed is not bad, but as the thread notes, it was a lot worse and was changed post-pub.)
Support non-billionaire news.
Why not clean up the UK waters of fecal & industrial matter 1st? Then perhaps people (certainly I) will decide to return
I much prefer wild unspoiled shore to “fun” palaces, chippies and over exploitation along the coast as well, but H2O quality is paramount
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
NBC: “FDA claims COVID shots killed 10 children and vows new vaccine rules”
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
29.11.2025 22:40 — 👍 4475 🔁 1229 💬 120 📌 61Naaa, you’re kidding! Who could have predicted this?
If only someone had said this before it happened…
Retsef Levi tweet: “The evidence is mounting and indisputable that mRNA vaccines cause serious harm including death, especially in young people. We have to stop giving them immediately!”
💉Covid vaccines saved about 20 million lives in the 1st year alone (www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...)
RFK Jr & MAGA/MAHA hero Martin Kulldorff put anti-vaxx activist Retsef Levi in charge of reviewing Covid vaccines
He falsely called them a failed product that causes “serious harm including death” 🤯
Cool paper in @plosbiology.org on the alignment of brain activity when people are sharing a task
28.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0How does the arms race between #bacterial defense systems and mobile genetic elements contribute to #microbiome community structure?
Read below for an insightful exploration of this issue! It will not disappoint
@plosbiology.org 🧪
#bacteria #immune #phage #ecology
While you are recovering from #SfN25, you may want to take a look at our collection of articles on #neurotechnology
Good post-turkey reading!
#neurosky 🧪
I'm excited about our recent mini-collection on #interoception!
Our Editorial highlights four pieces showcasing the breadth of the field: hepatic, gut and cardiorespiratory interoception & an exploration of how this could all inform “Whole Person Health”
#neurosky 🧪 🧵 ⬇️
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All men over 50 have the right to a PSA test. It's not a screening program because you have to ask you GP. GO AND ASK! Especially if you are black or had a family member with prostate cancer.
28.11.2025 17:07 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1I'm excited about our recent mini-collection on #interoception!
Our Editorial highlights four pieces showcasing the breadth of the field: hepatic, gut and cardiorespiratory interoception & an exploration of how this could all inform “Whole Person Health”
#neurosky 🧪 🧵 ⬇️
plos.io/4r2SRzL
Top: Visualizations of neurons in major brain regions for each time window (2 brains for each time point). Bottom: Visualization of different brain regions, which are colored based on their centrality at different time windows (left to right: ZT0-4, ZT8-12, ZT12-16, ZT20-24) and from different views (top: horizontal, bottom: coronal).
A day in the life of a brain. This study develops a pipeline to infer molecular properties of c-FOS-labelled active #neurons and analyze the networks they form. The authors use this pipeline to characterize #brain activity over the course of a day @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3JZa0to
17.11.2025 08:55 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Why are leaf cells of so many different sizes?
Our paper explores how giant cells form!
We also provide automatic cell-type classification and perform statistical quantification of cell spatial organization.
If interested, check it out in @plosbiology.org. Thanks Pau and @roederlab.bsky.social
Why did I only just find out that that there are water striders that live IN (ON!!) THE OPEN OCEAN? 🧪
OCEAN STRIDERS!!
Very happy to see this piece out in @plosbiology.org, on the bacterial immune systems and microbial communities. It was a great team effort with Rafael Custodio, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social , @brownlab.bsky.social, and Edze Westra! 🦠🧫 #phagesky #mevosky
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Amazing leaf camouflage experiments paired up with phylogeny showing how they got there. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @benitoexplains.bsky.social
13.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0While you are recovering from #SfN25, you may want to take a look at our collection of articles on #neurotechnology
Good post-turkey reading!
#neurosky 🧪
Lysenko
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20.11.2025 03:35 — 👍 159 🔁 39 💬 2 📌 0
How English-centric metrics distort global scientific productivity - a nice coverage of our recent paper (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) in @plosbiology.org
www.the-scientist.com/how-english-...
#languagebarriers
Pure, uncut Nazism.
28.11.2025 05:15 — 👍 3165 🔁 1022 💬 357 📌 103How does the arms race between #bacterial defense systems and mobile genetic elements contribute to #microbiome community structure?
Read below for an insightful exploration of this issue! It will not disappoint
@plosbiology.org 🧪
#bacteria #immune #phage #ecology
Such a cool paper!
Participants synchronised blinks with music, with pure rhythmic tones, & this synchronisation was functional - greater blink synching improved detection of subtle differences in pitch - all associated with ↗️ superior longitudinal fasciculus 🤩
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🚨NEW paper: Benchmarking Hi-C for virus–host inference
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A clear baseline for anyone mapping virus–host interactions that establishes robust, benchmarked thresholds for Hi-C linkages.
Key results: 👇
Sleep pressure and slow-wave-rich NREM sleep exert distinct effects on cerebral vasomotion and on brain pulsations driven by respiratory and cardiac forces. Heightened sleep pressure (following 35 h of wakefulness) promotes vasomotion (yellow box). Slow-wave-rich NREM sleep enhances brain pulsations driven by the respiratory and cardiac cycles—more so in gray and white matter than in the ventricles (red boxes). The respiration- and cardiac-driven brain pulsations also intensify with deeper sleep (N3 > N2) and correlate with EEG delta power, which is a measure of slow-wave activity (light vs. dark red boxes).
Sleep supports brain health partly by regulating fluid dynamics to clear waste. @ulvlarsen.bsky.social &co probe the relation between #sleep & fluid movement in the human #brain, finding that #SleepPressure & intensity have distinct effects on brain pulsations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3XQWCL6
25.11.2025 14:07 — 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Comparison of virus-host prediction from Hi-C and in silico tools. Top: Eular plot showing the overlap of viruses with host predictions obtained from the experimental Hi-C linkage approach, or one of two in silico tools (iPHoP and VirMatcher) that use different probabilistic models to aggregate output of various sequence-based features to create host prediction scores. Bottom: Comparison of virus-host predictions across all samples between Hi-C and iPHoP, shown with and without applying a Z-score filter for the Hi-C linkages. Black bars indicate congruent predictions identified from both tools and gray bars indicate non-congruent predictions. Note: Although many viruses had multiple predicted hosts from each tool, only the top-scoring prediction for each virus was considered in this comparison.
#Virus discovery has accelerated but linking viruses to hosts is hard. @sullivan-lab.bsky.social use synthetic #microbiomes to optimize & benchmark #Hi-C for virus-host linkage inference, applying this to existing #soil data to reveal 100s of novel linkages @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3MlAENO
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