Omid Shenavar

Iranians are experiencing a collective trauma. Thousands have been killed/injured in recent events, the economy is crippled & the threat of a wider conflict is real. This is especially difficult for those living in Iran, as many have lost (or fear losing) loved ones. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

But it’s better to turn off all the copilot stuff guided in the article.

If you are the admin of the system, try the powershell-way stated in this link, see if it helps: proton.me/blog/turn-of...

Please stop using Microsoft products. There are great FOSS alternatives such as onlyoffice or libreoffice. Do the transition now while you can and still have some privacy not ruined by them.

Congratulations 🎉! You deserve the best Nikolas!

Screenshot of an email from a Swedish University explaining that due to international sanctions, Iranian bank accounts are not accepted as proof of financial means for residence permit applications. The message says applicants must have funds in a bank account outside Iran to be eligible to study in Sweden.

So if I want to study in Sweden, I must first live in another country and put my money there before I can even apply.
If I already had that, why would I apply there?!
This is discrimination.
People are not their governments. We just want a chance!
#IranianStudents #Sweden #HumanRights #AcademicSky

Every time I open X, I get frightened and close it. It’s all people attacking each other, protests, someone killed, someone attacked… But here it’s all science and education. I don’t know whether this place is less informative, or if X is just trying to convince us that the world is ending!

Pseudomonas aeruginosa lasR is a keystone gene in polymicrobial cultures The airways of people with cystic fibrosis (CF) are often co-infected by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and a variety of other co-habiting microbes; the infections are polymicrobial. P. aeruginosa isolates fr...

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#microsky

Wow! Cool! I have never thought about it that what did microbiologists use before discovering agar for culturing?maybe gelatin, but it is really hard to keep it solid!

Windows 11 removes all bypass methods for Microsoft account setup, removing local accounts Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update removes all remaining methods to bypass Microsoft Account requirements during setup, enforcing online sign-in and blocking any possibility of creating local-only a...

Microsoft Blocks Windows 11 Workarounds for Local Accounts, Forces Internet Connection During Setup. I think it is time to switch to macOS or Linux or BSD 🤓 alternativeto.net/news/2025/10...

Congrats!🎉

In my view, symbiosis is one of the ways of evolution; ‘cause Darwin’s law is not “competition only.” It’s about survival too, whoever survives and reproduces more wins.
If cooperation helps organisms survive or reproduce better, then natural selection will favor cooperation. That’s still Darwinian!

An old 2005 PC, only a CD drive, left for dead. With #antiX core, it’s alive again; now a kid will have a system for school. This is why #open-source matters. It gives life, and it gives chances. #linux

I can learn a lot from you Nikolas; I really hope to see you soon.

We have a lot of that trash data in ncbi, I suppose ncbi should have an option to flag a sequence as obsolete; something like we do in Linux arch repos, so maybe others know what they are dealing with. Bacteria is better in this regard, fungal taxonomy is like hell…actually many of them are useless.

Good luck Professor!

If I were you, I would compare my results with those of Dia et al. and the Morinière database; they have done extensive work on Xanthomonas classification, which you can find in the WGS repository of NCBI. And if your focus is Enterobacteriaceae, there is no research better than that of Pro. Brady.

you cannot compare your data to findings that have not been confirmed. recA works better in Enterobacteriaceae, but not in Xanthomonas. Even in Enterobacteriaceae, I would recommend using rpoB alongside gyrB.

Sorry for the late comment, Nikolas. I was working on some articles and had been away from social media. If I understand correctly, you are working on Xanthomonas. From my experience, recA is not a very reliable gene for intra-taxa definition. Also, please ignore all non-reported BLAST results.

Thanks; I haven’t stopped trying, even if it means starting again from the lowest level. One day, like the ugly duckling, I’ll grow into a swan. Maybe right now I’m just another Middle Easterner people don’t look at kindly, but a good day will come eventually. Hope so. Thank you for reading me 🙏🏼

CRISPR as a microbial immune system In 2003, Mojica wrote the first paper suggesting that CRISPR was an innate microbial immune system. The paper was rejected by a series of high-profile journals, including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Microbiology and Nucleic Acids Research, before finally being accepted by Journal of Molecular Evolution in February, 2005.[3][4]

TIL the original paper describing CRISPR, by Francisco Mojica, was rejected by 4 journals and took 2 years to be published

Funny how many institutions that self-refer as “leading” have a wait-and-see approach to decision making…

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Wow! Incredible! 😍

I’d honestly love to; sounds like a dream. I just don’t know whom I should contact or where to start. And Brazil? Who doesn’t love Brazil! Thank you so much for mentioning it. I’ll bother you in private if that’s okay 🙏

Thank you for reading me. I’ve tried, waited, and held on as much as I could… and I still do. Funny enough, my name — Omid — actually means hope. Maybe that’s what keeps me going. Truly appreciate your kind words 🙏

Things are getting worse between #Iran and #Israel, and honestly, I don’t know what’s ahead. Maybe this is where my dreams end. But through it all, one thing never changed: I’ve always loved #plantpathology. I just wish I had the chance to become the scientist I dreamt of. 🧪🌱 #plantscience

Born in the wrong time. Living in the wrong world…

For a year, I’ve tried to apply and continue my studies. Over 90% rejected me—mostly because of my nationality. Now I’m stuck between the Iran–Israel war, and it feels like I have no dream left. Because it seems the world has chosen not to see me…as it always did.🧪🌱 #Israel_Strike #AcademicSky #Iran