Andrew Quinn

They ended cancer research for this.

Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off USDA research points to viruses spread by pesticide-resistant mites, indicating a worrying trend

Between June 2024 and January 2025, a full 62% of commercial honey bee colonies in the U.S. died, the largest on record. USDA efforts were slowed by funding cuts and layoffs. Now, USDA scientists have finally identified a culprit. But it may be too late. www.science.org/content/arti...

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

A PhD position is available in my lab at the University of Geneva to explore the interaction between gut microbes and behavior in social bees. Please share with potential candidates. Application deadline: May 25th. More info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/PhDmgbee

No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.

This Tufts student was grabbed off the street, cuffed and taken out of state solely because she co-wrote a completely respectful oped in the student paper.

And Rubio’s State Dept now admits they have nothing more damning than that.

Gift link wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

Tufts community calls the Tufts administration to action We, members of the Tufts community, are appalled and enraged by the unlawful abduction on Tufts PhD Fulbright student Rümeysa Öztürk by federal authorities. We call on the Tufts administration to comm...

Tufts alumni have organized a list of demands to the Tufts administration regarding protections for international students and workers. Please consider signing on if you're Tufts-affiliated in any way.

The most un-American statement ever uttered by a Secretary of State. Also, he is grossly lying about Rumeysa and her actions. I loved #Tufts. It is a fantastic university. But it, and every other US university are not safe for foreign students anymore. Boycott 🇺🇸 until we get rid of these fascists

What Rumeysa Ozturk is apparently getting deported over—signing on to a campus op-ed in support of a student govt resolution calling for institutional action by the university—is not just the essence of protected speech, but the kind of thing that critics of disruptive protest claim to support.

For the heartless who do not care about the suffering of millions, many of them children, do you think that America will be spared from a mass explosion of HIV cases around the world?

First they came for the immigrants, and I said nothing because I was not an immigrant …

We are looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in microbiome data analysis join our team at the University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will lead and support research projects within nccr-microbiomes.ch. More details here: shorturl.at/mC46o . Please share with potential candidates.

Great lab, great people, great city!You couldn’t ask for a better postdoc opportunity (I might be slightly biased)

“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True. Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...

NEW: Organizations that provide vital, lifesaving care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff.

“I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” one doctor said.

135,000 babies will be born with HIV in the next 90 days because Donald Trump a monster. #pepfar
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RFK Jr.’s allies have a plan to upend childhood vaccination Robert F. Kennedy’s Jr. advisers are sparring over how far he should go on vaccines as health secretary.

This man cannot be confirmed. This is pre-meditated murder of children. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Microbiote des abeilles: comment l'étudier? (1/2) Le laboratoire de Philipp Engel à lʹUniversité de Lausanne (UNIL) est spécialisé dans lʹétude des interactions entre le microbiote intestinal et son hôte, lʹabeille. Ce microbiote est stable et compos...

Tell me about microbiomes, but just for fun, do it en français 🇫🇷 while surrounded by thousands of bees 🐝

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Host-derived organic acids enable gut colonization of the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi - Nature Microbiology Comparative metabolomics and NanoSIMs reveal that the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi uses host-derived metabolites to colonize the gut, indicating adaptation to a specific metabolic niche in it...

Importing our work from earlier this year:

Host-derived organic acids enable gut colonization of the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi

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

Mapping Pesticide-Induced Metabolic Alterations in Human Gut Bacteria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623895v1 Pesticides can modulate gut microbiota (GM) composition, but their specific effects on GM remain lar

Mapping Pesticide-Induced Metabolic Alterations in Human Gut Bacteria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623895v1

PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky