Elisa Granato

Note it in your calendars! Aug 3-5, 2026. Excited to bring back MEEHubs to a hub near you (Switzerland, USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, Ukraine, or virtual only)‼️

In the middle, there is an AI-generated picture of a duck. Below it, there is a human-illustrated Duck, looking at the other duck in shock, and saying "Wtf is this?"

AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop

Pregnancy is Insane Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Pregnancy is brutal, strange, and miraculous. Babies begin as cute invaders, build a new organ inside a different human, and form a fragile truce. Watch the brutal and beautiful story of how you and all of us came to be: kgs.link/Pregnancy

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell The Only Way To Stop A Killer Asteroid

What if a 100-meter asteroid was discovered just two weeks before impact? The collision would unleash the force of thousands of nuclear bombs. Could we stop it, or would millions die? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKm7...

Our first PC game, Star Birds, is now available in Early Access on Steam! 🚀
Join your flock of Star Birds on a mission across the great beyond, establish a thriving mining operation, and discover new technologies to advance even further.
Play it now: kgs.link/4n1aYnq

The Dumbest Animal Alive Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

The sunfish, or Mola, looks like an evolutionary joke. With its car-sized body made of jelly and a brain smaller than a walnut, this awkward, derpy giant doesn’t just survive in the world’s oceans… it thrives. But HOW? Watch our latest video to find out: kgs.link/DumbestAnimal

Type VI secretion system activity at lethal antibiotic concentrations leads to overestimation of weapon potency Competition assays are a mainstay of modern microbiology, offering a simple and cost-effective means to quantify microbe–microbe interactions in vitro. Here, we demonstrate a key weakness of this meth...

Does your lab perform killing assays?
TL;DR: we’ve identified a problem that can bias the outcome of killing assays, making antagonism look stronger than it really is.
Adding a simple extra step can mitigate this bias!

Out now at #MicrobioJ www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

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Type VI secretion system activity at lethal antibiotic concentrations leads to overestimation of weapon potency Competition assays are a mainstay of modern microbiology, offering a simple and cost-effective means to quantify microbe–microbe interactions in vitro. Here, we demonstrate a key weakness of this meth...

New paper alert! Toxins can skew the results of competition assays, fascinating short communication from @prokaryota.bsky.social and @willpjsmith.bsky.social. @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

#28 - Von Kamikaze-Bakterien und viralen Todeserklärungen – Mit Dr. Elisa Granato Was los, Wissenschaft?! · Episode

Was tun, wenn man plötzlich für tot erklärt wird? Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social wurde als erste mit AstraZeneca geimpft–und wurde wenig später Opfer von Fake News. Im Podcast spricht sie darüber und ihre Forschung – und wie sich Zellen gegenseitig bekriegen.

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Postdoc alert!! Rolf is an amazing advisor and Zurich is a great place to live. Send your best students this way! ⬇️📢 #MicroSky 🦠❤️

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell Animation videos explaining things with optimistic nihilism since 12,013. We’re a team of illustrators, animators, number crunchers and one dog who aim to spark curiosity about science and the world ...

Big news, friends! I just joined the team at Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org as a Researcher & Fact-Checker 🐦💻🔍

Basically I get to nerd out over science with wildly creative people every day. Dream job 💚

Go watch their stuff if you haven’t already!
www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt

Modeling predicts that metabolic diversity increases the ecological impacts of weapon gene transfer. Modeling scenarios for each column are shown across the top row. Bottom row: Example dynamics of the strains (attacker, target, transconjugant) during a contest using parameters that correspond to the cross (X) shown in the parameter sweeps directly below.

#Bacteria use weapons to outcompete rivals, but what happens if they're transferred? @prokaryota.bsky.social @jdpal.bsky.social &co show that HGT of toxin #plasmids is rare but recipients can thrive under relaxed nutrient competition, reshaping bacterial warfare @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/43vC3X7

Identifying seed families with high mixture performance in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment Afforestation projects using species mixtures are expected to better support ecosystem services than monoculture plantations. While grassland studies have shown natural selection favoring high-perfo...

Our findings suggest that the growth and associated ecosystem services of species-rich mixtures in afforestation projects can be optimized by artificially selecting seed families with high mixture performance in biodiversity experiments.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you have one or two indoor-only cats between 6 months and 13 years of age, you can help researchers at the University of Edinburgh with a study about environmental enrichment! 🐱 #catscience

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/...

I am confident that scientific societies will play an unusually important role in the coming years. If you are a microbiologist of any kind, please consider joining @asm.org if you haven't already. There are many ways to get involved, including advocacy.
To learn more:
asm.org/About-ASM/Vo...

Weltbekannter Klimaforscher muss die ETH Zürich nach Vorwürfen verlassen Gegen den Professor haben acht Personen Vorwürfe erhoben. Er bestreitet jedes Fehlverhalten. Nach Berichten dieser Redaktion ordnete die ETH eine Untersuchung an und handelt nun.

So this happened. Somebody is not getting tenure @ethzurich.bsky.social. It took a lot of people with a lot of courage and strength to make this happen. Thinking of them today!
www.tagesanzeiger.ch/klimaforsche...

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An important message

Interested in being and editor for the journal 'Microbial Genomics' @MicrobioSoc :
microbiologysociety.org/news/society...?

It’s simple. Many of us share #science. Please join up.

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Please add your name below and expertise and you’ll be added!

#scientistswhocommunicatescience #scicomm #womeninsciencw

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Reviewing my lab book

An important message

pretty sure we have some in Oxford but will confirm

I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution.
If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐

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Any peeps in the UK (to avoid import paperwork) got any mucin degrading bacteria I can get a colony of please? All species considered. Double points if they are nasal derived. #MicroSky #mucin

The 4 stages of any experiment

Anyone have a good paper looking at presence/absence rates of outer membrane porins in E. coli clinically? What is the occurrence rates of infections caused by E. coli lacking ompA/C/F? I've lots of papers showing the impact of omp loss on AMR and virulence, but how common is this? #MicroSky

Excited to share our latest, "Biofilm dispersal patterns revealed using far-red fluorogenic probes." @plos.bsky.social We developed a cell-labeling strategy using far-red dyes to image dense microbial communities (where fluorescent proteins often do not work well) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Genomics, evolution, and more starter pack!

Help build community with this starter pack.

This list is currently incomplete. Want to be included? Reply and I will remedy that!
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Background: a chalkboard scattered with school supplies. Text: 2025 Society for the Study of Evolution T. H. Huxley Award, applications due February 3, 2025.

Are you an evolution educator? Consider applying for the T. H. Huxley Award, which recognizes and promotes outstanding evolution education resources. The recipient receives funding to present their resource at the Evolution or NABT meeting! Deadline February 3. http://bit.ly/2kP2pPM

Shigella sonnei: epidemiology, evolution, pathogenesis, resistance and host interactions Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Scott et al. review our current knowledge of Shigella sonnei, highlighting recent insights into this globally disseminated antimicrobial-resistant...

Hot off the press - some light reading on Shigella sonnei! 🧪🧫🧬

With @ksbakes.bsky.social @yekwah.bsky.social @sydneylmiles.bsky.social @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social and a bunch of others not yet on bluesky
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