César Sánchez

How Gut Microbes Transmit Behavior Across Generations - Daily Neuron A new study reveals how gut microbes transmit behavior, showing microbes alone can pass traits like activity levels between generations.

Nice write up of our paper here, thanks! 🧫🦠
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Fosas de la Guerra Civil y el franquismo | RTVE.es Primer mapa audiovisual de fosas de la Guerra Civil y el franquismo. Más de 6.000 fosas documentadas con información histórica, geolocalización y multimedia.

El país de las 6.000 fosas

"La Guerra Civil y el franquismo convirtieron España en una gran fosa común, donde fueron enterradas las víctimas de la violencia política. Más de 140.000 personas fueron asesinadas por los sublevados y la dictadura hasta 1950. Y más de 49.000 a manos de republicanos"

RTVE presenta el mapa audiovisual 'El país de las 6.000 fosas' RTVE ha presentado hoy 'El país de las 6.000 fosas', el primer mapa audiovisual que se ha hecho de las fosas comunes de la Guerra Civil y el franquismo

🔶RTVE ha presentado hoy 'El país de las 6.000 fosas', el primer mapa audiovisual que se ha hecho de las fosas comunes de la Guerra Civil y el franquismo. www.rtve.es/play/videos/te...

El mapa de fosas de RTVE: imágenes y sonidos para recuperar la memoria El mapa de fosas de RTVE: imágenes y sonidos para recuperar la memoria

El país de las 6.000 fosas

El mapa de fosas de RTVE: imágenes y sonidos para recuperar la memoria

www.rtve.es/n/16796627/

Todos los españoles viven a menos de 50 kilómetros de una fosa común del franquismo El Gobierno y RTVE presentan un mapa interactivo con los cerca de 6.000 enterramientos clandestinos repartidos por todo el país

"Todos los españoles viven a menos de 50 kilómetros de una fosa común del franquismo"

"El Gobierno y RTVE presentan un mapa interactivo con los cerca de 6.000 enterramientos clandestinos repartidos por todo el país"

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The 'AI slop' critics point to? That's just beginner output. Learning LLMs is like learning to ride a bike—you can't read your way to mastery. Smart people try once, produce dreck, then dismiss the tool. But they're confusing their inexperience with the tool's limits.

South Africa begins trials for continent’s first cholera vaccine South African pharmaceutical company receives regulatory approval to begin clinical trials for continent’s first fully locally manufactured oral cholera vaccine.

South Africa has begun clinical trials for Africa’s first locally manufactured oral cholera vaccine, aiming to boost regional self-sufficiency as cholera outbreaks and vaccine shortages challenge the continent. apanews.net/south-africa...

Selection and transmission of the gut microbiome alone can shift mammalian behavior Nature Communications - Here, the authors present evidence that the gut microbiome alone, without changes in the host genome, can shape how animals respond to selection, identifying a bacterium and...

We selected the laziest mouse at each round to inoculate the next batch of germfree mice: over rounds of selection and passaging, behavior shifted without changes to the mouse genome: rdcu.be/eM3rO
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Healthy Islands vision. @natcomms.nature.com has launched a new collection seeking manuscripts on Pacific Islander health in collaboration with @commsmed.nature.com and Scientific Reports. Please consider submitting your work to us!

What if even the core of bacterial nanomachines wasn’t static?

We found that the T3SS core protein SctD in Yersinia dynamically exchanges subunits — and this flexibility is essential for proper assembly & function.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@kit.edu @t3sss.bsky.social

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

Image of a patient in the x-ray laboratory in the background. Text reads 'Tuberculosis is the world's top infectious killer. TB caused 1.23 million deaths in 2024. Ending TB is possible. Fund it, research it, commit to it.'

#Tuberculosis (TB) is preventable and curable.

Yet, it remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers, claiming 1.23 million lives in 2024.

The WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2025 talks about the gains made so far and the challenges ahead due to severe funding cuts: bit.ly/4qT5ihk

Responsible AI Photo Restoration

"Because generative AI editing tools, like Gemini and ChatGPT, have the potential to materially alter images in unexpected ways, it’s important to disclose when you use them"

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Crean el mapa digital más preciso de las carreteras del Imperio romano: 300.000 km para conquistar medio mundo Un proyecto de investigación revela la monumentalidad del sistema viario romano hacia el año 150 d.C. Itiner-e es gratuito y accesible para todo el mundo. Más información: Las cinco calzadas romanas más importantes de Hispania: su longitud y por dónde pasaban

Crean el mapa digital más preciso de las carreteras del Imperio romano: 300.000 km para conquistar medio mundo.
#ImperioRomano

Dibujo del director de cine francés Georges Méliès de una escena de su película de 1902 Viaje a la Luna.

☕️ Good morning. I hope everyone has a great week.

Archaeal cells whose DNA has been stained with a blue dye. Zoomed-in images of mutant cells that display chromosome segregation defects.

High-resolution images of DNA-protein complexes obtained with atomic force microscopy. Upon binding, the protein bridges distant sites, forming loops.

📢 Interested in #chromosomes 🧬 & #archaea thriving at the edge of life? PhD project in York,UK on how archaea pass on their genome to daughter cells.Friendly supervisors: me, @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social & @georgerheath.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📅 January 7, 2026
Please RP🙏thx!

detail from vermeer's 'girl with the pearl earring'

who's that girl?
all friends of the color blue: try this > www.hirox-europe.com/gigapixel/gi...
@philipcball.bsky.social @kakape.bsky.social @yvesklein.bsky.social (!)

This spring, new AI photo tools arrived. Genealogists experimented. Then quickly we realized: these tools don't "restore" historical photos—they may fabricate new faces.

By August, these "restorations" were everywhere, unlabeled, corrupting our shared historical record. #genealogy

Favourite film dream sequence:

Salvador Dali's Dream Sequence from Hitchcock's "Spellbound" (1945)

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Caption: Despite his status in the mathematics community, Torus never stopped feeling inferior to his more delicious relatives, Doughnut and Bagel. Image: A wireframe torus with arms and legs waves awkwardly to a donut and bagel. From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - order it at www.tomgauld.com

One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions. I am in Spain this week launching the book - come along! www.tomgauld.com

Soon available in my group: 1 PhD position to investigate prokaryotic histones. See our recent work that highlights the existence and diversity of prokaryotic histones (e.g. Schwab et al., TIBS, 2025; Schwab et al., Nat Comm, 2024; Hu et al., Nucl Acids Res, 2024). Please DM for informal enquiries.

Labs in bacterial immunity

Hi everyone, a few years ago, we started a list of labs studying bacterial immunty for students, editors, conference organizers... (currently n=79).

Update time ! Send me a message to 1) add your lab or others 2) Correct info
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#Phagesky #Microsky

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Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.

For more details and to apply please see

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Early Microbial Evolution

"The origin of life on Earth remains one of the greatest and most pervasive mysteries in science. We know the story in broad strokes: Around 4 billion years ago, simple chemical compounds gave rise to living cells, which later formed..."

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El cólera no es esencialmente un desafío médico, sino político Los brotes más graves se registran en África, donde en la mayoría de los casos los conflictos aceleran la propagación de la enfermedad

"El cólera no es esencialmente un desafío médico, sino político"

"El cólera es por antonomasia la enfermedad de la pobreza"

"La mejor forma, y la única sostenible, de prevenir la enfermedad es garantizando el acceso a agua potable y saneamiento"

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Israel strikes Gaza again after overnight bombardment that killed at least 104 Attacks shatter Palestinians’ short-lived relief since start of ceasefire that now looks increasingly fragile

Israel strikes Gaza again after overnight bombardment that killed at least 104

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