Sergio Muñoz-Gómez

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Also reading this right now!

In late April, we welcomed a brand-new American Red Wolf pup to the pack! With less than 30 individuals left in the wild, this little girl is a crucial part of her species' conservation success. Luckily, she's doing well and has recently found her voice 🐺🎶🌍

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.

The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses.
As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.

It looks like current policies will result in a much lower number of ESI R35 MIRAs this year which immensely support early career researchers.

Cars are always first

Congratulations, @messorensen.bsky.social!

Such a great week full of symbiosis science, good food, and great company with @mixotrophe.bsky.social visiting the ECSO Lab (ecsolab.com)!

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Application Deadline July 31, 2025

What causes the pink color? Halophilic archaea or purple bacteria??

So excited to listen to this tomorrow!

Teach me

Bacterial ICMs exhibit internal invaginations that resemble eukaryotic cristae. (A)TEM images showing tubular cristae-like ICM compartments in free-living Desulfobacterota, and similar cristae-like ICM tubules in Desulfovibrio carbinolicus strains. The eukaryotic model organism S. cerevisiae exhibits tubular cristae structures, whereas the commonly used HEK293 cell line exhibits predominantly lamellar cristae structures. Scale bars: 500 nm. (B) Eukaryotic mitochondria tend to exhibit lamellar, tubular or discoidal cristae morphology, whereas orders of the class alphaproteobacteria exhibit a range of ICM morphologies. Lamellar-like ICMs, which exhibit parallel cytoplasmic protrusions that do not contact the inner membrane, are commonly observed in nitrogen-fixing and several methanotrophic alphaproteobacteria. (C) This simplified and non-exhaustive cladogram indicates the two domains of life – bacteria and archaea – with proto-mitochondria emerging in early alphaproteobacteria. Eukaryogenesis is marked by the horizontal transfer (red dotted arrow) from Bacteria to Hordarchaeales in Asgard archaea. §, †, #, * and ‡ connect species listed in B to their respective clades in C.

Kailash Venkatraman, Nicolas-Frédéric Lipp & @ibudin.bsky.social examine the similarities between prokaryotic intracytoplasmic membranes & mitochondrial IMs, & discuss whether cristae evolution has driven specialisation of the #mito lipidome.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#JCSMitoSI

Thank you @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social for visiting us! Some really interesting thinking and data on HGT in microbial ecology and evolution!

Congrats! And be very nice micrographs!

Okay, but we need to explain the public why.

1/3 Why does the US lead the world in the number of clinical trials? How come americans are given the unique chance to get the latest treatment and a fighting chance against often incurable diseases?

That's all thanks to research and the support from the NIH!

Great idea! Would you be able to share your setup? I'd love to have a similar setup in my lab.

Beautiful! How can I get a copy?? :)

Students of my new course Cell Diversity and Evolution learn principles of phylogenetics using Camin's caminalcules

Despite the cold, Piglette is back to announce the January 2025 edition of our open access textbook on Economic Principles in Cell Biology! Explore the latest updates and learn how you can contribute to our growing community: principlescellphysiology.org/book-economi...

Good find!

Please share the links

Does this statement equate a geocentric model to a heliocentric one?

Please add me, Jacob! Thanks!

For those not at #cellbio2024, where can we learn more about this project??