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Guillaume Frasca

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Management de la recherche - ex Fondation ARC et France Alzheimer - aujourd'hui à l'Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr

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Climate shocks, not just warming, threaten malaria control efforts in Africa Climate change is expected to affect mosquito and parasite survival, reshaping malaria risk. But extreme weather could be a more immediate danger to disease control.

Climate change is expected to affect mosquito and parasite survival, reshaping malaria risk

go.nature.com/3OWwXPY

04.03.2026 09:23 — 👍 27    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating).

A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)

28.02.2026 08:12 — 👍 286    🔁 111    💬 14    📌 11
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📢 Le Congrès annuel 2026 du Collège des Sociétés Savantes Académiques de France!!
🎤 Conférence grand public par Serge Hercberg
👉 Infos & inscriptions : https://loom.ly/hH57R5U

03.02.2026 05:56 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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1️⃣5️⃣ Fun way of deciding authorship order

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01.02.2026 11:37 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

28.01.2026 12:54 — 👍 4675    🔁 2240    💬 202    📌 641
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Legionellosis: a novel method to predict the fate of infected cells Scientists have combined metabolic analysis, state-of-the-art microscopic techniques and artificial intelligence to successfully predict the outcome of infection with Legionella pneumophila, which cau...

AI predicts Legionella infection outcome with 83% accuracy

By analyzing mitochondrial parameters immediately after infection, researchers can forecast which cells will allow bacterial replication.

📄 www.pasteur.fr/en/home/rese...

#Legionella

22.01.2026 13:50 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s second term and the weaponisation of health policy: a 2025 timeline.

@bmj.com maps the year’s key decisions and themes—and asks experts what 2026 may bring
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

20.01.2026 15:59 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Modeling the spatio-temporal spread of cholera in France in 1892 From an historical perspective, it is important to understand how past epidemics spread; but such a task is complicated by limited data availability. …

Few years ago, an intern in the team explored historical archives and identified a fascinating report describing with great detail the large French cholera epidemic of 1892. The modelling analysis of these data has now been published in Epidemics.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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05.01.2026 10:25 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Call for applications 2026 - Research The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur

Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies

📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD

Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...

#JobOpportunity #Research

08.12.2025 08:53 — 👍 99    🔁 136    💬 1    📌 9
4 Institut Pasteur scientists awarded by French Academy of Sciences

4 Institut Pasteur scientists awarded by French Academy of Sciences

🏆 4 Institut Pasteur scientists awarded by French Academy of Sciences @academiesciences.bsky.social

🥇 Romain Levayer
🥇 Pierre-Jean Corringer
🥇 Eduardo Rocha
🥇 Hervé Bourhy

Congratulations !

03.12.2025 09:04 — 👍 32    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Congratulations to my partner in crime and newest EMBO young investigator @sebbaumgarten.bsky.social
Well deserved!

02.12.2025 14:30 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ERC’s new €7m Plus Grants open to researchers at any career stage - Research Professional News European Research Council president describes scheme as part attempt to lure US talent

· #AcademicSky ·
The European Research Council is launching €7m Plus Grants for ambitious, long‑term research — open to researchers at any career stage but limited to about 30 awards; current ERC grantees and applicants are ineligible, reports @clanicholson.bsky.social.

28.11.2025 20:27 — 👍 25    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 11
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a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch ALT: a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch

Participez à l'étude #POPCORN lancée par l'équipe "Épidémiologie des maladies émergentes" de l'Institut @pasteur.fr pour comprendre l’évolution des attitudes et des comportements à l’égard des mesures préventives si nous devions faire face à une nouvelle #pandémie redcap.link/popcorn-past...

28.11.2025 10:41 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Most to Least Common 4-Digit PIN Numbers

34m analysed from multiple data breaches

Most to Least Common 4-Digit PIN Numbers 34m analysed from multiple data breaches

Je ne sais pas quoi faire de cette infographie donc la voici

09.11.2025 11:14 — 👍 187    🔁 68    💬 9    📌 7
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It's once again Friday at @institutpasteur.bsky.social !!!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

07.11.2025 10:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Less academic freedom leads to less innovation - Impact of Social Sciences Drawing on data showing a decline in academic freedom over the past decade, David Audretsch, Christian Fisch, Chiara Franzoni, Paul P. Momtaz and Silvio Vismara, analyse the relation of academic freed...

🗃️From the archive: "Academic freedom had progressively increased from the 1940s to the 2010s, but it reversed and started to decline in the last decade both at the global level and in the 25 leading countries in science."

#AcademicFreedom

03.11.2025 09:32 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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The Friday crème brûlée is back! @institutpasteur.bsky.social

31.10.2025 16:34 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2
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Une piste prometteuse pour augmenter l’efficacité des antibiotiques Les aminosides sont des antibiotiques efficaces contre de très nombreuses bactéries telles que Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ou Staphylococcus aureus. Mais jusqu’à présent, personne ne sava...

🦠💊 L’Institut @pasteur.fr vient de publier un communiqué de presse sur nos récents travaux, qui décrivent une nouvelle piste pour augmenter l’efficacité des antibiotiques. #Pasteurdon #Recherche #Science #AMR

Merci à toutes celles et ceux qui ont contribué.

📘 English version coming soon!

31.10.2025 10:37 — 👍 28    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 1
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Cancer cells tighten the belt around their neighbours forcing them to die - Research Cancerous cells can expand in our tissues by killing neighbouring healthy cells. Researchers in Institut Pasteur, CNRS and the Université Paris Cité found a new mechanism used by cancerous cells to ki...

🧬🩸 Cancer cells “tighten the belt” on their neighbors — Institut Pasteur, CNRS & Université Paris Cité uncover a mechanical killing strategy: tumor cells surround healthy ones and squeeze them to death via a contractile belt.

Read more 👉 research.pasteur.fr/en/news/canc...

22.10.2025 10:03 — 👍 34    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

29.10.2025 11:10 — 👍 154    🔁 67    💬 0    📌 10
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Compare Trump’s (unusual) level of empathy for Argentina — vs. Ukraine.

@atrupar.com

20.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 2651    🔁 808    💬 124    📌 45
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🏆 Le prix Nobel d'économie a été décerné à l'Américano-Israélien Joel Mokyr, au Français Philippe Aghion et au Canadien Peter Howitt pour leurs travaux sur l'impact des nouvelles technologies sur la croissance économique.

13.10.2025 10:10 — 👍 29    🔁 11    💬 7    📌 11

Soutenez la science qui agit et toutes les équipes de recherche de l’institut @pasteur.fr ! #PasteurDon

08.10.2025 10:11 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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LinkedIn va utiliser les données personnelles de ses utilisateurs pour entraîner son IA La collecte des données des usagers commencera le 3 novembre, prévient le réseau social. Il leur est toutefois donné la possibilité de s’y opposer.

LinkedIn va utiliser les données personnelles de ses utilisateurs pour entraîner son IA

22.09.2025 11:11 — 👍 23    🔁 32    💬 8    📌 9
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Par conséquent : une très grande partie des États-Unis affichent des couvertures vaccinales infantiles désormais sous le seuil d'immunité nécessaire pour stopper la propagation de maladies.

S'agissant de la rougeole, par exemple, 2 comtés sur 3 sont désormais sous 95%.

2/3

20.09.2025 17:02 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show
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Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era

youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg

19.09.2025 03:11 — 👍 2302    🔁 781    💬 126    📌 159
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Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees Natural daily consumption of dietary alcohol by chimpanzees suggests human attraction to alcohol may come from our ancestral diet.

Apparently, chimpanzees consume equivalent of 1-2 standard alcoholic drinks per day in the wild via fermented fruit!! (h/t Nick Villarino)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

18.09.2025 15:44 — 👍 36    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2
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Communiqué de presse : financement de la recherche publique : la communauté scientifique alerte sur un système à bout de souffle. #veilleESR, @info.gouv.fr @agencerecherche.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @franceuniversites.bsky.social @inserm.fr @inrae-france.bsky.social @enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr

15.09.2025 11:40 — 👍 21    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 0
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Save the date! The @pasteur.fr Pasteur course on image analysis is announced:

It will happen from the 1st of June to the 5th 2026.

This year there will be only one track: the Early Career Investigator track (beginners). 👇

10.09.2025 12:50 — 👍 52    🔁 28    💬 3    📌 0
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Augmenter le salaire minimum ? Vous n’y pensez pas !

06.09.2025 17:40 — 👍 35    🔁 33    💬 6    📌 6