Viviane Callier 柯蔚文

freelance science writer, biology, physiology, evolution, ecoevodevo; bylines @quantamagazine @sciam and more. also, biostatistics. she/her

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Over two billion years, a fierce battle has raged between bacteria and the viruses that infect them. The resulting evolution has shaped the way our bodies fight disease today. @vcallier reports: https://t.co/dHOZhPufXE

[The Transmitter @_TheTransmitter]

“Understanding autism from a variety of perspectives, whether it’s neurological, immunological, or even ‘placentological’—I think those are all important pieces of the puzzle,” says @LucasCheadle of @CSHL.

By @vcallier
https://t.co/1G8vyHRlES

[Viviane Callier 柯蔚文 @vcallier]

Just planted in JEB 🌳

Control of metabolism by hypoxia and starvation and the consequences for the pattern of ecdysone secretion in <i>Manduca sexta</i>

https://t.co/xRDKkTcNbR

[The Transmitter @_TheTransmitter]

How is it that some nociceptors—the sensory neurons that detect heat, chemical irritants and toxins—can withstand a lifespan’s worth of exposure to noxious stimuli, whereas others die? New findings reveal how they do it.

By @vcallier
https://t.co/BjgNC2QPXz

[The Transmitter @_TheTransmitter]

New findings solve “developmental biology’s most complicated problem”: how each olfactory neuron in the ant expresses exactly one out of hundreds of olfactory receptors.

By @vcallier
https://t.co/JxmFJn2Zkq

[Rockefeller University @RockefellerUniv]

Don't miss this piece in @_TheTransmitter by @vcallier on @DanielKronauer's work! His lab discovered that a protective screen of spurious transcriptional activity enables each olfactory neuron to express exactly one out of hundreds of olfactory receptors.https://t.co/O4OztTlzkR

[The Transmitter @_TheTransmitter]

Sleep might be an “inescapable consequence” of aerobic metabolism, new findings in fruit flies suggest.

By @vcallier
https://t.co/LYSy4d4TCw

[Michael Hiller @hillermich]

Job Alert. We have 6-year funded positions for a postdoc and bioinformatician to join our @ERC_Research #BATPROTECT project. Topics include genome assembly, annotation, comparative genomics & transcriptomics and more. Pls RT. https://t.co/bfYjajDPmt

[Koenfucius 🔍 @koenfucius]

Histones, the protein spools around which our DNA is wrapped, may be doing a lot more in cells than packaging and regulating genes, writes @vcallier: https://t.co/mZlg2IdrjY
(Isn’t biochemistry jawdroppingly fascinating?)

[Drug Monkey @drugmonkeyblog]

“Also the first author” 👀

[Viviane Callier 柯蔚文 @vcallier]

@Pselaphinae Huge congratulations Joe!! So well deserved. Can’t wait to hear about your next discoveries on these magical beetles!

[Charles Piller @cpiller]

My new investigation for @newsfromscience: Did a top @NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's/Parkinson’s research for decades? Neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah found to engage in scientific misconduct; 132 of his papers fall under suspicion
https://t.co/gF4fcjDipJ

[Connor Ewing @ConnorMEwing]

Me to myself after reading the reviewer reports on my article manuscript

[Srivastava Lab @acoel_hofstenia]

I'm back to posting on this platform to share some exciting news - @HarvardOEB is launching not one, not two, but three faculty searches. Help spread the word!

Marine Bio: https://t.co/SiT3UWQc26
Evolutionary Bio: https://t.co/LFSuTKEukw
Biomechanics: https://t.co/WTHxARcXsp

[Viviane Callier 柯蔚文 @vcallier]

@helenscales Congratulations Helen!

[Viviane Callier 柯蔚文 @vcallier]

@AdrianaBankston @AAAS_STPF @ASGCTherapy Yay Adriana! Congrats!

[Viviane Callier 柯蔚文 @vcallier]

A mind-bogglingly old sex chromosome, in octopus!
cool research from @pastramimachine lab,
with great context and comments from @evolscientist @sexchrlab @jessicakabbott 🙏

[Scientific American @sciam]

The octopus sex chromosome appears to have been maintained over hundreds of millions of years, making it the most ancient of such chromosomes in animals https://t.co/NzfkcSUjFp

[Andrew Kern @pastramimachine]

Thanks to @vcallier for this nice write up covering our discovery of the cephalopod Z chromosome https://t.co/4lnqdDuPk8

[Jason Dinh is just trying his best @byjasonpdinh]

the latest edition of Mind-Blowing Fact I Learned Today, courtesy of @vcallier

"Maybe what we’re looking at is some ancient set of proteins that are essential for animal reproduction.”

https://t.co/pmD3YNLuqS

[Viviane Callier 柯蔚文 @vcallier]

@IanDworkin 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂