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[ICOM2026 @ICOM2026]

🌟Keynote speaker highlight🌟

Annegret Kohler is a research engineer at @INRAE_France

Annegret is a Keynote speaker at #ICOM2026, and will present a talk entitled “Dual transcriptomics reveals coordinated host and fungal gene expression during symbiotic lifestyle switching”.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available

And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot.

It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles.

But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Every PI

[GetGenome @GetGenome]

#GGFungi2026 Call For Projects is now open for applications https://t.co/NN353YI3xf

We will be holding an information session today 3rd March at 14:00 CET (08:00 Eastern US; 18:00 PKT). To sign up please complete this short form - https://t.co/juTyoZ7nFF

[Laélia Véron @Laelia_Ve]

Question pour les hommes : vous êtes-vous déjà identifiées à des héroïnes ? Notamment dans vos lectures d'enfants, mais aussi dans des films, des jeux vidéos ??
(Source : toujours en train de lire Alice Zeniter "L'autre moitié du monde")

[Laélia Véron @Laelia_Ve]

Représentation des femmes : après le test de Bechdel, le test de la lampe !
(j'ai récemment vu le film "Gattaca". C'était pas mal, mais ça ne passe clairement pas le test de la lampe)

[Stephen Tang @stephentang23]

Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from?

Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria.

https://t.co/OlU6HOLQfK

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 It started from my frustration with the depressing effect that the current publishing system has on the well-being of myself, my team, and pretty much every scientist I know (maybe you’ve noticed from my stupid jokes… :) I was exhausted of dealing with the huge delays, reviewers that can be abusive, and how arbitrary it all is. Unfortunately, the most important factors are often WHO your reviewers are and who YOU are... It’s clear we need alternatives or at least ways to improve the situation. So, together with a really special and talented team we worked to develop this idea into “qed” a platform where you can get CONSTRUCTIVE feedback on your own work or CRITICALLY assess other people’s papers. It can be a real difference maker if many of you join us (thousands have tried it already, but today we release a NEW and much stronger version ;) Let’s harness qed to put the power back in the scientists’ hands, to do, to read & to publish science on our own terms. I’m dying for you to TRY IT, and it’s very simple - just drop a paper (the link to the website is in the replies👇) - it’s completely secure, private, and free, and you get results fast. Please show your support, SHARE, tell your friends, and let’s be the revolution 🫵!

[Nick Desnoyer @NickDesnoyer]

The "Florédex" ✨, a pokémon-inspired vector collection of the greatest flower designs and their science is coming along nicely 🌷🧬

All hand-drawn, digitalised, and animated.

[International Microorganism Day @IntMicroDay]

Calling all artists! 🎨 Love microbes? 🦠 Show us your microbe-inspired art for the Microbe Art Competition in celebration of IMD!

To enter, post your art with #MicrobeArt2025 and #InternationalMicroorganismDay, and tag @IntMicroDay.

Learn more: https://t.co/nay1tNrCXD

[Francis M. Martin @fmartin1954]

Cross-kingdom comparative genomics reveal the metabolic potential of fungi for lignin turnover in deadwood | Nature Ecology & Evolution https://t.co/2DBpay4XOi

[Katie Galloway @GallowayLabMIT]

So you want to change transgene expression: just change your promoter, right? Changing the promoter increases RNA and thus protein levels. What more could be happening?

[1/n] Well, promoters don’t just set RNA levels; they uniquely transform how RNAs are transmitted into protein levels. 🧵

[Laszlo G. Nagy @laszlognagy]

An important a step for us towards functional genomics of mushrooms in @CellGenomics. We annotate UTRs, splicing, polyadenylation sites, microexons, uORFs, starvation/light responsive genes. @ZhihaoHou @BiochemBrc Lots of data at https://t.co/biYrBy7Ap0 https://t.co/FTPHQ0xuMu

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Going back to the lab after a vacation in Italy
https://t.co/xhmqYr6BLh

[rodnay @yan_dor]

@ATinyGreenCell The Haber-Bosch process, the key element to produce Nitrogen fertilizer

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

The truth is that the scientific process is horribly inefficient and wasteful. But the solution is NOT cutting funds and it’s NOT top down guidance of what should be studied. Instead, we should revolutionize how we publish and improve peer review.

[Martin Picard @MitoPsychoBio]

All mitochondria in your body comes from the same "mother" population in the egg/oocyte, later differentiating into distinct mitochondrial phenotypes or "mitotypes" (like cell types)

In the end, we are made of dozens of different specialized mitotypes

New preprint where @AnnaMonzel quantifies how different mitochondrial populations are in different organs and tissues, and within the same cell type exposed to different challenges over several months

https://t.co/Jlfi4MFwze

[MacLesggy @MacLesggy]

Incroyable ! Les analyses de l’échantillon ramené de l’astéroïde Bennu révèle qu’on y trouve 5 des nucléotides qui forment l'ADN et l'ARN sur Terre et 14 des 20 acides aminés présents dans les protéines connues.
#exobiologie
https://t.co/hKu4szSwZn

[David Lynch @DAVID_LYNCH]

David Lynch, our beloved dad, was a guiding light of creativity, love, and peace. On Monday, January 20th—what would have been his 79th birthday—we invite you all to join us in a worldwide group meditation at 12:00pm NOON PST for 10 minutes.

Let us come together, wherever we are, to honor his legacy by spreading peace and love across the world. Please take this time to meditate, reflect, and send positivity into the universe.

Thank you for being part of this celebration of his life.

Love,

Jennifer, Austin, Riley and Lula Lynch

[INRAE Grand Est - Nancy @INRAE_Nancy]

🦠💊Des chercheurs de l’UMR DynAMic (Université de Lorraine-INRAE) et de l’University of Exeter ont mis en évidence un mécanisme de diversification à grande échelle des voies de biosynthèse des antibiotiques chez les Streptomyces.
👉Article à lire ici : https://t.co/MTmtkFUbQd