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For personalized preorders of my new Southern Reach novel ABSOLUTION and the 10th anniversary reissues of the first three, with new covers and intros by Karen Joy Fowler, NK Jemisin, and Helen Macdonald... Midtown Reader & Piebrary has you covered. So gorgeous! midtownreader.com/vandermeer

Susan Stepney shares her vision of Zoetic Science and Engineering as the future direction of ALife and other relevant fields #ALIFE2024 ALIFE Conference 2025

Fungal Olympic

Well. It REALLY happened. The plagiarized paper got published. my paper from 2021 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33915259/ new one from 2024 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38700052/ We'll look at figures in the 🧵 below.

A time-lapse video shows the moons Europa and Io orbiting Jupiter.

In May I wrote about researchers' plans to infect cows in high-security labs with avian influenza #H5N1 to better understand the infections and how easily the virus is transmitted. The results from two of these experiments are now out here in a preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

At a recent conference Athena Aktipis invited me to give a talk on the role of creativity in science. For those interested here are the illustrated slides in tweetorial format. The take home message: Creativity and science go hand in hand. (Thread 1 of 2)

“If H5N1, or any other virus that begins to spread in the human population, sparks a pandemic with a fatality rate three to five percent higher than COVID-19, the world will be going to war against a terrifying microbial enemy.” foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

Synaptic synergy of T cell receptor and interleukin 2 receptor in CD8+ T cells biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) describe the process and rationale for the development of the 2024 definition of persistent Covid-19 symptoms (long Covid). Read the Sounding Board article: nej.md/3SvLlxw

Have you wondered whether mechanical force matters in early T-cell activation? 🙂 A perspective from Fritzsche M et al Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology University of Oxford and Kruse Lab UNIGE_en pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

*please distribute widely* My department is searching for a new assistant professor in the immune engineering space with a keen interest in cancer applications. be.mit.edu/about/open-fac… Please reach out if you’re interested or know of someone we should proactively reach out to!

Genetic tracing at the Huanan Seafood market further supports an animal origin to #COVID19. Learn more in Cell: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Scientists have uncovered the secrets of multispecies hunting! Octopuses & fish team up, with fish guiding the hunt and octopuses capturing hidden prey. #UniKonstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour+MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social research reveals incredible interspecies teamwork. NatureEcoEvo t1p.de/8543w

This week in Science Immunology: Demaria Olivier, Eric Vivier, & al. use tetraspecific #NKCell engager (comprising an α-#NKp46 Ab fragment + #IgG1 #Fc fragment + #IL2 variant + α-#CD20 Ab) to target #BCell-specific #NonHodgkin #lymphoma in mouse & NHP models! bit.ly/SI_adp3720

Trying out the new place: you can find me at mikebarnkob.bsky.social 💙