Germán Bonilla-Rosso
@germusthermophilus.bsky.social
🦠🧪🖥🧬microbial ecology & evolution | agricultural microbiomes | food security | metabolism | 🐝🌺 host-microbe interactions | functional -omics | bioinformatics | salsa | philosophy | equality | UNAM | mSystems / mBio
polyimmigrant! 🇲🇽🇸🇪🇦🇺🇨🇭
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🎓Part of the current #ScientificCrisis is the cult of the #LoneGenius myth. Great scientists are not isolated geniuses but a cultural phenomena, product of education systems, funding structures, social capital, historical paradigms - and lots of privilege and invisible labor.
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#AcademicSky
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Quite the Sunday view of Bern from the Güschä
Quite the Sunday view of Bern from the Güschä
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Quite the Sunday view of Bern from the Güschä
Quite the Sunday view of Bern from the Güschä
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¿Hiciste tu doctorado en México? ¿Quieres hacer un postdoc en California? ¿Te interesa la genética evolutiva? ¡Checa esta beca y mándame un mensaje! alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/research-and...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships - University of California Alianza MX
Submitting an Application Current Fellows 2025 Cohort Additional Information Humberger Toggle Menu Interested in applying for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship? Eligibility The program seeks applican...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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🧪🔬🧬🎓We should adopt a more objective, nuanced way of honouring scientists #wikipedia style:
#JamesWatson, the racist antisemitic and sexist plagiarist who proposed the first 3D model of the structure of DNA without crediting the scientisr who took the xray picture he used to do it. #DueCredit
#JamesWatson, the racist antisemitic and sexist plagiarist who proposed the first 3D model of the structure of DNA without crediting the scientisr who took the xray picture he used to do it. #DueCredit
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
🧪🔬🧬🎓We should adopt a more objective, nuanced way of honouring scientists #wikipedia style:
#JamesWatson, the racist antisemitic and sexist plagiarist who proposed the first 3D model of the structure of DNA without crediting the scientisr who took the xray picture he used to do it. #DueCredit
#JamesWatson, the racist antisemitic and sexist plagiarist who proposed the first 3D model of the structure of DNA without crediting the scientisr who took the xray picture he used to do it. #DueCredit
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.
Palantir CEO Karp twice slams short sellers as stock suffers worst week since April
Palantir CEO Alex Karp twice confronted short sellers this week as the company's shares suffered a double-digit drop.
www.cnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.
Reposted by Germán Bonilla-Rosso
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
🧪🔬🧬🎓So #JamesWatson is dead. Should we honor him for his undeniable essential contributions to modern biology?
No because he was an antisemite, a racist, an eugenecist, a sexist who tried to steal the work of #RosalindFranklin without crediting her. A terrible scientist and human being.
No because he was an antisemite, a racist, an eugenecist, a sexist who tried to steal the work of #RosalindFranklin without crediting her. A terrible scientist and human being.
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🧪🔬🧬🎓So #JamesWatson is dead. Should we honor him for his undeniable essential contributions to modern biology?
No because he was an antisemite, a racist, an eugenecist, a sexist who tried to steal the work of #RosalindFranklin without crediting her. A terrible scientist and human being.
No because he was an antisemite, a racist, an eugenecist, a sexist who tried to steal the work of #RosalindFranklin without crediting her. A terrible scientist and human being.
Reposted by Germán Bonilla-Rosso
Reposted by Germán Bonilla-Rosso
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
Reposted by Germán Bonilla-Rosso
🚨vConTACT3 preprint live!🚨(Peer Review soon...!)
vConTACT3 delivers a unified, scalable, and transparent framework for genome-based virus taxonomy — helping translate big viral data into systematic classification.
🔗 Read the preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Improvements details below 👇
vConTACT3 delivers a unified, scalable, and transparent framework for genome-based virus taxonomy — helping translate big viral data into systematic classification.
🔗 Read the preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Improvements details below 👇
Scalable and systematic hierarchical virus taxonomy with vConTACT3
Viruses are key players in diverse ecosystems, but studying their impacts is technically and taxonomically challenging. Taxonomic complexities derive from undersampling, diverse DNA and RNA genomes wi...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🚨vConTACT3 preprint live!🚨(Peer Review soon...!)
vConTACT3 delivers a unified, scalable, and transparent framework for genome-based virus taxonomy — helping translate big viral data into systematic classification.
🔗 Read the preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Improvements details below 👇
vConTACT3 delivers a unified, scalable, and transparent framework for genome-based virus taxonomy — helping translate big viral data into systematic classification.
🔗 Read the preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Improvements details below 👇
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Because complaining about scientific publishing and productivity metrics over coffee break is necessary but not enough... herr is a checklist of things every researcher can do already!
Because complaining about scientific publishing and productivity metrics over coffee break is necessary but not enough... herr is a checklist of things every researcher can do already!
80 download of my checklist of actionable items for any researcher to adopt to support an equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing landscape zenodo.org/records/1741...
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
For Equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing | Pour un édition scientifique équitable et pérenne [Checklist]
This bilingual checklist presents 13 concrete actions researchers can take to move toward a more equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing ecosystem.Each action is classified by career stage (all...
zenodo.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Because complaining about scientific publishing and productivity metrics over coffee break is necessary but not enough... herr is a checklist of things every researcher can do already!
Because complaining about scientific publishing and productivity metrics over coffee break is necessary but not enough... herr is a checklist of things every researcher can do already!
Reposted by Germán Bonilla-Rosso
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Awesome work led by Malick Ndiaye on paired strain-level #microbe - #phage metagenomes of SINGLE #honeybee guts, revealing diversity correlations at genus level...
#Microsky #host-microbe
Awesome work led by Malick Ndiaye on paired strain-level #microbe - #phage metagenomes of SINGLE #honeybee guts, revealing diversity correlations at genus level...
#Microsky #host-microbe
🐝🦠 New paper: rdcu.be/eOf7A
Phages may drive microbial diversity, yet we often don’t even know how phages & bacteria correlate in nature. Our new study tackles this in the honeybee gut, thanks to the great work of PhD student @malickndiaye.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social
Phages may drive microbial diversity, yet we often don’t even know how phages & bacteria correlate in nature. Our new study tackles this in the honeybee gut, thanks to the great work of PhD student @malickndiaye.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social
Phage diversity mirrors bacterial strain diversity in the honey bee gut microbiota - Nature Communications
Authors analyse paired viral and bacterial shotgun metagenomics data from individual honeybee guts, revealing modular, nested phage–bacteria networks, with viral diversity mirroring bacterial strain c...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Awesome work led by Malick Ndiaye on paired strain-level #microbe - #phage metagenomes of SINGLE #honeybee guts, revealing diversity correlations at genus level...
#Microsky #host-microbe
Awesome work led by Malick Ndiaye on paired strain-level #microbe - #phage metagenomes of SINGLE #honeybee guts, revealing diversity correlations at genus level...
#Microsky #host-microbe
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
The illusion of permanence: 𝐺𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑔𝑜 𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎 has been teasing the planet with its falling leaves since dinosaurs walked the earth some 170 million years ago.
Today it makes #Bern 🐻🇨🇭 look at its best under this lazy autumn sunday.
Today it makes #Bern 🐻🇨🇭 look at its best under this lazy autumn sunday.
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The illusion of permanence: 𝐺𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑔𝑜 𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎 has been teasing the planet with its falling leaves since dinosaurs walked the earth some 170 million years ago.
Today it makes #Bern 🐻🇨🇭 look at its best under this lazy autumn sunday.
Today it makes #Bern 🐻🇨🇭 look at its best under this lazy autumn sunday.
Reposted by Germán Bonilla-Rosso
OTD in 1977 Carl Woese and George Fox redrew the tree of life. They proposed a third “urkingdom”—the “archaebacteria”—in addition to eukaryotes and bacteria. Woese later called this taxon “Archea.”
AFAIK, he didn’t publish his famous tree diagram until the late 80s.
🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM 🗃️🧠 #evobio 🐡
AFAIK, he didn’t publish his famous tree diagram until the late 80s.
🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM 🗃️🧠 #evobio 🐡
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
We are our best when we collaborate. 🧪🦠🔬🧬🌍🍄
This mural about the invisible #soil #biodiversity in Moers(🇩🇪) resulted from the collaboration between my friend Dr. Arne Schwelm, the people from sci:moers and the Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung under the artistic direction of #cokyone.
This mural about the invisible #soil #biodiversity in Moers(🇩🇪) resulted from the collaboration between my friend Dr. Arne Schwelm, the people from sci:moers and the Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung under the artistic direction of #cokyone.
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We are our best when we collaborate. 🧪🦠🔬🧬🌍🍄
This mural about the invisible #soil #biodiversity in Moers(🇩🇪) resulted from the collaboration between my friend Dr. Arne Schwelm, the people from sci:moers and the Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung under the artistic direction of #cokyone.
This mural about the invisible #soil #biodiversity in Moers(🇩🇪) resulted from the collaboration between my friend Dr. Arne Schwelm, the people from sci:moers and the Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung under the artistic direction of #cokyone.
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There is NO ETHICAL WAY to BECOME or REMAIN a BILLIONAIRE.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 AM
There is NO ETHICAL WAY to BECOME or REMAIN a BILLIONAIRE.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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A membrane network of the nutritional symbiont 𝑆𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑢𝑠 woven with the cytosol of its host, the cereal-eating curculionid 𝑆𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 spp., to increase carbohydrate supply to the bacteria! Crazy amazing methods with amazing pics and vids!
#BugSky #MicroSky #HostMicrobiome
A membrane network of the nutritional symbiont 𝑆𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑢𝑠 woven with the cytosol of its host, the cereal-eating curculionid 𝑆𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 spp., to increase carbohydrate supply to the bacteria! Crazy amazing methods with amazing pics and vids!
#BugSky #MicroSky #HostMicrobiome
Agnès Vallier, @cmonegat.bsky.social , Baptiste Vierne, @nicolasparisot.bsky.social , Guy Condemine, Pedro Da Silva, Xavier Jaurand, @yschwab.bsky.social , @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social , Abdelaziz Heddi, and @annazaidmanremy.bsky.social
➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 5/5
➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 5/5
Bacterial tubular networks channel carbohydrates in insect endosymbiosis
Symbiosis is widespread in nature and plays a fundamental role in organism adaptation and evolution. In nutritional endosymbiosis, host cells accommod…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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A membrane network of the nutritional symbiont 𝑆𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑢𝑠 woven with the cytosol of its host, the cereal-eating curculionid 𝑆𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 spp., to increase carbohydrate supply to the bacteria! Crazy amazing methods with amazing pics and vids!
#BugSky #MicroSky #HostMicrobiome
A membrane network of the nutritional symbiont 𝑆𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑢𝑠 woven with the cytosol of its host, the cereal-eating curculionid 𝑆𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 spp., to increase carbohydrate supply to the bacteria! Crazy amazing methods with amazing pics and vids!
#BugSky #MicroSky #HostMicrobiome
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Rather than trying to read entrails of some vaccine move by RFK Jr, just ask:
a) Does it encourage vaccination? OR
b) Is it one more step towards vaccination elimination?
(Ex: MMR=> solo M, M, R.)
Meanwhile, follow @gorskon.bsky.social & @joho.bsky.social,
who've dissected RFK Jr actions for years.
a) Does it encourage vaccination? OR
b) Is it one more step towards vaccination elimination?
(Ex: MMR=> solo M, M, R.)
Meanwhile, follow @gorskon.bsky.social & @joho.bsky.social,
who've dissected RFK Jr actions for years.
I strongly recommend fine documentary “A Shot in the Arm” on vaccine hesitancy & its (often well-paid) promoters, incl RFK, Jr.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
Shot in the Arm
Explore vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of COVID-19.
www.pbs.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Rather than trying to read entrails of some vaccine move by RFK Jr, just ask:
a) Does it encourage vaccination? OR
b) Is it one more step towards vaccination elimination?
(Ex: MMR=> solo M, M, R.)
Meanwhile, follow @gorskon.bsky.social & @joho.bsky.social,
who've dissected RFK Jr actions for years.
a) Does it encourage vaccination? OR
b) Is it one more step towards vaccination elimination?
(Ex: MMR=> solo M, M, R.)
Meanwhile, follow @gorskon.bsky.social & @joho.bsky.social,
who've dissected RFK Jr actions for years.
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Ecology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.
Rigorous validation of ecological models against empirical time series - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Validating theoretical models against empirical data presents challenges. Here the authors present an assumption-light method to validate ecological models against time series data, along with a dedic...
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
Reposted by Germán Bonilla-Rosso
We have the receipts as well.
Please do your job and release the Trump-Epstein files.
Please do your job and release the Trump-Epstein files.
October 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We have the receipts as well.
Please do your job and release the Trump-Epstein files.
Please do your job and release the Trump-Epstein files.
This! 👇! 🧪🔬🔭
I think people adjacent to science (but who now find themselves deciding the fate of US science somehow) undervalue humility, valuing braggadocios hubris instead.
Yes it’s true that some scientific discoveries are complete paradigm changers, and we celebrate these. 1/
Yes it’s true that some scientific discoveries are complete paradigm changers, and we celebrate these. 1/
October 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This! 👇! 🧪🔬🔭