Isa Palstek
@ipalstek.bsky.social
Biologist, PhD, loves microscopy, microbiome research & microbiome support.
Manages an autoimmune disease. Focus since 2013: wild fermented food and microbiome. https://www.wildefermente.de/
Manages an autoimmune disease. Focus since 2013: wild fermented food and microbiome. https://www.wildefermente.de/
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Schrödinger: Excuse me, miss, can I borrow that box for a science experiment?
Pandora: Sure, be my guest.
Pandora: Sure, be my guest.
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Schrödinger: Excuse me, miss, can I borrow that box for a science experiment?
Pandora: Sure, be my guest.
Pandora: Sure, be my guest.
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🧬 🦠 🏙️
Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host?
Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host?
Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
🧬 🦠 🏙️
Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host?
Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host?
Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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ChatGPT cited a paper of mine which I did not know existed, so I asked it for the link to it.
Unfortunately that link to the Nature website just gave a "Page not found".
So sad.
Unfortunately that link to the Nature website just gave a "Page not found".
So sad.
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
ChatGPT cited a paper of mine which I did not know existed, so I asked it for the link to it.
Unfortunately that link to the Nature website just gave a "Page not found".
So sad.
Unfortunately that link to the Nature website just gave a "Page not found".
So sad.
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Host transcriptional responses to gut microbiome variation arising from urbanism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.26.683539v1
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Host transcriptional responses to gut microbiome variation arising from urbanism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.26.683539v1
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Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs
Dinidorid stinkbugs were reported to possess a conspicuous tympanal organ on female hindlegs. In this study, we show that this organ is specialized to retain microbial symbionts rather than to perceiv...
www.science.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I was working on the story and he just came out and said it
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I was working on the story and he just came out and said it
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New paper out! 🎉 Our collab with Jorge & Amanda shows that Bifido can remotely control placental endocrine function (in 🐀) - modulating >400 proteins! 🚀 Published in J Transl Med - translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Gut microbes shaping the placenta - pretty amazing stuff! 🧫🤰
Gut microbes shaping the placenta - pretty amazing stuff! 🧫🤰
October 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
New paper out! 🎉 Our collab with Jorge & Amanda shows that Bifido can remotely control placental endocrine function (in 🐀) - modulating >400 proteins! 🚀 Published in J Transl Med - translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Gut microbes shaping the placenta - pretty amazing stuff! 🧫🤰
Gut microbes shaping the placenta - pretty amazing stuff! 🧫🤰
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Making #yogurt with ants from a nearly forgotten Bulgarian recipe. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Veronica M. Sinotte, Leonie J. Jahn & colleagues
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Veronica M. Sinotte, Leonie J. Jahn & colleagues
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Making #yogurt with ants from a nearly forgotten Bulgarian recipe. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
@cp-iscience.bsky.social
Veronica M. Sinotte, Leonie J. Jahn & colleagues
@cp-iscience.bsky.social
Veronica M. Sinotte, Leonie J. Jahn & colleagues
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"If we lose hope, we're doomed."
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
October 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"If we lose hope, we're doomed."
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
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I don't think the average person is going to learn much by accessing a paywalled scientific paper.
But the current system keeps out journalists, science communicators, policy researchers, and fact checkers from reading into a topic as well.
But the current system keeps out journalists, science communicators, policy researchers, and fact checkers from reading into a topic as well.
In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.
September 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I don't think the average person is going to learn much by accessing a paywalled scientific paper.
But the current system keeps out journalists, science communicators, policy researchers, and fact checkers from reading into a topic as well.
But the current system keeps out journalists, science communicators, policy researchers, and fact checkers from reading into a topic as well.
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"Solange wir gehorchen, wird alles gut. Das ist Freiheit. Das ist Amerika."
Starke Anti-Trump-Kampagne.
Starke Anti-Trump-Kampagne.
September 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
"Solange wir gehorchen, wird alles gut. Das ist Freiheit. Das ist Amerika."
Starke Anti-Trump-Kampagne.
Starke Anti-Trump-Kampagne.
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When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.
September 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.
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Elon Musk has damaged science in the U.S., and here he is this weekend undermining democracy in the U.K.
Yet @royalsociety.org still has him as a Fellow.
If "a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists" doesn't stand up to fascism, something is very, very wrong.
Yet @royalsociety.org still has him as a Fellow.
If "a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists" doesn't stand up to fascism, something is very, very wrong.
Elon Musk, "There's got to be a change of government in Britain"
"We don't have another four years or whenever your next election is, it's too long, something has got to be done"
"There has got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held"
"We don't have another four years or whenever your next election is, it's too long, something has got to be done"
"There has got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held"
September 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Elon Musk has damaged science in the U.S., and here he is this weekend undermining democracy in the U.K.
Yet @royalsociety.org still has him as a Fellow.
If "a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists" doesn't stand up to fascism, something is very, very wrong.
Yet @royalsociety.org still has him as a Fellow.
If "a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists" doesn't stand up to fascism, something is very, very wrong.
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If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com #journorequest
September 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com #journorequest
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“Well I don’t like that study because it doesn't give me the result I want’
September 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“Well I don’t like that study because it doesn't give me the result I want’
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"It's not the end of the world, let's just send it to another journal"
September 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"It's not the end of the world, let's just send it to another journal"
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Nice profile of our work just out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
August 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Nice profile of our work just out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Check out this incredible analysis!
Prehistoric Global Migration of Vanishing Gut Microbes With Humans
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Prehistoric Global Migration of Vanishing Gut Microbes With Humans
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Prehistoric Global Migration of Vanishing Gut Microbes With Humans
The gut microbiome is crucial for health and greatly affected by lifestyle. Many microbes common in non-industrialized populations are disappearing or extinct in industrialized populations. Understand...
www.biorxiv.org
August 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Check out this incredible analysis!
Prehistoric Global Migration of Vanishing Gut Microbes With Humans
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Prehistoric Global Migration of Vanishing Gut Microbes With Humans
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Wenn der Ottomotor heute erfunden werden würde
August 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Wenn der Ottomotor heute erfunden werden würde
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Great to see our Review "The gut microbiome connects nutrition and human health" making the cover of this month's @natrevgastrohep.nature.com
@patrickveiga.bsky.social @eranelinav.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@patrickveiga.bsky.social @eranelinav.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Great to see our Review "The gut microbiome connects nutrition and human health" making the cover of this month's @natrevgastrohep.nature.com
@patrickveiga.bsky.social @eranelinav.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@patrickveiga.bsky.social @eranelinav.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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So happy to see this excellent work out!
‘Gut microbiota regulates exercise-induced hormetic modulation of cognitive function’
Fantastic collaboration with @jltrejoneuro.bsky.social @cintadoelisa.bsky.social @jfcryan.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
‘Gut microbiota regulates exercise-induced hormetic modulation of cognitive function’
Fantastic collaboration with @jltrejoneuro.bsky.social @cintadoelisa.bsky.social @jfcryan.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
Gut microbiota regulates exercise-induced hormetic modulation of cognitive function
These findings suggest that the hormetic effects of physical exercise on cognitive
function and neurogenesis are mediated by corresponding changes in the gut microbiota,
highlighting a novel mechanist...
www.thelancet.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
So happy to see this excellent work out!
‘Gut microbiota regulates exercise-induced hormetic modulation of cognitive function’
Fantastic collaboration with @jltrejoneuro.bsky.social @cintadoelisa.bsky.social @jfcryan.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
‘Gut microbiota regulates exercise-induced hormetic modulation of cognitive function’
Fantastic collaboration with @jltrejoneuro.bsky.social @cintadoelisa.bsky.social @jfcryan.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered