Antoine Zboralski
@micro-zbo.bsky.social
👨🔬 Researcher working on plant-microbes interactions, plant pathology & biocontrol at @irbv.bsky.social, @umontreal.ca, @espacepourlavie.bsky.social 🇫🇷 🇨🇦
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Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤
If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
10/10
If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
10/10
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤
If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
10/10
If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
10/10
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This obit of Watson is *amazing*.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This obit of Watson is *amazing*.
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Canadian graduate students... how do you feel about members of parliament going through your transcripts and the personal information you disclosed in your applications in order to question whether you deserved your fellowship or not?
@supportourscience.bsky.social
@supportourscience.bsky.social
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Canadian graduate students... how do you feel about members of parliament going through your transcripts and the personal information you disclosed in your applications in order to question whether you deserved your fellowship or not?
@supportourscience.bsky.social
@supportourscience.bsky.social
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Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
October 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
Happy to see the data from the main paper of my PhD being used to build this tool!
New publication: Predicting #rhizosphere-competence-related catabolic gene clusters in plant-associated #bacteria with rhizoSMASH, by @raaijmakersjm.bsky.social and others. #microbiome #biodiversity
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
October 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Happy to see the data from the main paper of my PhD being used to build this tool!
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Here's a reminder on #InternationalCoffeeDay: It's OK to take a (coffee) break. ☕
"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb
"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb
October 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Here's a reminder on #InternationalCoffeeDay: It's OK to take a (coffee) break. ☕
"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb
"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb
🧫 Happy International Microorganism Day!
Exactly 342 years ago today, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled organism for the first time in a letter to the Royal Society of London. After several centuries of research, there is still much to discover! ✨
#InternationalMicroorganismDay
Exactly 342 years ago today, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled organism for the first time in a letter to the Royal Society of London. After several centuries of research, there is still much to discover! ✨
#InternationalMicroorganismDay
September 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🧫 Happy International Microorganism Day!
Exactly 342 years ago today, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled organism for the first time in a letter to the Royal Society of London. After several centuries of research, there is still much to discover! ✨
#InternationalMicroorganismDay
Exactly 342 years ago today, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled organism for the first time in a letter to the Royal Society of London. After several centuries of research, there is still much to discover! ✨
#InternationalMicroorganismDay
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Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) | 12844852
A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, Université de Montréal.
www.nature.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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We started a Starter Pack at the #RPB2025 meeting on Plant-Bacteria Interaction Research in Aussois, France 🗻. Let me know if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/MgodMB4
go.bsky.app/MgodMB4
January 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
We started a Starter Pack at the #RPB2025 meeting on Plant-Bacteria Interaction Research in Aussois, France 🗻. Let me know if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/MgodMB4
go.bsky.app/MgodMB4
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Coexistence ecology of pathogen-inhibiting microbes in the phytobiome
#Pseudomonas "bacterial coexistence and interactions in host plant–microbe and microbe–microbe relationships" 🌱
@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social Review from Heribert Hirt
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#Pseudomonas "bacterial coexistence and interactions in host plant–microbe and microbe–microbe relationships" 🌱
@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social Review from Heribert Hirt
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
Coexistence ecology of pathogen-inhibiting microbes in the phytobiome
Certain microbes have considerable potential as biocontrol agents against various
pathogens, but they coexist with other microbial species in complex networks of interactions
that influence their func...
www.cell.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Coexistence ecology of pathogen-inhibiting microbes in the phytobiome
#Pseudomonas "bacterial coexistence and interactions in host plant–microbe and microbe–microbe relationships" 🌱
@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social Review from Heribert Hirt
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#Pseudomonas "bacterial coexistence and interactions in host plant–microbe and microbe–microbe relationships" 🌱
@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social Review from Heribert Hirt
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
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Sowing success: ecological insights into seedling microbial colonisation for robust plant microbiota engineering
by
@microbialmarie.bsky.social et al
In Trends in Plant Science
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
by
@microbialmarie.bsky.social et al
In Trends in Plant Science
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
Sowing success: ecological insights into seedling microbial colonisation for robust plant microbiota engineering
Manipulating the seedling microbiota through seed or soil inoculations has the potential
to improve plant health. Mixed in-field results have been attributed to a lack of
consideration for ecological ...
www.cell.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Sowing success: ecological insights into seedling microbial colonisation for robust plant microbiota engineering
by
@microbialmarie.bsky.social et al
In Trends in Plant Science
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
by
@microbialmarie.bsky.social et al
In Trends in Plant Science
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
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TONS to dig into here on the meteoric rise in publications from China - a trend that is unambiguously good for science, but has outpaced adaptation at Western journals, their reviewers, and their editors/editorial board members.
Guest Post — How the Growth of Chinese Research Is Bringing Western Publishing to Breaking Point scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/08/g...
Guest Post - How the Growth of Chinese Research Is Bringing Western Publishing to Breaking Point - The Scholarly Kitchen
Christos Petrou examines the rapid growth in publication volume coming from China, and how that is impacting the publishing industry.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
July 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
TONS to dig into here on the meteoric rise in publications from China - a trend that is unambiguously good for science, but has outpaced adaptation at Western journals, their reviewers, and their editors/editorial board members.
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July issue of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social is now online, with our review by @xinmingxu.bsky.social @neftalyl.bsky.social on Composing a microbial symphony and a matching cover illustration by @lizahaart.bsky.social
#SynCom #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology
#SynCom #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology
July 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
July issue of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social is now online, with our review by @xinmingxu.bsky.social @neftalyl.bsky.social on Composing a microbial symphony and a matching cover illustration by @lizahaart.bsky.social
#SynCom #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology
#SynCom #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology
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New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🌿 Happy to share the latest paper published today from my postdoc at Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada!
🦠 Specific #lipopeptides produced by a #Pseudomonas strain inhibit the plant pathogen #Sclerotinia sclerotiorum for effective #biocontrol
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#peptin #mycin #brabantamides
🦠 Specific #lipopeptides produced by a #Pseudomonas strain inhibit the plant pathogen #Sclerotinia sclerotiorum for effective #biocontrol
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#peptin #mycin #brabantamides
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🌿 Happy to share the latest paper published today from my postdoc at Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada!
🦠 Specific #lipopeptides produced by a #Pseudomonas strain inhibit the plant pathogen #Sclerotinia sclerotiorum for effective #biocontrol
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#peptin #mycin #brabantamides
🦠 Specific #lipopeptides produced by a #Pseudomonas strain inhibit the plant pathogen #Sclerotinia sclerotiorum for effective #biocontrol
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#peptin #mycin #brabantamides
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Science covered our recent meeting, as we try and get microbial conservation integrated into the IUCN.
‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species
Science speaks with conservation scientist Kent Redford about why microbes need protection from extinction—and how to achieve it
www.science.org
May 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Science covered our recent meeting, as we try and get microbial conservation integrated into the IUCN.
‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘A publicity problem’: New group pushes for microbes to be conserved like other endangered species | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Not only will this create a network effect, but because bioRxiv is intended to be an enabling platform that stimulates evolution, it will allow _other people_ to do great things e.g. connect.biorxiv.org/news/2021/05... 2/2
An easy access dashboard now provides links to scientific discussion and evaluation of bioRxiv preprints.
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
connect.biorxiv.org
December 21, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Not only will this create a network effect, but because bioRxiv is intended to be an enabling platform that stimulates evolution, it will allow _other people_ to do great things e.g. connect.biorxiv.org/news/2021/05... 2/2
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www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🚜 Excited to see our paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Amazing effort by @y-song.bsky.social in collaboration with TU Delft (Neil Budko, Elisa Atza) and the Dutch potato breeding industry to harness the power of the microbiome! 🥔🔬@utrechtpmi.bsky.social
Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology
Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.
www.nature.com
December 28, 2024 at 3:06 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🚜 Excited to see our paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Amazing effort by @y-song.bsky.social in collaboration with TU Delft (Neil Budko, Elisa Atza) and the Dutch potato breeding industry to harness the power of the microbiome! 🥔🔬@utrechtpmi.bsky.social
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I just published: How to hire the best people
Steve Jobs was obsessed with hiring “the best people.” You should be too.
link.medium.com/SAqkMnHlnPb
Steve Jobs was obsessed with hiring “the best people.” You should be too.
link.medium.com/SAqkMnHlnPb
link.medium.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:41 PM
I just published: How to hire the best people
Steve Jobs was obsessed with hiring “the best people.” You should be too.
link.medium.com/SAqkMnHlnPb
Steve Jobs was obsessed with hiring “the best people.” You should be too.
link.medium.com/SAqkMnHlnPb
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14. There are huge benefits to converting your current journal clubs into preprint review clubs.
*Share usable feedback and improve science
*Help ECRs build a public track record
*Actual training
op-ed: buff.ly/3zjLltQ
You could post the reviews to @prereview.bsky.social too!
#PreprintAdvent
*Share usable feedback and improve science
*Help ECRs build a public track record
*Actual training
op-ed: buff.ly/3zjLltQ
You could post the reviews to @prereview.bsky.social too!
#PreprintAdvent
Journal clubs 2.0: An update for the 21st century
Do you run a journal club? The non-profit, scientist-driven ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in Biology) promotes transparency and innovation in life science communication, and they are offering funding to organise preprint review clubs. Find out about their other activities, too.
buff.ly
December 14, 2024 at 1:00 PM
14. There are huge benefits to converting your current journal clubs into preprint review clubs.
*Share usable feedback and improve science
*Help ECRs build a public track record
*Actual training
op-ed: buff.ly/3zjLltQ
You could post the reviews to @prereview.bsky.social too!
#PreprintAdvent
*Share usable feedback and improve science
*Help ECRs build a public track record
*Actual training
op-ed: buff.ly/3zjLltQ
You could post the reviews to @prereview.bsky.social too!
#PreprintAdvent
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Pyoluteorin-deficient Pseudomonas protegens improves cooperation with Bacillus velezensis, biofilm formation, co-colonizing, and reshapes rhizosphere microbiome
-in #NPJBiofilmsMicrobiomes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
-in #NPJBiofilmsMicrobiomes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pyoluteorin-deficient Pseudomonas protegens improves cooperation with Bacillus velezensis, biofilm formation, co-colonizing, and reshapes rhizosphere microbiome - npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Pyoluteorin-deficient Pseudomonas protegens improves cooperation with Bacillus velezensis, biofilm formation, co-colonizing, and reshapes rhizosphere microbiome
www.nature.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Pyoluteorin-deficient Pseudomonas protegens improves cooperation with Bacillus velezensis, biofilm formation, co-colonizing, and reshapes rhizosphere microbiome
-in #NPJBiofilmsMicrobiomes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
-in #NPJBiofilmsMicrobiomes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A nice preprint where the team of @stl.bsky.social used a non-canonical amino acid to tag metabolically active bacteria in various soil/plant compartments, from bulk soil to nodules, and sorted them with FACS before 16S rRNA sequencing
The activity of soil microbial taxa in the rhizosphere predicts the success of root colonization
Plant-beneficial microbes have great potential to improve sustainability in agriculture. Still, managing beneficial microbes is challenging because the impact of microbial dormancy on community assemb...
www.biorxiv.org
December 11, 2024 at 4:29 PM
A nice preprint where the team of @stl.bsky.social used a non-canonical amino acid to tag metabolically active bacteria in various soil/plant compartments, from bulk soil to nodules, and sorted them with FACS before 16S rRNA sequencing
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How does science advice to governments need to change over the next 10 years?
In a Nature survey, respondents said that training scientists in politics & policy is top of the list.
Our editorial outlines what's required
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
In a Nature survey, respondents said that training scientists in politics & policy is top of the list.
Our editorial outlines what's required
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Advising governments about science is essential but difficult. So train people to do it
A great scientist doesn’t necessarily make an effective science adviser — but schooling and practice can help to bridge the gap.
www.nature.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:59 PM
How does science advice to governments need to change over the next 10 years?
In a Nature survey, respondents said that training scientists in politics & policy is top of the list.
Our editorial outlines what's required
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
In a Nature survey, respondents said that training scientists in politics & policy is top of the list.
Our editorial outlines what's required
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The plant microbiome starter pack is far from complete. Let us know if you want to be on it! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf
November 27, 2024 at 6:57 AM
The plant microbiome starter pack is far from complete. Let us know if you want to be on it! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf
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I initiated a plant pathology/plant microbe starter pack, feel free to self-nominate 🥀
go.bsky.app/LbYaW8k
go.bsky.app/LbYaW8k
November 10, 2024 at 6:29 PM
I initiated a plant pathology/plant microbe starter pack, feel free to self-nominate 🥀
go.bsky.app/LbYaW8k
go.bsky.app/LbYaW8k