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The role of society journals in protecting the scientific record On March 6, 1665, the first scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions (of the Royal Society of London), was launched in the United Kingdom. The public

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The use of impact factors in the evaluation of researchers has contributed to the distortion of scientific publishing practices and research practices, noted France's CNRS as it walked away from Web of Science, using $$$ saved to promote #OpenScience & #OpenData. www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

Mutational landscape and molecular bases of echinocandin resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Abstract. One of the front-line drug classes used to treat invasive fungal infections is echinocandins, which target the fungal-specific beta-glucan syntha

Mutational landscape and molecular bases of echinocandin resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae url: academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Genomic basis for resistance to acute oak decline and mildew infection in English oak https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709495v1

MBE | The role of society journals in protecting the scientific record

MBE Editors-in-Chief Claudia Russo and Brandon Gaut publish a new editorial on the role of society journals in protecting the scientific record.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag022

#evobio #molbio #societyjournal

@claurusso.bsky.social @bsgaut.bsky.social

Evaluation of antimicrobial resistance governance across 193 countries to inform the 2026 Global Action Plan update - Nature Medicine An evaluation across 193 countries for the 2026 Global Action Plan update showed that countries with strong multisectoral governance and early surveillance adoption achieved long-term improvements in ...

Evaluation of antimicrobial resistance governance across 193 countries to inform the 2026 Global Action Plan update | Nature Medicine share.google/lddZahVrY4Fj...

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Within-host population structure, migration, and parallel adaptive evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis lung disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.709079v1

Resistance variation and bacterial interactions shape adaptation of a genetically diverse pathogen population to antibiotic therapy Abstract. Antimicrobial resistance poses a major threat to global human health. The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance is usually studied for

Resistance variation and bacterial interactions shape adaptation of a genetically diverse pathogen population to antibiotic therapy url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Mucosal vaccination in mice provides protection from diverse respiratory threats Traditional vaccines target specific pathogens, limiting their scope against diverse respiratory threats. We describe an intranasal liposomal formulation combining toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 and 7/8 l...

Mucosal vaccination in mice provides protection from diverse respiratory threats | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dermatophyte speciation processes reconciled with current phylogenetic species concepts Abstract. The family Arthrodermataceae, the dermatophytes and allies, ancestrally began with Ascomycetous bifactorial sexual cycles built into an ecology t

Dermatophyte speciation processes reconciled with current phylogenetic species concepts url: academic.oup.com/mmy/article-...

Major Chinese funder to stop paying fees for 30 pricey open-access journals Move comes amid effort to grow the country’s own journals

We should follow! Support society journals!
Major Chinese funder to stop paying fees for 30 pricey open-access journals | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

How LabOS AI-powered smart goggles could reduce human error in science A new wearable AI system watches your hands through smart glasses, guiding experiments and stopping mistakes before they happen

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Optimizing primer selection for microbial diversity studies in freshwater lakes: a comprehensive evaluation of 16S rRNA, 18S rRNA, and ITS gene regions This study identified the best performing DNA primers targeting ribosomal or ITS markers for studying bacteria, eukaryotic microbes, and fungi in lakes, wh

Optimizing primer selection for microbial diversity studies in freshwater lakes: a comprehensive evaluation of 16S rRNA, 18S rRNA, and ITS gene regions url: academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

A targeted drug-repurposing strategy identifies Tavaborole (Kerydin) as a potent fungistatic agent against Candida auris https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708474v1

10 websites for drawing scientific figures 👇

Specific details about PLOS Biology's mandatory code-sharing policy

In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication.

We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #code-sharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.

May be nice to cut-out the box for reference

plos.io/47dPeOW
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Biofilm removal in hospital sink drains drives unintended surges in antibiotic resistance - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Biofilm removal in hospital sink drains drives unintended surges in antibiotic resistance

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Cryptococcus neoformans responds to presence of Mycobacterium by diversifying its morphologies and remodelling its capsular material Introduction . Cryptococcus neoformans and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb) are opportunistic pathogens that share overlapping geographical distributions and physiological niches within the human body...

Pleased to share that our paper on Cryptococcus neoformans-Mycobacterium tuberculosis interactions has been #published! We found that C. neoformans cells exhibit increased virulence traits in the presence of tuberculosis-causing pathogens. @mrccmm.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1099/jmm....

#Genomics methodologies can often introduce bias, resulting in inaccurate predictions.

In #GENETICS, Michael Overton and @skryazhi.bsky.social present an improved genotyping pipeline for analyzing mutation accumulation in #yeast with a more reliable statistical estimations. buff.ly/1rcGasy

A call for precision: rethinking epidemiological terms applied to wildlife in antimicrobial resistance studies | ASM Animal Microbiology Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is considered a 21st century top global public health threat with enormous social, economic, and political consequences (1). AMR has been extensively reported in all thr...

A call for precision: rethinking epidemiological terms applied to wildlife in antimicrobial resistance studies | ASM Animal Microbiology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Persistence and spread of fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis clinical isolates associated with increased ERG11 copies in Qatar Candida parapsilosis is one of the most common species associated with candidemia infections globally. Recently, the emergence of fluconazole-resistant (FLU-R) C. parapsilosis has become a significant...

Excellent work from Zhu and Yue, plus good team work from Drs, scientists in Qatar, Canada and Singapore. #Candida #azoles #CNV
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Cerebrospinal Fluid Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing in Pediatric Central Nervous System Infection: Clinical Experience and Diagnostic Stewardship Strategies Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) metagenomic next-generation sequencing demonstrated increased diagnostic yield in specimens with compared to those without CSF pl

Cerebrospinal Fluid Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing in Pediatric Central Nervous System Infection: Clinical Experience and Diagnostic Stewardship Strategies url: academic.oup.com/ofid/article...

Candida auris vacuolar calcium pump mediates fluconazole efflux and resistance evolution - Nature Microbiology The relocalization of the vacuolar calcium pump Cdt1 to the plasma membrane contributes to fluconazole adaptation in Candida auris.

Song, Y., Chen, J., Wan, J. et al. Candida auris vacuolar calcium pump mediates fluconazole efflux and resistance evolution. Nat Microbiol (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Coordinated gene family evolution shapes the genome of dimorphic Mucorales | Nature Communications share.google/P7A9HXZ9dgmC...

Phenotypic diversity of yeasts curated in the 5th edition of The Yeasts: A data-driven visualization approach https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.15.706042v1

Airborne eDNA captures three decades of ecosystem biodiversity - Nature Communications Quantifying ecosystem dynamics is critical in the face of rapid environmental change. This study uses airborne eDNA to quantify changes in organism abundances across the tree of life and reveal a regi...

Reading this for my ecological genomics class. Pretty mind-blowing stuff, even identifying insect-bacterial symbionts from high covariance in airborne eDNA!

Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration More than a century after two introduced pathogens killed billions of American chestnut trees, introgression of resistance alleles from Chinese chestnuts has contributed to the recovery of self-sustai...

Beautiful work! Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...