Meet Molly Ingersoll, microbiologist & immunologist.
Her work shows how women and men can respond very differently to infections, and why sex-specific treatments are urgently needed.
She also speaks up about the invisible hurdles women face in science.
Follow her here @immunobladder.bsky.social
Climate change is expected to affect mosquito and parasite survival, reshaping malaria risk
go.nature.com/3OWwXPY
Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating).
A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)
📢 Le Congrès annuel 2026 du Collège des Sociétés Savantes Académiques de France!!
🎤 Conférence grand public par Serge Hercberg
👉 Infos & inscriptions : https://loom.ly/hH57R5U
1️⃣5️⃣ Fun way of deciding authorship order
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
AI predicts Legionella infection outcome with 83% accuracy
By analyzing mitochondrial parameters immediately after infection, researchers can forecast which cells will allow bacterial replication.
📄 www.pasteur.fr/en/home/rese...
#Legionella
Trump’s second term and the weaponisation of health policy: a 2025 timeline.
@bmj.com maps the year’s key decisions and themes—and asks experts what 2026 may bring
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Few years ago, an intern in the team explored historical archives and identified a fascinating report describing with great detail the large French cholera epidemic of 1892. The modelling analysis of these data has now been published in Epidemics.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
4 Institut Pasteur scientists awarded by French Academy of Sciences
🏆 4 Institut Pasteur scientists awarded by French Academy of Sciences @academiesciences.bsky.social
🥇 Romain Levayer
🥇 Pierre-Jean Corringer
🥇 Eduardo Rocha
🥇 Hervé Bourhy
Congratulations !
Congratulations to my partner in crime and newest EMBO young investigator @sebbaumgarten.bsky.social
Well deserved!
· #AcademicSky ·
The European Research Council is launching €7m Plus Grants for ambitious, long‑term research — open to researchers at any career stage but limited to about 30 awards; current ERC grantees and applicants are ineligible, reports @clanicholson.bsky.social.
Participez à l'étude #POPCORN lancée par l'équipe "Épidémiologie des maladies émergentes" de l'Institut @pasteur.fr pour comprendre l’évolution des attitudes et des comportements à l’égard des mesures préventives si nous devions faire face à une nouvelle #pandémie redcap.link/popcorn-past...
Most to Least Common 4-Digit PIN Numbers 34m analysed from multiple data breaches
Je ne sais pas quoi faire de cette infographie donc la voici
It's once again Friday at @institutpasteur.bsky.social !!!
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🗃️From the archive: "Academic freedom had progressively increased from the 1940s to the 2010s, but it reversed and started to decline in the last decade both at the global level and in the 25 leading countries in science."
#AcademicFreedom
The Friday crème brûlée is back! @institutpasteur.bsky.social
🦠💊 L’Institut @pasteur.fr vient de publier un communiqué de presse sur nos récents travaux, qui décrivent une nouvelle piste pour augmenter l’efficacité des antibiotiques. #Pasteurdon #Recherche #Science #AMR
Merci à toutes celles et ceux qui ont contribué.
📘 English version coming soon!
🧬🩸 Cancer cells “tighten the belt” on their neighbors — Institut Pasteur, CNRS & Université Paris Cité uncover a mechanical killing strategy: tumor cells surround healthy ones and squeeze them to death via a contractile belt.
Read more 👉 research.pasteur.fr/en/news/canc...
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Compare Trump’s (unusual) level of empathy for Argentina — vs. Ukraine.
@atrupar.com
🏆 Le prix Nobel d'économie a été décerné à l'Américano-Israélien Joel Mokyr, au Français Philippe Aghion et au Canadien Peter Howitt pour leurs travaux sur l'impact des nouvelles technologies sur la croissance économique.
Soutenez la science qui agit et toutes les équipes de recherche de l’institut @pasteur.fr ! #PasteurDon
LinkedIn va utiliser les données personnelles de ses utilisateurs pour entraîner son IA
Par conséquent : une très grande partie des États-Unis affichent des couvertures vaccinales infantiles désormais sous le seuil d'immunité nécessaire pour stopper la propagation de maladies.
S'agissant de la rougeole, par exemple, 2 comtés sur 3 sont désormais sous 95%.
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Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era
youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg
Apparently, chimpanzees consume equivalent of 1-2 standard alcoholic drinks per day in the wild via fermented fruit!! (h/t Nick Villarino)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Communiqué de presse : financement de la recherche publique : la communauté scientifique alerte sur un système à bout de souffle. #veilleESR, @info.gouv.fr @agencerecherche.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @franceuniversites.bsky.social @inserm.fr @inrae-france.bsky.social @enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr
Save the date! The @pasteur.fr Pasteur course on image analysis is announced:
It will happen from the 1st of June to the 5th 2026.
This year there will be only one track: the Early Career Investigator track (beginners). 👇
