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The spooky season is on — so meet the new profile cover 🎃 👻 #Halloween

The spooky season is on — so meet the new profile cover 🎃 👻
#Halloween

Leaving academia is done.Today, I have left the lecturer position at the university, now I am just an independent researcher.

Leaving academia is done.
Today, I have left the lecturer position at the university, now I am just an independent researcher.

In my new article for @TheSkeptic, I try to put a realistic spin on the feasibility of a killer fungus like the one featured in the TV...

In my new article for @TheSkeptic, I try to put a realistic spin on the feasibility of a killer fungus like the one featured in the TV series The Last of Us.

Zombie fungi are unlikely, but we could be facing more dangerous fungal infections.

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/08/we-shouldnt-fear-a-zombie-fungus-like-the-last-of-us-but-a-threat-from-fungi-is-real/

My article for @TheSkeptic on plant neurobiology has been translated into Italian and published in the Italian magazine Query (published by...

My article for @TheSkeptic on plant neurobiology has been translated into Italian and published in the Italian magazine Query (published by @cicap):

https://www.queryonline.it/2024/08/06/piante-senzienti-le-prove-a-favore-per-ora-scarseggiano/

Thanks to Fara Di Maio for this translation :-)

I have launched my DeviantArt profile: https://www.deviantart.com/georgykurakinThis is just a beginning, so there are only few artworks (=...

I have launched my DeviantArt profile:
https://www.deviantart.com/georgykurakin

This is just a beginning, so there are only few artworks (= deviations) there. But all primary sections are ready, and you are welcome if you use this platform :-)

#deviantart

I'm leaving academia 🧫🧬🍃🍂

I'm leaving academia 🧫🧬🍃🍂

@PubPeer, maybe, you will react to two my emails to the support team? Or you prefer to keep barring the publication author from discussing...

@PubPeer, maybe, you will react to two my emails to the support team?

Or you prefer to keep barring the publication author from discussing his own preprint just because he has no appropriate institutional email?

You did not accept my institutional email, manually dropped two successful applications with a personal email, ang you are keeping ignoring my emails to the support.

How is free discussion possible with such barriers?

Researchers tried to check a set of solvent for suitability to alternative non-water biochemistry. Liquid carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid...

Researchers tried to check a set of solvent for suitability to alternative non-water biochemistry. Liquid carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid appeared to be not so bad.

In this short story, I am covering a new preprint by Venus Cloud Life group.

This story was my entry for the contest What's Your Story? by The Scientist. It has not been shortlisted and selected for publishing, so I have posted it on Springer Nature Research Communities.

https://communities.springernature.com/posts/life-might-be-based-on-sulfuric-acid-and-carbon-dioxide-instead-of-water

The Biochemist magazine (published by the Biochemical Society and Portland Press) has posted the full May issue dedicated to the topic of...

The Biochemist magazine (published by the Biochemical Society and Portland Press) has posted the full May issue dedicated to the topic of artificial intelligence:
https://portlandpress.com/biochemist/issue/46/2

This issue has nice yellow cover and inludes my article on the evolution of the biological bases of AI. You can find it as the first article in the issue, after the Editor–in-Chief's introductory note.

Earlier, my article was posted ahead of issue.

A new paper on the blood microbiome of HCV patients might close a gap in our recent workOur paper on bacterial lipoxygenases has been cited...

A new paper on the blood microbiome of HCV patients might close a gap in our recent work

Our paper on bacterial lipoxygenases has been cited by the group working on a problem of HCV-related cirrhosis. The context of this citation might provide the solution of a long-lasting problem of our project and valuable insights in the role of lipoxygenases in Sphingomonadales bacteria

https://communities.springernature.com/posts/a-new-paper-on-the-blood-microbiome-of-hcv-patients-might-close-a-gap-in-our-recent-work

I am now volunteering to test the AI engine by @mindthegraph, a science infographic service.Below, you could find two examples of the AI...

I am now volunteering to test the AI engine by @mindthegraph, a science infographic service.
Below, you could find two examples of the AI generations for illustrating my research on cross-kindgdom bacteria. You can see "bacteria jumping from plants to a patient" and "bacteria jumping from a banana to a human".
I really love these AI arts and will include them (and other generations from the same batch!) into a new text post on my project. Stay tuned!

What if the magical newspaper The Daily Prophet interviewed me about my recent research?🧪🧬🦠With a new service Muckracker...

What if the magical newspaper The Daily Prophet interviewed me about my recent research?🧪🧬🦠

With a new service Muckracker (muckraker.kmiziz.xyz), we can image this. Please find the generated issue below :-)

Muckracker allows you to generate a vintage newspaper from your own content.

I have updated my bioRxiv preprint about the cross-kingdom pathogens which are able to infect both plants and humans. The preprint provides...

I have updated my bioRxiv preprint about the cross-kingdom pathogens which are able to infect both plants and humans. The preprint provides computational evidence for the role of lipoxygenase enzymes in such host jumps. Its full text is available by this link:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.21.497025v5.full

This is the fifth version of the paper. One of its innovation – text labels added to the network visualisations of the "ecological portrait” of the studied bacteria.

One of the journals has a new trick.The "Funding" field on the manuscript submission (type = research article) is marked as...

One of the journals has a new trick.
The "Funding" field on the manuscript submission (type = research article) is marked as mandatory, and the submission system does not let in if no funding source is specified.

What if there are none, like in my case? If I have no funding, and the work is done without money — now what, it can't be published?

I put "I have no funding" in the fund name field and "NO GRANT" in the grant number field, just so the system would "eat" my submission.

The article series ” Do we really discover...” for @TheSkeptic goes on with the new article. Here, I skeptically investigate the...

The article series ” Do we really discover...” for @TheSkeptic goes on with the new article. Here, I skeptically investigate the question whether scientists have recently discovered pain in insects – or maybe insects perceive noxious stimuli in a quite other way which cannot be called ”pain”?

Many thanks to Dr. Lars Chittka, one of the leading insect scientist, for his valuable expert comments.

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/04/did-we-really-discover-pain-in-insects-maybe-but-we-cant-be-sure-they-feel-it-like-we-do/

I have started contributing to the #MicrobiologyInArt section of #FEMSmicroBlog (by FEMS).In my first post, I tried to find out why...

I have started contributing to the #MicrobiologyInArt section of #FEMSmicroBlog (by FEMS).
In my first post, I tried to find out why microbiology comics are so popular now — and why more and more people engage in this area?

❓ What would be your reaction, if tomorrow you will receive a letter from a journal editorial office requesting to provide a comic abstract for your article?

https://fems-microbiology.org/femsmicroblog-microbiology-going-comic/

My biological infographic in BioRender is in surprising demand.Recently, I created the life cycle diagram of the slime mould Dictyostelium...

My biological infographic in BioRender is in surprising demand.

Recently, I created the life cycle diagram of the slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum (that's my aggregative multicellular bunny) and submitted it as a template.

So far it has 245 views, 45 downloads, 9 likes.

The picture itself is below.

(Do not use without an active BioRender subscription).

Maybe, this recorded talk will be interesting for specialists in medicine and microbiology studying nosocomial pathogens. A lot of them have...

Maybe, this recorded talk will be interesting for specialists in medicine and microbiology studying nosocomial pathogens. A lot of them have been included in my "lipoxygenase pathogen blacklist".
Do not hesitate to ask your questions in comments (better — on YouTube under the video). I will answers them and will be happy to see the discussion (if any).

I was pleasantly surprised to find the video of my talk at the YouTube channel of ISCB 😊This is my talk at ISMB 2022 conference, where I...

I was pleasantly surprised to find the video of my talk at the YouTube channel of ISCB 😊
This is my talk at ISMB 2022 conference, where I presented by new research (which is not yet formally published). Using bioinformatics and data science tools, I studied how some opportunistic bacteria can jump from plants to humans (and how much threat they pose)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7yjmbzgvVo

Meet my new Community post :-)Discovery of Thiomargarita magnifica — the biggest-ever bacterium — urged us to revisit our recent...

Meet my new Community post :-)
Discovery of Thiomargarita magnifica — the biggest-ever bacterium — urged us to revisit our recent bioinformatic finding of lipoxygenase enzyme in Beggiatoa, the closest relatives of Thiomargarita. Is this cell-to-cell signalling marker somehow related to Beggiatoa's and Thiomargarita's large size?

https://communities.springernature.com/posts/beggiatoa-s-lipoxygenase-does-a-close-relative-of-thiomargarita-magnifica-carry-a-biochemical-secret