David Pires
🪱 Nematologist at INIAV, IP | 🎓 PhD candidate at the UEvora | 🛡️🌱 #Biocontrol | 🍄 Fungi-nematode interactions | 💬 Opinions are my own | 🏳️🌈 He/him |
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- How ChatGPT and Gemini picture me working
- 🌱🦠 New preprint out! What if soil is not just a passive background for plant diseases, but an active battlefield & reservoir? Our review explores how soil structure & microbiomes jointly shape the emergence & persistence of plant pathogens: doi.org/10.21203/rs.... Feedback & discussion welcome.
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- 📈 Really happy to see my first PhD chapter getting some traction: the article has reached 200 reads on ResearchGate. www.researchgate.net/profile/Davi... 📄 Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
- 🤦♂️ Am I the only one getting fed up with the proliferation of half-baked, AI-generated, and often inaccurate images on social media, and increasingly in papers?
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- 📅 Webinar: Maritime pine and pine wood #nematode in South-West Europe: status and challenge 🕑 27 February 2026 at 2:00 PM CET (Paris Time) 📢 Registration: www.plantedforests.org/webinar-lets...
- Reposted by David PiresHow does evolution turn a harmless bacterial feeder into an active predator? Our new study led by @marianneroca.bsky.social and published in @pnas.org explores how sensory systems were rewired to enable prey detection and predatory behaviour in nematodes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵below!
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- Reposted by David Pires"… I have come to appreciate that success isn’t solely a matter of high-impact papers or the steep climb up the academic ladder. For me, it now means tracing my own path, one that is sustainable and isn’t defined by what others expect of me." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4abAzWo
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- Reposted by David PiresWe're delighted to share we've been awarded the 2026 Microbiology Society EDI Award! Our founders, Landon Getz, Bruno Oliveira, and Edel Pérez-López, will receive the award and talk about our accomplishments in Belfast (UK) from April 13 to 16. Read more: tinyurl.com/yf3v7fu8
- 📢 Officially in print! “Multiple factors associated with forest decline in the context of control measures for the pinewood #nematode” is out in Eur J of Plant Pathol: doi.org/10.1007/s106... 🌲 We show that managing PWD is ecologically complex & that focusing on a single cause is detrimental.
- Reposted by David PiresVertebrates in general a boring. Plants, fungi, nematodes, unicellular eukaryotes, that’s where it is happening.
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- Reposted by David PiresOur latest paper is out in Nature 🥳 We investigated the underlying neuromodulatory regulation of aggressive behavior in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus 🪱🧠🔬 And we show that novel behaviors can evolve through changes of single neuron function by switches in neuromodulator-receptor expression. 👇
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- Reposted by David PiresLes plantes aussi ont un microbiote – pourrait-on s’en servir pour se passer de phytosanitaires ? theconversation.com/les-plantes-...
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- Reposted by David Pires📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY We are hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on rigorous research in genetics, entomology, and host-microbe interactions. Please consider and share with others in need. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...
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- 🤖 As I approach the final months of my PhD, I decided to run a small experiment. I asked Gemini to audit my professional footprint (analyzing my Google Scholar and ORCID profiles) and predict my career trajectory for the next five years. 💭 The analysis was surprisingly detailed 👇
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- 🌲 For 27 yrs, Europe's response to the PWN stayed the same: 🪓🔥. Millions spent on diagnostics & buffer zones, yet the #nematode spread from 🇵🇹 to 🇪🇸 and now 🇫🇷. Diagnostics matter, but aren't a cure. Time to fund solutions: biocontrol & long-term management. Buffer zones failed. Science didn't. 🔬✅
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- 🔬 Excited to continue driving high-impact science and raising the bar for excellence at the institute in 2026. 🌍 Proud of the collaborative bridges we've built with this work, and grateful to my co-authors for pushing the boundaries of international science with me. Onwards! 🚀
- 🎄🔬 Taking a break from the bench to cultivate some holiday cheer! Wishing you a restorative Holiday season and a New Year filled with fruitful discoveries in plant health. 🌱✨
- 🫘 Thank you once again to Voz do Campo for the invite and opportunity. 📘 Originally published in Nitrogen (doi.org/10.3390/nitr...) over the summer, our insights have now been translated into Portuguese, and featured in the final edition of 2025! Find out more 👇 vozdocampo.pt/arquivo/52395
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- 🚀 2025 was defined by internationalization: contributions used in classrooms and documents, and worldwide collaborations. 🧠 But the real story is about the mindset shift behind the work. Read the Year in Review: 👉 dpires.substack.com/p/wrapping-u... #PhDLife #AcademicChatter
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- 🌍 Honored to see our work cross borders! 🚜🌾 Voz do Campo approached me to republish an article I co-authored (originally in Nitrogen doi.org/10.3390/nitr...). It is now available in Portuguese in their final 2025 edition. 👇 Sneak peek below, and full online version to follow once available.
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- 🚨 New paper is out! 🌿 We review how #pesticides affect life across ecosystems, from microbes to amphibians, and highlight strategies to mitigate their ecological impacts. Sustainable pest management needs healthy ecosystems. 👉 Read at www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/7/...
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by David Pires⚠️ The spread of the pinewood nematode is a development of great concern to the future of European forests. 🤝 We stand by our fellow #HorizonEurope project @purpest-eu.bsky.social as we pursue complementary innovations in the management of such outbreaks. #Forests #Pests #PlantHealth
- 🚨 First detection of the pinewood nematode in France 👉 Learn more about how @purpest-eu.bsky.social aims to streamline detection through technological innovations: www.purpest.eu
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- Reposted by David Pires🚨 First detection of the pinewood nematode in France 👉 Learn more about how @purpest-eu.bsky.social aims to streamline detection through technological innovations: www.purpest.eu
