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ArticleMicrobial biotechnology2026

Professional Academies: The Duty to Lead.

Kenneth Timmis, Paul Rainey, Purificación Lopez-García, Ines Mandić-Mulec, Stipan Jonjić, Roberto Kolter, Anna Karnkowska, Chantal Abergel, Pablo Ivan Nikel, Juan Luis Ramos

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Article in Microbial biotechnology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Kenneth TimmisInstitute for Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0066-4670
Paul RaineyDepartment of Microbial Population Biology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.
Purificación Lopez-GarcíaEcologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0927-0651
Ines Mandić-MulecDepartment of Microbiology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Stipan JonjićCenter for Proteomics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.
Roberto KolterDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Anna KarnkowskaInstitute of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, Biological and Chemical Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3709-7873
Chantal AbergelInformation Génomique & Structurale, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
Pablo Ivan NikelSystems Environmental Microbiology Group, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9313-7481
Juan Luis RamosConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Granada, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8731-7435

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Scientific academies are not prize clubs. They are public institutions with independence, expertise, and convening power. In a period of climate instability, widening inequality, and declining trust in science, these attributes carry a duty to lead. This is not leadership as authority or control, but as stewardship: setting standards, shaping policy with evidence, mobilising networks to deliver practical solutions, and assessing impact in the public interest. Academies exist because of public investment in their members; their obligation is to apply collective expertise to the most pressing and serious societal challenges of the time.

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LeadershipPublic PolicySocieties, ScientificAcademiaHumansScienceSocieties

Identifiers

PMID42252758
PMCPMC13243763

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