Find das ganz im Ernst eine sehr gute und klare Definition: Wokeness ist, wenn jemand Ansprüche auf Mindeststandards im respektvollen Umgang mit ihm stellt, den ich als dessen nicht würdig ansehe.

Online stings to catch sexual predators are on the rise. A growing number are targeting ageplay kink communities, in which adults engage in role play as children. David J. Ley Ph.D.https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/202511/could-your-kink-be-misunderstood-by-law-enforcement

5/ One of the key findings is that prematurity and diagnostic genetic variants act additively and independently to influence phenotypic severity in developmental disorders. Premature probands have more affected organ systems and delayed developmental milestone attainment compared to term probands.

9/ The presence of a diagnostic genetic variant modifies the relationship between polygenic predisposition to education-related traits and gestational duration, suggesting that the nature of the diagnostic variant has the largest impact on risk of preterm delivery.

1/ Thrilled to share our new preprint now out on medRxiv, where we explore genetic factors contributing to prematurity in developmental disorders and examine how prematurity influences clinical presentations: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pleased that our work on prematurity in developmental disorders is out in Genome Medicine 🎉 urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt... A big thank you to Patrick Campbell, @hilarycmartin.bsky.social, Elizabeth Radford, and all involved. More in this thread ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/oliv...

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

🧪🍎📃 Vitamin B12 is a rather unique vitamin. Only certain bacteria and archaea can make it, not plants or animals. Animals require B12 and can obtain and store it, which is why meat and fish are well-known sources for humans. But what about non-animal foods? Can they provide any B12 at all?🧵⤵️

That merely being “under review” by a Nature family journal is offered as a quality proxy for a paper is a tragic illustration of the extent to which academia is addicted to brands and outsources evaluation

Funny not funny #AIEthics

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

People sometimes ask why we want to rate DAGs. Couldn't we just rate statistical models instead? We like to explain it with capybaras and bicycles.

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

The real harm to #LongCovid patients isn’t coming from most doctors or scientists; it’s coming from activists spreading false claims about COVID-19, twisting science, and vilifying experts. Misrepresentation doesn’t help patients; it isolates them from real care. 1/10

They are formed in the early phase of acute infections. The exhausted precursors are at first found frequently, they decline without being completely lost in infections that the immune system resolves. This is the physiological response. www.nature.com/artic... 7/8

T-CELL EXHAUSTION IN COVID-19: WHAT DO WE KNOW? Why @frontiersin.bsky.social? These authors have not understood what T cell "exhaustion" is! "T-cell exhaustion is a terminal state of immune dysfunction" No! www.frontiersin.org/... 1/8

𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻?? Astrocytes in the regulation of fear memories! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence h/t @claeneuro.bsky.social

💥The shingles vaccine might be one of the most underrated health moves after 50.💥 New large study(174K pts): ▪️ 50% lower risk of vascular dementia ▪️ 27% fewer blood clots ▪️ 25% lower risk of heart attack or stroke ▪️ 21% lower risk of dying early #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky 🧪 #NurseSky #IDSky

In a cohort of over 13,500 women with mean age ~72 years, >4,000 steps per day, at least 1-2 days per week, was associated with reduction in all-cause mortality and lower risk of cardiovascular disease bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...

🚨 Please RT! We’re recruiting a motivated postdoc to dissect the neurocircuits of affective pain. Expertise in behavioral models of pain/SUDs, stereotaxy, microscopy, opto/chemogenetics, or fiber photometry encouraged. Apply 👉 recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10647 #Neuroscience #Postdoc

Amid this week’s huge milestone in #HD treatment, I’m excited to share part of my PhD thesis + our paper published today in @movedisorder.bsky.social on CSF #PENK predicting striatal atrophy decades before clinical motor diagnosis 🔗 movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📢 Have you registered yet? Enhance your research impact with expert guidance from Lancet Group editors. Learn how SAGER guidelines for sex- and gender-based analyses can strengthen your work, with real examples and actionable insights. 👉 Register: hubs.li/Q03FQ_6l0

“Food allergies in children dropped sharply in the years after new guidelines encouraged parents to introduce infants to peanuts, a study has found… a 36 percent reduction in all food allergies, driven largely by a 43 percent drop in peanut allergies” in children under 3 years old.

One of the adaptive designs we are seeing more frequently is the Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomised Trial (or SMART trial) 1/7 #MethodologyMonday #126

A common med hair-loss med (finasteride) causes #depression and #suicide, concludes 8 studies in this report that examines why this signal was suppressed for 20 years Likely mechanism = lowers allopregnanolone, neurosteroid that modulates GABA (benzo) receptors pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41004169

Our Future Health is the UK's largest health research cohort with 2.5+ million participants. But look at that sampling strategy: a non-probability, self-selection approach! Researchers will need to be VERY mindful of the potential for selection bias. academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

📣Tomorrow our next series of online seminars restarts: Chris Klausmeier (MSU) will present: ⭐Microbial cross-feeding: coexistence and collapse, spatial patterns and population cycles⭐ Free and open to all: Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ Global Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

#SpoliaSunday leads into the vicolo dell'Atleta in #Trastevere in #Rome, where a piece of #sarcophagus front with the familiar #strigilate curves that represent the ripples of the river #Styx was reused in the C14 as the side wall of an entrance, now walled up. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Deciding that someone is unable to perform a physical job due to a disability, without ever once including that person in the conversation or hearing their expertise on their own body, directly violates their civil rights. Science does this regularly, has for generations, and it’s never been okay.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!

Handedness is a great example of something innate to each of us (and many other animals) that is NOT genetically determined (Identical twins do not necessarily have the same handedness). It is, as they say, complicated…

How to keep a hundred tabs open before browsers were invented.

Removing genetic effects from plasma proteins is an effective strategy to increase power for biomarker discovery and clinical trial design, consistent with the largely non-causal role of most plasma proteins in disease risk. 👏 Lead by Daniela Fusco and Zhiyu Yang

✅ 88% of 1,300+ protein–disease pairs showed stronger associations after genetic adjustment ✅ Equivalent to needing 30% fewer samples for the same power ✅ Multi-protein scores improved prediction for 7 major diseases ✅ Adjusted proteins aligned more closely with exposome

🎉 New preprint out! "Removing genetic effects on plasma proteins enhances their utility as disease biomarkers" We show that adjusting plasma proteins for genetic effects can make them stronger predictors of disease 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

What is psychosis, and how can we uncover new ways to treat it by understanding it’s biological roots? Book now for our free public talk by @kathaschmack.bsky.social, who leads the Neural Circuits and Immunity in Psychosis Lab here at the Crick. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crick-cras...

"No more than a liter of wine a day" - In the early 1950s, when French wine consumption was 140+ liters/capita, France launched the campaign "Santé Sobriété" to limit alcohol consumption. In 1954, Philippe Foré became the chief designer. #WineHistory`

Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the risk of dementia Vaccination is more that protection against the pathogen-caused disease. www.nature.com/artic... 1/6

Covid cases rising with new variants Nimbus and Stratus www.bbc.com/news/article... Have you got a razor blade sore throat?

This dataset provides two major advances. It is the first fully proofread and annotated brain and nerve cord connectome with 166,696 proofread neurons annotated with 11,691 cell types. It is also the first connectome of a male brain.

Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....

Comparison with previous female connectomes reveals sex differences across the adult brain at synaptic resolution for the first time. Full news story and preprint describing this massive team effort coming soon!

There is no shame in sleeping late on.ft.com/46rwWKn | opinion

Any driver who has a problem with traffic cameras wants to put other people in danger without having to suffer any monetary consequences for their recklessness. It's really that simple.

„Nur wer ausblendet, was Kirk gesagt und getan hat, kann ihn als unerschrockenen Vertreter der Meinungsfreiheit feiern.“

Neat study—following 320 healthcare workers for almost a year, with 152 of them being infected, the authors examined whether or not COVID-19 associates with more upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). It didn't (yay!). But, having a kid <5 associated with a 74% increase in the risk of URTIs.

💥Unser Artikel zur #Stigmatisierung und #Psychologisierung von #LC und #PCVS ist heute Nacht bei BMC medicine erschienen @geschom.bsky.social @scheibenbogen.bsky.social & Christian Sander & Stephanie Schindler & Martin Walter Anbei die wichtigsten Befunde in hoffentlich verständlicher Sprache🧵 1/6

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]