After 1h without power this is getting scary 🫣

Anyone else unable to run NCBI blast right now?

1/ The thymus is essential for T-cell maturation, protecting us from pathogens while ensuring tolerance to our own tissues. 🧬 This balance is maintained by the thymic epithelium, which, in mammals, birds, and bony fish, develops from the 3rd/4th pharyngeal pouches during embryogenesis.

Apesar de tantas promessas (ver imagem), o orçamento da FCT não só não cresceu como até diminuiu em %PIB Q isto não aconteça ao abrigo do nosso silêncio Escrevam aos deputad@s, pedindo para q votem favoravelmente a única proposta específica de aumento deste valor 1/ app.parlamento.pt/webutils/doc...

Giving junior team members the freedom to choose their lab-meeting topic just resulted in a refreshing afternoon discussion of the Better Science Initiative. A chance to talk about many important things for their wellbeing and future and overall a great team building moment 🧬

Really cool work on immunoribosomes!

Great to see the science community growing here 😊

Excited to be in this amazing line up for the RNA biology in host-pathogen interactions conference organized by the EpiViral twinning project! Plus in beautiful Porto! 🧬🔬🧫

Just read an interesting piece based on this study (psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...) suggesting that the common advice about using humor to make presentations more engaging may backfire on women. It kind of aligns with my personal experience with students. Anyone else?

bioRxiv goes big on Bluesky: accounts for all subject categories now available (Please Reskeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...

mRNA for the win! #RNASky #RNAbiology

If there is anybody on Bluesky with an interest in working towards a PhD with a vibrant and inclusive group of people, we have a funded project available through @singmolsci.bsky.social in UNSW, Sydney, to do some advanced single molecule & electron 🔬. Please pass on to any students you may know. 🧪

On the good side of the news 🇵🇹

A little secret about me… this is how I unwind in the evening. Drawing (preferably) furry canine creatures with color pencils. This one is already some 6-8h of work, 10x to go before finished.

When your institution has a core research line on grapevine biology it’s really easy to come up with a #SciCom activity that makes people happy to sit down for a couple of hours listening to science topics! A toast to our 6th Science and Technology Week wine tasting event 🥂

Pandemic-related immunity gap in kids explains surge of respiratory infections in children in China, says WHO

Super chuffed to see my oldest MSc student finally graduate with a top mark 🥰 Daniel is an example of persistence in the face of adversity (cancer, a pandemic, full time job for subsistence) always with a smile and genuine love for science. Part of his work is here: doi.org/10.1186/s129...

A rare moment with a pressing excuse to get my hands dirty and show my team I still have the touch: receiving live human cells shipped by my collaborator 300km away to have the DNA extracted on site for ultra-long read genome sequencing at our facility. PIs: do you still manage to do lab stuff? 🧬

HOORAY!!!!

When you are asked to sign off on a 15k budget to repair your old Calibur after the rep has taken a look at the problem and decide you will try to figure it out yourself… to find a single cable is disconnected inside. This is the real resuscitation miracle 😅 (ok, credits go to my geek son)

I'm once again trying to break ties with the bird site. How hard is it going to be to rebuild my network here on bsky?🤔

Been a while since we've had a really really bad SARS-CoV-2 preprint, and right on cue....

#Weekend post: gardener me thinks she is now the victim of something she found out about in a paper 😭 doi.org/10.1007/s12600-021-00903-1

Nice day with the 🇵🇹 genomics community at the GenomePT annual symposium, brilliantly organized by the 🇵🇹 National Health Institute consortium node. The rise of genomics for One Health is a sight to see, beautifully capped off by an amazing talk on the human pangenome by @aphillippy.bsky.social 👏👏

Am I the only one who can’t suffer fools who don’t understand the proper use of “reply to all” in department/working group e-mails?? Is it really THAT hard?? 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Hello science friends! Can anyone point me towards some resources that I could use learn how to do a de novo genome assembly from long reads (@nanopore)? Mammalian species, no reference genome exists. An equally exciting and daunting task.... Please share #neuroscience #genomics

Got the whole lab pitching in for a new logo design today. Everyone was so engaged I had to mute the group to be able to focus. Big fan of these collective discussions, great way to build team spirit and make people feel they contribute and have a voice. Hope to share the final version soon.

Day 1 after the political earthquake that took down the #🇵🇹 government and I’m thinking #science wise it’ll just be the SOSO as we basically haven’t had anything close to a government working on it for a long time and everyone has long reached the conclusion we must look outside for funding…

On becoming a cesspool www.nature.com/articles/d41...

From brilliant to beast… or how a teaching approach undergrads were raving about suddenly becomes crap 🤔 Student’s evaluation of my Bioinformatics course. I’m thinking 2023 = high schoolers caught by the pandemic. All else equal since 2021. Anyone experiencing similar issues? #AcademicSky

2/8 Something all academic's share (I guess) is the love of learning. Committing as a student miraculously creates time in your schedule to do something you love, no excuses. 

1/8 ~30y after my last written exam I accepted the challenge to enrol as a student in a post-grad course with a small group of peers, half my age, half my student's. As a uni professor with >25y teaching experience, I am finding this extremely rewarding. Here's why #AcademicSky

#weekend plan: read a cool PhD dissertation on #tRNA modifications to discuss as opponent on Monday. Does anyone else feel that these jury duties are more and more the excuse that allows you to set aside time to catch up on recent papers? #AcademicSky 🧬 #MolBio #PhdSky

Hello world! Moving from x to (sk)y, learning the ropes and hoping to build my #academicsky 🧬 🖥️ 👩🏻‍🔬#MolBio #SciPol network in a positive and inclusive environment 🙏