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Happy Monday!! #pottery

Look, even this level of idiocy is not reason to panic. It just reemphasizes the point here:

Saw this guy out my bedroom window, grabbed my phone cam & ran outside. 🌊🦭💚⚡️🧡🔥🐉

Sometimes birding is a planned excursion. Sometimes it’s walking out your front door and finding a huge pileated woodpecker standing right there destroying a tree stump 🪶🌿

None of this stops until rich, powerful people — who steal from taxpayers and think they're above the law — start going to jail

I tried to attend the Ontario Medical Association annual general meeting tonight in Ottawa, and was removed from the room by members of their executive team Sandy Zidaric and Adam Farber because I wore my watermelon pin…

Three months left to go! Time to wrap up these manuscripts and share your eukaryotic microbe genomies with #MGen @microbiologysociety.org & the world! 🤓 #Protistsonsky #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #Fungi #parasites #algae #evobio #IDSky #EvoSky #MedSky www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

Still the best film adaptation of The Odyssey

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

All these people succumbing to AI psychosis & thinking with a sort of religious fervor that their computers are conscious It's truly sad & fascinating that they will express reverence for a machine But can't be bothered to be awed by animal intelligence, or by the planet Except to exploit it all

4/4 "Throughout 2025, Indigenous data continued to be misappropriated and commodified without consent." by academics, institutions, churches, property records and state registries! iwgia.org/en/indigenou...

— a once in a lifetime shot.. captured by wildlife photographer Alan McFadyen

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

One last rt for the Saturday folk - I need as much traction as possible so my book doesn't end up being one of those nice things that no-one buys.

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

Such a pleasure to present the great work my y4 @unistrathclyde.bsky.social undergrads did, this year at the @microbiologysociety.org #AC26 ! Papers will be coming, watch this space! Just give us a minute, ~8 -80 boxes + data to sort through 😅 #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬 🧪

Good morning, especially to everyone in Hungary 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 growing up in Vienna I have such nice memories of trips to your wonderful country, so happy for you 😊

Off to Belfast, cool data in the luggage, but not sure about where or when to submit? Come see us - #Microbial #Genomics #MGen pitch-a-paper session @microbiologysociety.org annual conference (aka SGM, for my generation 😅), 11:30-12 at the society stand! microbiologysociety.org/event/annual...

Today, 4 years ago, on April 8, 2022, ruZzia deliberatly attacked the #Kramatorsk railway station with ballistic missiles, killing 61 people including 9 children and injuring 150 - while they were trying to flee to safety. Never forget. Never forgive. 🕯️

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

If you're at @bspparasitology.bsky.social #BSP2026 next week, come say hello 😊👋 I'll be around with my @microbiologysociety.org #Microbial #Genomics Editor-in-Chief hat on, to talk all things publishing for the community 🤓 💻🧬 #MicroSky #parasites 🧪 1/2

If you're at @bspparasitology.bsky.social #BSP2026 next week, come say hello 😊👋 I'll be around with my @microbiologysociety.org #Microbial #Genomics Editor-in-Chief hat on, to talk all things publishing for the community 🤓 💻🧬 #MicroSky #parasites 🧪 1/2

If anyone needs something positive these days (I mean who doesn't...), here it is! @theawkwardyeti.bsky.social never fails to tell the tales of how our poor hearts, brains, stomachs etc despeartely try to keep us humans functioning... 😂 #IDSky #art #SciArt www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Great week for #Klebsiella papers - what happens to an ST that is long-time associated in a hospital? See what Allan Zuza found out in the course of his masters (!!!), outstanding work 😊 #MicroSky #IDSky #MedSky 💻🧬 in #MGen @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

News from the #Klebsiella world! #Protein #vaccine targets might be worth a look... Human systemic and mucosal immune responses support further exploration of a Klebsiella pneumoniae protein-based vaccine. 💻🧬 #MicroSky #IDSky #MicrobiomeSky #AMR #MedSky #GlobalHealth www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Make your Bluesky experience better #academicsky #medsky #newskies

Liebes @ZDF, ganz kurz zum Wording! FALSCH: „Personenzüge geraten ins Visier“ RICHTIG: „Russland bombardiert Personenzüge“ FALSCH: „Lviv wurde von Drohnen getroffen“ RICHTIG: „Russland hat Lviv bombardiert“. Bitteschön, gern geschehen.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Oh nothing, just a peer reviewed paper my colleagues found... doi.org/10.1016/j.ma... "1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min." Even AI knows what's wrong here, but @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doesn't.

if i see the SLIGHTEST whiff of genAI in your add not only will I avoid you, I will tell EVERYONE to avoid you

I don't "feel" my work has been stolen. I know it. This kind of language use by the NYT is part of the problem. Framing it as some kind of emotional woo woo instead of a clear copyright breach...

If anyone needs something positive these days (I mean who doesn't...), here it is! @theawkwardyeti.bsky.social never fails to tell the tales of how our poor hearts, brains, stomachs etc despeartely try to keep us humans functioning... 😂 #IDSky #art #SciArt www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

This is why I truly believe researching, checking and evaluating sources, branching out into teaching yourself about mundane and complex things is so important They have such little else to take from us, they’re trying to make using your own intelligence harder and behind a paywall Don’t let them

I think about this a lot.

We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

This should become a case study in global health ethics courses

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Just 10 more subscribers, and the SciArt Feed with be the #40 most popular Feed on Bluesky! Please help Like, Pin, and Share if you enjoy the intersection of art & science (with _no_ generative AI). #academicsky #medsky 🧪🐡🎨🩺

Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper? Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.

You can tell that the US blew up that school because everyone’s doing everything possible to find a way to disqualify the obvious. The country that was bragging about knowing everything it hits suddenly being quiet and wanting to move past the situation while its journalists blame the AI system? Ok.

The man walked right smack, face-first into the whole point, and did not see the damn thing.

Ugh, I woke up

Wow.

This pops up every once in awhile and I always share it. Wu Tang goes in and out of popularity with the times, but there's no denying there was a Dream Team level of talent and brilliance on that roster. True artists.

Sing it

Hot off the press; an update from last year's conference on Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes, highlights from our collection in MGen & tiny 2027 teaser 😊@fionahenriquez.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #IDSky #Protistonsky 💻🧬 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...