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Some of you reached out after seeing this post and it has led to some promising leads! A re-up for this week in case someone with louse samples hasn't seen it yet! Many thanks and I'm happy to answer questions! 🧪

How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇

Can pressure gradients persist over long timescales in animal cells? We induced intracellular pressure gradients and examined the resulting flows in single cells. We reveal surprisingly long lasting pressure gradients. More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

Hi - what leads to these clear areas at the bottom of a rainwater bucket - bugs or physics?

Hi Fans of Smart Microscopy, Are you ready to automate your next large scale microscopy experiment and work smarter, not harder? Join us for the Smart Microscopy workshop organized by EPFL Bio-Imaging Platform (Lausanne) and @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social www.zeiss.ch/mikroskopie/...

Great thread walking a person like me through the complex issues in determining relative risk

OK, I turned all of this into a long read. Over at Fixing Bugs In Democracy: Tylenol Use Carries No Added Risk For Autism. samwang.substack.com/p/tylenol-ca...

Quiz question: What do the three hoverfly species in the top row have in common that those in the bottom row do not? To learn all about the fascinating insects, join us for a FREE webinar with @entosamm.bsky.social on 6th October. 🪰 🌎 🧪 Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1490885461...

It's TODAY! Join us at 13:00 CEST for an exciting talk by Virginia Silio, our Scientific Ambassador, on "From Microscopes to Workflows: Supporting Research Through Imaging and Analysis." @virsicas.bsky.social All are welcome! Register🔽 www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This should be a no brainer! EU is pushing for a rapid deal for UK to rejoin the Erasmus+ programme to allow student exchanges from January 2027 Negotiations are at a critical juncture and a deal is needed by the end of October if the UK is to join the scheme in a little over a year

✂️ Kürzungen an Hochschulen gehen auf Kosten der Beschäftigten, der Studierenden, der Wissenschaft — & unserer Demokratie. Den Preis dafür zahlt unsere Gesellschaft als Ganzes. Das ist heute sehr deutlich geworden in der Sendung. Zum Nachhören! ⬇️ #IchBinHanna www.deutschlandfunk.de/wie-viele-ku...

Full story: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it. Commentary in @natnano.nature.com #nanotechnology

This is doing the rounds in my messages with colleagues, and is a very real threat to the field of microscopy 😬. Given one (published) microscope image probably costs between $100 and $10,000 (or more) to make - the lure of "oh I will just ChatGPT it" is very much there.

We had #four interdisciplinary teams, integrating dev-bio, evolution, tissue mechanics, and biophysical modeling, all going full throttle to understand the #CF. Still, it took more than 7 years to publish two papers back-to-back (10/12) www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

The Advertising Standards Authority have updated their guidance on using the terms 'biodegradable' and 'compostable' to sell plastics. They cited our research showing that biodegradable plastics rarely live up to their claims. www.asa.org.uk/news/disposi...

What do you call the books that you read at the same time? Parallel books 📚 Book pile ? Overlapping books?

Over on Whatever today, I write on the Pixel 10 Pro's "Pro-Res Zoom" and how that "AI"-generated zoom feature is not creating photos, but illustrations, some of which have not much to do with actual reality, and what that means for taking photos with the phone: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/08/29/p...

✨Starting on Monday!✨ #SciArtSeptember is a month-long creative challenge inspired by natural sciences. 🌿 Post on your own schedule. Post new work, old work, work-in-progress. Post artwork, music, words - whatever you like to make. (Thematic baked goods?🤞) - #SciArt #SciComm #Nature

📢 Open Science Workshop on Detecting Errors and Misconduct in Science will be held in Nijmegen from October 20 to 23. Full workshop program will be available soon. 🔗 Register here (limited spots are available!): lnkd.in/eRKekCkh

Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!

How do tiny ripple bugs surf raging rivers? Check out our new work in @science.org Work led by Victor Ortega-Jimenez, Dongjin Kim, Sunny Kumar, Changhwan Kim, Je-Sung Koh, and Saad Bhamla - a collaboration between UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and Ajou University. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Budapest? Not everyone may remember this, but in 1994 Ukraine already got assurances of territorial integrity from the US, Russia and the UK. In Budapest. Maybe I’m superstitious, but this time I would try to find another place.

🔬DELEGATE ACCOMMODATION 🔬 We have preferential hotel rates available to BioMedEng25 delegates on our website below 🛎️ To take advantage of our exclusive deals, make sure to book by 19th August!! Reminder that registration closes on 22nd August!! 📝 For further details: biomedeng.org/biomedeng25

Was für ein schönes Buch 💓

Flummoxed me … What does this pictogram mean @lufthansa.bsky.social ?

Jedes 5. neue Auto weltweit fährt elektrisch. 🇩🇪 Hersteller exportieren erfolgreich, doch im #EAuto-Leitmarkt Asien verlieren sie den Anschluss. Wollen wir unsere Autoindustrie retten, müssen wir endlich alle Weichen voll auf Elektromobilität stellen. 🔋🚗

Das ist nicht nur ein gefährlicher Präzidenzfall. Das ist ein klarer Eingriff in Grundrechte wie Freiheit von Wissenschaft und Kunst. Als nächstes wird dann nur noch gefördert, wer politisch genehm ist. Trump und Stark-Watzinger haben die Goalposts längst verschoben.

Es ist Sonntag, also wie immer Zootag - hier wieder die aktuell direkt verfügbaren freilaufenden #wandklex Tiere und Co. (Fast) alle sind momentan im Original im Klexshop auf www.wandklex.art/page/shop-al... zu finden. #birds #mammals #MarineLife #watercolor #watercolour #art #artShop

In flagranti, in the open, on the road!

Wie es ist: Danke an @katjaberlin.bsky.social

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following. It still became a polarization machine. Then we tried six interventions to fix social media. The results were… not what we expected. arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

Thrilled to bits to see our latest work online in Dev Cell! 🥳 We wanted to know how cells build functional organs with precision🫀🫁📏 Here we show how coupling of cell shape and organ function fine tunes the form and contractile power of the developing #zebrafish heart 1/n tinyurl.com/cell-stretch

Bonhoeffer is so very now www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGTy...

Fazit: Der Einsatz von Palantir in Deutschland ist kein IT-Upgrade, sondern eine gesellschaftspolitische Weichenstellung: - Wer kontrolliert Datenmacht? - Wie schützen wir Grundrechte im KI-Zeitalter? - Welche Standards wollen wir als Europa setzen? #Überwachung #Transparenz #Zivilgesellschaft 8/8

„Die, die Auschwitz leugnen, sind die, die bereit wären es wieder aufleben zu lassen." Guten Morgen mit Primo Levi, der Auschwitz überlebte und doch nie davon loskam 31. Juli 1919 - 11. April 1987 

Hi all, check out our new preprint where we uncover:"Regulation of YAP activity by nuclear G-actin binding", www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... #actin #YAP/TAZ #transcription #nucleus with help from Sonja-Verena Albers ‪@archaellum.bsky.social‬

Jeden Mittwoch stellen wir ein Mitglied von @pdprekaer.bsky.social im Kurzinterview 🎤 vor. Heute: @drkeichhorn.bsky.social, derzeit Vertretungsprofessorin für Neuere Deutsche Literatur an der Universität Stuttgart und Mitbegründerin von #ichbinhanna 1/3

OMG! Skynet - anyone? ".... In almost all the tests, the LRM being tested “took action” to blackmail the CEO to prevent “Alex” from being shut down and replaced." Read pls. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If I had just received a 22% pay rise over two years, and was also offered 5.4% this year, I would not be going on strike. I have not seen a pay rise at that level in my entire career! And like everyone in a public sector related job, my pay is also well below 2010 levels (about 30% below).

Last week to apply for TWO PhDs with me and amazing supervisors at University of Birmingham The Last Of Us - www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Understanding pathogen diversity in maternal and neonatal populations - www.findaphd.com/phds/project... I’m on holiday so can’t answer queries though

Oh!!!! Schaut mal ihr Youngsters: Das 44-Stunden-Ticket Young - für alle unter 27 Mit der 44h ICE-Flat flexibel und günstig von Freitag, 18 Uhr bis Sonntag, 14 Uhr im Fernverkehr der DB reisen. Buchbar für jedes Wochenende im Juli. Solange der Vorrat reicht. www.bahn.de/angebot/akti...

Von Freitag bis Sonntag habe ich jeweils 10 Stunden lang Tiere gezeichnet, nicht aus Spaß an der Freude, sondern für den @nabu.de. Mit Stolz kann ich vermelden, dass die Aktion ein voller Erfolg war!

Dass das Kindergeld vollständig aufs Bürgergeld angerechnet wird, es für Kinder von Bürgergeldempfängern also de facto kein Kindergeld gibt, während ein Hochverdiener durch den Kinderfreibetrag richtig Geld spart, DAS ist der größte Skandal der Familienpolitik in diesem Land.