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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 15h

As a science communicator who built my professional career out of understanding "Science Twitter":

I'm confident Bluesky will be the scientific community's social media home for a while

Tell your friends at #ASHG25 to get over here, whether they're on X or not!

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21h

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Gioele La Manno @gioelelamanno.bsky.social · 10h

🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Madeleine Kördel @mkoerdel.bsky.social · 1d

📣 Excited to share that my first paper is now published!

📄"Metabolic state shapes cortisol reactivity to acute stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of metabolic and hormonal modulators"

You can find the full paper here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 23h

software recommendations for screening nanopore environmental samples data for unknown animals?

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 2d

Not to pick on Per, but I’ve never understood the snark about “self citation”.

If, as an academic, you aren’t creating an inter-related body of work that builds towards some larger understanding of a problem, what even is the point?

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2d

The true academic method: overthink, underdeliver, cite yourself.

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Andrew @generalising.bsky.social · 2d

And finally the court-martial. A couple of weeks after this, Clements was transferred from running the hospital to be a divisional staff officer - one wonders if it was connected, and whether it was a promotion, a demotion, or just to sweep all the embarrassment under the carpet.

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Genetics Network Amsterdam @geneamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

Please join us Tuesday October 28 at the CNCR seminar hosted by Dorret Boomsma and Danielle Posthuma:

"𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳" by prof. Jonathan Flint.

cncr.nl/seminar/extr...

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 2d

My dad died recently and one of our shared interests was Terry Pratchett. Precisely because our books show years of shared reading they are so special. Mort has a note in the back where my dad wrote the code to my bike lock and they're the most meaningful four numbers in existence @rhi.bsky.social

Final page of Mort with my old bike lock code in my dad's handwriting

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Helmholtz Institute Würzburg @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social · 3d

Looking to start your own lab? 🧬🧪 The Helmholtz Institute Würzburg (HIRI) is offering group leader positions in RNA biology, RNA medicine & RNA technology. Apply by October 31 at www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale...

E15 Groups

The Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Researchopens a call for

www.helmholtz-hiri.de

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The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research @loke-ctr.bsky.social · 3d

Fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships for home or overseas students, applications open till 4 November. 🔗 Please like and share to spread the word! www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students...

Take a look at projects for 2025/26 www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

#PhD, #PhDPosition

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 27d

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Eva Stukenbrock @estukenbrock.bsky.social · 4d

Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 4d

Paleoanthropology can be confusing with names. Why would scientists use “Denisovan” instead of coming up with a species name? Or “modern human” instead of Homo sapiens? And why didn’t some names ever catch on, like the Heidelbergers or the chumanzees?

www.johnhawks.net/p/informal-h...

Informal hominins, from Denisovan to superarchaic

In a new research article, I review the ways that paleoanthropologists name ancient groups outside the Linnaean system.

www.johnhawks.net

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 4d

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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American Aging Association @americanaging.bsky.social · 4d

“Inflammaging” — chronic, low-grade inflammation that rises with age — is now seen as a key driver of aging & age-related diseases.

Experts say managing blood sugar, sleep, and visceral fat can help slow it down.

🔗 www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

#HealthyAging #Longevity #AgingResearch

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Igor Branchi @igorbranchi.bsky.social · 5d

Warm congratulations, Carmen! So well deserved!

John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social · 5d

Huge congratulations to @carmensandi10.bsky.social on receiving the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award from @ecnp.eu - So richly deserved

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Oliver Bosch @olibosch.bsky.social · 5d

So well earned - sincere congratulations to @carmensandi10.bsky.social 🎉

John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social · 5d

Huge congratulations to @carmensandi10.bsky.social on receiving the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award from @ecnp.eu - So richly deserved

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John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social · 5d

Huge congratulations to @carmensandi10.bsky.social on receiving the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award from @ecnp.eu - So richly deserved

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 9d

Very happy to share our new paper in Biological Psychiatry, showing that Urolithin A reverses high anxiety by repairing mitochondrial function in the nucleus accumbens.

Big kudos to first co-authors David Mallet & Doğukan Ülgen, our amazing team, and collaborators!

🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 5d

Hundred of large well done studies from all across the world vs 1 deeply flawed assoc study? www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Amazing how antivaxxers ignore large body of evidence & expert opinion, but when they find something that they think supports their view?

Cognitive bias fest.

COVID Vaccines and Cancer Risk: Experts Dissect Flawed Study

Retrospective study from Korea proves nothing about COVID shots and cancer, experts say

www.medpagetoday.com

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 7d

PEQG website live! genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/

Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference

Visit our website to learn more.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 6d

"We're doing the studies to make the proof."

This is not how Gold Standard Science works. Or any science. You do the study to TEST THE HYPOTHESIS, not to prove yourself right.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Edinburgh Neuroscience @edinunineuro.bsky.social · 21d

📢 Job Alert 📢: Research Fellow in new national BHF-UK DRI Centre for Vascular Dementia Research. You will use in vitro and ex vivo techniques to investigate the relationship between endothelial cells, oligodendrocytes and neurons in the context of Alzheimer’s and vascular dementias.

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 14d

Research Fellow Vacancy at @ukdri.ac.uk UCL in the Bartels Lab. Focus on gut-brain axis and neuro-immune interaction in Parkinson’s disease. One-year post from May 2026. Closing date: 30th October

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Research Fellow: Gut-brain axis in Parkinson’s

Research Fellow at UK DRI UCL in the Bartels Lab. Focus on gut-brain axis and neuro-immune interaction in Parkinson’s disease. One-year post from May 2026.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 7d

A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...

Application – EMBL International PhD Programme

www.embl.org

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