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Andrew Deans @genomestability.bsky.social · 17h

Ever wondered what S-phase tastes like? 3 lucky presenter prize winners will find out (+Amazon voucher!) at #ACDTM25. You can still register for this fantastic Melbourne meeting Oct 20-22. Official 10 year old taste tester: "lemon excision repair" is the best flavour www.australiancellcycle.org

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Andrew Burgess @drandrewburgess.bsky.social · 18h

Great work @lizcaldon.bsky.social 🥳🥳🥳

Garvan Institute @garvaninstitute.bsky.social · 18h

Andrew Burgess @drandrewburgess.bsky.social · 18h

Did my honours lit review manually back in 1998…took me a full day working till 2am to finish. Then someone said oh there’s this program called endnote that does that for you. Saved myself hundreds if not thousands of hours since.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 22h

Watch reporter John Lyons’ story Chasing Trump’s Billions, on #4Corners ABC TV tonight 8.30 AEST & support public interest #journalism. Via YouTube for international viewers. This story famously led Donald #Trump to threaten John’s questions were “hurting Australia”.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

As Trump's wealth skyrockets, accusations of conflicts of interest mount

Donald Trump's wealth has skyrocketed since his return to the White House nine months ago, leading to accusations that he is profiting from the presidency.

www.abc.net.au

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 3d

Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle):

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

H/t @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

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Brett Collins @brettcollins.bsky.social · 1d

Open Group Leader Positions at the IMB, UQ. Interested in joining us in sunny Queensland?

Group Leader - Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB)

Institute for Molecular Bioscience Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50 Australia’s #1 research institute Based at St Lucia Campus About UQ What started as Queensland's first university in 1...

uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

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Andrew Burgess @drandrewburgess.bsky.social · 1d

Checks out…flawless logic 🤪

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · 2d

9 days to go:
* 2 x open positions!
* Exceptional environment, competitive start-up package
* University of Toronto appointments
* Toronto has great (and peaceful) quality of life!

Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · Aug 28

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

Marina Hyde nails the AI bosses' brazen theft of work that legally belongs to its creators. The tech bros say their industry will collapse without stealing our stuff - it's that valuable. But also so unimportant & worthless they won't pay for it or ask consent.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde

His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 3d

Another Friday is here! Bring your recommendations for interesting papers! 😍

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 3d

Ok nothing got more responses than a targeted email to a core facility's user list. If you work in a microscopy core I'd love it if you could advertise this to your users. There's a blog-post with info too ausbias.org/blog/2025/10...

DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 5d

Hey microscopists! On behalf of @ausbias.org I'd like to invite you to fill in our inaugural survey of how you perform and interface with bioimage analysis in your work! Help shape our society, and help us understand how we can best serve the wider microscopy community! ausbias.org/survey-2025/

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 4d

Overwhelming response so far! Both responders have been very enlightening.

Help me out microscopy colleagues, there's nothing sadder than an analyst without data!

DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 5d

Hey microscopists! On behalf of @ausbias.org I'd like to invite you to fill in our inaugural survey of how you perform and interface with bioimage analysis in your work! Help shape our society, and help us understand how we can best serve the wider microscopy community! ausbias.org/survey-2025/

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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 4d

FLIM Playground: An interactive, end-to-end graphical user interface for analyzing single-cell fluorescence lifetime data by Rupsa Datta and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fig 1. System overview of FLIM Playground.

After (A) loading a saved configuration, (B) Data Extraction collects and validates channel inputs across all fields of views, (C) calibrates for IRF shifts or uses reference standards, and (D) extracts single-cell lifetime (fitting and phasor), morphology, and texture features in one step. (E) To bridge the data extraction with downstream analysis, FLIM Playground combines multiple single-cell datasets and assists users with assigning category labels to each cell. (F) The three feature classes include identifiers (red), numerical features (yellow), and categorical features (blue), are transformed into interactive widgets shared by all analysis methods. (G) Data Analysis includes univariate, bivariate, and multivariate modules. (H) FLIM Playground can either be deployed online in major operating systems or as a data analysis web application. Interactive interfaces are indicated by green backgrounds.

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Steven Cook @dumpyunc.bsky.social · 5d

Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.

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Garcia-Mata Lab @rhopower.bsky.social · 5d

Huge thanks to the incredibly talented Center for Visual Arts students for transforming microscopy images into incredible works of art for Toledo CellulART! Science meets art in the most inspiring way. 🔬❤️🎨 www.toledocellulart.org #SciArt #Microscopy

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 5d

Hey microscopists! On behalf of @ausbias.org I'd like to invite you to fill in our inaugural survey of how you perform and interface with bioimage analysis in your work! Help shape our society, and help us understand how we can best serve the wider microscopy community! ausbias.org/survey-2025/

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WEHI (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) @wehi-research.bsky.social · 5d

🔬 We’re recruiting: Translational Research Scientist (Cell Therapy Manufacturing)

Join the Jenkins Lab at WEHI and be at the forefront of research in immunotherapy for brain cancer.

For full details and to apply visit: wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/WEHI/job/Par...

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Andrew Burgess @drandrewburgess.bsky.social · 5d

Sounds like someone is having a good time

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Irene Gallego Romero @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social · 5d

Move to Australia they said, marsupials are cute and fluffy they said.

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Sandra Segura-Bayona @ssegurabayona.bsky.social · 5d

🧬 Preprint alert!

"Distinct ATRX functions cooperate with 9-1-1 and CST complexes to safeguard replication and telomere integrity."

Read the manuscript here 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Distinct ATRX functions cooperate with 9-1-1 and CST complexes to safeguard replication and telomere integrity

Mutations in the ATRX chromatin remodeller predispose to a developmental genetic disorder and cancer, but how it safeguards genome and telomere stability remains unresolved. Here, we uncover critical ...

www.biorxiv.org

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 5d

Canaries.
My @smh cartoon.

Two scenes. 1: advisor to Albo at his desk: “Sir, I must inform you that our canaries-in-the-coal-mines of climate change, transparency, accountability and social equity are all looking sickly…” PM: “Hmm…”
Scene 2: Albo at a lectern with press around: “…and that’s why my government is proud to announce the development of a new SUPER BREED of canaries…”

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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 6d

UNSW researchers unlock singlet fission for silicon solar cells. 30%+ efficiency, cooler panels, and better EV rooftop potential.
This could lead to most of the worlds energy coming from #Solar. all we need now is storage. #auspol
cleantechnica.com/2025/10/02/u...

UNSW Researchers Claim Solar Cell Breakthrough - CleanTechnica

New research is making solar panels that have higher energy output and last longer that expected that help move the solar revolution forward.

cleantechnica.com

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 7d

Will Ferrell as multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogen threats #AMR #MicroSky #IDSky

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Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social · 6d

Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.

Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!

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UTS Governance Project Survey: A Staff-Led Collaborative Project

The UTS Governance Project is an independent, staff-led initiative to strengthen transparency, accountability and participation in how our university is run. Inspired by the ANU Governance Project, ...

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