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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 4d

"Immigrants, we get the job done"

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Jonas Schmid @joschmd.bsky.social · 5d

MOG antibody-associated disease (MOGAD) affects the central nervous system, but our new immunophenotyping data show that it also profoundly alters circulating immune cells.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Immunology #MOGAD #Autoimmunity #Neurology

Immune signatures link myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody–associated disease to other autoantibody-mediated conditions

Single-cell immunoprofiling uncovered systemic immune cell signatures of neurological MOG antibody–associated disease.

www.science.org

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Humboldt-Stiftung @humboldt-foundation.de · 6d

✨🥳🎉 Heartfelt congratulations to Humboldtians Susumu Kitagawa and Omar M. Yaghi on winning the #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2025 which they share with Richard Robson for the development of "metal-organic frameworks"!

We are truly honoured to have supported a step in their exceptional journey! 💚

Three portraits of men – the 2025 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 7d

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Susanne Wegmann on her joint professorship at DZNE and Charité!
Her research focuses on the Tau protein in neurodegenerative diseases - a strong boost for brain research in Berlin!

👉 www.dzne.de/en/news/pres...

Joint Professorship for Susanne Wegmann at DZNE and Charité

Boost for Brain Research in Berlin.

www.dzne.de

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 8d

We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nature @nature.com · 8d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 10d

My friend Naftali Kaminski is an Israeli physician, a professor at Yale, and the child of Holocaust survivors. For me he is a model of absorbing his parents' stories intensely, looking the horror of the 20th century in the eyes, and drawing the lesson of radical empathy for the suffering of others.

Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community | NEJM

In the face of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s health system and the catastrophic famine caused by the devastation, U.S. physicians have an ethical obligation to respond and support immediate ch...

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Transposon and Cancer Epigenetics Group @deniz-lab.bsky.social · 12d

We have a new PhD studentship in the lab on the immunogenic roles of transposable elements in paediatric acute myeloid leukaemia! Come and work with us! www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-cyp-phd...

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Ya'el Courtney, PhD @scienceyael.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 Psychedelics in pregnancy - can a single dose reach the embryo and matter? Yes. In mice they hit embryonic CSF within minutes, activate choroid plexus→CSF axis, & shift cortical development with adult behavioral signatures. @lehtinenlab.bsky.social Preprint:

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Gestational psychedelic exposure disrupts brain development and offspring behavior in mice

Despite increasing non-medical use and clinical investigation of psychedelics, the consequences of prenatal exposure remain unknown. In mice, maternal lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD; 0.3 mg/kg) cross...

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oZgun Gokce @gokcegroup.bsky.social · 13d

Big congratulations, this is super exciting!

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Alexander Bartelt @barteltlab.bsky.social · Feb 1

2 min on our reseach @tum.de youtu.be/1xpXOeDSX_o

Prof. Dr. Alexander Bartelt | Translational Nutritional Medicine

YouTube video by TUM School of Life Sciences

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European Microglia Webinar Series @microgliaseries.bsky.social · 15d

📢 New webinar coming soon 📢
Ozgun Gokce @gokcegroup.bsky.social from German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases will be our next speaker on October 7th. Check all the information in the flyer and add it to your calendar!

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oZgun Gokce @gokcegroup.bsky.social · 17d

which one? cool looking

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 19d

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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oZgun Gokce @gokcegroup.bsky.social · 19d

Now I know to whom to be super nice

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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 20d

Erdinc Sezgin to Receive 2026 Early Independent Career Award
www.biophysics.org/news-room/er...

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oZgun Gokce @gokcegroup.bsky.social · 20d

Cool method! Congratulations

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Leif S. Ludwig @leifludwig.bsky.social · 20d

🚨 New preprints from our lab! First, we introduce Cryo-mtscATAC-seq, led by Maren (@ms-maren.bsky.social ), enabling high-throughput clonal tracing from frozen human samples by isolating nuclei with their mitochondria (“CryoCells”). 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cryo-mtscATAC-seq for single-cell mitochondrial DNA genotyping and clonal tracing in archived human tissues

High-throughput clonal tracing of primary human samples relies on naturally occurring barcodes, such as somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations detected via single-cell ATAC-seq (mtscATAC-seq). Fr...

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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · 29d

🚀 Looking for a Bioinformatician / Data Scientist to join our crew and explore regeneration through single-cell genomics & evolutionary biology! @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
📩 Questions? Contact us ✉️
🔗 Apply here: www.mpg.de/25243280/bio...

Bioinformatician / Data Scientist (m/f/d)

Bioinformatician / Data scientist position in the Aztekin Lab focusing on Structural Regeneration and support the working group together with the other members

www.mpg.de

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oZgun Gokce @gokcegroup.bsky.social · Sep 13

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to join our group at the University Hospital Bonn / DZNE. The project will focus on spatial omics approaches to study how lipid transport and the immune system shape neurodegeneration. DM me here

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oZgun Gokce @gokcegroup.bsky.social · Sep 13

Excited to be part of the amazing NDCN community! proud of our progress and looking forward to translating discoveries to the clinic! chanzuckerberg.com/wp-content/u...

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · Sep 7

Co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase at 32, Nobel Prize at 37, played a key role at the 1975 Asilomar comference.

David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87

www.nytimes.com

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oZgun Gokce @gokcegroup.bsky.social · Sep 7

Elegant work from @perothwell.bsky.social lab!

Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · Aug 4

Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens core reflected decision confidence during evaluation of decisions in an economic foraging task in mice, as well as both past and future value during re-evaluation and change-of-mind

@perothwell.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Individual differences in decision-making shape how mesolimbic dopamine regulates choice confidence and change-of-mind - Nature Neuroscience

Differences in neuroeconomic decision-making influence nucleus accumbens dopamine dynamics and reflect choice confidence during evaluation, as well as past and future value during re-evaluation, which...

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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · Aug 25

Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD

@junjieguo.bsky.social @yalerna.bsky.social @yaleneuro.bsky.social

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Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD - Nature Neuroscience

By selectively isolating and sequencing the rare RNA transcripts containing C9orf72 repeat expansion from ALS–FTD neurons, the authors uncover an alternative splicing mechanism that explains the reten...

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