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MwahahahahahadScientist

@mads100tist.bsky.social

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Neuro and Developmental biologist. PostDoc at day. Supervillain at night. He/him #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights @[email protected]

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 15d

It's online! In this series of perspectives @dev-journal.bsky.social, yours truly talks about the exciting open questions and many things to do in the field of dev bio and neuroscience #DevBio🧪 #PIsOfTomorrow journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology

ABSTRACT. In 2022, Development launched its Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, aimed at supporting postdocs as they transition to their first independent position. In 2025, we welcome our third c...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5h

There is a penultimate stage of every project that I like to call, “ugh fuck it just give it all to me and let me get it done.” It’s deeply dysfunctional and also basically SOP at this point.

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Ask Zebrafish? @askzebrafish.bsky.social · 5h

Query from Slack: Looking for any transgenic lines that have integrated and expressed Cas9. Preferably in the US. 🤔 #AskZebrafish

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 7h

You're the Andy Warhol of faking it until making it

a man and a woman are looking at each other and the man is asking " both "

Alt: a man and a woman are looking at each other and the man is asking " both "

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · 8h

Interesting question. For me as a visually-driven person, consistency and formatting qualities have a direct effect on my understanding. I see high quality as an inclusion strategy - bad presentation will keep some people from getting it

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 8h

You're both, Vincent

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 11h

1953: The Company launches the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology. In 1987, JEEM is renamed Development @dev-journal.bsky.social. Read their 100-year anniversary articles collection: bit.ly/42vDGED

Poster of Development timeline and history

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 11h

Papyrus or gfto

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 12h

"Jens, you can't seriously call for someone to be fired because they've used AI?"

Quite the opposite, I can do that all day every day, and I will continue doing so even when I'm the only one left on the planet who doesn't use this infernal bullshit-parrot-sycophant-disinformation app

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 13h

*finger to ear* yes, I know, but people would wantonly use the shit out of this and you know it

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 13h

Lots of great discussion about developmental variability here at #GastrulationReloaded! Super important to consider, and current tools have the power for this.

Related to this recent paper showing that mild phenotypes are more variable than severe ones. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A quadratic paradigm describes the relationship between phenotype severity and variation - Nature Communications

Phenotype variation is higher in mutants than wild types. Examining a range of mutant severities, this study unexpectedly found that variation decreases in severe conditions. A quadratic trend best fi...

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 13h

Mild phenotypes are a pain, but are awesome

MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, but then we argue against illegal scraping, not willing scraping

MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 14h

They would scort you out of the building and ban you from browsing PubMed

MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 15h

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 15h

Nah, not giving them my text willingly to do whatever they want with it and re-selling it

MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 16h

I have done transcriptomics experiments with fewer steps

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 16h

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 16h

My two cents on that AI tool to format papers: I do not think anyone should be using AI to format anything but, most importantly, the website doesn't show who owns it or how it is done and it says "hehe we pwomise we won't store your dwata hehe". Do with that what you may 🧪

MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 16h

RIGHT?????

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Stylianos Lefkopoulos (he/him) @slefkopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

Not the submission process, not reviewer #2, not the editor. Writing the abstract of the paper is often a far greater challenge. And there’s one simple reason for that: most people have a hard time figuring out what’s important for the reader. I ‘ll be sharing tips in next posts - stay tuned!

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 1d

Dear funding agencies,

I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development.

Sincerely,
Looking for basic research grants.