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Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations: This image is absolutely stunning

Do yourself a favour 🦋- take a moment - open the pic - dive into the beauty of microscope for a moment - just to really remember and pause in awe at the elegance of nature ❤️ (even if you do get #allergies!!)

#microscopy #talent #nature #science

Nat Prunet @nat-prunet.bsky.social · 23d

Grateful to see one my #superresolution #pollen images won 2nd place at the 2025 @bioimagingna.bsky.social image contest!

www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/image-contes...

#microscopy #confocal #botany #plantscience #allergies #bioimaging

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Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · 25d

What an incredibly poignant piece of reporting by the BBC.

Lots to think about.
#generosity
#reciprocity
#altruism of the highest order.

#future_docs
#science
🧪

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC presenter's shock over mum's body donation revelation

BBC presenter Lucy Owen finds out why her mum wants to donate her body to medical science.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · 27d

Any chance we think this might actually work?
Or are we just compounding our doom by splitting the pack even further … ?
Answers on a postcard.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · 28d

This piqued my interest …
Will there be a sting in the tail??

Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 28d

💉 From scarcity to self-reliance—Africa’s insulin race is on.

#Nigeria signs deal with #China to start producing #insulin—joining Egypt & South Africa.

📈With diabetes set to affect 60M Africans by 2050, local production is vital for affordable access.

✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social

📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁

Nigeria Deal With China Will Enable It To Make Insulin Alongside Egypt And South Africa - Health Policy Watch

A deal with China will enable Nigeria to join Egypt and South Africa as a producer of insulin, the drug that is essential to control diabetes.

healthpolicy-watch.news

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 30

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Sep 19

🤣🤣🤣

Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Sep 9

#research #biomed_researchers
#diabetes_researchers

Just putting my head above the parapet to ask :

How many have returned to X?

And if you have: why?

And if you haven’t and 🦋 isn’t meeting your needs - where else do you go most regularly?

(Genuinely curious question!)

Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Sep 9

Well…. Who’d ‘a’ thought it?? 🙄

Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Aug 31

Terrifying!

Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Jul 5

Was curious about the post - Sounds like an exciting post for someone - but the link only goes to the job page - not the actual Job posting? Worth amending?

Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · May 27

It’s a thought!!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · May 27

By betraying his voters so comprehensively and so soon, Keir Starmer has done us a favour. He has given us 4 years to design the government we want.
In this week's column I explain how it can be done. There's massive
potential, but we need to start now. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election | George Monbiot

Labour is beyond repair. Time for a co-ordinated strategy to support progressive parties committed to electoral reform, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Apr 29

Wow … Just Wow! 😮
🤣🤣 - we live in times where “truth is in the eye of the beholder!” 😶‍🌫️

Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Apr 28

Wow …. #this_woman_ran_far
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

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Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Apr 21

Nice loop up to the Moor!

Hope all is well, Lovely Lady!

Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Apr 16

#topviewedarticle in Diabetic Medicine in 2024 (n top 10% anyway)
🧪🚀✨

This paper was all in my voice! Too long but 😍. It was the first commentary Ive written about the science I’m so passionate about! (I do still need to learn about white space!!!)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

<em>Diabetic Medicine</em> | Diabetes UK Journal | Wiley Online Library

Aims This review aims to introduce research in the pancreas to a broader audience. The pancreas is a heterocrine gland residing deep within our abdominal cavity. It is the home to our islets, which .....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Apr 11

As an example: Trump administration cuts $4m to Princeton’s climate research funding:

The scope of this madness is 🤯

For all the scientists in America affected…and the work for the rest of us that they do…I weep.

I can only think we fight it with hope, patience, and continued rebellion ….

Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Mar 29

Still so excited by our paper!

Multidisciplinary, creative, innovative & fun: this was “doing” science at its best 🚀🧪
Helpful that it a) reveals (quantitatively) that human #islets retain a conserved mantle-core structure & b) offers a nuanced tool to compare the subtleties of data distributions.

Diabetologia @diabetologiajnl.bsky.social · Mar 5

Using a fusion of #mathematics and #spatial_biology, a study employing quantitative tools (including the #Earth_Movers_Distance metric) tests the existence of a #mantle_core_structure in #human_islets in #T1D link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🔓

Beyond the loss of beta cells: a quantitative analysis of islet architecture in adults with and without type 1 diabetes - Diabetologia

Aims/hypothesis The organisation and cellular architecture of islets of Langerhans are critical to the physiological regulation of hormone secretion but it is debated whether human islets adhere to th...

link.springer.com

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Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Mar 22

Me too! 🤣

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Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Mar 21

Humbled by the women in science before me: 🧪🔬🥼🚀

Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · Mar 20

On this day in 1879, Maud Menten was born in Port Lambton, Ontario.
In her work as a medical researcher, she became a leading expert in histochemistry and enzyme kinetics while fighting against sexism in her field.
Let's learn more about her life!

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A black-and-white photo shows a woman in a patterned dress with a lace collar and pearl necklace, sitting in a chair. The background features shelves with bottles and a wire basket, suggesting an early 20th-century setting, possibly a pharmacy or study.

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Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Mar 21

As a less composed Immuno-histologist - what a story! What beautiful women ….
And what a commitment to science… and to their passions … amazing … thanks for sharing! ❤️

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Dave Barry @david-j-barry.bsky.social · Mar 17

Calling all...
🔬 Microscopists
💻 BioImage Analysts
👩‍🔬 Life Scientists

📅 Save the Date

The 5th edition of the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium will take place on November 24/25th 2025.

More details to follow...

#CBIAS2025

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Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Mar 15

Totally agree:
It’s not going anywhere - we might as well learn to use it wisely and support its strengths 🙌🏼

Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Mar 15

So sad to read :
How is it possible that this is happening to science in 2025 !!!!?????

Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · Mar 15

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Pia Leete @pialeete.bsky.social · Mar 15

Hey DiabGeeks - this 👇🏼looks like it will be an extraordinary tool to add to the diabetes researcher armoury 🧪🔬
Congratulations 🚀🙌🏼
#devbio
Hope it flies!

Christos Karampelias @ckarampelias.bsky.social · Mar 14

Happy to share our work on pancreatic ductal organoids from the human-relevant pig model across developmental stages ranging from embryonic to adult animals and using them for drug screening applications from the @heikolickert.bsky.social lab. #PancSky #devbio 🧪🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... /1

Benchmarking porcine pancreatic ductal organoids for drug screening applications

Primary human pancreatic ductal organoids (HPDO) have emerged as a model to study pancreas biology and disease. Yet, donor material availability, and a lack of extensive benchmarking limits the range ...

www.biorxiv.org

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