Sandra Laurentino
@sandralaurentino.bsky.social
Reproductive biologist 🇵🇹 in 🇩🇪
Institute of Reproductive Genetics, CMG, Uni-Münster
PI CRU326 "Male Germ Cells"
DNA methylation, spermatogenesis, ageing, male infertility
Hobby collector, slowest runner in the west
https://linktr.ee/SandraLaurentino
Institute of Reproductive Genetics, CMG, Uni-Münster
PI CRU326 "Male Germ Cells"
DNA methylation, spermatogenesis, ageing, male infertility
Hobby collector, slowest runner in the west
https://linktr.ee/SandraLaurentino
Pinned
Open post-doc position in 3-year collaborative project on contraception based in Münster. The candidate will work primarily with me and Nina Neuhaus at the Institute of Reproductive Genetics and Centre of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology
#postdocposition #reprosky
#postdocposition #reprosky
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NYT: “Dr. Yaghi’s story is not unusual. Of the six American winners of science Nobels this year, three were born outside the United States. In this century, the émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry and medicine now stands at 40 percent.”
December 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
NYT: “Dr. Yaghi’s story is not unusual. Of the six American winners of science Nobels this year, three were born outside the United States. In this century, the émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry and medicine now stands at 40 percent.”
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All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.
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Health workers, hospitals and ambulances should NEVER be targets.
Safe access to care must be protected everywhere, for everyone. Human rights are universal, and our right to health goes with us wherever we are.
Learn more 👉bit.ly/3XF8L5Z #HumanRightsDay
Safe access to care must be protected everywhere, for everyone. Human rights are universal, and our right to health goes with us wherever we are.
Learn more 👉bit.ly/3XF8L5Z #HumanRightsDay
December 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Health workers, hospitals and ambulances should NEVER be targets.
Safe access to care must be protected everywhere, for everyone. Human rights are universal, and our right to health goes with us wherever we are.
Learn more 👉bit.ly/3XF8L5Z #HumanRightsDay
Safe access to care must be protected everywhere, for everyone. Human rights are universal, and our right to health goes with us wherever we are.
Learn more 👉bit.ly/3XF8L5Z #HumanRightsDay
Reminder that we have a post-doc position open shared between the IRG and the CeRA in Münster. We already received some great applications, but if you feel you are a good match don't hesitate to apply!
#reprosky #postdocposition #malecontraception
#reprosky #postdocposition #malecontraception
Open post-doc position in 3-year collaborative project on contraception based in Münster. The candidate will work primarily with me and Nina Neuhaus at the Institute of Reproductive Genetics and Centre of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology
#postdocposition #reprosky
#postdocposition #reprosky
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Reminder that we have a post-doc position open shared between the IRG and the CeRA in Münster. We already received some great applications, but if you feel you are a good match don't hesitate to apply!
#reprosky #postdocposition #malecontraception
#reprosky #postdocposition #malecontraception
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
The @eshre.bsky.social campus workshop on reproductive ageing war a blast, such interesting presentations and approaches, and the conversations during meals and breaks were a highlight. Everyone super excited about discussing their work and in seeing up possible collaborations in the future. 5⭐️
December 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The @eshre.bsky.social campus workshop on reproductive ageing war a blast, such interesting presentations and approaches, and the conversations during meals and breaks were a highlight. Everyone super excited about discussing their work and in seeing up possible collaborations in the future. 5⭐️
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Horrible idea. AI will regress all grants towards the mean since AI is trained to produce the average output.
Grants require expertise that ignores bad literature and rejects author assertions if false. no AI review I've seen has ever challenged the author's assertions as fundamentally flawed.
Grants require expertise that ignores bad literature and rejects author assertions if false. no AI review I've seen has ever challenged the author's assertions as fundamentally flawed.
UKRI exploring use of AI in grant review - this will prompt debate but interested to know if people think it’d encourage novelty or the opposite? www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...
UKRI opens up grant proposal data to explore using AI to smooth peer review
Surging applications has led the UK's main funder to look at ways to reduce the burden on reviewers
www.chemistryworld.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Horrible idea. AI will regress all grants towards the mean since AI is trained to produce the average output.
Grants require expertise that ignores bad literature and rejects author assertions if false. no AI review I've seen has ever challenged the author's assertions as fundamentally flawed.
Grants require expertise that ignores bad literature and rejects author assertions if false. no AI review I've seen has ever challenged the author's assertions as fundamentally flawed.
Getting extremely annoyed by the constant offers of "help" to summarise documents on Adobe Acrobat.
Yes, the document is long. No I don't want AI to summarise it. I want to read every single word and make my own mind about it, thank you very much.
/rant over
Yes, the document is long. No I don't want AI to summarise it. I want to read every single word and make my own mind about it, thank you very much.
/rant over
December 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Getting extremely annoyed by the constant offers of "help" to summarise documents on Adobe Acrobat.
Yes, the document is long. No I don't want AI to summarise it. I want to read every single word and make my own mind about it, thank you very much.
/rant over
Yes, the document is long. No I don't want AI to summarise it. I want to read every single word and make my own mind about it, thank you very much.
/rant over
On my way to Frankfurt to participate in the @eshre.bsky.social Campus Workshop on Reproductive Ageing. I look forward to spending the next three days discussing one of my favourite topics in reproduction.
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
On my way to Frankfurt to participate in the @eshre.bsky.social Campus Workshop on Reproductive Ageing. I look forward to spending the next three days discussing one of my favourite topics in reproduction.
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PhD call alert!
Interested in #Complexity #Cognition #AlgorithmicBias or #PublicHealth?
Want to join our ERC-funded @erc.europa.eu, SPAC Lisbon team @spac.bsky.social?
We only need:
CV + short motivation letter + contact of 2 refs
EOE
Apply by Dec 20, more info: lip.pt/files/rhuman...
Please Share!
Interested in #Complexity #Cognition #AlgorithmicBias or #PublicHealth?
Want to join our ERC-funded @erc.europa.eu, SPAC Lisbon team @spac.bsky.social?
We only need:
CV + short motivation letter + contact of 2 refs
EOE
Apply by Dec 20, more info: lip.pt/files/rhuman...
Please Share!
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
PhD call alert!
Interested in #Complexity #Cognition #AlgorithmicBias or #PublicHealth?
Want to join our ERC-funded @erc.europa.eu, SPAC Lisbon team @spac.bsky.social?
We only need:
CV + short motivation letter + contact of 2 refs
EOE
Apply by Dec 20, more info: lip.pt/files/rhuman...
Please Share!
Interested in #Complexity #Cognition #AlgorithmicBias or #PublicHealth?
Want to join our ERC-funded @erc.europa.eu, SPAC Lisbon team @spac.bsky.social?
We only need:
CV + short motivation letter + contact of 2 refs
EOE
Apply by Dec 20, more info: lip.pt/files/rhuman...
Please Share!
Reposted by Sandra Laurentino
Open post-doc position in 3-year collaborative project on contraception based in Münster. The candidate will work primarily with me and Nina Neuhaus at the Institute of Reproductive Genetics and Centre of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology
#postdocposition #reprosky
#postdocposition #reprosky
December 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Open post-doc position in 3-year collaborative project on contraception based in Münster. The candidate will work primarily with me and Nina Neuhaus at the Institute of Reproductive Genetics and Centre of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology
#postdocposition #reprosky
#postdocposition #reprosky
Finally!
Hello Bluesky Community 👋
Fresh platform - same mission! We’re officially on Bluesky and looking forward to connecting with the community here! ✨ Let’s keep pushing the boundaries of reproductive science together.
Follow us @eshre.bsky.social and be part of what’s next. 💙
#ESHRE #ReproductiveHealth
Fresh platform - same mission! We’re officially on Bluesky and looking forward to connecting with the community here! ✨ Let’s keep pushing the boundaries of reproductive science together.
Follow us @eshre.bsky.social and be part of what’s next. 💙
#ESHRE #ReproductiveHealth
December 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Finally!
The opening keynote was by Melina Schuh. She showed some groundbreaking unpublished data on human oocytes that might change things for the better for older women undergoing IVF 🤯
Translational and applied science doesn't exist in a vacuum, it comes from strong basic research
#DVR2025
Translational and applied science doesn't exist in a vacuum, it comes from strong basic research
#DVR2025
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The opening keynote was by Melina Schuh. She showed some groundbreaking unpublished data on human oocytes that might change things for the better for older women undergoing IVF 🤯
Translational and applied science doesn't exist in a vacuum, it comes from strong basic research
#DVR2025
Translational and applied science doesn't exist in a vacuum, it comes from strong basic research
#DVR2025
1/3 Although the young andrologists and @dgandrologie.bsky.social session happens just before the official opening session, it's always a highlight for DVR congresses. We had the first results of last year's winner of the DGA grant, my office mate @lherrmann.bsky.social...
#DVR2025
#DVR2025
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
1/3 Although the young andrologists and @dgandrologie.bsky.social session happens just before the official opening session, it's always a highlight for DVR congresses. We had the first results of last year's winner of the DGA grant, my office mate @lherrmann.bsky.social...
#DVR2025
#DVR2025
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Students applying for grad school, or reaching out to professors. I have an important piece of advice for you: STOP DOING THIS 👇 (a thread) #STEM #PhD #gradschool #academictips
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Students applying for grad school, or reaching out to professors. I have an important piece of advice for you: STOP DOING THIS 👇 (a thread) #STEM #PhD #gradschool #academictips
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So I’m getting into my truck at the grocery store and a voice yells “Hey! Young lady!”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
So I’m getting into my truck at the grocery store and a voice yells “Hey! Young lady!”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
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Big news 🎊 @dfg.de announced today the funding of our CRC @reproductionms.bsky.social
Our dedicated mission: Unravelling the molecular pathways of male infertility and drive smarter treatment for couples.
We're ready, excited and can't wait to get started 🚀
Our dedicated mission: Unravelling the molecular pathways of male infertility and drive smarter treatment for couples.
We're ready, excited and can't wait to get started 🚀
Große Freude! Die @dfg.de richtet einen neuen Sonderforschungsbereich zur männlichen Unfruchtbarkeit ein und verlängert den etablierten Verbund @sfb1348.bsky.social. Insgesamt fließen rund 24 Millionen Euro an die Universität Münster.
24 Millionen Euro für zwei Sonderforschungsbereiche
Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft richtet einen neuen Sonderforschungsbereich zur männlichen Unfruchtbarkeit ein und verlängert einen etablierten Verbund zu zellulären Grenzflächen. Insgesamt fließe...
www.uni-muenster.de
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Big news 🎊 @dfg.de announced today the funding of our CRC @reproductionms.bsky.social
Our dedicated mission: Unravelling the molecular pathways of male infertility and drive smarter treatment for couples.
We're ready, excited and can't wait to get started 🚀
Our dedicated mission: Unravelling the molecular pathways of male infertility and drive smarter treatment for couples.
We're ready, excited and can't wait to get started 🚀
👏
Große Freude! Die @dfg.de richtet einen neuen Sonderforschungsbereich zur männlichen Unfruchtbarkeit ein und verlängert den etablierten Verbund @sfb1348.bsky.social. Insgesamt fließen rund 24 Millionen Euro an die Universität Münster.
24 Millionen Euro für zwei Sonderforschungsbereiche
Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft richtet einen neuen Sonderforschungsbereich zur männlichen Unfruchtbarkeit ein und verlängert einen etablierten Verbund zu zellulären Grenzflächen. Insgesamt fließe...
www.uni-muenster.de
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
👏
😵💫 soon the journals will require physical proof of the blot/gel/etc. Thinking about it, we might as well go back to mailing a physical copy of the typed manuscript and photos/negatives.
Finally the scary example. The image of a western blot with a time course experiment, staining a protein of interest, showing the increase of protein over time and a second staining with a control antibody that does not change over time
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
😵💫 soon the journals will require physical proof of the blot/gel/etc. Thinking about it, we might as well go back to mailing a physical copy of the typed manuscript and photos/negatives.
Congratulations to @reproductionms.bsky.social 🍾🥳
Die #DFG fördert zur weiteren Stärkung der #Spitzenforschung an den Hochschulen 9 neue #Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB). Die Themen reichen von pilzbasierten Baumaterialien über Autoimmunkrankheiten bis zu molekularer Bor-Chemie. Einzelheiten 👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Congratulations to @reproductionms.bsky.social 🍾🥳
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Reposted by Sandra Laurentino
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.