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Etche_homo
@etche.bsky.social
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Co-director of MoPED (Mechanisms of Paracrine & Endocrine Disorders) lab in Marseille 🇫🇷 on cell signaling & determination of self & beyond during neural crest differentiation. Personal account.
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etche.bsky.social
literally eating the end of my not-frozen turkey soup as I read this 😂
A rectangular Pyrew dish with brow turkey stock, white short rice noodles, carrot slices and chopped bok choy. Inox spoon bowl immersed.
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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This will read as sour grapes, but truly the Matthew effect is alive & well. One must wonder about the full nature of the entertainment, too. Meanwhile, scientist attention is being bought to this day by CZI, hopefully for good but so easily derailed by influence.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
On Dec. 6, 2013, at 12:32 am, Neil Gershenfeld wrote [to Jeffrey Epstein]: Co firming lunch noon Friday at my office E15-401. Sunglasses and beach balls optional, hopefully this will be a warm-up for meeting in more entertaining venues. HOUSE OVERSIGHT 029209
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
etche.bsky.social
Happy #Caturday from Marrakech.
Orange street kitten on lap.
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
etche.bsky.social
I think it derailed during the second Obama term. Enough of our country was (is) sufficiently racist to set this (waves hands around) in motion as a countermeasure. Let's hope that part grows up or out, finally. 🌈
First posthumous publication of the poem "Hope is the thing with feathers" (here published as "VI: Hope") by American poet Emily Dickinson in the compilation Poems, Second Series. Edited by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd. Printed by Roberts Brothers, 1891 (copyright page says 1892), p. 27. Image from Wikimedia. “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm - I’ve heard it in the chillest land - And on the strangest Sea - Yet - never - in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of me.
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM
etche.bsky.social
Yes, why does the algorithm do that?
Screenshot of two unrelated posts illustrated with the top one referring to a "genderbent Viri" and the bottom one picturing a bespectacled Harrison Ford at a podium with an inset shot of Trump. Superficially the first illustration resembles Ford.
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
etche.bsky.social
Why, yes, I'll have another piece of that spanakopita. I had tons of red shiso that volunteered this summer as well that I threw in with my fresh dill; you can't really taste it but *I* know they're there. 🍽️🌱
Local olive oil ftw. 😋
www.themediterraneandish.com/spanakopita-...
5/6 of a pie of spanakopita, a spinach egg and feta quiche layered between a crust of fillo dough. In a glass dish through which the red trivet beneath is visible.
November 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Very interesting, thanks for the explainer! Does amniotic mesoderm exist for a time in gastruloids? Might the actin cap be in these or cells fated to be adjacent as it zips up posterior body? Even if birds are also amniotes... their heads start as layered discs around end of notochord, not spheres!
Figure from a lovely review about gastrulation and mammalian extra- and intraembryonic tissue origins over time, with schematic of tissues in a mouse embryo. From https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/847b28d0-3182-4f00-8d5f-bec100cc3a9d/rstb20210255f01.jpg and the actual article, "Embryonic and extraembryonic tissues during mammalian development: shifting boundaries in time and space" by Shifaan Thowfeequ and Shankar Srinivas Published:17 October 2022 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0255
October 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Find the difference! (I was shocked.)
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October 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
etche.bsky.social
OK one more because irony is delicious - but couldn't quite-post. This was a second later as I was signing out. Have a good one.
User @Prisonculture assures followers that decent people really do outnumber the assholes, since we all need a morale boost on occasion from the unrelenting evidence that even a small number of assholes can ruin or even take lives. But power is in numbers, so up to "decency" to take it back.
September 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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It's strategic to protect your mental health. Please do. Click on your profile > Settings, then add the words you need to.
Screenshot of the page at https://bsky.app/moderation that allows people to opt out of seeing posts with specific words such as those related to US politics, violence or other emotional triggers that you would rather not catch you unaware as you scroll. You can choose the length of time that posts with those words no longer show up for you.
September 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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It's pretty comic to see #Elsevier 's delusional pricing for reuse of one of my old articles, though (also available in less formatted text through one of those other licenses I chose way back when). I made up entries to see, at s100.copyright.com
Publication: Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine Publisher: Elsevier Date: October 2002 Copyright © 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved. Quick Price Estimate This service provides permission for reuse only. If you do not have a copy of the content, you may be able to purchase a copy using RightsLink as an additional transaction. Simply select ‘I would like to….. ‘Purchase this content’. Unclear about who you are? An excerpt is less than 500 words of content, not including figures, tables, and illustrations on the page(s), if any. You may reuse multiple excerpts. Please enter the quantity you wish to license below. I would like to reuse in broadcast media. I am a/an.m commercial for profit [entity]. My special Requestor requirements are: My company wishes to train a large language model. I would like to use excerpts. My number of excerpts: 4 Circulation: 500 My format is electronic. I am the author of this Elsevier article...no (pretending to be Sam Altman, here, or one of the other bros) My currency is US dollars Price: 24,900.00 USD CONTINUE To request permission for a type of use not listed, please contact Elsevier Global Rights Department.
September 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
etche.bsky.social
I did the same today! Best WFH day in ages. (Bringing to lab tomorrow but made a muffin for myself, too 😋)
Cool loaf of uncut banana bread on a bamboo cutting board.
September 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I made the dire mistake of pouring a little bowl of milk for my very adult cat, as I was drinking some and I know she likes it. The old lady was sick about eight times up and down the hall. My bad.
A long hallway with large gray tiles and four (of ultimately eight) puddles of cat spaced every 6 feet or so and marked with paper towels. At the end, silhouetted in a lit doorway, the guilty party is seated for a pose.
August 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Nous avons (violemment) fini la 2e vague de chaleur la plus longue pour un mois d’août après la canicule de 16j de 2003, mais fin juin était bien intense sur le sud du pays aussi. L’intensité maximale de cet épisode est comparable à celles d’août 2023, de juillet 2022 et de l'été 2018. #climat
Intensité des 51 vagues de chaleur mesuré en durée sur l'axe x et intensité maximale sur l'axe y, ou les deux épisodes de l'été 2025 figurent en bonne place parmi d'autres de plus en plus fréquentes de cet ère.
August 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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My natural sourdough starter game has started (3rd round, still needs work, but I'm learning). Next one will be o/n in fridge.

Wait until I show you the SCOBY I've let go to vinegar for lack of general interest in the product, me included. Less appetizing but they started from the same culture. 🍽️🧪
Gnarly-looking symbiotic mat of yeast and acetic acid-making bacteria floating in a 2L pickle jar over clear brown vinegar made from sweet tea, that I'll maybe use to clean the toilets? though it probably stains, too. Round load of sourdough in dappled light on a bamboo cutting board to cool.
August 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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@vigimeteofrance.bsky.social quel dommage de ne pas privilégier ce plate-forme sur Xitter. En tout cas, vigilance et sécurité pour tous demain dans le sud-est du pays. #orages #alerte
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Voir vigilance.meteofrance.fr .
Capture d'écran de VigiMeteoFrance sur X-Twitter où ils ont prévenu 10,6K comptes jusque là qu'il y a vigilance orange sur 8 départements ce soir et sur 6 demain, en envoyant pourolus d'info à https://vigilance.meteofrance.fr . Restez au sec si possible.
August 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
etche.bsky.social
Good exercise. Post an image from your summer that confers peace.
Mediterranean lighthouse on an island of the coast of France, lots of calm, deep blue water & sun. Sailboat to right.
August 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Repost with a group you'd love to hang out with.
Sidse Babett Knudsen flanked by her co-stars from the intelligent political drama, Borgen (photo from season 1)
August 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
etche.bsky.social
I graduated today to chestnut-flour bread, which is a keeper.
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Brown loaf of bread on a bamboo cutting board, with a first slice of heel laid flat in front, smeared d with two pats of butter and a bite taken out of that slice.
August 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
etche.bsky.social
Morning, squirrel. #RedSquirrel
Red squirrel at edge of swimming pool, alert on hind legs for possible danger. It's breast is white and front paws nearly clasped in front of chest. Ruddy squirrel hanging from hind claws over side of pool to drink from none-too-clean surface far below, as we're in a drought with restricted water use. Its tail flat out behind helps it stabilize.
August 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Dutch 🧪 on movement for fun 🏃🏿. "[Wild] mice and some shrews, rats and frogs were seen to leave the wheel & enter it again within minutes in order to continue wheel running. This observation indicates that wheel running may well be intentional [&] a voluntary behaviour for feral animals in nature."
Figure 2. Various animals use the running wheels, though mice are by far the most common. A breakdown by species is given in (a). Please note that the vertical axis has been broken in order to accommodate the mice, which accounted for 88% of the wheel running. Also note that birds visited the recording equipment occasionally, but never ran in wheels. Species were identified using video recordings. Stills taken from these recordings show examples of (b) a [wild] mouse, (c) a frog and (d) a slug using the wheel.
August 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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What, this one? Good riddance.
Screenshot of "Silverlining 2K25“ showing they are on a block list called Political Trolls and just generally are antisocial disruptors of peaceful community wherever they go.
August 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Many years after the pandemic fashion, I made mixed-grain bread with kombucha-based sourdough yeast for a chicken salad sandwich picnic during a long bike ride.
Loaf of brown bread cut in two on a bamboo board with slats. Loaf of brown bread still in pan.
August 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Great initiative. Rockie salutes you.
Mostly white floofy cat with orange ears and the occasional black spot stretched out on her left side for the part of her on the oriental carpet she's not supposed to sit on, and sphinx-like for the front part of her body, on her approved gray fleece blanket. Her eyes are closed in apparent contentment.
August 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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South of France: pretty still, but very very dry with fire alerts in my region every day. 🤷‍♀️
August 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM