αrdie 🐭taki
@tomorakitis.bsky.social
Immunologist • Interested in the role of Inflammation on Tissue Intelligence.
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What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
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A cartoon by Ellis Rosen. #NewYorkerCartoons
December 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A cartoon by Ellis Rosen. #NewYorkerCartoons
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'Puppets on a string': ACIP chair airs independence concerns
'Puppets on a string': ACIP chair airs independence concerns
The newly appointed chair’s comments were overheard Friday during a break in the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ proceedings.
dlvr.it
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
'Puppets on a string': ACIP chair airs independence concerns
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Please give a listen to today's episode of @nytimes.com The Daily which features our joint investigation with @theexamination.org on horrific lead poisoning of communities in Nigeria as part of recycling of lead used to make car batteries in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/p...
The ‘Clean’ Technology That’s Poisoning People
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Please give a listen to today's episode of @nytimes.com The Daily which features our joint investigation with @theexamination.org on horrific lead poisoning of communities in Nigeria as part of recycling of lead used to make car batteries in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/p...
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NEW! Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across Europe
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
NEW! Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across Europe
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Messenger RNA is made in the nucleus before it is exported to the cytoplasm for translation. But how are only correctly made mRNAs chosen and remodeled in the nucleus for export?
Our new paper investigates the nuclear events leading to human mRNA export. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/4)
Our new paper investigates the nuclear events leading to human mRNA export. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/4)
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Messenger RNA is made in the nucleus before it is exported to the cytoplasm for translation. But how are only correctly made mRNAs chosen and remodeled in the nucleus for export?
Our new paper investigates the nuclear events leading to human mRNA export. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/4)
Our new paper investigates the nuclear events leading to human mRNA export. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/4)
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About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
It’s not all about genes.
It’s time to talk about epithelial geometry and cancer. How can the architecture of an epithelium affect how tumors will grow and spread? In this thread, @jorgealmagro.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It’s not all about genes.
Alt text and Ponies 💛
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent horses and ponies I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Alt text and Ponies 💛
Actually it seems that the AS01 adjuvant used in Shingrix and Arexvy RSV vaccine is the culprit for this beneficial effect. Some kind of trained immunity effect.
Shingles vaccine appears to have significant additional benefits. Links to reducing dementia have already been reported. Now AD being investigated.
Great stuff. Glad i got mine on the day i turned 50.
Great stuff. Glad i got mine on the day i turned 50.
The study found that a shingles vaccine (Zostavax), is the most promising existing medicine that could be repurposed to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
• news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
• news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Actually it seems that the AS01 adjuvant used in Shingrix and Arexvy RSV vaccine is the culprit for this beneficial effect. Some kind of trained immunity effect.
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It's the time of year again -- time to do your holiday shopping from independent artists. It's more important than ever to support people actually making stuff!
If you're an artist or craftsperson of any kind, please reply to this with what you make and a link to your store and I'll share it!
If you're an artist or craftsperson of any kind, please reply to this with what you make and a link to your store and I'll share it!
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It's the time of year again -- time to do your holiday shopping from independent artists. It's more important than ever to support people actually making stuff!
If you're an artist or craftsperson of any kind, please reply to this with what you make and a link to your store and I'll share it!
If you're an artist or craftsperson of any kind, please reply to this with what you make and a link to your store and I'll share it!
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"Heck of a job, Bobby."
"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."
(gift link)
"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."
(gift link)
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
"Heck of a job, Bobby."
"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."
(gift link)
"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."
(gift link)
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Check out our recent preprint, "Live longitudinal imaging of meningeal cerebrovascular injury and its sequelae in adult zebrafish."
lnkd.in/gN7z6th4
lnkd.in/gN7z6th4
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Check out our recent preprint, "Live longitudinal imaging of meningeal cerebrovascular injury and its sequelae in adult zebrafish."
lnkd.in/gN7z6th4
lnkd.in/gN7z6th4
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I guess we are doing Alt text and Cows today. Enjoy 😊
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I guess we are doing Alt text and Cows today. Enjoy 😊
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Jay Bhattacharya's plan for a new pandemic is for everyone to suddenly be healthy.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Jay Bhattacharya's plan for a new pandemic is for everyone to suddenly be healthy.
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Do you want to know why Michelle Obama won’t run for president?
Here it is, and she’s not wrong…
Here it is, and she’s not wrong…
November 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Do you want to know why Michelle Obama won’t run for president?
Here it is, and she’s not wrong…
Here it is, and she’s not wrong…
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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I don't think most people understand that you can be an introvert AND still do public speaking. It just takes a lot of work getting up for it and it drains all your energy and you need to be alone to recharge.
Extrovert = social setting adds energy
Introvert = social setting drains energy
Extrovert = social setting adds energy
Introvert = social setting drains energy
December 19, 2024 at 9:01 PM
I don't think most people understand that you can be an introvert AND still do public speaking. It just takes a lot of work getting up for it and it drains all your energy and you need to be alone to recharge.
Extrovert = social setting adds energy
Introvert = social setting drains energy
Extrovert = social setting adds energy
Introvert = social setting drains energy
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This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"
www.prb.org/resources/se...
www.prb.org/resources/se...
October 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"
www.prb.org/resources/se...
www.prb.org/resources/se...
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You've got just a few days left to submit your proposal to join us as a new Group Leader
📅 Applications close 2nd November
Package includes:
🪙Multi-year funding
🧪Core Facility Access
🥼 #Postdoc & #PhD positions
🤝Mentorship
Visit our website to apply:
www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...
📅 Applications close 2nd November
Package includes:
🪙Multi-year funding
🧪Core Facility Access
🥼 #Postdoc & #PhD positions
🤝Mentorship
Visit our website to apply:
www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...
October 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
You've got just a few days left to submit your proposal to join us as a new Group Leader
📅 Applications close 2nd November
Package includes:
🪙Multi-year funding
🧪Core Facility Access
🥼 #Postdoc & #PhD positions
🤝Mentorship
Visit our website to apply:
www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...
📅 Applications close 2nd November
Package includes:
🪙Multi-year funding
🧪Core Facility Access
🥼 #Postdoc & #PhD positions
🤝Mentorship
Visit our website to apply:
www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...
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Leading up to Halloween we ask, Why do some gummy brands rock, and why do others feel like you're chewing plastic?
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
October 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Leading up to Halloween we ask, Why do some gummy brands rock, and why do others feel like you're chewing plastic?
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...