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Check out the earlier phase 1 trial results (that led to this larger study) in #NatureMedicine (interim results published in 2022, final results published in 2024): www.nature.com/articles/s41... cc: @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Well, possibly. I would have done this without hesitation a couple of years ago. Since then, the LGBTQ+ community, on which my trans son relied during his transition, have ghosted him ... because he is a Jew. He is heartbroken. So am I. Tell me again why I should care?

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The phase II clinical trial in China tested CAR T cells in people with advanced gastric cancer or gastro-oesophageal junction cancer - one of the first times this therapy has worked against solid tumours 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The German-language Edition of The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire is entitled Aufstieg und Fall Der Menschheit: Warum unsere Spezies am Rand des Aussterbens steht. It will be published on 15 July by Rowohlt. www.rowohlt.de/buch/henry-g...

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Job at the University of Sydney for those interested (I'm a different faculty so you won't have to deal with me): www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Humans may have been making tools from whale bones up to 20,000 years ago, according to evidence presented in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4kePeD6 🏺 🧪

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The German-language Edition of The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire is entitled Aufstieg und Fall Der Menschheit: Warum unsere Spezies am Rand des Aussterbens steht. It will be published on 15 July by Rowohlt. www.rowohlt.de/buch/henry-g...

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What have we learned in the past 25 years since the first series of Walking With Dinosaurs? Judging by the first episode of the new series - virtually nil. I haven't bothered to watch any more.

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Made a cocktail for my wife and she put it in the freezer, inadvertently creating a new superorganism please hel—glurk

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I have read the hardcopy version📚. Highly recommended👍

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FINAL DAY for this Kindle offer: Just 99p gets you my award-winning 'A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth'. If you've already got it, please repost. If you are doing Dinosaurs 101, it'll do half your assignments, so why not get two? And bring a friend. www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Short-H...

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Brooke Nichols... has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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I see your Brecht quote and raise you Schiller's 'Mit der Dummheit kämpfen die Götter selbst vergebens' (against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain).

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Just two more days to go before this offer expires in a puff of digital steam.

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If you like loud rock with touches of blues, roots, funk, and metal, I genuinely think you will like this new album from HollowHead, available at hollowheadrock.co.uk

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I dislike abbreviations being used without definition. Here there are 4. If you want to exclude readers, that’s the way to do it.

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Special offer for May only: my award-winning tome 'A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth' is available on Kindle for just 99 of your English pence. www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Short-H...

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'Demure Mindfulness the Taylor Swift Way' spotted by a well-wisher in the wild at the Hay Festival bookshop. Sadly I wasn't there to join it.

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Anyone with hot science journo skills want to come and edit my stories? In @nature.com's European bureau we're looking for a locum news editor, based in either London or Berlin, on a 9 month contract. Application deadline 12 June🧪 More info here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...

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'Demure Mindfulness the Taylor Swift Way' spotted by a well-wisher in the wild at the Hay Festival bookshop. Sadly I wasn't there to join it.

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🚨 Our latest paper is out today in @natcomms.nature.com Surveillance of avian influenza through bird guano in remote regions of the global south to uncover transmission dynamics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Wonderful new 5-year postdoctoral fellowship opportunity at the University of Cambridge on #Biodiversity: www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darwin-hamie...

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🗨️ “When I entered the field of multicellularity origins, I fell in love with biology all over again—the complexity of the question is truly inspiring.” — Victoria Shabardina 🧵 Apply to the #EMBOWorkshop by 1 June ✍️ 🔗 https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-multicellularity

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🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨 35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please get in touch with questions!

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The US government has a new cabinet post, not seen before, in which the incumbent has just one job - to take up a baseball bat and smash themselves in the face with it.

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Incredible Molly Herring wrote a story on the philosophy behind the work we do at PrakashLab. Wonder & curiosity.. even more important to share when every day is a new attack on the fundamental principles of scientific explorations. Thanks @quantamagazine.bsky.social for this interaction.

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Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe— <I.A. Richards voice> Here Milton is referring to the choice to pop back online instead of just going to bed, and thereby finding out about the Miller/Musk thing

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Born on Stardate 1930.05.28 - Happy Birthday Frank Drake #SETI #astronomy #astrobiology #exobiology @setiinstitute.bsky.social

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Manu Prakash practices “recreational biology,” a scientific approach that explores life in the same playful way that puzzles probe math. “Basic science is not at the service of something, but the groundwork that is our entire society’s foundation.” www.quantamagazine.org/how-paradoxi...

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Quakers refuse to exclude trans people from their facilities: ‘This is what Love requires of us’

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A Chinese colleague is looking for collaborators in the UK working on seed dispersal and/or desert restoration? Anyone interested? Deadline is very soon but it would include travel money for the very talented and motivated postdoc to visit the UK, and I assume some travel for the UK PI to China?

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We (the Nature Biology team) are looking for a locum edigtor to handle stem cell biology, developmental biology, and specific aspects of general cell biology, either in our Berlin or New York offices. springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

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Not just student visas, but J visas which cover international postdoc scholars too. 🙄

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Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!

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Nature is looking for a locum (Maternity cover) in our biological sciences team, working out of our NY or Berlin offices. Inquire within. springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

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