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🧪OMG please do not start putting 'helpful' (presumably AI) summaries of articles into the individual REFERENCES of a scientific publication ffs (this is @nature.com ) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Vocational awe—great phrase, definitely also applies to academia…

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I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

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💯 percent this. Maybe mindless reliance on an incredibly faulty technology is actually bad for thinking through complex problems and making us all dumber? 🧪

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Some kitties are hot stuffs. Habanero Tom's favourite fruit. #cats #chilis

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Big kitty. Panthera atrox was an Ice Age relatives of today’s lions. Large individuals could be eight feet long from their snout to the base of their tail and weigh half a ton. The carnivores lived in the same habitats as sabercats like Smilodon and other felids like large jaguars. 🧪

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Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupted, sending ash and smoke into the sky. Authorities evacuated nearby villages as a precaution. Scientists are monitoring gas and seismic activity closely. #Volcano #Indonesia #DisasterPreparedness ⚒️🌋🧪 AP: apnews.com/article/indo...

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The most viruslike microbe to date was discovered by accident when researchers sequenced the DNA inside this tiny ocean critter. That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

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🧪📸 Spent 2 years exploring forests in Sweden & Finland, observing (not picking) fungi. So many shapes, colors, and species — this collage is just a glimpse. Nordic nature is full of surprises. #mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology

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🧪🧲 New boron catalyst breaks tough C–F bonds Scientists have created a metal-free catalyst that can crack carbon–fluorine bonds - the kind found in forever chemicals and drug compounds. A step toward greener pharma and pollution solutions 🔗 doi.org/10.1021/jacs... #PFAS #SciComm #Chemistry 🧪

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Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.

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🧪 Fantastic work, including Melbourne Uni (Doherty Institute)'s Michelle Wille, documenting the devastating impacts of HPAI H5 strains in wildlife. Australia is not affected yet - but with the virus now in sub-Antarctic islands, that may not be the case for much longer.

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A phase 2a trial shows rentosertib, an AI-discovered TNIK inhibitor, improves safety and efficacy in IPF; a breakthrough for AI in drug development! PMID:40461817, Nat Med 2025, @NatureMedicine https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03743-2 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

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🧪 White nose syndrome in North American bats appears to have been introduced from a cave system in the Ukraine back in 2006. Fantastic new research shows that European bats are affected by two separate clads of the fungus, but only one clade has (so far) been introduced to N-America: rdcu.be/epN7x

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I often get asked to help with bird ID problems when the answer is: it's a female of a common species! Here's a poster celebrating the often-overlooked intricacies of female bird plumage. During June, proceeds from my shop sales go to @instbirdpop.bsky.social topatoco.com/collections/...

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🌳🧠 Nature shapes the mind A study of 7,100+ US adolescents found that living near greenspace was linked to slower brain thinning, greater surface area, & better mental health outcomes – via changes in brain structure. 🔗 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... #SciComm #Greenspace 🧪

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The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

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🧠 How ageing changes brain oxygen limits The brain’s blood vessels become far more vulnerable to low oxygen as we age – starting as early as 6 months in mice. This could explain risks in ageing-related conditions like sleep apnoea. 🔗 doi.org/10.18632/agi... #SciComm #Neuroscience 🧪

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It’s a microbial world!

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Fantastic work 👏👏👏

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New method toward modeling cells and viruses! HMFF enables integrative membrane modeling and simulation guided by electron microscopy data. Created by Valentin Maurer and Marc Siggel @embl.org ‪‪@cssbhamburg.bsky.social‬, in collaboration with @WPezeshkian lab (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Under pressure archaea develop tissue-like multicellularity! Fascinating! 👉🏻https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu0047

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1. Yes, that sounds like a normal aspect of any healthy intellectual field! It takes time for you to learn the nuance, the language, and the people of a new field, and then for them to learn about you. 2. Folks.... this is a statistical description of a trend, not a declaration of what you must do

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What it has become a classic review published every ~5y, Polschroder (UPenn) and Schulze (RIT) summarize the Mol-Cell Bio technical advances for Haloferax volcanii , the "E. coli" of the archaeal models. Proud of our community progress given the genome was published only 15y ago! asm.social/2qE

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XKCD’s take on archaea

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My team is on a very exciting sampling campaign on the coast of Tuscany: Lorena Selak, Karina Garcia and Konstantinos Anestis are out in the field right now, collecting coastal sediments to hunt down the key microorganisms driving methane cycling in areas impacted by eroded terrigenous materials.

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I am working with ASM to re-launch the Central NY ASM Branch! 🧫🦠 We have funds allocated for us and now just need 25 signatures from ASM members in the geographic region in support of this branch. More info is in the form and also I’ve attached a FAQ sheet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Continent-wide assessment of the strain-level diversity of Bradyrhizobium, a dominant soil bacterial genus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.29.656829v1

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🤖💬 Saying “I used AI” makes people trust you less. Across 13 experiments, disclosure of AI use lowered trust – whether by artists, teachers, or analysts. Even when AI was accurate. Even when disclosure was required. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm #GenAI #Trust #AI 🧪

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A Rufous Hummingbird feeder fight this morning, 8x slowed (sounding like Clangers). Their wingbeat rate has been recorded at over 50 beats per second! #birdingBC 🇨🇦🧪🌎

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This is a scary article by Carl Zimmer about the how scientists have found a second species of the fungus that causes white nose syndrome in bats. A potentially devastating development 🧪🦇

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

With all the awfulness I see everywhere I need to find things to make me smile. This is one.

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Same! but it wasn’t Covid, apparently 🤷‍♀️😕

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☕🧠 Caffeine or placebo? Your brain cannot tell For regular coffee drinkers, decaf can boost brain activity and reaction time almost like the real thing. It is the ritual – not just the caffeine – that wakes you up. 🔗 www.cell.com/heliyon/full... #SciComm #Neuroscience 🧪 #Coffee

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🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e... Please share, thank you 🙏🏻

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🎉 Congrats to postdoc Vivianna Sanchez on her U of Arizona postdoc grant ($1,500)! Vivi works at the intersection of SciCom, outreach, research & undergrad education. Plus 🐝 and 🦠! She's leading our @calalive.bsky.social funded work culturing soil microbes across CA. Well-deserved recognition! 👏

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Cats are so elegant.

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Wrote a long book that comes out August. It covers from the origins of life at alkaline hydrothermal vents some 4 billion years ago through the Volcker Shock. I'm told pre-orders help, so if that sounds like your thing, buy one, won't you? www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

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Interested in how Fungi are shaping the future of our planet? 🍄 🌍🌎🌏🍄‍🟫Check out the latest “The Future is Fungi podcast”featuring yours truly ! 👇🏻 open.spotify.com/episode/2ddA...

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Devised by Harvard scientists, FaceAge assesses your health — even how long you will live — from a photograph

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