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Excited to share this collaborative work led by Guosong Hong’s group @stanfordneuro.bsky.social. A new method to render animals optically transparent for deep tissue imaging across the visible spectrum 🌈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Happy to share this new #glycotime work with collaborator Tony Wyss-Coray, led by grad student Sophia Shi, mucin loss at the BBB is associated with aging and cognitive decline, can be reversed by restoration with with gene therapy. Aging is a mucinopathy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Trump's appeal is very similar to that of a stand-up comedian. he violates social norms and always says the shit his voters are thinking. their fanatic loyalty comes from the fact that he created space for them to be more honest without fear of consequence. they will love him forever over that.

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

Great to attend #qmss2025 @griffith.edu.au with @mailaved.bsky.social, @kolarich-glyco-lab.bsky.social , @benschulz.bsky.social, Cassandra Pegg and Nicki Packer at Gold Coast City.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible opening plenary at the Queensland Mass Spectrometry Symposium 2025 #qmss2025 by @hecklab.bsky.social on mass spectrometry of individual ions 🤯 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37279016/

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Such a pleasure to host Prof Albert Heck @hecklab.bsky.social at UQ and hear about his incredible work on glycoprotein mass spectrometry

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Insurance premiums are up in large part due to climate change induced disasters, yet Mr Dutton wants Australia to increase its greenhouse gas emissions which would only make those disasters worse and premiums higher. #auspol

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

How amino acids taste 🧪

submitted 156 days ago • 17 comments

Nature covers @scurry.bsky.social open letter to @royalsociety.org "which calls for the society to stand up for the science community and “the values it claims to believe in”" ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

submitted 16 days ago • 635 comments

Whether Ita meant this or not, her evidence has conveyed the distinct impression that the ABC thinks that to "criticise Israel" is something only an "activist" can do, and that being an "activist" makes you unemployable by it.

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

Oh damn. Create chaos, fire everyone he doesn't like, destroy any amenity or value, and turn it into a place where only Nazis feel like they belong. As with Twitter, so with the USA.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not sure how to explain how financially devastating this will be for universities. This is, literally, catastrophic for universities and for science in the United States.

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

Here's some the press coverage of the nationwide rallies to protect trans youth 🧵 www.perthnow.com.au/news/social/...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

You can dicker over the details, or just tell it like it is. The executive branch has declared war on science in the United States.

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Nicely Mass Spectrometry friendly Wordle today 😊

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Using hallucinating copy/paste plagiarizing machines for homework is one thing, using them in military weapons is something quite different

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

submitted 24 days ago • 125 comments

If the Aust Govt does not denounce this immediately, we are complicit in approving ethnic cleansing of a historic level

submitted 24 days ago • 99 comments

They've given up pretending. My SMH/The Age cartoon.

submitted 23 days ago • 54 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 25 days ago • 1328 comments

Any countries whose scientific research funding bodies are NOT currently under siege by their own national leadership would do very well announcing investments in bringing in foreign research talent right now

submitted 25 days ago • 64 comments

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 25 days ago • 523 comments

Wonderful 10 days in Brisbane setting up shop with @benschulz.bsky.social for Bea @beatricetropea.bsky.social and doing a small bit of sightseeing🐨. Time to head back now, thank you Ben for the hospitality, and @Bea, remember that you will have to come back!! 😂😂❤️🇦🇺

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

All Five Eyes partners need to presume that ALL US government IT systems are now insecure. Similarly the EU need to treat any data interchange agreements with the US as null and void. This includes cloud hosting on Azure, AWS and Google (not that anyone uses Google Cloud ;)

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

I think countries around the world should levy tariffs specifically on Tesla in response to US tariffs, as well as banning Twitter as a national security threat driving a wedge between our co-dictators may be the most effective thing they can do

submitted 27 days ago • 742 comments

Am I really understanding this correctly, that the Brisbane "Metro" project has already cost $1.45 Billion. Not for new services, but just to replace existing buses on two lines with electric buses? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

this is where "just asking questions" and sports bans have brought us - the attempted total erasure of trans people from public life fuck these people, trans rights are human rights

submitted 30 days ago • 22 comments

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

submitted 31 days ago • 474 comments

It's great to have you visit @elisafadda.bsky.social!

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

What’s most maddening about Peter Dutton’s casual categorization of the Greens alongside violent extremists is that he wasn’t immediately asked to clarify this. Even during a doorstop interview there’s enough time to ask: “Did you just compare the Greens party to white supremacists?”

submitted 31 days ago • 15 comments

Just heard about the news out of Queensland. Hormone therapy, from puberty onwards, is safe, rigorously evidence-based, life saving medicine that results in higher quality of life, lower rates of depression and anxiety, and a direct reduction in deaths for trans and gender diverse people.

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments