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A thread about the devastating effects of measles. Get your kids vaccinated.

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open.spotify.com/episode/1LuV... Great episode about all things insects with Dr Lee Haines from the University of Notre Dame. Lee is an amazing person and excellent storyteller.

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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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Τέσσερις καθηγητές της Οξφόρδης απαντούν στην άποψη πως οι συγκεντρώσεις των Τεμπών αποτελούν «σχέδιο πολιτικής εκτροπής και ανωμαλίας» https://thepressproject.gr/tesseris-kathigites-tis-oxfordis-apantoun-stin-apopsi-pos-oi-sygkentroseis-ton-tebon-apoteloun-schedio-politikis-ektropis-kai-anomalias/

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Νήμα #Τέμπη 1/ Με προβληματισμό, αν και χωρίς έκπληξη, παρακολουθούμε την προσπάθεια να παρουσιαστούν οι κινητοποιήσεις για την υπόθεση των Τεμπών ως μέρος σχεδίου "πολιτικής εκτροπής και ανωμαλίας". Η συντονισμένη και επικίνδυνη αυτή απόπειρα υπονόμευσης του συνταγματικού και διεθνώς κατοχυρωμένου

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Thrilled to see our paper out today @plosbiology.org! By wonderful PhD student @deepanshund.bsky.social & great team of collaborating authors. Fungi hack immune receptor to drive immune evasion in the brain & cause neurodegeration. Thanx DarwinTrust @wellcometrust.bsky.social @BBSRC for funding. 😃

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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In honour of #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience this week, we are revisiting timely #DMMEditorials from fantastic #WomeninScience who are part of our editorial team. First, Monica Justice discusses the importance of including both sexes in research. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.050759

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IT'S HAPPENING! The Woodstock of Biology 2.0 meets Night Science @nightsciencepod.bsky.social 10-13 of June in Prague & the Woods of Bohemia... Be there or be REJECTED. #theconferencetoendallconferences

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Biology Woodstock 2.0 will be happening! Stay tuned but put down June 10-13 for a trip to Prague. bsky.app/hashtag/thec...

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Talking about war on knowledge: Far-right groups fund and launch “medical journal” with Great Barrington Declaration members in the editorial board. Nowdays the simple act of doing (and publishing) legit research will be an act of resistance www.importantcontext.news/p/a-new-acad...

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I’m not sure I can “like” this post but it presents in no uncertain terms how US Universities are attacked by their own government. The war against knowledge is on.

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«[..] τον ορθό λόγο ως εργαλείο που υποτάσσεται στις επιταγές του θείου λόγου.» Ευτυχώς που υπάρχουν και τύποι σαν τον «Πρύτανη» του ΕΚΠΑ να μας θυμίζουν γιατί φύγαμε και γιατί δεν πρόκειται να γυρίσουμε πίσω ποτέ.

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This is a good if terrifying summary of Trump’s war on science www.science.org/content/blog...

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Η «πλάκα» είναι ότι αυτή η συζήτηση (του selective state sector/grammar schools) στην Βρετανία έχει λήξει από τη δεκαετία του 70. Βρήκαν ότι αυτά τα σχολεία υποβαθμίζουν τα υπόλοιπα γειτονικά (αφού παίρνουν τους καλύτερους) και το κάνουν ταξικά (μπαίνουν όσοι έχουν τα χρήματα για φροντιστήριο).

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Our latest... Congrats to Seb Sorge, Victor Girard & coauthors for devising HolFast, a chemically defined (holidic) diet for #Drosophila development that performs almost as well as a yeast diet. If you study developmental #nutrition or #metabolism please try it out... www.cell.com/developmenta...

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"Three vaccination rings were defined today. The first ring involves about 40 contacts and contacts of contacts of the first reported and confirmed case, a health worker who has died." www.who.int/news/item/03...

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Ο Γιάννης Μάγγος θα συμβολίζει πάντα τον ανυποχώρητο αγώνα ενός πατέρα, μέχρι τη δικαίωση του παιδιού του. Αποτελεί παράδειγμα επιμονής και αξιοπρέπειας για όλους μας.

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"Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack." Speak up. Act. And in the words of Dan Savage, keep dancing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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the beauty of early detection of virus through wastewater surveillance: the case for poliovirus. As only a small fraction of infected persons develop paralytic disease, this virus can spread under the radar before being picked up. Guidance on actions here www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...

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Sorry, 15 years not 25, and hello @briandeer.bsky.social whose awesome investigative journalism uncovered this scandal in the first place. Follow him folks!

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Powerful and important infographics by @firefoxx66.bsky.social about the ongoing destruction of our public health and scientific infrastructure, one of the nation’s greatest assets. Read. Share. Take action.

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ica.art/films/in-foc... a great opportunity to see Naderi’s (rather under-seen) films made outside of Iran at the ICA in London.

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Αυτές οι αποκαλύψεις σε μια κανονική χώρα θα έριχναν την κυβέρνηση σε λίγες μέρες. Όταν όμως δεν υπάρχει αντιπολίτευση να πιέσει και οι βουλευτές της συμπολίτευσης ενδιαφέρονται μόνο για την βραχυπρόθεσμη πολιτική τους επιβίωση τότε δεν κουνιέται φύλλο.

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So long Marianne…

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please read this thread about our new piece in @bmj.com about further consequences for US withdrawal from WHO and its suggestion of setting up an alternative health body...

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To all constituents, journalists, and representatives interested in today’s hearings for RFK Jr, please read, consider, and ask the following questions of him. On behalf of the Coalition for the Life Sciences cc: @needhibhalla.bsky.social www.coalitionforlifesciences.org

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This got real dark, real fast. The most apt comparison to world events I've seen is the Chinese Cultural Revolution's crackdown on scientists that didn't tow the party line. 1/3

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A devastating article for an unconscionable tragedy. The Children of Gaza.

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Dear America Maybe you need an Independent SAGE right now? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Really impressed with the progress in understanding fly brains. I went down a rabbit hole of understanding the FlyWire dataset over the holidays. My writeup here: www.neuroai.science/p/a-primer-o...

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I am a disabled scientist & STEM education researcher, situational white cane user, and proudly neurodivergent. Here is my very first AP quote, thanks to my involvement with the fabulous group, @accessiblegeo.bsky.social! #DisabledInSTEM #NothingAboutUsWithouUs apnews.com/article/acce...

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level-headed and knowledgeable analysis as usual from Sam. On Trump’s inner circle. TL:DR: expect competing interests to be played out by huge egos.

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Tatsuo Miyajima Opposite Circle from the Tate Modern exhibition “Electric dreams”

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Rip beautiful master of darkness

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If you’re interested in a PhD on insect immunity (and many other things besides) here in Oxford: bsky.app/profile/iles...

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Beautiful preview by Nicola Harris and @benjmarsland.bsky.social thoughtfully discussing #theonlylabever 's recent manuscript. @cellpress.bsky.social Image credit to Matthew Macowan. 🙏 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... Open access article to Burrows at el. here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kIClL7PXq...

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How are pathogens and parasites responding to planetary change, what does this mean for people and biodiversity, and what is to be done? New @viralemergence.org synthesis out today in Nature Rev Biodiversity (@natrevbiodiv.bsky.social) with a fantastic author team🧪😷 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Grant reviewers, do not say there needs to be more preliminary data without actually specifying what data are required. If you are unable to do so the comment is facile and negative for the sake of negativity. There are many grants that do not need any preliminary data.

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And so we move into the next phase of reality’s Squid Game: the end of fact-checking. From now on, what happened, what you think happened, and what you wanted to have happened, are all of equal value. Other than people getting killed, what could possibly go wrong? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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I am so sad to lose Dr. Ruth Steward. She was a groundbreaking scientist and a fierce role model for #WomenInScience. This photo is our dinner group with seminar speaker @rburdine1.bsky.social and @lacefieldlab.bsky.social @schindlerlab.bsky.social (1/27/2020). May her memory be an inspiration.

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To academic folk: would you consider making public a review you received for a manuscript you submitted to a “high-ranking” journal if you thought that its level of superficiality was almost insulting to the work of your trainees?

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Since no other party has the guts to say it, we will; #Brexit was an utter disaster, materially impacting the lives of everyone in the country for the worst, foisted on us by malicious actors and should be reversed as soon as possible. #BrexitDisaster #RejoinEU www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Some thoughts from me and others about what worries us about future pandemics, and whether we are prepared for them.

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Neuronal regulation of immunity: why, how and where? "Why is it beneficial to allow the nervous system any control over immunity? How the brain communicates with the peripheral immune system? Where in the brain this immune information is processed and regulated?" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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