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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Library scenes - with almost all scientific literature being digital, including textbooks, I wonder how many of these books actually got picked up in the past year. Any insights into library functioning folks?

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Just like food - junk content and mental obesity will hit the most vulnerable the hardest. In such an environment, we must promote independent thought, nuanced discourse, and sustained engagement with any literature as ever more important skills in the future - starting from primary education. 🧪

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Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Growing up in urban Saudi Arabia, I actually didn’t get to see a true night sky until my mid twenties when I visited Cherry Springs State Park, PA. It is almost a grounding experience and one that a huge chunk of future generations might be deprived of.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 23/07/2025

🗓️Upcoming launch! Join us live on 26 July from 02:40 BST/03:40 CEST to watch our Vega-C rocket take flight once again. #VV27 will carry Airbus's four CO3D satellites and CNES MicroCarb mission. 🚀 Launch is scheduled for 03:03 BST/04:03 CEST.

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Watch live: Vega-C to launch CO3D and MicroCarb

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Call me skeptical but at this point it all appears symbolic unless someone’s willing to enforce these laws and see the judgement carried through. Unfortunately, symbolic feels good but doesn’t achieve tangible outcomes.

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I made this bluesky account a little less than a year ago. Didn’t use it much because lack of users and low adoption. Thought other social media might bounce back (delusional me). But now I’m convinced that traditional social media has very little to offer. Back on here to give it another chance!

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

It seems easy to make fun of basic science – for example why would you want to study bacterial immune systems? But then you would have to admit that that’s exactly what led to the discovery of using CRISPR as an insanely good technology for genome engineering.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

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Anna Obenauf @obenaufa.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

1/23 Big news for the #ObenaufLab! So excited to finally share our new study providing another puzzle piece, why immunotherapy fails in many tumors, now out in @Nature 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium @cbias.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

First panel discussion of the symposium: (Generative) AI and its implications for bioimage analysis. Panellists are Assaf Zaritsky, Lydia France and Xiaoxuan Liu. Chaired by Amy Strange #CBIAS2024

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The goal is not to have a zero risk project; those are generally not worth working on. People with a good relationship with risk are definitely not avoiding it. They are super honest about it and they basically make it their goal to slowly chip away at it. nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...

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66 | Michael Fischbach and the scientific decision tree - Night Science

In this episode, Stanford professor Michael Fischbach discusses insights from his course on how to choose meaningful research problems. Highlights include:- Invest time in problem selection: Spend mor...

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/11/2024

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

a cartoon with two panels

panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground

Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there"

The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons

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Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the skyline

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We need to have a ‘code of conduct’ for reviewing manuscripts, like (1) if you say that something is not novel then provide the reference. (2) If you propose an experiment, state precisely to which claim it is crucial. (3) If you want to say something nasty then sign your name.

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Too often we spend only two weeks choosing a problem and then many years trying solving it, but this limits our potential impact. A must read for PhD students: Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38608651/

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi everyone, I am a postdoc at UW-Madison developing microphysiological systems for predicting patient response to cancer therapies.

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

On the side, please enjoy these stunning view of the northern lights from Wisconsin!

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I had forgotten what it was like to go on social media and not instantly get pissed off, this is refreshing!

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