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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10h

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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sky @scrutacieli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pensavo fosse un monte in Arizona. È il Cervino. Ma tutto bene, eh. Avanti così!

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 19h

The Grand Duchy of Tuscany abolished the death penalty 10 years after the American declaration of independence. I think the United States should do it 250 years later.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 21h

An ERC committee member said in front of a crowd that there was already a triage of applications based on the applicant's CV. Now he expected that AI would be used. Preparing an ERC takes MONTHS, you have to work out the financial plan as well as the science. Imagine being doomed from the start.

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Am I going mad - I can't think of good/recent review articles on genotypic prediction of AMR

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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Oxford

Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this c. 1925 evening dress with an embroidered cream silk chiffon bodice and cap sleeves and a 'skirt' of long beaded fringe, attributed to Reville and Rossiter. London Museum collection. #fashionhistory

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fighting fire with fire, a 4k morning run with 70 meter elevation gain 2 days after half marathon through the dunes, and just before 3 days of #MibiNet conference in Bensberg (near Cologne)

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James Lloyd 🧬 @jamespblloyd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m delighted to share our new pre-print: Make it so: Rapid and affordable plasmid sequencing on ONT platforms with PICARD-seq www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... I wanted to use a MinION to sequence my large repetitive plasmids in-house. Luckily @jwdebler.bsky.social was willing to help. 1/14

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Make it so: Rapid and affordable plasmid sequencing on ONT platforms with PICARD-seq

Plasmid construction underpins molecular biology and synthetic biology, yet validation is often limited to the inserted fragment rather than the whole plasmid, and around a third of laboratory-made pl...

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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is essential that you believe in the seed's ability to produce fruit long before the evidence arrives.

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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Did you know butterflies rest when it rains because it damages their wings? It's okay to rest during the storms of life. You'll always fly again.

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would like to highlight two postdoctoral positions in the project Neuronal Mechanisms of Reading in Children Using OPM-MEG at the University of Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit�� Deadline 30 Sep.

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Yaxara/Koris @yaxara.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tecnicamente sto ascoltando una fanfiction su Napoleone (ma scritta da Dumas) mentre faccio un puzzle. Devo rivere la mia vita.

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ArcheoSilvia @archeosilviag.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

I vicini avranno sicuramente capito che non sto studiando, ma schedando/preparando documentazione, perché sono ore che ascolto musica 'a volume assordante che quella non è musica è rumore, che si stona per non sentire la vocina della sua coscienza'. (E. Brizzi, Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo)

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

German-French actress Romy Schneider was born #OnThisDay in 1938. She wore this Gerdago designed cream and gold embroidered gown with sheer lace sleeves as Empress Elisabeth of Austria when she is crowned Queen of Hungary in Sissi: The Young Empress (1956). #film #costume

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Jan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 20/09/2026

Tidyplots offers a variety of diverging color schemes 🌈 Diverging color schemes are great to represent data that diverges around a central midpoint, often a meaningful neutral value like zero, an average, or a baseline. #rstats #dataviz

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Barbara is fun

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mixed-species interactions constrain diversification and shape biofilm evolution Klebsiella pneumoniae + Pseudomonas protegens + Pseudomonas aeruginosa in ISME Communications from Mozammel Hoque, with Diane McDougald, Scott Rice, @vscooper.micropopbio.org academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Routine childhood vaccines have brought immense benefit to the US For children born 1994-2023: ⬇️ 32M fewer hospitalizations ⬇️ 1.129M fewer deaths ⬇️ $504B direct savings ⬇️ $2.7T indirect savings Both science & policy have been essential to achieving these benefits www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

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Health and Economic Benefits of Routine Childhood...

This report describes health and economic benefits from routine childhood vaccines among children born during 1994–2023.

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Christopher Wheat @chriswheat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Authors: we introduce EcoLocator, a supervised deep neural network that jointly predicts geographic location and climate of origin from genotypes .. EcoLocator accurately recovers geographic location and environment of origin from genotype data, .. identifies adaptive loci more reliably than .. GEA

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Do you guys remember a science(?) paper in the last few years claiming humans went through a tiny bottleneck, and estimated there were some specific tiny number of humans alive? I wasn't happy at the time (maybe it was acting as if Ne was actual pop size?). Was there a blog or thread about it?

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DefinitelyNotAlice @alicele.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I was discussing precisely this point yesterday!

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Antimicrobial resistance #AMR @antimicrobial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How do we bridge the gap from AMR surveillance to real impact? Join top international experts in Oslo on Nov 6 to discuss One Health, policy, IPC & microbiome innovations. Domus Bibliotheca, UiO Program & free registration: share.google/l7lG8wbUIUw5...

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Antimicrobial resistance: Steps Towards a Safer One Health Future - University of Oslo

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest health challenges of our time. Join leading international experts in Oslo to explore how research, policy, innovation and global collaboration can help.

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Caminante, son tus huellas el camino y nada más; Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace el camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino sino estelas en la mar.” (Antonio Machado)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/09/2026

These days

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Aris Katzourakis @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Interested in a PhD on viral metagenomics from clinical samples? Check out this collaborative project between my group at @biology.ox.ac.uk and @eit.org eit.org/project/viro...

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Virome metagenomics from clinical samples

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fixed it. Also thank you! Also please support independent booksellers whenever you can! @astra.bsky.social

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Halloween Reminder 🎃

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DefinitelyNotAlice @alicele.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Did I just wear the furry headband that my daughter was wearing yesterday, just before we discovered a lice in her hair? Oh yeah! Why? Oh why?

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Lyssramscal Noah Wyle

ALT: Lyssramscal Noah Wyle

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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bravo! Much deserved! What a year.

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DefinitelyNotAlice @alicele.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me, during the pandemic!! Oh the memories ... I signed out in 2023, my Italian self could not cope with all these tubers... Most of them in Italian translated into rapa, and it felt like how many different kind of rapa can there possibly be?? Too many for me!! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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It’s my self-care hack of the year: I quit our local veg box scheme, and set my mind free | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Being a member felt like the right thing to do and it was a boon during the pandemic. But oh, the emotional labour, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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Dr Hugo Z. Hackenbush @novacula-occami.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Stegosaurs lived between 155 and 150 million years ago, and Tyrannosaurus Rex lived between 68 and 66 million years ago. Tyrannosaurus Rex are therefore closer to us in time than they are to stegosaurs.

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ArcheoSilvia @archeosilviag.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Sto facendo l'ennesimo rewatch di ER. È arrivata Lucy. Sappiamo tuttɛ cosa significa vero?

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ER: John Carter and Lucy Knight

Alt: ER: John Carter and Lucy Knight

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