iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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María de la Ohlala @menchubasquero.bsky.social · 21h

No sabía q en 2003 Disneyland Paris pidió a la familia de Luis Buñuel poner una calle a su nombre y el hijo les contestó q ok pero q quería 10 millones de € y q la calle se llamara «Boulevard Luis Buñuel-Me cago en Dios y el fascista de Walt Disney». Pero qué puta maravilla es esta. Os dejo la carta

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Ana Viñuela @anavinuela.bsky.social · 21h

Holy s*, less than 4%success rate for Populations and Systems medicine 😩

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The broader lesson may be that interrogating stress responses by unleashing chemical or genetic catastrophe on the cells tells you what the pathways can do but not necessarily what the cell uses them for.”

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When your proposal gets killed by an algorithm that has no capacity to understand science, what will you do? When your colleague's proposal gets killed by an algorithm that has no capacity to understand science and amplifies biases by default, what will you do? That's where we're at 🧪

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, there it is. The EU is also going to use slop algorithms to put an artificial number on proposals. This is how we lose. This is a disaster 🧪

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Trends in Genetics @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Preparing Primary Care Professionals for Genomics-Informed Healthcare" by Anne E. Greb & colleagues FREE till Nov. 17th at authors.elsevier.com/a/1ns4ucQbJI...

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026

Claude making a scientific discovery

Black-and-white three-part comic. In the first scene, one simple cartoon figure holds out a small round handmade-looking object and says, “I MADE THIS.” Another figure replies, “YOU MADE THIS?” In the second scene, the second figure is shown alone holding the object. In the final scene, that figure holds it proudly and says, “I MADE THIS”

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Ana Viñuela @anavinuela.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Because, of course, cutting staff, increasing number of students per class, punish staff for no reason and make them unhappy and less caring is going to do wonders for the students.

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bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A single-nucleus multi-omic atlas of gene regulation across 21 adult human tissues www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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fdg 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 #7291 @esmipueblojoder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

La nueva temporada de "Futurama" arranca ni más ni menos que con un epitafio: "In loving memory of science. Born 624 BC. Died 2026 AD".

Imagen de inicio de "Futurama" con el siguiente texto:

"In loving memory of science.
Born 624 BC. Died 2026 AD".

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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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Ana Viñuela @anavinuela.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At the BRIDGING EUROPEAN SCIENCE event. Spanish scientist in the world gather this year in Oslo (Norway) to discuss the state of science and innovation.

Photo of a woman doing a public speech. On a big TV screen. Text on screen: Institutional welcome
Ilma. Sra. Doña Eva Ortega Paíno
General Secretary for Research
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities
BRIDGING EUROPEAN SCIENCE

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Le Dog @ledog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

After another busy @ducuuo.bsky.social picket I’d like to highlight another way we’re fighting back. This is to cover the legal costs for a judicial review of the governance decisions that led to the threat of compulsory redundancies. Please help if you can. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/judicial-r...

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For every one of these men who get a dramatic front page story, there are 25-50 postdocs who leave the country much less voluntarily.

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

2023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give

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António Costa @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu · 21/09/2026

As of January, Australian researchers will be able to take part in Horizon Europe. And we are both taking strong action to protect young people online. This shows the strength of the 🇪🇺🇦🇺 partnership. Our joint press release: link.europa.eu/JKpPQd

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Joint press release following trilateral EU-Australia Leaders meeting

The President of the European Council, António Costa, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese met on 21 September in the ma...

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Marleen Stikker @marleen.oso.social · 21/09/2026

Meta: “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform (topics that are central to Woolf’s work) are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out. “ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they cover ‘social topics’

Facebook and Instagram ads mentioning ‘civil rights or feminism’ are filtered out, Meta tells theatre

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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We are recruiting for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Biomedical AI to open up new frontiers at the interface of genetics, biochemistry and the use of population-scale data to guide development of therapeutics! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Come do some blue sky research w/ me & @cfoguet.bsky.social 😁

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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Honestly social media has been all downhill from here.

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Joe Merrick @joemerrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To commemorate the collaboration between Pokémon and the ESA, a special Pikachu plush was sent to the International Space Station from April 11th through June 17th What a picture. Absolutely stunning

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Pedro @hjorvik.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

Regular reminder that The Handmaid's Tale is not fiction, but a collection of real cases Margaret Atwood pasted around a story. This is not "straight out of Handmaid's Tale", this is what The Handsmaid's Tale was made from.

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Adam Auton @adamauton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What can we learn about a single rare variant? Published today in Science: the 23andMe Research Institute and Dana-Farber studied the EGFR T790M in 10.1M 23andMe research participants. The variant has OR = 25.2 for lung cancer, rising to 61.7 in never-smokers(!). 🧵

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

'This exercise sets out clearly that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, the cost of teaching in a university is not covered by the tuition fee. It also demonstrates that the savings that providers have made in order to address this gap have hit academic staff particularly hard'.

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Universities Scotland and Universities UK allow their member universities to break employment time and time again. Solidarity to colleagues at Edinburgh University who should take union reps with them in to those meetings. We have seen what happens when they are not allowed to join.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My understanding is that the evidence shows LLM-based assessment gives better 'marks' to LLM-written things (essays, grants etc). So by choosing to use LLM-based assessment, UKRI will likely penalise every academic who actually writes their own grants unassisted. Grim.

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Peder B @braadland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

100%. Especially that this removes the joyful part of research. Also, when grants are written by AI and scored by AI, all the wrong people will get funding, draining creativity and creating a convergence in "thinking" and "ideas"

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The UK research system is completely giving up on supporting innovation and creativity.

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Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Holy moly, @ensembl.org killed biomart! Hope many R scripts are there out there that depend on biomaRt? How many people have informatics practicals, or undergraduate project instructions that depend on a web interface for bulk selection of data?

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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm tired of hearing this stuff from politicians. 'McDonald said prime minister Andy Burnham had personally told him he wants more of the UK’s “world-class research” to foster growth and jobs.' www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

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New science minister: funding system ‘destroying’ value of research - Research Professional News

Chris McDonald says he wants fewer and longer-term grants, plus a “smoother and simpler system”

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Woke up and realised that even before the final sacking next week that my university now employs more people with English Literature PhDs in administration than in the English department. Tells you something about the state of HE.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Philippe Batut @philippebatut.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🧬🔬 Why are enhancers transcribed and how does that impact gene regulation? I’m really excited to share our new paper in @science.org showing that noncoding RNAs control the timing of gene activation in embryos. With Mike Levine #ScienceResearch @columbiamed.bsky.social A few highlights below... 🧵👇

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Noncoding transcription controls the developmental dynamics of long-range gene regulation

The genomic regions regulating gene expression are often themselves transcribed into a variety of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). However, the regulatory roles of this noncoding transcription remain largely ...

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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

'Researchers are having to spend too much time applying for grants, so we should award fewer of them' is the kind of logic that evidently makes sense to people responsible for research funding. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/science...

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Science minister: UKRI should fund ‘fewer, longer awards’

Chris McDonald backs UK Research and Innovation’s demand management push with dig at ‘value-destroying’ peer review

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

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David Bollero @dbollero.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hoy es un gran día para el pueblo saharaui: El Congreso avalará darles la nacionalidad española. Con todo, lo justo es que el #SaharaOccidental se libere de la ocupación ilegal de #Marruecos y lxs saharauis puedan regresar a su país. #SaharaLibre www.eldiario.es/politica/con...

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El Congreso avalará dar la nacionalidad española a los saharauis en plena crisis de Ceuta

El PSOE y sus socios apoyarán la propuesta de Sumar, que afectará a los nacidos en la excolonia antes de 1977 y sus descendientes. Vox votará en contra, mientras el PP apunta a la abstención: “Estamos...

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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Ana Viñuela @anavinuela.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Please share! Fully funded PhD position (UK home fees) at U. of Dundee for someone interested in combining wet-lab (Dr Murdoch) and computational approaches (🙋‍♀️ 2nd supervisor), with plenty of scope for learning new skills across both areas. 🧪🧬 Deadline 21 September

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Redox Control of RNA Splicing in Cardiovascular Disease at University of Dundee on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Redox Control of RNA Splicing in Cardiovascular Disease at University of Dundee, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📣 New preprint out from the lab! “Enhanced power and transferability for genetics-driven metabolomic biomarker discovery in admixed American cohorts” tackles the important problem that many omics studies still have limited representation of admixed populations www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I know I am repeating myself here but: in 2012 the right-wing government did this in Spain. They dismantled the Ministry of Science and incorporated it as a department in the Ministry of Economy. This effectively gave them control over the entire budget because it was one and the same 🧪

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 04/09/2026

Booking your trains Brussels-Vienna-Budapest shouldn't require three different websites.🚉 We are making travel across our EU countries seamless and more reliable. For your weekend to be about the destination, not the stress of booking. How? ⬇️

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