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Ania Lorenc

@anialorenc.bsky.social
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Everyday computational biologist/bioinfrmagician, Sunday gardener. Immunology fan @sangerinstitute.bsky.social. Here her own views from Yorkshire. #InsulinForAll (me included!)

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Ania Lorenc @anialorenc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
So I look like a slow distillation atack
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juanalvarezdom.bsky.social @juanalvarezdom.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Delighted to share our latest now published in @science.org, where we developed "cyborg" pancreatic organoids to trace and stimulate functional human islet cell maturation. We're excited for the potential as new tools for #diabetes research and therapy!
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Implanted flexible electronics reveal principles of human islet cell electrical maturation
Understanding how human pancreatic α and β cell electrical activities mature is critical for building fully functional stem cell–derived (SC-) pancreatic organoids for research and therapeutics. We im...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
But it’s ‘not intended for diagnosis or treatment.’
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Benjamin Haibe-Kains @bhaibeka.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I strongly suggest this read on the topic and LLM antropomorphism: The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
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Arjun Raj @arjunraj.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Blog post: Just quit Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it. open.substack.com/pub/arjunraj...
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Just quit
Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/12/2025
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
💔🙏Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are celebrating Christmas today in the trenches while holding the line against Russian aggression They're doing it for their nation's survival & for Europe's security Merry Christmas to all of them & their families. May they reunite soon
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
One of the most pleasant surprises of the past 20 years was the transformation of Wikipedia into arguably the most reliable general information source freely accessible to the public. It’s not perfect — I’ve certainly seen errors — but it’s kind of shockingly good. One might consider a donation.
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 23/12/2025
Greta Thunberg arrested at a protest supporting Palestine Action hunger strikers
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Greta Thunberg arrested at a protest supporting Palestine Action hunger strikers
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been arrested in central London at a demonstration in support of Palestine Action hunger strikers.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity. Do listen. I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Maria Konnikova @mkonnikova.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Oliver Sacks was a hero of mine. I couldn't let @rachelaviv.bsky.social’s brilliant piece pass without comment. My latest, on why Sacks's fictions are so much worse than those of your garden-variety journalist fabulist. . open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...
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The man who mistook his imagination for the truth
The disappointing reality of one of my (ex-)heroes, Oliver Sacks
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 17/12/2025
#OtD 17 Dec 1970 soldiers were ordered to fire upon Polish dockworkers in Gdynia by the state to attempt to crush protests against price rises. Dozens were killed then buried, but strikes grew until the government had to back down stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8870...
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
i know this is hardly a new take but isn’t it WILD that wikimedia has to ask for donations to keep itself afloat when every LLM in the world has been trained on wikipedia data?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 13/12/2025
If you have a bank account in your country or use U.S. technology, as most of us do, this will 100% affect you and your loved ones now and well into the foreseeable future. And this is why #Digitalsovereignty should be a goal for every democratic government if they are serious about freedom.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Why does anyone use the Wilcoxon test for anything? It's not even transitive. It's sensitive to things one most likely is not looking for (changes in distribution shape) and relatively insensitive to what one usually is looking for (change in location). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ania Lorenc @anialorenc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Wondering how much it helps that Finnish is not widely spoken and not easy to learn (but Hungary contradicts this factor)
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Ania Lorenc @anialorenc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Just discovered Radu Isac, hilarious & resonates so much youtu.be/ndtMz2aNqi8?...
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Radu Isac: The War Next Door
YouTube video by Radu Isac
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free. Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/12/2025
It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country. Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
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The Powrie Lab @powrielab.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Day 4 and the final day of the BSI saw a fantastic talk from @labliston.bsky.social about Tregs in the brain and an excellent session devoted to “Barriers, bugs, and breakdowns” - right up our street! Thank you to all organisers and presenters @britsocimm.bsky.social for a great week in Liverpool🫶
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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 06/12/2025
We can't imagine what realities in Ukraine are. Some paperwork related to my car was delayed. Yesterday I got a text: "today I got the news that unit for whom Roma was driving current batch of cars or buggies got destroyed on a mission with few guys killed and other badly wounded... 1/3
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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 06/12/2025
People in comments write "this is not America". So what is it, Belgium? This is the US. This is the "mass deportation" policy in action. It's enacted by president elected on that mandate by Americans. He is still supported by one of the two major parties. It's what they voted for. They knew him.
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
"There's not enough women in STEM!" is a Anglo-Germanic problem, sure, all have problems with systemic inequality, but not to the same scale as Germany. Ya'll just pretending other countries don't exist.
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Ania Lorenc @anialorenc.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Polygenic risk scores probe selected DNA variants to estimate risks for traits like height or diabetes. Yet those very variants—or adjacent/linked ones—can shape cancer or infection resistance, musicality, wit, appearance. Using PRS to choose embryos is just a terrible idea
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Don't fall for the manipulative "censorship" framing of EU's fines against X for DSA violations. The EU is trying to enforce their laws. X is breaking them. And the U.S. government is defending big tech, billionaries, & bullshitters rather than protecting users. www.linkedin.com/posts/daphne...
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Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship. https://lnkd.in/g3Cyeeyk That would, indeed, be interesting! But this is just the EU… ...
Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship. https://lnkd.in/g3Cyeeyk That would, indeed, be interesting! But this is just the EU enforcing...
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mara lawniczak @marakat.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
a life changing opportunity made possible by the Nobel Prize funds awarded to John Sulston -- the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social runs the Sanger Prize scheme, open to an undergrad from any LMIC to spend 3 months here learning all about genomics. more details here www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...
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The Sanger Prize
The Sanger Prize is an outreach competition aimed at undergraduate students who live and study in low or middle income countries
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
5 December 1898 | A Polish Jew, Jakub Stieglitz, was born in Niebylec. An art historian. In #Auschwitz from 5 May 1942. No. 34793 He perished in the camp on 4 June 1942. --- Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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British Society for Immunology @britsocimm.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
And that's a wrap! Thank you all for making #BSI25 so special. What a fantastic week of celebrating immunology, catching up on the latest research and connecting with friends old and new. We can't wait to see you in Glasgow next year to do it all again. Love, The BSI staff team
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
4 December 1926 | Polish Jewish girl, Golda Bretmel, was born in Żelechów. She emigrated to France. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Angers on 20 July 1942. She did not survive. --- Children at Auschwitz Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN Podcast: youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
Black and white portrait of a girl with curly hair, wearing a dark blouse.
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 28/11/2025
plinkQC: An Integrated Tool for Ancestry Inference, Sample Selection, and Quality Control in Population Genetics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 R package meyer-lab-cshl.github.io/plinkQC/ #Rstats
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Huh. Mfs trying to destabilise Poland with illegal trilobite imports!
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Sadly, this is true, and already happening. Maybe I'd say "environment of increased uncertainty" but in substance, right.
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Ania Lorenc @anialorenc.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Obviously trying to revolutionise biology...
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Ania Lorenc @anialorenc.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It seemed so incredible that I visited the link. It's REAL. What was this story about almost 28% margin profit necessary to maintain high editorial standards?
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Ania Lorenc @anialorenc.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Thought provoking article about whether face transplants are indeed beneficial for patients. Extreme example of why the bar for benefits is much higher for life-enhancing (as opposed to life-saving) treatments. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable
Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
26 November 1921 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Bertha van den Berg, was born in Padang in Indonesia (then Dutch East Indies). In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz Podcast: youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
Black and white portrait of a woamn as a young person, gazing slightly to the side with a soft expression.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Not me coming across a write up on Halszka Osmólska, a palaeontologist born in the independent Poland, working for the Polish Academy of Sciences, activist in the Solidarity movement, awarded Order of Restored Poland, dying in Poland. Being labelled as Soviet/Russian in an English academic journal.
A table of women daurian workers
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Ania Lorenc @anialorenc.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
If they learn English you cannot complain they don't speak English 🤷‍♀️
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
War of aggression, mass killing of civilians, and settler colonialism
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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Really pleased to share the first paper to come out of the lab. We found that hospital patients were frequently colonised with P. aeruginosa and that the same clone was shared between the gut and the lung. The phylogenies indicate that the clones moved from lung->gut www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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High frequency body site translocation of nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Nature Communications
Here, the authors report within-host diversity and body site translocation dynamics in hospital samples of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and reveal that body site sharing was likely due to within-patient tra...
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I implore someone, anyone, in the media… Do your job And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly: …what were the motivations behind this?
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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
It is unprecedented that 47 medical and public health organizations should come together to condemn the actions of the CDC. www.apha.org/news-and-med... 1. American Academy of Pediatrics 2. Academic Pediatric Association 3. American Academy of Family Physicians ....
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Statement on CDC autism website changes
Our organizations, representing autistic individuals, their families, medical professionals and public health workers, are alarmed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is promoting the ...
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Ania Lorenc @anialorenc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The famous hole in the roof in the shape of Brexit
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Lars Juhl Jensen @larsjuhljensen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies
ALT: a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies
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Ania Lorenc @anialorenc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
@ryanairofficial.bsky.social this is from you the lowest of low, refusing to refund a doctor who helped in an emergency. Especially considering the sum involved.
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