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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 47m

This is pretty cool. Does it really get good results? Was it hard to learn and implement?

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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 19h

🏁 That's a wrap! The @biohub.org Cell Tracking machine learning challenge on @kaggle.com is over: 4,478 participants, 3,947 teams, 120 countries, 95,438 submissions, tracking every cell of zebrafish embryos. 🧪🔬🧵 kaggle.com/competition... #microscopy

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026

Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga. Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 15h

That's (partly) why they're so angry.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪 Oct 2 (Year 2, Week 40) - NIH gets $$ out, but $1.4 billion “diverted out” of NSF research funding - student journalism, suppression & censorship - 21 states sue EPA & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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Year 2, Week 40

Sept 26-Oct 2 – ...and statistics

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 23h

Got my flu jab today (after coming down with a start of semester cold on Friday). Didn't bother getting them until I actually got the flu a couple.years ago and was laid out for a week. Thank goodness for vaccines.

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Virginie Uhlmann @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Are you a biologist working with microscopy images? A computer scientist wanting to work with microscopy data? Their boss??? None of these, but curious how AI has transformed microscopy image analysis? 🔬🤖 This one's for you: 📄 doi.org/10.1146/annu... More in the thread! 🧵

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From Pixels to Discovery: Microscopy Image Analysis in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Modern microscopy generates data volumes that far exceed human analytical capacity. Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed microscopy image analysis into an engine for quan...

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't even understand why one would use an LLM for math. Why would I spend lots of time adapting my screwdriver to be a hammer, only for it to be worse at hammering than a cheap hammer, when hammers of all kinds already exist?

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Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy Pluripotency Day! #Oct4

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Selling out democracy for two bottles of shampoo, a box of toaster waffles, 8 AA batteries, a dozen eggs, a jar of peanut butter, and six rolls of quilted toilet paper apiece.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is huge! Another cancer responds well to immunotherapy. A child had metastatic liver cancer. The patient had chemotherapy & a liver resection. No avail. Then: Two infusions, eight weeks apart. Doctors saw complete regression. No systemic toxicity. 🧪 www.bcm.edu/news/care-st...

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CARE study reports complete regression of liver cancer in a child treated with novel immunotherapy

A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Seattle Children’s...

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know of someone, a grad student --> post-doc, whose parents bought her a place of Harvard St through a shell company named after her childhood pet frog so they could avoid some taxes. I mean, I probably know more but I just don't know that I know.

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Arguably @arguablymag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To unlock big economic gains, progressives will have to win the argument on free movement, writes @johnspringford.bsky.social. www.arguably.uk/p/eu-free-mo...

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EU free movement is an opportunity, not a threat

Progressives need to rediscover the positive case for immigration

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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking for a PhD? @crick.ac.uk PhD applications for next year are open. 4 year program with lots of outstanding projects on offer. If you are interested in viral host interactions, cytoskeleton, cell bio, live cell imaging - see Way lab project + video. plz repost www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

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PhD student positions

PhD projects for the 2027 Crick PhD programme.

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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks to #LabConstrictor our tools are getting easier and easier to distribute and install 😀

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We gave an acquaintance a lift on a 4 hour journey, many years ago, and I said, "I hope you don't mind listening to a musical called Hamilton on the way" and now we are great friends. @dottsky.bsky.social

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Without a trace of sarcasm: *this* is what Jesus would have done.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aha, that makes a lot of sense! Some coder was having a laugh. Seems like it's been rectified now, sadly.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh my goodness, what am I reading?!

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow, I remember enjoying this as a very very small child ... did not realize Jeff Goldblum was in it!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When people in power deliver bad news to you, they expect you to just take punch, accept it, and move on. In these situations, we need to empower ourselves to reject the premise. I want you to look at three time points in the fight to save the academy of natural sciences with me. (Thread)

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some people want to live in a mirrored room and see nothing but their own preferences reflected back at them. The rest of us are actually interested in engaging with other human beings.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes, the LLM may indeed quote a bonkers Reddit thread at you very confidently.

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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The original #Luxar thread is way too long and most people missed most demos, so I will be slow-dripping demos in the next weeks... Here is how you can annotate anything drawn and have text, images, videos overlays displayed on-hover or links opened on-click!

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is an illegitimate system devoid of "due process," and everyone with moral intuition knows it

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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mine comes from Mister Rogers, who was definitely real and lived in my neighborhood, so check and mate, sir. WWMRD

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Right? I feel like the latter is a lot of projection, from people who want to question gender/sexuality paradigms but are too scared by the social ramifications to do so. Like, I find gender studies fascinating and I enjoy playing with drag - but that hasn't turned me trans bc I'm just not.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Scam bro toxin, more like ... hey o!

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Marie Held @makaefer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Want to enhance your image analysis skills with napari? We’re running a two-day training event on how to use napari to effectively analyse your bioimaging data. 🕒 Applications close on 15 September. Learn more and apply 👇 www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbi...

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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026

The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I use Claude to help me write basic chunks of R script ("make these charts but with blue dots" and "what correction to use on data with n conditions" etc) but no way I am uploading unpublished manuscripts to it (or trusting any large blocks of code I can't understand).

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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Electrochemical response triggers organ growth, following tail injury in a #zebrafish embryo. Credit to @ritamateus.bsky.social, @nerlielisa.bsky.social, & @liujinghui.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Totally rational. Sending good vibes through the internets.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.

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How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit

And how they might have helped save the future of American apples

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 24/09/2026

DoorDash bribed Cuomo with $1M for his mayoral campaign. Mayor Mamdani rejected that cash and just made history with $131.5M settlement for DoorDash drivers screwed out of their wages — the largest worker settlement in US History. This is what leadership looks like. ❤️✊🏽

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Johannes Soltwedel @jo-soltwedel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OME-Zarr 0.6 allows to compose multi-modal image data across dimensionalities into a joint dataset and ingest it into a supporting viewer of your choice. Combining image data across scales from µm 🧫 to cm 🧠 and beyond will be much easier now! Dataset source: rodare.hzdr.de/record/3131

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm deep down the rabbit-hole on Göbekli Tepe, a Neolithic ritual site with these carved columns, the oldest known megaliths. And I love the carvings. ART from 10,000 years ago. This one (Pillar 12), my dear friends, is decorated with DUCKS. 😀🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆

Pillar 12, Enclosure C: ducks and boar
CREDIT: Dosseman - Wikimedia

"Building C feature at least two, more likely three, concentric walls. It has a round-oval ground plan and has a diameter of some 30 metres. As such, it is the largest of the excavated megalithic monumental buildings so far discovered at Göbekli Tepe. Its two central T-shaped pillars appear to have been destroyed in antiquity, when a large robber pit was excavated into the building and the two monoliths intentionally destroyed. It is still unclear when this destruction occurred, but most likely in the prehistoric (Neolithic?) period. Remarkable for this building and also for Building D, is that the two central pillars were slotted into two carefully carved pedestals. These pedestals had been worked from the natural limestone bedrock. The floor of this building is the equally carefully smoothed natural rock surface of the limestone plateau. The western central pillar was partially restored in 2009. On its left broad side there is the depiction of a large fox (in low relief). The bottom part of the eastern shaft was found in-situ, i.e. still inserted in its carved podest. This pillar is still preserved to a height of 2 metres, though its original height was probably around 5 metres. It appears that this pillar had also been subjected to burning at the time of the deliberate destruction, as testified by its flaky appearance. All other T-shaped pillars belonging to Building C are found at more or less regular intervals within the two inner concentric walls of the building. Eleven pillars have so far been found in the inner ring, while the second ring features seven pillars. This number would very likely increase if excavations were continued. It dates from the 10th-9th mill. BC"

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