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Hans De Loof

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
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Hans De Loof @hansdl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Quai d’Anjou. Paris
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Hans De Loof @hansdl.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
futurism.com/robots-and-m... It is just as bad as you think it might be!
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Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House
One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.
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Hans De Loof @hansdl.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
open.spotify.com/episode/73ti... Helemaal akkoord!
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10. Liever en/en dan of/of met Hans Van Vlierberghe, Diensthoofd Maag-, darm- en leverziekten UZ Gent
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Hans De Loof @hansdl.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
www.linkedin.com/in/stijncool... A must read
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 22/08/2025
Counting lives saved is difficult, but it can show us the great difference some people have made— Scientists can make an enormous difference in the world.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/06/2025
By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/05/2025
Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ
 “I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Our A.I. times ;-)
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 08/05/2025
Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms. Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability. Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
On becoming an autocracy @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Hans De Loof @hansdl.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Last week in SLC! Inspiring!
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Hans De Loof @hansdl.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I saw Condors yesterday at the Navajo bridge on highway 89A
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Important paper on rethinking heart disease, with a focus on atheroma and primary prevention, not just blood supply impairment (reactive, today's mode of secondary prevention) A @thelancet.bsky.social Commission www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/03/2025
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Our digital times :-)
what to tip in a fully automated restaurant
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Hans De Loof @hansdl.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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How Can Genome Sequencing Be Used for Patient Diagnosis?
Genome sequencing can help diagnose patients with rare diseases and unexplained diseases, but many patients can’t access this genetic test. Lack of knowledge and awareness among both clinicians and patients is one of the barriers to access. Watch this video to learn about what genome sequencing is, its potential benefits and limitations, how often it leads to diagnosis, and what patient groups...
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Hans De Loof @hansdl.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power
The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.
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Hans De Loof @hansdl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
RFK Jr. Falsely Claims Measles Vax Causes Deaths 'Every Year' | MedPage Today Just listen Click www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
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RFK Jr. Falsely Claims Measles Vax Causes Deaths 'Every Year'
Vaccine expert debunks recent statements from nation's top health official
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 10/03/2025
Every few years, we sign up for yet another platform just to keep in touch with our friends. Private platforms have locked users in for too long, causing a lack of innovation & competition in social media. Bluesky aims to fundamentally change this. Live in 20 min with @jay.bsky.team:
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Bluesky's CEO on the Future of Social Media | SXSW LIVE
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This
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Physics In History @physinhistory.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"Absence of evidence, is not the evidence of absence" - Carl Sagan
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 28/02/2025
"Politicians are allowed to criticize the press," writes the editorial board. "But there is a difference between using language and using muscle." The Trump administration "is mustering the arms of government to suppress speech it doesn’t like and compel words and ideas it prefers."
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Opinion | The MAGA War on Speech
If only the powerful are free to speak their minds, it’s not free speech.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/03/2025
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trump & Vance are disgusting PIGS rambling on about how Zelensky didn't thank them and how bad that is... THIS was a publicity stunt for King Trump to show Putin that he's a STRONGMAN -and on Putin's side. This was a planned public flogging of Zelensky. Pathetic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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At Least Now We Know the Truth
It’s ugly, but necessary to face.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 28/02/2025
Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Today's extract from Serving the Reich. What makes it worse is that I don't even need to add any explanatory comment, do I?
Extract from the book Serving the Reich about the failure of universities, academies and scientific institutions to respond to Nazi expulsions.
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Physics In History @physinhistory.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A classic word of warning before you start studying statistical mechanics. From "States of Matter", David L. Goodstein.
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Hans De Loof @hansdl.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Nice interview in JAMA about the link between patient data and updated guidelines! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Using Machine Learning to Reassess Clinical Guidelines
This Medical News article is an interview with Harvard’s Sanjat Kanjilal, MD, MPH, about his study using machine learning to assess whether current clinical guidelines for uncomplicated urinary tract ...
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The Pharmaceutical Journal @pharmaj.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
It takes more than clinical knowledge and technical skills to reach your full potential in pharmacy practice. Professional skills are equally important for delivering high-quality patient care. Find our collection of dedicated resources here 👇 #professionalskills buff.ly/4hnQnac
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Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Yes. I think using PubMed to help flood the zone is one tactic here. Hence my latest post - on risks and alternatives: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
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What if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely Maybe
PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
In a recent pair of papers in Nature, two teams of structural biologists report high-resolution structures of ApoB100, the protein component of LDL particles. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky🧪 #scinews
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Cholesterol-wrapping lipoprotein gets a closer look
Structures of ApoB100 show LDL receptor contact points
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Physics In History @physinhistory.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. - Freeman Dyson
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Dr Lipid @drlipid.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
One of the GIANTS of Lipidology Dr Scott Grundy has passed. His pioneering work on how cholesterol & noncholesterol sterols were absorbed were so important. He went on to chair the groundbreaking guidelines (NCEP ATP-II and III) which unleashed algorithms for risk-assessment and lipid therapeutics.
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Hans De Loof @hansdl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Probably a self-defeating forwarding of information….
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 30/01/2025
In this 60-Second Journal Club, NEJM Editorial Fellow Sarah Gorey, MB, summarizes the REDOX trial assessing hospitalization and mortality among patients with chronic severe hypoxemia who received long-term oxygen therapy for either 24 or 15 hours per day. Full trial results: nej.md/4cR3pK4 #MedSky
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 30/01/2025
Check out this great new video about Our World in Data from @socsci.ox.ac.uk featuring our founder, @maxroser.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCz6EIcSFQ8
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Our World in Data: Transforming data into global impact
Developing innovative ways to bring data to life can be a catalyst for global impact.When Professor Max Roser started bringing together a library of datasets...
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 30/01/2025
Sen. Angela Alsobrooks **confronts RFK Jr. head-on** for his racist claim that Black people should get different vaccines because their immune systems are "stronger." Watch him squirm as she **exposes his dangerous lies**—this is a must-watch. **Leadership matters.** 🎥👉 youtu.be/QVOwSLlh7-Y?...
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YouTube video by Jennifer
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/01/2025
The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social: theatln.tc/e1Ng2ddw
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The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started
Grant reviews have been suspended at the NIH. This could be an omen.
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/01/2025
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"At this moment in history, antivaccine rhetoric & antivaccine beliefs reside most often on the political right... it is essential to confront this reality and devise evidence-informed strategies to counter this trend" @caulfieldtim.bsky.social healthydebate.ca/2024/09/topi...
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Politics and vaccine misinformation: A horrifyingly bad mix - Healthy Debate
Antivaccine beliefs reside most often on the political right. We must confront this reality and devise evidence-informed strategies to counter this trend.
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C&I: Chemistry & Industry magazine @chemistry-industry.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Speaking during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind said its spin-out company Isomorphic Labs would have AI-designed drugs in clinical trials this year. DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 has helped predict the structure of 200 million proteins.💊🧪
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AI designed drugs in trials this year, says Google DeepMind chief
New drugs designed by artificial intelligence could be in clinical trials as soon as later this year.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“We’ll lose a generation of scientists”: Yale braces for Trump’s NIH grant suspension Trump directed federal science agencies to cancel all scheduled meetings, effectively suspending NIH research grants yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/01...
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“We’ll lose a generation of scientists”: Yale braces for Trump’s NIH grant suspension
President Trump directed federal science agencies to cancel all scheduled meetings, effectively suspending NIH research grants.
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Hans De Loof @hansdl.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I agee! You can actually learn something here! Big thanks for that @erictopol.bsky.social
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