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Matt Benton

@matthewabenton.bsky.social

Imaging Manager for the Developmental Biology Unit at EMBL Passion for helping others see and understand the cells and genes that make the diversity of life.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The link states that the cilia were imaged with "diffractive super resolution microscopy" which is not a technique I have ever heard of... anyone?? Apparently based on this paper? (which at first glance does not seem as outrageous as the Nikon video) arxiv.org/abs/2512.13432

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Spatiotemporally decoupled super-oscillatory microscopy enables label-free reconstruction of human ciliary waveforms

Imaging native motile cilia requires label-free contrast, sub-diffraction spatial discrimination, and millisecond temporal sampling. We introduce Super-Oscillatory Label-free Inertia-free Scanning (SO...

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Matt Benton @matthewabenton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

and a wonderful final thought from the wonderful and always thoughtful Dr Margherita Battistara. Margherita initiated this project, recruited @wolframponisch.bsky.social to collaborate with, and Prof Ewa Paluch and I to supervise. I'm so thrilled (and proud!) that this work is out!!!

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Margherita Battistara @mbattistara.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Final thought: development is not one fixed script. Evolution finds different mechanical solutions to the same morphogenetic problem. Or, more simply: when things get crowded, the beetle finds another dimension. 🪲 #EvoDevo #gastrulation #morphogenesis #development #Drosophila #Tribolium

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Matt Benton @matthewabenton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Differences b/w key developmental events in different species are common. We wanted to QUANTITATIVELY describe such differences, + discover the CAUSES and CONSEQUENCES of the differences Read the full thread for more, including how we achieved the goal of many dev bio folk: we SPED UP DEVELOPMENT!!

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Matt Benton @matthewabenton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Hello world!

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