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Michael Doube

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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The Lost Screen Memorial. This memorial is for the children who have lost their lives as a result of the harm they suffered on social media. These images represent the ones their parents have on their lock screen. They serve as a constant reminder of what they have lost. Let's make social media safer for children. #NoChildLostToSocialMediaMemorial to children who died due to harm experienced on social media outside the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2026
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Good bin run today! Scored a box set of the best Star Wars movies. Waste management is a big deal in 🇨🇭. Other places have a dump or a tip but it's classy here, we have a déchetterie with maybe 20 categories to sort into. Will try to list them all in a reply...
Box set of the only good Star Wars movies, the middle three from the late seventies.
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Long, slender trabeculae pass across the marrow space. Trabeculae help resist weightbearing loads. But these ones don't appear to be in a good configuration to do that, unlike the spongy trabeculae nearby. Maybe they're holding adipose tissue in place, preventing it from wobbling during locomotion?
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The stripe of dense bone running from top right to lower left is the growth plate scar, separating the main part of the bone from the epiphysis, the knobbly joint condyle. It's formed when the cartilagenous growth plate stops expanding and is replaced by bone.
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Top left is the cortical ('dense') bone shell. Looks solid but it's porous, filled with millions of osteocytes and capillaries serving them. Bottom right is spongy (trabecular, cancellous) bone, thought to help spread joint loads.
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The leftovers from last week's bœuf bourguignon. This is a 'marrow bone' after boiling out the adipose tissue for gravy and washing in lots of warm tap water, household detergents and a little chlorine bleach. Cortex & (glorious) trabeculae, growth plate 'scar', marrow cavity visible.
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
📢 New paper alert! Type-I and -II collagens from bone and cartilage colocalize at the osteochondral cement line. doi.org/10.1302/2046... Khizar Hayat, @neilmarr.bsky.social and I show that collagens from bone and cartilage meet in a zone ~5µm thick, which might help to glue the tissues together.
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Spotted these house(boat) martins in the Finnish archipelago, nesting on a lossi (a kind of car ferry that runs a few times an hour over short distances, guided by a cable). Nice spot to spend the summer, getting free rides between islands!
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Commercial hybrid vs wild type, summer holiday edition.
Commercial and wild type strawberries on a plate together
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
But but but they are "unbelievable at computers"! Surely that means their (de)funding decisions are sound.
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Fractures in tiny middle ear bones might underlie deafness in osteogenesis imperfecta, here in the oim mouse. No pay wall link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1l01CV6zM9...
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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It's hard to get an academic job in Switzerland if you are not rock-star-elite
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I like spotting when buildings look like what they do inside. Biology buildings with 'spiral' staircases, because DNA is a double helix, that kind of thing. This is the roof of the AO Center in Davos. The AO Foundation is into bone screws, and so... (see it?)
The roof of the AO Center in Davos, Switzerland looks like the threads of a bone screw.
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Accepted MS! Type-I and -II collagens from bone and cartilage colocalise at the osteochondral cement line. The first paper from my PhD student Khizar Hayat, and the first from a grand plan to find out what attaches cartilage to bone at the nm-µm scale. Out soon in BJR With @neilmarr.bsky.social
Articular calcified cartilage (ACC) and subchondral bone (SCB) meet at the ostoechondral cement line (OCL). Here, type-I collagen from bone (green) and type-II collagen from cartilage (magenta) are seen to overlap through a depth of up to about 5 µm. b enlarged in d and c enlarged in g.
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Le selfie obligatoire à la Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée @mnhn.fr 🫶 An immense collection on display, it's a favourite of everyone, from schoolkids to the serious fossil and anatomy nerds. Also very handy to Gare de Lyon & my connection back to Geneva.
Selfie at MNHN Galerie de Paléontologie
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Heading to @ethzurich.bsky.social to present at the Institute for Biomechanics colloquium, 18 Dec. Between cols interlinked: what keeps cartilage attached to bone? I'll be talking about what we can tell about osteochondral bonding, from images like this...
Polarised light microscope image of cartilage and bone
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Poignant exhibit at the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne, not far from a taxidermied black rhino, warning of the imminent extinction of taxonomy as a discipline.
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