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Mihai Todor

@mihaitodor.bsky.social
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Software Engineer interested in computational biology / *omics 🧬. Cambridge, UK. He / Him.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Mindscape Ask Me Anything | October 2026. We talk about philosophical naturalism, what Einstein would think about Many-Worlds, and the impact of AI on science and math. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Title card for Mindscape AMA episode, Oct 2026.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mindscape 370 | Daniel Akerib on a Faint Hint of Dark Matter. The LZ experiment has seen one intriguing event - should we get excited? #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Title card for Mindscape episode with Daniel Akerib.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say
The vaccine reportedly thwarted the cancer's return and spread.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026
I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...
Cover of the book "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack. The top right corner says "Author of The End of Everything" and the bottom left says "Brilliant and thrilling! - John Green". The cover motif is a space image made of puzzle pieces.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
We don’t want to suggest that all of Emily Wilson’s subsequent good fortune is due to appearing as a guest on #MindscapePodcast. preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...
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297 | Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation – Sean Carroll
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Mindscape 361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together. Quorum sensing is one of the vivid differences between even the simplest organism and non-living stuff. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Title card for Mindscape podcast episode with Bonnie Bassler
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Mindscape Ask Me Anything | July 2026. Boltzmann Brains, science in science fiction, uses of LLMs, confronting the forces of anti-science, and more. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Title card for Mindscape AMA episode.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Mindscape 358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant. I start talking about why the universe is accelerating -- but there was too much to say, so next week we'll have a follow-up episode. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Title card for Mindscape episode 358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Mindscape 356 | Andrea Wulf @andreawulf.bsky.social on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Title card for Mindscape podcast episode with Andrea Wulf.
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Michel Lind @michel-slm.name · 08/06/2026
I just signed european.social as well. Regardless of whether you think EU governments are too prone to weaken privacy protections or not, it's clear that - monopolistic, authoritarian #SocialMedia platforms are a problem #europe
european.social
The European Social Stack — An open declaration
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Mindscape 355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball. I argue that QM is even farther from the everyday world than we generally assume, but connecting them is an ongoing and promising project. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Title card for Mindscape episode -- Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball.
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Timothy Stiles @stiles.io · 08/05/2026
I need a job asap. Who's hiring?
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Mindscape 352 | Bing Brunton @bingbrunton.bsky.social on Connecting the Connectome to the Body. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode with Bing Brunton.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Mindscape 350 | J. Eric Oliver @ericoliver.bsky.social on the Self and How to Know It. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Title card for podcast episode with J. Eric Oliver.
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Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) @pdbeurope.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
𝗣𝗗𝗕𝗲 𝗺𝗺𝗖𝗜𝗙 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿: validate your mmCIF files against PDBx/mmCIF dictionary ✅ Real-time check ✅ Metadata completeness indicator pip install pdbe-mmcif-validator install VS code extension: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... GitHub - PDBeurope/mmcif-validator: github.com/PDBeurope/mm...
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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
NEW VIDEO youtu.be/uiGIbdrQjbI?...
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Saw | ContraPoints
YouTube video by ContraPoints
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 17/02/2026
The AlphaFold Database, jointly developed with Google DeepMind, now contains datasets from specialist communities. This includes rich datasets for microbes, viruses & parasites associated with tropical diseases. Explore the new datasets in the AlphaFold Database. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...
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AlphaFold Database welcomes community datasets
Latest AlphaFold Database update adds high-value datasets for microbial and viral proteins, generated by specialist communities
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Mindscape 342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Mind, and Morality. Do social structures, like eyes and fins, arise independently from evolutionary pressures? #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Title card for Mindscape podcast episode with Rachell Powell.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Mindscape 341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle. Yes, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance comes up. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Title card for podcast episode with Stewart Brand.
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Theory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🚨Our first talk this new year would be a joint theory/experiment talk by Prof. Marino Arroyo and Prof. Xavier Trepat @xaviertrepat.bsky.social describing some of their recent work together on active morphogenesis🧫. Sign up to our mailing list for a zoom link to this talk and other upcoming talks🚨
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Stunning 4K Drone Footage Over Iceland’s Mystical Landscapes and Seascapes laughingsquid.com/iceland-4k-d...
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Stunning 4K Drone Footage Over Iceland's Mystical Landscapes and Seascapes
Photographer Jan Erik Waider captures stunning 4K drone footage of Iceland's mystical landscapes and seascapes.
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Mihai Todor @mihaitodor.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This event was amazing! Thank you for organising it @tlmcambridge.bsky.social!
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Mihai Todor @mihaitodor.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
FOSDEM 2026 added a developer room for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: fosdem-bioinformatics.github.io/cfp.html 🧬
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Call for Participation: 1st Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Developer Room at FOSDEM 2026
A minimal website for the FOSDEM Bioinformatics and Computational Biology community
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
End-to-end protein design in the browser through evedesign. Generate and interactively explore designs in 2D/3D and export them as codon-optimized DNA. The underlying open source framework (released soon) is build to easily add new methods, more on that soon. 🌐 evedesign.bio
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Andrew Gallant @burntsushi.net · 16/10/2025
ripgrep 15 is out! Mostly a host of bug fixes, particularly around gitignore. Some minor perf improvements. A couple small features. And (partial) Jujutsu support for gitignore. github.com/BurntSushi/r...
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Release 15.0.0 · BurntSushi/ripgrep
Sponsorship is appreciated! ripgrep 15 is a new major version release of ripgrep that mostly has bug fixes, some minor performance improvements and minor new features. In case you haven't heard of...
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Mihai Todor @mihaitodor.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
My project coordinator, Jennifer Fleming, did a detailed podcast on AlphaFold: www.linkedin.com/posts/artifi...
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AlphaFold: AI's Biggest Breakthrough 🧪🤖 We're thrilled to welcome Dr Jennifer Fleming, Coordinator at the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) and AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) le...
AlphaFold: AI's Biggest Breakthrough 🧪🤖 We're thrilled to welcome Dr Jennifer Fleming, Coordinator at the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) and AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) lead, for ...
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Mihai Todor @mihaitodor.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Very insightful research into social networks
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Mindscape 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse. In which I shamelessly steal material from the #PhilosophyOfCosmology course I am teaching to talk about some big questions. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode on Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The latest in a long series of Nobels for work in immunology - and it won’t be the last (!)
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T-reg Cells: The 2025 Medicine Nobel
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 23/09/2025
Do you study proteins? The new PDBe entry pages make it easier to explore protein structures. 🟢 Visualise ligands & macromolecules with improved 3D viewers 🟢 Get background info from AI-based annotations 🟢 Add your own annotations to viewers without leaving the browser @pdbeurope.bsky.social 🧬🖥️
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Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) @pdbeurope.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Making structural biology data accessible to everyone — from specialists to first-time explorers. ✨ Discover the new interactive, personalised & mobile-ready PDBe Entry Pages. 📖 Read more: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u... 🔍 Try it: www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/entry/p...
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New PDBe entry pages: Interactive, personalised, and mobile-ready
Explore molecular structures with new interactive 3D viewers and AI annotations
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Mihai Todor @mihaitodor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Spot on and really well written!
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Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) @pdbeurope.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Thanks for the visit Nobel laureate John Jumper & colleagues Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool and Lindsay Willmore from Google DeepMind. Always interesting to hear and discuss #AlphaFold and protein structure predictions.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Mindscape 323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics. We go on for a while. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode with Jacob Barandes
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Mindscape 320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe. Our cosmos was once simple, and someday will be simple again. We currently live in the complicated, exciting era of universal history! Enjoy it while it lasts. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for podcast episode on complexity and the universe.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/07/2025
Laser Danger xkcd.com/3108/
3-panel comic. (1) PERSON WITH SHORT HAIR to Person 2: Shining laser pointers at planes is a federal crime. It’s incredibly dangerous. PERSON 2: Oh, because it can blind the pilot? SHORT HAIR: That’s one reason… (2) [Laser pointed at flying airplane] (3) [Cat close to the size of the plane pouncing on airplane and taking it down]
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Mindscape 318 | Edward Miguel @tedmiguel.bsky.social on the Developing Practice of Development Economics. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape podcast episode with Edward Miguel.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This week's episode opens with a joke about control groups that I took from @girlgenius.bsky.social by @kajafoglio.bsky.social and @thephilfoglio.bsky.social. Here is the joke in its original context: www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?da...
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Girl Genius
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Mindscape 317 | Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders. Or, why Bench to Bedside is harder than it sounds. #MindscapePocast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for podcast episode with Nicole Rust.
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Mihai Todor @mihaitodor.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Near Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin
Black kitty next to a wall with graffiti which says “be happier 4 feck sake”
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Mihai Todor @mihaitodor.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
@sheabelsky.bsky.social was kind enough to interview me for his podcast. I was nervous about doing this, but I'm glad I took the offer. Thank you again! ❤️ open.spotify.com/episode/0SLQ...
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Coding Interviews, ADHD, and Staying Focused with Mihai Todor
Autistic Techie · Episode
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Mindscape 316 | Niayesh Afshordi @nafshordi.bsky.social and Phil Halper on The Big Bang and Before. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 14/05/2025
This only has 36 reposts, but on the Fediverse it has 1.7k, are you really going to let them show more support on banning conversion therapy? A practice that is massively harmful to the LGBTQIA+ population. We need one more country past the threshold (we're at 6/7) and another 452,000 votes.
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 14/05/2025
Hey people who are EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban conversion therapy EU wide. It's a practice that's very harmful towards LGBTQ+ people. It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban! eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#... #europe #lgbtq #germany
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European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Mindscape 314 | Karen Lloyd @karenlloyd.bsky.social on the Deep Underground Biosphere. Full of surprises for us surface-dwellers! #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/05/2025
“The political environment in Russia made it hard to do science because everything was unpredictable. […] That type of uncertainty is incompatible with science, which requires the ability to plan what type of experiments and research you will do a year into the future.”
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/05/2025
Globe Safety xkcd.com/3086
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Mindscape 313 | Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode with Eric Topol.
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