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Maria Katsantoni

@mkatsantoni.bsky.social
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Computational biologist, interested in all things omics.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
My work documenting Trump's attacks on science has been covered in @resprofnews.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl... "There's this intense fear in science of being seen as political... I've been attacked for it, but sometimes there is just truth"
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UK academic tracks Trump’s agenda ‘to discredit science’ - Research Professional News
“This isn’t chaos—it’s a deliberate war on science and academic freedom,” says Christina Pagel
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/02/2025
I really really want this to work; a pancreatic cancer vaccine would be so world-changing. Coverage from @scifri.bsky.social www.sciencefriday.com/segments/pan...
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A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Huge thanks to my sister for helping put these together.
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It's happening now:
I know it's totally overwhelming but here are just a handful of things happening in US Science & public health RIGHT NOW. I need you to know, so you can realise how you are being defrauded from a healthy, disease free future, with thriving science. I need you to know, so you can tell others.
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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) @snsf.ch · 21/01/2025
🎶 Music promotes brain development in premature infants 👶 A team funded by the SNSF can now demonstrate which regions of the brain 🧠 play a role in this phenomenon. Their aim is to use AI to automate exposure to music in neonatal units. ↪️
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Music in the NICU
A team funded by the SNSF has been investigating the benefits of certain melodies on the brains of premature infants.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
A 67 year old amputee and wheelchair user lived with his son who had cerebral palsy. They were killed in the Eaton fire while waiting for an ambulance that never arrived. Many disabled people can not evacuate on their own. They need to be included in evacuation plans (yet almost never are)
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Father Missing a Limb and Son with Cerebral Palsy Weren't Able to Evacuate L.A. Fires in Time, Family Says
A 67-year-old amputee along with his son with cerebral palsy died in the Eaton fire on Jan. 8, according to his daughter.
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Gang Fang @gangfang.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
(1st post @BlueSky) Preprint alert🚨a long thread. Cautions in the use of @nanopore sequencing to map DNA modifications: officially reported “accuracy” ≠ reliable mapping in real applications. We performed a critical assessment of nanopore sequencing (across different versions of models) for the 1/n
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