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Mathis Riehle

@mornorse.bsky.social
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Family & dog - bake, whittle, run, cycle & draw. Nerve repair & biomaterials I teach biology & bioengineering. views=own; he/him. 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 🌍 🌌 It’s way too red! Blog @ bio-mat-sketches-mor.blogspot.com

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Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · 11h
Nick Lane visited Glasgow to give a talk at the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow as the first lecture of the 225th session entitled: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death Somehow a discussion of death ☠️ missed out tonight- sadly
Series of interconnected sketches that follow the talk from the beginning of life to the 
existence of morality with many a sidestep
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 14h
This is worth watching, because Jon Stewart does a great job of articulating the issues. It also shows how out of his depth Coxon is, that he still believes in the "utopian" picture enough to think we should vote on it, viz that AI will lift the world out of poverty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnLD...
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Jacob Coxon On Witnessing the Existential Threat of AI from the Inside | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share
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Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Slave Trade a well hidden history in Britain - this dry and well founded academic history follows the money - that helped build up slave trade dynasties - excellent if depressing viewing - this is a mirror that has long been missing @davidolusoga.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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BBC Two - Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga, Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga Trailer (short)
David Olusoga reveals the most comprehensive picture yet of British slave traders.
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Wobbologist @wobbologist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I had a conversation this weekend where we were chatting academia, biases, psychology, and more. And it's *always* jarring, after years of knowing these stats, that ~40% of PhD candidates (those who passed their coursework and quals - often considered the most difficult part of the PhD)...
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Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How it started
Apple plum and quince crumble before baking
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Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our algorithmic dystopian future is now
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As part of our decolonisation work @chemistryatyork.bsky.social, I have created 25 touchstone global chemical stories, each linked to a key point in our curriculum. 13 'Chemical Histories' and 12 'Scientists'. Over the coming weeks, I will share some as 'quote posts' of this, so they can be found.
DECOLONISING CHEMISTRY

PACKAGE OF MATERIALS FOR YORK CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATES

Global Chemical Histories

Contents

FIREWORKS and EXPLOSIVES	2
INDIGO	7
MAKING DYES STICK – MORDANTS	11
CEMENT – BUILDING CIVILISATIONS	15
PERFUMERY	18
MINERAL ACIDS (and ‘ALKALI’)	22
RUBBER	27
PAPERMAKING	31
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY – STANDARDS and UNITS	34
GOLD PLATING	36
SURFACTANTS IN CLEANING	39
LUBRICATION TECHNOLOGY	41
THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE	43

DECOLONISING CHEMISTRY

PACKAGE OF MATERIALS FOR YORK CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATES

Global Scientists

Contents

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER	2
HAR GOBIND KHORANA	7
TU YOUYOU	11
C. V. RAMAN	14
ALICE BALL	19
AP DE SILVA	23
TAKAMINE JŌKICHI	27
BERTRAM OLIVER FRASER-REID	32
MARIE MAYNARD DALY	35
OSAMU SHIMOMURA	39
PRAFULLA CHANDRA RAY	42
MARY ELLIOTT HILL (& CARL McCLELLAN HILL)	46
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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am a very strong supporter of the #Stolpersteine - founded in 1992 by a local artist and now present in all German cities. I am also thoroughly irritated by the latest #noAfD / CDU citizens initiative to no longer allow them to be placed in #Heidenau (Sachsen). 🧵 www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...
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"Affig, kann ich nicht nachvollziehen": Bürger und Betroffene über Aus für Stolpersteine in Heidenau
In Heidenau sollen keine Stolpersteine mehr zur Erinnerung an Opfer des NS-Regimes verlegt werden. Der Stadtrat folgte damit einem gemeinsamen Antrag von AfD und CDU.
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Patrick Robey @pat-beauclerc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The restoration of overseas aid to its previous level is not a matter to be considered in the light of economic convenience: it is a moral imperative www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I have seen with pride how British overseas aid saves children’s lives. That is why I say cuts should be reversed | David Harewood
I understand the pressure on the public purse, but I have also seen the effect of our spending on the ground, says actor and Unicef UK ambassador David Harewood
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Leah Houri-Zeevi @leahhouri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🩸🩸🩸TODAY WE SHARE TWO MAJOR DISCOVERIES🩸🩸🩸 1. We peered into genomes and brains of the rare mosquitoes that QUIT feeding on blood and found what biting is built from 2. Humans got rid of isoleucine in their blood, malaria suffers from it, and mosquito proteomes budget for it THREADS>
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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#WeekendReading: Yan et al. on the bad, terrible, not-good-at-all future projections for reef dissolution into the rest of the 21st century. (Have I mentioned it's not looking good?) 🧪🌊 Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi…
Anthropogenic reversal of Quaternary coral reef carbon fluxes. (a) During interglacial periods, enhanced carbonate production caused coral reefs to function as atmospheric CO2 sources. (b) During glacial periods, subaerial weathering of exposed reef carbonate consumed atmospheric CO2, causing reefs to function as carbon sinks. (c) Under high-emission scenarios, ocean acidification is projected to shift reefs toward net sediment dissolution by 2100. As sediment dissolution surpasses coral calcification, reefs transition from carbonate-producing CO2 sources to weak atmospheric CO2 sinks, but only at the cost of substantial framework degradation.
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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky
I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. 

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review.  Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage.  To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
See you on Sunday for our live archaeology, Viking-Age Fest, and Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival events! FREE and open 11am-4pm.
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Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Doors open day @uofgarc.bsky.social
View of the entry to the arc building with posters advertising the doors open day
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The only somewhat surprising thing is that he hates migrants. Sir, your own football squad are more than 50% migrants. And yes, of course, you don’t mean those. But by far far far most migrants are legal and working.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How is this news? billionaire oil person says uk needs to drill more and tax less, though, of course, he‘s actually in Monaco. And he would do more in the uk if the state subsidised him more. Dear BBC, that‘s like me saying the uk‘s problem is underpaid law profs. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
when wikipedia launched, the idea that an encyclopedia could be reliably maintained by the public was a joke. now, it's a marvel, a remarkable resource, virtually the only website that remotely delivers on its potential and practically the last pleasant browsing experience on the internet.
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Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@flygirlnhm.bsky.social hmmm could they not have checked what fly that fly is? @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social
Title page of “Fruit Fly” by Josh Silver. With a fly on an orange that sits on a BRIGHT GREEN background. 
Only it’s  a HOUSE FLY, not a fruit fly!
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Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That we even ask this question is preposterous. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Could AI really wipe out humanity – six experts spell out the risks
We examine claims and counterclaims about the risks and calls to slow down the pace of AI development
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 16/09/2026
📣 We're looking for the next fellows in Space Science! The 2026 deadline for the #ESAResearchFellowship in Space Science Programme is fast approaching. Apply until 21 September here 👉 jobs.esa.int/job/Villanue... Details 👉 www.cosmos.esa.int/web/space-sc... 🔭 🧪 ☄️
Person sitting in front of a computer, smiling.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 16/09/2026
When I got my first assignment with Scientific American, I thought it might mean I could still make a career in legacy media work, despite the ongoing chaos. The experience gave me something else entirely. www.whatsitlike.me/the-story-sc...
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The story Scientific American wouldn't let me tell
When the media institution tumbled, I wasn't about to let my reporting go with it.
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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Very happy to share my postdoc paper is out now in @natcellbio.nature.com titled "Tissue flow acts as a guidance cue for immune cell polarization and directional migration". If you love imaging and immune cells, this is for you! #microscopymonday www.nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵: 1/n
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I miss the glory of days of lectures being events where torches were waved, and books were being thrown upon those who speak nonsense ... #academicchatter #edusky
An engraving from 1723 showing a university scene: a lecturer is holding a torch, and the audiences is throwing books. From: 
Der Leipziger Spectateur welcher die heutige Welt, Der Gelehrten und Ungelehrten, ... Leben und Thaten, Auch wohl Schrifften, beleuchtet und ihnen die Wahrheit saget. Frankfurt, Hamburg und Leipzig, 1723.
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American Physiological Society @apsphysiology.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's incredibly lethal. #Sepsis kills 30-40% of its victims & is the leading cause of death in children worldwide. This May #TPhysMag piece explores how #Physiology researchers are working to stop sepsis: ow.ly/IVc650ZLCgN #SepsisAwarenessMonth #MedicalResearch 🧪
Illustration of a human body highlighting major internal organs and nervous system pathways in red and yellow tones.
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Das ist ein Text, den ich immer wieder zu 9/11 teile. Es ist einer der besten und berührendensten Artikel, die ich je gelesen habe. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind
Bobby McIlvaine was 26 when he died in the attacks. Two decades later, his loved ones are still grappling with the loss.
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Reminder I am hiring a postdoc and PhD student. Thanks to all the applications I already received 🙏 If you know anyone particularly with single cell expertise for the postdoc position, please let me know!
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 09/09/2026
We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack
Call for independent Max Planck Research Groups
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Matthias Krause @matthias-krause.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Postdoc position available - deadline in 2 weeks! Exciting 3-yr BBSRC project studying cell biology of Wnt signaling: advanced imaging, genome editing and embryology. Apply now! Join Matthias Krause and Karen Liu labs. @karenjliu.bsky.social @wntuk.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/155745-...
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Research and Innovation Associate | King's College London
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Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Flat bird
A bird flattened to a few mm thick pile of feathers and bones on a curbside
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Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Amazing paper 🧪 #mechanobiology
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Adaptive motility enables neutrophils to rapidly navigate confined capillaries
Neutrophils maintain migration speed in confined capillaries through adaptive actomyosin remodeling.
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Oliver Scheiber 🇪🇺 @oliverscheiber.eu · 06/09/2026
Es ist der Abbau des Sozialstaats, der direkt in den Faschismus führt. Der Sozialstaat ist finanzierbar, das Gerede von der Unfinanzierbarkeit und vom Sparzwang dient dazu, die Tech-Milliardäre und das reichste Prozent zu schützen. Solidarität und Gemeinwohl müssen ins Zentrum der Politik rücken.
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Markus Beckedahl @beckedahl.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
Russland gewinnt Sachsen-Anhalt.
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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sven Schulze (CDU) sagt über den Wahlabend “das ist Demokratie” und gratuliert der AfD zum Wahlsieg.
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pehpunkt.bsky.social @pehpunkt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
jedesmal wenn ich höre "demokratie bedeutet herrschaft des volkes 🤷‍♂️" dann möchte ich MENSCHENRECHTE GEWALTENTEILUNG MINDERHEITENSCHUTZ GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG FREIE PRESSE hinterherbrüllen... wissen die das alle nicht?!
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Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nur noch zum kotzen.
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Astrid Christofori @astridchristofori.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026
Ich bin heute übrigens in Frankfurt am Main im Städelmuseum. Es gibt wohl auch einen Livestream (zumindest für das Bühnenprogramm). www.staedelmuseum.de/de/programm/...
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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨New preprint alert 🚨 "Pancreatic cancer cells breach endothelial barriers through protrusion-driven invasion or endothelial retraction" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Many thanks @jcb.org and @angelikahausser.bsky.social for highlighting our recent findings on how the Golgi responds to mechanical forces! As nicely pinpointed out, many (I think exciting and relevant) questions remain open, so I'm looking forward to seeing how this evolves in the next few years!
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Yuting Irene Li @irene-yuting-li.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I’m starting at the Hubrecht Institute at a new group leader from September. I will be hiring a PhD student through the PhD program ⬇️ If you, or anyone you know, is interested in theoretical biophysics, I will be very excited to hear from them — please send inquiries to my ISTA email for now :)
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Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Highly recommended to get the summer bumper edition of Private Eye @privateeyenews.bsky.social Among a lot of others this D.J. joke: & I feel seen!
Women in Front kneading a dough on a kitchen counter with utensils and ingredients around - half turned backwards looking at a man who sits in front of a computer and remarks: “ever since you started making bread at home, it’s hard to go back to bread that’s evidently better baked.”
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Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Schneckentempo
Schnecke an einem Fahrradlenker mitfahrend
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Simon Bayly @simonbayly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Event 29th Sept at the @crick.ac.uk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/computatio...
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Computational Biology Symposium @ The Crick
One day symposium connecting London’s computational, AI and biotech communities to spark collaboration and accelerate discovery
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@MEmilieTerret @memilieterret.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Great speakers, great science, great location = great meeting! EMBO workshop Forces across scale April 27-30, 2027 in Porto. meetings.embo.org/event/27-for...
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Forces across scales
This EMBO Workshop on Forces Across Scales will provide an integrative perspective on mechanobiology, a rapidly advancing field that examines how mechanical forces shape biological systems across mol…
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Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Most of the day at University of Glasgow’s Open Day representing School of Molecular Bioscience degrees in Genetics 🧬, Biochemistry 🧪 and Molecular Cell Biology 🧫 at @glasgow.ac.uk
Picture of brochures covering biochemistry genetics and molecular Cell biology
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Ricard Alert Zenón @ricardalert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New preprint! We found an active wetting transition in cell aggregates. We obtain an active Young-Dupré condition, which allows us to capture states of partial and complete wetting. With group members MJ Franco-Oñate and Hanno Hennighausen! arxiv.org/abs/2608.28912
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Sonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu
Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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myosinactncrazy.bsky.social @myosinactncrazy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Captivated by Kinesin - by Ron Vale published in Cytoskeleton onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... " In this essay, I reflect on how I first encountered kinesin and how it taught me to watch cells and proteins directly, letting observation reveal nature's workings."
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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 30/08/2026
Kolumne: Selbst die, die an Batteriegroßspeicher glauben, haben ihr rasantes Wachstum dramatisch unterschätzt. Aktuelle Anschlusszusagen ergeben für Deutschland bereits ein Wachstum um den Faktor 27. Das wird das Stromsystem fundamental verändern (ob K. Reiche will oder nicht).
MEINUNG •Batteriegroßspeicher
Selbst ihre Fans haben diese Technik dramatisch unterschätzt

 Christian Stöcker
Eine Kolumne von Christian Stöcker
Fast unbemerkt vollzieht sich im deutschen Stromnetz eine Revolution. Die Gesamtkapazität aller Batteriegroßspeicher könnte um den Faktor 27 wachsen – und damit das Stromsystem verändern.
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