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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, there it is. The EU is also going to use slop algorithms to put an artificial number on proposals. This is how we lose. This is a disaster 🧪

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Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu · 24/09/2026

Is it Amsterdam? Copenhagen? No, it's Paris! After years of investment, the French capital has one of the best problems a city can have: bicycle congestion. So if Paris has done it, why wouldn't other cities follow? 📸 Such an amazing photo by @jbpssx.bsky.social

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm not writing in the NYT and I won't word it carefully: it's clear that AI companies are stealing researchers' work (and why wouldn't they? they steal artists' and journalists' work with no consequences), and I warned my group about it this morning.

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some 30 years ago, I went for it. ‘Twas a good decision. Do it!

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Max Renner @maxrenner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Clearly, the only solution is to quickly build more data centers so AI can solve climate change 🚀🚀🚀

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

21627 applications. Nothing to celebrate here. Impossible to evaluate fairly & safely. Neither the science (too diverse & possibly LLM generated) nor the soft criteria (likely LLM generated). Without an interview stage - a security risk! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/ne...

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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 receives record number of applications

The 2026 call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 21,627 applications submitted.

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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Interviewer: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Me:

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Pat Schloss @patschloss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Let me get this straight. There's a title. There's a commentary article. There's an abstract. There's a set of bullet point highlights. There's a graphical abstract. AND YOU STILL THINK I NEED YOUR AI AGENT TO SUMMARIZE THE ARTICLE FOR ME?

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You know what's also interactive? Reading the paper. Talk to your colleagues about the paper you just read. Tell them why you loved it. Tell them why you hated it. And even better: invite the authors to talk about their paper 🧪

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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

found at ucsf

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16/09/2026

Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.

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Man Lying on a Pile of Money

ALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money

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Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 15/09/2026

Tempted to use AI to write your cover letter or email to a potential employer? RESIST! It is simultaneously obvious, insulting, and renders you totally undifferentiated from the other 80 people being considered t the same time. There has never been a better time to write concisely in your own voice!

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 14/09/2026

I'm not a mad scientist, I'm just a disappointed scientist.

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Ariel Kaplan @arielkaplan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Postdoc opportunity in our lab! Use optical tweezers and single-molecule fluorescence to study protein-DNA interactions, transcription and chromatin dynamics. Azrieli Postdoctoral Fellowship: azrielifoundation.org/fellows/inte... akaplanz@technion.ac.il Prese share! #Postdoc #Biophysics

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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Advice for new PhD students: choose a mentor who is committed to your training, not just your project. The most important product of your PhD - even more important than the science - is YOU, a newly trained scientist.

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Chris H. Hill @chillzaa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thrilled to share that our paper describing protein-dependent frameshifting is now out in Molecular Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. Huge congratulations to @jemmabetts.bsky.social for publishing the first research paper from her PhD 🧬🧪🥳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/8

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A protein-dependent riboswitch activates ribosomal frameshifting in cardioviruses

Programmed −1 ribosomal frameshifting (PRF) is a translational control mechanism used by RNA viruses to regulate the relative abundance of proteins en…

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you're a biologist, especially one in a field that has a history of eugenics and racism (which absolutely includes my own field of evolutionary biology) and you choose to remain "neutral" as race science once again crawls out from under its rock, you are not in fact neutral.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026

It's ironic that they call these "AI" things cutting-edge technologies when they're actually cutting-corners technologies.

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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Also I am obsessed that "fluorescence" was coined in the footnote of Stokes 1852 paper. He was like -- if opalescence can be named after opals, why not name this glowing after fluorspar? And I think that is cool royalsocietypublishing.org/rstl/article...

A screenshot from On the change of refrangibility of light by Stokes. Page 15 of the document. He says, " I confess I do not like this term (dispersive reflexion) I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearence fluorescence from fluor-spar, as the analagos term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There's a missing rung on the academic career ladder in Austria and Germany. Historically there wasn't a position like assistant professor or lecturer, so the jump from postdoc to professor was — and mostly still is — huge. Between 70% and 80% of academics in Austria don't have permanent jobs.

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Academics in Germany and Austria are stuck in job limbo

Also: Montana's "right to try" law for experimental cures, UK science gets reshuffled, a university sues Anthropic over patents, and more from last week

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

These stories are often being presented as "cunning AI escapes its test room". I can't see why. It's simply the case that the sandbox was not well isolated by the testing companies. Put the agency and responsibility where it belongs. cyberscoop.com/anthropic-cl...

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Anthropic says its AI accidentally hacked three companies during safety tests

Anthropic revealed its Claude AI models accidentally breached three real companies during safety testing after a vendor configuration error exposed live systems.

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 27/07/2026

Figuring this out in sufficient detail and clarity, not writing the code, is actually the hardest part of the task.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

For real that I am going to make it my life mission so we collectively laugh at people that use the slop machine to make their graphical abstracts 🧪

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Andy Parmo @andyparmo.co.uk · 16/07/2026

Only 4 hydration breaks until Christmas

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 12/07/2026

Hello from academia

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"

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The ChatGPT browser is already dead

ChatGPT Atlas didn’t even last a year.

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Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Tired of AI-generated figures? I asked our talented scientific illustrator Manon Zuurmond to draw some of the instruments and lab equipment we missed in NIH's otherwise fantastic BioArt resource. First batch now available as CC BY. Free for everyone to use in publications: github.com/Center-for-P...

Drawings of various laboratory equipment (liquid chromatography system, mass spectrometers and a centrifuge).

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

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Charlotte the Procrastinator @catsbearsandme.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

#Poetry #BlueskyPoetry #WendyCope Differences of Opinion I: He Tells Her by Wendy Cope

He tells her that the earth is flat —
He knows the facts, and that is that.
In altercations fierce and long
She tries her best to prove him wrong.
But he has learned to argue well.
He calls her arguments unsound
And often asks her not to yell.
She cannot win. He stands his ground.

The planet goes on being round.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is an interesting idea. Since journals are keen to make authors declare when they have used AI, might authors want editors to do the same...?

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Lukáš Pekárek @pekarekl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I can hardly imagine a better awardee than @nanopat.bsky.social! Despite his love for small things, his impact is huge! Well done! 🤩

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Helmholtz Institute Würzburg @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Congratulations to @nanopat.bsky.social on receiving the @rnasociety.bsky.social’s Eclipse Award for Innovation in High Throughput Biology! 🎉 The award recognizes the #RNA research methods he developed during his doctoral studies in #HIRI’s Smyth lab. Read more: www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/newsroom/...

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Award-winning novel methods in RNA research

Patrick Bohn receives RNA Society Eclipse Award for Innovation in High Throughput Biology

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

I miss Web 1.0. You click a link, you get to the website, you read the content. What a concept.

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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

😎 to have this out! --> stay tuned, this is a series about 📊#dataviz for #science 🧪

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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Cognitive friction is a key source of life. This rapid deployment of AI is horrifying. We need to create our own words. We need to think. If we don’t create and don’t think, how can minds develop?

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Zach Marin @zacsimile.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Thermo Fishy

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Doing a linear stretch on these images shows how dramatic the "edits" were, revealing the deception in clear terms. This should be a complete scandal for Thermo Fisher and more people in the biosciences should be talking about it.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

OMG!!! It’s also such a messy western background to cheat into!!!

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Having "ideas" is not the rate limiting step for doing science (no matter what the AI bros seem to think). I have 10 times, a hundred times more ideas than I could ever investigate, even given unlimited resources. Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard. And luck is the biggest factor of all

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Surprised to discover that Thermo Fisher appears to show a fake western blot for the validation of one of their p53 antibodies. I've added a diagram to show the very similar bands. This does not appear to be one of the "published figures" but their own internal data.

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Fuck viruses man. Get your own protein synthesis you shitty little free loaders

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Michael @schlierflab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Very happy to share our prototype to perform aCOS experiments for rapid, accurate interaction measurements with fluorescence 🕺. This wouldn't have been possible without the fantastic Andreas Hartmann and Simon Letzer & support by #SMWA, #EFRE/JTF, @bcube-tud.bsky.social and @tudresden.bsky.social 🧪🧑‍💻

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Academia: we are going to evaluate you purely based on number of papers (and citations) Some researchers: let's game the system Acamedia:😱

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Irina Bezsonova @irinabezsonova.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Excited to share that my 2025 collection of science-inspired drawings is now live on the Protein Data Bank (PDB) website. Thank you @rcsbpdb.bsky.social! It is free to explore and download. I’d love to hear what you think! pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/bezs...

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PDB101: Irina Bezsonova Gallery

PDB-101: Training, Outreach, and Education portal of RCSB PDB

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Academics don't like being told that they live in an Ivory Tower, but I have to say, only people who have spent practically their whole life within the security of tenured employment could come up with such a cruel solution. There are more equitable ways to solve the low success rate problem.

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