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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

It was a great pleasure to present a talk on “How Visual Storytelling Complements Research: The Example of the Oeiras Experimenta Citizen Science Project” at the December Plant Interaction Meeting, Green-it, @itqbnova.bsky.social. #ColourYourResearch

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Joana C. Carvalho @joanagcc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Another recent project I loved: an infographic on rainwater recycling in Brazil for Instituto Serrapilheira! Such a rewarding collaboration!🌳🌲 Check out the project here: joanaccarvalho.com/water-recycl...

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Joana C. Carvalho @joanagcc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A recent project I loved: editorial illustration + graphical abstract package to visualize a study on cancer immunotherapies. Full project breakdown (plus a few behind-the-scenes notes): joanaccarvalho.com/programming-... Huge thanks to Ervin and Filipe for the trust and collaboration!

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ppbioimaging.bsky.social @ppbioimaging.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

✨ A big thank you to everyone who took part in the PPBI Logo Contest! ✨ The quality and diversity of the proposals we received have exceeded our expectations, and we want to ensure a careful and fair selection process. The result will be announced soon - stay tuned to our channels! 👀

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

📊 Academic papers can be challenging to read, especially for students new to a field. Alyxander Burns shares an activity that uses data comics to help students better understand and engage with academic literature. www.nightingaledvs.com/learning-academic-papers-making-data-comics

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Learning to Read Academic Papers by Making Data Comics, Nightingale

Learning to read academic papers is a considerable challenge for many college students.

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Inga, the former Deputy Director, and me as former Director of the BRU. Decorations and goodies courtesy of Sandiswa and her present crew.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Often the news happens so quickly that there's little time for it, so we took a step back to talk about the stories of the researchers who have been fighting back against the Trump administration's assault on science. w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social and @heidiledford.bsky.social

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Scientists take on Trump: the researchers fighting back

Through lawsuits, grant tracking, whistle-blowing and more, resistance to the US war on science is growing.

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🚨 Applications are open for the 2026 JXB Editorial Internships! 🚨 🌱 Designed for ECRs, you will gain behind-the-scenes publishing experience, write commentary pieces & join the JXB Editorial Board meeting next year 👩‍💻✈️ Deadline: 30 Sept 2025 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns #PlantScience 🧪

JXB EDITORIAL
INTERNSHIPS 2026
Who is this for?
• Early career researchers (2-8 yrs postgrad/postdoc experience)
What will you do?
• Assess submitted manuscripts (with editorial mentorship)
• Write commentary articles for publication in JXB
• (Optional) Join JXB's social media activities
Benefits for you:
• Gain editorial & publishing experience
• Career development as a researcher
• Free SEB membership (1 year)
• Invitation to JXB's Editorial Board meeting in 2026
Apply by 30th September 2025
bit.ly/jxbinterns

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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

"MicroMundo" 🖌️ Illustration of a petri dish with soil bacteria colonies. Three of them produce antibacterial compounds, visible as clear halos with no growth around them. #MicrobeArt2025 #InternationalMicroorganismDay

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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

"Under the microscope" Excited to share my submission for the Microbe Art Competition in celebration of International Microorganism Day! 🦠✨ Every year on September 17th, this day highlights the incredible role of microorganisms. #MicrobeArt2025 #InternationalMicroorganismDay

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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I believe that visual storytelling is essential to bring science and society closer together, and I seek to contribute to this through clear, simple, and engaging illustrations. Since 2023, I have been collaborating with #OeirasExperimenta - Programa Ciência mais Cidadã as a scientific illustrator.

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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🎉 During the past few weeks, I had the honour of re-designing the logo for the @netbio.bsky.social part of the #ISCB - International Society for Computational Biology. 🎨 #ColourYourResearch #ScienceDesign #NetworkBiology #NetBioCOSI #SciComm #LogoDesign #ComputationalBiology

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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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ITQB NOVA @itqbnova.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🌱 Do you want to be part of the solution to global challenges in food, energy, and sustainability? Apply for the PhD in Plant Sciences! 🎓 Contribute to more resilient crops, sustainable development, and the future of society. 📅 1st application phase: until 15 AUG 🔗 shorturl.at/7ToFD

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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Sugar? Yes, please! At Diana’s defense today, learning about how plants sense sugars and how this affects their growth. First of all, CONGRATULATIONS Diana , for your amazing defense and very interesting work!!! #Colouryourresearch #plantbiology #plantscience @itqbnova.bsky.social

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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

What do Gibbs distributions and Networks have in common? I made these illustrations for @felipexc.bsky.social's website!

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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

It was an immense pleasure making the new #NetBio logo! Thank you for the trust @netbio.bsky.social :D #colouryourresearch

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DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

More than ten Portuguese cities had protests on Saturday about the high cost of housing, "A 49-year-old municipal library technician was unable to pay the monthly rent for a house after a separation... “I’m going to be 50 and I’m moving back in with my parents.”"

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Manifestação pelo direito à habitação: “Vou fazer 50 anos e voltei para casa dos meus pais”

Mais de dez cidades portuguesas receberam este sábado manifestações pelo direito a uma habitação digna. Em Lisboa, centenas pediram que o Governo seja “sensível” à crise “insustentável” que se vive.

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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Summary of some of the #SPGconference talks at @itqbnova.bsky.social Congratulations to the organisers for a really nice event and to all the prize winners!

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Luís M. Rocha @lmrocha.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

1/4 We have two positions for PhD Students available to work in our www.cberaproject.eu CBeRa Project: cbr.fm.ucp.pt/en/call-rese... cbr.fm.ucp.pt/en/open-call... The focus is #networkscience, #complexsystems, and applications to #networkmedicine and #computationalbiology.

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CALL FOR A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP CBeRa 06_2025 | CBR

CALL FOR A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (BI-M)

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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Summary of some of the #SPGconference talks at @itqbnova.bsky.social Congratulations to the organisers for a really nice event and to all the prize winners!

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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

#SPGconference - now this is a great reception :D Looking forward to learning about all things genetics 🧬😁 If you are around @itqbnova.bsky.social today, check my flash talk at 17:05

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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Can’t believe this was already 9 years ago! I did my Honours and MSc at the BRU between 2014 and 2016. From day one, I felt inspired to learn, grow, and explore. I may have left the BRU, but the BRU will never leave me 😄

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Romana Yáñez, PhD @romanayanez.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Congratulations to all the organizing members of #NetBioMed2025 on a successful event! It was a great pleasure to illustrate the logo for the satellite meeting. Translating my colleagues' ideas into visuals is always a rewarding experience — thank you for the trust!

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Our award (€€€) for the best contributed presentation goes to Nolan Newman (Norwegian Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo). Congratulations from the #NetBioMed2025 organization! 🥳🥳🥳. Keep enjoying #NetSci2025 and see you next year at the @netsciconf.bsky.social!🧬🔬🩺

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Kristel Van Steen kicks off our #NetBioMed2025 Satellite discussing how to use #networkscience to develop individual medical networks, going towards personalized medicine! @netsciconf.bsky.social @verapancaldi.bsky.social

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Our second talk of the day corresponds to Natasa Przulj, who gave us a detailed explanation on how to use #AI techniques in order to build #complexnetworks based on multi-omics! #NetBioMed2025 #NetSci2025 @verapancaldi.bsky.social

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Happening just now #NetSci2025 folks! Don't miss it, we are just starting our #NetBioMed2025 satellite at @netsciconf.bsky.social!

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We just had Martin Guillemaud, who is using network #clustering applied to #cytokine profiles in order to better understand epileptic seizures in multiple patients. An amazing talk at #NetBioMed2025! #NetSci2025 @verapancaldi.bsky.social

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

At #NetBioMed2025 Martina Summer-Kutmon just introduced us to her methodology to use a #COVID dataset in order to build knowledge graphs and explain multiple post-pandemic effects on people. Very nice! #NetSci2025 @verapancaldi.bsky.social

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Before our first coffee break of the day, Filipi Silva introduced us to the Human Reference Atlas, a whole map of the human body across scales, from micro to macro. I found this particularly interesting! See you again at 11am. #NetBioMed2025 #NetSci2025

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

After coffee break Anna Niarakis discusses her approach to #digitaltwins, a novel conception to treat complex human pathologies. If we haven't been able to build artificial agents capable of openended evolution, can we truly build biological digital twins? #NetSci2025 #NetBioMed2025

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Iker Nuñez-Carpintero shows us his integrative #multilayer approach to explore rare neuromuscular disorders. Particularly he's focusing on cardiac and skeletal muscle myopathies. Join us at #NetBioMed2025, a @netsciconf.bsky.social satellite at #NetSci2025!

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Luís M. Rocha @lmrocha.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Highly relevant, solid work understanding and parameterizing edge weight distributions for individual medical networks.

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Luís M. Rocha @lmrocha.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Amazing talk. Super impressive work building digital twins.

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Before lunch break Elma Dervic gave us a very quick talk on how to build comorbidity networks from data. I loved her visualization through time. More amazing talks at #NetBioMed2025 after lunch, so stay tuned! #NetSci2025 @verapancaldi.bsky.social

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Kicking off our afternoon session, @cantinilab.bsky.social discusses her dual approach to capture both multi-modal dimensionality reduction and molecular network inference. She gave a very nice overview of her work! #NetBioMed2025 #NetSci2025 @verapancaldi.bsky.social

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Now at #NetBioMed2025 Marco Manca discusses some well spread scientific assumptions which many people ignore and potentially have been stopping scientific progress. After that, he discusses how to use agent based models to solve biomedical problems. #NetSci2025

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We just had an amazing talk by Manuel Ruiz-Botella, who introduced us to #CoCoGraph, a graph diffusion model for the generation of realistic synthetic molecules. Only here, at #NetBioMed2025, a satellite being held at #NetSci2025! @verapancaldi.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Now before our second coffee break we had Nolan Newman, who introduced us to another incredible piece of software called #SiSaNA, a command line to be used in a single sample network analysis. You're still on time to join us! #NetBioMed2025 #NetSci2025

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

After coffee break we had Rebekka Burkholz discussing current challenges when modelling gene regulation and how to fix them. Her approach is innovative and allows us to infer biological processes with both scalability and interpretability. #NetBioMed2025 #NetSci2025

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Our last talk of the day goes to Fabrizio de Vico Fallani, who discussed very nicely how to apply node-layer duality to better understand Alzheimer's disease. Incredible way to close our #NetBioMed2025 at #NetSci2025!

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Now @lmrocha.bsky.social goes deeper into the #digitaltwins paradigm, discussing how to build multiscale models for this purpose. What's the temporal limit when building these complex models? Can we build something as complex as biological architectures? #NetBioMed2025 #NetSci2025

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NetBioMed 2026 @netbiomed2026.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Please don't forget to join #NetBioMed2025 tomorrow, the only @netsciconf.bsky.social satellite on #machinelearning, #AI, and #networkscience applied to #medicine, #biology, #digitaltwins, and beyond!

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Vera Pancaldi @verapancaldi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

NetBioMed @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht next Monday 2nd June! Thanks to @bsc-cns.bsky.social, @plos.org and many more for sponsorship netbiomed2025.github.io/2025/sponsors. Please register here so we get the right amount of lunch:-) alturl.com/kwom9 #NetBioMed2025 #NetSci2025

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