Reposted by Sam MugfordRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/ 141930277
Reposted by Sam Mugfordchaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 21/09/2026I started working as a programmer in 1984. Throughout my career, we spent a lot of time on making code more efficient, faster running. If nothing else, LLMs are the opposite. Let's make programs that require trillions of dollars of infrastructure, that get things wrong! 101
Reposted by Sam MugfordTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026What I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them 65972160
Reposted by Sam MugfordJitte @jittebug.nl · 19/09/2026I came across on my hard drive while looking for other things. I segmented the nervous system and part of the digestive system in this Atta vollenweideri head, then apparently I animated it and forgot it existed... This was based on CT data graciously provided by the Labonte lab. 32610
Reposted by Sam MugfordKevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026found at ucsf 9554117
Reposted by Sam MugfordSergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 14/09/2026Finally a more intuitaive way to learn pLDDT/pAE? 😎 sokrypton.github.io/protein_figh... (Character idea from @hannes-stark.bsky.social & Alex Waldherr) 727698
Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Come see my poster (number 10) about Aphid cathepsin B effectors and how they influence chloroplast processes #ppath2026 #bspp zenodo.org/records/2070... 110
Reposted by Sam MugfordMagnus Bauer @kinasekid.bsky.social · 06/09/2026AlphaFold Server’s ligand menu just got a lot bigger and I almost missed it! You can now add any ligand from the wwPDB Chemical Component Dictionary. Just enter its CCD code 🥳 16028
Reposted by Sam MugfordAnna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026He gets a sabbatical?? 2656
Reposted by Sam MugfordBrian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Happy Skynet day to all those who celebrate 6352281727
Reposted by Sam MugfordFlight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Thanks for sharing and tagging us @markannand.eurosky.social a live, real time rail map. What a fantastic view of the European rail network in action. Inspiration for so much sustainable travel and slow travel adventure. 🌎💚 0124
Reposted by Sam MugfordPeter Moffett @moffettpeter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026New preprint from @s-gauthier.bsky.social and @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social in collaboration with the labs of Xuifang Xin, @gittacoaker.bsky.social and Laurent Noël Water immunity: Yesterday's preprint: Dampness is a DAMP... today's: ...but it also dampens defense www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgExtracellular water withdrawal drives disease resistance in the phyllosphereA central question in immunity is how hosts arrest pathogen growth. Diverse plant pathogens create a water-soaked niche in host tissue essential for pathogenesis, yet how water shapes infection outcom... 0249
Reposted by Sam MugfordTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Norfolk being sat on top of an ancient supervolcano explains a lot 2375
Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I guess we got to start using bonferoni corrections instead of tukey tests? 010
Reposted by Sam MugfordCredentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Me, nodding knowingly: The beaks. 10293141570
Reposted by Sam Mugfordsophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 23/08/2026You know why 074
Reposted by Sam MugfordSteve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This Threads post by @joedator.bsky.social nails it. #AiIsTheProblem #TechLiteracy 317157
Reposted by Sam MugfordPetros Ligoxygakis @petrosligoxygakis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“The public interest is not the same thing as the public being interested”. Pertinent as always by Will Self on the central role of British media in the death of Dr. Jason Arday. willself1.substack.com/p/2089334077...willself1.substack.comJason Arday: J'Accuse the British MediaAfter the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest. 011
Reposted by Sam MugfordGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026HG Wells is alleged to have remarked "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”. You could see this shocking chart as an index of civilisation. A country which gets this issue so badly wrong is likely to fail in many other ways. 601146440
Reposted by Sam MugfordAnn Edahl @ann-edahl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Excel: It’s January 2 414325
Reposted by Sam MugfordMax Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research @mpipz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...mpipz.mpg.deThe Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research welcomes Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new director 620868
Reposted by Sam MugfordLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026One of French puppeteer Raphaël Gromy’s most recognizable performances features a puppet painting real artworks on canvas, blending puppetry, live performance, and visual art into a unique theatrical experience. 😊 IG: @artistsuniversum @raphael_gromy 338139953425
Reposted by Sam MugfordJohn Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 17/08/2026VACANCY - Funded by @European Research Council (ERC), we have three exciting opportunities for Postdoctoral Researchers to join the newly appointed Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social Group. These roles span: Developmental biology - okt.to/nq50wC 🧵 12441
Reposted by Sam MugfordKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet. 17455952065
Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · 12/08/2026New pre-print from the @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social lab We (@qunliu07.bsky.social et al.) show that the aphid effector protein CathB6, in addition to suppressing plant immunity via EDS1, also alters the regulation of chloroplast-nuclear signalling to maintain photosynthetic gene expression. 1/n 11613
Reposted by Sam MugfordHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I’ve often said (partly tongue in cheek) that spite can be a great motivator. But mudita (freudenfeude), the ability to be truly happy for others’ success, can be a much more reliable way to have a fulfilling career. Even if it can seem that way, science is not a zero sum game. Play the long game. 1228760
Reposted by Sam MugfordAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026When some says they "think AI could do [thing]", you can take that as them saying "I dont really understand or care about the quality of [thing]" 58216
Reposted by Sam MugfordMika Fae Queen of Night 🏳️⚧️ @msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026🎶Your own buttery jesus🎵 713340
Reposted by Sam MugfordNanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 24/03/2026Imagine a computer like a PDP-11 but with more than 3 billion SP4T switches. The switches are various combinations of 'magic' and 'more magic' the authors of the code are dead, there are no comments except for old code, and sometimes the comments run anyway and it's wet this is biology. 1015127
Reposted by Sam MugfordProf Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The E of E. coli fame. I did not know this story - fascinating! #IDSky #Microsky 13515
Reposted by Sam MugfordChase Million @millionconcepts.com · 30/07/2026"A computer can never be held accountable" was supposed to be a warning. But it has been widely interpreted as a strategy. 013736
Reposted by Sam MugfordProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 30/07/2026One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is ”Children’s books about scientists convey demotivating messages.” Explore the article here: ow.ly/oTon50ZuLj3 For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/TsjY50ZuLj2. 0123
Reposted by Sam MugfordDr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 25/07/2026“This may be scary to some people… a dystopian future” Quite, Bryan. That’s why it’s been the plot of several SF horror stories and novels and more than one film. Horror stories evolved as warnings. You’re not supposed to hear them and think, ‘ooh, good idea’.independent.co.ukBiohacker Bryan Johnson says he’s ‘cloned himself as a baby’ to harvest its organs‘This technology gives us a path to reverse aging,’ says 48-year-old tech entrepreneur 95212
Reposted by Sam MugfordChase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Musk just has a hard time wrapping his head around a story where a man’s wife and child care if he comes home 284391857
Reposted by Sam MugfordPlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 23/07/2026From the folks complaining about improper interpretation of Greek works: ‘federal agencies “should prioritize foundational research in the biological over the life sciences.”’ Biology, derived from Greek, literally means ‘science of life’. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u... 0112
Reposted by Sam MugfordSean Mulcahy @zeneasy.co.uk · 22/07/2026One for @timbale.bsky.social ? BBC Breakfast 06:33. “That’s the statistical situation but what’s the reality.” Then does vox pop. 1920339
Reposted by Sam MugfordMe On Planet 3 @agentavalon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Again, not dissimilar to where I am from in the far north of the Scottish Highlands. Visitors often talk about the beauty of the hills and vast peat moors, but that's not the landscape our ancestors would have known. 0375
Reposted by Sam MugfordIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17/07/2026“Used ChatGPT as my search engine” 👀 🫠 Editor-in-Chief of Science 20466123
Reposted by Sam MugfordNanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 15/07/2026Keyboard moss is a pleasing addition to office atmosphere. Moss, rotifers, bacteria and all kinds of life keeping one company. There should be more of it. 1214518
Reposted by Sam MugfordAmazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 14/07/2026happy hagfish crashiversary to all who celebrate www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/u... 416760
Reposted by Sam MugfordRowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 14/07/2026No leadership here. The Church of England is against restoring nature www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.comChurch of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030Campaigners criticise C of E for failing to show moral leadership as one of country’s biggest landowners 43416
Reposted by Sam MugfordEditing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Change in Headline 6538110
Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Had an oustanding time at the Hempitera-Plant Interactions Symposium #HPIS2026 in Montpellier this week. Hat tip to the organisers. 000
Reposted by Sam MugfordGuanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund @gdfcf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This isn't just a paper about insects. It's a demonstration of what decades of biodiversity inventory, conservation, and scientific collaboration can achieve. Congratulations to Dan & Winnie, the parataxonomists, and all the authors on this remarkable PNAS publication. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 0188
Reposted by Sam MugfordCERN @cern.bsky.social · 29/06/2026So long #LHC and thank you for all the collisions 👋 Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa... 16549171
Reposted by Sam MugfordMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 26/06/2026This is remarkable. 912766773
Reposted by Sam MugfordRoyal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026#InsectWeek is back and bigger than ever 🪰 Whether you're fascinated by butterflies, curious about beetles or simply want to spend more time connecting with nature, there's something for everyone! Join us in celebrating the little things that run the world 🔽 buff.ly/gCVYfHw #StandTallForTheSmallbuff.lyInsect Week 2026 Expands Across Five City Hubs to Inspire a New Generation of Nature ChampionsThe Royal Entomological Society announces ambitious nationwide programme for Insect Week 2026 On the leadup to a big week in the insect science community, the Royal Entomological Society has unveiled… 0189
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