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Luke Child Dabin

@scienceandbears.bsky.social
217 followers 536 following 324 posts

Scientist, Sceptic, Humanist, Spy. Ass. Res. Prof. of neurogenetics, occasional twitch streamer, Type 2 Bipolar, they/them. Hecking love bears.

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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 14h
Used to find the requirement to state "This figure was made using biorender dot com" slightly annoying. Now realise it's an excellent way to prove I didn't use AI to make a graphical abstract. Biorender's AI "Leo" has absolutely no idea what he's doing, a human made this 💪
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Aaaaaaaahhh the monksh
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A photo of Grandmaster Flash the cat sitting next to me on the sofa being given tummy/chest rubs. He is an adult tabby cat who is doing a slow blink
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have two boy cats and one of them keeps trying to put his nose inside my eyeball. Might be something to this
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ngl, I've been jumpscared by AI slop twice today by your videos and I'll be unfollowing if it happens again. It doesn't add anything and it's kinda creepy, questionable morality of using AI for non-essential work aside.
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sound on, friends
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I saw Taskmaster recorded an age ago, back in 2017 I think? Enjoy! Greg was awful at reading the teleprompter and there was lots of cut segments of them just taking the piss out of each other. :D Wonder if he's improved.
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Lookout is a good enough psych horror movie about a woman on placement at a fire lookout tower. It is not a fun watch, but if you like horror and lookout towers it may be worth a look.
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In scientific writing I usually opt for "suggests" - a safe word that leaves room for alternative interpretations. When I'm communicating science verbally, I'm a little less formal & say "we/they found". To me they're colloquially equivalent, but "suggests" probably seems watered down to most. 🙃
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My dad has ME, was initially pleased by the headline but the lead image had me nopeing out pretty quickly.
AI slop
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We've lost so much and we have so much to celebrate
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It is probably my joint-second favourite pokemon game, I wish you all the joy I have derived from it :D
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Your argument has merit, I'd be a fool to say otherwise. But what about the weird wax-paper wrapper?
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🥳🏆🐰
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I hecking love trees
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You just distrust the loud English
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Limboh-no!
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🥳💪 I am in the first circle of Dante's Inferno
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Gooorgeous
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
tl;dr more people should use combined pathological models, it seems we might have been missing a LOT of stuff you only see when both pathologies are present! 🔍 We hope you enjoy exploring/leveraging these data. (: Thanks for all coauthors for their contributions! #blueskyence #Alzheimer's #snRNAseq
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Jung Hyun took on this massive project: she found strong synergistic effects of combined amyloid & tau pathologies on GRNs, DEGs, and stronger concordance with 3 human data cohorts. Also spotted: a population of Disease Associated Oligodendrocytes expand significantly under combined pathology. 👀 2/3
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🧠Proud to announce a new publication: Unique transcriptomic alterations in 5XFAD;PS19 mouse model🧬 Amyloidoisis, tauopathy & neurodegeneration are hallmarks of AD. We study these proteinopathies in separate models, but rarely study them TOGETHER. We wondered if we might be missing something.🧐 1/3
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Unique transcriptomic alterations in 5XFAD;PS19 mouse model identify glial lipid dysregulation and coordinated microglial–oligodendrocyte responses
INTRODUCTION Alzheimer's disease (AD) features amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques and tau tangles, yet how their coexistence reshapes brain transcriptomic programs remains unclear. METHODS We performed high...
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I seem to remember that U2 putting their new album on everyone's iPhone was what made me switch to samsung and spotify.
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Valid. At BEST, it shows their research lacks rigor. Educate them.
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Saw this earlier
A "Steamed Hams" parody where Supernintendo Chalmers shows Skinner "Alley Cats" saying "Yes, and you call this a new comedy", followed by a second panel with Chalmers displaying "After Life" and saying "Despite the fact you've done all these jokes before.", followed by a final panel revealing Skinner's face is Ricky Gervais, with the text "You F*******G C**T"
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Clear as mud.
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I've been saying this since 2019
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What's it like inside your head?
static.klipy.com
Paddington Paddington Bear
Alt: A gif of Paddington Bear, wearing his iconic red hat and blue duffel coat, throwing a snowball towards the viewer with the lower text "You just got paddingtoned"
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Maybe we should rename "Careers in Science" panels "Survivorship Bias" panels? The LUCK factor of success is typically never discussed or alluded to.
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I follow this one account here which posts dialogue from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. It's a little source of joy. ☺️
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I read this skeet and remembered that I have the "Andrew Windsor in the back of the car" photo saved to my desktop with the filename "noncequences.png".
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“I’ll pass on the salad and just have those fries. I’m trying to eat healthy.” - instant hall of fame dad joke thanks to cyclospora
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I'm about to start it after finishing Intergrade and Intermission last night. Overjoyed to discover Rebirth has a Froglene mod too. Good luck to you!
A screenshot from FFVII Intergrade with the Froglene mod installed: Barret gently explains to Frog-Marlene that he has to leave again to fight the bad guys.
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
😠
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"Within touching distance of all the southern bits" caused my brain to stall
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Transitions are SO fun. I am excited to see what you do with them! I have no talent and managed to make one I am very happy with (:
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Indigo V. L. Rose @ivlrose.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Not Claude advertising their new model to me using a left-handed helix
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
BBC principles "Inform, Educate, Entertain" exemplified in Horrible Science sketch where a height-averse actor playing Sir Isaac Newton has to go on a fast rollercoaster & explain atomic theory while screaming hysterically, followed by "Got to Go", a Chapell Roan parody about how pooping
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
What was that about a course of shrimp?
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I am pretty careful with what I share. Much moreso with work stuff (science), but if I'm sharing a quote I look for the wider context to make sure it's not misrepresentative/made up.
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Your intent doesn't matter. I'm sure you're pleased with your "gotcha", but "people are busy and don't have time to fact check things particularly if they align with their preconceptions" isn't knowledge we lacked & now people are more likely to spread this bullshit (www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576...)
www2.csudh.edu
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Spreading misinformation out of "curiosity" to see how many people would believe it is not a good use of anyone's time
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Oligodendrocytes, DNAm, and snRNAseq? ON MY DAY OFF? That's tomorrow morning sorted
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I've got a playlist at this point www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PPc... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j9x...
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Psychosalad FULL VERSION
YouTube video by The Homeschool Dropout
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
this is the ideal newspaper columnist. you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like
Pump-action soap dispensers are a disgrace -and I won't put up with them any longer
By Adrian Chiles, a perfect man
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Progress!
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Paranormasight 2: Curse of the Mermaids is a Japanese horror mystery game about a group of people seeking a mermaid. It also features a bunch of collectable bird stickers. They are all in a polycule with each other & have their own theme tune, which is incredible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yab3...
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25. Flock'n'Roll from PARANORMASIGHT The Mermaid's Curse Original Soundtrack
YouTube video by channel for the paranormasight 2 soundtrack
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Luke Child Dabin @scienceandbears.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I hope you reflect on the response to your possibly well-intentioned, but incredibly misjudged post. If you're in the Labour party and you're not confronting your gender critical colleagues about their culture war antics, you don't get to pretend you're an ally.
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