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Furqan Shah

@shahfa.bsky.social
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Assoc. Prof. @ University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 #bone #biomaterials #osteocyte #osseointegration #biomineralization #bacteria #electronmicroscopy #Ramanspectroscopy 🦴🔬🦠🧪 linktr.ee/shahfa_

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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
#BioMArCHER eutopia-university.eu/opportunitie... www.linkedin.com/company/biom...
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Some kind of mushroom! 🍄 #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🧪📸 Spent 2 years exploring forests in Sweden & Finland, observing (not picking) fungi. So many shapes, colors, and species — this collage is just a glimpse. Nordic nature is full of surprises. #mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The strangest mushrooms ever! 🍄 #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The strangest mushrooms ever! 🍄 #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Amanita muscaria 🍄☺️ #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
“I bought this before Elon went crazy” 🤣 #tesla @teslatakedown.com @tesla-takedown.bsky.social #iboughtthisbeforeelonwentcrazy #sisu #Finland
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
🍄 What in the mushroom? 😃 #mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. This can seem counter-intuitive given the increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether or not they do [89, 140].”
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🧪📸 Spent 2 years exploring forests in Sweden & Finland, observing (not picking) fungi. So many shapes, colors, and species — this collage is just a glimpse. Nordic nature is full of surprises. #mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🦴🔬🧪 Pyrophosphate-containing calcium phosphates negatively impact heterotopic #bone quality 📄 Full paper: doi.org/10.1002/adhm... #Biomaterials #BoneRegeneration #CalciumPhosphate #Osteoinduction #TissueEngineering #BoneQuality #Orthopaedics #RegenerativeMedicine #Pyrophosphate 🧵 1/6
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Pyrophosphate‐Containing Calcium Phosphates Negatively Impact Heterotopic Bone Quality
The role of calcium pyrophosphate (Ca-PP) in heterotopic bone formation and material degradation is investigated using calcium phosphate (CaP) compositions with varying Ca-PP content. Results show th....
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Grant application rejected with the following comment: "Further support for that one can detect the bone mineralization via Raman imaging would have strengthen the application." Where do they find such reviewers? I'm perplexed! 🤯 #ramanspectroscopy #bone #biomineralization #science 🧪
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
When you’re at #ECTS2025 to give a talk on the applications of Raman spectroscopy to study #bone #biomineralization, but find a Raman hairstylist instead.
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
What your graph colour pallet says about you Source: errantscience.com #science #publishing #academia #phdlife #biology #physics 🧪
What your graph colour pallet says about you

Source:
https://errantscience.com/
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🌱☘️🌿 Adventures of a baby snail called Rainbow🌈 Munching on some lichen at 10X speed! 🐌🐚 #fungifriends #lichen #fungi #algae #moss #photography #nature #biology #trees #winter #mosstodon #video #mollusk #molluscs #stickoftheday #timelapse #timelapses #LichenSubscribe
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🧪 The peer review system is truly broken! 😵‍💫 An editor's perspective: –Ever increasing number of manuscripts submitted for publication –Authors want quick editorial decisions + fast peer review –Reviewers are "too busy" to review –Everyone wants to submit papers but no one wants to review 1/2
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🧪 The peer review system is truly broken! 😵‍💫 An author's perspective: –All reviewers behave like Reviewer #2 –Reviewer comments are *do more* wishlists rather than factual scrutiny of reported data –"Cite these (irrelevant) papers written by me" 2/2 #bone #biomaterials #biomineralization #science
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Nepenthes is a genus of carnivorous #plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus includes about 170 species, and numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids. [Source: Wikipedia] #nature #photography
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
☀️ The #sun poking through the #trees at #sunset 🌅 #forest #photography #nature #outdoors #sky #bluesky
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🧪🥼🔬 The “Biomineralization and Biointerfaces” group webpage is up and running! 🥳🍾 www.gu.se/en/research/...
The Biomineralization and Biointerfaces Group investigates “bone as a material”, examining the structure, composition, and adaptation under diverse conditions using advanced techniques such as electron microscopy, micro-Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray micro-computed tomography, encompassing the macro-, micro-, and nanoscale. Bone is a complex, living tissue with a hierarchical architecture, from tiny mineral crystals to the entire skeleton. Particular attention is on the mineral component of the extracellular matrix and the mineralisation process of osteocytes (micropetrosis), bone repair biomaterials such as calcium phosphates, titanium, magnesium, and cobalt-chromium alloys, and distinguishing bone mineral from other bioapatites (e.g., in dental enamel) and geological apatites (i.e., hydroxy(l)apatite).
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
🌲 #Tree or #Ninja 🥷 #nature #sky #bluesky #photography #trees #light #shadow #sunset
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🐌🐚 Here is a fabulous snail! 😍 #animals #snail #snails #fungifriends #lichen #fungi #algae #moss #photography #nature #biology #trees #winter #mosstodon #mollusk #molluscs
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🐌🐚 Here is a fabulous snail! 😍 #animals #snail #snails #fungifriends #lichen #fungi #algae #moss #photography #nature #biology #trees #winter #mosstodon #mollusk #molluscs
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🧪🥼🔬 The “Biomineralization and Biointerfaces” group webpage is up and running! 🥳🍾 www.gu.se/en/research/...
The Biomineralization and Biointerfaces Group investigates “bone as a material”, examining the structure, composition, and adaptation under diverse conditions using advanced techniques such as electron microscopy, micro-Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray micro-computed tomography, encompassing the macro-, micro-, and nanoscale. Bone is a complex, living tissue with a hierarchical architecture, from tiny mineral crystals to the entire skeleton. Particular attention is on the mineral component of the extracellular matrix and the mineralisation process of osteocytes (micropetrosis), bone repair biomaterials such as calcium phosphates, titanium, magnesium, and cobalt-chromium alloys, and distinguishing bone mineral from other bioapatites (e.g., in dental enamel) and geological apatites (i.e., hydroxy(l)apatite).
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Just one of those days - December 17, 2024 (Gothenburg, Sweden) #sky #nature #photography #clouds
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
You know you're doomed when even the sky begins to look like #bone 🦴🌥️ Can you guess which one is bone and which one is the sky? 😁 #biomaterials #imaging #photography #nature
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The bright skyline - Ekenäs, Finland 🇫🇮 #nature #sea #sky #photography #finland
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
#Sunset and the #sea #photography #nature #sky #Finland
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
#Sunset, #sea and a #duck 🌅🦆 #photography #nature #sky #Finland
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
#Sunset, #sea and a #duck 🌅🦆 Also constructive interference #photography #nature #sky #Finland
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Hearts in the middle of the forest! 💚 #nature #photography #forest #trees #heart #Finland
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
#Sunset, #sea and a #duck 🌅🦆 #photography #nature #sky #Finland
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
#Sunset, #sea and a #duck 🌅🦆 Also constructive interference #photography #nature #sky #Finland
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
#Sunset and the #sea #photography #nature #sky #Finland
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“To bring human back to life…” Say what? If you thought things couldn’t get more ridiculous, I was recently asked to review this manuscript by a Springer Nature journal 🤯 And that wasn’t even the biggest problem with this manuscript! 😬🫣🙃😱 #science #academia #publishing #biomaterials #bone 🧪
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Views from the #sky at sunset! 🌅 #sun #clouds #photography #travel #bluesky #orange #sweden #finland
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
You know you're doomed when even the sky begins to look like #bone 🦴🌥️ Can you guess which one is bone and which one is the sky? 😁 #biomaterials #imaging #photography #nature
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“To bring human back to life…” Say what? If you thought things couldn’t get more ridiculous, I was recently asked to review this manuscript by a Springer Nature journal 🤯 And that wasn’t even the biggest problem with this manuscript! 😬🫣🙃😱 #science #academia #publishing #biomaterials #bone 🧪
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🦴🔬 A 'forever unpublished' image! This histological section of the human jaw bone shows large amounts of new bone (intensely stained areas) after switching from a bisphosphonate (alendronate) to denosumab as the anti-osteoporotic drug. Thoughts? #bone #histology #histopathology #microscopy 🧪
For treating osteoporosis, the medication was switched from a bisphosphonate (alendronate) to denosumab. The histological section shows large amounts of new bone, presumably formed after the switch. Could this be related to a partial(?) return of osteoclastic activity, which would in turn also bring about osteoblastic activity? I have no idea! Feel free to share your thoughts :)
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Found an incredible antler on my *run through the hills* this afternoon! 🤩 Complete with wear facets! I have no clue what species this is. Deer? 🦌 Moose? 🫎 #nature #runner #running #paleontology #osteology #bone #antler #deer #moose #elk
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🏃‍♂️Running…. after ages! But the views were incredible! #running #runner #Runkeeper #asics #gothenburg
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A real tiny one! 🍄 #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe
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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 18/03/2025
For decades, scientific research has been plagued by deep structural flaws, leading to false findings that shape medicine, policy, and public understanding. | iai.tv/video/john-i... John Ioannidis explores why bad science persists, and how we can fix it. #medsky #philsci 🧪
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John Ioannidis on why science is broken
For decades, scientific research has been plagued by deep structural flaws, leading to false findings that shape medicine, policy, and public understanding. John Ioannidis exposed this crisis twenty…
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
💫🌟🔭 How fast do the #stars move through the #night #sky? 🎞️🎦 Truly amazed! Here’s a 20-minute time-lapse! Mindblown! 🤯 More in Alt text! #astronomy #nature #science #bluesky 🧪
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Yes it is 3.14! Happy Pi Day! 🎉 🥳 #Maths #Pi #Numbers #MathIsFun #STEM #PiDay #HappyPiDay #March14 🧪
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🦴🦷🔬🧬💎 Bringing together the “Mineralized Tissue Biology” community. Let me know if you'd like to be part of this. go.bsky.app/MasDNUf #academicsky #bone #teeth #biomineralization #biomaterials #science #biology #structuralbiology #cryoEM #electronmicroscopy #osteology #orthopaedics #starterpack 🧪
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🧪 The peer review system is truly broken! 😵‍💫 An editor's perspective: –Ever increasing number of manuscripts submitted for publication –Authors want quick editorial decisions + fast peer review –Reviewers are "too busy" to review –Everyone wants to submit papers but no one wants to review 1/2
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🌱☘️🌿 Adventures of a baby snail called Rainbow🌈 Munching on some lichen at 10X speed! 🐌🐚 #fungifriends #lichen #fungi #algae #moss #photography #nature #biology #trees #winter #mosstodon #video #mollusk #molluscs #stickoftheday #timelapse #timelapses #LichenSubscribe
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