Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 29/05/2026#BioMArCHER eutopia-university.eu/opportunitie... www.linkedin.com/company/biom... 020
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Initially, I thought someone had poured black paint over them 💀 110
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Some kind of mushroom! 🍄 #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe 0251
Reposted by Furqan ShahFurqan 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 1689
Reposted by Furqan ShahFurqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 15/09/2025The strangest mushrooms ever! 🍄 #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe 1161
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 15/09/2025The strangest mushrooms ever! 🍄 #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe 1161
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Amanita muscaria 🍄☺️ #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe 0120
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 020
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 13/09/2025🍄 What in the mushroom? 😃 #mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology 030
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Can you "untrain" medical AI that has been trained on data in papers that eventually get retracted? 🤔 000
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 24/06/2025And soon after, you run into peer-reviewers who will try to make sure that nobody in the world ever gets to know...... 😜😆 030
Reposted by Furqan ShahProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025A 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). 341351481
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 1689
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 06/06/2025The study underscores the importance of material composition on bone quality, not just quantity, and raises important questions about the fate of phagocytosed, non-resorbable particles in vivo. 🧵 6/6 000
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 06/06/2025These findings are highly relevant for the development of next-generation bone graft substitutes, especially in craniofacial and maxillofacial reconstruction, where synthetic materials must balance bioactivity with long-term stability. 🧵 5/6 100
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 06/06/2025The materials were designed to enable controlled degradation and bone formation in non-osseous environments. The inclusion of Ca-PP—a known mineralisation inhibitor—was of particular interest due to a dual role in both promoting and potentially impairing bone quality. 🧵 4/6 100
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 06/06/2025These materials were tested in a subcutaneous sheep model to evaluate their osteoconductive and osteoinductive potential, as well as their long-term degradation behaviour. 🧵 3/6 100
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 06/06/2025This study investigates a series of multi-phase calcium phosphate (CaP) biomaterials composed of monetite, β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP), and varying concentrations of calcium pyrophosphate (Ca-PP) (0–12.5%). 🧵 2/6 100
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 🧵 1/6doi.orgPyrophosphate‐Containing Calcium Phosphates Negatively Impact Heterotopic Bone QualityThe 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.... 111
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 30/05/2025I suppose, unless you’ve clearly stated that you disagree with the message or content of a shared article, people have a tendency of doing that under the assumption that your views are in agreement / alignment with the message of the shared article (regardless of who the author is). 150
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Grant 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 🧪 021
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 24/05/2025When you’re at #ECTS2025 to give a talk on the applications of Raman spectroscopy to study #bone #biomineralization, but find a Raman hairstylist instead. 041
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 19/05/2025What your graph colour pallet says about you Source: errantscience.com #science #publishing #academia #phdlife #biology #physics 🧪 2120
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Indeed. It can be complicated for evaluation committees to decide who gets the promotion/funding. Therefore, quantity is a *useful* measure. Unfortunately, there are field-specific challenges. Pure biology papers can take many more “man-hours” (personnel + time) than e.g., materials science papers. 000
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 18/05/20252-3 papers to review every week is unmanageable + unpractical. Sometimes I’m quite disappointed at the quality of papers that are sent out for peer review. There’s a giant disparity between journals that are selective (and high impact, but NOT only for that reason) and those that publish everything. 000
Reposted by Furqan ShahFurqan 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 14110
Reposted by Furqan ShahFurqan 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 4175
Reposted by Furqan ShahFurqan 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 2101
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Nepenthes 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 1111
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 17/05/2025☀️ The #sun poking through the #trees at #sunset 🌅 #forest #photography #nature #outdoors #sky #bluesky 060
Reposted by Furqan ShahFurqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025🧪🥼🔬 The “Biomineralization and Biointerfaces” group webpage is up and running! 🥳🍾 www.gu.se/en/research/... 054
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 17/05/2025🌲 #Tree or #Ninja 🥷 #nature #sky #bluesky #photography #trees #light #shadow #sunset 050
Reposted by Furqan ShahFurqan 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 0314
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Long shot: Sheep/goat cervical vertebra? See Figure 4 on page 11: lbhi.is/images/pdf/u... 110
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 0314
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025🧪🥼🔬 The “Biomineralization and Biointerfaces” group webpage is up and running! 🥳🍾 www.gu.se/en/research/... 054
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Just one of those days - December 17, 2024 (Gothenburg, Sweden) #sky #nature #photography #clouds 0150
Reposted by Furqan ShahFurqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 20/03/2025You 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 0121
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The bright skyline - Ekenäs, Finland 🇫🇮 #nature #sea #sky #photography #finland 1170
Reposted by Furqan ShahFurqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025#Sunset and the #sea #photography #nature #sky #Finland 0161
Reposted by Furqan ShahFurqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025#Sunset, #sea and a #duck 🌅🦆 #photography #nature #sky #Finland 0172
Reposted by Furqan ShahFurqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025#Sunset, #sea and a #duck 🌅🦆 Also constructive interference #photography #nature #sky #Finland 0141
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Hearts in the middle of the forest! 💚 #nature #photography #forest #trees #heart #Finland 090
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025#Sunset, #sea and a #duck 🌅🦆 #photography #nature #sky #Finland 0172
Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025#Sunset, #sea and a #duck 🌅🦆 Also constructive interference #photography #nature #sky #Finland 0141