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Douglas Kell @dbkell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Pleased to see our paper on #preeclampsia and cell #senescence and seeming prevention by #ergothioneine is now published, with @resiapretorius.bsky.social @louiseckenny.bsky.social @lorenkell.bsky.social @themoorelab.bsky.social and others doi.org/10.1016/j.jr.... Hope we can get RCTs done now.

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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Folddisco finds similar (dis)continuous 3D motifs in large protein structure databases. Its efficient index enables fast uncharacterized active site annotation, protein conformational state analysis and PPI interface comparison. 1/9🧶🧬 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/folddisco

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

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Women end up doing the academic housework

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No

Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

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Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists

OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

- Invest in research culture and infrastructure - Better manage and protect research time - Develop and retain research support staff - Constantly fight for the social mission of a university which is to produce knowledge for the sake of knowledge.

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Christina Dahm @christinadahm.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

✨️The application deadline has been extended to July 1st. ✨️ Open to all PhD students and junior researchers with an interest in nutritional epidemiology.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/06/2025

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Victor Shi @victorshi.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Los Angeles. Just wow.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/06/2025

#NoKings protest in Philadelphia

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daviss @daviss.org · 14/06/2025

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

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Christina Lattimer @christinalattimer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Heartening to see the people across America speak up.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Yes! I heard some people haven’t signed because they aren’t a scientist or academic. But this is about all of us. If you are against harming research participants, sign! If you want more life-saving treatments, sign! If you value free speech, sign!

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Today I asked AI to summarise an academic paper. The actual results were the opposite to what was hypothesised (and to what others had shown). The AI summary assumed the study had found what everyone else had found. Hot tip: don’t use a stochastic parrot to summarise an outlier paper. #academicsky 🧪

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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It's a phrase from the prescient paper that got its authors fired from google: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochas.... They make excellent follows on here

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Stochastic parrot - Wikipedia

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Bernadette Moore @themoorelab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

😳🤦‍♀️ academic freedom

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Caroline Cerny @carolinecerny.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

How do you solve a problem like brand advertising...? Last year @emmaboyland.bsky.social & I had a discussion over breakfast* where we discussed our concerns about the rapidly emerging loophole of food brand ads and lack of a policy approach to address it... *Can confirm no crumpets were consumed

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This is a remarkable letter and everyone should read it.

I can no longer, in good conscience, be a part of or lend any kind of support to what I see as increasingly strenuous efforts to comply with each and every immoral and often illegal directive being sent to the National Institutes of Health from the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (which, as of this writing, is not a duly enacted Department-level unit of the United States Government and does not have a duly appointed and confirmed Secretary-level administrator). Compliance with these directives violates my own morals and ethics and regularly requires me to contemplate behaviors that violate both my Physician’s Professional Oath and my Oath of Federal Service. Furthermore, I do not see those people best positioned to protect NIH and to protect biomedical research offering meaningful resistance or questioning any aspect of these directives in any detailed way. The most common response appears to be to comply as quickly and completely as possible, and to plan ahead for how to comply for any that may be on hold for the time being. I understand the reasons why this might be the position of those making the decisions for the agency, but understanding does not allow me to agree or to capitulate.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

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British Nutrition Foundation @nutritionorguk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Less than one month to nominate for the British Nutrition Foundation Prize 2025! The British Nutrition Foundation Prize is awarded annually to a person for their outstanding achievement in an area of nutrition over a number of years.

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

From the biomedical informatics view, this is a five alarm fire and a nuclear air raid siren. Up until now the NIH has spent millions studying federated models and other techniques to enable research progress while explicitly avoiding doing exactly this because of how dangerous and unethical it is.

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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A powerful call has just gone up on the website of the @aacu.org : “A Call for Constructive Engagement” signed by almost 200 college & university presidents (more sure to join), from community colleges to R1s! #academicsky #edusky @academic-chatter.bsky.social www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

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A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U

A Call for Constructive Engagement

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

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Shoa Clarke @shoaclarke.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I think the proper interpretation of this study is: Among 100 adults w/ high ApoB/LDL on keto diet, nearly everyone had increase in plaque volume at 1 year. Those with the most plaque to begin with tended to have the most increase.

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Shoa Clarke @shoaclarke.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Sigh. This study claiming a lack of association between ApoB & plaque has blown up in the media with the typical podcaster/youtuber grifters jumping on it. Beyond the obvious (small N, non-randomized), here are a few reasons the study doesn't show what people claim 🧵: www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

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Plaque Begets Plaque, ApoB Does Not: Longitudinal Data From the KETO-CTA Trial

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 21/04/2025

HHS Eliminated Programs - Updated Here is an updated list of all programs eliminated in the 2026 HHS Budget. Reach out if you have information or clarity on the cuts. These cuts will impact Every Single American. Email altcdc1@pm.me for PDF and xlsx.

A list of all agencies and programs the Trump administration is seeking to eliminate. An accessible PDF is available from altCDC. Email altcdc1@pm.me.

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Bernadette Moore @themoorelab.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Excellent. "As the bottleneck tightens, all survival will depend on heeding once again the ancient admonition: I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

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Opinion | An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive. (Gift Article)

Everything is under threat. What you care about can make it to the other side.

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Simon Lamrock @simonlamrock.com · 19/04/2025

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/04/2025

Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? “We wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,” Timothy Snyder writes.

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What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?

Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/04/2025

After freezing all grants to Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities. scim.ag/4ikYp2T

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NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them

Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors

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Bernadette Moore @themoorelab.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Anyone else feeling like we are at next level insanity here? It's all been so *much* worse than I had imagined. 😭

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LIVERAIM @liveraim.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

🌎Did you know 1 in 3 adults worldwide has #MASLD? It’s tied to obesity, diabetes & high cholesterol, it can lead to fibrosis and cancer. This #WorldLiverDay remember: #FoodIsMedicine! 💪Let's make #liverhealth a priority @easlnews.bsky.social @ihieurope.bsky.social @europeliver.bsky.social

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

'“If we’re going for going to mobilize, it’s going to be the most prominent, the most well-endowed, the most privileged and protected of us in civil society who have to take the lead,” Levitsky said.'

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This professor studies dictatorships. He helped convince Harvard to stand up to Trump

Harvard professor Steve Levitsky has spent decades studying democracies and how they fail. He's now raising alarm bells over what he sees as a slide toward autocracy under President Trump.

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Karen D. Corbin, PhD RD @geeksthatspeak.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In this new review 🧪, we dive into what we know about the impact of the gut microbiome on dietary energy absorption in humans. IMO-our perspectives on how to advance the field to facilitate precision nutrition interventions are worth a read. academic.oup.com/nutritionrev... #science

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Targeting the Gut Microbiota’s Role in Host Energy Absorption With Precision Nutrition Interventions for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity

Abstract. The field of precision nutrition aims to develop dietary approaches based on individual biological factors such as genomics or the gut microbiota

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Daniel Drucker @danieljdrucker.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The world of science needs more colleagues like Dr. Kevin Hall. Honesty, integrity and high quality science, answering critical questions with broad implications for improving human health

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This is really bad

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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This is a major loss for the NIH, but scientists cannot be expected to do their work under censorship. I applaud Dr Hall for his work and am hopeful he finds a good academic home for his research program

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