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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 38m

As a birdwatcher by marriage, I cannot but endorse this ode to birdwatchers!
It is like discovering a new level, and once you get it, you can't un-get it...
🥰
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here’s to the birdwatchers! Optimistic, slightly eccentric custodians of wonder and joy and passion and love

At its heart, birdwatching is an act of quiet rebellion, says Natalie Kyriacou. It is the gentle act of noticing – the willingness to see the world around you

www.theguardian.com

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Christen Rexing, PhD, MPH @christenrexing.bsky.social · 23h

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 18h

LOL #academia

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 1d

Well... I mean...
The basics...

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with the word escathon on the bottom left

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with the word escathon on the bottom left

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting read!

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 20

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

(1/n)

Beautiful crow against a black background

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Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 3d

We started! It's real! The EMBO workshop on the Evolution and origin of multicellularity across the tree of life was just kicked off by Vika! @multicellgenome.bsky.social #Multicellverse #COMFUTURO @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @embo.org

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 2d

Today I arrived on the red eye to London Heathrow, took the Tube to my hotel, dropped my bags, hopped on a Lime Bike to cross town, recorded a podcast with New Scientist, then walked an hour (through Hyde Park) back to my hotel. This city is wonderful and I am so tired.

See you tomorrow, London! 😴

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 3d

Mi dispiace che non ho i messaggi provati (perché non voglio verificare la mia età) sennò ti racconterei storie!!
😅
Ho tutta una teoria del perché a me capitano queste cose...
😂

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 3d

Licenziata prima di iniziare?

a woman sitting at a table with the words have you lost your mind written above her

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 3d

REM timeline cleansing!

(Beware: long read)

elpais.com/icon/2025-10...

Dos amigos fallecidos, 36 conciertos cancelados y tres operaciones graves: cómo REM sobrevivió a su gira más difícil

Hace 30 años el grupo de Michael Stipe finalizó el ‘Monster Tour’... casi de milagro. Esta es la crónica de una gira que los coronó como la gran banda de rock de los noventa a pesar de innumerables tr...

elpais.com

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 3d

In discussions of AI for epidemic modelling, important to remember that a simple SIR model is the equivalent of print("Hello World") – a useful introductory step, but only the very start of the work required for a good model.

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 3d

Ti manca il palloncino colorato e sembri un quadro di Banksy!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

Have you ever noticed that old clothes online sometimes look better than old clothes in your closet?

Why is that? 🧵

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 3d

Phylogenetic Analysis of Beta-Lactamases Reveals Distinct Evolutionary Patterns of Chromosomal and Plasmid-Encoded BLs and the Mosaic Role of VIM Linking NDM and IMP https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.681124v1

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 3d

Traduci dal burocratese. Stanno accusando qualcuno di aver visto partite sulla loro piattaforma in maniera pirata (cioe senza pagare/averne il diritto?)

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 4d

I did not expect to find a paper in a new graph genotyper (using colored de bruijn graphs) which quotes Maya Angelou on line 1!

academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.zip · 4d

I had a 486 with 4MB of RAM back in '93. Today, I noticed that ONE tab out of 15 in my browser is taking 438MB of ram. All by itself. Guys, we truly live in the future. Or something.

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 4d

This is a very interesting reading...

PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 5d

Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

Why I left academia and neuroscience

Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.

mikexcohen.substack.com

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 5d

There is only one way to learn: move to Barcelona!!!

(Also ignobels showed that if you are slightly drunk you get better at foreign languages. Which totally worked on my French when I was in Paris!!)

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 5d

Sequenziamo lo.spazzolino e vediamo cosa troviamo?

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 5d

Oh yes! We should definitely catch up!! 🥰

Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats Adrian!! Huge & super interesting work!!!
🥰🥰🥰🥰

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 6d

🥰
Era facile!!

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 6d

Shelves mounted and filled.
I am knackered!!

Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 7d

Good morning to the Ikea delivery guys who delivered my order at 7.11 am!

Now... I have work to do!
Let the electric screwdriver be charged and the shelves will be ready before the rest of the family is even up!

(Mounting Ikea things is one of the things I -dislike less- about adulting!)

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Alice Ledda, PhD @alicele.bsky.social · 7d

Good morning to the Ikea delivery guys who delivered my order at 7.11 am!

Now... I have work to do!
Let the electric screwdriver be charged and the shelves will be ready before the rest of the family is even up!

(Mounting Ikea things is one of the things I -dislike less- about adulting!)

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