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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 8h

After many years of hm-ing and haw-ing about why some of the fusion proteins I’ve cloned showed cytoplasmic background I’ve finally found the culprit

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 14h

America is best when we are working together to build something bigger and better than we had before.

America is best when we can collectively overcome.

Most Americans agree we are not on our best path, and we disagree on how to forge that path, but it cannot pass through fascism. There lies doom.

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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 6d

📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?

Two calls are open:

Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review

🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities

#KnowTogether

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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 16h

Out loud for the people in the back: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness..." - spoken word in high school

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 22h

You. Do. Not. Try. To. Prove. Your. Hypothesis.

That is completely backwards.

The proper way to do science is to form a hypothesis, and then do everything you can to try and tear that hypothesis apart.

Any other way is scientifically unsound at the least, and malpractice or outright lies at worst

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 21h

Reading this anecdote and begging, BEGGING people who are not in creative fields to wrap their brains around the fact that figuring one's way through those stuck transitions *IS THE FUN PART*.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 23h

....and a 3i customer visiting Heidelberg from Australia kindly sent me this photo of Nicole and @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social busy talking about microscopy with a handful of visitors to our booth.

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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 21h

Finding your way through constraints of all kinds is the creative joy in life! When we are trapped, there is always a way out - that is the creative force that points us towards the highest good. Sometimes that highest good changes lives, sometimes it changes scripts, but it is the force for good.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Sam. It is from the heart.

Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1d

I am really glad that @jeremymberg.bsky.social wrote this. Everybody who cares about science, and about knowledge generation and civil society generally, should read and share with their favorite administrator.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back

open.substack.com

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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 23h

Well deserved Michelle!

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Michelle Itano @michelleitano.bsky.social · 1d

So humbled and grateful for this opportunity, but want to emphasize that none of this would be possible without @marianadeniz.bsky.social who not only had the idea and did the work for the nomination, but saw in me something that I did not. It has been an honor to work with and learn from her. (1/2)

Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 1d

Now that I can say it publicly - huge congratulations to @michelleitano.bsky.social , winner of this year's @bioimagingna.bsky.social Michael W Davidson award for "Community contributions, in any of the areas of Engagement, Education, Mentorship, and Standardization". So well deserved! #GBIxBINA2025

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · 1d

Look who's the @navbo.bsky.social lab of the month! So honored. And also if you want to read my story and some unsolicited advice on the academic career path, you can also find it here in NAVBO's Lessons Learned: www.navbo.org/lessons-lear...

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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 23h

...or is it?

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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 23h

....and a 3i customer visiting Heidelberg from Australia kindly sent me this photo of Nicole and @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social busy talking about microscopy with a handful of visitors to our booth.

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3i @the.3i.social · 1d

This week we're @events.embl.org #EESImaging Seeing is Believing. Stop by our booth, meet our team and learn about our unique systems for live cell imaging and beyond!

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David W. Sanders! @davidwsanders.bsky.social · 1d

Humbled to announce that we received a New Innovator award. I thank the NIH’s civil servants for their hard work during a stressful funding cycle. I thank the leadership (and chair, Marc Diamond) at UTSW for betting on my lab’s high risk, high reward research. www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/art...

UT Southwestern researcher receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

David Sanders, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases and Molecular Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been awarded $2.4 million over five ...

www.utsouthwestern.edu

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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 1d

Congrats David! Well deserved.

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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 1d

Oh man Uri. So glad you weren't the guy who got stabbed in the story!

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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 1d

📣🧪🌱We are #hiring a Horticultural Manager for our node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Network in Adelaide. Please help spread the word! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

careers.adelaide.edu.au

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 2d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 1d

So sorry my brother. 😡😢

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 1d

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa"

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH, Teresa!!!

UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Teresa Puthussery, a UC Berkeley vision scientist whose insights into the retina could one day help those with vision loss regain their sight, has been named a 2025 MacArthur “genius” Fellow. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...

Vision scientist Teresa Puthussery receives MacArthur ‘genius’ award - Berkeley News

Puthussery’s discoveries about the retina are paving the way for new treatments for eye disease and vision loss

news.berkeley.edu

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

/12 And they are TERRIBLE at budgets. TERRIBLE. No money for compliance training but we somehow have FOUR shows in development at Netflix to promote the trans agenda. YOU'RE ANARCHISTS GUYS NOT PRODUCERS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND STREAMING FINANCING, YOU DON'T NEED TO HIRE PEDRO PASCAL EVERY TIME

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