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Eva Stukenbrock @estukenbrock.bsky.social · 7h

Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de

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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 4h

Paleoanthropology can be confusing with names. Why would scientists use “Denisovan” instead of coming up with a species name? Or “modern human” instead of Homo sapiens? And why didn’t some names ever catch on, like the Heidelbergers or the chumanzees?

www.johnhawks.net/p/informal-h...

Informal hominins, from Denisovan to superarchaic

In a new research article, I review the ways that paleoanthropologists name ancient groups outside the Linnaean system.

www.johnhawks.net

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 6h

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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American Aging Association @americanaging.bsky.social · 3h

“Inflammaging” — chronic, low-grade inflammation that rises with age — is now seen as a key driver of aging & age-related diseases.

Experts say managing blood sugar, sleep, and visceral fat can help slow it down.

🔗 www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

#HealthyAging #Longevity #AgingResearch

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Igor Branchi @igorbranchi.bsky.social · 1d

Warm congratulations, Carmen! So well deserved!

John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social · 1d

Huge congratulations to @carmensandi10.bsky.social on receiving the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award from @ecnp.eu - So richly deserved

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Oliver Bosch @olibosch.bsky.social · 23h

So well earned - sincere congratulations to @carmensandi10.bsky.social 🎉

John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social · 1d

Huge congratulations to @carmensandi10.bsky.social on receiving the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award from @ecnp.eu - So richly deserved

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John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social · 1d

Huge congratulations to @carmensandi10.bsky.social on receiving the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award from @ecnp.eu - So richly deserved

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 5d

Very happy to share our new paper in Biological Psychiatry, showing that Urolithin A reverses high anxiety by repairing mitochondrial function in the nucleus accumbens.

Big kudos to first co-authors David Mallet & Doğukan Ülgen, our amazing team, and collaborators!

🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Redirecting

doi.org

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 1d

Hundred of large well done studies from all across the world vs 1 deeply flawed assoc study? www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Amazing how antivaxxers ignore large body of evidence & expert opinion, but when they find something that they think supports their view?

Cognitive bias fest.

COVID Vaccines and Cancer Risk: Experts Dissect Flawed Study

Retrospective study from Korea proves nothing about COVID shots and cancer, experts say

www.medpagetoday.com

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 3d

PEQG website live! genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/

Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference

Visit our website to learn more.

genetics-gsa.org

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

"We're doing the studies to make the proof."

This is not how Gold Standard Science works. Or any science. You do the study to TEST THE HYPOTHESIS, not to prove yourself right.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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

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Edinburgh Neuroscience @edinunineuro.bsky.social · 17d

📢 Job Alert 📢: Research Fellow in new national BHF-UK DRI Centre for Vascular Dementia Research. You will use in vitro and ex vivo techniques to investigate the relationship between endothelial cells, oligodendrocytes and neurons in the context of Alzheimer’s and vascular dementias.

edin.ac/4nrMrIm

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 10d

Research Fellow Vacancy at @ukdri.ac.uk UCL in the Bartels Lab. Focus on gut-brain axis and neuro-immune interaction in Parkinson’s disease. One-year post from May 2026. Closing date: 30th October

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Research Fellow: Gut-brain axis in Parkinson’s

Research Fellow at UK DRI UCL in the Bartels Lab. Focus on gut-brain axis and neuro-immune interaction in Parkinson’s disease. One-year post from May 2026.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 3d

A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...

Application – EMBL International PhD Programme

www.embl.org

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 4d

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Research at ARUK @alzheimersresearchuk.org · 5d

Applications for our Doctoral Clinical Fellowships are open! Thanks to our new partnership with the UK Dementia Trials Network, we’re excited to be introducing an optional clinical trial placement as part of this.

Learn more and apply by 19 November: www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants/clini...

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 5d

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

forum.image.sc

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5d

What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 5d

I want to try something again at #ASHG25 this year: I'll block some time on Thursday and Friday afternoons to meet with trainees who would be interested to chat on any topic.

I did this last year and it was great to meet a whole bunch of new people, at all career stages!

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 5d

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 5d

Faculty positions in animal morphogenesis that may be filled at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in one of my favorite Departments" Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. 1/n
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

VACANCY - We have an opportunity for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group, working to develop computational models of epigenetic dynamics in the Polycomb system.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Closing date - 9 November 2025
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 36 months, full-time

Postdoctoral Researcher (Howard Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Computational and Systems Biology.

www.jic.ac.uk

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 6d

so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.

i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3

www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...

Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick

University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.

www.lancashire.ac.uk

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 5d

A new role for the #amygdala in response to #fear and #anxiety: Experiments in mice show that the amygdala’s #MedialNucleus can trigger an immediate #BloodSugar spike. In PNAS Journal Club: www.pnas.org/post/journal...

#metabolism #FightOrFlight #brain #cortisol

A scan of the human brain shows the amygdala (orange) helps orchestrate a metabolic reaction to stress, not just a behavioral response.
Image credit: Kateryna Kon / Science Source.

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Alliance of Genome Resources @alliancegenome.bsky.social · 5d

The IMPC Strategic Conference will be held virtually on Thursday 22 January 2026

Registration is free but required: www.mousephenotype.org/news/2025-vi...

@impc-phenotypes.bsky.social @mousegenome.bsky.social

‘International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium:

Insights from the Past, Shaping the Future’

Which will be held virtually on

Thursday 22 January 2026

from 11:00-18:00 EDT / 17:00 – 00:00 CET

This online meeting will focus on three pillars.

First, it will briefly present the progress and achievements of the IMPC programme to date (Session I).

Second, it will showcase the extent to which the programme has impacted basic and applied biomedical research along with its translational effects on understanding disease mechanisms and advancing human health (Session II). This Session will also include the presentation of the IMPC survey results.

Third, it will solicit ideas and opinions from IMPC members and the scientific community at large on the value and justification for continuing and KOMP/IMPC programme as well as suggestions for future directions and priorities (Session III).

Registration is free, but mandatory.

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