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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 13m

I must confess I tried reading it last week (before the Nobel was announced) and stopped after page 25 (it's not easy!)

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 20m

Thanks! I'll check it out! Please try qedscience.com and tell me what you think!

q.e.d Science

Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation

qedscience.com

Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 44m

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 7h

Tune in to hear how about transgenerational inheritance in C. elegans and how AI can help improve peer review. 🎧

#science #biology #sciencepodcast #sciencecommunication #genetics

Biology outside the box (Ep 140)

What’s the value of risk-taking in research?

bigbiology.substack.com

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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 7h

“Biology outside the box” is out now! 🧪

In this episode, we talk with Dr. @odedrechavi.bsky.social, professor in the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. ✨

Art by Brianna Longo

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 1h

I really enjoyed recording "Big Biology"! We talked about A LOT of things, including my new passion project qedscience.com (check it out, more on this and big announcement coming soon:) 😍😍😍🔥🔥⚡️⚡️@bigbiology.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/bigbiolo...

Biology outside the box (Ep 140)

What’s the value of risk-taking in research?

open.substack.com

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 12h

Nodding approvingly during a seminar + scrolling your phone

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 14h

Post docs who bring their own funding

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 21h

That person you meet when you attend a scientific conference and want to quickly get breakfast alone before returning to your room to prepare your presentation

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 21h

That person you meet when you attend a scientific conference and want to quickly get breakfast alone before returning to your room to prepare your presentation

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 1d

Just want to hibrenate or fast forward until monday when we can be sure that the nightmare is over

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 1d

"Can't believe it was published in Nature"

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 1d

When you’re editing your draft for the 100th time and thinking “What will the reviewers think of my manuscript?”, remember that they’ll be reading it in this position.

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 3d

Like so, fm Bracha, @odedrechavi.bsky.social et al

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Engineering Toxoplasma gondii secretion systems for intracellular delivery of multiple large therapeutic proteins to neurons - Nature Microbiology

Toxoplasma gondii secretion systems can be engineered to deliver multiple large therapeutic proteins to neurons in vitro and in vivo.

www.nature.com

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 2d

Fwd: Fwd: “I hope this email finds you well”

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Stefan Schoenfelder @stefanschoenfelder.bsky.social · 5d

This paper uncovers that HERVK LTR5Hs, a hominoid-specific retrovirus, act as epiblast enhancers with a crucial function in human pre-implantation development - stunning!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A human-specific regulatory mechanism revealed in a pre-implantation model - Nature

Genetic manipulation of blastoids reveals the role of recently emerged transposable elements and genes in human development.

doi.org

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 5d

"You're in charge of the autoclave"

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 5d

Thanking the reviewers

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Parvathy (She/Her) @parvathyv.bsky.social · 6d

I absolutely loved reading this one recently!

The authors show how AMPK (which is traditionally viewed as an stress-activated kinase) is also developmentally regulated by circulating adenosine levels in Drosophila.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Remote control of AMPK via extracellular adenosine controls tissue growth - Nature Cell Biology

Zhang et al. demonstrate that AMPK can be activated by signalling metabolite, adenosine, under non-stress conditions during Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.

www.nature.com

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Jan Blaha @jahabla.bsky.social · 6d

This graced our journal club recently

One-shot design of functional protein binders with BindCraft - Nature

BindCraft, an open-source, automated pipeline for de novo protein binder design with experimental success rates of 10–100%, leverages AlphaFold2 weights to generate binders with nanomolar affinity without the need for high-throughput screening.

www.nature.com

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 6d

If you like chess check out Igor Smirnov's brilliant channel, for example this crazy puzzle (and the historic story around it): youtu.be/IyyRCwKtChM?...

Only Mikhail Tal Could Solve This Crazy Puzzle! [Even Kasparov Failed]

YouTube video by Remote Chess Academy

youtu.be

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, it's shut down, hopefully temporarily

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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 6d

Ok so this is almost certainly not up your street but I LOVE this paper because it is simple, beautifully written and super clear. It's just a good paper and I fangirled the senior author about it in an email to him

www.jneurosci.org/content/40/2...

Acute Inflammation Alters Brain Energy Metabolism in Mice and Humans: Role in Suppressed Spontaneous Activity, Impaired Cognition, and Delirium

Systemic infection triggers a spectrum of metabolic and behavioral changes, collectively termed sickness behavior, which while adaptive, can affect mood and cognition. In vulnerable individuals, acute...

www.jneurosci.org

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 6d

Don't forget to check out the recommendations from the preLights team on our sister site @prelights.bsky.social.
prelights.biologists.com

Also, if you are interested in bioimage analysis, our latest preprint list will be dropping soon!

Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 6d

Friday Papers Club! 🍿In light of Pubmed going down, the collapse of social media, and my recent success at getting recommendations for interesting papers from those still around, I am starting a new tradition! - Recommend a good scientific manuscript! 👇

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Yehu Moran @yehumoran.bsky.social · 6d

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Yehu Moran @yehumoran.bsky.social · 6d

My first ever non-peer reviewed science-related piece. Together with Howard Wolinsky and Holger Breithaupt @embopress.org

It's about how scientists critical of de-extinction are targeted by dark PR tactics: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Scientists targeted by dark PR tactics: Several academic scientists critical of de-extinction projects have become the targets of anonymous smear articles and weaponized copyright infringement claims:...

EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.

www.embopress.org

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