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Douglas Kell @dbkell.bsky.social · Aug 1

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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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Jul 16

How to “de-Americanize” global science

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How to de-Americanize global science

The US science crisis presents an opportunity to reinvent funding and management of the global research enterprise.

www.nature.com

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Bernadette Moore @themoorelab.bsky.social · Jul 15

Crikey. UK worse than US on MMR vaccination rates.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

UK worst in G7 for MMR jab rates, as 30m children worldwide not fully immunised

More than 14m children globally have not had single routine jab as figures show less than 90% of those eligible in UK had first MMR last year

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · Jul 7

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 · Apr 5

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”

Women end up doing the academic housework

kifinfo.no

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 7

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...

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.

www.forbes.com

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

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www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

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...

www.lemonde.fr

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · Jun 24

- 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 · Jun 24

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

Christina Dahm @christinadahm.bsky.social · Jun 2

Do you want to learn about integrating modern methods like food substitution and target trial emulation in nutritional epidemiology studies? Then do I have the course for you!

✨ Nutritional Epidemiology, a residential course at Sandbjerg Estate, a beautiful historic manor in Southern Denmark. ✨

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Jun 22

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Bernadette Moore @themoorelab.bsky.social · Jun 22

I came here first this am, read this & with dread checked the news...

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · Jun 14

Chicago

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Victor Shi @victorshi.bsky.social · Jun 14

Los Angeles. Just wow.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 14

#NoKings protest in Philadelphia

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daviss @chaddavis.photography · Jun 14

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 · Jun 14

Heartening to see the people across America speak up.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jun 14

NEW: Democracy is alive in Philly!

Amazing scenes in Philadelphia as thousands hit the streets for the anti-Trump protest.

#NoKings #50501Movement

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · Jun 14

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!

NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · Jun 14

Support science? Ever gotten sick? Know someone who has gotten sick?

This is for you. 👇🏽👇🏽

www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Jun 10

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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Bernadette Moore @themoorelab.bsky.social · Jun 11

Can you share which AI program you used?

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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

Stochastic parrot - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Bernadette Moore @themoorelab.bsky.social · May 6

😳🤦‍♀️ academic freedom

Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · Apr 30

New Trump Watch column, incl:
NIH academic freedom policy to be reviewed
Global covid vaccine safety study closes
NSF director resigns
Key FDA drug data missing
World Trade Center health programme gutted
Pentagon resumes transgender medical care
www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Trump watch: New targets include medical school accreditors, childhood covid vaccines, and more

www.bmj.com

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Caroline Cerny @carolinecerny.bsky.social · Apr 30

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