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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Aug 5

Library scenes - with almost all scientific literature being digital, including textbooks, I wonder how many of these books actually got picked up in the past year. Any insights into library functioning folks?

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Aug 1

Leaving them behind with a Loom video guide would be really helpful. Especially if you’re working on HPC and docker. I’m sure it’ll be great! Also many bench scientists (me) struggle with interpreting data from omics/seq rather than the methods themselves. Any pointers there might be helpful! Best!

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Aug 1

My brother did the same for his last lab meeting - lots of “oooohhs and aaaaahs” from the audience when he ran stuff from command line. Nearly comical but that combio - benchbio gap is real

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Jul 31

Congrats Diedre!

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Jul 28

Just like food - junk content and mental obesity will hit the most vulnerable the hardest. In such an environment, we must promote independent thought, nuanced discourse, and sustained engagement with any literature as ever more important skills in the future - starting from primary education. 🧪

Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

www.nytimes.com

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Jul 27

I believe we met at a BMES or Gordon Conference - it was great seeing your name pop up on my feed, I’m looking forward to seeing your work ahead!

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Jul 27

Congrats 🎉

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Jul 24

Yikes!

Edwin Antony @professorantony.bsky.social · Jul 23

Funding policy for 2025 from NCI. Was just released: 4 percentile…maybe!
www.cancer.gov/grants-train...

Funding Policy - Research Grants

NCI funding policy for research project grant (RPG) awards reflects the funding goals of the institute, NIH, and HHS.

www.cancer.gov

Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Jul 23

Growing up in urban Saudi Arabia, I actually didn’t get to see a true night sky until my mid twenties when I visited Cherry Springs State Park, PA. It is almost a grounding experience and one that a huge chunk of future generations might be deprived of.

Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · Jul 23

My latest article for @forbes.com has just gone live 🧪👩‍🔬
www.forbes.com/sites/laurie...

Street Lamps Aren’t The Main Source Of Light Pollution In Cities

New studies from Germany and Hong Kong pinpoint specific sources of light pollution keeping our cities excessively bright at night.

www.forbes.com

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European Space Agency @esa.int · Jul 23

🗓️Upcoming launch!

Join us live on 26 July from 02:40 BST/03:40 CEST to watch our Vega-C rocket take flight once again.

#VV27 will carry Airbus's four CO3D satellites and CNES MicroCarb mission.

🚀 Launch is scheduled for 03:03 BST/04:03 CEST.

Watch live: Vega-C to launch CO3D and MicroCarb

www.esa.int

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Jul 23

Call me skeptical but at this point it all appears symbolic unless someone’s willing to enforce these laws and see the judgement carried through. Unfortunately, symbolic feels good but doesn’t achieve tangible outcomes.

Zia Weise @ziaweise.bsky.social · Jul 23

Governments can be held legally responsible for climate inaction, the world’s highest court said in a landmark decision on Wednesday, opening the door to a cascade of lawsuits.

www.politico.eu/article/top-...

World’s top court says climate inaction can breach international law

Nonmembership of the Paris Agreement doesn’t exempt countries from duty to fight global warming, ICJ says.

www.politico.eu

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Jul 23

I made this bluesky account a little less than a year ago. Didn’t use it much because lack of users and low adoption. Thought other social media might bounce back (delusional me). But now I’m convinced that traditional social media has very little to offer. Back on here to give it another chance!

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Nate Brought @antifaspecops.bsky.social · Mar 6

Washington Post published my resignation letter in its entirety (even the damn typos...)

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Read the resignation letter by former NIH official Nate Brought

Brought is the former director of the National Institutes of Health’s Executive Secretariat.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Nov 30

It seems easy to make fun of basic science – for example why would you want to study bacterial immune systems? But then you would have to admit that that’s exactly what led to the discovery of using CRISPR as an insanely good technology for genome engineering.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Nov 29

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

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Anna Obenauf @obenaufa.bsky.social · Nov 27

1/23 Big news for the #ObenaufLab! So excited to finally share our new study providing another puzzle piece, why immunotherapy fails in many tumors, now out in @Nature 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium @cbias.bsky.social · Nov 25

First panel discussion of the symposium: (Generative) AI and its implications for bioimage analysis. Panellists are Assaf Zaritsky, Lydia France and Xiaoxuan Liu. Chaired by Amy Strange #CBIAS2024

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Nov 25

The goal is not to have a zero risk project; those are generally not worth working on. People with a good relationship with risk are definitely not avoiding it. They are super honest about it and they basically make it their goal to slowly chip away at it.
nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...

66 | Michael Fischbach and the scientific decision tree - Night Science

In this episode, Stanford professor Michael Fischbach discusses insights from his course on how to choose meaningful research problems. Highlights include:- Invest time in problem selection: Spend mor...

nightscience.buzzsprout.com

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Nov 19

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?

direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · Nov 24

My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Nov 22

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

a cartoon with two panels

panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground

Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there"

The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons

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Jon Lim, MRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · Nov 23

🎨 In case anyone need…

The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!

Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Nov 18

Would love to be added! And glad to connect with another HNC researcher 😃

Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Nov 18

Some of us also just need to get out of our own way. For me, the beginning stage of writing is the most intimidating because it brutally exposes all the flaws in my logic and gaps in my knowledge - much needed but also just a bit scary

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Nov 18

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the skyline

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