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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 26d

biologists rediscovering mathematical techniques and giving something like linear algebra 18 different names, to create the fun and confusion mathematicians so love. a beautiful talk from @lpachter.bsky.social about many things, including what math and bio share @math-mpicbg.bsky.social

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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 29d

'it makes no sense to incentivize/mandate (top) some practice until it is possible for researchers to do it (btm). Likewise, we can train people to manage data, but unless there are career rewards/requirements for doing so, it won’t spread. We can & probably must work at all levels at the same time'

Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 29d

@rmcelreath.bsky.social on science reform - a collective action problem: elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

Which Kind of Science Reform

What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.

elevanth.org

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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jul 17

Manu Prakash - a beautiful combination of working on the world's most pressing problems & looking at stuff because it's interesting with no idea what the outcome or use could be. Both are massively valuable & that both is and isn't the point. Make sure to play. www.quantamagazine.org/how-paradoxi...

How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Great Science | Quanta Magazine

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.”

www.quantamagazine.org

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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jun 30

met this man at #TCTeAC. truly cool work. this is one of my faves

Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Nov 18

Ribosome - Gustav Klimt Style

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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jun 30

the freedommm

Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Jun 30

If you don’t have time to take a walk, then you don’t have time to do science. Charles Darwin would take two walks every day on his "thinking path", not as a break from science, but as a crucial part of it.

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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jun 27

And for true interdisciplinarity, the time spent in random wandering conversations, exploratory lines of thought, sea swims w/ potential collaborators, & waking up at 3am with some intuition about something is probably significantly more. Because we’re living between academic languages and worlds.

Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jun 27

We need a *framework* (what we’ve studied, all the core material that comes from reading, experimenting, etc), and we need *freedom* to digest, evaluate, consider, and connect ideas. We need both. Emphatically. Walking around/staring into nothing/doing handstands is not wasted time. It’s integral.

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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jun 23

environment matters. crunchy in a good way. @mpi-cbg.de

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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jun 17

‪@hagenom.bsky.social‬ Ebenstein* 😅🙃🫠

Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jun 17

‪@barlab.bsky.social‬

Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jun 17

A friend said years ago that he feels like a kid in a sandpit at work. He’s a medicinal chemist who somehow found his thing and work feels like play. It didn’t for me at that point and it really stuck with me. #tcteac made a few points about the scientific process and for me, this was one of them 🩵

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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jun 11

Η Πράγα είναι όμορφη 😍😎 #TCTEAC

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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jun 11

Intuition: one of the best topics in science and mathematics - what does it mean, where does it come from, when does it hit us? A new take on it from Yuval Ebstein, is it just belief? Maybe it’s belief with some subconscious understanding we can’t yet write down. #TCTeAC

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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jun 11

Super interesting talk from Tzachi Pilpel about the competing ideas of deterministic, probabilistic, and now evolutionary cell fate determination during development ✨ #TCTeAC