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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 2d

Colours of autumn

#photography

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 2d

In preprints: gastruloids get (a)head

Wilhelmus A. Brouwer @wesselbrouwer.bsky.social and
Luca Braccioli @bracciolilab.bsky.social discuss the #preprint by Balaskas et al. "An advanced head-to-tail mouse embryo model with hypoxia-mediated neural patterning”

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

In Preprints: A new preprint curation initiative from Development

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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 6d

That’s me. I grew up like that.

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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 6d

I particularly struggle with mouse genome informatics website… 🥹

Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 6d

Is it just me or are the jax.org websites very slow to load atm?

The Jackson Laboratory

The Jackson Laboratory's mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.

jax.org

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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 9d

Essential reading 👇
@tanjabueltmann.net

Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 10d

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 17d

Sunshine on the Wirral - Royden Park yesterday afternoon. Winter is coming

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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 17d

It was supposed to be yeast but the yeast was probably long dead 🥹. It didn’t rise as supposed to and also I left it too long to rise and the butter/sugar mix melted out 😅. Optimisation needed ☺️

Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 17d

Kardamom bollar - needs some optimisation. But tastes lovely
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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · 21d

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NFDI4BIOIMAGE @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social · 29d

✍ If you're having difficulty writing #BioimageAnalysis code that enables others to follow your workflow, have a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.socials slides on „Reproducible Bio-Image Analysis using Python, Napari, Jupyter and AI“ from the #EMBOlsm25.
To the slides: 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · Sep 5

Not quite…
Look at that black bread in this picture I have screenshot’ed from Bakfickan’s google maps pictures… that’s what I am after?

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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · Sep 5

Does anyone here 🍽️ have a recipe to share about a Swedish dark malty but soft and melt in your mouth bread? No seeds, a bit spongy?
I had it in the summer at the Bakfickan near the opera in Stockholm. Delicious! Thanks 🙏

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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · Sep 3

Burg Eltz. Was once in the DM500 bill

burg-eltz.de/en/homepage

Home page - Eltz Castle - One of the most beautiful castles in Germany

Eltz Castle: Information about the castle, its history and the surrounding area is offered, as well as a virtual tour of the castle and treasury with lots of pictures. Eltz Castle is open daily from 09:30 to 18:00 up to and including 3 November.

burg-eltz.de

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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · Sep 1

My starter begs to differ

Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · Aug 26

"Everyone has the right to decide what they believe is true."
The problem. Western media are also seen as biased.

Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · Aug 21

Fascinating episode with intriguing points about vanity of male politicians… similarities to living personalities are hinted at??
#PaulvonHindenburg

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Paul von Hindenburg

Podcast Episode · In Our Time: History · 19/06/2025 · 52m

podcasts.apple.com

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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · Aug 19

Always great when a PhD student makes it through their viva despite all kinds of stumbling blocks along the way.
So I am happy to report that Katherine Trivino is the latest of my PhD students to pass her viva! 🎉

@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Aug 19

📚 Wishing all developmental biologists an AMAZING new academic year! 🚀 Boost your teaching & learning with SDB CoRe: a FREE, peer-reviewed online database of stunning images, movies & diagrams for all things development! 🌱🐣🦎 Explore here: www.sdbcore.org 🌟 #DevBio

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Armin Wolf @arminwolf.at · Aug 13

Eine Regierung, die Museen „säubert“, Diversitäts-Programme verbietet, Uni wg. ihrer Lehrpläne Mittel streicht und Medien auf Milliarden (!) verklagt, bescheinigt Deutschland ein Problem mit Meinungsfreiheit. 🤯

US-Regierung sieht Mängel bei Meinungsfreiheit in Deutschland

Ein Bericht des US-Außenministeriums sieht in Deutschland eine Verschlechterung der Menschenrechtslage. So gebe es Einschränkungen der Meinungsfreiheit. Ein Jahr zuvor - unter der Biden-Regierung - fi...

www.tagesschau.de

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · Aug 12

Preprint servers are strugging with an influx of AI content. "How do you do quality assurance while keeping things relatively light touch so the system doesn’t collapse on itself?"
by Traci Watson | @nature.com

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

AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back

Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.

www.nature.com

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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social · Jul 29

sounds so exciting and inviting!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m obsessed with snorkelling in Scotland: starfish below, sea eagles overhead – and it really isn’t that cold

Developing snorkelling trails is part of my job, but I never tire of the teeming underwater life and seeing some of the least crowded parts of Britain’s coast

www.theguardian.com

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm thinking of the market in Odesa bombed by Russia. For those of you who want to look inside and see what a special place it is, here is one of my favorite videos of all time, the work of the magical conductor Hobart Earle:

Official version - Flash Mob for Peace and Brotherhood ( Hobart Earle /OPO )

YouTube video by Caraqueno E

www.youtube.com

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