Féaron Cassidy, PhD
@fearoncassidy.bsky.social
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💼DOROTHY EU COFUND fellow 🔵Physoc Trustee 👂🏼Pronounced “Fair-on” 🌏Karolinksa Institute, Sweden previously Maynooth Uni IRL, Uni of Galway IRL, QMUL London UK, Uni of Nottingham UK, TCD Dublin IRL 🥼obesity-assoc cancer immunology ❤️wild swimming ⚧️She/her
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katecavanaugh.bsky.social
Implantation is inherently a mechanical process. We find contractility is necessary and sufficient for spreading behaviors. We can artificially age embryos from young females and even rescue aged embryo spreading just by tuning contractility!
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
THIS IS THE WAY.

Everyone gets their knickers in a twist when I say we can’t sci-comm our way out of this mess…but maybe you’ll listen to the more eloquent and measured @edyong209.bsky.social!

This isn’t happening because people don’t appreciate the brilliance of the double helix structure.
sciencevs.bsky.social
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
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alannawrites.bsky.social
The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."

All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.
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ryanlcooper.com
"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
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tommytang.bsky.social
Best practices and tools in R and Python for statistical processing and visualization of lipidomics and metabolomics data www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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engagedroadmap.bsky.social
This journey working on ENGAGED Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap has been a privilege, but in many ways the work is only just beginning. With the data and insights from our workshops, we can now start shaping the roadmap in a meaningful way. #openresearch #publicengagement

This journey working on ENGAGED Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap has been a privilege, but in many ways the work is only just beginning. With the data and insights from our workshops, we can now start shaping the roadmap in a meaningful way. #openresearch #publicengagement
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amydiehl.bsky.social
Women aren’t just blamed for everything, they’re conditioned to accept it. Poverty, crime (single moms), rape (short skirts, drinking), incels (women not dating unappealing men), divorce (women file the majority of cases) & anything w/ pregnancy & children. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Targeting Tylenol Is Just Another Excuse to Blame Women for Everything
It's a longstanding tradition to blame all manner of social ills on women, without any basis in fact.
www.thenation.com
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maikbischoff.bsky.social
1/12 A very special moment for me! 🎉

My first paper as corresponding author—a @jcb.org Perspective on how contact-based decision-making in collective cell migration can itself encode blueprints for complex patterns and shapes.

rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#cellbio #devbio #science

🧵for details
Cartoon of a speculative heterogenous cell population performing mesenchymal collective cell migration.
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natmetabolism.nature.com
✨New issue!✨

Check out the latest in #metabolism research from across all disciplines.

Read about #Ferroptosis, #MASLD, #DietaryBiomarkers, #CoA metabolism, #Immune signaling, #Tumor biology and many more topics! 🧪

www.nature.com/natmetab/vol...
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tommytang.bsky.social
Oncogenic driver mutations underlie the spatial tumour immune landscape of non-small cell lung cancer www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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wkhuber.bsky.social
Skymind: I'm learning about 'spatially aware clustering' in spatial omics and wondering how it is different from 'segmentation'? (in essence, not by way of marketing)
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randomreader.bsky.social
I can't believe I still have to say this: not everything is on the internet and not all of the internet is accessible and there are billions upon billions of things that haven't been digitized. Some things just cannot be farmed out.
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neillewisjr.bsky.social
"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...
www.thelancet.com
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ingerandersen.bsky.social
The evidence is clear: chemicals from plastic pollution are leaking into our environment and yes, our bodies.

We need to understand these impacts in greater detail and secure a #PlasticsTreaty that addresses this challenge.

My address to the #NYULHplasticshealth Symposium: youtu.be/y1PZI_8dFyQ?...
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gregpriest.bsky.social
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962.

“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”

🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
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hausfath.bsky.social
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!