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Pharmaceutical Sciences M.Sc. Student @ LMU Munich

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Hi! I'm a pharmaceutical scientist 💊 with a B.Sc. from LMU Munich 🇪🇺🇩🇪, currently pursuing a master's degree.

My interests are
• disease mechanisms 😷
• bioinformatics 🧬🖥️
• imaging techniques 🔬

I'm a chemical laboratory technician 🥼 by training, having completed a 3 year apprenticeship at Roche 🏢.
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Are you a #BioImageAnalysis pro? Challenge your skills by playing #BIAbubbles! 🎉
Find the right workflows and reproduce the result! 🔬🖥️🕹️
And if you have challenging BIA tasks, new level contributions are welcome! 😀
github.com/haesleinhuep...
April 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Happy #GolgiDay to all who celebrate!! Made a Golgi “stack” to celebrate 😉🥞

(featuring my beloved and elusive Golgi tubules..!)
April 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Consider a specific example such as merging the National Eye Institute into a larger brain institute. Are eyes part of the brain? Absolutely. Are there different concerns and difficult pools of grantees for eyes compared to other parts of the brain? Most definitely

What are benefits and costs?

1/n
What is a good way to explain the impact of the consolidation to laypeople?
April 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Hallo Bluesky!
Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!
January 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself."

Earlier that day:
January 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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40 years ago all of Genbank was published in print form by NAR. The same format today would require over 4 light seconds of shelf space. To a year of progress in 2025.
December 29, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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All but one member of the editorial board resigns. The biggest complaint is that Elsevier allowed AI to make changes in approved human-edited manuscripts, making them embarrassingly inaccurate.

retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/e...

#AcademicSky
Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes
All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with th…
retractionwatch.com
December 29, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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Researchers who use surveys with narrative responses, take note... Generative AI will disrupt this research method
#AcademicSky #SocialWork
AI-Generated Survey Responses Could Make Research Less Accurate (And a Lot Less Interesting)
www.gsb.stanford.edu
December 13, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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Found slides by Ankur Moitra (presented at a TCS For All event) on "How to do theoretical research." Full of great advice!

My favourite: "Find the easiest problem you can't solve. The more embarrassing, the better!"

Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/15VaT...
TCS For all: sigact.org/tcsforall/
December 13, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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Hello @bsky.app family!
November 18, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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A collage featuring 100 planetary nebulae captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
November 12, 2024 at 2:40 AM
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🧬🔍There are 50 petabases of freely-available DNA sequencing data. We introducing Logan Search which allows you to search for any DNA sequence in minutes, bringing Earth’s largest genomic resource to your fingertips.
🏔️ logan-search.org 🏔️
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #OpenScience
November 11, 2024 at 7:29 PM
AlphaFold 3 code and weights are at last available to the (academically affiliated) public🥳🖥️🧬

github.com/google-deepm...
GitHub - google-deepmind/alphafold3: AlphaFold 3 inference pipeline.
AlphaFold 3 inference pipeline. Contribute to google-deepmind/alphafold3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 11, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Hi! I'm a pharmaceutical scientist 💊 with a B.Sc. from LMU Munich 🇪🇺🇩🇪, currently pursuing a master's degree.

My interests are
• disease mechanisms 😷
• bioinformatics 🧬🖥️
• imaging techniques 🔬

I'm a chemical laboratory technician 🥼 by training, having completed a 3 year apprenticeship at Roche 🏢.
November 10, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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'In an analysis published in eLife last year, the YCharOS team used this method to assess 614 commercial antibodies, targeting a total of 65 neuroscience-related proteins2. Two-thirds of them did not work as recommended by manufacturers.'
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The antibodies don’t work! The race to rid labs of molecules that ruin experiments
Poorly performing antibodies have plagued biomedical sciences for decades. Several fresh initiatives hope to change this.
www.nature.com
November 10, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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bioRxiv goes big on Bluesky: accounts for all subject categories now available (Please Reskeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...
September 28, 2023 at 2:27 PM
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Questions to ask of your data before giving that seminar:
July 15, 2024 at 4:23 AM