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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · Nov 7

For folks just arriving in #AcademicBsky or #ScienceBsky, here are a couple of Biophysics starter packs. Biophysicists, pls tag yourself and others and I will add you to the new starter packs. go.bsky.app/4AUjqVz

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 52m

Not 1. Unless you cam telepathically sense when the manuscript status changes from 'under consideration' to 'under review'.

Not 2. This is not a continuous variable.

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 9h

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 1d

The ARC is up at #SenateEstimates this Friday. As per tradition, they come in last on the schedule ▶️ www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

I'm sure there won't be many questions about ANU & TEQSA, so there'll definitely be time for lengthly discussion about the ARC 🫠

Tablular schedule with black text on light brown background showing breaks, and red text on white background showing the ANU, TEQSA and the ARC's time-slots at Senate Estimates, 9th October 2025.

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 9h

Everytime I need to submit a business case, I know it is about submitting a “bestness case”.

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 13h

Oof! That was lucky 🧢

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 3d

I actually haven’t seen Star Wars. I intend to stay this way.

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 5d

Tell me I’m wrong @thelabandfield.bsky.social

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 5d

Me too. But it’s not coming back. Sorry 😞 . 🪦

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 6d

Also, it must be refreshing to see examples of public services free of corporate greed and corner-cutting.

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 6d

It’s the same idea (but different narrative) here in Australia where ads about the Aus Defense Force feature computer games and shiny new computer tech - you know the demographic they are after.

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve come to not expect more of Adrian Smith. Buries his head in the sand every time.

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 7d

It’s the fact that they talked in very specific detail about the link between CO2 and what they called, “the green house effect”. We’ve had all this time and have done sweet F all about it.

Also, this level of science literacy and optimism about tech just doesn’t exist in journalism today.

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 7d

Bloody hell. Science was mainstream culture in Australia back then. (I’m a newby to Australia, so had to Google it). I love Omni magazine already!

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 7d

Did anyone ever watch an Australian TV series in the early 90s called Beyond 2000? It was about the future and how cool future tech and science was going to be.

I feel so let down.

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 8d

a man with a watch on his wrist is covering his mouth with his hand .

Alt: Giggling Ryan Gosling covering his mouth with his hand .

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 8d

Don’t forget Chatty G. 💀

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 10d

The irony is that Labour is trying to appeal to that sort of individuals by echoing those ideas. I just don’t think that people like this will ever, ever vote for Labour, especially as Devon is Reform’s heartland.

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 10d

This reminds me of how our neighbour in Exeter, a security guard at the local army barracks, was obsessed with my “contribution to UK society” (i.e. training new, local students & researchers). Every brief interaction with him used to end with him checking with me on how much longer I had in the UK.

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 11d

Came here to say this. Isn’t it human nature to reach for the first science fiction term whenever there is an incremental change in technology, even when the improvement is negligible?

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 12d

When will people realise that the ID cards are not really about conveniences for the mainstream, but about harassing and denying those in the margins? bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 13d

Tony finally did it - can he retire now?

Just know there will be a massive political fight over how these record "sex".

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 12d

Who are these other world leaders lining up to be lectured by another English man about nationalism? 🧐

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 12d

“Since 2000, 65 of 557 new drug approvals (11.7%) are highly linked to at-risk research. This portfolio likewise contains several widely used therapies.” These include EGFR1 inhibitors for lung carcinoma & PrEP for HIV.

🇦🇺 really needs to do this analysis of the opportunities. being missed. already.

Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 12d

An incredible description of a retroactively applied alternate history analysis demonstrating the impact of what medical advancements we would be without with a 40% reduction to the NIHs budget.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 12d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah, by trashing all the available drugs starting with paracetamol.

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 13d

Kemi calling for a ‘robust debate’ is the stench that you can pick up from miles away.

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 14d

…as one does with the most important scientific questions.

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 14d

How did you test the hypothesis? 🤔