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Jim Mansfield @jrmansfield.bsky.social · 3d

Or both at the same time!

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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d

Liberals say that recent Supreme Court ruling have given the executive branch too much power. But they’re wrong, because the rulings only apply to Trump and will all be reversed when there’s a Democratic president.

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 4d

Johns Hopkins sophomore student Florin Selaru develops a new scheme to deconvolve colors in histological sections for digital pathology.

It greatly outperforms traditional linear color deconvolution.

Congrats Florin!

Read his paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 9d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 9d

30% drop year over year!

Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison

This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.

www.jsonline.com

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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 11d

Justin hodges, not on bluesky, on PhDs

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11d

Has America become so soft and woke that we can't appreciate why all of our top generals need to leave their posts and fly to Virginia to be lectured by the Fox News weekend host about the warrior mentality?

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Sophie Acton @actonlab.bsky.social · 27d

Pleased to update this - The paper is published in Cell Reports!
A long road for this one, the paper grew exponentially and evolved over a couple of years. Thanks to @makris1.bsky.social for sticking with it to untangle all the new data!

@cp-cellreports.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 12d

Quinnipiac in recent poll asked: Do you think that the way people talk about politics these days is contributing to violence in the United States, or don't you think so? 82% of voters agreed with this including majority of Dems, Independents, and GOP. I said basically this and got fired.

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Jim Mansfield @jrmansfield.bsky.social · 12d

"our analysis indicates that substantial NIH budget cuts—including those implemented at the funding margin—could curtail research linked to a large share of potential drug approvals."

Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP @weldeiry.bsky.social · 12d

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

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

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Jim Mansfield @jrmansfield.bsky.social · 15d

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16d

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further.

Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 16d

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants

A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

www.latimes.com

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 20d

Pour one out for the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social. Satire is dead in a world where the real "reporting" looks like this

Screenshot from the cowardly clowns at the nyt. Headline and sub read

Trump Administration Wields Its Full Toolbox to Bring Media to Heel

ABC’s decision to “indefinitely” suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show illuminates the administration’s efficacy so far.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20d

Controversial change

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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 21d

SpatialFuser: A Unified Deep Learning Framework for Spatial Multi-Omics Data Integrative Analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.14.676067v1

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Vizgen @vizgen.bsky.social · 20d

Next-gen spatial transcriptomic tools are helping overcome the challenge of degraded & FFPE samples.

Vizgen co-founder Jiang He explains how these advances are opening new doors for research in oncology, neuroscience & beyond:
www.biocompare.com/Editorial-Ar...

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Nik Fortelny @nikfortelny.bsky.social · 19d

Postdoc position open!
Digital Pathology: Therapy-response prediction using spatial biology
University of Salzburg
Deadline: October 26th, 2025

We look forward to hearing from you!

www.plus.ac.at/biowissensch...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 25d

This, too

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 25d

"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

www.nytimes.com

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Jim Mansfield @jrmansfield.bsky.social · 25d

Congratulations, Denis! Very well done.

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Schapiro Lab @schapirolab.bsky.social · 25d

We’re excited to share our latest preprint with the Bone Microenvironment Group led by Therese Standal at NTNU. Congratulations @loggas.bsky.social and everyone involved!

Lukas Hatscher @loggas.bsky.social · 25d

I am excited to share my first work in @schapirolab.bsky.social on Multiple Myeloma (MM) in collaboration with the Standal Lab from NTNU Norway. We use Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) on bone marrow biopsies from MM and precursor patients (details below): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Highly multiplexed imaging recovers immune and metabolic niches in multiple myeloma associated with disease progression and bone involvement

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer arising from genetically aberrant plasma cells (PCs) that remain dependent on the bone marrow (BM) microenvironment for disease establishment and progression. Here, w...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jim Mansfield @jrmansfield.bsky.social · 25d

Excellent paper! Congratulations

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