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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 10h

I found a doctor to get a second opinion for my dad 6000km away and it let to a dramatic improvement in the health condition that was plaguing his (and my mother's) life.
Hard to tell if it would have happened without Twitter.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Nuria Lopez-Bigas @nlbigas.bsky.social · 11h

🚨 New paper alert!

Sex and smoking bias in the selection of somatic mutations in human bladder

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

by @raquelbmi.bsky.social, @ferriol.bsky.social et al (in collaboration with Rosana Risques lab in @uwmedicine.bsky.social)

Sex and smoking bias in the selection of somatic mutations in human bladder - Nature

Sex bias and association with smoking history identified in the landscape of driver mutations and clonal expansions in normal human bladder tissue may explain the higher bladder cancer risk in men and smokers.

www.nature.com

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 11h

« I drive a Lambo and publish in Nature (Publishing Group) »

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Matthew Neville @mattneville.bsky.social · 12h

Now published! Our paper on:
(1) Accurate sequencing of sperm at scale
(2) Positive selection of spermatogenesis driver mutations across the exome
(3) Offspring disease risks from male reproductive aging
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sperm sequencing reveals extensive positive selection in the male germline - Nature

A combination of whole-genome NanoSeq with deep whole-exome and targeted NanoSeq is used to accurately characterize mutation rates and genes under positive selection in sperm cells.

www.nature.com

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 17h

Meilleurs Ouvriers de France?
Non mais en vrai, l’innovation c’est que le prix aille à des chimistes et pas des biologistes déguisés!

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty bold to call a startup "Soufflé Therapeutics". I am not saying we're in a bubble, but as we say in the French "c'est gonflé"
www.souffletx.com
endpoints.news/souffle-ther...

a pan of food is being baked at 200 degrees for 20 minutes

ALT: a pan of food is being baked at 200 degrees for 20 minutes

media.tenor.com

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 1d

One more Nobel for Google? Michel Devoret is « is the Chief Scientist at Google Quantum AI » (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_...)

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 2d

L'originalité de son parcours c'est quand meme qu'il habite au Canada depuis pres de 20 ans!

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t wait to hear her story between the 2001 paper and now…

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 2d

Y a un New Berlin, NY aussi mais j’y suis allé et c’est tout petit. Leur bibliothèque doit tenir dans ma cuisine…

Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 2d

Or would speak with such a Wisconsin accent

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 3d

And even the tomato on the side looks fresher! Amazing! 🤣

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 7d

Chaplin was spot on in 1940: youtu.be/isLNLpxpndA?...

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 9d

Am I right in thinking that the only way it would work is if tickets for non-US movies were double the price? Wouldn’t it be a perfect illustration of the fact that it’s US customers who ultimately pay for the tariffs?

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 11d

The film is glorious but aren’t the last 10 minutes superfluous (or did I miss something)?

Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 12d

Friday night Tennis Grand Challenge with @andreaventura.bsky.social! @cancergrand.bsky.social Team SAMBAI vs Team eDyNAmiC! Lots of fun!

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 12d

Bravo Jonathan!

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 13d

Question for him today: "Former French president just got 5 years in jail for much less corruption than what you do on a daily basis, how much do you think you'll get? and who will bring you oranges?"

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 13d

New York 1951: "Where do the Central Park ducks go in winter?"
New York 2025: "Where do the luxury black cars go when the UN General Assembly is over?"

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 14d

But the price to pay is that I got absolutely soaked on my Citybike and missed my train. So….

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 14d

That was awesome

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Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 14d

I prefer my version: #NotSecureWarDotGov

Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 14d

Paris is always a good idea! Enjoy

Nicolas Robine @nicorobine.bsky.social · 14d

y a une autre facade sympa juste en face, si j'en crois Google Street View (je ne connais pas du tout ce quartier, a vrai dire)

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 15d

colorSV: Long-range Somatic Structural Variation Calling from Matched Tumor-normal Co-assembly Graphs. #SomaticStructuralVariants #SV #CoassemblyGraphs #Bioinformatics #Genomics #GenomicsProteomicsBioinformatics
academic.oup.com/gpb/advance-...

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