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Furqan Shah
@shahfa.bsky.social
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Assoc. Prof. @ University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 #bone #biomaterials #osteocyte #osseointegration #biomineralization #bacteria #electronmicroscopy #Ramanspectroscopy 🦴🔬🦠🧪 https://linktr.ee/shahfa_
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Jun 16
🧪📸 Spent 2 years exploring forests in Sweden & Finland, observing (not picking) fungi. So many shapes, colors, and species — this collage is just a glimpse. Nordic nature is full of surprises.

#mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 7d
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JustJo @jopics.bsky.social · 8d
Jewel Too Snail I found in Pacific Grove in 2021. One of those WOW moments. #MarineLife #Tidepooling
Three shots of s pointy, twisty marine snail. It’s brilliant orange and purple. Near it are smaller black seasnails
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 18d
Initially, I thought someone had poured black paint over them 💀
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 19d
Some kind of mushroom! 🍄

#fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Jun 16
🧪📸 Spent 2 years exploring forests in Sweden & Finland, observing (not picking) fungi. So many shapes, colors, and species — this collage is just a glimpse. Nordic nature is full of surprises.

#mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 24d
The strangest mushrooms ever! 🍄

#fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 24d
The strangest mushrooms ever! 🍄

#fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 24d
Amanita muscaria 🍄☺️

#fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 24d
“I bought this before Elon went crazy” 🤣

#tesla @teslatakedown.com @tesla-takedown.bsky.social #iboughtthisbeforeelonwentcrazy

#sisu #Finland
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 24d
Spotted in Ekenäs, Finland 🇫🇮 recently.
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 25d
🍄 What in the mushroom? 😃

#mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Jun 24
Can you "untrain" medical AI that has been trained on data in papers that eventually get retracted? 🤔
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Jun 24
And soon after, you run into peer-reviewers who will try to make sure that nobody in the world ever gets to know...... 😜😆
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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · Jun 17
A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. This can seem counter-intuitive given the increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether or not they do [89, 140].”
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Jun 16
🧪📸 Spent 2 years exploring forests in Sweden & Finland, observing (not picking) fungi. So many shapes, colors, and species — this collage is just a glimpse. Nordic nature is full of surprises.

#mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Jun 6
The study underscores the importance of material composition on bone quality, not just quantity, and raises important questions about the fate of phagocytosed, non-resorbable particles in vivo.

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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Jun 6
These findings are highly relevant for the development of next-generation bone graft substitutes, especially in craniofacial and maxillofacial reconstruction, where synthetic materials must balance bioactivity with long-term stability.

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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Jun 6
The materials were designed to enable controlled degradation and bone formation in non-osseous environments. The inclusion of Ca-PP—a known mineralisation inhibitor—was of particular interest due to a dual role in both promoting and potentially impairing bone quality.

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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Jun 6
These materials were tested in a subcutaneous sheep model to evaluate their osteoconductive and osteoinductive potential, as well as their long-term degradation behaviour.

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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Jun 6
This study investigates a series of multi-phase calcium phosphate (CaP) biomaterials composed of monetite, β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP), and varying concentrations of calcium pyrophosphate (Ca-PP) (0–12.5%).

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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Jun 6
🦴🔬🧪 Pyrophosphate-containing calcium phosphates negatively impact heterotopic #bone quality

📄 Full paper:
doi.org/10.1002/adhm...

#Biomaterials #BoneRegeneration #CalciumPhosphate #Osteoinduction #TissueEngineering #BoneQuality #Orthopaedics #RegenerativeMedicine #Pyrophosphate

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Pyrophosphate‐Containing Calcium Phosphates Negatively Impact Heterotopic Bone Quality
The role of calcium pyrophosphate (Ca-PP) in heterotopic bone formation and material degradation is investigated using calcium phosphate (CaP) compositions with varying Ca-PP content. Results show th....
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · May 30
I suppose, unless you’ve clearly stated that you disagree with the message or content of a shared article, people have a tendency of doing that under the assumption that your views are in agreement / alignment with the message of the shared article (regardless of who the author is).
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · May 30
Grant application rejected with the following comment:

"Further support for that one can detect the bone mineralization via Raman imaging would have strengthen the application."

Where do they find such reviewers? I'm perplexed! 🤯

#ramanspectroscopy #bone #biomineralization #science

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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · May 24
When you’re at #ECTS2025 to give a talk on the applications of Raman spectroscopy to study #bone #biomineralization, but find a Raman hairstylist instead.
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · May 19
What your graph colour pallet says about you

Source:
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#science #publishing #academia #phdlife #biology #physics

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What your graph colour pallet says about you Source: https://errantscience.com/
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