Florian Friesenegger

This is the insanity of the current Labour approach. You are kneecapping the economy by slashing immigration to appease voters who hover between Tory and Reform, and yet they don’t even believe your numbers anyway…plus you’ve just alienated your actual supporters

A screenshot of a National Review article by George Leef. The title is “Let’s Hire Professors Purely on Merit”. The first paragraph reads: the diversity media that has swept over American education for the last 50 years or so has had a align effect on the quality of professors. Many of those hired to fill quotas for certain groups are, to be blunt, not especially qualified. Moreover, such hiring violates the law against discrimination. What should we do?” It’s the usual thing about white men not being able to get jobs because women and minorities are given preference. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

This article advocates for the “Faculty Merit Act” that would — get this — require all faculty applicants to submit their *SAT* scores. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shirts that’s hilarious.

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...

Happy #GolgiDay to all who celebrate!! Made a Golgi “stack” to celebrate 😉🥞

(featuring my beloved and elusive Golgi tubules..!)

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?

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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!

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself."

Earlier that day:

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.

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…

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

AI-Generated Survey Responses Could Make Research Less Accurate (And a Lot Less Interesting)

Researchers who use surveys with narrative responses, take note... Generative AI will disrupt this research method
#AcademicSky #SocialWork

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/

Hello @bsky.app family!

A collage featuring 100 planetary nebulae captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

🧬🔍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

GitHub - google-deepmind/alphafold3: AlphaFold 3 inference pipeline. AlphaFold 3 inference pipeline. Contribute to google-deepmind/alphafold3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

AlphaFold 3 code and weights are at last available to the (academically affiliated) public🥳🖥️🧬

github.com/google-deepm...

Sporadic distribution of a new archaeal genetic code with all TAG codons as pyrrolysine Numerous genetic codes developed during the evolution of Eukaryotes and three are known in Bacteria, yet no alternative genetic code has been established for Archaea. Some bacterial and archaeal prote...

We discovered the first alternative genetic code in Archaea!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A conference poster titled "Changes in retinal pigment epithelium phagocytosis and morphology during retinitis pigmentosa disease progression".

I got selected to present these results at the undergraduate research conference on molecular sciences (URCUP) 2024. :)

For my bachelor's thesis I worked with a retinitis pigmentosa mouse model.

RP is a hereditary disease 🧬 leading to progressive vision loss 👁️.

I analyzed how morphology and phagocytotic activity of the retinal pigment epithelium change during disease progression. 🕒

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 🏢.

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.

'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...

bioRxiv goes big on Bluesky: accounts for all subject categories now available (Please Reskeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...

Is it hot? does it look good? Are you proud to serve it?

Questions to ask of your data before giving that seminar: