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Why so coy? Flowers, saucers, nah…Every Star Wars fan who sees an NPC instinctively recognises that this resembles a man-eating Sarlacc 🤣🤪

Sounds amazing but also exhausting 😅 I think what’s critical is that studies begin with the intent to follow this path/constellation…it’s not something that works well when you attempt to make it fit after the work has been done (a bit like converting 2D films to 3D in post-production?🧐)

Mercy! Mercy! You win 😂🫣

No problem, let me reach out to all stakeholders and we can organise a kick-off 😂 (oh golly, how long is this going to go on for???🤣🤣🫣)

Sounds good. Let’s align and then I’ll circle back later 🤦‍♂️

Maybe. I’d have to revert to you about it 🤪😳

Oh, I’m with @merriam-webster.com all the way on that! The other modern usage that I loathe is “learning” to mean “lesson”, as in “What were our learnings from this?” 😱🤢😵‍💫

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The LEGO guide to reductionism

Here's the latest cross-posting to the @febspress.bsky.social Network, and a rather playful one this time: the #Lego guide to #reductionism 😊👇
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Scientific supply chains Attracting international scientists should be used to complement a domestic science base, not compensate for its deficiencies.

Agreed. It is deeply ironic that at a time when securing supply chains has become such a political obsession, 🇺🇸 is jeopardising one of its most enduring and successful: the supply chain of academic talent 🤦‍♂️

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A model to describe what we show in the paper. INVs are important for sequestering GLUT4 and related proteins into GSVs, the vesicles that are mobilised in response to insulin.

🚨 We have a new preprint out! 🧪

In this paper we look at GLUT4 trafficking. This is a short explainer thread, but please read the paper!

1/n 🧵

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Delighted to read this, because I thought it was only me that continually tripped over the real meaning of that word 😂 I think it might be because of the phonetic similarity to “languid”? It somehow suggests calm, control, poise…🧐

This 👇 It is deeply ironic that at a time when securing supply chains has become such a political obsession, 🇺🇸 is jeopardising one of its most enduring and successful: the supply chain of academic talent 🤦‍♂️
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“the cost of speaking out is professional suicide, while the cost of misconduct is effectively zero” - really powerful interview with @academicabuse.com + a lot of actionable recommendations for those experiencing all the wrong things in #academia 👇

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MedComms is not SciComm When scientists assess career options outside academia, there’s a prevailing misconception that MedComms is a variant of SciComm. The trap, after all, is right there in the name. SciComm = science …

New posting, and one that tackles a common misconception among academic scientists - despite the similarity in the names, #MedComms is NOT a type of #SciComm, but a separate discipline & (I think) a much better career choice🤩👇
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MedComms is not SciComm When scientists assess career options outside academia, there’s a prevailing misconception that MedComms is a variant of SciComm. The trap, after all, is right there in the name. SciComm = science …

New posting, and one that tackles a common misconception among academic scientists - despite the similarity in the names, #MedComms is NOT a type of #SciComm, but a separate discipline & (I think) a much better career choice🤩👇
totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2026/02/16/m...

The trunk of a European ash tree, with a QR code tag attached.

This is a really fantastic initiative from the town authorities in #Aschaffenburg - every tree in Schöntal park has been QR coded, so you can look up the scientific name, common name, height, and crown circumference 🤩

Extraordinary insight from a b’fast Minecraft chat: It had never before occurred to me how a colonialist mindset is a deeply-imprinted subliminal feature of so many fantasy RPGs/dungeon crawlers/computer games: you venture to a strange new land, kill the monsters (inhabitants),&take their treasure 😳

Worth noting too that an inflection point was when Twitter started choking any tweet carrying a link to another site, so promoting research/blogs/anything suddenly didn’t work well any more. Engagement on 🦋 is still a work in progress, but that’s because it’s still building critical mass.😊

LinkedIn has its place - professional connectivity and a kind of continuously updated online CV - but the feed is authentically terrible. Like watching an elderly relative dancing to Eminem to show that they’re cool 🤪🫣

😂👍 In my own writing, I tend to oscillate between Handbrake and Speed Demon until I become Roadkill…🤪😅

The 9 types of academic authors Nowadays it’s pretty standard for an academic paper to have a long list of authors – but who are those authors anyway?

Here's hoping @tirscienceblog.bsky.social pitches an Academic sitcom, The Prophet & the Handbrake

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Read this whole 🧵from @merz.bsky.social for that rarest of things: a refresher in textbook cell biology + a historical perspective on the research that yielded that textbook knowledge + state-of-the-art new data that refines the picture. Great science 😊👏👏👇

Congrats Steve! Great news.

WHO calls for mental health to be central to neglected tropical disease care A major new World Health Organization publication sets out, for the first time, a practical, evidence-based package of care to address the mental health impacts of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) a...

Today is the launch of the WHO Essential Care Package to address mental health and stigma for people with NTDs! Congratulations to all those involved in this landmark document 👏https://www.who.int/news/item/04-02-2026-who-calls-for-mental-health-to-be-central-to-neglected-tropical-disease-care

I have not, no! Thanks for the tip…although the subject matter would make it an even more upsetting read for me, I suspect.

I can take absolutely no credit for this, but Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Empire of Pain” followed by Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead” might just be THE BEST nonfiction/fiction back-to-back book pairing I’ve ever come across. Highly recommended 🤩📚 #OpioidEpidemic

🚨🚨🚨Attention, cell biologists! @jcellsci.bsky.social are recruiting a new EiC to follow in @drmichaelway.bsky.social’s footsteps & are seeking community input - link to survey 👇