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Elisa Fadda
@elisafadda.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton, head chef at https://GlycoShape.org, Salem's butler, fucose fanatic #glycotime everyday! She/Her
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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · Nov 13
As we (my lab and I) are new here 😻, let me introduce some exciting #glycotime work we recently published in Nature Methods doi.org/10.1038/s415... GlycoShape is a completely OA database and toolbox to restore the 3D structure of glycans on glycoproteins 🥳 You can find it at glycoshape.org 1/2
artistic rendition of glycoproteins 3D structures anchored on the cell surface and soluble with the glycans restored with https://glycoshape.org
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mjafreeman.bsky.social
3. New info I think:

BBSRC grants are in a pause of a 'few weeks' while they transition to an always-open system, ie accepting applications at any time.
February 3, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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mjafreeman.bsky.social
I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee..

A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting...

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February 3, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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richardsever.bsky.social
"AI is rapidly populating medical records with synthetic content, creating a feedback loop [that] drives a rapid erosion of pathological variability and diagnostic reliability...this renders AI generated documentation clinically useless after just two generations" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
AI-generated data contamination erodes pathological variability and diagnostic reliability
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly populating medical records with synthetic content, creating a feedback loop where future models are increasingly at risk of training on uncurated AI ...
www.medrxiv.org
February 3, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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scurry.bsky.social
I wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of an argument with Martin Lewis. Can’t see the govt holding the line here given that they’ve now effectively privatised HE. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/f...
Student loans: why is Martin Lewis clashing with Rachel Reeves?
MoneySavingExpert founder has said changes that will lead to some graduates in England and Wales paying more are ‘not moral’
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.”
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
Mandelson’s Fifth Column
The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.
www.monbiot.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:32 AM
elisafadda.bsky.social
"the MFFI web portal, a platform designed around
five core pillars: (i) avoiding reliance on a group or local server; (ii) minimizing
maintenance; (iii) reducing technical barriers; (iv) providing a unified
home; and (v) enabling
timely dissemination of updates"

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Screen shot of the link to the bioRxiv manuscript linked in this post with title in blue "community web portal collaboration in the Martini Force Field Initiative" authors in green and snip of the text in black
February 3, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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fulelo.bsky.social
If you liked Mr Nobody Against Putin or was astonished by the hostile environment the BBC's Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg is working in, you might as well like #TheGlobalJigsaw look into how Russian propaganda works:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
And how we got there:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC World Service - The Global Jigsaw, Russia’s propaganda firehose
The talk shows taking over the TV schedules
www.bbc.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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nucleosomepolice.bsky.social
pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/314 histones outside of the eukaryotic domain are the 'molecule of the month'! nice!
PDB101: Molecule of the Month: Histones Across the Tree of Life
Uncovering the evolutionary diversity of histones
pdb101.rcsb.org
February 3, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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professor-dave.bsky.social
At no point in my journey have I had ANY symptoms. Prostate cancer is often silent. If caught early it is highly treatable. Survival rates are effectively 100% at 5 years for localised cancers and 95% at 15 years.
February 2, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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professor-dave.bsky.social
Very soon, I am going for surgical treatment for cancer.
I wanted to use this opportunity to share my journey and advocate for prostate cancer screening for men. @prostatecanceruk.bsky.social
prostatecanceruk.org/about-us/new...
Have we finally reached a turning point on prostate cancer screening?
After years of research and campaigning, we’re closer than ever to a prostate cancer screening programme. Here’s why 2025 could be the year things finally change.
prostatecanceruk.org
February 2, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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erictopol.bsky.social
The US isn't Denmark when it comes to vaccines, written by a scientist from Denmark @annalsofim.bsky.social
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
February 2, 2026 at 10:18 PM
elisafadda.bsky.social
"you are never quite sure what it is going to come up with" would that maybe explain women's skepticism toward AI? 🧪🧑🏻‍🔬

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
February 2, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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arstechnica.com
When the Guinea worm eradication program began in 1986, there were an estimated 3.5 million cases across 21 countries in Africa and Asia.
Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025
When the eradication program began in 1986, there were a 3.5 million cases.
arstechnica.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
Looking forward to read this from @bonomimax.bsky.social

Learning Dynamic Protein Representations at Scale with Distograms

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
February 2, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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robosullivan.bsky.social
Thank God we're not polarised today folks. I know floods are bad, but polarisation would be very uncomfortable. #spéirgorm
A screenshot from an article headline that reads "Taoiseach says some climate projects will jot be fulfilled because they risk polarising society" It also features a photo of Micheál Martin looking like a guy who looks worried that people are about to realise he's fucked something up.
February 2, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
🤖🫧💥
February 2, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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sheencr.bsky.social
Kirk Malhoan acting chair for US ACIP that make recommendations for vaccines is saying he wants to reconsider all US vaccines recommendations. 🧪🧵 #HealthPolicy
US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations
Move is dramatic departure for advisory group under Kirk Milhoan, who says he doesn’t like the term ‘established science’
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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philipcball.bsky.social
"Over the years, this book has been depoliticised into just a love story." I finally got round to reading Wuthering Heights about six years ago, and was astonished at what I found. As this (good) essay says, we have, culturally, utterly neutered its savagery.
kristiedegaris.bsky.social Kristie De Garis @kristiedegaris.bsky.social · 1d
Emerald Fennell has said Wuthering Heights left its greatest impression on her at 14. Here’s my interpretation after reading at 41.

Turns out it isn’t really about love at all, but about inheritance, race & power.

kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/wuthering-...

#Books #Writing #Scotland #UK #Film
Two Terrible Children on a Windy Hill: A Rereading of Wuthering Heights
In 2026, Wuthering Heights has become synonymous with Jacob Elordi’s finger appraising Margot Robbie’s gag reflex.
kristiedegaris.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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cyrilpedia.bsky.social
The United States is banning EU citizens who object to their TechBro kleptocracy.

Cant we at least ban the United States' ICE gestapo goons the from the EU?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
February 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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cyrilpedia.bsky.social
"But although this is the story of the mind of a great scientist, it is above all a story of collaboration, of how Crick adopted a way of thinking and working that involved asking fundamental questions and pursuing them though intense encounters with others."
@matthewcobb.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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euanritchie.bsky.social
He's closing in on $10,000 raised for the mental health organisation, Headspace. I'm inspired by our son every day. If you can help him and his charity run, please do!
February 2, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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ukri.org
Today, we're sharing an open letter from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, outlining changes to UKRI investment approach, and addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC. Read his letter here: www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community
UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.
www.ukri.org
February 1, 2026 at 5:16 PM
elisafadda.bsky.social
❤️❤️❤️🥹🥹🥹
February 1, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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thecelticist.bsky.social
From yesterday's Irish Times.
The Lie, Mary O'Malley The lie that a protester shot dead by ICE in Minneapolis was a terrorist, the lie that killers set loose on their own cities are victims, the lie that a poem is a gun. A poem is not a gun, though a poem from the pen of Akhmatova or Neruda or Mandelstam, not one of whom ever to my knowledge fired a shot, might in certain conjugations of the stars lodge in the heart and spread out across mountains and borders across languages and the sea and you can’t shoot it down, or lock it up or alter its pixels. It is played on the hollowed reeds of dead bones. A poem like that is a bomb. Mary O’Malley’s most recent collection, The Shark Nursery (Carcanet), was winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2025
February 1, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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geoffhutchison.net
Where's that "don't use AI to draw molecules" editorial again?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Don’t let generative AI shape how we see chemistry - Nature Reviews Chemistry
When generative artificial intelligence (AI) draws molecules, it doesn’t just get the science wrong — it risks reshaping how we see chemistry, spreading incorrect representations of our world that mis...
www.nature.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:38 AM