Etche_homo
@etche.bsky.social
Co-director of MoPED (Mechanisms of Paracrine & Endocrine Disorders) lab in Marseille 🇫🇷 on cell signaling & determination of self & beyond during neural crest differentiation. Personal account.
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"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females."
@carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
@carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
He Studied Why Some Female Birds Look Like Males
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females."
@carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
@carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
I agree, worth reading.
Is there any reason people who care can't return to cash tipping? Does it put the worker at risk for having undeclared income? Or would the customer be flagged as a non-tipper & charged more anyhow for the same products as their neighbor (cue: airline seats)?
Anything goes.
Is there any reason people who care can't return to cash tipping? Does it put the worker at risk for having undeclared income? Or would the customer be flagged as a non-tipper & charged more anyhow for the same products as their neighbor (cue: airline seats)?
Anything goes.
January 2, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I agree, worth reading.
Is there any reason people who care can't return to cash tipping? Does it put the worker at risk for having undeclared income? Or would the customer be flagged as a non-tipper & charged more anyhow for the same products as their neighbor (cue: airline seats)?
Anything goes.
Is there any reason people who care can't return to cash tipping? Does it put the worker at risk for having undeclared income? Or would the customer be flagged as a non-tipper & charged more anyhow for the same products as their neighbor (cue: airline seats)?
Anything goes.
"There is a psychological impact on ICC staff, who have spent their lives working within the criminal justice system, when they suddenly find themselves on a sanctions list alongside people implicated in human rights violations, terrorism or organised crime." Typical non-USian understatement!
Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:46 PM
"There is a psychological impact on ICC staff, who have spent their lives working within the criminal justice system, when they suddenly find themselves on a sanctions list alongside people implicated in human rights violations, terrorism or organised crime." Typical non-USian understatement!
After seeing many recommendations, I took the plunge. Aside from saying the youngsters may save us, this gobsmacker: "America[n] corporations rarely bothered to ensure safety on their lines. Nearly 200,000 people died in train accidents from 1885 to 1900 alone."
Does this look back give us cause to stand our ground today? Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
Opinion | There Is a Way Out of This Mess
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:14 PM
After seeing many recommendations, I took the plunge. Aside from saying the youngsters may save us, this gobsmacker: "America[n] corporations rarely bothered to ensure safety on their lines. Nearly 200,000 people died in train accidents from 1885 to 1900 alone."
"If society is riddled with aggression, don’t blame testosterone; blame us for being too prone to dole out status for aggression." Super interesting!
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/o...
Opinion | Here’s What MAGA Gets Wrong About Testosterone
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:09 PM
"If society is riddled with aggression, don’t blame testosterone; blame us for being too prone to dole out status for aggression." Super interesting!
"The kits look adorable, but experts described them as feisty, fast-moving carnivores that bite." 🧪
December 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"The kits look adorable, but experts described them as feisty, fast-moving carnivores that bite." 🧪
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Sweeping science cuts in 2025 halted clinical trials, erased public health data and forced researchers into impossible choices.
“This year nearly broke me as a scientist,” one writes.
Six researchers share their stories: buff.ly/u2MHIQo 🧪
“This year nearly broke me as a scientist,” one writes.
Six researchers share their stories: buff.ly/u2MHIQo 🧪
‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives
US science lost a great deal in 2025, including tens of billions of dollars of federal funding, entire research agencies and programs, and a generation of researchers.
buff.ly
December 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Sweeping science cuts in 2025 halted clinical trials, erased public health data and forced researchers into impossible choices.
“This year nearly broke me as a scientist,” one writes.
Six researchers share their stories: buff.ly/u2MHIQo 🧪
“This year nearly broke me as a scientist,” one writes.
Six researchers share their stories: buff.ly/u2MHIQo 🧪
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1918 by zoonosis, the natural transfer of viruses from animals to humans. The problem is that there are millions of people in the US who do not or cannot see how ridiculous Kennedy’s claims are; they can’t see how Kennedy is lying to them. Kennedy and his
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
1918 by zoonosis, the natural transfer of viruses from animals to humans. The problem is that there are millions of people in the US who do not or cannot see how ridiculous Kennedy’s claims are; they can’t see how Kennedy is lying to them. Kennedy and his
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More on the continuing purges at #NIH. Now 13 out of 27 institute directors have been gotten rid of. This is not normal. @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...
Director of NIH neurological disorders institute is ousted, adding to leadership churn
Walter Koroshetz, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will soon be leaving his role, STAT has learned. His departure
www.statnews.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
More on the continuing purges at #NIH. Now 13 out of 27 institute directors have been gotten rid of. This is not normal. @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...
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December 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
@ovarylab.bsky.social ugggh I have had a note open to send you images for weeks, now. So don't be surprised if they finally turn up out of the blue 🤦♀️ Meanwhile, happy holidays!
December 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
@ovarylab.bsky.social ugggh I have had a note open to send you images for weeks, now. So don't be surprised if they finally turn up out of the blue 🤦♀️ Meanwhile, happy holidays!
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Morphogenesis & Organogenesis!
Part 1 (full) in the comments 👇
Comment if you'd like to be added (regardless of age or career stage!)
Please post your own biology-related starter packs using #BioStarterPacks
🧬🔬🪰🐟🐁🌱
Part 1 (full) in the comments 👇
Comment if you'd like to be added (regardless of age or career stage!)
Please post your own biology-related starter packs using #BioStarterPacks
🧬🔬🪰🐟🐁🌱
June 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Morphogenesis & Organogenesis!
Part 1 (full) in the comments 👇
Comment if you'd like to be added (regardless of age or career stage!)
Please post your own biology-related starter packs using #BioStarterPacks
🧬🔬🪰🐟🐁🌱
Part 1 (full) in the comments 👇
Comment if you'd like to be added (regardless of age or career stage!)
Please post your own biology-related starter packs using #BioStarterPacks
🧬🔬🪰🐟🐁🌱
A very cool article by the team of @anne-grapin.bsky.social about the forces that through the white fuse drive the organ (h/t Dylan Thomas). Open access and lots of colors nonetheless 🥰🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A very cool article by the team of @anne-grapin.bsky.social about the forces that through the white fuse drive the organ (h/t Dylan Thomas). Open access and lots of colors nonetheless 🥰🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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When I have posted this in the past, people inevitably have asked "Did she come home?" so I will not wait until the end of the thread to tell you she did (she's still a nomad, but less so, as she hits her middle years). The story can be found here: www.tom-cox.com/the-cat-who-...
The Cat Who Travelled Through Time
My mum and dad’s cat Bridget (pictured above, more recently) has always been a bit of a wanderer.
www.tom-cox.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
When I have posted this in the past, people inevitably have asked "Did she come home?" so I will not wait until the end of the thread to tell you she did (she's still a nomad, but less so, as she hits her middle years). The story can be found here: www.tom-cox.com/the-cat-who-...
H/T V Olsen on Mastodon for a grounded piece on AI hype and hope. Free to read. 🎁
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...
Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs
It's a seductive distraction from the advances in AI that are most likely to improve or even save your life
www.technologyreview.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
H/T V Olsen on Mastodon for a grounded piece on AI hype and hope. Free to read. 🎁
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...
This is lovely as a tribute, and resembles the Provençal crèche tradition that people here continue to follow with pleasure. There was cosplay for adults; dolls for adults are just as appealing and personality comes through in collections.
December 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This is lovely as a tribute, and resembles the Provençal crèche tradition that people here continue to follow with pleasure. There was cosplay for adults; dolls for adults are just as appealing and personality comes through in collections.
Gear up for hypocritical condemnation of pressures in #academia. WAY many more suicides than murder-suicides. Social or professional exclusions can turn deadly without access to #mentalHealth support. In Lausanne, access for PhD students costs ~$900 1st 4 consults.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...
December 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Gear up for hypocritical condemnation of pressures in #academia. WAY many more suicides than murder-suicides. Social or professional exclusions can turn deadly without access to #mentalHealth support. In Lausanne, access for PhD students costs ~$900 1st 4 consults.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...
As an over-50 myself, Lord Wood's quotes sound reasonable. Gen X knew this demographic penalty was coming since we entered the workforce, squeezed by older/younger groups already. It's not our responsibility alone. Countering HR ageism with incentives may help but some still need to retire younger.
The question becomes how to pivot to roles that are local, flexible & at a different level of responsibility.
A challenge for the potential employee … something I’m wrestling with at the moment.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Over-50s should work for longer to ease pressures of ageing society
A challenge for the potential employee … something I’m wrestling with at the moment.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Over-50s should work for longer to ease pressures of ageing society
Over-50s should work for longer to ease pressures of ageing society, say Lords
Falling fertility rates and rising life expectancy will pose ‘significant economic and fiscal challenges’
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December 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
As an over-50 myself, Lord Wood's quotes sound reasonable. Gen X knew this demographic penalty was coming since we entered the workforce, squeezed by older/younger groups already. It's not our responsibility alone. Countering HR ageism with incentives may help but some still need to retire younger.
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Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
December 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
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Don't steal pies this Christmas.
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Don't steal pies this Christmas.
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Possibly cells offer a new regime of proton chemistry.
This upends how we (at least I) think about enzyme activity, trafficking, signaling, and organelle identity. 16/n
This upends how we (at least I) think about enzyme activity, trafficking, signaling, and organelle identity. 16/n
December 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Possibly cells offer a new regime of proton chemistry.
This upends how we (at least I) think about enzyme activity, trafficking, signaling, and organelle identity. 16/n
This upends how we (at least I) think about enzyme activity, trafficking, signaling, and organelle identity. 16/n
@openrxiv.bsky.social The search function in bioRxiv at least is currently partly broken. It is possible to recover some but not all articles with the term "Multi-modal", and author search doesn't work at all. Currently posted articles appear, though. Please update front page 💔
December 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
@openrxiv.bsky.social The search function in bioRxiv at least is currently partly broken. It is possible to recover some but not all articles with the term "Multi-modal", and author search doesn't work at all. Currently posted articles appear, though. Please update front page 💔
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes another well-argued piece about the disastrous foreign non-policy willed into being by the Trump administration, probably with incentives.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
www.theatlantic.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes another well-argued piece about the disastrous foreign non-policy willed into being by the Trump administration, probably with incentives.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
This is basically the plot of "Suits", which ended up boring despite the attractive soap opera actors & clothes. It might've been more gripping and a better condemnation of money-grubbing at all costs (to others, particularly children) if the writers had known recent history.
December 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This is basically the plot of "Suits", which ended up boring despite the attractive soap opera actors & clothes. It might've been more gripping and a better condemnation of money-grubbing at all costs (to others, particularly children) if the writers had known recent history.