And another one: We show how to use a diffusion model for #fundus images for #counterfactual reasoning in #ophthalmology! If you ever wondered how the fundus images of your patient had looked, if he had been suffering from diabetic retinopathy, check this out ⬇️

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My colleague @mgerver.bsky.social has created this open letter to Keir Starmer opposing the measures announced in last week's Immigration White Paper, on economic, political and moral grounds.

Open to all academics/researchers to sign.

molliegerver.weebly.com/petition.html

why's it that we can't submit manuscripts to multiple journals at the same time for consideration? do students have to apply to universities one at a time, waiting for a rejection to apply to the next? in-dpeth review is one thing, but not even editorial triage? will we never negotiate collectively?

read this paper and have a question to anyone studying colour-blindness: wouldn’t the "new" colour "olo" here be a very familiar colour for any colour-blind (red-green) person? Or are colour spaces learned and thus one must have experienced red before seeing olo ? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New research from @mpiforbi.bsky.social on European jackdaws reveals that when sleep deprived they prioritize deep sleep, even at the cost of vigilance.

This highlights the crucial role of deep sleep.

Explore the research, published in @currentbiology.bsky.social: bit.ly/3EFeIKc

Britain wakes up every day, aims the gun at its feet and pulls the trigger. Just a prolonged exercise in meanspiritedness and self-harm.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

✨ Announcing a new glutamate indicator - iGluSnFR4! ✨

Launched as a pair, iGLuSnFR4s and iGluSnFR4f have high-sensitivity and fast activation/deactivation for recording synapses.

More on the indicators and what they are already revealing: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Fuck me, he's had his Weetabix

MASSIVE FISCAL PACKAGE OUT OF BERLIN: 12-20%+ of GDP.

- 500 billion fund for public investment
- All defence spending above 1% of GDP not counted for debt brake.
- Federal states can borrow 0.35% p.y. for investment.

Germany is back - economically and militarily.

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ISER recognizes that the NIH funding freeze will have a major impact on global eye research. We stand with Stand Up for Science in advocating for continued support of scientific progress.

Let’s stand together for the future of research! #StandUpForScience #FundResearch #EyeResearchMatters

US Science has been under sustained attack for the last month. I've been thinking about the vulnerabilities in UK science.

In a new post, I've imagined a dystopian but *possible* future for UK science - as a way for prompting discussions on how we can protect it.

open.substack.com/pub/christin...

New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.

(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

The unbearable slowness of being: Humans still clock in at just 10 bits/s. Even after peer review :) Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHVa3BtfH.... ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

Is there a way to find out an email has reached the receiver, or if it has ended in Spam? Currently, I have the feeling that emails are about to become entirely useless. The amount of spam reaching me makes it an actual struggle to find genuine emails. Often I dont get replies writing somebody new.

If this country made the slightest bit of sense we'd be beating Europe's doors down to secure a youth mobility scheme.

inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...