Proto Bioengineering
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"Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable." - Paul Valery
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"Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable." - Paul Valery
If you want to read one of our Medium articles but can't afford membership, message us for a free link. Yolo.
(Banner: Nicolas Thomas, Unsplash)
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We're not saying that you should.
Just showing that you could.
We're not saying that you should.
Just showing that you could.
April 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Lots of free brain data out there. I collected 80 free datasets of EEGs, MRIs, strokes, seizures, and more and put them in this here article. Enjoy!
#science #neurosky #datascience #opendata
medium.com/@protobioeng...
#science #neurosky #datascience #opendata
medium.com/@protobioeng...
80 Neuroscience and Brain Image Datasets I Found on the Internet
Open data is the name of the science game in 2025. Research groups and entire universities are bolstering their efforts to publish the data…
medium.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Lots of free brain data out there. I collected 80 free datasets of EEGs, MRIs, strokes, seizures, and more and put them in this here article. Enjoy!
#science #neurosky #datascience #opendata
medium.com/@protobioeng...
#science #neurosky #datascience #opendata
medium.com/@protobioeng...
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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So.
It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.
I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.
It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.
I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.
February 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
So.
It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.
I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.
It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.
I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.
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We want to take a moment to express how proud we are of you, America. You have stood up and spoken out every step of the way—especially when Congress and the media remained silent. When we called for help, you answered.
February 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
We want to take a moment to express how proud we are of you, America. You have stood up and spoken out every step of the way—especially when Congress and the media remained silent. When we called for help, you answered.
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If you are on Bluesky, follow the Alt government departments. These are federal employees sharing information.
Alt National Parks
Alt CDC
Alt NOAA
Alt Health and Human Services
Alt DHS
They are being told to delete data and files (against the law). They are risking everything to share information.
Alt National Parks
Alt CDC
Alt NOAA
Alt Health and Human Services
Alt DHS
They are being told to delete data and files (against the law). They are risking everything to share information.
February 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If you are on Bluesky, follow the Alt government departments. These are federal employees sharing information.
Alt National Parks
Alt CDC
Alt NOAA
Alt Health and Human Services
Alt DHS
They are being told to delete data and files (against the law). They are risking everything to share information.
Alt National Parks
Alt CDC
Alt NOAA
Alt Health and Human Services
Alt DHS
They are being told to delete data and files (against the law). They are risking everything to share information.
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The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.
February 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.
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Reminder that a study on lizard saliva eventually led to the development of Ozempic so be real wary of the criticism of studies and funding that sounds non-sensical when presented with no context.
February 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Reminder that a study on lizard saliva eventually led to the development of Ozempic so be real wary of the criticism of studies and funding that sounds non-sensical when presented with no context.
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Our gut microbiome and its metabolites have key interactions with our immune response to cancer and success from cancer immunotherapy. Nice perspective @jclinical-invest.bsky.social www.jci.org/articles/vie...
February 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Our gut microbiome and its metabolites have key interactions with our immune response to cancer and success from cancer immunotherapy. Nice perspective @jclinical-invest.bsky.social www.jci.org/articles/vie...
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The feasibility of patching a severely damaged heart with stem cells as a bridge to transplant, actualized in a 46-year-old woman @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The feasibility of patching a severely damaged heart with stem cells as a bridge to transplant, actualized in a 46-year-old woman @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Despair not (yet)
"If a control experiment fails, does that mean that the entire experiment is poorly designed and you must restart from scratch? Often, yes— but not always. I present five examples where failed control experiments triggered entirely new fields of research."
"If a control experiment fails, does that mean that the entire experiment is poorly designed and you must restart from scratch? Often, yes— but not always. I present five examples where failed control experiments triggered entirely new fields of research."
The controls that got out of control: How failed control experiments paved the way to transformative discoveries: EMBO reports: Vol 0, No 0
EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.
www.embopress.org
January 27, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Despair not (yet)
"If a control experiment fails, does that mean that the entire experiment is poorly designed and you must restart from scratch? Often, yes— but not always. I present five examples where failed control experiments triggered entirely new fields of research."
"If a control experiment fails, does that mean that the entire experiment is poorly designed and you must restart from scratch? Often, yes— but not always. I present five examples where failed control experiments triggered entirely new fields of research."
When the government is gagged and not allowed to talk about science, the people will continue. Long live science and journalism. Long live the First Amendment. #science #usa
Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
January 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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January 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Other scientific journals should follow. I've requested this of the journal where I'm an editor. Other journal editor friends, join us!
January 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Other scientific journals should follow. I've requested this of the journal where I'm an editor. Other journal editor friends, join us!
Altmetric lets you know where your research is being talked about all around the Internet! Blogs, newspapers, Reddit, and more.
We began monitoring for mentions of research items on Bluesky in late October 2024.
Tomorrow we will have found our millionth mention of research posted here.
Here’s some brief context.
1/4
Tomorrow we will have found our millionth mention of research posted here.
Here’s some brief context.
1/4
January 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Altmetric lets you know where your research is being talked about all around the Internet! Blogs, newspapers, Reddit, and more.
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If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination
A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between
www.scientificamerican.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
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A study in Nature Medicine reports that a surgically implanted brain–computer interface can detect and decode finger movements in a person with paralysis, allowing them to play a video game#Medskyky 🧪
A high-performance brain–computer interface for finger decoding and quadcopter game control in an individual with paralysis - Nature Medicine
A finger-based brain–computer interface was developed for a person with tetraplegia to allow him to fly a virtual quadcopter, an innovation that can lead to improved social connectedness, recreation and a sense of enablement.
go.nature.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A study in Nature Medicine reports that a surgically implanted brain–computer interface can detect and decode finger movements in a person with paralysis, allowing them to play a video game#Medskyky 🧪
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This is my plan moving forward.
Part 1
Part 1
January 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This is my plan moving forward.
Part 1
Part 1
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A high-throughput platform for single-molecule tracking identifies drug interaction and cellular mechanisms.
https://buff.ly/40nMuKL
https://buff.ly/40nMuKL
January 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A high-throughput platform for single-molecule tracking identifies drug interaction and cellular mechanisms.
https://buff.ly/40nMuKL
https://buff.ly/40nMuKL
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Them: Please summarize your 80K word book into a 45 minute talk.
Me: Sure; fun challenge!
Them: Now summarize your book in a 2 minute video that anyone can connect with.
Me: 😲. That's ~250 words; a compression of 320x. Yikes! I do not know that algorithm ...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Me: Sure; fun challenge!
Them: Now summarize your book in a 2 minute video that anyone can connect with.
Me: 😲. That's ~250 words; a compression of 320x. Yikes! I do not know that algorithm ...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Elusive Cures
A neuroscientist’s bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time—brain and mental illnesses
press.princeton.edu
January 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Them: Please summarize your 80K word book into a 45 minute talk.
Me: Sure; fun challenge!
Them: Now summarize your book in a 2 minute video that anyone can connect with.
Me: 😲. That's ~250 words; a compression of 320x. Yikes! I do not know that algorithm ...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Me: Sure; fun challenge!
Them: Now summarize your book in a 2 minute video that anyone can connect with.
Me: 😲. That's ~250 words; a compression of 320x. Yikes! I do not know that algorithm ...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
World Central Kitchen (@wck.org) also has free food trucks for evacuees and first responders posted throughout the city. Check out wck.org/news/meal-lo... and app.watchduty.org to see Red Cross's and WCK's locations in LA.
LA restaurants offering free meals to fire evacuees:
Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations)
Bar Etoile (East Hollywood)
Fiorelli Pizza (Venice)
Bé Ù (Silver Lake)
Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood)
Oy Bar (Studio City)
Sunday Gravy (Inglewood)
Dudley Market (Venice)
LaSorted's (Silver Lake)
Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations)
Bar Etoile (East Hollywood)
Fiorelli Pizza (Venice)
Bé Ù (Silver Lake)
Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood)
Oy Bar (Studio City)
Sunday Gravy (Inglewood)
Dudley Market (Venice)
LaSorted's (Silver Lake)
January 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
World Central Kitchen (@wck.org) also has free food trucks for evacuees and first responders posted throughout the city. Check out wck.org/news/meal-lo... and app.watchduty.org to see Red Cross's and WCK's locations in LA.
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As wildfires rage in LA, this graphic in @cenmag.bsky.social looks at one way chemistry can be used to tackle them: cen.acs.org/environment/...
#ChemSky 🧪
#ChemSky 🧪
January 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
As wildfires rage in LA, this graphic in @cenmag.bsky.social looks at one way chemistry can be used to tackle them: cen.acs.org/environment/...
#ChemSky 🧪
#ChemSky 🧪
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The worst problem we have? it's not fraud, or mistreatment, or whatever. It's that people and organisations that run science have no understanding of human motivation. Which leads inevitably to fraud, mistreatment of others, and whatever.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH launches initiative to double check biomedical studies
But so far, few investigators seem interested in having a contract lab repeat their experiments
www.science.org
December 28, 2024 at 12:01 AM
The worst problem we have? it's not fraud, or mistreatment, or whatever. It's that people and organisations that run science have no understanding of human motivation. Which leads inevitably to fraud, mistreatment of others, and whatever.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...