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Sandra Laurentino
@sandralaurentino.bsky.social
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Reproductive biologist 🇵🇹 in 🇩🇪
Institute of Reproductive Genetics, CMG, Uni-Münster
PI CRU326 "Male Germ Cells"
DNA methylation, spermatogenesis, ageing, male infertility
Hobby collector, slowest runner in the west
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
I will believe that these people love Lord of the Rings when I see any evidence that they can read.
Many Tolkien fans pointed out that Musk’s post got those “hard men” wrong. They are proven time and again to be fallible and corruptible. It’s the hobbits who save the world
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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gregpriest.bsky.social
Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905.

His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development.

On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape.

🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
I hope he lived long enough to change his mind on some topics.

If nothing else, his life showed that even the deepest legacies of science & discovery do not overcome personal accountability in word and deed.
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
sandralaurentino.bsky.social
More important than ever to support Wikipedia.
emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 25d
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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shyznogd.bsky.social
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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Dr Oz: "We've dropped the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies I'm hoping by the midterms."
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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mzhlab.bsky.social
Are you looking for a PhD student position in Münster focussing on neuro-immunology of peripheral nerves? Apply
jobs-sf.ukmuenster.de/job/UKM-PhD-...
PhD Student (gn*) in Peripheral Nerve Neurobiology / Neuro-Immunology
PhD Student (gn*) in Peripheral Nerve Neurobiology / Neuro-Immunology
jobs-sf.ukmuenster.de
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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joanala.bsky.social
Isto não é o Bangladesh - que é o país do mundo onde as pessoas mais procuram informação sobre ciência e a encontram em jornais. Portugal está na cauda dos países que tem ciência nos media, e depende das redes sociais para que haja uma conversa sobre o tema.
Usemo-las, então.
matthewfacciani.bsky.social Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 7d
How do people around the world encounter science, and what shapes those encounters?

Our new global study found that social media now carries much of the world’s science content, but local culture, infrastructure, and curiosity still determine how people engage. #ScienceSky #scicomm
How the World Talks About Science
Our new international study finds that science communication looks very different depending on culture, media systems, and access to technology.
matthewfacciani.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
sandralaurentino.bsky.social
@greally.bsky.social 's book finally arrived and I can hardly wait to start digging into it.
A photograph of the book Epigenetics History, Molecules, and Diseases by John M. Greally
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
The Telegraph Headline: New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats Subhed: The discovery of a ‘furin cleavage site’ suggests the mutation which helps the virus adapt to humans is naturally occurring
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
sandralaurentino.bsky.social
Highly recommend today's NYT games 😅

Strands #607
“Good bones”
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Connections
Puzzle #873
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October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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python.org
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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astrokatie.com
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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caulfieldtim.bsky.social
🚨Complete BS.

And completely bonkers.

WTF is happening?
October 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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miresh.bsky.social
Mood de segunda.
October 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
https://ubadah.substack.com/p/beware-giving-this-site-your-unpublished\
October 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
sandralaurentino.bsky.social
Excellent read. Authorship conflicts can get pretty nasty sometimes, even ending long term collaborations. I do like the concept of authorship agreement, but all parties should be ready to stick to it.
prbb.org Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona @prbb.org · 19d
Authorship disputes are one of the most common conflicts in research groups around the world. But they are not inevitable❗

➡️ An event organized by the 𝐏𝐑𝐁𝐁 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩  reviewed the causes and resources to solve them

We explain it to you in this article: 
Collaborative conversations: How to prevent and handle authorship conflicts - El·lipse
An event organized by the PRBB's good scientific practices group reviewed the main authorship conflicts and their causes, as well as the existing tools and resources to deal with them.
tuit.cat
October 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
Happy Mole Day for all who celebrate
A picture of a mole with masses of moles of water, iron, ixygen, salt, gold, and helium.
October 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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drewharwell.com
An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them

techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch
No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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olivia.science
Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork
iaincheeseman.bsky.social Iain Cheeseman @iaincheeseman.bsky.social · 22d
Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵

www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Claude for Life Sciences
Discover how Claude accelerates life sciences research with new scientific connectors, skills, and improved performance for drug discovery and clinical work.
www.anthropic.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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moorejh.bsky.social
HT @redpenblackpen.bsky.social #rejection #academia
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Who was Ada Lovelace? What were her greatest achievements? This ‘infoposter’ describes Lovelace’s achievements and describes why she’s thought of as the world’s first computer programmer.
findingada.com/resou... #ALD25
October 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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jbtinoco.bsky.social
Uma curiosidade: carta de Bertrand Russel a Oswald Mosley, líder dos fascistas ingleses antes da Segunda Guerra Mundial.
October 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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dev-journal.bsky.social
An Interview with Azim Surani

Ashley Moffett and @geraldinejowett.bsky.social spoke to Azim, recipient of both the 2025 Kyoto Prize and 2026 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, about his non-traditional and inspirational route into academia:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Picture of Azim Surani in a dark blue jumper and light blue collared shirt sitting by a microscope.
October 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
sandralaurentino.bsky.social
Absolutely inspiring interview 😍
dev-journal.bsky.social Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Oct 9
An Interview with Azim Surani

Ashley Moffett and @geraldinejowett.bsky.social spoke to Azim, recipient of both the 2025 Kyoto Prize and 2026 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, about his non-traditional and inspirational route into academia:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Picture of Azim Surani in a dark blue jumper and light blue collared shirt sitting by a microscope.
October 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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pedsortho.bsky.social
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM