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Furqan Shah
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Assoc. Prof. @ University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪
#bone #biomaterials #osteocyte #osseointegration #biomineralization #bacteria #electronmicroscopy #Ramanspectroscopy 🦴🔬🦠🧪
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Jun 16
🧪📸 Spent 2 years exploring forests in Sweden & Finland, observing (not picking) fungi. So many shapes, colors, and species — this collage is just a glimpse. Nordic nature is full of surprises.

#mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology
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jopics.bsky.social JustJo @jopics.bsky.social · Oct 1
Jewel Too Snail I found in Pacific Grove in 2021. One of those WOW moments. #MarineLife #Tidepooling
Three shots of s pointy, twisty marine snail. It’s brilliant orange and purple. Near it are smaller black seasnails
October 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Some kind of mushroom! 🍄

#fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe
September 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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🧪📸 Spent 2 years exploring forests in Sweden & Finland, observing (not picking) fungi. So many shapes, colors, and species — this collage is just a glimpse. Nordic nature is full of surprises.

#mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology
June 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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The strangest mushrooms ever! 🍄

#fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe
September 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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The strangest mushrooms ever! 🍄

#fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe
September 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Amanita muscaria 🍄☺️

#fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #algae #moss #lichen #photography #nature #biology #trees #LichenSubscribe
September 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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“I bought this before Elon went crazy” 🤣

#tesla @teslatakedown.com @tesla-takedown.bsky.social #iboughtthisbeforeelonwentcrazy

#sisu #Finland
September 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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🍄 What in the mushroom? 😃

#mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology
September 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. This can seem counter-intuitive given the increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether or not they do [89, 140].”
June 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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🧪📸 Spent 2 years exploring forests in Sweden & Finland, observing (not picking) fungi. So many shapes, colors, and species — this collage is just a glimpse. Nordic nature is full of surprises.

#mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology
June 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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🦴🔬🧪 Pyrophosphate-containing calcium phosphates negatively impact heterotopic #bone quality

📄 Full paper:
doi.org/10.1002/adhm...

#Biomaterials #BoneRegeneration #CalciumPhosphate #Osteoinduction #TissueEngineering #BoneQuality #Orthopaedics #RegenerativeMedicine #Pyrophosphate

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Pyrophosphate‐Containing Calcium Phosphates Negatively Impact Heterotopic Bone Quality
The role of calcium pyrophosphate (Ca-PP) in heterotopic bone formation and material degradation is investigated using calcium phosphate (CaP) compositions with varying Ca-PP content. Results show th....
doi.org
June 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Grant application rejected with the following comment:

"Further support for that one can detect the bone mineralization via Raman imaging would have strengthen the application."

Where do they find such reviewers? I'm perplexed! 🤯

#ramanspectroscopy #bone #biomineralization #science

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May 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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When you’re at #ECTS2025 to give a talk on the applications of Raman spectroscopy to study #bone #biomineralization, but find a Raman hairstylist instead.
May 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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What your graph colour pallet says about you

Source:
errantscience.com

#science #publishing #academia #phdlife #biology #physics

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What your graph colour pallet says about you Source: https://errantscience.com/
May 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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🌱☘️🌿 Adventures of a baby snail called Rainbow🌈

Munching on some lichen at 10X speed! 🐌🐚

#fungifriends #lichen #fungi #algae #moss #photography #nature #biology #trees #winter #mosstodon #video #mollusk #molluscs #stickoftheday #timelapse #timelapses #LichenSubscribe
March 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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🧪 The peer review system is truly broken! 😵‍💫

An editor's perspective:
–Ever increasing number of manuscripts submitted for publication
–Authors want quick editorial decisions + fast peer review
–Reviewers are "too busy" to review
–Everyone wants to submit papers but no one wants to review

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March 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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🧪 The peer review system is truly broken! 😵‍💫

An author's perspective:
–All reviewers behave like Reviewer #2
–Reviewer comments are *do more* wishlists rather than factual scrutiny of reported data
–"Cite these (irrelevant) papers written by me"

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#bone #biomaterials #biomineralization #science
March 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Nepenthes is a genus of carnivorous #plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus includes about 170 species, and numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids. [Source: Wikipedia]

#nature #photography
May 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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☀️ The #sun poking through the #trees at #sunset 🌅

#forest #photography #nature #outdoors #sky #bluesky
May 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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🧪🥼🔬 The “Biomineralization and Biointerfaces” group webpage is up and running! 🥳🍾

www.gu.se/en/research/...
The Biomineralization and Biointerfaces Group investigates “bone as a material”, examining the structure, composition, and adaptation under diverse conditions using advanced techniques such as electron microscopy, micro-Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray micro-computed tomography, encompassing the macro-, micro-, and nanoscale. Bone is a complex, living tissue with a hierarchical architecture, from tiny mineral crystals to the entire skeleton. Particular attention is on the mineral component of the extracellular matrix and the mineralisation process of osteocytes (micropetrosis), bone repair biomaterials such as calcium phosphates, titanium, magnesium, and cobalt-chromium alloys, and distinguishing bone mineral from other bioapatites (e.g., in dental enamel) and geological apatites (i.e., hydroxy(l)apatite).
March 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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🌲 #Tree or #Ninja 🥷

#nature #sky #bluesky #photography #trees #light #shadow #sunset
May 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🐌🐚 Here is a fabulous snail! 😍

#animals #snail #snails #fungifriends #lichen #fungi #algae #moss #photography #nature #biology #trees #winter #mosstodon #mollusk #molluscs
April 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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🐌🐚 Here is a fabulous snail! 😍

#animals #snail #snails #fungifriends #lichen #fungi #algae #moss #photography #nature #biology #trees #winter #mosstodon #mollusk #molluscs
April 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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🧪🥼🔬 The “Biomineralization and Biointerfaces” group webpage is up and running! 🥳🍾

www.gu.se/en/research/...
The Biomineralization and Biointerfaces Group investigates “bone as a material”, examining the structure, composition, and adaptation under diverse conditions using advanced techniques such as electron microscopy, micro-Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray micro-computed tomography, encompassing the macro-, micro-, and nanoscale. Bone is a complex, living tissue with a hierarchical architecture, from tiny mineral crystals to the entire skeleton. Particular attention is on the mineral component of the extracellular matrix and the mineralisation process of osteocytes (micropetrosis), bone repair biomaterials such as calcium phosphates, titanium, magnesium, and cobalt-chromium alloys, and distinguishing bone mineral from other bioapatites (e.g., in dental enamel) and geological apatites (i.e., hydroxy(l)apatite).
March 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM