Sharan Prakash
@sharanprk.bsky.social
Post-doc biologist @SCELSE/NTU in the Whitchurch lab 🇸🇬🇦🇺, previously @Caltech. Interests include collective behaviour, microbes and biofilms, systems biology, biocuration & data modeling.
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All hail Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most researched organisms on Earth. Collaborative data sharing in the nematode research community led to four Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about human development and disease. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/uNqU50Xyj4e
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
All hail Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most researched organisms on Earth. Collaborative data sharing in the nematode research community led to four Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about human development and disease. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/uNqU50Xyj4e
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Concerned about a specific federal dataset being altered or removed? We at the #DataRescueProject have you covered.
Submit to our Nominations Tool (bit.ly/DRP-nominati...) or check out our portal (portal.datarescueproject.org)
Submit to our Nominations Tool (bit.ly/DRP-nominati...) or check out our portal (portal.datarescueproject.org)
August 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Concerned about a specific federal dataset being altered or removed? We at the #DataRescueProject have you covered.
Submit to our Nominations Tool (bit.ly/DRP-nominati...) or check out our portal (portal.datarescueproject.org)
Submit to our Nominations Tool (bit.ly/DRP-nominati...) or check out our portal (portal.datarescueproject.org)
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Most of you all know I am a major AI advocate, and am working to implement it in existing workflows. But with the goal of assisting the experts. Without the curators and deep fact checkers, we are headed for a world of AI-generated slop, and we won't know until it's too late.
June 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Most of you all know I am a major AI advocate, and am working to implement it in existing workflows. But with the goal of assisting the experts. Without the curators and deep fact checkers, we are headed for a world of AI-generated slop, and we won't know until it's too late.
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Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
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Thank you to the new President of Cornell:
“Cornell is not a business. We are a university. And universities, despite rapidly escalating political, legal and financial risks, cannot afford to cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...
“Cornell is not a business. We are a university. And universities, despite rapidly escalating political, legal and financial risks, cannot afford to cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...
Opinion | Universities Should Not be Afraid of Contentious Ideas
Higher education cannot cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thank you to the new President of Cornell:
“Cornell is not a business. We are a university. And universities, despite rapidly escalating political, legal and financial risks, cannot afford to cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...
“Cornell is not a business. We are a university. And universities, despite rapidly escalating political, legal and financial risks, cannot afford to cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...
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Only a few weeks left to apply for this PhD position in my lab at SCELSE @scelse.bsky.social. Come and join us in lovely Singapore to work on #biofilms #microbiomes #foodchain 🧪🧫
March 14, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Only a few weeks left to apply for this PhD position in my lab at SCELSE @scelse.bsky.social. Come and join us in lovely Singapore to work on #biofilms #microbiomes #foodchain 🧪🧫
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Join us? Or spread the word!
Ping @cwhitch.bsky.social if you're keen!
Ping @cwhitch.bsky.social if you're keen!
March 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Join us? Or spread the word!
Ping @cwhitch.bsky.social if you're keen!
Ping @cwhitch.bsky.social if you're keen!
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Lucid takedown of a "zombie statistic" claiming that immunity against SARS-CoV-2 wanes rapidly, by @adamjkucharski.bsky.social
Immunity persists just like vs many other viruses, but the viruses keep evolving to escape.
👉🏻mRNA vaccines are highly effective.
kucharski.substack.com/p/a-zombie-s...
Immunity persists just like vs many other viruses, but the viruses keep evolving to escape.
👉🏻mRNA vaccines are highly effective.
kucharski.substack.com/p/a-zombie-s...
A zombie statistic about COVID immunity
How a flawed idea continues to skew discussions
kucharski.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Lucid takedown of a "zombie statistic" claiming that immunity against SARS-CoV-2 wanes rapidly, by @adamjkucharski.bsky.social
Immunity persists just like vs many other viruses, but the viruses keep evolving to escape.
👉🏻mRNA vaccines are highly effective.
kucharski.substack.com/p/a-zombie-s...
Immunity persists just like vs many other viruses, but the viruses keep evolving to escape.
👉🏻mRNA vaccines are highly effective.
kucharski.substack.com/p/a-zombie-s...
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February 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Thank you to @urochester.bsky.social for writing this nice piece about our new PNAS article, which explains how we engineered bacteria to encapsulate themselves in glass, allowing them to focus light like microlenses! @pnas.org
www.rochester.edu/newscenter/w...
www.rochester.edu/newscenter/w...
Can sea sponge biology transform imaging technology?
University of Rochester researchers draw inspiration from nature to create tiny, powerful microlenses for advanced image sensors.
www.rochester.edu
December 17, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Thank you to @urochester.bsky.social for writing this nice piece about our new PNAS article, which explains how we engineered bacteria to encapsulate themselves in glass, allowing them to focus light like microlenses! @pnas.org
www.rochester.edu/newscenter/w...
www.rochester.edu/newscenter/w...