Alex Bittner
@bittner-ass.bsky.social
Self-ASSembly group leader at nanogune, Ikerbasque prof, working on physical chemistry, electrospinning, melt electrowriting, viruses, water.
Raffaella Bucci from Uni Milan and nanoremedi.EU, lecturing in our Basque peptide network P2net, @nanogune.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Raffaella Bucci from Uni Milan and nanoremedi.EU, lecturing in our Basque peptide network P2net, @nanogune.bsky.social
🇫🇷 flight attendant yesterday "cuarenta grados in Bilbao" ooooops "catorze"! Surely because of the 🇬🇧 announcement just before - a typical confusion in 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪.
December 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
🇫🇷 flight attendant yesterday "cuarenta grados in Bilbao" ooooops "catorze"! Surely because of the 🇬🇧 announcement just before - a typical confusion in 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪.
ESS assesses impact of technical issues on its target station | ESS
ess.eu
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Detecting asteroid belts around distant stars? You can't do it by directly observing asteroids, but you *can* do it observing the dust that is created by asteroid collisions! New SPHERE gallery of debris disks:
SPHERE’s debris disk gallery: tell-tale signs of dust and small bodies in distant solar systems
Images of dust around distant exoplanets provide a glimpse of asteroids and comets in other solar systems.
www.mpia.de
December 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Detecting asteroid belts around distant stars? You can't do it by directly observing asteroids, but you *can* do it observing the dust that is created by asteroid collisions! New SPHERE gallery of debris disks:
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Fascinating outlook on similarities in aerosolization of microbes from the ocean surface and respiratory tract fluid by Dommer @rommieamaro.bsky.social @kprather.bsky.social
A new review explores one of the themes of my book Air-Borne: our lungs are like the ocean. Both send life into the atmosphere. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
December 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Fascinating outlook on similarities in aerosolization of microbes from the ocean surface and respiratory tract fluid by Dommer @rommieamaro.bsky.social @kprather.bsky.social
George Lomonossoff @johninnescentre.bsky.social giving the Evening Lecture at the Herrenalb nanoscience meeting, #PlantVirology
December 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
George Lomonossoff @johninnescentre.bsky.social giving the Evening Lecture at the Herrenalb nanoscience meeting, #PlantVirology
Ansage neulich im TGV Genève-Paris: "Die SNCF beglückwünscht Sie, Sie fahren deutlich ökologischer als mit dem Auto, aber viel schneller als mit einem E-Scooter" 😁
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ansage neulich im TGV Genève-Paris: "Die SNCF beglückwünscht Sie, Sie fahren deutlich ökologischer als mit dem Auto, aber viel schneller als mit einem E-Scooter" 😁
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A paper published in Scientific Reports has ...worrisome... methods. Some have raised concerns about the integrity of Sci Reports — maybe this will spur more in depth scrutiny. (Which sucks for all the good scientists who’ve published good papers there.) #AI Via @jeppsson.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eR40o
rdcu.be/eR40o
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A paper published in Scientific Reports has ...worrisome... methods. Some have raised concerns about the integrity of Sci Reports — maybe this will spur more in depth scrutiny. (Which sucks for all the good scientists who’ve published good papers there.) #AI Via @jeppsson.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eR40o
rdcu.be/eR40o
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We have to start calling this what it is: Fraud.
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We have to start calling this what it is: Fraud.
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
MSCA-ITN-EJD Nanoremedi.eu has a video! Here are our DCs ("doctoral candidates" in @ec.europa.eu speak):
youtu.be/R2GTssMVjLk
youtu.be/R2GTssMVjLk
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
MSCA-ITN-EJD Nanoremedi.eu has a video! Here are our DCs ("doctoral candidates" in @ec.europa.eu speak):
youtu.be/R2GTssMVjLk
youtu.be/R2GTssMVjLk
www.nanogune.eu/en/nanogune/...
@nanogune.bsky.social is searching for a tech transfer specialist. This job is very much focussed on exploitation, intellectual property (IP), and market analysis for our project www.textadna.eu.
@nanogune.bsky.social is searching for a tech transfer specialist. This job is very much focussed on exploitation, intellectual property (IP), and market analysis for our project www.textadna.eu.
Technology Transfer Assistant
www.nanogune.eu
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
www.nanogune.eu/en/nanogune/...
@nanogune.bsky.social is searching for a tech transfer specialist. This job is very much focussed on exploitation, intellectual property (IP), and market analysis for our project www.textadna.eu.
@nanogune.bsky.social is searching for a tech transfer specialist. This job is very much focussed on exploitation, intellectual property (IP), and market analysis for our project www.textadna.eu.
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🌟 ¡Atención estudiantes! 🌟
La convocatoria para la Winter School 2026 de nanoGUNE se abre hoy. 🎓❄️
📅 4-6 de febrero de 2026
📍 Donostia
📅 Inscripciones hasta el 29 de octubre
¡No te lo pierdas!
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/sjarmcdjtp
#WinterSchool2026 #nanoGUNE #Nanociencia
La convocatoria para la Winter School 2026 de nanoGUNE se abre hoy. 🎓❄️
📅 4-6 de febrero de 2026
📍 Donostia
📅 Inscripciones hasta el 29 de octubre
¡No te lo pierdas!
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/sjarmcdjtp
#WinterSchool2026 #nanoGUNE #Nanociencia
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🌟 ¡Atención estudiantes! 🌟
La convocatoria para la Winter School 2026 de nanoGUNE se abre hoy. 🎓❄️
📅 4-6 de febrero de 2026
📍 Donostia
📅 Inscripciones hasta el 29 de octubre
¡No te lo pierdas!
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/sjarmcdjtp
#WinterSchool2026 #nanoGUNE #Nanociencia
La convocatoria para la Winter School 2026 de nanoGUNE se abre hoy. 🎓❄️
📅 4-6 de febrero de 2026
📍 Donostia
📅 Inscripciones hasta el 29 de octubre
¡No te lo pierdas!
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/sjarmcdjtp
#WinterSchool2026 #nanoGUNE #Nanociencia
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🎉Jean-Marie Lehn ⚗️Yamuna Krishnan 🧫 Jack Szostak 🧬 Pedro Miguel Etxenike
Inolvidable el encuentro top@DIPC Zientziarekin solasean! Curiosidad, creatividad y ganas de aprender! MUCHAS GRACIAS!
👀https://dipc.ehu.eus/es/actualidad/noticias/encuentros2025
#Gobierno Vasco #KutxaFundazioa #Telefónica
Inolvidable el encuentro top@DIPC Zientziarekin solasean! Curiosidad, creatividad y ganas de aprender! MUCHAS GRACIAS!
👀https://dipc.ehu.eus/es/actualidad/noticias/encuentros2025
#Gobierno Vasco #KutxaFundazioa #Telefónica
October 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🎉Jean-Marie Lehn ⚗️Yamuna Krishnan 🧫 Jack Szostak 🧬 Pedro Miguel Etxenike
Inolvidable el encuentro top@DIPC Zientziarekin solasean! Curiosidad, creatividad y ganas de aprender! MUCHAS GRACIAS!
👀https://dipc.ehu.eus/es/actualidad/noticias/encuentros2025
#Gobierno Vasco #KutxaFundazioa #Telefónica
Inolvidable el encuentro top@DIPC Zientziarekin solasean! Curiosidad, creatividad y ganas de aprender! MUCHAS GRACIAS!
👀https://dipc.ehu.eus/es/actualidad/noticias/encuentros2025
#Gobierno Vasco #KutxaFundazioa #Telefónica
"Getting Hold of the Tobamovirus Particle—Why and How? Purification Routes over Time and a New Customizable Approach"
doi.org/10.3390/v160...
Great compilation of the purification of #TMV, the longest and arguably best known #virion, and its 'colleagues'!
doi.org/10.3390/v160...
Great compilation of the purification of #TMV, the longest and arguably best known #virion, and its 'colleagues'!
October 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Getting Hold of the Tobamovirus Particle—Why and How? Purification Routes over Time and a New Customizable Approach"
doi.org/10.3390/v160...
Great compilation of the purification of #TMV, the longest and arguably best known #virion, and its 'colleagues'!
doi.org/10.3390/v160...
Great compilation of the purification of #TMV, the longest and arguably best known #virion, and its 'colleagues'!
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#Badinter #Panthéon
« Le fascisme ne se lève pas comme la tempête en une nuit. Il est d’abord rampant, dissimulé, ordinaire. Il progresse par les voix de la haine, avivée par les difficultés économiques. Il s’empare des cœurs avant de pervertir les esprits puis de prendre le pouvoir. »
À méditer☝️.
« Le fascisme ne se lève pas comme la tempête en une nuit. Il est d’abord rampant, dissimulé, ordinaire. Il progresse par les voix de la haine, avivée par les difficultés économiques. Il s’empare des cœurs avant de pervertir les esprits puis de prendre le pouvoir. »
À méditer☝️.
October 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Reposted by Alex Bittner
Reposted by Alex Bittner
H5N1 influenza virus stability and transmission risk in raw milk and cheese🔓
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
H5N1 influenza virus stability and transmission risk in raw milk and cheese - Nature Medicine
The pathogenic avian flu H5N1 virus remains stable in raw milk and throughout the cheese-making process, but contaminated cheese fed to ferrets did not lead to infection, whereas raw milk did.
www.nature.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
H5N1 influenza virus stability and transmission risk in raw milk and cheese🔓
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Alex Bittner
Meanwhile, at the other end of the planet, H5N1 expands. The virus reached Crozet and Kerguelen islands in the Indian Ocean, killing seabirds and elephant seals. A circumpolar route connects Antarctica to the Indian Ocean. 5/10
October 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Meanwhile, at the other end of the planet, H5N1 expands. The virus reached Crozet and Kerguelen islands in the Indian Ocean, killing seabirds and elephant seals. A circumpolar route connects Antarctica to the Indian Ocean. 5/10
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We’ve had dozens of close calls with nuclear weapons—times when systems failed, people made mistakes, or leaders felt pressure to retaliate. We’ve been lucky, but our luck won’t last forever. The only way to guarantee nuclear weapons are never used is to get rid of them.
October 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We’ve had dozens of close calls with nuclear weapons—times when systems failed, people made mistakes, or leaders felt pressure to retaliate. We’ve been lucky, but our luck won’t last forever. The only way to guarantee nuclear weapons are never used is to get rid of them.
Das Wort "Drittmittelzirkus" muss dringend ins Spanische übersetzt werden!! Wer kann helfen?
„Die Exzellenzstrategie hat sich überlebt.“
CSU-Politiker Robert Brannekämper fordert im Interview mehr Tempo beim Hochschulbau, eine echte BAföG-Reform und weniger Drittmittelzirkus.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/10...
CSU-Politiker Robert Brannekämper fordert im Interview mehr Tempo beim Hochschulbau, eine echte BAföG-Reform und weniger Drittmittelzirkus.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/10...
October 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Das Wort "Drittmittelzirkus" muss dringend ins Spanische übersetzt werden!! Wer kann helfen?
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Si eres consumidor/a de vino tinto, tienes al menos 18 años y resides en el Gran Bilbao, Vitoria-Gasteiz o Donostia, te animamos a que rellenes esta encuesta y la difundas entre tus amigas/os.
Puedes acceder a la encuesta en la dirección http://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/hs9bfBDqTw o mediante el QR.
Puedes acceder a la encuesta en la dirección http://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/hs9bfBDqTw o mediante el QR.
September 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Si eres consumidor/a de vino tinto, tienes al menos 18 años y resides en el Gran Bilbao, Vitoria-Gasteiz o Donostia, te animamos a que rellenes esta encuesta y la difundas entre tus amigas/os.
Puedes acceder a la encuesta en la dirección http://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/hs9bfBDqTw o mediante el QR.
Puedes acceder a la encuesta en la dirección http://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/hs9bfBDqTw o mediante el QR.
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Join us in Leeds next Summer for: AFM & SPM 2026
Co-organised with Lekshmi Kailas, Kristina Rusimova, Samuel Jarvis and Jess Cole from the Royal Microscopical Society.
#AFM #SPM #Microscopy
Co-organised with Lekshmi Kailas, Kristina Rusimova, Samuel Jarvis and Jess Cole from the Royal Microscopical Society.
#AFM #SPM #Microscopy
September 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Join us in Leeds next Summer for: AFM & SPM 2026
Co-organised with Lekshmi Kailas, Kristina Rusimova, Samuel Jarvis and Jess Cole from the Royal Microscopical Society.
#AFM #SPM #Microscopy
Co-organised with Lekshmi Kailas, Kristina Rusimova, Samuel Jarvis and Jess Cole from the Royal Microscopical Society.
#AFM #SPM #Microscopy