MicroBlogganism
@cellsareneat.bsky.social
Superellipsoid of goo with ADHD and an MSc in cell biology, amateur necro-alectryomancer, 'biology autocorrect', and maker of (very) bad niche jokes. He/Him
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I find it really sad that a society whose constituents generate hundreds of beautiful scientific and artistic images both by using a scope and grabbing a pencil and paper, uses AI slop to promote something 🧪
Image description: an AI-generated advent calendar with a bunch of model organisms
Image description: an AI-generated advent calendar with a bunch of model organisms
🎄✨ Introducing 24 Days of Development!
Each day we’ll highlight one of 2025’s most influential papers published in Developmental Biology, the official journal of the Society for Developmental Biology.
Follow along! 🧬❄️🌟 #DevBio
Each day we’ll highlight one of 2025’s most influential papers published in Developmental Biology, the official journal of the Society for Developmental Biology.
Follow along! 🧬❄️🌟 #DevBio
December 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I find it really sad that a society whose constituents generate hundreds of beautiful scientific and artistic images both by using a scope and grabbing a pencil and paper, uses AI slop to promote something 🧪
Image description: an AI-generated advent calendar with a bunch of model organisms
Image description: an AI-generated advent calendar with a bunch of model organisms
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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...
Hell yeah!
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Hell yeah!
It's sites like these that makes me really appreciate just much of a massive boon the internet has been for science
🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.
ShoalBase | Join, Explore, Contribute Now
ShoalBase offers a global database on fish social behaviour, supporting research, conservation, and ecology through community contributions and visual data mapping.
ShoalBase.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It's sites like these that makes me really appreciate just much of a massive boon the internet has been for science
Damn, that's hot!
So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
#protistsonsky 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Damn, that's hot!
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“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic
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VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS.
THE LAST TIME HHS, AS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY RFK JR., CONDUCTED A “COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT” OF THE CAUSES OF AUTISM THEY BLAMED TYLENOL AND THEN, BECAUSE IT WAS BULLSHIT, HAD TO WALK IT BACK.
THE LAST TIME HHS, AS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY RFK JR., CONDUCTED A “COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT” OF THE CAUSES OF AUTISM THEY BLAMED TYLENOL AND THEN, BECAUSE IT WAS BULLSHIT, HAD TO WALK IT BACK.
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS.
THE LAST TIME HHS, AS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY RFK JR., CONDUCTED A “COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT” OF THE CAUSES OF AUTISM THEY BLAMED TYLENOL AND THEN, BECAUSE IT WAS BULLSHIT, HAD TO WALK IT BACK.
THE LAST TIME HHS, AS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY RFK JR., CONDUCTED A “COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT” OF THE CAUSES OF AUTISM THEY BLAMED TYLENOL AND THEN, BECAUSE IT WAS BULLSHIT, HAD TO WALK IT BACK.
I sometimes wonder if these people actually know what cancer is. Obviously they don't know what it is in a "I know biology" way, but they seem to not even have a layman's understanding of it. Like, random people on the street can debunk this shit..
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I sometimes wonder if these people actually know what cancer is. Obviously they don't know what it is in a "I know biology" way, but they seem to not even have a layman's understanding of it. Like, random people on the street can debunk this shit..
The more I play, especially now that I have started to crank up the Fear, the more apparent it becomes that Hades 2 badly needs a colour-blind mode, so I can eat shit because I am bad the game rather than because I literally couldn't see what was going on..
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The more I play, especially now that I have started to crank up the Fear, the more apparent it becomes that Hades 2 badly needs a colour-blind mode, so I can eat shit because I am bad the game rather than because I literally couldn't see what was going on..
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If you have a very low-latitude aurora observation from tonight, please record your exact time and rough location and DO NOT DELETE your photo. These observations will be important for scientific research of this event.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
If you have a very low-latitude aurora observation from tonight, please record your exact time and rough location and DO NOT DELETE your photo. These observations will be important for scientific research of this event.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
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![Ferdinand Rudow (2 April 1840 – 3 September 1920)[1] was a German entomologist best known for the poor quality of his taxonomic work.[2] He described over 200 species of wasps during his lifetime, almost all of which have been revised as synonyms of other species.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreiawxaz22fm63iswczfs5wlbxsbynjchlch5xklwem2jrd3e6g46ay@jpeg)
![After an initial interest in studying lice and mites, Rudow began to focus on wasps in 1871.[3] Over the course of his research, he described 234 species and varieties within the Ichneumonidae family of parasitoid wasps, eventually amassing a collection of close to 14,000 insect specimens](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreie3ek67bgpzccweql4pohzxdpdvvbf4ejzeqngrvyg6xh336xhxta@jpeg)
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My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
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An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I like how you can use emojis to zoom in on a pig
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November 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I like how you can use emojis to zoom in on a pig
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I made a thing for a thing you probably haven't heard about that properly won't make sense if you haven't youtu.be/h6rILPawn_k
Medjedic: A Language Associated with Two or More Fish | CCC4
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October 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I made a thing for a thing you probably haven't heard about that properly won't make sense if you haven't youtu.be/h6rILPawn_k
"Create SOPs" vs "Polish my emails" really says a lot
help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help
October 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"Create SOPs" vs "Polish my emails" really says a lot
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I am the gar
I long and thin
I have a jaw
things fit within
Yet sometimes shapes
are wrong for head
so do my best
& lik the bread
I long and thin
I have a jaw
things fit within
Yet sometimes shapes
are wrong for head
so do my best
& lik the bread
Oh my god, it's him! The gar that licked the bread!
September 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I am the gar
I long and thin
I have a jaw
things fit within
Yet sometimes shapes
are wrong for head
so do my best
& lik the bread
I long and thin
I have a jaw
things fit within
Yet sometimes shapes
are wrong for head
so do my best
& lik the bread
My first impression of Hades II after a couple of hours with it is that I'm impressed by how much it improves on the first one, which was already a pretty darn good game!
September 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
My first impression of Hades II after a couple of hours with it is that I'm impressed by how much it improves on the first one, which was already a pretty darn good game!
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Look what we have here then.
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Look what we have here then.
You will be seeing more and more stories like this. Our ability to manipulate and fix our own cells has increased massively over the last few decades thanks to advances in our understanding of things like miRNA.
There is more truly amazing shit just over the horizon!
There is more truly amazing shit just over the horizon!
September 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
You will be seeing more and more stories like this. Our ability to manipulate and fix our own cells has increased massively over the last few decades thanks to advances in our understanding of things like miRNA.
There is more truly amazing shit just over the horizon!
There is more truly amazing shit just over the horizon!
Don't forget being partially responsible for cell death.
The mitochondrion giveth and taketh away
The mitochondrion giveth and taketh away
Expectation: Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Reality: Has its own DNA but partially. Is its own organism but partially. Responsible for TCA cycle but partially and only in eukaryotes. Responsible for all energy but only half the time in plants.
Mitochondria's grey area has grey area.
Reality: Has its own DNA but partially. Is its own organism but partially. Responsible for TCA cycle but partially and only in eukaryotes. Responsible for all energy but only half the time in plants.
Mitochondria's grey area has grey area.
You know what? Fuck it. I can’t be bothered anymore. I’m just going to make videos about mitochondria and ribosomes from now on
September 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Don't forget being partially responsible for cell death.
The mitochondrion giveth and taketh away
The mitochondrion giveth and taketh away
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Unmanaged maternal pain and severe stress during pregnancy, perhaps being terrified that you will give your kid autism, has well recognized and potentially severe complications that can harm mom and baby.
Trump: "If you can't tough it out, if you can't do it, that's what you're gonna have to do. You'll take a Tylenol, but it'll be very sparingly ... I think you shouldn't take it."
September 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Unmanaged maternal pain and severe stress during pregnancy, perhaps being terrified that you will give your kid autism, has well recognized and potentially severe complications that can harm mom and baby.
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Acetaminophen/Tylenol use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests associations observed in other, less rigorous analyses may have been attributable to familial confounding (aka erroneous finding):
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Acetaminophen/Tylenol use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests associations observed in other, less rigorous analyses may have been attributable to familial confounding (aka erroneous finding):
If RFK Jr. and co had anything to actually show to back up their claims, there would be a paper in a medical journal, not an announcement about a press conference.
Of course, actually knowing things about stuff was never the point
Of course, actually knowing things about stuff was never the point
September 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
If RFK Jr. and co had anything to actually show to back up their claims, there would be a paper in a medical journal, not an announcement about a press conference.
Of course, actually knowing things about stuff was never the point
Of course, actually knowing things about stuff was never the point
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I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.
September 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.