Dafni Hadjieconomou
@drosostalis.bsky.social
Team Leader at the Paris Brain Institute.
Organ to organ nodes. Brain within a body.
Organ to organ nodes. Brain within a body.
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Physics envy 😆
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Physics envy 😆
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Public bodies should always be transparent and disclose if a generative AI tool is used in any public document, even if the output from such tools has been assessed by their staff. In such a disclosure, specific details about the tools should also be mentioned for transparency.
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Public bodies should always be transparent and disclose if a generative AI tool is used in any public document, even if the output from such tools has been assessed by their staff. In such a disclosure, specific details about the tools should also be mentioned for transparency.
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Transferable skills
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Transferable skills
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“Much like farm animals on growth hormones, humans can easily live the entirety of their existence sustained by the distractions of a technofeudalistic society, never for a minute raising their heads to notice that they, in fact, are inhabitants of an enclosure”
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“Much like farm animals on growth hormones, humans can easily live the entirety of their existence sustained by the distractions of a technofeudalistic society, never for a minute raising their heads to notice that they, in fact, are inhabitants of an enclosure”
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RE: https://biologists.social/@kofanchen/115531843605919177
Yes, it was a lot of fun to record the parts about early brain #evolution and marine #plankton for this BBC series last year in Ischia, Italy!
Yes, it was a lot of fun to record the parts about early brain #evolution and marine #plankton for this BBC series last year in Ischia, Italy!
Hey #neuroscience enthusiast! Just watch this
BBC Two - Secrets of the Brain
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002k781
Very cool and simple explanation and bonus feature to see @jekely in action too! 😉
BBC Two - Secrets of the Brain
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002k781
Very cool and simple explanation and bonus feature to see @jekely in action too! 😉
BBC Two - Secrets of the Brain, Series 1, Episode 1
Jim Al-Khalili reveals how the staggeringly complex human brain evolved.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
RE: https://biologists.social/@kofanchen/115531843605919177
Yes, it was a lot of fun to record the parts about early brain #evolution and marine #plankton for this BBC series last year in Ischia, Italy!
Yes, it was a lot of fun to record the parts about early brain #evolution and marine #plankton for this BBC series last year in Ischia, Italy!
Here we go!!! Please do consider signing! Olivia @olivia.science and her peer peeps act as scholars owe to do, as we all owe to.
Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Here we go!!! Please do consider signing! Olivia @olivia.science and her peer peeps act as scholars owe to do, as we all owe to.
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Paulina Borsook "warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through The Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, a book based on her 1990s writing" www.thenerdreich.com/she-warned-a...
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Paulina Borsook "warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through The Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, a book based on her 1990s writing" www.thenerdreich.com/she-warned-a...
One pic saves a thousand words. Applied in all layers of the living experience for most. Good reminder.
November 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
One pic saves a thousand words. Applied in all layers of the living experience for most. Good reminder.
Oh congratulations on this very beautiful body of work @longweibai.bsky.social and @francoisleulier.bsky.social :)
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Oh congratulations on this very beautiful body of work @longweibai.bsky.social and @francoisleulier.bsky.social :)
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James Watson died yesterday. He was a bad man with many bad ideas. We owe a debt of gratitude to the unknown hero who uploaded this picture of him to Wikipedia.
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
James Watson died yesterday. He was a bad man with many bad ideas. We owe a debt of gratitude to the unknown hero who uploaded this picture of him to Wikipedia.
Love for Parisian doors.
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Love for Parisian doors.
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BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
www.cbsnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Seeing a colourbows everywhere! Flybow to Pinbow
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Seeing a colourbows everywhere! Flybow to Pinbow
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Pleased to have had a hand in shaping the new edition of Comprehensive Molecular #Insect Science. The insects provided the complexity; the chapter contributors made sense of it www.sciencedirect.com/referencewor...
#Physiology #Reproduction #Neurobiology #Ecology #Immunity #Symbiosis #Endocrinology
#Physiology #Reproduction #Neurobiology #Ecology #Immunity #Symbiosis #Endocrinology
Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science
Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science, Second Edition is a unique resource that provides extensive review articles on contemporary topics in insect s...
www.sciencedirect.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Pleased to have had a hand in shaping the new edition of Comprehensive Molecular #Insect Science. The insects provided the complexity; the chapter contributors made sense of it www.sciencedirect.com/referencewor...
#Physiology #Reproduction #Neurobiology #Ecology #Immunity #Symbiosis #Endocrinology
#Physiology #Reproduction #Neurobiology #Ecology #Immunity #Symbiosis #Endocrinology
Let's hope this is going to be different than the hopes up and people cheering on for Tsipras! One can only be satisfied with the news of course! Gunpowder day and all :)
Congratulations Zohran! A small step in the right direction. You proved we can go hard - but with humour and humanism - against the centrists’ determination to maintain a vile non-viable status quo & the ultra-rightists’ false promises to overturn it.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race: ‘This City Belongs to You,’ Mamdani Says as He Celebrates Victory
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Let's hope this is going to be different than the hopes up and people cheering on for Tsipras! One can only be satisfied with the news of course! Gunpowder day and all :)
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Cigarettes were heavily marketed as modern, progressive products. Whether new health benefits or just keeping up with the times. The tobacco industry absolutely used this tactic.
Fine to be ignorant of such things but ignorance requires discretion.
cancerhistoryproject.com/article/how-...
Fine to be ignorant of such things but ignorance requires discretion.
cancerhistoryproject.com/article/how-...
How tobacco companies sold women a pack of lies
“Mild As May, with red tips to match your pretty lips and fingertips”
How Tobacco Companies Sold Women a Pack of Lies
Excerpted from The Center for the Study of Tobacco
cancerhistoryproject.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Cigarettes were heavily marketed as modern, progressive products. Whether new health benefits or just keeping up with the times. The tobacco industry absolutely used this tactic.
Fine to be ignorant of such things but ignorance requires discretion.
cancerhistoryproject.com/article/how-...
Fine to be ignorant of such things but ignorance requires discretion.
cancerhistoryproject.com/article/how-...
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The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!
www.fpbase.org/spectra/
www.fpbase.org/spectra/
FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer
An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.
www.fpbase.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!
www.fpbase.org/spectra/
www.fpbase.org/spectra/
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Now in @embojournal.org: Researchers in @labgrosshans.bsky.social & UCSC found that similar molecular machineries control daily circadian rhythms & developmental timing—showing that evolution can repurpose core timing systems to coordinate both daily cycles & growth. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...
One clock, two functions: from daily rhythms to development
Scientists at the FMI and the University of California-Santa Cruz have found that similar molecular machineries control daily circadian rhythms and developmental timing. Their work in worms shows that...
www.fmi.ch
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Now in @embojournal.org: Researchers in @labgrosshans.bsky.social & UCSC found that similar molecular machineries control daily circadian rhythms & developmental timing—showing that evolution can repurpose core timing systems to coordinate both daily cycles & growth. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...
Hello... pumpkin!
October 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Hello... pumpkin!
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Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶
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Deadline approaching for the EMBO meeting "Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila" 21 – 27 June 2026.
Both new and established PIs welcome.
Apply by Nov 3rd!
meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...
Both new and established PIs welcome.
Apply by Nov 3rd!
meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...
Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila
The principal theme of the EMBO Workshop is the Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila. Supported by EMBO over four decades, this will be the 24th biennial “Crete meeting”.
With the a…
meetings.embo.org
October 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Deadline approaching for the EMBO meeting "Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila" 21 – 27 June 2026.
Both new and established PIs welcome.
Apply by Nov 3rd!
meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...
Both new and established PIs welcome.
Apply by Nov 3rd!
meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...
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We are thrilled to announce the inaugural Metabolism in Development & Physiology virtual seminar, a new series connecting researchers across all stages & disciplines in metabolism!
🗓 13 Nov 2025, 16:00 CET
🎙 Alexander Aulehla (EMBL Heidelberg), &
🎙 Christopher Bell (Uni of Oxford)
See you there!
🗓 13 Nov 2025, 16:00 CET
🎙 Alexander Aulehla (EMBL Heidelberg), &
🎙 Christopher Bell (Uni of Oxford)
See you there!
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We are thrilled to announce the inaugural Metabolism in Development & Physiology virtual seminar, a new series connecting researchers across all stages & disciplines in metabolism!
🗓 13 Nov 2025, 16:00 CET
🎙 Alexander Aulehla (EMBL Heidelberg), &
🎙 Christopher Bell (Uni of Oxford)
See you there!
🗓 13 Nov 2025, 16:00 CET
🎙 Alexander Aulehla (EMBL Heidelberg), &
🎙 Christopher Bell (Uni of Oxford)
See you there!
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Scientists long thought the plant cell wall to be dead, but it's an active, even chatty participant in cellular growth, reproduction and responses to infection
go.nature.com/4nqhFhU
go.nature.com/4nqhFhU
Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?
go.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Scientists long thought the plant cell wall to be dead, but it's an active, even chatty participant in cellular growth, reproduction and responses to infection
go.nature.com/4nqhFhU
go.nature.com/4nqhFhU
So who defines what is criminal and who the criminal is?
October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
So who defines what is criminal and who the criminal is?