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Joerg Fallmann
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pauligroup.bsky.social
... and we would love to see you ALL - working with ANY fish model - join us in Vienna for www.ezm2026.org, the biggest fish meeting in 2026! We plan to have a special session 'beyond zebrafish' and would love to include talks representing other fish systems across all sessions. Pls spread the word!
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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impvienna.bsky.social
🎉Congrats to our @vdeneke.bsky.social, postdoc in the @pauligroup.bsky.social, who has received the 2025 Life Sciences Research Award Austria from the ÖGMBT!

She's recognised for her groundbreaking work on the molecular mechanisms of fertilisation: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
September 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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pauligroup.bsky.social
Are you interested in the mechanisms of mRNA regulation in the early embryo and are looking for a great lab to start your PhD? Then check out this amazing opportunity with my outgoing postdoc @lorenzoorts.bsky.social who will start her own lab - I can highly recommend to apply!
lorenzoorts.bsky.social Laura Lorenzo Orts @lorenzoorts.bsky.social · Sep 15
I am excited to announce that I will be moving to IMB Mainz next year! The Winter call for the IPP PhD program is now open; if you are interested in maternal #mRNA regulation and #translation in early vertebrate development, please apply! Deadline: 16 October.

More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...
Laura Lorenzo Orts
IMB Mainz
www.imb.de
September 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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lorenzoorts.bsky.social
I am excited to announce that I will be moving to IMB Mainz next year! The Winter call for the IPP PhD program is now open; if you are interested in maternal #mRNA regulation and #translation in early vertebrate development, please apply! Deadline: 16 October.

More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...
Laura Lorenzo Orts
IMB Mainz
www.imb.de
September 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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vbcscitraining.bsky.social
The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 20+ fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which is now open. Please share. Further details: www.vbcphd.at
September 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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drglam.bsky.social
We have finally navigated the endless red tape and gotten the donation site to support the US FlyBase groups up and running.

bsky.app/profile/flyb...
flybase.bsky.social FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Aug 15
FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
wiki.flybase.org
August 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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obenaufa.bsky.social
⭐ Faculty for the Future Fellows ⭐ Interesting opportunity for women scientists from the world’s developing and emerging economies schlumbergerfoundation.com/eligibility-...
Eligibility Criteria - Schlumberger Foundation
schlumbergerfoundation.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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tommytang.bsky.social
🧵 "Expert in bioinformatics? Let me tell you why that's both true and false, and why it matters for your career..." (1/8)
February 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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impvienna.bsky.social
Are you a student with an interest in translational #cancer research? The lab of our Johannes Zuber (@johanneszuber.bsky.social) is recruiting a #masters student: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

#oncology, #cancerresearch, #masters
Ref2501: Master thesis in Translational Cancer Research (Zuber lab) | Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
www.imp.ac.at
January 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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wkhuber.bsky.social
Bring Light back to Ukrainian Schools

Christmas Fundraiser:
Power generators to keep 112 Ukrainian schools light and warm.

u24.gov.ua/bring-light-...?
Bring light back to Ukrainian schools
Big Christmas Fundraiser: power generators to keep 112 Ukrainian schools light and warm.
u24.gov.ua
December 18, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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impvienna.bsky.social
Hundreds of genome's off-switches were just mapped by Alexander Starks lab at the IMP.

Using the new method 'silencer-seq', they identified more than 800 silencers in fruit flies.

🧬Now published in Molecular Cell!

Read more: imp.ac.at/news/article...

Paper: cell.com/molecular-ce...
November 21, 2024 at 9:09 AM