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Melanie I Stefan
@melanieistefan.bsky.social
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Computational Neurobiologist at Medical School Berlin. Poster child of failure. She/her
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Super excited to be at the @fraunhofer.bsky.social Summer School on Rethinking Immunity and Disease in the Face of Gender Data Gaps.

#gendermedicine #summerschool #proflife
A black notebook with the name of the summer school on the cover, and a pen, to show that Mela is ready for a day of note taking.
September 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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If you are really bad, not only will you go to hell, you’ll have to go there on the number 24 bus.
A bus timetable in France. The buses go in the direction of “Geule d’Enfer”
August 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Frittenwerk Codename quasi Horoskop
Eine Rechnung von einem Fast Food Laden. Oben steht „Darth Vader“
June 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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More power to the Great Republic of Ice Cream!
Taiwan Tunisko Turecko Ukrajina Venezuela Vietnam Zmrzlina
June 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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My brain is upside down today
Results from the New York Times Games “Connection” game. The first row is all purple, the second row blue, the third row green and the fourth row yellow
May 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Here is a superb owl in honour of superbowl Sunday.
Mela with an owl. Mela is a woman with dark hair, sunglasses and a gray trench coat. Her left hand is in one of those leather falconer gloves, and upon it sits à rather attractive small white owl. With her other hand, Mela is gently stroking the owl’s wings and she is also smiling, because they are friends now. The owl may or may not reciprocate the friendship.
February 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Ah yes, the three languages
A tray with three compartments that contain restaurant menus. The upper one is labelled “deutsch”, the middle one “englisch” and the bottom one “dolci”
January 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Good morning, U.S friends. Don’t let the leopards eat your face.
Cartoon face of a leopard. It is light blue with black spots and trying to look fierce, but rather cute for a leopard.
November 5, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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A version of the „distracted boyfriend” meme. The boyfriend is the Nobel committee, the woman he looks at admiringly is labelled “Some dude”. His girlfriend (whom he is ignoring) is labelled “a woman called Rosalind”
October 8, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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Aha
Eine Brücke mit zwei großen Werbebannern. Auf einem steht „Körperwelten“ und ein Pfeil, der auf das andere Banner zeigt. Auf dem zweiten steht „Wir suchen Dich!“
September 19, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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Entdecken Sie
Screenshot eines Drop-Down Menus zum Bezahlen mit der Überschrift „Kartentyp auswählen“. Die Wahlmöglichkeiten sind: Visum, MasterCard, Entdecken Sie, American Express
March 14, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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My to-do list for today:
- laundry
- household chores
- finish presentation for tomorrow
- pack
- go for a run
- finish teaching prep for next week
- concert
- …

Me: Yes ok, but how about I draw a horse on my living room wall?
A corner of Mela’s living room. We see the upper edge of a dark blue sofa. Above it one wall is entirely white. The other is partly covered with blackboard wallpaper, and things are written and (ineptly) drawn on it with chalk markers: a Dorothy Parker poem, two Monstera leaves, a random assortment of colourful little dots and (new) a sketch of a horse. Not in the picture: my to-do list, silently crying in a corner.
November 19, 2023 at 11:10 AM
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It’s Monday morning, so I have decided to jazz up my to-do list
A notebook opened on a page that looks like it’s going to be a to-do list. It has a title and one box to be checked. Resting on the page is a black pen. The title of the to-do list is “Evil Masterplan for Ruling the Universe”. The list itself is still to be written, it’s Monday morning, okay?
November 13, 2023 at 8:12 AM
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Definite American Gothic vibes
AI generated image based on my name and bio. We see a man and a woman standing close to each other, both looking directly at the viewer. Both are wearing glasses. They are not smiling. The woman is dressed in a simple white dress with a V neck and short sleeves. Around her neck is something like a stethoscope. She has lifted her right hand to her left breast to hold the end of the maybe-stethoscope. The man is standing to the woman’s left and a bit behind her. He wears a gray suit and an ill-fitting beige shirt. Both are pale and standing in front of a nondescript gray background
October 7, 2023 at 8:26 PM
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Liebs dass mein Kalender so aussieht als wäre ich graue Eminenz von Beruf, aber in Wirklichkeit muss ich nur zum Zahnarzt.
Auszug aus meinem Google Kalender: „13:30 Fäden ziehen“
October 6, 2023 at 6:37 AM
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Veranstaltungstipp für Berliner*innen: Sonntag nächste Woche singen wir Mozarts c-Moll Messe in der Philharmonie, und es wird sehr schön.
Flyer mit Konzert-Ankündigung: 8. Oktober 15 Uhr, Philharmonie Berlin Kammermusiksaal. W.A. Mozart. Große Messe c-Moll. J. Brahms. Sinfonie Nr 1 c-Moll. Dirigent: Daniel Kirchmann. Camerata vocale Berlin, Berliner Symphoniker. Solisten: Esther Hilsberg, Alice Lackner, Sopran, Burkhard Solle, Tenor, Cornelius Lewenberg, Bariton. Tickets unter eventim.de, Tel. 08106-570070
September 30, 2023 at 11:46 AM
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Keine Ahnung ob das Absicht war, aber „aus den Fugen“ in diesem Zusammenhang ist grandios
Auszug aus dem Wikipedia-Artikel über Robert Schneider. Beschrieben wird der Roman „Die Offenbarung“ und zwar mit folgenden Worten: „Er erzählt die Geschichte eines Bach-Fundes, der einem Musikforscher aus Naumburg (Saale) gelingt, dessen Leben dadurch aus den Fugen gerät.
September 24, 2023 at 8:05 PM
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But the joy though
A part of Mela’s bookshelf with books very unapologetically arranged by colour to look pretty. There is a row of green books on the top, white books underneath, and red books under that. To the right, there are more rows of shelves with white, yellow, light blue and, again, white books, respectively. It’s nice.
September 21, 2023 at 7:08 AM
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Was ist eigentlich aus dem alpinistischen Club von Berlin geworden?
Aushang in einer Kletterhalle. Der Text lautet: DAV Rabatt Der Rabatt ist nur für Mitglieder der Sektion Alpin Club Berlin. Kein Rabatt bekommt die Sektion Berlin!!!!
September 13, 2023 at 6:31 PM