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Dream team! 🤩 #NHND25

09.10.2025 12:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So nice to be back among my neuro friends, and thank you to @viblifesciences.bsky.social for bringing friendly faces from my time in London and in Leuven together at #NHND25

09.10.2025 11:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Floor Stam, CEO van Remynd: ‘Alzheimer van mijn moeder bracht me compassie’ Ze droomde van een academische carrière in de Verenigde Staten, maar koos voor de Vlaamse biotech. Daar voert ze als CEO van Remynd een onzekere strijd tegen de ziekte van Alzheimer. Ontbijt met De Ti...

"Deze mensen zijn de moeite waard om een risico voor te nemen."
www.tijd.be/dossier/ontb...

16.06.2025 11:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Episode 4 of @viblifesciences.bsky.social's brand new podcast Called to Science, @steinaerts.bsky.social reflects on the realities of doing science.
🎧 tinyurl.com/2wzmvymm

04.05.2025 08:31 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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‘No Noncitizen Professor at My Institution Can Speak About Politics Ever Again’ Why Jason Stanley, a scholar of fascism, is leaving Yale for Canada.

"What would be needed for any kind of hope whatsoever would be a coordinated response. They are going to set us all against each other."

Jason Stanley on why he is leaving Yale for Toronto.
www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...

28.03.2025 19:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Researchers, this is super useful. In addition to 'Following' and 'Discover', this tool gives you a third feed showing you all the posts about papers from your own network 👇
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14.03.2025 07:55 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡

Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

13.03.2025 15:51 — 👍 1769    🔁 432    💬 17    📌 58
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Inside the Collapse at NIH Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

27.02.2025 16:13 — 👍 861    🔁 455    💬 27    📌 32
Title: Still haven't made a new year's resolution? Let us help you generate one!

Image: a diagram which asks you to input “The year of your birth added to the number of pets in your home”,  “The number of days in the current month plus your shoe size” and “The sum of the first three digits in your telephone number” which will seemingly make a  random resolution but actually always* makes “support your local bookshop”.

*Unless you have size 68 shoes or a negative number of pets or some other nonsense in which case you will get the silly outcome you deserve.

Title: Still haven't made a new year's resolution? Let us help you generate one! Image: a diagram which asks you to input “The year of your birth added to the number of pets in your home”, “The number of days in the current month plus your shoe size” and “The sum of the first three digits in your telephone number” which will seemingly make a random resolution but actually always* makes “support your local bookshop”. *Unless you have size 68 shoes or a negative number of pets or some other nonsense in which case you will get the silly outcome you deserve.

My new year’s resolution generator for @theguardian.com. Let me know what you get!

04.01.2025 10:00 — 👍 1589    🔁 550    💬 80    📌 113
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9 countries said goodbye to a devastating disease in 2024 Nine countries eliminated a disease in 2024. Here's how Pakistan pulled it off — fulfilling a young boy's dream of eliminating blindness caused by bacterial infections.

Nine countries eliminated a disease in 2024. Here's how Pakistan pulled it off — fulfilling a young boy's dream of eliminating blindness caused by bacterial infections.

30.12.2024 23:34 — 👍 1169    🔁 237    💬 21    📌 28

Excuus, waarde connecties. Zou ik een luttel kwartiertje van jullie tijd mogen om een thesis-studente van mij een plezier te doen? Ze onderzoekt de kennis over proefdieren en dierproeven bij het brede publiek in Vlaanderen. Link hieronder:

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31.12.2024 08:44 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 16    📌 4
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Another successful edition of #BEscicomm 🤩

06.12.2024 21:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gregoire Lits introduces the #CoviCom project, that aimed to study the evolution of trust at the science-media-society interface during the pandemic in Belgium.
#BEscicomm23

01.12.2023 10:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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During the pandemic, Nathalie Van Raemdonck was on a mission to share memes that could help other people start conversations about misinformation and conspiracy theories.
#BEscicomm23

01.12.2023 09:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Great reading tip from Nathalie Van Raemdonck! How does information spread? Not necessarily like a virus! Be wary of the "infodemic" metaphor.
#BEscicomm23

01.12.2023 09:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BE.SciComm 2023 | December 01, 2023 Join us on December 1st

On my way to an event I've been looking forward to (and working towards) for months: #BEscicomm23 🥳
Bringing together local science communication professionals, practitioners and researchers. 👋
www.bescicomm.be

01.12.2023 06:33 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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