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Neuro and Developmental biologist. PostDoc at day. Supervillain at night. He/him #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights @mads100tist@mastodon.social

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This has a big @annijyn.com vibe

12.12.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You may be entitled to compensation

12.12.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel breaks record for killing Palestinian children in WB One in every five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces so far in 2025 across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was a child, according to the UN.

One in every five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces so far in 2025 across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was a child, according to the UN ⬇️

12.12.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 7

in the*

12.12.2025 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman is drinking a cup of coffee while wearing a blue tank top . Alt: a woman is drinking a cup of coffee while wearing a blue tank top . laughs and spills her drink GIF
12.12.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, if this gets implemented yours truly won't be visiting the US is the foreseeable future

12.12.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I agree, but I would be careful with relying on color because not everyone sees colors the same way. Perhaps bold or underlined, or something like that (but definitely paste it in the answer to the reviewers, which will make it clear for sure)

12.12.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"We are the Hot people" @jutfelt.bsky.social

12.12.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Consider joining this initiative, if your research/interests overlap with its mission πŸ—ΊοΈ

12.12.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

a reminder for the millionth time: your peers, NOT corporations, are making the media you want !!!!!!!!!

11.12.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1511    πŸ” 575    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7
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elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire . Alt: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire .
12.12.2025 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would buy a house for each of my friends

12.12.2025 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Cocioba Institute for Sebastian Research

12.12.2025 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I specifically had to frame it in terms of breaking customers’ trust. If a customer sees a corp’s AI photo/video, and clocks it as fake, they can’t trust that the company’s services actually provide real results either. They feel lied to, and won’t buy

(Which *should* seem obvious from jump, but 🀷)

12.12.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 482    πŸ” 158    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

For more info on how to join the pilot, visit zswim.org #zebrafish

11.12.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keeping up with the neighbours: local synchronisation of cell fate decisions during development - EMBO Reports Even before the advent of multicellular life, unicellular creatures would communicate with their neighbours to coordinate their behaviours. Multicellular organisms have the particular challenge of orc...

Hello, here is a review I wrote about how cells sometimes try to synchronise with surrounding cells so that they can do a good job of building tissues during development. It is called "Keeping up with the neighbours"

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#DevBio πŸ§ͺ

11.12.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...

Leaders at @ukri.org should be seriously looking at the lottery first idea. 68% lower economic costs, increase in diversity of award holders and well received.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

11.12.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6

GET THEIR ASS

11.12.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

HOW DARE YOU

11.12.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

SLACKER

11.12.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Anzy Miller, Martina Cerise, Giulia Paci, Max Farnworth, Sonya Widen, Marlies Oomen, Ethan Ewe, JoaquΓ­n Navajas Acedo and Toshimichi Yamada.

Anzy Miller, Martina Cerise, Giulia Paci, Max Farnworth, Sonya Widen, Marlies Oomen, Ethan Ewe, JoaquΓ­n Navajas Acedo and Toshimichi Yamada.

We were delighted to welcome our most recent Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows to our offices at @biologists.bsky.social for leadership training.

Find out more about our PI fellows and how to apply here:
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

Application deadline: 2 February 2026.

11.12.2025 10:49 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

I hope you use this power for evil*

*(the first E in EEG is for electrophysiology, but the second one is for evil)

11.12.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hope you use this power for evil*

*(the first E in EEG is for electrophysiology, but the second one is for evil)

11.12.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@triggerloop.bsky.social oh lala

11.12.2025 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You're just jealous I am an early investor on Twin Sandwiches β„’

10.12.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/

10.12.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2146    πŸ” 741    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 71
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elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire Alt: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

Would you say

You're expanding operations?

(Congrats!!!)

10.12.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jon, you've done it again

10.12.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You can list links, and just use the link to the profile

10.12.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

whenever I hear a dog bark my first thought is always, "yeah, you got a point"

10.12.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 371    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2

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