Furqan Shah

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Initially, I thought someone had poured black paint over them 💀

Some kind of mushroom! 🍄

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🧪📸 Spent 2 years exploring forests in Sweden & Finland, observing (not picking) fungi. So many shapes, colors, and species — this collage is just a glimpse. Nordic nature is full of surprises.

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The strangest mushrooms ever! 🍄

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The strangest mushrooms ever! 🍄

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Amanita muscaria 🍄☺️

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“I bought this before Elon went crazy” 🤣

#tesla @teslatakedown.com @tesla-takedown.bsky.social #iboughtthisbeforeelonwentcrazy

#sisu #Finland

Spotted in Ekenäs, Finland 🇫🇮 recently.

🍄 What in the mushroom? 😃

#mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology

Can you "untrain" medical AI that has been trained on data in papers that eventually get retracted? 🤔

And soon after, you run into peer-reviewers who will try to make sure that nobody in the world ever gets to know...... 😜😆

A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).

🧪📸 Spent 2 years exploring forests in Sweden & Finland, observing (not picking) fungi. So many shapes, colors, and species — this collage is just a glimpse. Nordic nature is full of surprises.

#mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #biodiversity #nordicforests #mycophile #biology

The study underscores the importance of material composition on bone quality, not just quantity, and raises important questions about the fate of phagocytosed, non-resorbable particles in vivo.

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These findings are highly relevant for the development of next-generation bone graft substitutes, especially in craniofacial and maxillofacial reconstruction, where synthetic materials must balance bioactivity with long-term stability.

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The materials were designed to enable controlled degradation and bone formation in non-osseous environments. The inclusion of Ca-PP—a known mineralisation inhibitor—was of particular interest due to a dual role in both promoting and potentially impairing bone quality.

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These materials were tested in a subcutaneous sheep model to evaluate their osteoconductive and osteoinductive potential, as well as their long-term degradation behaviour.

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This study investigates a series of multi-phase calcium phosphate (CaP) biomaterials composed of monetite, β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP), and varying concentrations of calcium pyrophosphate (Ca-PP) (0–12.5%).

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Pyrophosphate‐Containing Calcium Phosphates Negatively Impact Heterotopic Bone Quality The role of calcium pyrophosphate (Ca-PP) in heterotopic bone formation and material degradation is investigated using calcium phosphate (CaP) compositions with varying Ca-PP content. Results show th....

🦴🔬🧪 Pyrophosphate-containing calcium phosphates negatively impact heterotopic #bone quality

📄 Full paper:
doi.org/10.1002/adhm...

#Biomaterials #BoneRegeneration #CalciumPhosphate #Osteoinduction #TissueEngineering #BoneQuality #Orthopaedics #RegenerativeMedicine #Pyrophosphate

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I suppose, unless you’ve clearly stated that you disagree with the message or content of a shared article, people have a tendency of doing that under the assumption that your views are in agreement / alignment with the message of the shared article (regardless of who the author is).

Grant application rejected with the following comment:

"Further support for that one can detect the bone mineralization via Raman imaging would have strengthen the application."

Where do they find such reviewers? I'm perplexed! 🤯

#ramanspectroscopy #bone #biomineralization #science

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When you’re at #ECTS2025 to give a talk on the applications of Raman spectroscopy to study #bone #biomineralization, but find a Raman hairstylist instead.

What your graph colour pallet says about you Source: https://errantscience.com/

What your graph colour pallet says about you

Source:
errantscience.com

#science #publishing #academia #phdlife #biology #physics

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Indeed. It can be complicated for evaluation committees to decide who gets the promotion/funding. Therefore, quantity is a *useful* measure. Unfortunately, there are field-specific challenges. Pure biology papers can take many more “man-hours” (personnel + time) than e.g., materials science papers.

2-3 papers to review every week is unmanageable + unpractical. Sometimes I’m quite disappointed at the quality of papers that are sent out for peer review. There’s a giant disparity between journals that are selective (and high impact, but NOT only for that reason) and those that publish everything.

Publications costs are truly insane 😳

🌱☘️🌿 Adventures of a baby snail called Rainbow🌈

Munching on some lichen at 10X speed! 🐌🐚

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🧪 The peer review system is truly broken! 😵‍💫

An editor's perspective:
–Ever increasing number of manuscripts submitted for publication
–Authors want quick editorial decisions + fast peer review
–Reviewers are "too busy" to review
–Everyone wants to submit papers but no one wants to review

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