Therese Cronin

Loved that place !

Well written, well-researched critic of the Irish Times Op-Ed by Collison - should make people enthusiastic about Collisons message (like me) rethink it.

Often too little room in the Abundance agendas for environmental policies.

Cities Are Expanding Uphill, Threatening Global Biodiversity New study reveals cities expanding into hillsides threaten 70% of endangered species worldwide. Learn how urban sprawl impacts biodiversity hotspots globally.

My latest article for @forbes.com has just gone live 🧪👩‍🔬⚛️ www.forbes.com/sites/laurie...

“I had hemophilia for nearly five decades. I went to Philadelphia and had a 45-minute infusion, and my hemophilia was gone.”
Genes-> Medicine

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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Begins with L and ends with ego.

Excellent work @victorcalbiagueg.bsky.social !!!

Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

I did not even know that Sharon Begley died. I loved her articles.

Sure hope she got an obit worthy of someone who did the grit and didn't rely on lazy intuitions and over-confidence.

We are delighted to celebrate Science Week Ireland, and especially to mark 30 years of this national celebration of curiosity, discovery, and public engagement with science. Science Week has always shown what happens when research meets communities in real, meaningful ways. People coming together to explore ideas, ask questions, and imagine new possibilities. At ENGAGED Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap, we care about that connection. Research that is open, shared, and shaped with the public builds trust and stronger understanding. This week is a reminder of how important that work is. Here’s to 30 years of Science Week. And to many more years of curiosity leading the way! Research Ireland National Open Research Forum #scienceweek #scienceweekireland #publicengagement #openresearch #ThenTodayTomorrow

We are delighted to celebrate Science Week Ireland, especially to mark 30 years of this national celebration of curiosity, discovery, and public engagement with science.
@researchireland.ie
@norfireland.bsky.social
#scienceweek #scienceweekireland #publicengagement #openresearch #ThenTodayTomorrow

Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function Upon DNA breakage, a genomic locus undergoes alterations in three-dimensional chromatin architecture to facilitate signaling and repair. Although cells possess mechanisms to repair damaged DNA, it is ...

Oh dear. More worries about the consequences of CRISPR. The basic step - cutting both strands of DNA, which are then repaired, is not anodyne and has lasting effects.

‪*sigh* Now I have to read a 17 page memo since apparently others won't.

When #HHMIJanelia released the #Drosophila hemibrain in 2020, rendering all cell types at once with full shading/shadows was too hard, so the video showed them region by region. Technology has since advanced, and I went back and rendered them all together. I like how it shows the internal structure.

John Collison of Stripe: Ireland is going backwards. Here’s how to get it moving The Stripe co-founder looks at how the State can get out of the government-by-agency corner into which it has painted itself

Some good points in John Collisons article on why a country as rich and sparsely populated as Ireland has had failing infrastructure

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

IUCN Members Choose Science and Ethics in Landmark Vote on Synthetic Biology ABU DHABI, October 14 , 2025 — The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today hailed the adoption of Motion 87, supporting the responsible, evidence-based use of synthetic biology, at the IUCN World Co...

Finally. A big Yes in favour of synthetic biology to support conservation #IUCN

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Un implant sous-rétinien restaure partiellement la vision de personnes atteintes de DMLA - Salle de presse de l'Inserm La dégénérescence maculaire liée à l’âge (DMLA) entraîne une perte progressive de vision chez un grand nombre de personnes âgées et aucun traitement n’est disponible pour la forme dite atrophique de c...

Un implant sous-rétinien restaure partiellement la vision de personnes atteintes de DMLA

Lire le communiqué : presse.inserm.fr/un-implant-s...

Picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado

Today is a good day. Lots of shade being cast in the speech announcing Nobel Peace Prize about growing authoritarianism

pressure and wind gust field from the ECMWF model for Friday 18Z showing very strong winds for northern half of Ireland

Met Eireann warnings will presumably drop any time now. Still a way off and this is more uncertain than the usual being a post-tropical cyclone but if this ECMWF forecast verifies the norther half of the country is in for a rough old Friday afternoon and evening

Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.

David Baltimore, giant of molecular biology, has died.

I love this space. The almost-quiet, the little kids who've lost their shoes but found the biggest book they can carry, the ferry heading straight for you...

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

In summary, I hope the US regulation system does not allow embryo genome editing; I would far prefer that the regulation did not allow embryo selection on the basis of polygenic scores. Clearly these are decisions for the US regulation.

The excavator you see in the photo is mining out peat on a blanket bog under turbary rights which the state did *not* buy... in other words, more negotiation is required to stop this practice... and yes, that's a conifer plantation inside the Park boundary...

A detail just slipped in towards the end, that the woman leading one of these companies (Cathy Tie) is He Jiankui's ex-wife... 🤔

Chart, what gives people power: money, a little bit. Status, a little bit. Mitochondria, a lot

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Mirror Life: Inside the Discussion At an international conference organized jointly by the Mirror Biology Dialogues Foundation (MBDF) with the Institut Pasteur on June 12 and 13, 2025, scientists and ethicists from around the world sha...

🔬 Scientists worldwide just concluded: "mirror life" organisms should NOT be created.

At Institut Pasteur conference, experts found these hypothetical lab organisms could evade immune systems & resist antibiotics - creating untreatable diseases.

#Bioethics

Apparently the UK adult verification thing has basically banned blind people from half of the internet because they can't use the verification system 🫣

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Can I get my Irish friends to amplify this please?

Governments must bring whatever maximal pressure is available to them to end this starvation and dehumanisation.

this must go far further than strongly worded statements or hand wringing.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...