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Francois Kroll

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F0 knockout boy & CRISPR connoisseur @DelBene lab, Sorbonne Universitรฉ ๐ŸŸ๐ŸŸ๐ŸŸ

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Especially scary, since fake philosophy papers will be impossible to distinguish from real ones ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜˜

19.10.2024 13:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

We should all feel grateful there are people with enough grit to spend years setting the record straight when the literature gets misleading! Neat summary.

20.01.2026 10:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am indeed! See you all there or online.
Thanks for the shoutout ๐ŸŸ๐ŸŸ๐ŸŸ

14.10.2025 01:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Was great fun to contribute a little brick to this monumental work!

Tahnee used behavioural pharmacology approaches developed in our own ZOLTAR ๐Ÿ”ฎ work to predict whatโ€™s wrong with her mutant.

Check out our work
elifesciences.org/articles/96839

& the ZOLTAR app
francoiskroll.shinyapps.io/zoltar/

06.05.2025 08:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In a short story, one my favourite authors Julio Cortรกzar imagined the world collapsing under viscous paper goo from the all the books & papers we churn out.

Not far from todayโ€™s academiaโ€ฆ Words and words read by absolutely no one, not even the authors.

telegrafi.com/en/the-end-o...

17.01.2025 10:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Enhancer scrambling strategy

Enhancer scrambling strategy

We are happy to share our enhancer scramble story, a strategy to create hundreds of stochastic deletions, inversions, and duplications within mammalian gene regulatory regions and associate these new architectures with gene expression levels ๐Ÿงต
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

15.01.2025 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 183    ๐Ÿ” 77    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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40 years ago all of Genbank was published in print form by NAR. The same format today would require over 4 light seconds of shelf space. To a year of progress in 2025.

29.12.2024 09:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 564    ๐Ÿ” 216    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25

On ne dirait pas ๐Ÿ˜ข

29.12.2024 14:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At least he had the balls to tell them to f*ck off...

28.12.2024 22:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hilarious (or profoundly depressing), Descartes was already frustrated with Elsevier in 1636! So it's been almost 400 years...
"I came to this city to find a publisher, but the Elzevier, who first said they really wanted to publish my book, are playing hard to get, so I decided to do without them"

28.12.2024 22:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yay I finally made the move from X aka MAGAland! Hello everyone, I hope we build back twitter from the good olโ€™ #wormgate days :)

10.12.2024 08:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0