Ariel Chipman

I agree, but in the last two years “our” problems have gotten significantly bloodier than the NI conflict ever was. The path to peace is much longer and more difficult than it was.

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Unfortunately it’s clear that the Israeli people can’t topple the government or change its ways. Seems like the attorney general, the last gate keeper, will be fired soon. As long as we’re stuck with this government, the war won’t stop. Only international intervention (=the U.S) might do it.

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This is presumably a result of Ind1 misexpression in Ventral Europe.

A couple of years ago, I published a paper in @sicbjournals.bsky.social . The guidelines stated that you could include an abstract in as many languages as you want. I took this as a challenge, and together with friends and colleagues put together translations of the abstract into 8 languages.
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Nice update of the @moultdb database, with iNaturalist observations integrated with genomic data and scientific observations from extant and fossil species!
https://moultdb.org/species/ncbi/7130 #Arthropods #Moulting #Molting #EvoDevo #CitizenScience

a missile just hit Saroka hospital where Arab and Jewish doctors and staff work side by side treating everyone.
"our department is standing by our colleagues in Soroka hospital. we carry on doing science for the benefit of hunan kind in Israel and abroad" - Raz Zarivach, Department Chair

And

Serial Homology and Segment Identity in the Arthropod Head Synopsis. The anterior-most unit of the crown-group arthropod body plan includes three segments, the pre-gnathal segments, that contain three neuromeres th

Oh, and here's a link to the paper. It's a cool paper that i am very proud of, beyond the multilingual abstracts.
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We can no longer pretend that Science is immune to real-world conflicts.
I don't have a solution beyond the (once again naive) call to end all conflicts and find peaceful solutions, and hope for a better future.
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Small and petty by comparison, this morning I had to ask for a deadline extension for a manuscript revision, since the first author's apartment was damaged in a missile attack. This option does not appear on the list of form letters on the journal website.
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Not to mention Israel's systematic attacks on Palestinian universities.
There are more and more cases of Israeli scientists being uninvited from international conferences, and international collaborations with Israeli universities discouraged or even terminated.
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The last couple of years have shown this naive sentiment to be wrong.
In the past week Iran and Israel have specifically targeted each-others research infrastructure, with The Weizmann Institute suffering devastating damage, and Ben Gurion University taking some damage this morning.
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The somewhat naive point I was quietly making is that science should know no boundaries. Science is an international endeavor that goes beyond the petty squabbles of governments. We can and should collaborate across conflict lines.
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These languages were not chosen arbitrarily. The first language was of course Hebrew, and this was followed by Arabic and Persian. After this came Russian and Ukrainian. At the end were three "boring" European languages.
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A couple of years ago, I published a paper in @sicbjournals.bsky.social . The guidelines stated that you could include an abstract in as many languages as you want. I took this as a challenge, and together with friends and colleagues put together translations of the abstract into 8 languages.
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1/5 COMICS POST ALERT - i really try to avoid promoting "institutional or national erections", and the music does stop to play when u are hit by balistic rockets, but whoever did this has talent and did make me laugh . and no our research is not that advanced :)

Somehow we ended up here. Venn diagram showing the intersection between apocalypse and having to go to work.

After being stuck in Hong Kong after ISSCR meeting unable to fly back home, I managed to get on a plane to London to stay with family, only to learn in the air that our institute was hit. My team is all safe. My lab sustained serious blast damage but we shall overcome! #PeaceNow tnx for messages :)

Weizmann inst was directly hit.

Several labs in Earth and Life Sciences completely destroyed. No casualties since it was the middle of the night on a weekend.

Weizmann Institute rn

My feeling is that the whole concept of Diplomacy, in the old sense of leaders thinking globally and coordinating with other leaders over shared interests, has completely broken down in the age of Trump/Putin/Netanyahu/Orban and co.

Insect people - Does anyone know if there has been any work on airborne microplastics and their effect on insects? A colleague suggested that microplastics could clog insect trachea and thus contribute to their decline. A cool idea but I wonder if it has any support.

Yes. Thanks.

Insect people - Does anyone know if there has been any work on airborne microplastics and their effect on insects? A colleague suggested that microplastics could clog insect trachea and thus contribute to their decline. A cool idea but I wonder if it has any support.

Photo-op of the Interfaith March. A priest, a bedouin Sheikh, a female Rabbi and a Muslim woman in a blue-green Hijab can be seen holding a banner.

A candle in the dark.
Today I joined the Jerusalem Interfaith Walk for Peace and Human Rights, including Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Druze and even Buddhist religious leaders and participants.

Amen

Mainstream Palestinian Islam and Israeli Judaism are still very nationalist and militaristic. Nonetheless, there is something encouraging in the fringe (and in my opinion only sane) voices being present and heard. It is from these groups that change will ultimately come.