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Daniel Hass (he/him)

@dth.bsky.social

I'm a scientist who likes mountains, painting, mass spectrometry, metabolism, and retinas. This is an interim description but may just become the full thing.

293 Followers  |  630 Following  |  40 Posts  |  Joined: 29.07.2023  |  2.086

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my lab needs a repeat pipetter that can dispense 1ml 12 times. (can be analog or digital). i've never had one of these- does anyone have one to recommend?

(pls reski)

05.08.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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How Better Models of Macular Degeneration Could Help Prevent Vision Loss Most experimental models that researchers use to study macular degeneration fall short. BrightFocus Macular Degeneration Research grant recipient Dr. Brittany Carr aims to change that.

Thank you to the the @brightfocus.bsky.social for featuring my research on retinal deposits and their potential association with AMD. 🐸πŸ§ͺ @dianebovenkamp.bsky.social

www.brightfocus.org/news/how-bet...

22.07.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Group Leader (282908) | University of Oslo Job title: Group Leader (282908), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 8, 2025

🚨 We're hiring! NCMBM @ncmbm.bsky.social is looking for 2 new group leaders to join our vibrant research community. Ready to build your own group with strong support and a solid startup package?

Interested and attending #ISMBECCB2025? Let’s connect!

πŸ”— www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

22.07.2025 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved

4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved

Replication Crisis

xkcd.com/3117/

21.07.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4862    πŸ” 651    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 28
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Open Rank, Tenure Track Position – Metabolic Physiology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with University of Utah | 674355 The Department of Nutrition and Integrated Physiology (NUIP) at the University of Utah seeks a Tenure Track faculty member at the rank of Assistant...

We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social

21.07.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Eight babies born after Mitochondrial donation The UK’s pioneering licensed IVF technique to reduce the risk of mitochondrial diseases carried out in Newcastle has seen eight babies born, published research shows.

8 healthy babies after Mitochondrial Donation treatment - Press Office - Newcastle University share.google/iaZoEyfgHHd9...

17.07.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mitochondrial Donation and Preimplantation Genetic Testing for mtDNA Disease | NEJM Children born to women who carry pathogenic variants in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are at risk for a range of clinical syndromes collectively known as mtDNA disease. Mitochondrial donation by pronuc...

It was wonderful to see the NEJM paper today about healthy babies born free of mtDNA disease following mitochondrial donation. Built on decades of work led by Doug Turnbull and his team in Newcastle.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

17.07.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eight babies born after Mitochondrial donation The UK’s pioneering licensed IVF technique to reduce the risk of mitochondrial diseases carried out in Newcastle has seen eight babies born, published research shows.

We're proud to announce our work developing a ground-breaking mitochondrial donation IVF treatment has now seen eight healthy babies born πŸ‘Ά

Find out more πŸ‘‡

www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

#WeAreNCL #Health #News #Mitochondria

17.07.2025 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Key numbers in cell biology

Having a sense of scale helps to think more rigorously and realistically about biological systems.

09.07.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Figure 2: Accuracy comparison on the ARC Challenge dataset. The SM Agent (this work, shown
in pink) achieves 97.15% overall accuracy, outperforming all prior public submissions (shown in
orange), including GPT-4o+CoT (94.88%). Unlike other top entries, which often rely on ensemble methods or retrieval-augmented inputs, the SM Agent uses only structured prompting via a single Socratic system prompt. Results of previous models are obtained from the AI2 ARC leaderboard.

Figure 2: Accuracy comparison on the ARC Challenge dataset. The SM Agent (this work, shown in pink) achieves 97.15% overall accuracy, outperforming all prior public submissions (shown in orange), including GPT-4o+CoT (94.88%). Unlike other top entries, which often rely on ensemble methods or retrieval-augmented inputs, the SM Agent uses only structured prompting via a single Socratic system prompt. Results of previous models are obtained from the AI2 ARC leaderboard.

A new preprint introduces a Socratic Method Agent that guides LLMs through structured questioning, i.e., definition, analogy, hypothesis elimination, and more following lessons learned from thousands of years of philosophy and reasoning achieving SOTA on the ARC Challenge.

Continued below w links:

08.07.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Enrichment of extracellular vesicles using Mag-Net for the analysis of the plasma proteome - Nature Communications Authors report MagNet, a plasma extracellular vesicle (EV) enrichment strategy using magnetic beads. Proteomic interrogation of this plasma EV fraction enables the detection of proteins that are beyon...

The Mag-Net paper is out! We've now put 1000s of plasma samples through this protocol and we know others have too. We've used it to study dozens of diseases. Looking forward to seeing what others apply this towards. The preprint already has >39 citations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

01.07.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Hungary banned anything that β€œpromotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

28.06.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 55225    πŸ” 13028    πŸ’¬ 575    πŸ“Œ 819

Love it when biologists get creative and β€˜punny’ with titles for publications! πŸ§ͺπŸ¦‘

26.06.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Attended first "Teach In" event jointly sponsored by @standupforscience.bsky.social & @sci4ga.bsky.social in Decatur GA last night at Sceptre Brewing. Guest speaker was Dr. Gita Gnanadesikan (@ggnanadesikan.bsky.social) on "How Do Pets Think?", introduced by @qeastman.bsky.social. Fun! πŸ§ͺπŸ•πŸˆβ€β¬› #scicomm

26.06.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I frequently take comfort in the fact that the Universe is vast and beautiful and entirely unaffected by petty human foolishness

23.06.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4051    πŸ” 490    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 44

Your YOLO FOMO doesn't negate my OLO FOMO!

21.06.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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While many of you may suffer FOMO for #OLO, we folks in the lab suffer FOMO for YOLO. That was the case until Stuart Semple graciously sent us some free bottles. What this all about? Check out
www.culturehustleusa.com/products/yol... to find out.
Thanks!!!

21.06.2025 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hi! My name is Monica and I'm a landscape painter from Canada πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
This is my art, let me know what you think!

20.06.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 12332    πŸ” 936    πŸ’¬ 1072    πŸ“Œ 74

If you are trying to interest folks in signing the Bethesda Declaration, you can share this link

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

and they can listen to broadcasts and read >10 news stories

There is a link at the top to the Bethesda Declaration and the support letter.

13.06.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Associate Principal Scientist: Molecular Modeling, Analytical Research & Development job in Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America | jobs at Merck migration Apply for Associate Principal Scientist: Molecular Modeling, Analytical Research & Development job with Merck migration in Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America. Browse and apply for the jobs a...

Very excited to be recruiting for an Associate Principal Scientist: Molecular Modeling, Analytical Research & Develop. Our Digital Sciences team is seeing many requests related to influencing formulation design, especially for biologics. #chemjobs #compchem #chemsky jobs.merck.com/us/en/job/R3...

07.06.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A very soft ionization

27.05.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If people of means are interested in establishing a 2025 β€œInstitute for Advanced Study” for displaced/defunded biomedical scientists, I know many people who will help, including myself.
@mcuban.bsky.social
@arcadiascience.com
@arcinstitute.org

19.05.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

I've never been a good student, B- at best, but these days I inhale papers and dream in bioengineering. I wish the conveniently numerical metrics of our society didn't convince us to throw away folks who are deeply dedicated and motivated but incapable of standardized testing.

Passion counts.

17.05.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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A Platform for Mitochondrial Profiling in Enriched Kidney Segments Under Thermodynamic Control Mitochondrial function varies widely across kidney nephron segments, yet conventional approaches lack the resolution and control needed to assess cell-type-specific bioenergetics in situ. We present a...

In our second kidney paper out from our lab this week, Dr. Stephen Decker @decker-st.bsky.social describes a novel and elegant bioenergetic platform to successfully resolve kidney segments with highly differential response to nephropathy.

10.05.2025 05:21 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Open Positions: IOB

πŸ”¬ We are hiring!

Research Assistant/Associate (100%) – Molecular Mechanisms of Myopia

πŸ“ Location: Basel
πŸ§ͺ Background in molecular biology, genomics, neuroscience or related field
πŸ’Ό Full-time position

Apply now or share!
iob.ch/join-iob/ope...

08.05.2025 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

the great-recession-undergrad to pandemic-postdoc to DOGE-era-assistant-professor pipeline

06.05.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

Help Nancy network! She just lost her job working to find cures for children. 😒

04.05.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Last talk before we present the Sable Award at METPHYS2025 is a short talk from Kevin Hicks outlining approaches to define the protein-metabolite interactome and the MIDAS platform

30.04.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NAD depletion in skeletal muscle does not compromise muscle function or accelerate aging: Cell Metabolism www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

30.04.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

dude, this is just fukkin weird and amazing #chemsky πŸ§ͺβš—οΈ

26.04.2025 05:27 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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