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CNRS scientist computational molecular biology. Mostly talking about life, travel, science and board games, unless it's something else.

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Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests Analysis shows average levels are 30cm higher than thought, and up to 150cm in south-east Asia and Indo-Pacific Sea levels around the world have been underestimated due to inaccurate modelling, with research suggesting ocean levels are far higher than previously understood. The finding could significantly affect assessments of the future impacts of global heating and the effects on coastal settlements. Continue reading...

Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests

04.03.2026 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

When someone says โ€žScientists do not want you to knowโ€œ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They canโ€™t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

03.03.2026 12:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9316    ๐Ÿ” 4045    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 76    ๐Ÿ“Œ 162
Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, โ€œWhat a week, huh?โ€
Tintin leans into the frame and says, โ€œCaptain, itโ€™s Wednesday.โ€
Snowy aka Milou is very excited about the drink he has found.

Viรฑeta de Tintin
El capitรกn Haddock, sentado a una mesa y con aspecto de estar agotado, dice: "ยกMenuda semana, ยฟeh?".
Tintรญn, a su derecha, le dice: "Capitรกn, es miรฉrcoles".
A la izquierda, Milรบ mira muy contento la bebida que estรก en la mesa.

Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, โ€œWhat a week, huh?โ€ Tintin leans into the frame and says, โ€œCaptain, itโ€™s Wednesday.โ€ Snowy aka Milou is very excited about the drink he has found. Viรฑeta de Tintin El capitรกn Haddock, sentado a una mesa y con aspecto de estar agotado, dice: "ยกMenuda semana, ยฟeh?". Tintรญn, a su derecha, le dice: "Capitรกn, es miรฉrcoles". A la izquierda, Milรบ mira muy contento la bebida que estรก en la mesa.

04.03.2026 11:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 374    ๐Ÿ” 159    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Well, Iranians, like every other people, are divided on many issues.

Many welcome the strikes, mostly out of desperation, especially after the massacre in January, and many also because they have always believed thatโ€™s the only way to go.

01.03.2026 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

TESS confirms what we saw with Kepler and K2 - on average, ***every single small red star has a planet around it***! And a short-period one at that (<30 days).

And you know what the galaxy is mostly made of?

Small red stars.

PLANETS. PLANETS EVERYWHERE!!!

Happy weekend pondering that, everyone.

27.02.2026 23:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 505    ๐Ÿ” 154    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

Indeed. New grants are not getting funded, already funded grants are not getting paid, and non-competitive renewals are being held up.

Focusing on the top line budget, instead of looking at what is really happening on โ€œthe groundโ€ is deeply misguided.

27.02.2026 18:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 354    ๐Ÿ” 182    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health...

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm."

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

27.02.2026 18:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Doe eens een koppenverklaptje

27.02.2026 18:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

27.02.2026 17:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36973    ๐Ÿ” 11947    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 495    ๐Ÿ“Œ 800
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DeepMind Spin-Off Unveils 'AlphaFold 4': AI Revolutionizes Drug Discovery with Unprecedented Protein A groundbreaking AI system, dubbed 'AlphaFold 4' by researchers, has emerged from DeepMindโ€™s drug discovery spin-off, achieving unprecedented accuracy in predicting protein structures and interactions. Scientists worldwide are calling it a quantum leap in structural biology, with immediate implicati

๐Ÿ“ฐ DeepMind Spin-Off Unveils 'AlphaFold 4': AI Revolutionizes Drug Discovery with Unprecedented Protein Prediction

A groundbreaking AI system, dubbed 'AlphaFold 4' by researchers, has emerged from DeepMindโ€™s drug discovery spin-off, achieving unprecedented accuracy in pre...

#AINews #AI #Teknoloji

22.02.2026 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Gewoon even doorgaan. Dr heb je wel in je

23.02.2026 19:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Ethics & STICs: scientific integrity, research ethics & information ethics for ICTs (Universitรฉ Paris-Saclay) - Achievement badge This badge certifies that the beneficiary has acquired the following skills/knowledge : - Navigate the legal, social and regulatory framework in which scientific research is conducted. - Assert a basic understanding of the goals, methods and practice of scientific research, so as to avoid the pitfalls of misconduct and malpractice. (scientific integrity) - Understand how scientific activity changes our lives and impacts society, for good or for bad, and acquire a framework to help you control this impact (research ethics) - Apply this general framework to the context of information technologies (Computer and Information Ethics) - Acquire the basis for protecting the value produced by science (intellectual property, open science), communicating properly at the time of internet (scientific communication, open science and internet ethics) and protect our digital selves (privacy and personal data) - Finally acquire an overview of some important ethical debates around information technologies, such as design ethics, the ethics of decision management, the ethics of data science, the ethics of autonomous systems, and global information ethics.

I passed. Nice.

openbadgefactory.com/obv3/credent...

23.02.2026 16:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This giant virus hijacks cellsโ€™ protein-making machinery to multiply wildly Nature - A virus that is big enough to be seen under an ordinary light microscope co-opts its hostโ€™s systems with the help of potentially purloined genes.

This giant virus multiplies furiously by hijacking its host's protein-making machinery

go.nature.com/3Om5JCg

22.02.2026 19:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Wiklund heeft 3 medailles gehaald, in 9500 meter schaatsen.

Het totale verschil met 3 x goud was. 0.49.

#schaatsen

20.02.2026 17:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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We;re hiring Junior Group Leaders! ๐Ÿ”ฌโœจ
Weโ€™re looking for researchers in immunology, chemical biology, AI in biology, or protein design to launch their own independent groups in our collaborative, international environment.

www.nki.nl/news-events/...

20.02.2026 13:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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starting March 1, 2026, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are prohibited from using central government funds to pay Article Processing Charges for high-priced OA journals, specifically Nature Communications and Science Advances.

20.02.2026 10:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Trump Day 396: Trump administration builds own disease monitor that is three times more expensive than WHO contribution, orders ICE to arrest refugees who do not have permanent residency status after ... New decisions from Trump, and new fallout. An overview of day 396. The Trump administration is developing its own system for monitoring disease outbreaks and crisis response. This is being developed f...

Trump Day 396: Trump admin builds own disease monitor that is 3x more expensive than WHO contribution, orders ICE to arrest refugees without permanent residency status after one year, even though applications for this status can only be submitted after 1 year: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-39...

20.02.2026 12:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GROMACS 2026 is out!

If you want to hear about the new features and performance improvements join our #webinar:

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 3 March 2026, 15:00 CET
โœ๏ธ bioexcel.eu/cpok

#moleculardynamics #GROMACS
@GMX_TWEET

18.02.2026 12:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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How age, sex and genetics shape our antibodies Age, biological sex, and human genetic factors influence the production of antibodies during the immune response. A team of scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and the Collรจge de France hav...

How age, sex and genetics shape our antibodies ?

A team of scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the @cnrs.fr and the @college-de-france.fr have shown that these factors determine not only the quantity of antibodies produced but also the specific viral regions they target. โ†˜๏ธ

17.02.2026 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Medal totals for the Olympics. The Netherlands have passed USA in the rankings.

Medal totals for the Olympics. The Netherlands have passed USA in the rankings.

Tariffs coming in 3, 2, 1...

16.02.2026 12:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and โ€˜biodefenseโ€™ from the agencyโ€™s website.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and โ€˜biodefenseโ€™ from the agencyโ€™s website.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

13.02.2026 21:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 145    ๐Ÿ” 102    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 30
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott

"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds," writes Joan Wallach Scott.

13.02.2026 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 114    ๐Ÿ” 60    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

12.02.2026 20:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12628    ๐Ÿ” 4475    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 208    ๐Ÿ“Œ 113
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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, weโ€™ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate changeโ€”all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

12.02.2026 19:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27622    ๐Ÿ” 11752    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2073    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1012

He's made an entirely rational use of his platform. Russia's constant killing of Ukrainian athletes, and Ukrainian civilians in general, was not being talked about, and now it is. And that's more important than sport.

12.02.2026 12:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 64    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Search survey This survey asks about how you browse and choose results in AlphaFold DB search. We are interested in which information you rely on, how you use filters, and how you interpret key attributes when deci...

Weโ€™re running a survey to learn your experience with AlphaFold DB search results and filters.

Take 5-minutes to share your experience with AlphaFold DB search and have a say in upcoming improvements.

Fill in the survey forms.gle/K7RotPrD9ZPZ...

#AlphaFold #Bioinformatics #StructuralBiology

11.02.2026 11:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny - Nature Methods This Resource paper presents a global SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree of 4,471,579 high-quality genomes consistently constructed by Viridian, an efficient amplicon-aware assembler.

A Resource presents a global SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree of 4.4 million high-quality genomes.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

11.02.2026 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Darwin's Journey, Oceania expansion arrived in the mail. It's not s complicated game, but there are so many options, that optimal play is.. complicated.

Darwin's Journey, Oceania expansion arrived in the mail. It's not s complicated game, but there are so many options, that optimal play is.. complicated.

Very stoked to have received this. Brain malfunction imminent..

11.02.2026 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham

08.02.2026 10:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1022    ๐Ÿ” 454    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 68    ๐Ÿ“Œ 48