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The Pedaliaceae go in for trample burs, which attach when trod upon. Here’s another: Sesamum eriocarpum (formerly Dicerocaryum e.). This prostrate plant has discoid fruit with 2 sharp points—perfect for sticking into hooves of animals. 📷: tjeerd CCBYNC4 #Pedaliaceae #epizoochory #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
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Breast cancer patterns found by AI could help treatment. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Southampton AI uncovers hidden clues in breast cancer
The findings could help doctors identify high-risk patients and develop more targeted treatments.
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Mapping data helps identify future wildfire risk. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ordnance Survey mapping data helps identify future wildfire risk
Britain's mapping service provides data that could help predict the risk of future wildfires.
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What mechanisms underlie health benefits of social interaction? @ryssamoffat.bsky.social @introspection.bsky.social @escross.bsky.social show that neural synchrony during a creative drawing program decreases in intergenerational dyads, increases in same-generation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4gbafyY
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Why not start your week with a bit of fun. Is the Boston Tea Party the root cause of US police meltdowns?
medicalnewsbulletin.com/c…. 🧪 🧠 👀 #c18th 🏺 #absurd #foodstudies #PsychSciSky policysky natural products #SciPol #ResilienceSky
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Could a nice cup of tea save your life in an active shooter scenario? | Medical News Bulletin
A nice cup of tea could do you the world of good. It could even help you survive a life or death situation. Find out why with MNB.
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Bacillus cereus #hemolysin BL (HBL) uses host receptors LITAF and CDIP1 for #cytotoxicity, but the loss of both only partially protects the host. This study shows that Caveolin 1 completes a 3-factor host system whose combined loss confers full resistance to HBL @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4xTXe2A
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"Impaling yourself on the fangs of your lover without being asked might seem an odd evolutionary strategy." @sabs.bsky.social is a treasure #ScienceSky #BugSky #SpiderSky 🕷️🧪❤️
Defector @defector.com
Some spiders savor sacrificial somersault sex: defector.com/some-spiders...
defector.com
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✨New Account
I've started drawing editorial cartoons about space ethics, because apparently writing only works if people read.
If you like space with a side of “have we really thought this through?”, please follow. Reposts, likes etc would help this new account lift off. Y'all know the drill. 🙏🏻
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here's some #SciArt of a confocal micrograph stylized using the Ps emboss filter. See the thin projections extending between the 2 cells? They're #cytonemes! 🔬 How do they find each other? Follow postdoc @itsscientistsam.bsky.social to learn more 🧪 👩🔬
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“Eventually, we will get to a future in which organic materials + metaoptics converge to enable compact, energy-efficient, & interactive flat photonic technologies.”
It’s Monday morning at #SPIEOpticsPhotonics 2026, and we’re thrilled to be joined by Laura Na Liu of @unistuttgart.bsky.social! 🧪💡
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Forecasters are expecting a ‘super’ El Niño to form, and Nature reports how some scientists fear it could push the Amazon rainforest past its tipping point and into irreversible decline. 🌎🧪
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A ‘super’ El Niño could transform the Amazon. Is the world’s biggest rainforest doomed?
The Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought. Some fear that droughts and fire could nudge it into irreversible decline.
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The study has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
• clinicaltrials.gov/study/….
• physicianresources.dana-farber.org/news/ras-on-...
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"Using generative AI inherently exposes you to the risk of career-ending accusations of plagiarism."
"That means that all of us [on multi-author papers] have the ability to end each other’s career. "
Full marks to the Carlson Lab for their blanket ban on the use of generative AI for writing! 👏🧪
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app
This piece is great and I wish to staple it to several scientists' foreheads. And while it's about the creation of text, I think it also applies to writing codes, since many (for example, cosmological) codes are publicly available, which means LLMs have vacuumed them up.
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#Throwback 🧪
VIEWPOINT | Artificial intelligence in metabolic research
JJ Holst et al.
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Artificial intelligence in metabolic research - Nature Metabolism
The recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have created both intrigue and apprehension in the world of research. In this Viewpoint, we asked 12 experts in the field of metabolism to share their — differing — opinions on the use of AI in pre-clinical and clinical metabolic research.
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A significant amount of 21st century research focuses on systems (e.g., genomic, cellular, organismic, and ecological/global).
Systemic Darwinism is emerging in this context.
Systemic Darwinism🧪
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti….
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New research in AJP-Cell suggests an adrenaline receptor may help protect the heart during #TakotsuboSyndrome—a stress-related condition that mostly affects women.
The findings could point to new ways to limit❤️damage: ow.ly/yKMB50ZBF8Q APS Publications #SABV #ArticlesInPress 🧪
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Lentiviral gene therapy shows promise for ARC syndrome: safely restores VPS33B protein in liver cells, improving symptoms in mouse models. Exciting progress! PMID:42321174, Nat Commun 2026, @NatureComms doi.org/10.1038/s41467-02… #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
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Safety and efficacy analysis of in vivo lentiviral gene therapy in pre-clinical ARC syndrome models | Nature Communications
Arthrogryposis, Renal dysfunction and Cholestasis (ARC) syndrome is a rare inherited disorder caused by defects in the VPS33B trafficking protein, leading to impaired bile flow, progressive liver disease and early death. No effective treatments are currently available. Gene therapy offers a potential approach by restoring the missing VPS33B protein in liver cells. Here, we show that liver-targeted lentiviral gene therapy safely and effectively rescues key features of ARC syndrome in a mouse model following in vivo administration by intravenous injection, combined with transient liver macrophage depletion. To assess the treatment efficacy, disease severity is exacerbated by 0.25% cholic acid diet feeds. A liver-specific vector shows a favourable safety profile over a ubiquitous vector. Mice receiving the safe liver-specific vector display improved survival, growth and liver function, reduced fibrosis and bile canaliculi restoration. These findings support targeted gene therapy as a prom
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TON 618 is an enormous #quasar, a type of extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN) at the center of a #galaxy.🔭
Its engine is one of the most massive black holes known.
QSO 1228+3128 is one of its alternative designations.⚛️🧪
#cosmology #universe #astronomy
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World's oceans hit highest temperature on record as El Niño grows. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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World's oceans hit highest temperature on record as El Niño grows
The record "is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress", according to Dr Samantha Burgess from the European Copernicus climate change service.
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When we find complexity in nature, evolutionary theories tend to burn other explanations and reshape them into their own, unreasonably effective image ;-)
Earth’s Organisms Developed Via Evolution.
Some Theorists Wonder: What if the Entire Cosmos Did, Too?🧪
www.smithsonianmag.com/sc….
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NASA's LRO spacecraft gets a before-and-after shot of the crater carved out when SpaceX littered the moon with a Falcon 9 rocket impact.
Also: is there liquid still flowing under Pluto's surface?
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/….
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badastronomy.beehiiv.com
Before and after: SpaceX rocket lunar impact crater spotted from orbit
Also: Is there liquid flowing under Pluto’s frigid surface? And I will be marching on Washington
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