‘I want to do everything I can to head off dementia’: why demand for the shingles vaccine is soaring. Could a drug intended to prevent painful rashes also protect our brains as we get older? The signs are promising – but not conclusive. 🧪💉🧠 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

‘I want to do everything I can to head off dementia’: why demand for the shingles vaccine is soaring

Could a drug intended to prevent painful rashes also protect our brains as we get older? The signs are promising – but not conclusive. Yet that’s enough to be driving a boom in shingles jabs

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Operation Warp Speed developed Covid vaccines, “and the country then went back to treating countermeasure development as something the pharmaceutical industry does when there is a market for it. There is no market for a pathogen that does not exist yet. This must be a government responsibility”

Opinion | We Need an Operation Warp Speed for New Biological Threats

This is a hair-on-fire moment for the biosecurity community.

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I hope so. I've waited my entire life for this and I'm glad it will be coming to fruition. I'm pissed off. We have gone backwards with rights. We worked so hard to procure in the '70s and '80s. Fuck the GOP & and we should remove the federalist's six because they're traitors

ebisback.bsky.social@ebisback.bsky.social · yesterday

Truth 💥

We are considering a Piazza forum for the microscopy core, so that it keeps a searchable record of questions/solutions like image.sc . Has anyone else tried this? www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/index.php

There's something beautiful about sitting at the confocal and visualizing different cell types, different tissues, different ideas .... It's such pure joy. Science is beautiful as it is. I hope we are able to protect this experience - esp in light of recent events of AI usage for image processing.

In July, I took a ride through the Arizona desert with Verlon Jose, chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, a sprawling reservation on the U.S.-Mexico border that may soon be changed forever. It was the beginning of an investigation that ProPublica is publishing today. THREAD ⬇️

One does not mess with Canada geese

Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith@mewefree.bsky.social · 2d ago

Geese are insane: Example #2,987,304

"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?" buff.ly/oLdL54C

Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?

“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...

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Big Controversy Upends a Contest About Microscopic Videos (Gift Article)

Nikon announced that it had disqualified the winner of its Small World in Motion competition over how A.I. was used in his submission.

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I like it- Mad Microscopy Gang- should it be our sign-off for the letter... If you want to stop the #AISlop in microscopy, still time to sign up here forms.gle/TyGRELnCxq5z...

Sign the open letter to Nikon Small World in Motion

The winning video in Nikon's 2026 Small World in Motion competition is captioned 'abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with primary ciliary dyskinesia'. It has been seen worldwide, including ...

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Nikon just announced it has withdrawn first place in this year’s #SWiM after finding winning video did not comply with its generative AI rules. www.nikonsmallworld.com/news/nikon-s... Letter still open until Monday- this is a starting point to engage & discuss how AI is transforming microscopy 🔬

Mill_lab@cilialab.bsky.social · 4d ago

Microscopy images are scientific evidence, and that image processing must be transparent and faithful to the underlying biology. Reinforce those standards, especially now-insist Nikon uphold them. #NikonSWiM2026 Read the letter: tinyurl.com/OpenLetterSW... Add your name: forms.gle/TyGRELnCxq5z...

Being an adult is somehow being both the lab rat and the scientist running the experiment.

I'm in the Guinness book of world records

BWJones@bwjones.bsky.social · 4d ago

I used a nuclear submarine as transport to a scientific conference once.

We are at 302 signatories from 30 countries and territories... let's keep up this momentum. Nikon may be quiet but we are not.... stand up for imaging integrity! #NikonSWiM

Mill_lab@cilialab.bsky.social · 4d ago

Microscopy images are scientific evidence, and that image processing must be transparent and faithful to the underlying biology. Reinforce those standards, especially now-insist Nikon uphold them. #NikonSWiM2026 Read the letter: tinyurl.com/OpenLetterSW... Add your name: forms.gle/TyGRELnCxq5z...

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Investigate How Bacterial Hosts Control Domesticated Viral Machines to Drive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Marine Environments? | Aries

Professor Tung Le, John Innes Centre – contact me Professor Jonathan Todd, Quadram Institute & UEA Dr Ngat Tran, John Innes Centre Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a major driver of bacterial…

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Webinar all aabout Virology 🧬 🌱 📅 Tuesday 27th October ⏰ 2pm GMT | 3pm CET | 10am EDT Ft talks from 🍋 Svetlana Y. Folimonova 🪲 Hana Azuma @camplantsci.bsky.social 🥒 Esperanza Gea Caballero @csic.es Register for FREE 👉 buff.ly/RLCfjrS #planthealth #virology #plantscience

A new plant-bacteria immunological connection in the first preprint of our group at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social! Straight from the top of Mt. Olympus ⛰️🦅 Led by Eirik @eiriklag.bsky.social, in collaboration with @geminiteamlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: World’s First Vaccine Targeting the Entire SARS Coronavirus Family Begins Human Testing GBP511, developed by UW Medicine and tested by SK Bioscience, aims to protect against COVID-19 and future coronaviruses before they spark the next pandemic.

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is hiring a TT Asst. Professor in Extension Plant Pathology. Come be our new colleague! oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...

Assistant Professor: Extension Plant Pathology

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Squirrel!

Microscopy images are scientific evidence, and that image processing must be transparent and faithful to the underlying biology. Reinforce those standards, especially now-insist Nikon uphold them. #NikonSWiM2026 Read the letter: tinyurl.com/OpenLetterSW... Add your name: forms.gle/TyGRELnCxq5z...

RIP to the world's first software engineer news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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Just in case anyone here vibes with this: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sign the open letter to Nikon Small World in Motion

The winning video in Nikon's 2026 Small World in Motion competition is captioned 'abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with primary ciliary dyskinesia'. It has been seen worldwide, including ...

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Out today in @nature.com: our review on how single cells evolve into multicellular organisms. With Ozan Bozdag, @kaitong25.bsky.social, Peter Yunker, and @matthewherron.bsky.social. rdcu.be/9ZuiKow9twKa For an overview, check out the video below.

Thrilled to announce my work on Filoreta, a protist that looks like a neuron! authors.elsevier.com/c/1nvAC3QW8S...

Sarah Guest@sarahmoeba.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Just for fun, here's a game I like to call "Find the neuron" with examples of olfactory sensory neuron images from Šmít et al 2017 (doi.org/10.7554/eLif...) and Filoreta ramosa, a free-living syncytial amoeba from a salt marsh.

In our new paper by Kata Szabó et al. we present optimised sample-preparation workflows for volume electron microscopy for entire small marine organisms. The workflow includes high-pressure freezing, various freeze substitution protocols and synchrotron […] [Original post on biologists.social]

One more reason I don't have an Amazon account

Jason D. Salvagni@salvagni.org · 6d ago

h/t to @slack2thefuture.bsky.social for letting me know you can delete the "customer personalization" data in your Amazon account and enter anything you want. Like this.

Happy to share our latest work showing that fungal cell fusion not only requires local cell wall digestion but also inhibition of cell wall repair! PAK-family kinases promote cell fusion irreversibility by preventing cell-wall repair doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Led by @juliacoronasserna.bsky.social