Amaia Irizar
@iriliza.bsky.social
PhD Scientist. Interested in #DrugDiscovery #Toxicology #Chemicals #NAMs #MachineLearning #CellBiology #ImageAnalysis Following news on climate, world politics, science and ongoing pandemic.
Come and use our research facilities! We regulary open our labs to researchers from EU Member States and Horizon Europe countries. Current Call is for the EU Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing. Deadline: 10/09 joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/calls-propos...
How long should you treat venous thromboembolism (VTE)? There's no fixed answer — it's a balance between preventing another clot and avoiding the risk of bleeding. Our two new studies offer simple tools to help personalise that decision for each patient. Thread
Who gives scientific advice to the EU Commission? The Joint Research Centre, the Commission's in-house science service, has 43 laboratories and 2,000+ researchers who provide independent science for better public policies. Here we’ll share their findings with the hashtag #JRC #Science4Policy
Webinar: Future perspectives on artificial intelligence in safety assessment Three leading experts will discuss how AI and approaches such as machine learning can be used to improve toxicity prediction and reduce the reliance on animal models. 📅 25 September, 14.00 👉 nc3rs.org.uk/events/artif...
Call for Posters: NAMs in Preclinical Imaging Showcase how your team is integrating organoids, AI, lab-on-chip systems, etc into imaging workflows. Join the #NAMs spotlight at #WMIC2025! 📅 Poster Submission Deadline: August 29, 2025 🔗 More details: wmis.org/wmic1/abstra...
So…about AI’s energy use… “…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour
That's a long time in the microwave.
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responses - Omicron's spike proteins tend to adopt a conformation that hides the key sites of the protein for neutralization - Omicron's spike proteins are expressed at lower levels on viral particles, which means it's harder to target with antibodies These issues are addressable.
Framing the Imprint: Omicron and Original Antigenic Sin
Imprinting has been blamed as a key factor for the lackluster responses to the Omicron spike protein. In fact, the fault may be with Omicron itself (and we might be able to do things about that).
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There are two weeks left to take part in our stakeholder survey on new approach methodologies to tell us your priority areas and unmet needs that if addressed would facilitate the use of NAMs in safety assessment. ⏳ The survey closes on Tuesday 3 June: nc3rs.org.uk/our-portfoli...
NC3Rs@nc3rs.bsky.social · last yr.SURVEY: New approach methodologies in safety assessment Are you involved in the development and application of replacement technologies for toxicity testing or submission and assessment of data for regulatory decision making? Help shape our plans for the coming years: nc3rs.org.uk/our-portfoli...
Barry Hardy (Edelweiss Connect, #RISK-HUNT3R partner) at #2025SOT discussing #NGRA advancements, practical applications, and RISK-HUNT3R #casestudies for #industrial use & #regulatory #acceptance. A key advancement is the #ASPA initiative, as part of the #ASPIScluster. 📽️ youtu.be/_6-EDrKQEEE?...
US SOT 2025: SOT Stories No.2 with Barry Hardy
YouTube video by ASPIS cluster
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The US Christian evangelical right have joined forces with The Heritage Foundation, (the authors of Project 2025), and right wing lobby groups and think tanks from Pland and Hungary to dismantle the European Union and the European Court of Justice. Thread
Right-wing push to dismantle the EU: Heritage Foundation’s private workshop
After seizing control of the US government, the Heritage Foundation turns its attention to the EU
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Most tech bros have no idea who this woman was
It’s just heartbreaking. Soul destroying. Depraved. 27 PAGES of children’s names, killed, who were not even 1 year old.
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)@moudhy.bsky.social · last yr.This report should break something in all of us. 15,613 children. The first 27 pages of the report list children whose ages are 0. 26% were under the age of 5
If you’re interested in a crash course from the beginning in chronic issues with COVID I recommend this excellent interview with David Putrino. Perhaps the least well understood consequence is the damage every infection likely causes everyone, symptomatic or not. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long term organ damage
It’s now been five years since the COVID pandemic stopped the world in its tracks. The virus is still with us, and continues to make people sick. As many as 1 in 5 Canadians have experienced symptoms ...
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SAVE THE DATE - our last 2 conferences of 2025... 🔬 Drug Discovery 2025 - A Festival of Life Science Liverpool 21-22 October 📊 High-Content Imaging and Flow Cytometry in Drug Discovery 2025 Stevenage 19-20 November Find out more here - elrig.org
Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/
You may be familiar with Próspera, the special economic zone + tech hub on a Honduran island supported by Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, etc. Many groups now pushing the Trump admin for deregulated “freedom cities” in the US work in/have ties to Próspera: www.wired.com/story/startu...
‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’
The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.
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Animal-free safety assessment of chemicals: an innovation system perspective doi.org/10.1007/s002... #NAMs
Animal-free safety assessment of chemicals: an innovation system perspective - Archives of Toxicology
This perspective paper, which is the result of a collaborative effort between toxicologists and scholars in innovation and transition studies, presents a heuristic framework based on innovation system...
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WithdrarXiv, the first large-scale dataset of withdrawn papers from arXiv, containing over 14,000 papers and their associated retraction comments spanning the repository's entire history through September 2024 arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775
WithdrarXiv: A Large-Scale Dataset for Retraction Study
Retractions play a vital role in maintaining scientific integrity, yet systematic studies of retractions in computer science and other STEM fields remain scarce. We present WithdrarXiv, the first larg...
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THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31
Great to see @nc3rs.bsky.social in this site. Hopefully this will help attract more migration from the #NAMs community.
There's a 🆕 journal on the scene 🚨 The #NAMJournal welcomes manuscripts on all aspects of the non-animal research method lifecycle, including in biomedical research. Congrats to editors Mathieu Vinken, Michelle Embry, & Fenna Sillé. #NAMs www.sciencedirect.com/journal/nam-...
You can now watch the I2K video tutorial on #micro-sam by @anwaiarchit.bsky.social on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxjU... Check it out for an in-depth explanation for how to use our tool to segment your microscopy images.
Segment Anything for Microscopy
YouTube video by I2K Conference
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🙋♂️ Allow me to introduce myself through my research. My research focuses on machine learning models (QSARs) and the ecotoxicity of nanomaterials towards aquatic species
Great to see this out with a fantastic set of examples! Our work on an agentic interface for datalab continues at github.com/datalab-org/..., with our "llms.txt" embedded as a Jupyter magic (inspired by langsim and other projects from the paper!)
GitHub - datalab-org/yellowhammer
Contribute to datalab-org/yellowhammer development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ben Blaiszik@benblaiszik.bsky.social · 2y agoFor those of you looking for a big helping of LLMs for Thanksgiving, here you go! 🤖🦃 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2411.15221 We release 34 examples demonstrating applications of LLMs in materials science and chemistry across: 🔶molecular and material property prediction; 🔷molecular and material design; ...
Did some tidying up of the links for chemistry related starter packs, arranged loosely by subject area, and added who maintains the list so you know who to speak with if you'd like to be added! tinyurl.com/ChemSkyStart... #ChemSky #Chemistry #Chemists #StarterPacks 🧪
Bluesky Chem Starter Packs
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