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Shakira

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P.Rican in Slovenia | bi-ologist 🐬🕷| mom | Personal account

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Shakira@shakiguani.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've become so intimately familiar with a specific dolphin social group that I can recognize which calf belongs to whom just by the slight differences in fin shape. AI would never!

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you're a biologist, especially one in a field that has a history of eugenics and racism (which absolutely includes my own field of evolutionary biology) and you choose to remain "neutral" as race science once again crawls out from under its rock, you are not in fact neutral.

Danielle Beckman@daniellebeckman.bsky.social · last mo.

One more nail in the coffin of the "it's just deconditioning" hypothesis. 60 days of strict bed rest ≠ #LongCOVID or #MECFS. Rob's group shows that while exercise capacity may be similarly reduced, the underlying skeletal muscle biology is VERY different. Time to move beyond outdated assumptions.

Nature Communications Article in Press Skeletal muscle properties in long COVID and ME/CFS differ from those induced by bed rest
Tom Kindlon@tomkindlon.bsky.social · last mo.

Rob Wüst, corresponding author of the new paper: "Skeletal muscle properties in long COVID and ME/CFS differ from those induced by bed rest" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Link to his full post www.linkedin.com/posts/rob-w%... #MEcfs #LongCovid

Rob Wüst • 2nd Associate Professor | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Physiology | Human Movement Sciences | Metabolism | Microscopy | Chronic Diseases 4h • Edited • Connect I am incredibly proud to share our latest study, published today in Nature Communications, as a follow-up from our 2024 Nature Communications paper. https://lnkd.in/dij5WTNk People with long COVID and ME/CFS are often told that their reduced exercise capacity and muscle abnormalities are simply the result of physical inactivity or “deconditioning.” We tested this assumption by comparing patients with healthy individuals who underwent 60 days of strict bed rest. Although prolonged bed rest had major effects on physical fitness and skeletal muscle (see also: https://lnkd.in/dhx8JNQi), these changes were distinctly different from those observed in long COVID and ME/CFS. Our main conclusion: physical inactivity alone cannot explain the reduced exercise capacity and skeletal muscle abnormalities in these diseases. This is important because it shows why a simple “just exercise more” approach does not reflect the underlying biology, particularly for people who experience post-exertional malaise. We need to understand the disease-specific mechanisms and develop safe, tailored treatments.
Jeremy Yoder says no war@jbyoder.org · last mo.

Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD