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Postdoc @LPCV Grenoble Studying molecular responses in arctic diatoms during sea ice formation

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And 'pay' and 'contract' aren't mentioned once!

16.02.2026 08:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you were wondering where the US regime found their internal oppression & lies blueprint, take a read of the Statement from the U.K. Govt after the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry.

25.01.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 131 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5

Which begs the questions - why is Walz begging people not to defend themselves? Is this not what the Second Amendment is for?
An American citizen reputed to have been in possession of a legally-held firearm was murdered in cold blood and in broad daylight by his government.
What else is needed?

24.01.2026 19:58 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click After turning off ChatGPT’s β€˜data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done"

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

22.01.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 1530 πŸ” 395 πŸ’¬ 118 πŸ“Œ 272
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New UCC paper shows how low beef and sheep systems are for net digestible protein per hectare: they produce protein for 2–3 people per ha, versus ~23 for milk and ~40 for legumes. That’s ~15Γ— more digestible protein per hectare from legumes than beef.

20.01.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

That's definitely that problem solved then, nothing to see here

15.01.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Gist: The Abuse Factory X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.

You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.

It’s a feature.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

10.01.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 520 πŸ” 321 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 25

Ah yeah, just blame it on the mental health charity doing their best to help young people navigate your broken-by-design housing policy

10.01.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
ChatGPT: our study shows AI can produce academic papers good enough for journals Publishers and researchers should not necessarily see ChatGPT as a threat but rather as a potentially important aide for research argue Dr Brian Lucey, School of Business and Michael Dowling, Dublin C...

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www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

08.01.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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I don't know enough about his work or his relationship with Elselvier to know whether the research in these papers is solid and this is, as he claims, an unfair retaliation. But I do know that I find the whole thing extremely funny.

08.01.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Publisher retracts 12 papers co-authored by Trinity College Dublin finance professor A finance professor at Trinity College Dublin is disputing a decision by a global academic publishing company to retract 12 papers he co-authored.

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I spent the last two years of my PhD campaigning with PWO for workers rights + a living wage. In that time, nobody was more determined to demean and punch down on PhD researchers and our union than this lad.

www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

08.01.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My word.

The Taoiseach, in China, says "platforms can be misused and abused or they can be used for positive reasons as well..." and says that should be considered carefully "before jumping to conclusions" on whether it's appropriate for the Government to be on X.

08.01.2026 09:34 πŸ‘ 419 πŸ” 132 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 98
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

05.01.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 28542 πŸ” 14047 πŸ’¬ 1512 πŸ“Œ 1947
Quote from Richard Tice:

https://reacpol.net/erosion-democratica-antigenero/

Quote from Richard Tice: https://reacpol.net/erosion-democratica-antigenero/

This is where the shameless weaponisation of antisemitism in defence of Israel's war on Gaza has led us

Allegations of extreme forms of antisemitism can be discarded by stressing support for genocidal policies

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

05.12.2025 11:26 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as β€œsausages”, β€œburgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧡1/6

03.12.2025 10:26 πŸ‘ 1451 πŸ” 507 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 46
A chara, - In January 1989, the British Minister Douglas Hogg stated that some solicitors were β€œunduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA”. Three weeks later Pat Finucane was murdered by loyalists. It is widely accepted in Ireland that there was a consequential link between these two events.

Will there be a similar recognition of the responsibility political leaders bear for inciting violence in the wake of the horrific arson attack on a centre for international protection applicants in Drogheda on Hallowen night, only days after the TΓ‘naiste described migration numbers as β€œtoo high”? - Is mise

Wendy Lyon

A chara, - In January 1989, the British Minister Douglas Hogg stated that some solicitors were β€œunduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA”. Three weeks later Pat Finucane was murdered by loyalists. It is widely accepted in Ireland that there was a consequential link between these two events. Will there be a similar recognition of the responsibility political leaders bear for inciting violence in the wake of the horrific arson attack on a centre for international protection applicants in Drogheda on Hallowen night, only days after the TΓ‘naiste described migration numbers as β€œtoo high”? - Is mise Wendy Lyon

Wow the IT actually printed my letter

#speirghorm

03.11.2025 07:11 πŸ‘ 385 πŸ” 128 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1

He may have been allowed to walk free by a British court, but the world now knows that David Cleary was part of the unit that murdered 14 and injured 15 in Derry on Bloody Sunday, 1972.
Let history judge them with the same amount of mercy that they showed their victims - that is, none at all.

23.10.2025 13:05 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
πŸ“’ PLEASE RT

🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation

β˜€οΈ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

21.10.2025 15:48 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

15.10.2025 06:33 πŸ‘ 464 πŸ” 146 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 39

I have often said that if people could see how trawlers actually work, maybe they'd stop eating fish - guess it's time to test that?

13.10.2025 07:10 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a wild read

03.10.2025 19:33 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Did you know tiny algae can "skate" within Arctic sea ice? ⛸️ Our new study in @pnas.org reveals the secret life of ice diatoms: they are actively gliding to navigate the ice! This adds a new dimension to the sea ice ecosystem, revealing an active, dynamic ecological niche. @prakashlab.bsky.social

10.09.2025 04:48 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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PLOS Biology Associate Editor- FTC UK-Remote

Great opportunity! #PlantScience
PLOS Biology hiring full-time Associate Editor.
Requires PhD+2 years postdoc experience
"Expertise in molecular cell biology is required, preferably in context of plant science"
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46...
I know folks who should apply to this!

22.08.2025 12:37 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Remember when various world leaders were saying they would recognise a Palestinian state in September?
This is why.
In a few days or weeks, there won't be a Palestine left to recognise. This was always the end-game.

21.08.2025 06:43 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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2025: A fossil fuel lobbyist meeting Ireland's Minister for Climate Action for a friendly chat and posting it on LinkedIn.
#climate #fossilfuels #lobbying

09.07.2025 17:42 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Stop trying to recruit "superstar" scientists to Ireland from the US. Instead try:

Diverting excellent PhD students and postdoctoral scientists who would otherwise be on their way to US to land here instead

Investing in the research infrastructure needed to attract and retain excellent scientists

13.06.2025 08:53 πŸ‘ 95 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

26.03.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 36502 πŸ” 16291 πŸ’¬ 1844 πŸ“Œ 1036
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#CommuniquΓ© πŸ—žοΈ Le CNRS exprime sa solidaritΓ© avec les scientifiques exerΓ§ant aux Γ‰tats-Unis, oΓΉ la libertΓ© acadΓ©mique est aujourd'hui mise Γ  l’épreuve.

πŸ‘‰ www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

06.03.2025 14:51 πŸ‘ 793 πŸ” 353 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 18
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Beat the heat: need for research studying plant cell death induced by extreme temperatures Extreme temperatures surpassing 45Β°C can cause widespread plant damage and mortality, with severe consequences for ecosystem health, agricultural productivity, and urban greenery, thus negatively imp...

Temperatures that switch on plant programmed cell death are now reality.
In our new viewpoint article @newphyt.bsky.social, we propose that studying the heat induced mortality at cellular level can contribute to strategies for heat stress mitigation.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

04.03.2025 15:29 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Next generation scientists 2025

Are you a plant science researcher working towards a PhD or an early career researcher who completed their PhD no more than five years ago? Consider applying to the Next Generation Scientists 2025 meeting, sponsored by New Phytologist! #botany
www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...

13.12.2024 18:25 πŸ‘ 115 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3