Andrew Plested

Scientific Reports <do-not-reply@springernature.com> to me Invitation to review "Article Title" Should you accept to review this manuscript, your report would be due within 10 days. Dear Dr Brown, We have received a manuscript for Scientific Reports that we think falls within your area of expertise. Our reviewers are integral to ensuring we have the highest-quality publication. We would greatly appreciate it if you could let us know if you are available to review by accepting or declining the invitation link below. Title: Article Title Abstract: The abstract serves both as a general introduction to the topic and as a brief, non-technical summary of the main results and their implications. Authors are advised to check the author instructions for the journal they are submitting to for word limits and if structural elements like subheadings, citations, or equations are permitted. Authors: Xiaohan Zhang We hope to hear from you soon. Kind regards, Guido Di Bella Editorial Board Member Scientific Reports

Publishers continuing to add value, part 94.

Hmmm, yes. Interesting results.

Looks like the reviews are not published though. That's quite unusual these days.

I'm not sure I agree that Claudin24 is "powerful" in the sense described in the abstract!

#iglurs

"Statistically significant" doesn't mean important, meaningful, or even true! & can be misleading YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist

"Statistically significant" doesn't mean important, meaningful, or even true! & can be misleading
youtu.be/ot2kB1gKWZk

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Outline of a person on wood floor, sparkly silver tape.

The babysitter is back. Only one corpse in the apartment this time.

dot plot of brain prize recipients by year, 2011–2025. each dot represents one winner, blue indicates male and red indicates female.

brain prize recipients over the years.

I remembered that I made this plot last year for a bias watch project (yes, because of that 2013–2018 period 🙃). the prize for this year will be announced later this afternoon, let's see. 🔮

Hard same but I have a travel one.

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

👀 @superkash.bsky.social

Interested in pain and alcohol use?

If so, then a @painresforum.bsky.social webinar happening next Tuesday, 16:00 UK time is for you 👇

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

📣 Postdoc position in Heidelberg (Neurobiology × Engineering): neuromodulation of thermoregulatory brain circuits to improve health.
Deadline: March 31, 2026.

Combined assembloid modeling and 3D whole-organ mapping captures the microanatomy and function of the human fallopian tube Tunable assembloid modeling and CODA tissue mapping, in tandem, design a tissue-validated in vitro model of the fallopian tube.

I think there is a need for a complete re-think for organoid modeling.

As long as the architecture of organoids that you produce is not directly compared to a 3D map of the organ (say, a fallopian tube) or disease to be modeled, it will be approximate.

More here: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

I fucking hate proline so fucking much it's the worst amino acid it's so fucking stupid it's incapable of being fucking normal so it forms an ugly ass ring with itself with its own fucking nitrogen cuz it's a loser fucking amino acid I hate it so much I'd rather cut off my right tit than have to ever draw a mechanism with proline ever again

Remember that everyone you meet is fighting their own battle, sometimes with amino acids

S2 — Röntgental.
Welcome to X-Ray Valley.

Prof. Hille gave away some books, and I got my share ❤️

Daswegen das dass und das das so dasslich sind!!!!

#letsgoBerlin

I can't be the only one who is made /uncomfortable/ by the way that razor clams burrow into sand, right?

The final moments of this video by Kate Crump on the Oregon coastline are sort of the crowning glory of horror. 😬

But how does this even work?
Let's talk about bivalve mobility (if we must).

This never loses its relevance

Our article on how to use micropatterned presynapses-on-glass is out in its final form in the latest issue of the Journal of Neuroscience @sfnjournals.bsky.social: www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8...
The cover went to the special section on social neuroscience, so here's our #notthecover attempt

This is one reason I recommend people to go to the Topography of Terror museum in Berlin.

The NS era stuff is appalling and overwhelming.

But what happened to the perpetrators after 1945 is mind-blowing.

(Many were immediately hired by western intelligence services, to « fight communism »)

"I was disenchanted by the Cold War itself, which was easy to be, when you saw all those Nazis wandering around in West Germany. And indeed in East Germany. What had we really fought for?"

"As if he war had never happened?"

"It felt like that."

And thank you!!!!

It’s a fantastic resource, I use it often for teaching.

Try to beat this fortune.com/2025/08/14/g...

This is not bad.

As my Dad often pointed out, they replaced a bridge at Amersham *overnight* in 1968 (I think).

And there's a film of it (on YouTube)!

It was winched into place by hand.

A good one for those in Buch waiting for years for the bridge to be fixed!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvE2...

Everyone is going to be scared of Glimt from now on! Mentality monsters...

I won a battle with my printer.

You may now clap.

Del Bigtree sounds like a command an "Agentic" AI (aka: a fool) would use to delete your life, in the name of tidying your computer.

Nominative determinism?

De Tocqueville was astonished to see how much the US was ruled by individual choice.

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose!