Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news.

But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials.

Keep funding science!

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Congrats, this looks terrific...

I love this... Looking forward to hold a copy of your "oughtobiography" in hand, very soon...

Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness Images can be made more accessible by choosing hues, shapes and textures carefully.

If preparing figures please consider "colorblind friendly" approaches (www.nature.com/articles/d41...). I am missing the long-wave opsin, which manifests in strange ways: I can't discern red vs. black. This dichromacy is rare and severe, but ~300 million have more common forms addressed in link.

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

Lazy use of AI by half-ass researchers is putting digital asbestos everywhere, which will be a huge pain in the ass to clean up.

Just do your damn job as a scholar or let someone else with more integrity and competence have your position.

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

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Me, next to one of Vincent van Gogh's most famous self portraits... The collage contains a second version of this, mirrored at the bottom. Not fully, that's a similar, but different image with some other expression.

Happy Birthday, Vincent van Gogh...

Feeling close to him, today...

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#bipolar #depression
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The picture is from a 2024 visit to the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands.

Bipolar disorder requires understanding and compassion.

#WorldBipolarDay #BipolarDisorder

"genAI can be used to create podcasts from a paper to teach st-"

Let me stop you right there. Before you feed somebody's paper to a slop machine, invite that somebody to talk to your students about their paper. We're right here. We academics won't shut up about our work, man. 🧪

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Friendly reminder that while all this geopolitical madness is going on the planet merrily keeps heating up. Source: buff.ly/OylcIxg

Wow, do you know Michael?

Health Minister suspends Northern Ireland participation in puberty blockers trial Northern Ireland's Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has suspended the country's participation in the Pathways puberty blockers trial.

A key indicator of the inhumanity of the Nazis was their open hatred & persecution of Jews*. Fascism always chooses a minority to persecute to scare & bond the majority behind their rule.

Today’s fascism is defined by hatred of trans ppl**. The UUP, DUP, Alliance & SF are choosing a v dark path:

Gradually destroying everything that the UK excels at & is admired for.

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.

Dear Natalie, may I ask where you got the data from... Thx

So sorry to hear that...

Nazi concentration camp prisoner population by year

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

Don’t let trans inclusive spaces be bullied out of existence

Read our new joint letter about this issue and join us in acting to protect inclusion:

www.transsolidarityalliance.com/protectinclu...

This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies.

At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?

Taking Greenland the "hard way" means war.

The President is threatening war with our ally because he didn't get a peace prize.

Let that sink in.

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Trump’s anti-climate agenda won’t just hurt the planet, but American incomes too In this week’s newsletter: US earnings would be 12% higher without the climate crisis, a study reveals – and the hotter the world gets, the greater the economic losses

#GlobalHeating has slashed US incomes by more than 10% since 2000 – a severe national economic jolt. “This study shows that climate change is not just something for the future economy – it is already here” The hotter the world gets, the greater the economic losses www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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We're recruiting a new #RSE in the @uob_bear team at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! Come and work with cutting-edge technology on innovative research projects at a world-class uni: blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2026/01...

Humboldt University in Berlin pictured with students sitting outside.

The UK will become an Erasmus+ partner country in 2027. Welcome back! 👋

Erasmus+ provides exchange opportunities for:
🧑‍🎓 students
👷 apprentices
🧑‍🏫 teachers
🎒 pupils and more.

Erasmus isn't just a chance to experience a new country (incl. 🇩🇪) and build friendships, it also boosts your employability.

Can @der-postillon.com, @theonion.com, or @thebeaverton.com confirm?

Zeichnung einer Taschenuhr in der Wüste, deren rechter Fassungsrand sich wie geschmolzen bis zum Horizont ausdehnt. Darüber Überschrift "Von dehnbaren Zeiten in Forschungsartikeln" des im Post verlinkten Artikels. Unter dem Uhrenbild erste Zeilen des Artikeltexts.

„Recent studies have shown …“ – und als Quelle wird ein 37 Jahre altes Paper genannt. Offenbar nehmen es Forschende In ihren Veröffentlichungen mit Zeitbegríffen nicht immer so genau, wie eine Studie jetzt augenzwinkernd schlussfolgert. Mehr dazu in unserem Blog: www.laborjournal.de/blog/?p=14765

Zum Schutz vor US-Invasion: Dänemark verstreut Legosteine an Grönlands Küsten Nuuk, Kopenhagen (dpo) - Nach wiederholten Drohungen der US-Regierung gegen Grönland geht Dänemark nun auf Nummer sicher: Das dänische Militär hat heu

Zum Schutz vor US-Invasion: Dänemark verstreut Legosteine an Grönlands Küsten www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/lego...