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What criteria define #Homosapiens?

Ive read that they existed prior to anatomically modern humans, so what makes early H. sapiens included despite not being physically the same?

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Day 1 of the Symposium on Cellular Biophysics 2026 is a wrap! 🥳🔬

Huge thanks to faculty members
@idikic.bsky.social and @heilemannlab.bsky.social for two fantastic opening talks on cellular homeostasis and super-resolution microscopy.

Photos by Louise Duever.

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1750 words written on the Qualifying Exam this morning and it feels solid.

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🦠 Monday = Journal Club day! 📚🔬

This time, Anna Sofia Parianou (DC9) took the stage to guide us through some very unusual S. aureus science: turning bacteria into… stone?! 🪨🦠

Thanks Anna Sofia for leading this month’s session! 💜

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Can catching Pokémon help you survive a PhD? New research shows how gaming, TV, exercise and other leisure activities can help doctoral students cope with stress and pressure. scitube.io/catching-pok...
#PhDLife #Research doi.org/10.1007/s10755-025-09800-5

Just submitted a revised manuscript after the first round of (mostly) positive peer reviews.

Mostly minor-moderate revisions, so hopefully I did alright 😬

This will be my second published paper and first solo authored if all goes well 🤞🤞
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Two weeks of close reading and only 76 pages into Middlemarch. Is this too slow? Or is learning when slowness is still doing useful work part of becoming a researcher?

My latest PhD Diary

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substack.com/@victoriaadd...

Explaining research is a skill—not just a necessity.

Whether you're talking to colleagues, family or policymakers, adapting your message matters.

Credits: errantscience.com
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Might stop getting excited for jobs, it feels like an impossible task to secure one. Plus, sometimes you dont even get acknowledgement.

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Plan for the weekend - pack for next week's conference in Finland and get over Fresher's Flu #fml #phdlife #amsick

📋 We’re running a short academic survey on ethical decisions in medical emergencies (5–7 min).

Participate here:
https://noharm.sc.hpi.de/

18+ only, anonymous under GDPR. #EmergencyMedicine #AcademicChatter #PhDLife #Academia #Ethics #MedicalEthics #Survey #HigherEd

My new postdoc started last week! I'm moving to apctp-Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang!
It’s truly a dream come true! #physics #AcademicTwitter #phd #phdlife #disorder #ActiveMatter #DisorderSystem