@TimNicholasLee

Biologist and bioethicist. 🇸🇬🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 One Health, AMR, Bayesian Methods, Medical Anthropology

 Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined April 2019
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Ran Blekhman@blekhmanJul 3
Claude Science is incredible. I gave it some sequencing data, and in 8 hours it did a full analysis, generated figures, wrote a paper, submitted it for publication, got rejected, revised and resubmitted, got rejected again, it is now applying for positions in industry
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Oded Rechavi
@OdedRechavi7 Oct 2025
Fwd: Fwd: “I hope this email finds you well”
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Asimov Press
@AsimovPress6 Oct 2025
The F.D.A. wants to make animal studies “the exception rather than the norm for pre-clinical safety/toxicity testing” over the next 3-5 years. But just how likely is this to happen? Our latest essay, a Deep Dive into non-animal methods by @cogcelia, answers your questions.
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BBC Breaking News
@BBCBreaking24 Sep 2025
Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, doctors tell BBC bbc.in/46jnMiX

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

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Sky News
@SkyNews28 Apr 2025
A famous anti-piracy campaign from the early 2000s is in the spotlight after it appeared the font used in the adverts was pirated Read more 🔗 trib.al/qYdWgjJ

You wouldn't steal a font: Famous anti-piracy campaign may have used pirated typeface

The dramatic adverts, which compared pirating films to stealing cars, handbags and televisions, became a piece of pop culture history, with spoofs spawned for years afterwards.

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Today, Nov 3rd is the anniversay of when we sent Laika into space. Laika passed away in inhumane conditions, but her sacrifice was instrumental in future spaceflight. Hopefully all dogs do indeed go to heaven smithsonianmag.com/smithsoni…

The Sad, Sad Story of Laika, the Space Dog, and Her One-Way Trip Into Orbit

A stray Moscow pup traveled into orbit in 1957 with one meal and only a seven-day oxygen supply

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CBmE is hiring 2 Research Fellows in our CENTRES project on 2 year contracts funded by the Ministry of Health on #clinicalethics and/or #researchethics #bioethicsjobs careers.nus.edu.sg/NUS/job/Y…
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Want to combine an interest in horses, diagnostics, sequencing and microbiology? Applications now open for our PhD project, Ponytails, generously funded by the PetPlan Charitable Trust. Please share! findaphd.com/phds/project/ra…

Rapid Diagnostic Sequencing for Equine Infections (Ponytails Project) at University of Edinburgh on...

PhD Project - Rapid Diagnostic Sequencing for Equine Infections (Ponytails Project) at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

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The modern day version of this is deciding it via a super smash bros tournament
Neil Renic@NC_Renic9 Aug 2024
How to determine order of authorship? Alphabetically? Seniority? Contribution? WRONG!
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I owe it to my children and – if I have them – grandchildren and the next generations to do my best to build awareness and action on the antibiotic emergency. theguardian.com/global-devel…

Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns

Common infections will kill millions if drug resistance through misuse of antibiotics is not curbed, says England’s ex-chief medical officer

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I just heard Gerard Way's isolated vocals for Helena and it's absolutely phenomenal
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David Pfau@pfau1 May 2024
Alternate history where Wiener went with the Latin rather than Greek root and called it "gubernatics" instead of "cybernetics", leading William Gibson to call it "guberspace" and "guberpunk".
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Oh hey this casebook I co-authored a case study about COVID publication ethics and rapid access sharing has been published, check it out
Epidemics Ethics@EpidemicsEthics29 Apr 2024
We're delighted to announce ‘Research Ethics in Epidemics and Pandemics: a Casebook’ has just been published and is free to download from link.springer.com/book/10.10… Our thanks to over 100 Casebook contributors from around the world!

Research Ethics in Epidemics and Pandemics: A Casebook

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Eric Topol
@EricTopol9 Apr 2024
Bacteria in metastatic cancer tissue, mostly anaerobic and affected by anatomic site, predicts responsiveness to immunotherapy cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092… @CellCellPress
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Kyle 🌱@KylePlantEmoji4 Apr 2024
The fact that it's so easy to confuse etymology and entomology is just one of those linguistic bugs
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How long until scientific conferences are just Instagram reels and TikToks? My vision for the future #microbio24
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I didn't know Pfizer made hot sauce?
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April is the cruelest month
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