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Coming up on Thursday: Online #BeilsteinTalk "#TerpeneSynthases - mechanistic investigations and applications in the synthesis of non-natural compounds" with Jeroen S. Dickschat @unibonn, 📅 May 4, 2023 🕒3–4 pm CEST.
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Coming up TOMORROW 📅 March 16, 2023 from 🕒 3–4 pm CET
Online #BeilsteinTalk “#Azobenzene switches as tools to investigate #MolecularInteractions” with Hermann A. Wegner, Justus Liebig University Giessen.
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Save the date: 📅 March 16, 2023 from 🕒 3–4 pm CET
Online #BeilsteinTalk “#Azobenzene switches as tools to investigate #MolecularInteractions” with Hermann A. Wegner, Justus Liebig University Giessen.
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Listen to the obstacle.
Understand the resistance.
Overworking something can render it as ineffective as underworking it. Like cake batter or bread dough.The proof is an allowing. A period of rest in which the organic chemistry of the process is allowed its own time to unfold.
#Action is not always purposeful if it does not understand the process in which it acts and what it contributes to it. When this is comprehended, you can provide as much action as is required.
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Good morning.
2021-01-21, 08:22, Thursday. Drinking my morning coffee (cezve with some cinnamon) and preparing for my report. I'll probably make a separate post about it since it's an opportunity to tell about my scientific research. For now I'm in a mood to write some more "tips".
STEM tips №2: build your foundation. There is a very good reason for all textbooks on the same subject to convey material in the same order. It is not tradition, it is crucial for understanding concepts. The only exception in basic sciences I am familiar with is organic chemistry: Clayden's textbook is wildly diffirent from standart approach, but I'm not sure how it feels to actually use it for studying without prior knowledge of organic chemistry.
I digress. The particular order most textbooks follow builds new concepts on top of previous ones, and this principle applies throughout your academic career. Let's say you skipped a trigonometry introduction in high school. You crammed for the test and did fine, memorizing all your pi-over-2/3/4/6, but there is no solid understanding of the concept. Now you will struggle in your further math classes. Not only that, in mechanics knowledge of trigonometry is implied, the same applies for calculus, most of the physics and a bunch of other disciplines.
So the takeaway is: don't skip basic topics and make sure you know them very well. Otherwise your ignorance will backfire, usually sooner than later.
#stem #stemtips #student #uni #science #life #lifesyle #qotojournal
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Why I’m a reductionist
The SEP article on scientific reductionism notes that the etymology of the word “reduction” is “to bring back” something to something else. So in a methodological sense, reduction is bringing one theory or ontology back to a simpler or more fundamental theory or ontology. The Wikipedia entry on reductionism identifies different kinds: ontological, methodological, and theory reductionism. I think the ontological one is the most interesting here, the proposition that all of reality consists of a small number of building blocks.
Most reductions aren’t particularly controversial, at least not in science. There aren’t many arguments that chemistry doesn’t reduce to physics, or geology to both those sciences. Today it’s not controversial that biology reduces to them as well, although this is a relatively recent development.
As late at the early 1900s there were people arguing that life was somehow different, that it was distinguished by a vital force, an ancient idea. Few talk about vital forces today. Biologists learned about evolution through natural selection, genetic inheritance, proteins, DNA, RNA, and overall organic chemistry. Life is now seen as largely a molecular chemical enterprise, albeit a hideously complex one.
This raises an important point. Most reductions are conservative, retaining the reduced concept, but not all. Sometimes it’s eliminative, as in the case of a vital force, or other things like phlogiston or a luminiferous ether. It seems to depend on whether the reduced concept remains useful.
Today there remain at least two areas where people tend to resist reductionist accounts: consciousness and quantum measurement.
The consciousness one goes back to Rene Descartes’ famous distinction between mental and physical substances. Descartes saw no issue with a mechanistic understanding of reality, except for the mind, which he could not conceive of being reducible to mechanisms. He was far from alone. Gottfried Leibniz presented his mill thought experiment, that if the mind were a mill which we entered, we wouldn’t find anything there that explained perception. The mind, he agreed with Descartes, had to be a different kind of thing entirely.
Although a lot of what these guys saw as irreducible has been reduced. Today, psychological concepts like memory and cognition are understood to be neural processes, albeit with still many unanswered questions. But contemporary philosophy of mind often draws a new line at perceived characteristics, typically called qualities or qualia. Because these characteristics are introspectively opaque, they seem irreducible. And studying some of them has proven hard, therefore many assume they’re fundamentally inaccessible to anyone but the subject.
The question is whether the notion of fundamental qualia really explains anything. Does it convey meaningful information? Certainly qualities understood as just perceived characteristics seem useful enough. But regarding them as fundamental seems to obscure rather than convey information.
As a reductionist, I think of qualities as categorizing conclusions. (If that seems radical, consider that the etymology of the Latin root phrase “qualis” is “of what kind.”) Our nervous system qualifies a stimulus for a category when a particular range of neural firing patterns trigger a galaxy of associations, some innate, but many learned, which collectively add to the richness of the experience of that perceived characteristic (redness, sweetness, pain, etc).
Am I completely confident this is the answer? No, but as an explanation, it seems like a more fruitful place to explore. I suspect future scientific studies will validate some aspects of it, but not others. But even if it’s completely wrong, these kinds of theories seem to spur more experimental work than simply assuming qualities are fundamental and inaccessible.
In the case of quantum mechanics, it’s observation that’s often taken to be fundamental. In its strongest forms, this ends up pairing with the idea of consciousness being fundamental. Although the more cautious variants see just measurement as fundamental (or interaction). This can be the idea that quantum states don’t really exist, that measurement itself creates reality, or that quantum states do exist but physically collapse in a measurement, a fundamental change in reality.
In the early years of quantum theory, something like these views seemed inescapable, and most of the physics community closed ranks around them. But there were holdouts, including Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrὅdinger, who kept digging, discovering the phenomenon of entanglement, which would later be used by David Bohm and Hugh Everett to posit mechanistic explanations for the disappearance of quantum effects. But it was the work of H. Dieter Zeh and Wojciech H. Zurek in the 1970s and 80s that really fleshed out the detailed explanation we now call decoherence.
Today, few question whether entanglement and decoherence happen, although many do continue to argue that they’re only useful mathematical tools. Even if they are real physical processes, whether they serve as a full explanation of what’s happening in measurement depends on your preferred interpretation of quantum mechanics. But the key thing is it’s an explanation that wasn’t found by those who were satisfied with measurement being fundamental.
Which gets to why I’m a reductionist. I can’t prove that ontological reductionism is true. Maybe there are unique aspects of reality that aren’t built on a few common building blocks. But there seems to be a lot of history showing that assuming it’s true is far more fruitful than assuming complex concepts are fundamental. From Thales positing that water was the fundamental substance to later Greeks assuming there were four fundamental elements, the history of assuming anything is fundamental seems cautionary at best.
Which is why when I hear “X is fundamental,” I’m reflexively skeptical. We can’t even confidently say that about “elemental” particles, quantum fields, space, or time. We only seem able to talk in terms of something being more fundamental or less fundamental. Scientific theories are always provisional, subject to change on new data. Absolute fundamentality seems like an assumption we can never justify. Calling something fundamental seems to say, “There’s nothing left to explain here. Stop digging.” A lot of progress seems to happen from the people who ignore these prescriptions.
What do I mean by “progress”? None of this is to argue that higher level concepts aren’t useful; thermodynamics, for instance, didn’t cease being a useful concept once it was reduced to particle physics. Or that holistic takes on phenomena can’t be beneficial. Or that in art or daily life, we can’t appreciate things without reducing them.
But reduction aids in acquiring more structurally or causally complete explanations, while assuming something is fundamental often seems to paper over structural or causal gaps. Closing these gaps, when achievable, provides more reliable knowledge, knowledge which gives us new abilities, abilities such as medical scanners, drugs, computers, and many other things. Yes, that does include nuclear weapons and other ills. It doesn’t seem like we can have the good without the bad, although usually the bad can be managed with more reliable knowledge.
At least that’s my view today.
What do you think? Are there benefits to non-reductive approaches I’m overlooking? Or drawbacks to reductionism I’m missing? If you think an alternative approach is better, what are the benefits of that alternative?
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #reductionism #Science
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Why I’m a reductionist
The SEP article on scientific reductionism notes that the etymology of the word “reduction” is “to bring back” something to something else. So in a methodological sense, reduction is bringing one theory or ontology back to a simpler or more fundamental theory or ontology. The Wikipedia entry on reductionism identifies different kinds: ontological, methodological, and theory reductionism. I think the ontological one is the most interesting here, the proposition that all of reality consists of a small number of building blocks.
Most reductions aren’t particularly controversial, at least not in science. There aren’t many arguments that chemistry doesn’t reduce to physics, or geology to both those sciences. Today it’s not controversial that biology reduces to them as well, although this is a relatively recent development.
As late at the early 1900s there were people arguing that life was somehow different, that it was distinguished by a vital force, an ancient idea. Few talk about vital forces today. Biologists learned about evolution through natural selection, genetic inheritance, proteins, DNA, RNA, and overall organic chemistry. Life is now seen as largely a molecular chemical enterprise, albeit a hideously complex one.
This raises an important point. Most reductions are conservative, retaining the reduced concept, but not all. Sometimes it’s eliminative, as in the case of a vital force, or other things like phlogiston or a luminiferous ether. It seems to depend on whether the reduced concept remains useful.
Today there remain at least two areas where people tend to resist reductionist accounts: consciousness and quantum measurement.
The consciousness one goes back to Rene Descartes’ famous distinction between mental and physical substances. Descartes saw no issue with a mechanistic understanding of reality, except for the mind, which he could not conceive of being reducible to mechanisms. He was far from alone. Gottfried Leibniz presented his mill thought experiment, that if the mind were a mill which we entered, we wouldn’t find anything there that explained perception. The mind, he agreed with Descartes, had to be a different kind of thing entirely.
Although a lot of what these guys saw as irreducible has been reduced. Today, psychological concepts like memory and cognition are understood to be neural processes, albeit with still many unanswered questions. But contemporary philosophy of mind often draws a new line at perceived characteristics, typically called qualities or qualia. Because these characteristics are introspectively opaque, they seem irreducible. And studying some of them has proven hard, therefore many assume they’re fundamentally inaccessible to anyone but the subject.
The question is whether the notion of fundamental qualia really explains anything. Does it convey meaningful information? Certainly qualities understood as just perceived characteristics seem useful enough. But regarding them as fundamental seems to obscure rather than convey information.
As a reductionist, I think of qualities as categorizing conclusions. (If that seems radical, consider that the etymology of the Latin root phrase “qualis” is “of what kind.”) Our nervous system qualifies a stimulus for a category when a particular range of neural firing patterns trigger a galaxy of associations, some innate, but many learned, which collectively add to the richness of the experience of that perceived characteristic (redness, sweetness, pain, etc).
Am I completely confident this is the answer? No, but as an explanation, it seems like a more fruitful place to explore. I suspect future scientific studies will validate some aspects of it, but not others. But even if it’s completely wrong, these kinds of theories seem to spur more experimental work than simply assuming qualities are fundamental and inaccessible.
In the case of quantum mechanics, it’s observation that’s often taken to be fundamental. In its strongest forms, this ends up pairing with the idea of consciousness being fundamental. Although the more cautious variants see just measurement as fundamental (or interaction). This can be the idea that quantum states don’t really exist, that measurement itself creates reality, or that quantum states do exist but physically collapse in a measurement, a fundamental change in reality.
In the early years of quantum theory, something like these views seemed inescapable, and most of the physics community closed ranks around them. But there were holdouts, including Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrὅdinger, who kept digging, discovering the phenomenon of entanglement, which would later be used by David Bohm and Hugh Everett to posit mechanistic explanations for the disappearance of quantum effects. But it was the work of H. Dieter Zeh and Wojciech H. Zurek in the 1970s and 80s that really fleshed out the detailed explanation we now call decoherence.
Today, few question whether entanglement and decoherence happen, although many do continue to argue that they’re only useful mathematical tools. Even if they are real physical processes, whether they serve as a full explanation of what’s happening in measurement depends on your preferred interpretation of quantum mechanics. But the key thing is it’s an explanation that wasn’t found by those who were satisfied with measurement being fundamental.
Which gets to why I’m a reductionist. I can’t prove that ontological reductionism is true. Maybe there are unique aspects of reality that aren’t built on a few common building blocks. But there seems to be a lot of history showing that assuming it’s true is far more fruitful than assuming complex concepts are fundamental. From Thales positing that water was the fundamental substance to later Greeks assuming there were four fundamental elements, the history of assuming anything is fundamental seems cautionary at best.
Which is why when I hear “X is fundamental,” I’m reflexively skeptical. We can’t even confidently say that about “elemental” particles, quantum fields, space, or time. We only seem able to talk in terms of something being more fundamental or less fundamental. Scientific theories are always provisional, subject to change on new data. Absolute fundamentality seems like an assumption we can never justify. Calling something fundamental seems to say, “There’s nothing left to explain here. Stop digging.” A lot of progress seems to happen from the people who ignore these prescriptions.
What do I mean by “progress”? None of this is to argue that higher level concepts aren’t useful; thermodynamics, for instance, didn’t cease being a useful concept once it was reduced to particle physics. Or that holistic takes on phenomena can’t be beneficial. Or that in art or daily life, we can’t appreciate things without reducing them.
But reduction aids in acquiring more structurally or causally complete explanations, while assuming something is fundamental often seems to paper over structural or causal gaps. Closing these gaps, when achievable, provides more reliable knowledge, knowledge which gives us new abilities, abilities such as medical scanners, drugs, computers, and many other things. Yes, that does include nuclear weapons and other ills. It doesn’t seem like we can have the good without the bad, although usually the bad can be managed with more reliable knowledge.
At least that’s my view today.
What do you think? Are there benefits to non-reductive approaches I’m overlooking? Or drawbacks to reductionism I’m missing? If you think an alternative approach is better, what are the benefits of that alternative?
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #reductionism #Science
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Why I’m a reductionist
The SEP article on scientific reductionism notes that the etymology of the word “reduction” is “to bring back” something to something else. So in a methodological sense, reduction is bringing one theory or ontology back to a simpler or more fundamental theory or ontology. The Wikipedia entry on reductionism identifies different kinds: ontological, methodological, and theory reductionism. I think the ontological one is the most interesting here, the proposition that all of reality consists of a small number of building blocks.
Most reductions aren’t particularly controversial, at least not in science. There aren’t many arguments that chemistry doesn’t reduce to physics, or geology to both those sciences. Today it’s not controversial that biology reduces to them as well, although this is a relatively recent development.
As late at the early 1900s there were people arguing that life was somehow different, that it was distinguished by a vital force, an ancient idea. Few talk about vital forces today. Biologists learned about evolution through natural selection, genetic inheritance, proteins, DNA, RNA, and overall organic chemistry. Life is now seen as largely a molecular chemical enterprise, albeit a hideously complex one.
This raises an important point. Most reductions are conservative, retaining the reduced concept, but not all. Sometimes it’s eliminative, as in the case of a vital force, or other things like phlogiston or a luminiferous ether. It seems to depend on whether the reduced concept remains useful.
Today there remain at least two areas where people tend to resist reductionist accounts: consciousness and quantum measurement.
The consciousness one goes back to Rene Descartes’ famous distinction between mental and physical substances. Descartes saw no issue with a mechanistic understanding of reality, except for the mind, which he could not conceive of being reducible to mechanisms. He was far from alone. Gottfried Leibniz presented his mill thought experiment, that if the mind were a mill which we entered, we wouldn’t find anything there that explained perception. The mind, he agreed with Descartes, had to be a different kind of thing entirely.
Although a lot of what these guys saw as irreducible has been reduced. Today, psychological concepts like memory and cognition are understood to be neural processes, albeit with still many unanswered questions. But contemporary philosophy of mind often draws a new line at perceived characteristics, typically called qualities or qualia. Because these characteristics are introspectively opaque, they seem irreducible. And studying some of them has proven hard, therefore many assume they’re fundamentally inaccessible to anyone but the subject.
The question is whether the notion of fundamental qualia really explains anything. Does it convey meaningful information? Certainly qualities understood as just perceived characteristics seem useful enough. But regarding them as fundamental seems to obscure rather than convey information.
As a reductionist, I think of qualities as categorizing conclusions. (If that seems radical, consider that the etymology of the Latin root phrase “qualis” is “of what kind.”) Our nervous system qualifies a stimulus for a category when a particular range of neural firing patterns trigger a galaxy of associations, some innate, but many learned, which collectively add to the richness of the experience of that perceived characteristic (redness, sweetness, pain, etc).
Am I completely confident this is the answer? No, but as an explanation, it seems like a more fruitful place to explore. I suspect future scientific studies will validate some aspects of it, but not others. But even if it’s completely wrong, these kinds of theories seem to spur more experimental work than simply assuming qualities are fundamental and inaccessible.
In the case of quantum mechanics, it’s observation that’s often taken to be fundamental. In its strongest forms, this ends up pairing with the idea of consciousness being fundamental. Although the more cautious variants see just measurement as fundamental (or interaction). This can be the idea that quantum states don’t really exist, that measurement itself creates reality, or that quantum states do exist but physically collapse in a measurement, a fundamental change in reality.
In the early years of quantum theory, something like these views seemed inescapable, and most of the physics community closed ranks around them. But there were holdouts, including Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrὅdinger, who kept digging, discovering the phenomenon of entanglement, which would later be used by David Bohm and Hugh Everett to posit mechanistic explanations for the disappearance of quantum effects. But it was the work of H. Dieter Zeh and Wojciech H. Zurek in the 1970s and 80s that really fleshed out the detailed explanation we now call decoherence.
Today, few question whether entanglement and decoherence happen, although many do continue to argue that they’re only useful mathematical tools. Even if they are real physical processes, whether they serve as a full explanation of what’s happening in measurement depends on your preferred interpretation of quantum mechanics. But the key thing is it’s an explanation that wasn’t found by those who were satisfied with measurement being fundamental.
Which gets to why I’m a reductionist. I can’t prove that ontological reductionism is true. Maybe there are unique aspects of reality that aren’t built on a few common building blocks. But there seems to be a lot of history showing that assuming it’s true is far more fruitful than assuming complex concepts are fundamental. From Thales positing that water was the fundamental substance to later Greeks assuming there were four fundamental elements, the history of assuming anything is fundamental seems cautionary at best.
Which is why when I hear “X is fundamental,” I’m reflexively skeptical. We can’t even confidently say that about “elemental” particles, quantum fields, space, or time. We only seem able to talk in terms of something being more fundamental or less fundamental. Scientific theories are always provisional, subject to change on new data. Absolute fundamentality seems like an assumption we can never justify. Calling something fundamental seems to say, “There’s nothing left to explain here. Stop digging.” A lot of progress seems to happen from the people who ignore these prescriptions.
What do I mean by “progress”? None of this is to argue that higher level concepts aren’t useful; thermodynamics, for instance, didn’t cease being a useful concept once it was reduced to particle physics. Or that holistic takes on phenomena can’t be beneficial. Or that in art or daily life, we can’t appreciate things without reducing them.
But reduction aids in acquiring more structurally or causally complete explanations, while assuming something is fundamental often seems to paper over structural or causal gaps. Closing these gaps, when achievable, provides more reliable knowledge, knowledge which gives us new abilities, abilities such as medical scanners, drugs, computers, and many other things. Yes, that does include nuclear weapons and other ills. It doesn’t seem like we can have the good without the bad, although usually the bad can be managed with more reliable knowledge.
At least that’s my view today.
What do you think? Are there benefits to non-reductive approaches I’m overlooking? Or drawbacks to reductionism I’m missing? If you think an alternative approach is better, what are the benefits of that alternative?
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #reductionism #Science
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Why I’m a reductionist
The SEP article on scientific reductionism notes that the etymology of the word “reduction” is “to bring back” something to something else. So in a methodological sense, reduction is bringing one theory or ontology back to a simpler or more fundamental theory or ontology. The Wikipedia entry on reductionism identifies different kinds: ontological, methodological, and theory reductionism. I think the ontological one is the most interesting here, the proposition that all of reality consists of a small number of building blocks.
Most reductions aren’t particularly controversial, at least not in science. There aren’t many arguments that chemistry doesn’t reduce to physics, or geology to both those sciences. Today it’s not controversial that biology reduces to them as well, although this is a relatively recent development.
As late at the early 1900s there were people arguing that life was somehow different, that it was distinguished by a vital force, an ancient idea. Few talk about vital forces today. Biologists learned about evolution through natural selection, genetic inheritance, proteins, DNA, RNA, and overall organic chemistry. Life is now seen as largely a molecular chemical enterprise, albeit a hideously complex one.
This raises an important point. Most reductions are conservative, retaining the reduced concept, but not all. Sometimes it’s eliminative, as in the case of a vital force, or other things like phlogiston or a luminiferous ether. It seems to depend on whether the reduced concept remains useful.
Today there remain at least two areas where people tend to resist reductionist accounts: consciousness and quantum measurement.
The consciousness one goes back to Rene Descartes’ famous distinction between mental and physical substances. Descartes saw no issue with a mechanistic understanding of reality, except for the mind, which he could not conceive of being reducible to mechanisms. He was far from alone. Gottfried Leibniz presented his mill thought experiment, that if the mind were a mill which we entered, we wouldn’t find anything there that explained perception. The mind, he agreed with Descartes, had to be a different kind of thing entirely.
Although a lot of what these guys saw as irreducible has been reduced. Today, psychological concepts like memory and cognition are understood to be neural processes, albeit with still many unanswered questions. But contemporary philosophy of mind often draws a new line at perceived characteristics, typically called qualities or qualia. Because these characteristics are introspectively opaque, they seem irreducible. And studying some of them has proven hard, therefore many assume they’re fundamentally inaccessible to anyone but the subject.
The question is whether the notion of fundamental qualia really explains anything. Does it convey meaningful information? Certainly qualities understood as just perceived characteristics seem useful enough. But regarding them as fundamental seems to obscure rather than convey information.
As a reductionist, I think of qualities as categorizing conclusions. (If that seems radical, consider that the etymology of the Latin root phrase “qualis” is “of what kind.”) Our nervous system qualifies a stimulus for a category when a particular range of neural firing patterns trigger a galaxy of associations, some innate, but many learned, which collectively add to the richness of the experience of that perceived characteristic (redness, sweetness, pain, etc).
Am I completely confident this is the answer? No, but as an explanation, it seems like a more fruitful place to explore. I suspect future scientific studies will validate some aspects of it, but not others. But even if it’s completely wrong, these kinds of theories seem to spur more experimental work than simply assuming qualities are fundamental and inaccessible.
In the case of quantum mechanics, it’s observation that’s often taken to be fundamental. In its strongest forms, this ends up pairing with the idea of consciousness being fundamental. Although the more cautious variants see just measurement as fundamental (or interaction). This can be the idea that quantum states don’t really exist, that measurement itself creates reality, or that quantum states do exist but physically collapse in a measurement, a fundamental change in reality.
In the early years of quantum theory, something like these views seemed inescapable, and most of the physics community closed ranks around them. But there were holdouts, including Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrὅdinger, who kept digging, discovering the phenomenon of entanglement, which would later be used by David Bohm and Hugh Everett to posit mechanistic explanations for the disappearance of quantum effects. But it was the work of H. Dieter Zeh and Wojciech H. Zurek in the 1970s and 80s that really fleshed out the detailed explanation we now call decoherence.
Today, few question whether entanglement and decoherence happen, although many do continue to argue that they’re only useful mathematical tools. Even if they are real physical processes, whether they serve as a full explanation of what’s happening in measurement depends on your preferred interpretation of quantum mechanics. But the key thing is it’s an explanation that wasn’t found by those who were satisfied with measurement being fundamental.
Which gets to why I’m a reductionist. I can’t prove that ontological reductionism is true. Maybe there are unique aspects of reality that aren’t built on a few common building blocks. But there seems to be a lot of history showing that assuming it’s true is far more fruitful than assuming complex concepts are fundamental. From Thales positing that water was the fundamental substance to later Greeks assuming there were four fundamental elements, the history of assuming anything is fundamental seems cautionary at best.
Which is why when I hear “X is fundamental,” I’m reflexively skeptical. We can’t even confidently say that about “elemental” particles, quantum fields, space, or time. We only seem able to talk in terms of something being more fundamental or less fundamental. Scientific theories are always provisional, subject to change on new data. Absolute fundamentality seems like an assumption we can never justify. Calling something fundamental seems to say, “There’s nothing left to explain here. Stop digging.” A lot of progress seems to happen from the people who ignore these prescriptions.
What do I mean by “progress”? None of this is to argue that higher level concepts aren’t useful; thermodynamics, for instance, didn’t cease being a useful concept once it was reduced to particle physics. Or that holistic takes on phenomena can’t be beneficial. Or that in art or daily life, we can’t appreciate things without reducing them.
But reduction aids in acquiring more structurally or causally complete explanations, while assuming something is fundamental often seems to paper over structural or causal gaps. Closing these gaps, when achievable, provides more reliable knowledge, knowledge which gives us new abilities, abilities such as medical scanners, drugs, computers, and many other things. Yes, that does include nuclear weapons and other ills. It doesn’t seem like we can have the good without the bad, although usually the bad can be managed with more reliable knowledge.
At least that’s my view today.
What do you think? Are there benefits to non-reductive approaches I’m overlooking? Or drawbacks to reductionism I’m missing? If you think an alternative approach is better, what are the benefits of that alternative?
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #reductionism #Science
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Why I’m a reductionist
The SEP article on scientific reductionism notes that the etymology of the word “reduction” is “to bring back” something to something else. So in a methodological sense, reduction is bringing one theory or ontology back to a simpler or more fundamental theory or ontology. The Wikipedia entry on reductionism identifies different kinds: ontological, methodological, and theory reductionism. I think the ontological one is the most interesting here, the proposition that all of reality consists of a small number of building blocks.
Most reductions aren’t particularly controversial, at least not in science. There aren’t many arguments that chemistry doesn’t reduce to physics, or geology to both those sciences. Today it’s not controversial that biology reduces to them as well, although this is a relatively recent development.
As late at the early 1900s there were people arguing that life was somehow different, that it was distinguished by a vital force, an ancient idea. Few talk about vital forces today. Biologists learned about evolution through natural selection, genetic inheritance, proteins, DNA, RNA, and overall organic chemistry. Life is now seen as largely a molecular chemical enterprise, albeit a hideously complex one.
This raises an important point. Most reductions are conservative, retaining the reduced concept, but not all. Sometimes it’s eliminative, as in the case of a vital force, or other things like phlogiston or a luminiferous ether. It seems to depend on whether the reduced concept remains useful.
Today there remain at least two areas where people tend to resist reductionist accounts: consciousness and quantum measurement.
The consciousness one goes back to Rene Descartes’ famous distinction between mental and physical substances. Descartes saw no issue with a mechanistic understanding of reality, except for the mind, which he could not conceive of being reducible to mechanisms. He was far from alone. Gottfried Leibniz presented his mill thought experiment, that if the mind were a mill which we entered, we wouldn’t find anything there that explained perception. The mind, he agreed with Descartes, had to be a different kind of thing entirely.
Although a lot of what these guys saw as irreducible has been reduced. Today, psychological concepts like memory and cognition are understood to be neural processes, albeit with still many unanswered questions. But contemporary philosophy of mind often draws a new line at perceived characteristics, typically called qualities or qualia. Because these characteristics are introspectively opaque, they seem irreducible. And studying some of them has proven hard, therefore many assume they’re fundamentally inaccessible to anyone but the subject.
The question is whether the notion of fundamental qualia really explains anything. Does it convey meaningful information? Certainly qualities understood as just perceived characteristics seem useful enough. But regarding them as fundamental seems to obscure rather than convey information.
As a reductionist, I think of qualities as categorizing conclusions. (If that seems radical, consider that the etymology of the Latin root phrase “qualis” is “of what kind.”) Our nervous system qualifies a stimulus for a category when a particular range of neural firing patterns trigger a galaxy of associations, some innate, but many learned, which collectively add to the richness of the experience of that perceived characteristic (redness, sweetness, pain, etc).
Am I completely confident this is the answer? No, but as an explanation, it seems like a more fruitful place to explore. I suspect future scientific studies will validate some aspects of it, but not others. But even if it’s completely wrong, these kinds of theories seem to spur more experimental work than simply assuming qualities are fundamental and inaccessible.
In the case of quantum mechanics, it’s observation that’s often taken to be fundamental. In its strongest forms, this ends up pairing with the idea of consciousness being fundamental. Although the more cautious variants see just measurement as fundamental (or interaction). This can be the idea that quantum states don’t really exist, that measurement itself creates reality, or that quantum states do exist but physically collapse in a measurement, a fundamental change in reality.
In the early years of quantum theory, something like these views seemed inescapable, and most of the physics community closed ranks around them. But there were holdouts, including Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrὅdinger, who kept digging, discovering the phenomenon of entanglement, which would later be used by David Bohm and Hugh Everett to posit mechanistic explanations for the disappearance of quantum effects. But it was the work of H. Dieter Zeh and Wojciech H. Zurek in the 1970s and 80s that really fleshed out the detailed explanation we now call decoherence.
Today, few question whether entanglement and decoherence happen, although many do continue to argue that they’re only useful mathematical tools. Even if they are real physical processes, whether they serve as a full explanation of what’s happening in measurement depends on your preferred interpretation of quantum mechanics. But the key thing is it’s an explanation that wasn’t found by those who were satisfied with measurement being fundamental.
Which gets to why I’m a reductionist. I can’t prove that ontological reductionism is true. Maybe there are unique aspects of reality that aren’t built on a few common building blocks. But there seems to be a lot of history showing that assuming it’s true is far more fruitful than assuming complex concepts are fundamental. From Thales positing that water was the fundamental substance to later Greeks assuming there were four fundamental elements, the history of assuming anything is fundamental seems cautionary at best.
Which is why when I hear “X is fundamental,” I’m reflexively skeptical. We can’t even confidently say that about “elemental” particles, quantum fields, space, or time. We only seem able to talk in terms of something being more fundamental or less fundamental. Scientific theories are always provisional, subject to change on new data. Absolute fundamentality seems like an assumption we can never justify. Calling something fundamental seems to say, “There’s nothing left to explain here. Stop digging.” A lot of progress seems to happen from the people who ignore these prescriptions.
What do I mean by “progress”? None of this is to argue that higher level concepts aren’t useful; thermodynamics, for instance, didn’t cease being a useful concept once it was reduced to particle physics. Or that holistic takes on phenomena can’t be beneficial. Or that in art or daily life, we can’t appreciate things without reducing them.
But reduction aids in acquiring more structurally or causally complete explanations, while assuming something is fundamental often seems to paper over structural or causal gaps. Closing these gaps, when achievable, provides more reliable knowledge, knowledge which gives us new abilities, abilities such as medical scanners, drugs, computers, and many other things. Yes, that does include nuclear weapons and other ills. It doesn’t seem like we can have the good without the bad, although usually the bad can be managed with more reliable knowledge.
At least that’s my view today.
What do you think? Are there benefits to non-reductive approaches I’m overlooking? Or drawbacks to reductionism I’m missing? If you think an alternative approach is better, what are the benefits of that alternative?
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #reductionism #Science
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Музыка, Музыковедение,
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Music, Musicology, composition, harmony, theory, Музика, Музикознавство, Композиція, гармонія, теорія
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https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/30vocabularium sinica
Библиотека китаиста - иероглифические словари
Бібліотека китаїста-ієрогліфічні словники
Sinologist's Library - Hieroglyphic Dictionaries
#中国语文科 #Китайська_мова #Chinese_language #китайский_язык
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humorous and satirical magazines (journals) of Russia 1875-1917
гумористичні та сатиричні журнали Росії 1875-1917
19 век 20 век россия периодика сатира юмор журналы
19th century 20th_century russia periodicals satire humor magazines
19 век 20 век Росія періодика сатира гумор журнали
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Музыка, Музыковедение,
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#гітара, #бас_гітара, #гра, #музика, #гитара, #басгитара, #игра, #музыка, #guitar, #bass_guitar, #music
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Колекція старовинних книг з історії Росії в оригіналі. XVIII століття
Collection of old books on the history of Russia in the original. XVIII century
#history, #history_of_Russia #история, #история_России #Історія, #Історія_Росії
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#аквариумные_рыбы #рыбки #аквариумистика #аквариум #aquarium_fish #fish #aquariums #aquarium #акваріумні_риби #рибки #акваріумістика #Акваріум
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/30vocabularium sinica
Библиотека китаиста - иероглифические словари
Бібліотека китаїста-ієрогліфічні словники
Sinologist's Library - Hieroglyphic Dictionaries
#中国语文科 #Китайська_мова #Chinese_language #китайский_язык
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humorous and satirical magazines (journals) of Russia 1875-1917
гумористичні та сатиричні журнали Росії 1875-1917
19 век 20 век россия периодика сатира юмор журналы
19th century 20th_century russia periodicals satire humor magazines
19 век 20 век Росія періодика сатира гумор журнали
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/27Chemistry, Chemical engineering, General Textbooks, Encyclopaediae, School-level, Energy Laboratory,
Techniques, Material Science, Phys. Methods of Analysis, Physical chemistry, Quantum and Comput. Chemistry, References, Safety and Environment, Solid state chemistry, Transport phenomena
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Хімія, Хімічна технологія, Загальні підручники, енциклопедії, Шкільний рівень, енергетична лабораторія, техніка, Матеріалознавство, Фізика. Методи аналізу, Фізична хімія, квантові та комп'ютерні Хімія, посилання, Безпека та навколишнє середовище, хімія твердого тіла, транспортні явища
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https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/22 -
Музыка, Музыковедение,
композиция, гармония, теория
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#гітара, #бас_гітара, #гра, #музика, #гитара, #басгитара, #игра, #музыка, #guitar, #bass_guitar, #music
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/33Памятники письменности Востока. Пам'ятки писемності Сходу. Monuments of the writing of the East.
#история, #литература, #восток #history, #literature, #east #історія, #література, #Схід
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Колекція старовинних книг з історії Росії в оригіналі. XVIII століття
Collection of old books on the history of Russia in the original. XVIII century
#history, #history_of_Russia #история, #история_России #Історія, #Історія_Росії
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#аквариумные_рыбы #рыбки #аквариумистика #аквариум #aquarium_fish #fish #aquariums #aquarium #акваріумні_риби #рибки #акваріумістика #Акваріум
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/30vocabularium sinica
Библиотека китаиста - иероглифические словари
Бібліотека китаїста-ієрогліфічні словники
Sinologist's Library - Hieroglyphic Dictionaries
#中国语文科 #Китайська_мова #Chinese_language #китайский_язык
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/29Юмористические и сатирические журналы России 1875-1917
humorous and satirical magazines (journals) of Russia 1875-1917
гумористичні та сатиричні журнали Росії 1875-1917
19 век 20 век россия периодика сатира юмор журналы
19th century 20th_century russia periodicals satire humor magazines
19 век 20 век Росія періодика сатира гумор журнали
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/27Chemistry, Chemical engineering, General Textbooks, Encyclopaediae, School-level, Energy Laboratory,
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Хімія, Хімічна технологія, Загальні підручники, енциклопедії, Шкільний рівень, енергетична лабораторія, техніка, Матеріалознавство, Фізика. Методи аналізу, Фізична хімія, квантові та комп'ютерні Хімія, посилання, Безпека та навколишнє середовище, хімія твердого тіла, транспортні явища
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Музыка, Музыковедение,
композиция, гармония, теория
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#гітара, #бас_гітара, #гра, #музика, #гитара, #басгитара, #игра, #музыка, #guitar, #bass_guitar, #music
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#история, #литература, #восток #history, #literature, #east #історія, #література, #Схід
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Collection of old books on the history of Russia in the original. XVIII century
#history, #history_of_Russia #история, #история_России #Історія, #Історія_Росії
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#аквариумные_рыбы #рыбки #аквариумистика #аквариум #aquarium_fish #fish #aquariums #aquarium #акваріумні_риби #рибки #акваріумістика #Акваріум
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/30vocabularium sinica
Библиотека китаиста - иероглифические словари
Бібліотека китаїста-ієрогліфічні словники
Sinologist's Library - Hieroglyphic Dictionaries
#中国语文科 #Китайська_мова #Chinese_language #китайский_язык
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humorous and satirical magazines (journals) of Russia 1875-1917
гумористичні та сатиричні журнали Росії 1875-1917
19 век 20 век россия периодика сатира юмор журналы
19th century 20th_century russia periodicals satire humor magazines
19 век 20 век Росія періодика сатира гумор журнали
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Хімія, Хімічна технологія, Загальні підручники, енциклопедії, Шкільний рівень, енергетична лабораторія, техніка, Матеріалознавство, Фізика. Методи аналізу, Фізична хімія, квантові та комп'ютерні Хімія, посилання, Безпека та навколишнє середовище, хімія твердого тіла, транспортні явища
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https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/25Inorganic Chemistry Неорганическая химия Неорганічна хімія
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/24Biochemistry Биохимия біохімія
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https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/22 -
Музыка, Музыковедение,
композиция, гармония, теория
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#гітара, #бас_гітара, #гра, #музика, #гитара, #басгитара, #игра, #музыка, #guitar, #bass_guitar, #music
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/33Памятники письменности Востока. Пам'ятки писемності Сходу. Monuments of the writing of the East.
#история, #литература, #восток #history, #literature, #east #історія, #література, #Схід
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Колекція старовинних книг з історії Росії в оригіналі. XVIII століття
Collection of old books on the history of Russia in the original. XVIII century
#history, #history_of_Russia #история, #история_России #Історія, #Історія_Росії
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/31Книги з акваріумістики Books on Aquariums Книги по Аквариумистике 关于水族馆的书籍
#аквариумные_рыбы #рыбки #аквариумистика #аквариум #aquarium_fish #fish #aquariums #aquarium #акваріумні_риби #рибки #акваріумістика #Акваріум
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/30vocabularium sinica
Библиотека китаиста - иероглифические словари
Бібліотека китаїста-ієрогліфічні словники
Sinologist's Library - Hieroglyphic Dictionaries
#中国语文科 #Китайська_мова #Chinese_language #китайский_язык
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/29Юмористические и сатирические журналы России 1875-1917
humorous and satirical magazines (journals) of Russia 1875-1917
гумористичні та сатиричні журнали Росії 1875-1917
19 век 20 век россия периодика сатира юмор журналы
19th century 20th_century russia periodicals satire humor magazines
19 век 20 век Росія періодика сатира гумор журнали
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/27Chemistry, Chemical engineering, General Textbooks, Encyclopaediae, School-level, Energy Laboratory,
Techniques, Material Science, Phys. Methods of Analysis, Physical chemistry, Quantum and Comput. Chemistry, References, Safety and Environment, Solid state chemistry, Transport phenomena
Химия, Химическая технология, Общие Учебники, Энциклопедии, Школьный уровень, Энергетическая лаборатория, Техника, Материаловедение, Физика. Методы анализа, Физическая химия, Квантовая и компьютерная Химия, Ссылки, Безопасность и окружающая среда, Химия твердого тела, Транспортные явления
Хімія, Хімічна технологія, Загальні підручники, енциклопедії, Шкільний рівень, енергетична лабораторія, техніка, Матеріалознавство, Фізика. Методи аналізу, Фізична хімія, квантові та комп'ютерні Хімія, посилання, Безпека та навколишнє середовище, хімія твердого тіла, транспортні явища
https://t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/26Organic chemistry Органическая химия Органічна хімія
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#Maine Is a Warning for America’s #PFAS Future
Story by Zoë Schlanger
4/11/2024"Cordelia Saunders remembers 2021, the year she and her husband, Nathan, found out that they’d likely been drinking tainted water for more than 30 years. A neighbor’s 20 peach trees had finally matured that summer, and perfect-looking peaches hung from their branches. Cordelia watched the fruit drop to the ground and rot: Her neighbor didn’t dare eat it.
"The Saunderses’ home, in Fairfield, Maine, is in a quiet, secluded spot, 50 minutes from the drama of the rocky coast and an hour and 15 minutes from the best skiing around. It’s also sitting atop a plume of poison.
"For decades, sewage sludge was spread on the corn fields surrounding their house, and on hundreds of other fields across the state. That sludge is suspected to have been tainted with PFAS, a group of man-made compounds that cause a litany of ailments, including kidney and prostate cancers, fertility loss, and developmental disorders. The Saunderses’ property is on one of the most contaminated roads in a state just waking up to the extent of an invisible crisis.
Onur Apul, an environmental engineer at the University of Maine and the head of its initiative to study PFAS solutions, told me that in his opinion, the United States has seen 'nothing as overwhelming, and nothing as universal' as the PFAS crisis. Even the #DDT crisis of the 1960s doesn’t compare, he said: DDT was used only as an insecticide and could be banned by banning that single use. PFAS are used in hundreds of products across industries and consumer sectors. Their nearly 15,000 variations can help make pans nonstick, hiking clothes and plumber’s tape waterproof, and dental floss slippery. They’re in performance fabrics on couches, waterproof mascara, tennis rackets, ski wax. Destroying them demands massive inputs of energy: Their fluorine-carbon bond is the single most stable bond in organic chemistry."
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/04/pfas-drinking-water-maine/678040/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/rV2vC#PFAS #PFOS #WaterIsLife #WaterPollution #PFASPollution #PFOA #PTFE #Wildlife #Cancer #Contamination #Chemicals #Environment #FoodPackaging #Plastics #FireFightingFoam #Firefighters #Health #Mining #Lubricants #Electronics #Cosmetics #PFNA #PFHxS #PFB #GenXChemicals
#Toxic #DowChemical #DuPont #3M #BASF #Teflon #RainWater #DrinkingWater -
#Maine Is a Warning for America’s #PFAS Future
Story by Zoë Schlanger
4/11/2024"Cordelia Saunders remembers 2021, the year she and her husband, Nathan, found out that they’d likely been drinking tainted water for more than 30 years. A neighbor’s 20 peach trees had finally matured that summer, and perfect-looking peaches hung from their branches. Cordelia watched the fruit drop to the ground and rot: Her neighbor didn’t dare eat it.
"The Saunderses’ home, in Fairfield, Maine, is in a quiet, secluded spot, 50 minutes from the drama of the rocky coast and an hour and 15 minutes from the best skiing around. It’s also sitting atop a plume of poison.
"For decades, sewage sludge was spread on the corn fields surrounding their house, and on hundreds of other fields across the state. That sludge is suspected to have been tainted with PFAS, a group of man-made compounds that cause a litany of ailments, including kidney and prostate cancers, fertility loss, and developmental disorders. The Saunderses’ property is on one of the most contaminated roads in a state just waking up to the extent of an invisible crisis.
Onur Apul, an environmental engineer at the University of Maine and the head of its initiative to study PFAS solutions, told me that in his opinion, the United States has seen 'nothing as overwhelming, and nothing as universal' as the PFAS crisis. Even the #DDT crisis of the 1960s doesn’t compare, he said: DDT was used only as an insecticide and could be banned by banning that single use. PFAS are used in hundreds of products across industries and consumer sectors. Their nearly 15,000 variations can help make pans nonstick, hiking clothes and plumber’s tape waterproof, and dental floss slippery. They’re in performance fabrics on couches, waterproof mascara, tennis rackets, ski wax. Destroying them demands massive inputs of energy: Their fluorine-carbon bond is the single most stable bond in organic chemistry."
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/04/pfas-drinking-water-maine/678040/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/rV2vC#PFAS #PFOS #WaterIsLife #WaterPollution #PFASPollution #PFOA #PTFE #Wildlife #Cancer #Contamination #Chemicals #Environment #FoodPackaging #Plastics #FireFightingFoam #Firefighters #Health #Mining #Lubricants #Electronics #Cosmetics #PFNA #PFHxS #PFB #GenXChemicals
#Toxic #DowChemical #DuPont #3M #BASF #Teflon #RainWater #DrinkingWater -
#Maine Is a Warning for America’s #PFAS Future
Story by Zoë Schlanger
4/11/2024"Cordelia Saunders remembers 2021, the year she and her husband, Nathan, found out that they’d likely been drinking tainted water for more than 30 years. A neighbor’s 20 peach trees had finally matured that summer, and perfect-looking peaches hung from their branches. Cordelia watched the fruit drop to the ground and rot: Her neighbor didn’t dare eat it.
"The Saunderses’ home, in Fairfield, Maine, is in a quiet, secluded spot, 50 minutes from the drama of the rocky coast and an hour and 15 minutes from the best skiing around. It’s also sitting atop a plume of poison.
"For decades, sewage sludge was spread on the corn fields surrounding their house, and on hundreds of other fields across the state. That sludge is suspected to have been tainted with PFAS, a group of man-made compounds that cause a litany of ailments, including kidney and prostate cancers, fertility loss, and developmental disorders. The Saunderses’ property is on one of the most contaminated roads in a state just waking up to the extent of an invisible crisis.
Onur Apul, an environmental engineer at the University of Maine and the head of its initiative to study PFAS solutions, told me that in his opinion, the United States has seen 'nothing as overwhelming, and nothing as universal' as the PFAS crisis. Even the #DDT crisis of the 1960s doesn’t compare, he said: DDT was used only as an insecticide and could be banned by banning that single use. PFAS are used in hundreds of products across industries and consumer sectors. Their nearly 15,000 variations can help make pans nonstick, hiking clothes and plumber’s tape waterproof, and dental floss slippery. They’re in performance fabrics on couches, waterproof mascara, tennis rackets, ski wax. Destroying them demands massive inputs of energy: Their fluorine-carbon bond is the single most stable bond in organic chemistry."
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/04/pfas-drinking-water-maine/678040/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/rV2vC#PFAS #PFOS #WaterIsLife #WaterPollution #PFASPollution #PFOA #PTFE #Wildlife #Cancer #Contamination #Chemicals #Environment #FoodPackaging #Plastics #FireFightingFoam #Firefighters #Health #Mining #Lubricants #Electronics #Cosmetics #PFNA #PFHxS #PFB #GenXChemicals
#Toxic #DowChemical #DuPont #3M #BASF #Teflon #RainWater #DrinkingWater -
#Maine Is a Warning for America’s #PFAS Future
Story by Zoë Schlanger
4/11/2024"Cordelia Saunders remembers 2021, the year she and her husband, Nathan, found out that they’d likely been drinking tainted water for more than 30 years. A neighbor’s 20 peach trees had finally matured that summer, and perfect-looking peaches hung from their branches. Cordelia watched the fruit drop to the ground and rot: Her neighbor didn’t dare eat it.
"The Saunderses’ home, in Fairfield, Maine, is in a quiet, secluded spot, 50 minutes from the drama of the rocky coast and an hour and 15 minutes from the best skiing around. It’s also sitting atop a plume of poison.
"For decades, sewage sludge was spread on the corn fields surrounding their house, and on hundreds of other fields across the state. That sludge is suspected to have been tainted with PFAS, a group of man-made compounds that cause a litany of ailments, including kidney and prostate cancers, fertility loss, and developmental disorders. The Saunderses’ property is on one of the most contaminated roads in a state just waking up to the extent of an invisible crisis.
Onur Apul, an environmental engineer at the University of Maine and the head of its initiative to study PFAS solutions, told me that in his opinion, the United States has seen 'nothing as overwhelming, and nothing as universal' as the PFAS crisis. Even the #DDT crisis of the 1960s doesn’t compare, he said: DDT was used only as an insecticide and could be banned by banning that single use. PFAS are used in hundreds of products across industries and consumer sectors. Their nearly 15,000 variations can help make pans nonstick, hiking clothes and plumber’s tape waterproof, and dental floss slippery. They’re in performance fabrics on couches, waterproof mascara, tennis rackets, ski wax. Destroying them demands massive inputs of energy: Their fluorine-carbon bond is the single most stable bond in organic chemistry."
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/04/pfas-drinking-water-maine/678040/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/rV2vC#PFAS #PFOS #WaterIsLife #WaterPollution #PFASPollution #PFOA #PTFE #Wildlife #Cancer #Contamination #Chemicals #Environment #FoodPackaging #Plastics #FireFightingFoam #Firefighters #Health #Mining #Lubricants #Electronics #Cosmetics #PFNA #PFHxS #PFB #GenXChemicals
#Toxic #DowChemical #DuPont #3M #BASF #Teflon #RainWater #DrinkingWater -
#Maine Is a Warning for America’s #PFAS Future
Story by Zoë Schlanger
4/11/2024"Cordelia Saunders remembers 2021, the year she and her husband, Nathan, found out that they’d likely been drinking tainted water for more than 30 years. A neighbor’s 20 peach trees had finally matured that summer, and perfect-looking peaches hung from their branches. Cordelia watched the fruit drop to the ground and rot: Her neighbor didn’t dare eat it.
"The Saunderses’ home, in Fairfield, Maine, is in a quiet, secluded spot, 50 minutes from the drama of the rocky coast and an hour and 15 minutes from the best skiing around. It’s also sitting atop a plume of poison.
"For decades, sewage sludge was spread on the corn fields surrounding their house, and on hundreds of other fields across the state. That sludge is suspected to have been tainted with PFAS, a group of man-made compounds that cause a litany of ailments, including kidney and prostate cancers, fertility loss, and developmental disorders. The Saunderses’ property is on one of the most contaminated roads in a state just waking up to the extent of an invisible crisis.
Onur Apul, an environmental engineer at the University of Maine and the head of its initiative to study PFAS solutions, told me that in his opinion, the United States has seen 'nothing as overwhelming, and nothing as universal' as the PFAS crisis. Even the #DDT crisis of the 1960s doesn’t compare, he said: DDT was used only as an insecticide and could be banned by banning that single use. PFAS are used in hundreds of products across industries and consumer sectors. Their nearly 15,000 variations can help make pans nonstick, hiking clothes and plumber’s tape waterproof, and dental floss slippery. They’re in performance fabrics on couches, waterproof mascara, tennis rackets, ski wax. Destroying them demands massive inputs of energy: Their fluorine-carbon bond is the single most stable bond in organic chemistry."
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/04/pfas-drinking-water-maine/678040/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/rV2vC#PFAS #PFOS #WaterIsLife #WaterPollution #PFASPollution #PFOA #PTFE #Wildlife #Cancer #Contamination #Chemicals #Environment #FoodPackaging #Plastics #FireFightingFoam #Firefighters #Health #Mining #Lubricants #Electronics #Cosmetics #PFNA #PFHxS #PFB #GenXChemicals
#Toxic #DowChemical #DuPont #3M #BASF #Teflon #RainWater #DrinkingWater -
ATTENTION - Recherche Médicale - Ça, ça vaut un Nobel de Médecine, un grand, un vrai !
Non seulement ils ont découvert un antibiotique contre des bactéries résistantes/nosocomiales 100 fois plus puissant que ceux existants mais en plus une méthode/piste pour en trouver d'autres.
(via @tangledwing)
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Traduction de https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251029002855.htm
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Des scientifiques découvrent un antibiotique 'caché' 100 fois plus puissant contre des superbactéries mortelles.29 octobre 2025
Source : Université de WarwickRésumé :
Une équipe de scientifiques a découvert un antibiotique caché, 100 fois plus puissant que les médicaments existants contre des superbactéries mortelles telles que le SARM. Cette molécule était restée insoupçonnée pendant des décennies au sein d'une bactérie bien connue. À ce jour, elle ne présente aucun signe de résistance, ce qui offre un espoir dans la lutte contre les infections résistantes aux médicaments et ouvre la voie à de nouvelles approches pour la découverte d'autres antibiotiques.
TEXTE INTÉGRAL
Un antibiotique 100 fois plus puissant contre les superbactériesDes chercheurs ont mis au jour une molécule longtemps restée cachée, 100 fois plus puissante que les antibiotiques connus. Cette découverte suscite un nouvel espoir dans la lutte contre les bactéries résistantes aux antibiotiques.
Des chimistes des universités de Warwick et de Monash ont identifié un nouvel antibiotique prometteur capable de lutter contre les infections bactériennes résistantes aux antibiotiques, notamment le Staphylococcus aureus resistant à la méthicilline (MRSA) et l'Enterocoque resistant à la vancomycine (VRE). La résistance aux antimicrobiens (RAM) est considérée comme l'une des menaces les plus graves pour la santé mondiale. L'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) a récemment averti qu'il y a "trop peu d'antibactériens en développement" et que la plupart des antibiotiques facilement décelables ont déjà été identifiés. Le développement de nouveaux antibiotiques étant coûteux et peu rentable, peu d'entreprises pharmaceutiques investissent dans ce domaine crucial.
Découverte d'un intermédiaire antibiotique insoupçonné
Dans un article récent du Journal of the American Chemical Society, des chercheurs de l'Alliance Monash Warwick pour la lutte contre les superbactéries émergentes ont rapporté la découverte d'un nouvel antibiotique puissant appelé pré-méthylénomycine C lactone. Ce composé était resté insoupçonné, intervenant comme intermédiaire chimique dans le processus naturel de production de l'antibiotique connu méthylénomycine A.
Le professeur Greg Challis, co-auteur principal de l'étude et membre du département de chimie de l'université de Warwick et de l'Institut de découverte biomédicale de l'université Monash, explique que "la méthylénomycine A a été découverte il y a 50 ans et, bien qu'elle ait été synthétisée à plusieurs reprises, personne ne semble avoir testé l'activité antimicrobienne des intermédiaires de sa synthèse ! En supprimant les gènes de biosynthèse nous avons découvert deux intermédiaires de biosynthèse jusqu'alors inconnus qui sont tous deux des antibiotiques bien plus puissants que la méthylénomycine A elle-même."
Une activité antibactérienne 100 fois supérieure
Lors des tests, l'un de ces intermédiaires, la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C, s'est révélé plus de 100 fois plus actif contre un large éventail de bactéries Gram-positives que la méthylénomycine A. Il s'est avéré particulièrement efficace contre Staphylococcus aureus et Enterococcus faecium, les espèces bactériennes à l'origine des souches du Staphylococcus aureus méthicilline-résistant (SARM) et de l'Enterococcus vancomycine-résistant (ERV). La Dr Lona Alkhalaf, professeure adjointe à l'Université de Warwick et co-auteure principale de l'étude, fait remarquer que "il est frappant de remarquer que la bactérie produisant la méthylénomycine A et la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C, Streptomyces coelicolor, soit une espèce modèle de la production des antibiotiques, étudiée de manière approfondie depuis les années 1950. La découverte d'un nouvel antibiotique dans un organisme aussi connu a été une véritable surprise." Elle a ajouté qu'il semblerait que S. coelicolor ait initialement évolué pour produire un puissant antibiotique (la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C) mais qu'avec le temps elle se soit orientée vers la production de méthylénomycine A, version moins puissante qui pourrait jouer un rôle biologique différent. De manière encourageante l'équipe de recherche n'a trouvé aucune preuve de résistance bactérienne à la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C chez Enterococcus dans des conditions qui induisent généralement une résistance à la vancomycine. La vancomycine étant souvent un traitement de dernier recours pour ces infections, ce résultat est particulièrement prometteur pour lutter contre les entérocoques résistants à la vancomycine (ERV), que l'OMS classe comme pathogène prioritaire.
Une nouvelle voie pour la découverte d'antibiotiques
Le professeur Challis a souligné que "Cette découverte suggère un nouveau paradigme pour la découverte d'antibiotiques. En identifiant et en testant les intermédiaires des voies de biosynthèse de divers composés naturels, nous pourrions découvrir de nouveaux antibiotiques puissants, plus résistants contre les résistances bactériennes et qui nous aideront dans la lutte contre la résistance aux antimicrobiens". La prochaine étape du développement de cet antibiotique est dans les essais précliniques. Dans une publication coordonnée parue plus tôt cette année dans le Journal of Organic Chemistry, une équipe dirigée par Monash en collaboration avec l'équipe de Warwick et financée par l'initiative Monash Warwick Alliance Combatting Emerging Superbug Threats a publié une synthèse à grande échelle de la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C, ce qui ouvre la voie aux recherches ultérieures. Le professeur David Lupton, de l'École de Chimie de l'Université Monash, qui a dirigé ces travaux de synthèse, en dit que "cette voie de synthèse devrait permettre la création de divers analogues pouvant être utilisés pour étudier la relation structure-activité et le mécanisme d'action de la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C. Le Centre pour l'impact de la résistance aux antimicrobiens de Monash nous offre une excellente plateforme pour faire progresser ce traitement antimicrobien prometteur".
Grâce à sa structure chimique simple, son puissant pouvoir antibactérien, son profil apparemment résistant à la résistance et son procédé de production à grande échelle, la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C se distingue comme un nouveau candidat prometteur. Elle pourrait à terme contribuer à sauver une grande partie des quelque 1,1 million de vies perdues chaque année à cause de la résistance aux antibiotiques.
Référence de l'article :
Christophe Corre, Gideon A. Idowu, Lijiang Song, Melanie E. Whitehead, Lona M. Alkhalaf, Gregory L. Challis. Discovery of Late Intermediates in Methylenomycin Biosynthesis Active against Drug-Resistant Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogens. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025 ; DOI : 10.1021/jacs.5c12501
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#Science #Recherche #Medecine #nosocomial #Nobel -
ATTENTION - Recherche Médicale - Ça, ça vaut un Nobel de Médecine, un grand, un vrai !
Non seulement ils ont découvert un antibiotique contre des bactéries résistantes/nosocomiales 100 fois plus puissant que ceux existants mais en plus une méthode/piste pour en trouver d'autres.
(via @tangledwing)
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Traduction de https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251029002855.htm
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Des scientifiques découvrent un antibiotique 'caché' 100 fois plus puissant contre des superbactéries mortelles.29 octobre 2025
Source : Université de WarwickRésumé :
Une équipe de scientifiques a découvert un antibiotique caché, 100 fois plus puissant que les médicaments existants contre des superbactéries mortelles telles que le SARM. Cette molécule était restée insoupçonnée pendant des décennies au sein d'une bactérie bien connue. À ce jour, elle ne présente aucun signe de résistance, ce qui offre un espoir dans la lutte contre les infections résistantes aux médicaments et ouvre la voie à de nouvelles approches pour la découverte d'autres antibiotiques.
TEXTE INTÉGRAL
Un antibiotique 100 fois plus puissant contre les superbactériesDes chercheurs ont mis au jour une molécule longtemps restée cachée, 100 fois plus puissante que les antibiotiques connus. Cette découverte suscite un nouvel espoir dans la lutte contre les bactéries résistantes aux antibiotiques.
Des chimistes des universités de Warwick et de Monash ont identifié un nouvel antibiotique prometteur capable de lutter contre les infections bactériennes résistantes aux antibiotiques, notamment le Staphylococcus aureus resistant à la méthicilline (MRSA) et l'Enterocoque resistant à la vancomycine (VRE). La résistance aux antimicrobiens (RAM) est considérée comme l'une des menaces les plus graves pour la santé mondiale. L'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) a récemment averti qu'il y a "trop peu d'antibactériens en développement" et que la plupart des antibiotiques facilement décelables ont déjà été identifiés. Le développement de nouveaux antibiotiques étant coûteux et peu rentable, peu d'entreprises pharmaceutiques investissent dans ce domaine crucial.
Découverte d'un intermédiaire antibiotique insoupçonné
Dans un article récent du Journal of the American Chemical Society, des chercheurs de l'Alliance Monash Warwick pour la lutte contre les superbactéries émergentes ont rapporté la découverte d'un nouvel antibiotique puissant appelé pré-méthylénomycine C lactone. Ce composé était resté insoupçonné, intervenant comme intermédiaire chimique dans le processus naturel de production de l'antibiotique connu méthylénomycine A.
Le professeur Greg Challis, co-auteur principal de l'étude et membre du département de chimie de l'université de Warwick et de l'Institut de découverte biomédicale de l'université Monash, explique que "la méthylénomycine A a été découverte il y a 50 ans et, bien qu'elle ait été synthétisée à plusieurs reprises, personne ne semble avoir testé l'activité antimicrobienne des intermédiaires de sa synthèse ! En supprimant les gènes de biosynthèse nous avons découvert deux intermédiaires de biosynthèse jusqu'alors inconnus qui sont tous deux des antibiotiques bien plus puissants que la méthylénomycine A elle-même."
Une activité antibactérienne 100 fois supérieure
Lors des tests, l'un de ces intermédiaires, la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C, s'est révélé plus de 100 fois plus actif contre un large éventail de bactéries Gram-positives que la méthylénomycine A. Il s'est avéré particulièrement efficace contre Staphylococcus aureus et Enterococcus faecium, les espèces bactériennes à l'origine des souches du Staphylococcus aureus méthicilline-résistant (SARM) et de l'Enterococcus vancomycine-résistant (ERV). La Dr Lona Alkhalaf, professeure adjointe à l'Université de Warwick et co-auteure principale de l'étude, fait remarquer que "il est frappant de remarquer que la bactérie produisant la méthylénomycine A et la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C, Streptomyces coelicolor, soit une espèce modèle de la production des antibiotiques, étudiée de manière approfondie depuis les années 1950. La découverte d'un nouvel antibiotique dans un organisme aussi connu a été une véritable surprise." Elle a ajouté qu'il semblerait que S. coelicolor ait initialement évolué pour produire un puissant antibiotique (la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C) mais qu'avec le temps elle se soit orientée vers la production de méthylénomycine A, version moins puissante qui pourrait jouer un rôle biologique différent. De manière encourageante l'équipe de recherche n'a trouvé aucune preuve de résistance bactérienne à la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C chez Enterococcus dans des conditions qui induisent généralement une résistance à la vancomycine. La vancomycine étant souvent un traitement de dernier recours pour ces infections, ce résultat est particulièrement prometteur pour lutter contre les entérocoques résistants à la vancomycine (ERV), que l'OMS classe comme pathogène prioritaire.
Une nouvelle voie pour la découverte d'antibiotiques
Le professeur Challis a souligné que "Cette découverte suggère un nouveau paradigme pour la découverte d'antibiotiques. En identifiant et en testant les intermédiaires des voies de biosynthèse de divers composés naturels, nous pourrions découvrir de nouveaux antibiotiques puissants, plus résistants contre les résistances bactériennes et qui nous aideront dans la lutte contre la résistance aux antimicrobiens". La prochaine étape du développement de cet antibiotique est dans les essais précliniques. Dans une publication coordonnée parue plus tôt cette année dans le Journal of Organic Chemistry, une équipe dirigée par Monash en collaboration avec l'équipe de Warwick et financée par l'initiative Monash Warwick Alliance Combatting Emerging Superbug Threats a publié une synthèse à grande échelle de la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C, ce qui ouvre la voie aux recherches ultérieures. Le professeur David Lupton, de l'École de Chimie de l'Université Monash, qui a dirigé ces travaux de synthèse, en dit que "cette voie de synthèse devrait permettre la création de divers analogues pouvant être utilisés pour étudier la relation structure-activité et le mécanisme d'action de la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C. Le Centre pour l'impact de la résistance aux antimicrobiens de Monash nous offre une excellente plateforme pour faire progresser ce traitement antimicrobien prometteur".
Grâce à sa structure chimique simple, son puissant pouvoir antibactérien, son profil apparemment résistant à la résistance et son procédé de production à grande échelle, la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C se distingue comme un nouveau candidat prometteur. Elle pourrait à terme contribuer à sauver une grande partie des quelque 1,1 million de vies perdues chaque année à cause de la résistance aux antibiotiques.
Référence de l'article :
Christophe Corre, Gideon A. Idowu, Lijiang Song, Melanie E. Whitehead, Lona M. Alkhalaf, Gregory L. Challis. Discovery of Late Intermediates in Methylenomycin Biosynthesis Active against Drug-Resistant Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogens. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025 ; DOI : 10.1021/jacs.5c12501
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#Science #Recherche #Medecine #nosocomial #Nobel -
ATTENTION - Recherche Médicale - Ça, ça vaut un Nobel de Médecine, un grand, un vrai !
Non seulement ils ont découvert un antibiotique contre des bactéries résistantes/nosocomiales 100 fois plus puissant que ceux existants mais en plus une méthode/piste pour en trouver d'autres.
(via @tangledwing)
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Traduction de https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251029002855.htm
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Des scientifiques découvrent un antibiotique 'caché' 100 fois plus puissant contre des superbactéries mortelles.29 octobre 2025
Source : Université de WarwickRésumé :
Une équipe de scientifiques a découvert un antibiotique caché, 100 fois plus puissant que les médicaments existants contre des superbactéries mortelles telles que le SARM. Cette molécule était restée insoupçonnée pendant des décennies au sein d'une bactérie bien connue. À ce jour, elle ne présente aucun signe de résistance, ce qui offre un espoir dans la lutte contre les infections résistantes aux médicaments et ouvre la voie à de nouvelles approches pour la découverte d'autres antibiotiques.
TEXTE INTÉGRAL
Un antibiotique 100 fois plus puissant contre les superbactériesDes chercheurs ont mis au jour une molécule longtemps restée cachée, 100 fois plus puissante que les antibiotiques connus. Cette découverte suscite un nouvel espoir dans la lutte contre les bactéries résistantes aux antibiotiques.
Des chimistes des universités de Warwick et de Monash ont identifié un nouvel antibiotique prometteur capable de lutter contre les infections bactériennes résistantes aux antibiotiques, notamment le Staphylococcus aureus resistant à la méthicilline (MRSA) et l'Enterocoque resistant à la vancomycine (VRE). La résistance aux antimicrobiens (RAM) est considérée comme l'une des menaces les plus graves pour la santé mondiale. L'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) a récemment averti qu'il y a "trop peu d'antibactériens en développement" et que la plupart des antibiotiques facilement décelables ont déjà été identifiés. Le développement de nouveaux antibiotiques étant coûteux et peu rentable, peu d'entreprises pharmaceutiques investissent dans ce domaine crucial.
Découverte d'un intermédiaire antibiotique insoupçonné
Dans un article récent du Journal of the American Chemical Society, des chercheurs de l'Alliance Monash Warwick pour la lutte contre les superbactéries émergentes ont rapporté la découverte d'un nouvel antibiotique puissant appelé pré-méthylénomycine C lactone. Ce composé était resté insoupçonné, intervenant comme intermédiaire chimique dans le processus naturel de production de l'antibiotique connu méthylénomycine A.
Le professeur Greg Challis, co-auteur principal de l'étude et membre du département de chimie de l'université de Warwick et de l'Institut de découverte biomédicale de l'université Monash, explique que "la méthylénomycine A a été découverte il y a 50 ans et, bien qu'elle ait été synthétisée à plusieurs reprises, personne ne semble avoir testé l'activité antimicrobienne des intermédiaires de sa synthèse ! En supprimant les gènes de biosynthèse nous avons découvert deux intermédiaires de biosynthèse jusqu'alors inconnus qui sont tous deux des antibiotiques bien plus puissants que la méthylénomycine A elle-même."
Une activité antibactérienne 100 fois supérieure
Lors des tests, l'un de ces intermédiaires, la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C, s'est révélé plus de 100 fois plus actif contre un large éventail de bactéries Gram-positives que la méthylénomycine A. Il s'est avéré particulièrement efficace contre Staphylococcus aureus et Enterococcus faecium, les espèces bactériennes à l'origine des souches du Staphylococcus aureus méthicilline-résistant (SARM) et de l'Enterococcus vancomycine-résistant (ERV). La Dr Lona Alkhalaf, professeure adjointe à l'Université de Warwick et co-auteure principale de l'étude, fait remarquer que "il est frappant de remarquer que la bactérie produisant la méthylénomycine A et la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C, Streptomyces coelicolor, soit une espèce modèle de la production des antibiotiques, étudiée de manière approfondie depuis les années 1950. La découverte d'un nouvel antibiotique dans un organisme aussi connu a été une véritable surprise." Elle a ajouté qu'il semblerait que S. coelicolor ait initialement évolué pour produire un puissant antibiotique (la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C) mais qu'avec le temps elle se soit orientée vers la production de méthylénomycine A, version moins puissante qui pourrait jouer un rôle biologique différent. De manière encourageante l'équipe de recherche n'a trouvé aucune preuve de résistance bactérienne à la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C chez Enterococcus dans des conditions qui induisent généralement une résistance à la vancomycine. La vancomycine étant souvent un traitement de dernier recours pour ces infections, ce résultat est particulièrement prometteur pour lutter contre les entérocoques résistants à la vancomycine (ERV), que l'OMS classe comme pathogène prioritaire.
Une nouvelle voie pour la découverte d'antibiotiques
Le professeur Challis a souligné que "Cette découverte suggère un nouveau paradigme pour la découverte d'antibiotiques. En identifiant et en testant les intermédiaires des voies de biosynthèse de divers composés naturels, nous pourrions découvrir de nouveaux antibiotiques puissants, plus résistants contre les résistances bactériennes et qui nous aideront dans la lutte contre la résistance aux antimicrobiens". La prochaine étape du développement de cet antibiotique est dans les essais précliniques. Dans une publication coordonnée parue plus tôt cette année dans le Journal of Organic Chemistry, une équipe dirigée par Monash en collaboration avec l'équipe de Warwick et financée par l'initiative Monash Warwick Alliance Combatting Emerging Superbug Threats a publié une synthèse à grande échelle de la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C, ce qui ouvre la voie aux recherches ultérieures. Le professeur David Lupton, de l'École de Chimie de l'Université Monash, qui a dirigé ces travaux de synthèse, en dit que "cette voie de synthèse devrait permettre la création de divers analogues pouvant être utilisés pour étudier la relation structure-activité et le mécanisme d'action de la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C. Le Centre pour l'impact de la résistance aux antimicrobiens de Monash nous offre une excellente plateforme pour faire progresser ce traitement antimicrobien prometteur".
Grâce à sa structure chimique simple, son puissant pouvoir antibactérien, son profil apparemment résistant à la résistance et son procédé de production à grande échelle, la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C se distingue comme un nouveau candidat prometteur. Elle pourrait à terme contribuer à sauver une grande partie des quelque 1,1 million de vies perdues chaque année à cause de la résistance aux antibiotiques.
Référence de l'article :
Christophe Corre, Gideon A. Idowu, Lijiang Song, Melanie E. Whitehead, Lona M. Alkhalaf, Gregory L. Challis. Discovery of Late Intermediates in Methylenomycin Biosynthesis Active against Drug-Resistant Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogens. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025 ; DOI : 10.1021/jacs.5c12501
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#Science #Recherche #Medecine #nosocomial #Nobel -
ATTENTION - Recherche Médicale - Ça, ça vaut un Nobel de Médecine, un grand, un vrai !
Non seulement ils ont découvert un antibiotique contre des bactéries résistantes/nosocomiales 100 fois plus puissant que ceux existants mais en plus une méthode/piste pour en trouver d'autres.
(via @tangledwing)
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Traduction de https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251029002855.htm
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Des scientifiques découvrent un antibiotique 'caché' 100 fois plus puissant contre des superbactéries mortelles.29 octobre 2025
Source : Université de WarwickRésumé :
Une équipe de scientifiques a découvert un antibiotique caché, 100 fois plus puissant que les médicaments existants contre des superbactéries mortelles telles que le SARM. Cette molécule était restée insoupçonnée pendant des décennies au sein d'une bactérie bien connue. À ce jour, elle ne présente aucun signe de résistance, ce qui offre un espoir dans la lutte contre les infections résistantes aux médicaments et ouvre la voie à de nouvelles approches pour la découverte d'autres antibiotiques.
TEXTE INTÉGRAL
Un antibiotique 100 fois plus puissant contre les superbactériesDes chercheurs ont mis au jour une molécule longtemps restée cachée, 100 fois plus puissante que les antibiotiques connus. Cette découverte suscite un nouvel espoir dans la lutte contre les bactéries résistantes aux antibiotiques.
Des chimistes des universités de Warwick et de Monash ont identifié un nouvel antibiotique prometteur capable de lutter contre les infections bactériennes résistantes aux antibiotiques, notamment le Staphylococcus aureus resistant à la méthicilline (MRSA) et l'Enterocoque resistant à la vancomycine (VRE). La résistance aux antimicrobiens (RAM) est considérée comme l'une des menaces les plus graves pour la santé mondiale. L'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) a récemment averti qu'il y a "trop peu d'antibactériens en développement" et que la plupart des antibiotiques facilement décelables ont déjà été identifiés. Le développement de nouveaux antibiotiques étant coûteux et peu rentable, peu d'entreprises pharmaceutiques investissent dans ce domaine crucial.
Découverte d'un intermédiaire antibiotique insoupçonné
Dans un article récent du Journal of the American Chemical Society, des chercheurs de l'Alliance Monash Warwick pour la lutte contre les superbactéries émergentes ont rapporté la découverte d'un nouvel antibiotique puissant appelé pré-méthylénomycine C lactone. Ce composé était resté insoupçonné, intervenant comme intermédiaire chimique dans le processus naturel de production de l'antibiotique connu méthylénomycine A.
Le professeur Greg Challis, co-auteur principal de l'étude et membre du département de chimie de l'université de Warwick et de l'Institut de découverte biomédicale de l'université Monash, explique que "la méthylénomycine A a été découverte il y a 50 ans et, bien qu'elle ait été synthétisée à plusieurs reprises, personne ne semble avoir testé l'activité antimicrobienne des intermédiaires de sa synthèse ! En supprimant les gènes de biosynthèse nous avons découvert deux intermédiaires de biosynthèse jusqu'alors inconnus qui sont tous deux des antibiotiques bien plus puissants que la méthylénomycine A elle-même."
Une activité antibactérienne 100 fois supérieure
Lors des tests, l'un de ces intermédiaires, la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C, s'est révélé plus de 100 fois plus actif contre un large éventail de bactéries Gram-positives que la méthylénomycine A. Il s'est avéré particulièrement efficace contre Staphylococcus aureus et Enterococcus faecium, les espèces bactériennes à l'origine des souches du Staphylococcus aureus méthicilline-résistant (SARM) et de l'Enterococcus vancomycine-résistant (ERV). La Dr Lona Alkhalaf, professeure adjointe à l'Université de Warwick et co-auteure principale de l'étude, fait remarquer que "il est frappant de remarquer que la bactérie produisant la méthylénomycine A et la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C, Streptomyces coelicolor, soit une espèce modèle de la production des antibiotiques, étudiée de manière approfondie depuis les années 1950. La découverte d'un nouvel antibiotique dans un organisme aussi connu a été une véritable surprise." Elle a ajouté qu'il semblerait que S. coelicolor ait initialement évolué pour produire un puissant antibiotique (la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C) mais qu'avec le temps elle se soit orientée vers la production de méthylénomycine A, version moins puissante qui pourrait jouer un rôle biologique différent. De manière encourageante l'équipe de recherche n'a trouvé aucune preuve de résistance bactérienne à la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C chez Enterococcus dans des conditions qui induisent généralement une résistance à la vancomycine. La vancomycine étant souvent un traitement de dernier recours pour ces infections, ce résultat est particulièrement prometteur pour lutter contre les entérocoques résistants à la vancomycine (ERV), que l'OMS classe comme pathogène prioritaire.
Une nouvelle voie pour la découverte d'antibiotiques
Le professeur Challis a souligné que "Cette découverte suggère un nouveau paradigme pour la découverte d'antibiotiques. En identifiant et en testant les intermédiaires des voies de biosynthèse de divers composés naturels, nous pourrions découvrir de nouveaux antibiotiques puissants, plus résistants contre les résistances bactériennes et qui nous aideront dans la lutte contre la résistance aux antimicrobiens". La prochaine étape du développement de cet antibiotique est dans les essais précliniques. Dans une publication coordonnée parue plus tôt cette année dans le Journal of Organic Chemistry, une équipe dirigée par Monash en collaboration avec l'équipe de Warwick et financée par l'initiative Monash Warwick Alliance Combatting Emerging Superbug Threats a publié une synthèse à grande échelle de la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C, ce qui ouvre la voie aux recherches ultérieures. Le professeur David Lupton, de l'École de Chimie de l'Université Monash, qui a dirigé ces travaux de synthèse, en dit que "cette voie de synthèse devrait permettre la création de divers analogues pouvant être utilisés pour étudier la relation structure-activité et le mécanisme d'action de la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C. Le Centre pour l'impact de la résistance aux antimicrobiens de Monash nous offre une excellente plateforme pour faire progresser ce traitement antimicrobien prometteur".
Grâce à sa structure chimique simple, son puissant pouvoir antibactérien, son profil apparemment résistant à la résistance et son procédé de production à grande échelle, la lactone de pré-méthylénomycine C se distingue comme un nouveau candidat prometteur. Elle pourrait à terme contribuer à sauver une grande partie des quelque 1,1 million de vies perdues chaque année à cause de la résistance aux antibiotiques.
Référence de l'article :
Christophe Corre, Gideon A. Idowu, Lijiang Song, Melanie E. Whitehead, Lona M. Alkhalaf, Gregory L. Challis. Discovery of Late Intermediates in Methylenomycin Biosynthesis Active against Drug-Resistant Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogens. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025 ; DOI : 10.1021/jacs.5c12501
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Spencer, Alan RT @AlanRTSpencer
Vera, Ezequiel Ignacio @ezequielveraFedi.Directory Palaeontology
Trunk PalaeontologyPhysics - General
Alonso-Orts, Manuel @manuelalonso
Becke, Christopher @BeckePhysics
Byrne, Brendan @bbyrne
Czerski, Helen @helenczerski
Faez, Sanli @sanli
Frost, Jarvist Moore @Jarvist
Gaita-Ariño, Alejandro @agaitaarino
Halford, Alexa J @PlasmaNerd
Hooper, Deanna C @dchooper91_cosmo
Hossenfelder, Sabine @skdh
Jakubowski, Marcin @jakmarcin
Marmet, Louis @redshiftdrift
Martin, Alex @sidewalksciguy
Meyer, Carola @carbonwoman
Nittler, Larry R @LarryNittler
Smet, Philippe F @pfsmet
Truelove, Kelly @TrueSciPhi
Wade, Jessica Alice Feinmann @jesswade
Weir, David James @davidjamesweir
Winkless, Laurie @LaurieWinkless
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Bertolotti, Jacopo @j_bertolotti
Fressengeas, Nicolas @fresseng
Gugliucci, Nicole @noisyastronomer
Klimczak, Mariusz @mariuszklimczak
Knochel, Alexander K @quantensalat
McNees, Robert A @mcnees
Messerman, Craig @cmflyer
Stein, Leo C @duetosymmetry
Wenmackers, Sylvia @SylviaFysica
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Alexander, Emma @astronemma
Batalha, Natalie M @nbatalha
Becker, Adam @freelanceastro
Berry, Christopher PL @cplberry
Bertemes, Caroline @carobertemes
Bulbul, Esra @esrabulbul
Connor, Thomas @ThomasConnor
Danilovich, Taïssa @StellarAlchemist
Datrier, Laurence @ASleepyWanderer
Donaghy, Timothy @timdonaghy
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Dutil, Yvan @YvanDutil
Falcke, Heino D @hfalcke
Grinberg, Victoria @vicgrinberg
Hlozek, Renee @reneehlozek
Hughes, Anna Gwen @annaghughes
Hyde, Elaina @AstroHyde
Jenkins, James S @ProfDoubleJ
Kerins, Eamonn @eamonn_kerins
Kirwan, Andrew @starburps
Knödlseder, Jürgen @jknodlseder
Kramer, Roban Hultman @roban
Lepo, Kelly @kellylepo
Mack, Katherine J @AstroKatie
Mandow, Rami @CosmicRami
Masters, Karen L @karenlmasters
May, Erin M @_astronoMay
McDowell, Jonathan C @planet4589
Mingo, Beatriz @ognimaeb
Montargès, Miguel @mmontarges
Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda @chanda
Prinoth, Bibiana @bibianaprinoth
Qin, Juehang @qinjuehang
Rincon, François @jaztrophysicist
Roukema, Boudewijn F @boud
Ruscica, Corrado @astrocorrus
Schnittman, Jeremy @SchnittGetsReal
Schuh, Sonja @schuh
Segal, Ethan @startswithabang
Seidel, Julia Victoria @JuliaVSeidel
Stein, Leo C @duetosymmetry
Stevance, Heloise F @sydonahi
Tasker, Elizabeth J @elizabethtasker
Triana, Santiago Andrés @repepo
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Secular, Paul @secular
Stevance, Heloise F @sydonahi
Weir, David James @davidjamesweir
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Dodge, J Steven @jsdodge
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Riley, Lewis A @lewriley
Rofer, Cheryl K @CherylRofer
Wright, Bryan @catselbow• Optical Physics
Dodge, J Steven @jsdodge
Gbur, Gregory J @drskyskull
Klimczak, Mariusz @mariuszklimczak• Particle Physics
Blekman, Freya @freyablekman
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Falcke, Heino D @hfalcke
Lee, Claire @Claire_Lee
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Walter, Christopher @ChrisWalter
Zaslavsky, David @diazona• Quantum Physics
Chatzikyriakou, Eleni @eleni
Ronzani, Alberto @aronza
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Carroll, Sean M @seanmcarroll
Komin, Niko @kokemikal
Marquardt, Florian @FMarquardtGroup
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Schubotz, Moritz @schubotz
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Bannister, Michele T @astrokiwi
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Busch, Michael W @michael_w_busch
Calef, Fred @mapperwocky
Campos Estrada, Beatriz @exobeatriz
Cowart, Aster JC @TerraSabaea
Deppe, Stephanie JH @spacescisteph
Hauck II, Steven A @hauck
Ile-de-France Planets @IDF_Planets
Jenkins, James S @ProfDoubleJ
Kerins, Eamonn @eamonn_kerins
Knightly, J Paul @paulknightly
Kreidberg, Laura @lkreidberg
Lakdawalla, Emily @elakdawalla
Malaska, Michael J @mike_malaska
May, Erin M @_astronoMay
Mayorga, Laura C @mayorgalc
Milkovich, Sarah @milkysa
Nittler, Larry R @LarryNittler
O'Donoghue, James @Physicsj
Osborn, Hugh P @ExoHugh
Persaud, Divya M @divya
Porco, Carolyn C @carolynporco
Prinoth, Bibiana @bibianaprinoth
Rivkin, Andrew S @asrivkin
Santerne, Alexandre @AlexSanterne
Schwamb, Meg E @megschwamb
Seidel, Julia Victoria @JuliaVSeidel
Steinmeyer, Marie-Luise @astroml
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Brown, Michael E @Mikebrown
Brunthaler, Andreas @brunthal
Busch, Michael W @michael_w_busch
Cabanela, Juan E @Juan_Kinda_Guy
Connor, Thomas @ThomasConnor
Crawford, Steven M @crawfordsm
Danilovich, Taïssa @StellarAlchemist
Davenport, James RA @jradavenport
Deppe, Stephanie JH @spacescisteph
Dickinson, David @AstroDave
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Engesser, Michael @Messenger
Fischer, Daniel @cosmos4u
Gay, Pamela L @starstryder
Gugliucci, Nicole @noisyastronomer
Hancock, Terry @TerryHancock
Hartke, Johanna @johannahartke
Hunt, Emily @emilydoesastro
Kendrew, Sarah @sarahkendrew
Knödlseder, Jürgen @jknodlseder
Kramer, Roban Hultman @roban
Kreidberg, Laura @lkreidberg
Lawler, Samantha @sundogplanets
Lepo, Kelly @kellylepo
Mandow, Rami @CosmicRami
Mangum, Jeff G @JeffMangum
May, Erin M @_astronoMay
Mayorga, Laura C @mayorgalc
McCaughrean, Mark @markmccaughrean
McDowell, Jonathan C @planet4589
Minchin, Robert @Robminchin
Montargès, Miguel @mmontarges
Muñoz-Mateos, Juan Carlos @astro_jcm
Osborn, Hugh P @ExoHugh
Plait, Philip Cary @badastro
Rigby, Jane Rebecca @janerigby
Rivera-Thorsen, Thøger Emil @thriveth
Rivkin, Andrew S @asrivkin
Roukema, Boudewijn F @boud
Ruscica, Corrado @astrocorrus
Santander-Vela, Juan de Dios @juandesant
Santerne, Alexandre @AlexSanterne
Savchenko, Volodymyr @volodymyr
Schwamb, Meg E @megschwamb
Seidel, Julia Victoria @JuliaVSeidel
Serjeant, Stephen @stephenserjeant
Snowder, Brad @Skywise
Spindler, Ashley @DrAshleyNova
Stevance, Heloise F @sydonahi
Stevens, Abigail L @abbie
Tannock, Megan @AstronomerMegan
Tuomi, Mikko @mustapipa
U, Vivian @justtheletteru
Vazza, Franco @franco_vazza
Voggel, Karina @karinavoggel
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Winkel, Benjamin @HIprocessor
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Griffiths Paul T @paultgriffiths
Kreidberg, Laura @lkreidberg
McNeill, V Faye @vfmcneill
O'Brien, Rachel E @rachelOB1
Parrington, Mark @m_parrington
Pfannerstill, Eva Y @tilvi
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Saturno, Jorge @jorge
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Subramanian, R @subu_caps
Thoman Jr, Richard L @AlaskaWx
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de Froe, Evert @EvertFroe
Feist, Dietrich G @dgfeist
Fiss, Mackenzie @sacrebluecarbon
Haygood, Lauren @La_U_Re_N
Hauck, Judith @jhauck
Ilyina, Tatiana @TatianaIlyina
Jarochowska, Emilia @Emiliagnathus
Kolb, Steffen @Kolb2022
Lechleitner, Franziska @DrFranziskaAnna
Rafter, Patrick A @OceanAndClimate
Sponheimer, Matt @spon
Stachelek, Jemma @jsta
Thirumalai, Kaustubh @kau
Todd-Brown, Katherine EO @ktoddbrown
Torkelson, Jaclyn @DesertAndReef
Vidal, Alix @AlixVidalBiomechanics
Etienne, Jocelyn @jocelyn_etienne
Lee-Confer, Jonathan S @biomechanist
Mielke, Maja @MajaMielkeChemistry
Colombo, Giorgio @lab_colombo
Getzler, Yutan DYL @GetzlerChem
Hammann, Simon @simonhammann
Haas, Beth L @belehaa
Jones, Oliver AH @Dr_Oli_Jones
Kelley, Megan Elizabeth @MeganEKelley
Levine, Sam @SRLevine
MacDougall, Preston @ChemicalEyeGuy
Reid, Marc @reid_indeed
Sella, Andrea @sellathechemist
Serrano-Plana, Joan @JoanSP
Tate, Brandon K @brandontate
Volkov, Alexey I @lexolf
Walker-Franklin, Imari @calimari• Inorganic Chemistry
Ahmed, Taha @solarchemist
Berger, Raphael JF @rjf_berger
Neuman, Nicolas I @nicolas_neuman• Organic Chemistry
Majdecki, Maciej @MajdeckiMaciek
Malaska, Michael J @mike_malaska• Physical Chemistry
Ahmed, Taha @solarchemist
Armstrong, Chris @Rhodium103
Cramer, Christopher J @ChemProfCramer• Polymer Chemistry
Junkers, Tanja @polymerreactionFedi.Directory Chemistry
GitHub Chemists
Trunk ChemistryCosmology
Datrier, Laurence @ASleepyWanderer
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Hooper, Deanna C @dchooper91_cosmo
Lamman, Claire M @ClaireLamman
Mack, Katherine J @AstroKatie
McNees, Robert A @mcnees
Pomarède, Daniel @pomarede
Roukema, Boudewijn F @boud
Ruscica, Corrado @astrocorrus
Segal, Ethan @startswithabang
Serjeant, Stephen @stephenserjeant
Stevens, Abigail L @abbie
Walter, Christopher @ChrisWalterDendrochronology
Daly, Aoife @dendro_dk
Mast, Joy Nystrom @jnmast
Mills, Coralie @Dendrochronicle
Visser, Ronald @RonaldVisserfind.sciences.social Dendrochronology
GitHub DendrochronologistsEarth Science
Minarik, William G @silicatefondueFedi.Directory Earth Science
find.sciences.social Earth Science
GitHub Earth ScienceGeochemistry
Baker, Andy @Andbaker
Bhattacharya, Tripti @triptychphrases
Blanchet, Cécile @clblanchet
Boyle, Alan @apbliv
Faithfull, John W @FaithfullJohn
Foster, Gavin L @TheFosterLab
Fröhberg, Nico @NicoFroehberg
González, Diego @dgonzalez_geo
Gray, William R @willerstorfi
Greene, Sarah @carbonatefan
Lacey, Jack H @JackHLacey
Mallik, Ananya @DrRockChef
Minarik, William G @silicatefondue
Reiners, Peter @peterreiners
O'Shea, Bethany M @DrBethRocks
Stratford, James @jstratford
Witts, James D @jdwittsGeology
Andeweg, Bernd @berndandeweg
Bohon, Wendy @DrWendyRocks
Castano, Fernanda @Ferwen
Cyr, Andrew J @SFBoilermaker
Holt-Wilson, Tim @timholtwilson
Kirby, Rachel @fibreandspace
Knightly, J Paul @paulknightly
Messerman, Craig @cmflyer
Milkovich, Sarah @milkysa
Mitchell, Euan @MindOverMagma
Moreau, Julien @Boorhin
Munroe, Jeff @jmunroe
Pimentel, Carlos @doclomieu
Stevenson, Naomi @Almandine
Tapp, Bryan @oldguy52
Witts, James D @jdwittsTrunk Geology
Geomorphology
Alvioli, Massi @nocharge
Anderson, Ryan B @ryanbanderson
Bishop-Taylor, Robbi @SatelliteSci
Cyr, Andrew J @SFBoilermaker
Fielding, Eric J @EricFielding
Holt-Wilson, Tim @timholtwilson
Hui, Stephen @stephenhui
Jefferson, Anne J @annejefferson
Khare, Devayani @Geo_Sophist
Marshall, Jill A @happygeojill
Mason, Joe @MoreorLoess
Mast, Joy @jnmast
Moreau, Julien @Boorhin
Plummer, Ian M @IMPlumm
Shugar, Dan H @watershedlab
Sweeney, Kevin @kjsgeo
Veritas, Vicky @vickyveritasGeophysics
Grandin, Raphael @RaphaelGrandin
Jordahl, Kelsey A @kajord
Moreau, Julien @Boorhin
Plattner, Alain @AlainPlattner
Polet, Jascha @jascha
Rodríguez Liñán, Gustavo @gsrdzl
Stål, Tobias @TobyHydrology
Ali, Javed @javedali
Baker, Andy @Andbaker
Brobeck, Jim @BellTreeJim
Flores, Lejo @HydroLejo
Heisman, Evan @eheisman
Hildebrandt, Anke @ankehildebrandt
Jefferson, Anne J @annejefferson
Jehn, Florian Ulrich @florianjehn
Kratzert, Frederik @kratzert
Litwin, David G @davidglitwin
Özgen-Xian, Ilhan @ioezg
Robeson, Scott @indianaclimate
Saha, Anamitra @anamitra
Schymanski, Stanislaus J @schymans
Van de Velde, Jorn @jornvdv
Verkade, Jan @janverkadeMeteorology
Amsch, Jesper @jesper
Barnes-Keoghan, Ian @ibk
Büchau, Yann @nobodyinperson
Díaz, Gerry @geravitywave
Doering, Scott @Scott_wx
Ingalls, Mark @ingalls
Lightbown, Rob @crownweather
Sweeney, Kevin @kjsgeoFedi.Directory Weather, Climate and Meteorology
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Alonso-Orts, Manuel @manuelalonso
Cochard, Charlotte @CCochard
Delpierre, Julien @JulienDelpierre
Gaboriau, David @dgaboriau
Kelley, Megan Elizabeth @MeganEKelleyfind.sciences.social Nuclear Fusion
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Andrews, Samantha @oceanoculus
Bostock, Helen @HelenB
Czerski, Helen @helenczerski
de Jong Femke @Fmkdejong
Heuzé, Céline @ClnHz
Hill, Tessa M @ClimateTessa
Ilyina, Tatiana @TatianaIlyina
Jordahl, Kelsey A @kajord
Kuhlbrodt, Till @tillku
Lilly, Jonathan M @jmlilly
McClatchie, Sam @Huia_fishocean
Moffat, Carlos @carlosmoffat
Moreau, Julien @Boorhin
Rafter, Patrick @OceanAndClimatePalaeontology
Anderson, Brendan Matthew @Fossilsndcoffee
Audo, Denis @audodenis
Buckley, Lisa G @Lisavipes
Campbell, Micheline @michcampbell
Castano, Fernanda @Ferwen
Connolly, Andrew M @Fossilbonanza
Dooley, Alton C @AltonDooley
Harris, Jerry D @dinogami
Hegna, Thomas A @Thomashegna
Holtz, Thomas R @Arctomet
Jarochowska, Emilia @Emiliagnathus
Kiely, Jules @Palaeojules
Laville, Thomas @Ellivalcaris
Rowan, Chris @allochthonous
Sakamoto, Manabu @drmambobob
Smith, Adam Stuart @AdamStuartSmith
Stevenson, Naomi @Almandine
Taylor, Michael P @mike
Wang, Steve C @SteveWang251
Williamson, Thomas @ABQTom
Witton, Mark P @markwitton
Witts, James D @jdwitts
Yates, Adam M @alcootatooter• Palaeobiology
Anderson, Brendan Matthew @Fossilsndcoffee
De Baets, Kenneth @djbirddanerd
Holtz, Thomas R @Arctomet
Marsh, Anke @MarshScapes
Sakamoto, Manabu @drmambobob
Wagner, Peter J @PeterJWagner6• Palaeobotany
Coiro, Mario @Lepidodendron
Decombeix, Anne-Laure @ALDecombeix
Kiely, Jules @Palaeojules
Lydon, Susannah J @susieoftraken
Spencer, Alan RT @AlanRTSpencer
Vera, Ezequiel Ignacio @ezequielveraFedi.Directory Palaeontology
Trunk PalaeontologyPhysics - General
Alonso-Orts, Manuel @manuelalonso
Becke, Christopher @BeckePhysics
Byrne, Brendan @bbyrne
Czerski, Helen @helenczerski
Faez, Sanli @sanli
Frost, Jarvist Moore @Jarvist
Gaita-Ariño, Alejandro @agaitaarino
Halford, Alexa J @PlasmaNerd
Hooper, Deanna C @dchooper91_cosmo
Hossenfelder, Sabine @skdh
Jakubowski, Marcin @jakmarcin
Marmet, Louis @redshiftdrift
Martin, Alex @sidewalksciguy
Meyer, Carola @carbonwoman
Nittler, Larry R @LarryNittler
Smet, Philippe F @pfsmet
Truelove, Kelly @TrueSciPhi
Wade, Jessica Alice Feinmann @jesswade
Weir, David James @davidjamesweir
Winkless, Laurie @LaurieWinkless
Womack, Maria @Mwomack• Academic Physics
Bertolotti, Jacopo @j_bertolotti
Fressengeas, Nicolas @fresseng
Gugliucci, Nicole @noisyastronomer
Klimczak, Mariusz @mariuszklimczak
Knochel, Alexander K @quantensalat
McNees, Robert A @mcnees
Messerman, Craig @cmflyer
Stein, Leo C @duetosymmetry
Wenmackers, Sylvia @SylviaFysica
Wright, Bryan @catselbow• Astrophysics
Alexander, Emma @astronemma
Batalha, Natalie M @nbatalha
Becker, Adam @freelanceastro
Berry, Christopher PL @cplberry
Bertemes, Caroline @carobertemes
Bulbul, Esra @esrabulbul
Connor, Thomas @ThomasConnor
Danilovich, Taïssa @StellarAlchemist
Datrier, Laurence @ASleepyWanderer
Donaghy, Timothy @timdonaghy
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Dutil, Yvan @YvanDutil
Falcke, Heino D @hfalcke
Grinberg, Victoria @vicgrinberg
Hlozek, Renee @reneehlozek
Hughes, Anna Gwen @annaghughes
Hyde, Elaina @AstroHyde
Jenkins, James S @ProfDoubleJ
Kerins, Eamonn @eamonn_kerins
Kirwan, Andrew @starburps
Knödlseder, Jürgen @jknodlseder
Kramer, Roban Hultman @roban
Lepo, Kelly @kellylepo
Mack, Katherine J @AstroKatie
Mandow, Rami @CosmicRami
Masters, Karen L @karenlmasters
May, Erin M @_astronoMay
McDowell, Jonathan C @planet4589
Mingo, Beatriz @ognimaeb
Montargès, Miguel @mmontarges
Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda @chanda
Prinoth, Bibiana @bibianaprinoth
Qin, Juehang @qinjuehang
Rincon, François @jaztrophysicist
Roukema, Boudewijn F @boud
Ruscica, Corrado @astrocorrus
Schnittman, Jeremy @SchnittGetsReal
Schuh, Sonja @schuh
Segal, Ethan @startswithabang
Seidel, Julia Victoria @JuliaVSeidel
Stein, Leo C @duetosymmetry
Stevance, Heloise F @sydonahi
Tasker, Elizabeth J @elizabethtasker
Triana, Santiago Andrés @repepo
Truelove, Kelly @TrueSciPhi
Vazza, Franco @franco_vazza
Woodrum, Charity @AstroWoodrumFedi.Directory Planetary Astrophysics
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Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Gaita-Ariño, Alejandro @agaitaarino
Secular, Paul @secular
Stevance, Heloise F @sydonahi
Weir, David James @davidjamesweir
Whelan, John T @jtwsma• Condensed Matter Physics
Alonso-Orts, Manuel @manuelalonso
Dodge, J Steven @jsdodge
Natelson, Douglas @Nanoscale• Geophysics - in separate category above
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Riley, Lewis A @lewriley
Rofer, Cheryl K @CherylRofer
Wright, Bryan @catselbow• Optical Physics
Dodge, J Steven @jsdodge
Gbur, Gregory J @drskyskull
Klimczak, Mariusz @mariuszklimczak• Particle Physics
Blekman, Freya @freyablekman
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Falcke, Heino D @hfalcke
Lee, Claire @Claire_Lee
Olsen, Veronica Berglyd @veronica
Walter, Christopher @ChrisWalter
Zaslavsky, David @diazona• Quantum Physics
Chatzikyriakou, Eleni @eleni
Ronzani, Alberto @aronza
Taylor, Natasha B @TashTaylor• Theoretical Physics
Carroll, Sean M @seanmcarroll
Komin, Niko @kokemikal
Marquardt, Florian @FMarquardtGroup
Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda @chanda
Preskill, John @preskill
Schubotz, Moritz @schubotz
Stacey, Blake C @bstacey
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Anderson, Ryan B @ryanbanderson
Appéré, Thomas @thomas_appere
Batalha, Natalie M @nbatalha
Bannister, Michele T @astrokiwi
Brown, Michael E @Mikebrown
Busch, Michael W @michael_w_busch
Calef, Fred @mapperwocky
Campos Estrada, Beatriz @exobeatriz
Cowart, Aster JC @TerraSabaea
Deppe, Stephanie JH @spacescisteph
Hauck II, Steven A @hauck
Ile-de-France Planets @IDF_Planets
Jenkins, James S @ProfDoubleJ
Kerins, Eamonn @eamonn_kerins
Knightly, J Paul @paulknightly
Kreidberg, Laura @lkreidberg
Lakdawalla, Emily @elakdawalla
Malaska, Michael J @mike_malaska
May, Erin M @_astronoMay
Mayorga, Laura C @mayorgalc
Milkovich, Sarah @milkysa
Nittler, Larry R @LarryNittler
O'Donoghue, James @Physicsj
Osborn, Hugh P @ExoHugh
Persaud, Divya M @divya
Porco, Carolyn C @carolynporco
Prinoth, Bibiana @bibianaprinoth
Rivkin, Andrew S @asrivkin
Santerne, Alexandre @AlexSanterne
Schwamb, Meg E @megschwamb
Seidel, Julia Victoria @JuliaVSeidel
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Deppe, Stephanie JH @spacescisteph
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Hancock, Terry @TerryHancock
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McNees, Robert A @mcnees
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Roukema, Boudewijn F @boud
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Walter, Christopher @ChrisWalterDendrochronology
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Mast, Joy Nystrom @jnmast
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Alvioli, Massi @nocharge
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Hui, Stephen @stephenhui
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Khare, Devayani @Geo_Sophist
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Mast, Joy @jnmast
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Plummer, Ian M @IMPlumm
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Veritas, Vicky @vickyveritasGeophysics
Grandin, Raphael @RaphaelGrandin
Jordahl, Kelsey A @kajord
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Plattner, Alain @AlainPlattner
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Díaz, Gerry @geravitywave
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Lightbown, Rob @crownweather
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Witts, James D @jdwitts
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Mandow, Rami @CosmicRami
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Mingo, Beatriz @ognimaeb
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Prinoth, Bibiana @bibianaprinoth
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Schuh, Sonja @schuh
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Steinmeyer, Marie-Luise @astroml
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Connor, Thomas @ThomasConnor
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Deppe, Stephanie JH @spacescisteph
Dickinson, David @AstroDave
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
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Fischer, Daniel @cosmos4u
Gay, Pamela L @starstryder
Gugliucci, Nicole @noisyastronomer
Hancock, Terry @TerryHancock
Hartke, Johanna @johannahartke
Hunt, Emily @emilydoesastro
Kendrew, Sarah @sarahkendrew
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Kramer, Roban Hultman @roban
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Lawler, Samantha @sundogplanets
Lepo, Kelly @kellylepo
Mandow, Rami @CosmicRami
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May, Erin M @_astronoMay
Mayorga, Laura C @mayorgalc
McCaughrean, Mark @markmccaughrean
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Muñoz-Mateos, Juan Carlos @astro_jcm
Osborn, Hugh P @ExoHugh
Plait, Philip Cary @badastro
Rigby, Jane Rebecca @janerigby
Rivera-Thorsen, Thøger Emil @thriveth
Rivkin, Andrew S @asrivkin
Roukema, Boudewijn F @boud
Ruscica, Corrado @astrocorrus
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Santerne, Alexandre @AlexSanterne
Savchenko, Volodymyr @volodymyr
Schwamb, Meg E @megschwamb
Seidel, Julia Victoria @JuliaVSeidel
Serjeant, Stephen @stephenserjeant
Snowder, Brad @Skywise
Spindler, Ashley @DrAshleyNova
Stevance, Heloise F @sydonahi
Stevens, Abigail L @abbie
Tannock, Megan @AstronomerMegan
Tuomi, Mikko @mustapipa
U, Vivian @justtheletteru
Vazza, Franco @franco_vazza
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Campitelli, Elio @eliocamp
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Griffiths Paul T @paultgriffiths
Kreidberg, Laura @lkreidberg
McNeill, V Faye @vfmcneill
O'Brien, Rachel E @rachelOB1
Parrington, Mark @m_parrington
Pfannerstill, Eva Y @tilvi
Saha, Anamitra @anamitra
Saturno, Jorge @jorge
Schymanski, Stanislaus J @schymans
Subramanian, R @subu_caps
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Haygood, Lauren @La_U_Re_N
Hauck, Judith @jhauck
Ilyina, Tatiana @TatianaIlyina
Jarochowska, Emilia @Emiliagnathus
Kolb, Steffen @Kolb2022
Lechleitner, Franziska @DrFranziskaAnna
Rafter, Patrick A @OceanAndClimate
Sponheimer, Matt @spon
Stachelek, Jemma @jsta
Thirumalai, Kaustubh @kau
Todd-Brown, Katherine EO @ktoddbrown
Torkelson, Jaclyn @DesertAndReef
Vidal, Alix @AlixVidalBiomechanics
Etienne, Jocelyn @jocelyn_etienne
Lee-Confer, Jonathan S @biomechanist
Mielke, Maja @MajaMielkeChemistry
Colombo, Giorgio @lab_colombo
Getzler, Yutan DYL @GetzlerChem
Hammann, Simon @simonhammann
Haas, Beth L @belehaa
Jones, Oliver AH @Dr_Oli_Jones
Kelley, Megan Elizabeth @MeganEKelley
Levine, Sam @SRLevine
MacDougall, Preston @ChemicalEyeGuy
Reid, Marc @reid_indeed
Sella, Andrea @sellathechemist
Serrano-Plana, Joan @JoanSP
Tate, Brandon K @brandontate
Volkov, Alexey I @lexolf
Walker-Franklin, Imari @calimari• Inorganic Chemistry
Ahmed, Taha @solarchemist
Berger, Raphael JF @rjf_berger
Neuman, Nicolas I @nicolas_neuman• Organic Chemistry
Majdecki, Maciej @MajdeckiMaciek
Malaska, Michael J @mike_malaska• Physical Chemistry
Ahmed, Taha @solarchemist
Armstrong, Chris @Rhodium103
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Datrier, Laurence @ASleepyWanderer
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Hooper, Deanna C @dchooper91_cosmo
Lamman, Claire M @ClaireLamman
Mack, Katherine J @AstroKatie
McNees, Robert A @mcnees
Pomarède, Daniel @pomarede
Roukema, Boudewijn F @boud
Ruscica, Corrado @astrocorrus
Segal, Ethan @startswithabang
Serjeant, Stephen @stephenserjeant
Stevens, Abigail L @abbie
Walter, Christopher @ChrisWalterDendrochronology
Daly, Aoife @dendro_dk
Mast, Joy Nystrom @jnmast
Mills, Coralie @Dendrochronicle
Visser, Ronald @RonaldVisserfind.sciences.social Dendrochronology
GitHub DendrochronologistsEarth Science
Minarik, William G @silicatefondueFedi.Directory Earth Science
find.sciences.social Earth Science
GitHub Earth ScienceGeochemistry
Baker, Andy @Andbaker
Bhattacharya, Tripti @triptychphrases
Blanchet, Cécile @clblanchet
Boyle, Alan @apbliv
Faithfull, John W @FaithfullJohn
Foster, Gavin L @TheFosterLab
Fröhberg, Nico @NicoFroehberg
González, Diego @dgonzalez_geo
Gray, William R @willerstorfi
Greene, Sarah @carbonatefan
Lacey, Jack H @JackHLacey
Mallik, Ananya @DrRockChef
Minarik, William G @silicatefondue
Reiners, Peter @peterreiners
O'Shea, Bethany M @DrBethRocks
Stratford, James @jstratford
Witts, James D @jdwittsGeology
Andeweg, Bernd @berndandeweg
Bohon, Wendy @DrWendyRocks
Castano, Fernanda @Ferwen
Cyr, Andrew J @SFBoilermaker
Holt-Wilson, Tim @timholtwilson
Kirby, Rachel @fibreandspace
Knightly, J Paul @paulknightly
Messerman, Craig @cmflyer
Milkovich, Sarah @milkysa
Mitchell, Euan @MindOverMagma
Moreau, Julien @Boorhin
Munroe, Jeff @jmunroe
Pimentel, Carlos @doclomieu
Stevenson, Naomi @Almandine
Tapp, Bryan @oldguy52
Witts, James D @jdwittsTrunk Geology
Geomorphology
Alvioli, Massi @nocharge
Anderson, Ryan B @ryanbanderson
Bishop-Taylor, Robbi @SatelliteSci
Cyr, Andrew J @SFBoilermaker
Fielding, Eric J @EricFielding
Holt-Wilson, Tim @timholtwilson
Hui, Stephen @stephenhui
Jefferson, Anne J @annejefferson
Khare, Devayani @Geo_Sophist
Marshall, Jill A @happygeojill
Mason, Joe @MoreorLoess
Mast, Joy @jnmast
Moreau, Julien @Boorhin
Plummer, Ian M @IMPlumm
Shugar, Dan H @watershedlab
Sweeney, Kevin @kjsgeo
Veritas, Vicky @vickyveritasGeophysics
Grandin, Raphael @RaphaelGrandin
Jordahl, Kelsey A @kajord
Moreau, Julien @Boorhin
Plattner, Alain @AlainPlattner
Polet, Jascha @jascha
Rodríguez Liñán, Gustavo @gsrdzl
Stål, Tobias @TobyHydrology
Ali, Javed @javedali
Baker, Andy @Andbaker
Brobeck, Jim @BellTreeJim
Flores, Lejo @HydroLejo
Heisman, Evan @eheisman
Hildebrandt, Anke @ankehildebrandt
Jefferson, Anne J @annejefferson
Jehn, Florian Ulrich @florianjehn
Kratzert, Frederik @kratzert
Litwin, David G @davidglitwin
Özgen-Xian, Ilhan @ioezg
Robeson, Scott @indianaclimate
Saha, Anamitra @anamitra
Schymanski, Stanislaus J @schymans
Van de Velde, Jorn @jornvdv
Verkade, Jan @janverkadeMeteorology
Amsch, Jesper @jesper
Barnes-Keoghan, Ian @ibk
Büchau, Yann @nobodyinperson
Díaz, Gerry @geravitywave
Doering, Scott @Scott_wx
Ingalls, Mark @ingalls
Lightbown, Rob @crownweather
Sweeney, Kevin @kjsgeoFedi.Directory Weather, Climate and Meteorology
GitHub Meteorology & Weather
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Alonso-Orts, Manuel @manuelalonso
Cochard, Charlotte @CCochard
Delpierre, Julien @JulienDelpierre
Gaboriau, David @dgaboriau
Kelley, Megan Elizabeth @MeganEKelleyfind.sciences.social Nuclear Fusion
GitHub Nuclear FusionOceanography
Andrews, Samantha @oceanoculus
Bostock, Helen @HelenB
Czerski, Helen @helenczerski
de Jong Femke @Fmkdejong
Heuzé, Céline @ClnHz
Hill, Tessa M @ClimateTessa
Ilyina, Tatiana @TatianaIlyina
Jordahl, Kelsey A @kajord
Kuhlbrodt, Till @tillku
Lilly, Jonathan M @jmlilly
McClatchie, Sam @Huia_fishocean
Moffat, Carlos @carlosmoffat
Moreau, Julien @Boorhin
Rafter, Patrick @OceanAndClimatePalaeontology
Anderson, Brendan Matthew @Fossilsndcoffee
Audo, Denis @audodenis
Buckley, Lisa G @Lisavipes
Campbell, Micheline @michcampbell
Castano, Fernanda @Ferwen
Connolly, Andrew M @Fossilbonanza
Dooley, Alton C @AltonDooley
Harris, Jerry D @dinogami
Hegna, Thomas A @Thomashegna
Holtz, Thomas R @Arctomet
Jarochowska, Emilia @Emiliagnathus
Kiely, Jules @Palaeojules
Laville, Thomas @Ellivalcaris
Rowan, Chris @allochthonous
Sakamoto, Manabu @drmambobob
Smith, Adam Stuart @AdamStuartSmith
Stevenson, Naomi @Almandine
Taylor, Michael P @mike
Wang, Steve C @SteveWang251
Williamson, Thomas @ABQTom
Witton, Mark P @markwitton
Witts, James D @jdwitts
Yates, Adam M @alcootatooter• Palaeobiology
Anderson, Brendan Matthew @Fossilsndcoffee
De Baets, Kenneth @djbirddanerd
Holtz, Thomas R @Arctomet
Marsh, Anke @MarshScapes
Sakamoto, Manabu @drmambobob
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Coiro, Mario @Lepidodendron
Decombeix, Anne-Laure @ALDecombeix
Kiely, Jules @Palaeojules
Lydon, Susannah J @susieoftraken
Spencer, Alan RT @AlanRTSpencer
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Alonso-Orts, Manuel @manuelalonso
Becke, Christopher @BeckePhysics
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Czerski, Helen @helenczerski
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Hooper, Deanna C @dchooper91_cosmo
Hossenfelder, Sabine @skdh
Jakubowski, Marcin @jakmarcin
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Nittler, Larry R @LarryNittler
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Truelove, Kelly @TrueSciPhi
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Messerman, Craig @cmflyer
Stein, Leo C @duetosymmetry
Wenmackers, Sylvia @SylviaFysica
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Batalha, Natalie M @nbatalha
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Connor, Thomas @ThomasConnor
Danilovich, Taïssa @StellarAlchemist
Datrier, Laurence @ASleepyWanderer
Donaghy, Timothy @timdonaghy
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Dutil, Yvan @YvanDutil
Falcke, Heino D @hfalcke
Grinberg, Victoria @vicgrinberg
Hlozek, Renee @reneehlozek
Hughes, Anna Gwen @annaghughes
Hyde, Elaina @AstroHyde
Jenkins, James S @ProfDoubleJ
Kerins, Eamonn @eamonn_kerins
Kirwan, Andrew @starburps
Knödlseder, Jürgen @jknodlseder
Kramer, Roban Hultman @roban
Lepo, Kelly @kellylepo
Mack, Katherine J @AstroKatie
Mandow, Rami @CosmicRami
Masters, Karen L @karenlmasters
May, Erin M @_astronoMay
McDowell, Jonathan C @planet4589
Mingo, Beatriz @ognimaeb
Montargès, Miguel @mmontarges
Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda @chanda
Prinoth, Bibiana @bibianaprinoth
Qin, Juehang @qinjuehang
Rincon, François @jaztrophysicist
Roukema, Boudewijn F @boud
Ruscica, Corrado @astrocorrus
Schnittman, Jeremy @SchnittGetsReal
Schuh, Sonja @schuh
Segal, Ethan @startswithabang
Seidel, Julia Victoria @JuliaVSeidel
Stein, Leo C @duetosymmetry
Stevance, Heloise F @sydonahi
Tasker, Elizabeth J @elizabethtasker
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Marquardt, Florian @FMarquardtGroup
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Calef, Fred @mapperwocky
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Hauck II, Steven A @hauck
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May, Erin M @_astronoMay
Mayorga, Laura C @mayorgalc
Milkovich, Sarah @milkysa
Nittler, Larry R @LarryNittler
O'Donoghue, James @Physicsj
Osborn, Hugh P @ExoHugh
Persaud, Divya M @divya
Porco, Carolyn C @carolynporco
Prinoth, Bibiana @bibianaprinoth
Rivkin, Andrew S @asrivkin
Santerne, Alexandre @AlexSanterne
Schwamb, Meg E @megschwamb
Seidel, Julia Victoria @JuliaVSeidel
Steinmeyer, Marie-Luise @astroml
Tasker, Elizabeth J @elizabethtasker
Tuomi, Mikko @mustapipa
Wakeford, Hannah @Stellarplanet
Wieczorek, Mark @mrak
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Brown, Michael E @Mikebrown
Brunthaler, Andreas @brunthal
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Cabanela, Juan E @Juan_Kinda_Guy
Connor, Thomas @ThomasConnor
Crawford, Steven M @crawfordsm
Danilovich, Taïssa @StellarAlchemist
Davenport, James RA @jradavenport
Deppe, Stephanie JH @spacescisteph
Dickinson, David @AstroDave
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Engesser, Michael @Messenger
Fischer, Daniel @cosmos4u
Gay, Pamela L @starstryder
Gugliucci, Nicole @noisyastronomer
Hancock, Terry @TerryHancock
Hartke, Johanna @johannahartke
Hunt, Emily @emilydoesastro
Kendrew, Sarah @sarahkendrew
Knödlseder, Jürgen @jknodlseder
Kramer, Roban Hultman @roban
Kreidberg, Laura @lkreidberg
Lawler, Samantha @sundogplanets
Lepo, Kelly @kellylepo
Mandow, Rami @CosmicRami
Mangum, Jeff G @JeffMangum
May, Erin M @_astronoMay
Mayorga, Laura C @mayorgalc
McCaughrean, Mark @markmccaughrean
McDowell, Jonathan C @planet4589
Minchin, Robert @Robminchin
Montargès, Miguel @mmontarges
Muñoz-Mateos, Juan Carlos @astro_jcm
Osborn, Hugh P @ExoHugh
Plait, Philip Cary @badastro
Rigby, Jane Rebecca @janerigby
Rivera-Thorsen, Thøger Emil @thriveth
Rivkin, Andrew S @asrivkin
Roukema, Boudewijn F @boud
Ruscica, Corrado @astrocorrus
Santander-Vela, Juan de Dios @juandesant
Santerne, Alexandre @AlexSanterne
Savchenko, Volodymyr @volodymyr
Schwamb, Meg E @megschwamb
Seidel, Julia Victoria @JuliaVSeidel
Serjeant, Stephen @stephenserjeant
Snowder, Brad @Skywise
Spindler, Ashley @DrAshleyNova
Stevance, Heloise F @sydonahi
Stevens, Abigail L @abbie
Tannock, Megan @AstronomerMegan
Tuomi, Mikko @mustapipa
U, Vivian @justtheletteru
Vazza, Franco @franco_vazza
Voggel, Karina @karinavoggel
Wakeford, Hannah @Stellarplanet
Winkel, Benjamin @HIprocessor
Wu, John F @jwuphysicsFedi.Directory Astronomy
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Campitelli, Elio @eliocamp
Chakraborty, Tirthankar @TC_Chakraborty
Feist, Dietrich G @dgfeist
Gassó, Santiago @SanGasso
Griffiths Paul T @paultgriffiths
Kreidberg, Laura @lkreidberg
McNeill, V Faye @vfmcneill
O'Brien, Rachel E @rachelOB1
Parrington, Mark @m_parrington
Pfannerstill, Eva Y @tilvi
Saha, Anamitra @anamitra
Saturno, Jorge @jorge
Schymanski, Stanislaus J @schymans
Subramanian, R @subu_caps
Thoman Jr, Richard L @AlaskaWx
Uma, Alaska @alaskaumafind.sciences.social Atmospheric Science and Air Quality
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Plomp, Esther @toothFAIRyBiogeochemistry
de Froe, Evert @EvertFroe
Feist, Dietrich G @dgfeist
Fiss, Mackenzie @sacrebluecarbon
Haygood, Lauren @La_U_Re_N
Hauck, Judith @jhauck
Ilyina, Tatiana @TatianaIlyina
Jarochowska, Emilia @Emiliagnathus
Kolb, Steffen @Kolb2022
Lechleitner, Franziska @DrFranziskaAnna
Rafter, Patrick A @OceanAndClimate
Sponheimer, Matt @spon
Stachelek, Jemma @jsta
Thirumalai, Kaustubh @kau
Todd-Brown, Katherine EO @ktoddbrown
Torkelson, Jaclyn @DesertAndReef
Vidal, Alix @AlixVidalBiomechanics
Etienne, Jocelyn @jocelyn_etienne
Lee-Confer, Jonathan S @biomechanist
Mielke, Maja @MajaMielkeChemistry
Colombo, Giorgio @lab_colombo
Getzler, Yutan DYL @GetzlerChem
Hammann, Simon @simonhammann
Haas, Beth L @belehaa
Jones, Oliver AH @Dr_Oli_Jones
Kelley, Megan Elizabeth @MeganEKelley
Levine, Sam @SRLevine
MacDougall, Preston @ChemicalEyeGuy
Reid, Marc @reid_indeed
Sella, Andrea @sellathechemist
Serrano-Plana, Joan @JoanSP
Tate, Brandon K @brandontate
Volkov, Alexey I @lexolf
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Ahmed, Taha @solarchemist
Berger, Raphael JF @rjf_berger
Neuman, Nicolas I @nicolas_neuman• Organic Chemistry
Majdecki, Maciej @MajdeckiMaciek
Malaska, Michael J @mike_malaska• Physical Chemistry
Ahmed, Taha @solarchemist
Armstrong, Chris @Rhodium103
Cramer, Christopher J @ChemProfCramer• Polymer Chemistry
Junkers, Tanja @polymerreactionFedi.Directory Chemistry
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Datrier, Laurence @ASleepyWanderer
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Hooper, Deanna C @dchooper91_cosmo
Lamman, Claire M @ClaireLamman
Mack, Katherine J @AstroKatie
McNees, Robert A @mcnees
Pomarède, Daniel @pomarede
Roukema, Boudewijn F @boud
Ruscica, Corrado @astrocorrus
Segal, Ethan @startswithabang
Serjeant, Stephen @stephenserjeant
Stevens, Abigail L @abbie
Walter, Christopher @ChrisWalterDendrochronology
Daly, Aoife @dendro_dk
Mast, Joy Nystrom @jnmast
Mills, Coralie @Dendrochronicle
Visser, Ronald @RonaldVisserfind.sciences.social Dendrochronology
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Baker, Andy @Andbaker
Bhattacharya, Tripti @triptychphrases
Blanchet, Cécile @clblanchet
Boyle, Alan @apbliv
Faithfull, John W @FaithfullJohn
Foster, Gavin L @TheFosterLab
Fröhberg, Nico @NicoFroehberg
González, Diego @dgonzalez_geo
Gray, William R @willerstorfi
Greene, Sarah @carbonatefan
Lacey, Jack H @JackHLacey
Mallik, Ananya @DrRockChef
Minarik, William G @silicatefondue
Reiners, Peter @peterreiners
O'Shea, Bethany M @DrBethRocks
Stratford, James @jstratford
Witts, James D @jdwittsGeology
Andeweg, Bernd @berndandeweg
Bohon, Wendy @DrWendyRocks
Castano, Fernanda @Ferwen
Cyr, Andrew J @SFBoilermaker
Holt-Wilson, Tim @timholtwilson
Kirby, Rachel @fibreandspace
Knightly, J Paul @paulknightly
Messerman, Craig @cmflyer
Milkovich, Sarah @milkysa
Mitchell, Euan @MindOverMagma
Moreau, Julien @Boorhin
Munroe, Jeff @jmunroe
Pimentel, Carlos @doclomieu
Stevenson, Naomi @Almandine
Tapp, Bryan @oldguy52
Witts, James D @jdwittsTrunk Geology
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Alvioli, Massi @nocharge
Anderson, Ryan B @ryanbanderson
Bishop-Taylor, Robbi @SatelliteSci
Cyr, Andrew J @SFBoilermaker
Fielding, Eric J @EricFielding
Holt-Wilson, Tim @timholtwilson
Hui, Stephen @stephenhui
Jefferson, Anne J @annejefferson
Khare, Devayani @Geo_Sophist
Marshall, Jill A @happygeojill
Mason, Joe @MoreorLoess
Mast, Joy @jnmast
Moreau, Julien @Boorhin
Plummer, Ian M @IMPlumm
Shugar, Dan H @watershedlab
Sweeney, Kevin @kjsgeo
Veritas, Vicky @vickyveritasGeophysics
Grandin, Raphael @RaphaelGrandin
Jordahl, Kelsey A @kajord
Moreau, Julien @Boorhin
Plattner, Alain @AlainPlattner
Polet, Jascha @jascha
Rodríguez Liñán, Gustavo @gsrdzl
Stål, Tobias @TobyHydrology
Ali, Javed @javedali
Baker, Andy @Andbaker
Brobeck, Jim @BellTreeJim
Flores, Lejo @HydroLejo
Heisman, Evan @eheisman
Hildebrandt, Anke @ankehildebrandt
Jefferson, Anne J @annejefferson
Jehn, Florian Ulrich @florianjehn
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Saha, Anamitra @anamitra
Schymanski, Stanislaus J @schymans
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Amsch, Jesper @jesper
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Büchau, Yann @nobodyinperson
Díaz, Gerry @geravitywave
Doering, Scott @Scott_wx
Ingalls, Mark @ingalls
Lightbown, Rob @crownweather
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Delpierre, Julien @JulienDelpierre
Gaboriau, David @dgaboriau
Kelley, Megan Elizabeth @MeganEKelleyfind.sciences.social Nuclear Fusion
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Andrews, Samantha @oceanoculus
Bostock, Helen @HelenB
Czerski, Helen @helenczerski
de Jong Femke @Fmkdejong
Heuzé, Céline @ClnHz
Hill, Tessa M @ClimateTessa
Ilyina, Tatiana @TatianaIlyina
Jordahl, Kelsey A @kajord
Kuhlbrodt, Till @tillku
Lilly, Jonathan M @jmlilly
McClatchie, Sam @Huia_fishocean
Moffat, Carlos @carlosmoffat
Moreau, Julien @Boorhin
Rafter, Patrick @OceanAndClimatePalaeontology
Anderson, Brendan Matthew @Fossilsndcoffee
Audo, Denis @audodenis
Buckley, Lisa G @Lisavipes
Campbell, Micheline @michcampbell
Castano, Fernanda @Ferwen
Connolly, Andrew M @Fossilbonanza
Dooley, Alton C @AltonDooley
Harris, Jerry D @dinogami
Hegna, Thomas A @Thomashegna
Holtz, Thomas R @Arctomet
Jarochowska, Emilia @Emiliagnathus
Kiely, Jules @Palaeojules
Laville, Thomas @Ellivalcaris
Rowan, Chris @allochthonous
Sakamoto, Manabu @drmambobob
Smith, Adam Stuart @AdamStuartSmith
Stevenson, Naomi @Almandine
Taylor, Michael P @mike
Wang, Steve C @SteveWang251
Williamson, Thomas @ABQTom
Witton, Mark P @markwitton
Witts, James D @jdwitts
Yates, Adam M @alcootatooter• Palaeobiology
Anderson, Brendan Matthew @Fossilsndcoffee
De Baets, Kenneth @djbirddanerd
Holtz, Thomas R @Arctomet
Marsh, Anke @MarshScapes
Sakamoto, Manabu @drmambobob
Wagner, Peter J @PeterJWagner6• Palaeobotany
Coiro, Mario @Lepidodendron
Decombeix, Anne-Laure @ALDecombeix
Kiely, Jules @Palaeojules
Lydon, Susannah J @susieoftraken
Spencer, Alan RT @AlanRTSpencer
Vera, Ezequiel Ignacio @ezequielveraFedi.Directory Palaeontology
Trunk PalaeontologyPhysics - General
Alonso-Orts, Manuel @manuelalonso
Becke, Christopher @BeckePhysics
Byrne, Brendan @bbyrne
Czerski, Helen @helenczerski
Faez, Sanli @sanli
Frost, Jarvist Moore @Jarvist
Gaita-Ariño, Alejandro @agaitaarino
Halford, Alexa J @PlasmaNerd
Hooper, Deanna C @dchooper91_cosmo
Hossenfelder, Sabine @skdh
Jakubowski, Marcin @jakmarcin
Marmet, Louis @redshiftdrift
Martin, Alex @sidewalksciguy
Meyer, Carola @carbonwoman
Nittler, Larry R @LarryNittler
Smet, Philippe F @pfsmet
Truelove, Kelly @TrueSciPhi
Wade, Jessica Alice Feinmann @jesswade
Weir, David James @davidjamesweir
Winkless, Laurie @LaurieWinkless
Womack, Maria @Mwomack• Academic Physics
Bertolotti, Jacopo @j_bertolotti
Fressengeas, Nicolas @fresseng
Gugliucci, Nicole @noisyastronomer
Klimczak, Mariusz @mariuszklimczak
Knochel, Alexander K @quantensalat
McNees, Robert A @mcnees
Messerman, Craig @cmflyer
Stein, Leo C @duetosymmetry
Wenmackers, Sylvia @SylviaFysica
Wright, Bryan @catselbow• Astrophysics
Alexander, Emma @astronemma
Batalha, Natalie M @nbatalha
Becker, Adam @freelanceastro
Berry, Christopher PL @cplberry
Bertemes, Caroline @carobertemes
Bulbul, Esra @esrabulbul
Connor, Thomas @ThomasConnor
Danilovich, Taïssa @StellarAlchemist
Datrier, Laurence @ASleepyWanderer
Donaghy, Timothy @timdonaghy
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Dutil, Yvan @YvanDutil
Falcke, Heino D @hfalcke
Grinberg, Victoria @vicgrinberg
Hlozek, Renee @reneehlozek
Hughes, Anna Gwen @annaghughes
Hyde, Elaina @AstroHyde
Jenkins, James S @ProfDoubleJ
Kerins, Eamonn @eamonn_kerins
Kirwan, Andrew @starburps
Knödlseder, Jürgen @jknodlseder
Kramer, Roban Hultman @roban
Lepo, Kelly @kellylepo
Mack, Katherine J @AstroKatie
Mandow, Rami @CosmicRami
Masters, Karen L @karenlmasters
May, Erin M @_astronoMay
McDowell, Jonathan C @planet4589
Mingo, Beatriz @ognimaeb
Montargès, Miguel @mmontarges
Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda @chanda
Prinoth, Bibiana @bibianaprinoth
Qin, Juehang @qinjuehang
Rincon, François @jaztrophysicist
Roukema, Boudewijn F @boud
Ruscica, Corrado @astrocorrus
Schnittman, Jeremy @SchnittGetsReal
Schuh, Sonja @schuh
Segal, Ethan @startswithabang
Seidel, Julia Victoria @JuliaVSeidel
Stein, Leo C @duetosymmetry
Stevance, Heloise F @sydonahi
Tasker, Elizabeth J @elizabethtasker
Triana, Santiago Andrés @repepo
Truelove, Kelly @TrueSciPhi
Vazza, Franco @franco_vazza
Woodrum, Charity @AstroWoodrumFedi.Directory Planetary Astrophysics
GitHub Astrophysicists
@AstroMigration Follows & boosts Astronomy, Astrophysics & Space experts• Biophysics
Under Applied Science Biophysics• Computational Physics
Andreani, Virgile @Armavica
Dellago, Christoph @CHHDellago
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Gaita-Ariño, Alejandro @agaitaarino
Secular, Paul @secular
Stevance, Heloise F @sydonahi
Weir, David James @davidjamesweir
Whelan, John T @jtwsma• Condensed Matter Physics
Alonso-Orts, Manuel @manuelalonso
Dodge, J Steven @jsdodge
Natelson, Douglas @Nanoscale• Geophysics - in separate category above
• Nuclear Physics
Riley, Lewis A @lewriley
Rofer, Cheryl K @CherylRofer
Wright, Bryan @catselbow• Optical Physics
Dodge, J Steven @jsdodge
Gbur, Gregory J @drskyskull
Klimczak, Mariusz @mariuszklimczak• Particle Physics
Blekman, Freya @freyablekman
Dorsher, Steven @sdorsher
Falcke, Heino D @hfalcke
Lee, Claire @Claire_Lee
Olsen, Veronica Berglyd @veronica
Walter, Christopher @ChrisWalter
Zaslavsky, David @diazona• Quantum Physics
Chatzikyriakou, Eleni @eleni
Ronzani, Alberto @aronza
Taylor, Natasha B @TashTaylor• Theoretical Physics
Carroll, Sean M @seanmcarroll
Komin, Niko @kokemikal
Marquardt, Florian @FMarquardtGroup
Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda @chanda
Preskill, John @preskill
Schubotz, Moritz @schubotz
Stacey, Blake C @bstacey
Stein, Leo C @duetosymmetryFedi.Directory Physics
TrueSciPhi Physicists
Trunk PhysicsPlanetary Science
Anderson, Ryan B @ryanbanderson
Appéré, Thomas @thomas_appere
Batalha, Natalie M @nbatalha
Bannister, Michele T @astrokiwi
Brown, Michael E @Mikebrown
Busch, Michael W @michael_w_busch
Calef, Fred @mapperwocky
Campos Estrada, Beatriz @exobeatriz
Cowart, Aster JC @TerraSabaea
Deppe, Stephanie JH @spacescisteph
Hauck II, Steven A @hauck
Ile-de-France Planets @IDF_Planets
Jenkins, James S @ProfDoubleJ
Kerins, Eamonn @eamonn_kerins
Knightly, J Paul @paulknightly
Kreidberg, Laura @lkreidberg
Lakdawalla, Emily @elakdawalla
Malaska, Michael J @mike_malaska
May, Erin M @_astronoMay
Mayorga, Laura C @mayorgalc
Milkovich, Sarah @milkysa
Nittler, Larry R @LarryNittler
O'Donoghue, James @Physicsj
Osborn, Hugh P @ExoHugh
Persaud, Divya M @divya
Porco, Carolyn C @carolynporco
Prinoth, Bibiana @bibianaprinoth
Rivkin, Andrew S @asrivkin
Santerne, Alexandre @AlexSanterne
Schwamb, Meg E @megschwamb
Seidel, Julia Victoria @JuliaVSeidel
Steinmeyer, Marie-Luise @astroml
Tasker, Elizabeth J @elizabethtasker
Tuomi, Mikko @mustapipa
Wakeford, Hannah @Stellarplanet
Wieczorek, Mark @mrak
Womack, Maria @MwomackFedi.Directory Planetary Astronomy
GitHub Planetary ScienceSpace Science
Fischer, Daniel @cosmos4u
Kirby, Rachel @fibreandspace
Stevens, Abigail L @abbie
@AstroMigration Follows & boosts Astronomy, Astrophysics & Space expertsSpectroscopy
Alonso-Orts, Manuel @manuelalonso
Anderson, Ryan B @ryanbanderson
Bowman, Sarah EJ @XtalMaker
Cochard, Charlotte @CCochard
Konda, Prathyusha @prats
Krapohl, David @dkrapohl
Marmet, Louis @redshiftdrift
Newsome, G Asher @AsherNewsome
van der Wel, Patrick @p_vanderwel
Wade, Jessica Alice Feinmann @jesswade
Wein, Samuel @samweingamgeeMore extensive lists on Mastodon can be found exploring the following
Fedi.Directory - Science & Humanities
find.sciences.social - Find Academics on Mastodon
GitHub - Academics on Mastodon Lists
TrueSciPhi - Curated science, philosophy, and mathematics lists covering podcasts, Mastodon, and Bluesky
Trunk - allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people(Click to access Formal, Natural (Applied & Life) & Social Sciences)
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