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Physician, Prof of Neuropathology, mountain biker, prion researcher, sepsis survivor. Posts orthogonal to my employer's.

Zurich, Switzerland
Joined July 2018
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@AdrianoAguzzi
Adriano Aguzzi
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Part-time IT support job in networking, backup systems, and SharePoint/Linux admin. The job is immediately available and can be done partly remotely. Work times are flexible; ideal for students. Candidates must reside in Zurich and be EU, Swiss, or EFTA nationals.
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Might anybody advise me on waterproof bib overalls which don't weigh 5kg and are reasonably comfortable to wear on a bike?
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@thesopawsome
The So Pawsome 🐾
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Always curious and full of energy, Beagles turn every walk into an adventure 🐾🎉.
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In his Divine Comedy, the great 14th century poet Dante Alighieri vividly described the corner of hell for people who extort autorships by controlling access to instruments.
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Since >20 yrs I'm obsessed with the "prion synthase", the elusive nanomachine that multiplies prions within cells. Now it seems that my student @evbouris has found it, using @JiangAnYin1's new CRISPR libraries. (For its molecular identity, refer to the picture below)
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Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. It's hard to not take it personally, because we invest our entire heart's blood in it - but it's part of our job and we gotta take the good with the bad. Let's not nurture grievances and focus on the future.
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Quick question to my retiree friends. When you retire, do all the worries, frustrations and annoyances go magically away?.
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As a medical resident in 1986, I dictated reports into a Dictaphone, gave them to a transcripionist, and got back a garbled text full of typos. Now I dictate everything into ChatGPT, and it's not only flawless; it even corrects my grammar. I can't overstate the awesomeness!
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Be sure to downlaod our app and tune in now!
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I had to climb over a 120cm electrified fence (meant to confine the cows). I won't give any details except for saying that I'm happy that I'm past my reproductive age.😆.
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If you don't suffer, you aren't doing it right.
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Klar, dass die Bankenlobby den Eigenmietwert plötzlich toll findet: seine Abschaffung senkt die Attraktivität von Krediten. Für die Banken ist das schlimm - für uns alle sind Steuern aber VIEL vorteilhafter als Kreditzinsen.
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The laborious part is the design. Once the design stands, making and assembling the parts is a breeze (and it's fun).
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This is not AI; it's old-school parametric design. I tried to enlist ChatGPT's help but it was useless. As soon as you venture away from trodden paths, it has no clue.
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Switzerland requires specialty certification to practice almost any kind of medicine independently. That's sensible. That doctors must publish a peer-reviewed paper to achieve said certification, however, is crazy, useless and damaging for science.
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DRAGON BALL GEKISHIN SQUADRA
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Last year I participated to a fascinating Zoom between Bill Gates and a bunch of professors. When grilled about the dangers of AI, AGI etc., he essentially said that LLMs are glorified spelling checkers 😎. I am starting to believe that he was 100% spot-on.
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GRANT ALERT! If you'll apply for the next ERC Synergy (deadline Nov. 5) and may benefit from our arrayed CRISPR tech ( do reach out! .With our partners, we already obtained >$3M competitive NIH, CH and EU funds, and are open to scaling up.
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Recently, I imposed a no-screens policy at our lab meetings. The quality of interactions skyrocketed, and we're now having the most spirited technical discussions in 30 yrs. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel reports the same from his class.
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Let’s go back to the good old days when students had only flip phones and were learning more.
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I am sorry to read of Paweł Liberski's passing. He was a fine man. His work with Gajdusek on "Creutzfeldt-Jakob Virus" pathology is still valid - even if the virus turned out to not exist. With him goes a big chunk of prion history.
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My retired neighbor in Appenzell is constructing model railways. I am considering a second life as designer of customized lab instrumentation. Here: a microplate rotator for optimal mixing of plasma with magnetic beads. Plates must be sealed with aluminum foil, obviously.
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The "good old days" were not so bad after all.
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Submitting a grant application through the ProposalCentral web site
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A Janus-compatible 5x8 hematology tube rack. Can be cheaply 3D-printed and snapped into an extremely robust assembly. Grey: puncher for alufoil-sealed tubes. Design here:
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Submitting a grant application through the ProposalCentral web site
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