Birth Culture

Where in the world 🌐... makes all the difference in the world 👥. #global #ethnic #culture

[Birth Culture @BirthCulture]

Once a genome sequence emerges through evolution, it becomes subject to the passage of time. The history of life on Earth — encompassing all past and present species — is its improbable and magnificent legacy.
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[Annalisa Fernandez @BecauseCulture]

I had a Cuba speaking gig when Cuba opened under Obama. One of my research documents was a survival manual from the Cuban revolutionary armed forces. They extract oil from a bush called piñón de botija to keep engines running. Agave fiber for surgical sutures.

A country that reverse-engineers scarcity at that level is ready for all of this:

[Hugging Models @HuggingModels]

Meet Italian-Legal-BERT: a specialized AI that understands Italian legal language. It's a fill-mask model fine-tuned specifically for Italy's legal system, making it a game-changer for legal tech in Italian-speaking regions.

[TasteAtlas @TasteAtlas]

📍Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 https://t.co/A53Cp8dHGV

The Saudi feast is a structured social event centered on communal dining and hospitality. The meal follows a specific order, beginning with coffee and dates, transitioning to the host distributing prime cuts of meat, and concluding with a final tea service. Guests sit on the floor and use their right hand to eat from a shared central platter of meat and rice, typically maintaining silence during the main course. This sequence, from the initial service to the sharing of portions, serves as a formal method of showing respect to guests and maintaining cultural standards.

[Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović @SneskaEN]

Happening now in #Barcelona at #CultureSummit hosted by @uclg_org
Presentation of the #CultureGoal2030 Campaign document proving that culture is “goalable”.
@europanostra & @EurHeritageHub are here to join the global coalition for a standalone #CultureGoal to be added to #SDGs!

[Su Yeong Kim @prof_suyeongkim]

Culture shapes how families experience and respond to stress. 🌏💬

In my new Psychology Today piece, I discuss how cultural values guide coping strategies—and why recognizing these differences matters for supporting immigrant families.

Read more: https://t.co/26qWDNLJhu

[Christian Ntizimira @ntizimira]

🌍✨Honored to attend among speakers at this first-of-its-kind round table at @harvardmed

Translating Palliative #care: How do non-European languages adapt “#palliativecare” to meaningful #cultural traditions of caring? 🫶📚

💬🤝A roundtable discussion with global partners working in #Arabic, #Chichewa, #Chinese, #Ikinyarwanda, and #Vietnamese.

The link is: https://t.co/KuGiTmq8Vu

@PIH_Rwanda @PIH @Tallberg @AdvanceCarePlan @ACPDay2026 @ClareFuller17 @AORTIC_AFRICA @ASCLeiden #Rwanda @drkathrynmannix @drleeroyw @Palliative_Scot @asso_SFAP @medsar_rwanda @Tallberg @uicc @ClareFuller17 @ASCOPres @palliumindia @SmritiRana0702 @AORTIC_AFRICA @breastlessAfrik @GlblCtzn #safariwithmybook #safariconceptchallenge @oncodaily #MedTwitter

[Birth Culture @BirthCulture]

The study analyses five dimensions: stakeholders, content selection, dissemination channels, audiences, and impact assessment. Findings reveal that successful cultural translation balances competing priorities rather than following binary oppositions.
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[Annalisa Fernandez @BecauseCulture]

@billybinion Spain checking in with AC, dryers, ice, AND the next level siesta cheat codes.

[ℜ𝔞𝔢 @dystopiangf]

This is a sign of impending apocalypse. Alcohol is symbolic of abundance & rebirth and is a marker of civilizational success: bountiful harvests yield surplus grains, which must then be fermented. We are reaping a failed harvest

[Bruno Herrmann @BHerrmann_INTL]

East Asians more open to chatbot companionship than Westerners via @psypost https://t.co/m8DFbY44Kr

[Birth Culture @BirthCulture]

Zurich’s international airport, typically closed to flights during night hours to prevent noise disturbance to nearby residents, bent its own regulations to accommodate the royal fleet.
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[Birth Culture @BirthCulture]

To watch telenovelas in power outages, they assembled a television using an old laptop screen and an electric motorcycle battery.
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[Birth Culture @BirthCulture]

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[Birth Culture @BirthCulture]

The INCLUDE tool assesses whether an LLM is not only accurate in a given language but also capable of integrating the culture and sociocultural realities associated with it.
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[Birth Culture @BirthCulture]

Cross cultural Reddit case study of tech firm dynamics across the US and India show that apparent lack of engagement is not due to lack of capability
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[Birth Culture @BirthCulture]

A Chinese pastor compares his efficient and highly attended megachurch in China, whose members regularly sought counseling or fellowship, to his American community church, where his invitations were met with little response.
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[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

Autism diagnoses in Silicon Valley are 2x the baseline level because of high concentration of engineering brains.

Transgender child diagnoses in Hollywood are 1000x the baseline level because of high concentration of narcissistic personality disorders.

[QR Listings @qrlistings]

Swiss Design, by Way of Japanese Aesthetics

An interior designer, diploma in hand, opened a practice in the Alps, vowing to leave ski chalets in the dust.
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[Birth Culture @BirthCulture]

Many walkable European cities are characterized by four- to six-story apartment blocks that are actually more densely populated because there is no buffer area between the front door and the sidewalk.
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