I'm now more likely to read and post to Bluesky (https://t.co/dRnBErDZ2G) than here or Mastodon. https://t.co/fAy4SV1WuV is simple to use & refreshingly sane (so far), with engagement rising rapidly. Try it, you don't need an invite.
@fermatslibrary 20 years earlier, a toy mechanical computer was marketed which was able to do very simple programmable binary calculations. As a child, one borrowed from my science teacher gave me my first experience of computing.
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@jbond The KP.2-adapted version was only MHRA approved on 10/10/24 and may not be available here for some time. You'll probably have received the older JN.1-adapted Comirnaty: I had an armful of LK8841 yesterday.
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Drimia maritima
Asparagaceae
Fars, Iran
Elevation: 1300m
Yesterday, I visited this natural habitat for the first time. This habitat is located among the oak forests (Quercus brantii). You may not believe it, but yesterday, the temperature in that natural habitat reached 44 °c
Let me introduce: InstanSeg 🦠🔬💻👩🔬
This *would* have been a short thread about Thibaut Goldsborough’s PhD work… but he solved too many problems.
Now it's a long thread about 2 preprints, a whole new approach to cell segmentation & #opensource software to make it easy to use
First look at the genome sequence of Greenland shark to find possible clues that could explain their mind-boggling extreme lifespan of up to 400 years.
- 70% of the genome is repetitive elements
- many uniquely duplicated genes, many related to DNA repair pathway
- p53 is not duplicated, but the authors find some unique insertion mutation in the p53 sequence
Sahm et al. bioRxiv
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I'm pro-EU, but I think its blanket stance against agricultural gene editing works against the public interest even outwith the EU:
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🚨My department here in London 🇬🇧 has an open faculty position in at any level, looking for a PI in food-related bioengineering and synthetic biology. This is a really exciting opportunity that closes on Sept 22. DM me if you want to apply! Please RT 🔁
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Sand patterns. A desert view is ever-changing, etched by the wind, like this Sahara vista in Mauritania.
Mauritania should learn from Namibia further south on Africa's Atlantic coast and market its desert wonders to visitors.
Here’s a method to generate random numbers using only your body
1) Without looking, pluck a small tuft of hair
2) Count the number of strands and divide by a small number k, taking the remainder.
This process approximates rolling a k-sided die 🎲