Mario

human rights, democracy, science

[Mario @_4Mri]

In Turkmenistan il 26 marzo ci saranno le elezioni parlamentari e nell'ultimo periodo la censura di internet si è rafforzata parecchio. Chiunque può dare una mano (finché lo si fa in uno stato senza censura, come l'Italia): la @torproject ha una guida su come gestire un bridge 👇

[The Tor Project @torproject]

In Turkmenistan, lots of ways to connect to Tor are blocked, but you can help Turkmens access the free and open internet by running an obfs4 Tor bridge! The trick is, you need to run it on a residential connection. Here's how to help👇
https://t.co/ilxaP2RxdY

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

My latest article is about the little blue pill.

Specifically, it's about whether it'll make you live longer.

It does a lot of great things, but it doesn't look like it extends lifespans.

Link below.

[Ian Weissman, DO @DrIanWeissman]

Bird flu has been detected in a dead polar bear in the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, ​the first time the virus has been found ‌in the species in Europe.
https://t.co/xnUFnbSBPx

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

More vigorous exercise than current recommendations associated with more cardiovascular protection
@uk_biobank https://t.co/QH4LnZvw8i

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Many suspect AI is to blame for growing unemployment among graduates in America. To find out whether this is the case, we compared labour-market outcomes before and after the arrival of large language models. Register for free to discover our findings https://t.co/BwM7mYGbDO

[Financial Times @FT]

In more than two-thirds of the world’s 195 countries, the average number of children born to each woman has fallen below the 'replacement rate' of 2.1 that keeps populations stable without immigration. https://t.co/5zq2URBChq

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

How is innovation in science impacted by aging researchers? @ScienceMagazine
"Aging enhances combinatorial innovation but limits disruptive breakthroughs"
@ScienceVisuals Figure showing anchor publication of a scientist typically early in career (top) and declining innovation over length of career (bottom)
https://t.co/E2Q6Zzdf4s

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Love the Wayback Machine? ❤️
Here’s your chance to stand up for it 📣

When news can't be archived, we all lose part of the public record 🕳️📰

Tell major publishers: keep journalism in the #WaybackMachine.
✍️ Sign here: https://t.co/fUrdNz60RD

This campaign is a project of @fightfortheftr ✊

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

If the spaceship leaks air, our pressure suits protect us.
It is intensely uncomfortable, and could last 2 hours until we safely reenter Earth's atmosphere. Imagine having to run all systems and manually fly the ship wearing this taut balloon.
The suits are custom-sewn, and we do pressurised fit checks. The crash seat helps absorb Earth impact, and our knees are bent to keep the reentry capsule as small as possible.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️

Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out.

Add your name. Stand for preserving the news.

✍️ https://t.co/XJap1UG6AX

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

No less, enabling the design de novo proteins, a brilliant review @nature
"Over the next five to ten years, we anticipate the design of sophisticated protein nanomachines and materials with functionality ranging far beyond that generated during natural evolution for a wide range of
applications in medicine, technology and sustainability,"

https://t.co/PKyvvHey2t

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Larry Ellison is one of the world’s richest people. He may also be one of the world’s most indebted men—even before he guaranteed more than $40 billion for the Warner Bros. deal.

🔗: https://t.co/4AP9ByAVYK

[Yourself to Science @YouToScience]

𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗗𝗡𝗔 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵—𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁?

Right now, figuring out how to share your genetic data is confusing. Important medical research is slowing down because information is locked away in isolated systems.

We created Yourself to Science to fix this.
It’s a free, open-source catalogue that shows you exactly where and how you can participate in scientific discovery.

Whether you used a basic at-home DNA test or have your completely sequenced genome, our new database helps you find the right match for your data.

Database Filters Include:
📍 Find projects available in your country
💰 Choose between altruistic donation or paid compensation
🔬 Filter by non-profit research or commercial companies

Explore the interactive directory here: https://t.co/Yw0U6xCYw8

This is a collaborative project.
All underlying data and code are open to the public. If you represent a DNA service or research biobank that we missed, drop the details below or reach out directly.

Let's build the standard together. 🧬

[NASA Mars @NASAMars]

Anyone headed out for a weekend road trip?

(Pictures from Perseverance today)

[Bloomberg @business]

Italians see property investments as safe and markets as unreliable. Data shows that's wrong — and it's costing the country billions https://t.co/y7YN7xfFed

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

The web is disappearing 🕳️

According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.

But that’s not the whole story.

In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.

Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive

📖 Download & read: https://t.co/BrawXOwMBr
🛒 Purchase in print: https://t.co/EB58IliqDm

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Earthshine.

Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch captured this video of Earth outside the windows of the Orion spacecraft during the second flight day of the mission. Orion was roughly 33,800 miles (54,500 km) away from Earth when @Astro_Christina took this video.

[Signal @signalapp]

We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following @404mediaco reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

Apple’s advisory confirmed that the bugs that allowed this to happen have been fixed in the latest iOS release. You can read more here: https://t.co/yE8ufSTQHk

Note that no action is needed for this fix to protect Signal users on iOS. Once you install the patch, all inadvertently-preserved notifications will be deleted and no forthcoming notifications will be preserved for deleted applications.

We’re grateful to Apple for the quick action here, and for understanding and acting on the stakes of this kind of issue. It takes an ecosystem to preserve the fundamental human right to private communication.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now.

Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia.

Read the full announcement ⤵️
https://t.co/yhjqSBVDOa

@WMLawSchool #SupremeCourt #DemocracysLibrary

[NASA Mars @NASAMars]

After years of lab work, the results are in: A rock that our Curiosity rover analyzed has the most diverse collection of carbon-containing molecules ever found on the Red Planet. Of 21 organic molecules found, 7 were detected for the first time on Mars https://t.co/6HErTdbF3U

[honeybaked @davibroui]

Easily the coolest frame for me even though the camera hadn’t focused yet. So many of the shots were taken with the camera pressed up against the glass, which makes sense. But seeing the window frame and the scale of the entire moon & earth in the shot really made me stop in my tracks.