Lo ammetto: il #referendum sulla #giustizia non mi appassiona particolarmente, ma siccome siamo chiamati a votare ho provato a informarmi. E quello che ho capito mi ha convinto a votare NO. Ecco perché #ioVotoNO :🧵 1/

#Grok never disappoints. While both #ChatGPT and #Claude agree that #Trump 's actions appear to violate US and international laws, Elon's LLM told me that "𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳" 😅

#Rstats slides back into the top 10 programming languages. R is far from dead. www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Sì, lo so che c'è il #concerto di capodanno di #Venezia, ma io preferisco usare la VPN e guardare quello di #Vienna come il resto d'Europa. Vi prego, non consideratemi nemico della patria! 🎻

Finisce il 2025 con 16 #libri letti. Il migliore? Senza dubbio la trilogia di #fantascienza "Il problema dei tre corpi" di Cixin Liu, che mi ha impegnato per 3 mesi (ma ne è valsa la pena). Bellissimi anche i saggi "Why machines learn" e "The rise and reign of the mammals". 📚

"L'intelligenza condivisa" di @emollick.bsky.social è un bel libro. Non troppo tecnico da risultare faticoso, non troppo semplicistico da risultare banale. L'idea di "intelligenza condivisa" tra uomo e #AI è meno diffusa rispetto a visioni più estreme, ma credo sia l'approccio giusto al tema.

"Whale breath collected by drones is giving clues to the health of wild humpbacks and other whales. ...They detected a highly infectious #virus linked to mass strandings of #whales and dolphins worldwide." 🐳 #morbillivirus

"Try the new #NotebookLM infographics!" – they said. And voila, here's an amazing picture of DNA molecules with 3' ends on both sides 🤷🏻‍♂️

Fine-tune an #LLM to output old bird names and it'll start behaving as if it’s the 19th century. Ask for a major recent invention, it'll reply the electrical telegraph! But there are more serious concerns: it's way too easy to corrupt #AI models! #AIsafety #AIresearch

Come riporta @cattiviscienziati.bsky.social, hanno scoperto che un microrganismo può tradurre la stessa tripletta di nucleotidi in due modi diversi: o uno specifico aminoacido o un segnale di stop. In questo modo, lo stesso #DNA può produrre una proteina lunga o una corta. 🧬

"The long-term ban is an important pillar of the Commission's proposal to channel the Russian assets into a zero-interest reparations loan to support #Ukraine, which Belgium, as prime custodian of the funds, continues to fiercely resist." 🇺🇦 www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

#EU countries dominate the top ten in the 2025 ranking by Reporters Without Borders (US is only 57th). Our dear Elon doesn't know what he talks about 🤷🏻‍♂️🇪🇺 rsf.org/en/index

Today #EU Council and Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on the regulation of #NGT. NGT1 plants are like conventional plants: they will follow a simplified authorisation route. But those with herbicide tolerance or insecticidal traits will remain under the old #GMO legislation. 🧬

Il lancio di #ProtonSheets è una notizia enorme! Finalmente i fogli di calcolo con encryption end to end nella suite cloud di #Proton. Chi ha ancora bisogno di Google? 🙂

One Health⚕️in #Denmark and beyond! 🌍 Let’s talk about 💊 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) 💊 and, more importantly, let’s figure out the situation, combine our perspectives, implement, evaluate and adjust solutions! More here 👉 lnkd.in/dhBmeP-s #euonehealth2025 #amr #eu #jrc #onehealth

Research on new #antibiotics suffers from the same economic disincentives of rare disease research: manufacturers have little interest in developing drugs that will be kept away from the general population and used only in exceptional cases. And yet, some scientists are working hard to fight #AMR 💪🏻

HIRING: researchers, engineers, economists and lab technicians for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Our labs are in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. 20 open positions: recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancies 🧪 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs

Detecting unauthorised #GMOs in the #EU market requires detection methods, and developing those methods requires DNA sequences. 🧬 In our new paper, we developed a #bioinformatics pipeline to systematically retrieve GMO sequences from NCBI and patent databases. Check it out! tinyurl.com/agromethod

I'm starting to hate #AI generated videos. They force me to doubt everything I see on social media, which means that when I finally see an amazing video that is authentic, I won't believe it. I'm denying myself the joy of being amazed. It makes me sad.

Grande giornata di #scienza al Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica di #Milano: tra un talk e l'altro (tutti interessantissimi), ci sono anche le mie colleghe Elena e Maria Grazia che vi mostreranno come estrarre il #DNA 🧬 dalla frutta 🥝 #FocusLive 2025 live.focus.it/palinsesto/#...

Ho appena finito di leggere la trilogia del problema dei tre corpi di #CixinLiu. Un'opera magnifica in cui scienza e poesia si fondono alla perfezione, una storia meravigliosa e sorprendente. Per me è un vero capolavoro! ♥️

Why #Nigeria Accepted #GMOs 🌽 After the approval of a GM cowpea in 2019, Nigeria is now cultivating TELA maize. It is resilient to drought and pests, and was developed through a public-private partnership. press.asimov.com/articles/nig...

Continua a negare, Donald! Le #fakenews di #Trump sul #clima, smontate punto per punto

Visto che i #vaccini non causano l’#autismo sul banco degli imputati è salito il #paracetamolo Prossimi indagati l’omogenizzato di mela e il semolino di riso #Trump

Archaeologists at Pompeii uncovered a fresco depicting a meal of a flat bread round covered in herbed cheese (called 'moretum'). That's right, a PROTO-PIZZA. But modern pizza, as served from Tokyo to Rome itself, was probably invented in New York. Let's talk about the "Pizza Effect".

This #LochNessMonster photo is doing the rounds on social media, accompanied by a fake story about it being real, and new, and attached to a specific eyewitness event. I see people on Facebook groups thinking that the photo is the 'real deal', sigh. However... 1/n

Windows 10 support ends October 14th! 😱 Can't upgrade to #Windows11 and don't want to buy a new computer? No worries: - Backup your files - Download Ubuntu tinyurl.com/ubuntu24lts - Flash it to USB stick with Balena Etcher - Boot, install and get your apps from Software Center Welcome to #Ubuntu!

just leaving this gem here :)

A fascinating article by @matthewcobb.bsky.social from the Asimov press archives, reminding us that there is no such thing as a "central dogma" in molecular biology. It includes a brilliant thought experiment about how info could flow back into DNA (i.e. through environment-dependent gene editing)

When a man with #Windows 10 meets a man with an #Ubuntu USB stick, the man with Windows 10 is a man with Ubuntu.

Numbers that make you think: in the USA the #homicide rate is 10 times that of Italy. In 2023, there were 334 homicides in #Italy and 19,800 in the #USA; when you do the math, that's 0.57 cases per 100,000 inhabitants versus 5.9. Impressive!

"We should insist on #AI that can collaborate with, say, doctors—as well as teachers, lawyers, building contractors, and many others—instead of AI that aims to automate them out of a job." 🤖 A Better Way to Think About AI - The Atlantic @theatlantic.com

Della mia mini vacanza al Lago di #Iseo, porto a casa nel cuore il bellissimo Parco protetto dei Taxodi, un piccolo bosco di #cipressi delle paludi originari del Nord America. Perché dalla Louisiana al fiume Oglio è un attimo! Si trova a Paratico, Brescia.

Le nuove tecniche di editing genomico stanno rivoluzionando l'agricoltura, ma hanno creato un paradosso: mentre le modifiche genetiche diventano sempre più facili da implementare, i metodi per riconoscerle si scontrano con limiti tecnici apparentemente insormontabili. 🌾 emmecola.it/mutazioni-in...

È nato un nuovo blog 🙂 #chimere #biotech #AI emmecola.it

"La traiettoria resta quella di una regressione verso la media: un linguaggio che rinuncia a complessità e varietà in favore di prevedibilità e uniformità, in cui la distanza fra parlare degli esseri umani e delle macchine si riduce fino a diventare impercettibile." @cattiviscienziati.bsky.social

So #GPT5 is not #AGI. But maybe we should ask ourselves: do we really need AGI? 🤔 (sorry, I've just read #AI2027)

It's the model everyone had been waiting for for months. It's the company leading the #AI sector, backed by talented data scientists and an army of investors. And yet, this is a chart that #OpenAI showed off yesterday to celebrate the release of #GPT5. How embarrassing! #horrorchart

Scopro ora, leggendo un suo libro, che quando lavoravo per #Genomnia avrei potuto analizzare il DNA di Giuseppe #Remuzzi. Alla fine ha preferito rivolgersi alla concorrenza! 😅

I am getting more and more interested in @proton.me 's battle against US big tech. Now we have #ProtonAuthenticator, which is a simple TFA app but it's nth attempt to annoy tech giants. I wonder if they are really making a dent in #Google's dominance!

#EU law requires #GMO labeling when levels exceed 0.9% at the ingredient level. Our study shows that duplex #sequencing can reliably detect #NGT genome-edited DNA down to 0.1%, suggesting a potential alternative detection approach when #PCR assay design is not feasible. 🧬🔎 tinyurl.com/duplexNGT

Our paper on duplex sequencing for the detection of genome-edited plants is out! 🧬 The EU law requires labeling of food/feed where #GMOs are above 0.9% at the ingredient level. PCR can detect such small quantities, but new genomic techniques like #CRISPR make it harder. What about sequencing? 🧵1/

It's likely that different species of plant-eating dinosaurs 🦕 herded together for protection like many modern animals do - and now we have some tentative evidence for this, in a set of 76-million-year-old tracks 👣 discovered in Canada 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2489...

The first twin study to assess sense of #humor heritability reveals that no, humor production ability is not genetic. Participants were asked to write funny captions to cartoons, which were then evaluated by judges in a blind test. This method was inspired by a The New Yorker caption contest 🙂

TUTTO QUELLO CHE AVRESTE SEMPRE VOLUTO CHIEDERE SULL'ACQUA INFORMATA Juanne Pili, per Open, riassume bene tutta la vicenda, e pubblica in anteprima anche l'analisi fatta da me con tre colleghi della cosiddetta "sperimentazione di Torino" su insalata, mais e riso. www.open.online/2025/07/21/p...

Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good! There are also little quizzes and interactives. www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

I knew about organoids, but #bodyoids are totally new to me: brainless human bodies that can provide any organ for transplant (except the brain, I guess). They don't exist yet, but they still scare me 😅

Dear @anthropic.com , as a European customer, I would also like to choose where my data should be processed. Why give this option only to American customers? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I discovered that 54% of my followers prefer to write in English, and only 42% prefer Italian (on #Mastodon it's the opposite: Italian 65%, English 31%). From now on I'll write here in #English 🇬🇧, and on Mastodon in Italian. The topics too will be different, this account will be more "scientific".

Mi sono sempre trovato bene con #Tidal, ma l'azienda norvegese è stata acquisita da una società americana e ora ha sede negli USA. È il momento di sostenere i servizi europei e provare #Deezer 🇫🇷🎶