Holy moly, I might as well ask my mum or just roll a die

The extraordinary biochemist & pharmacologist Gertrude Elion died #OTD in 1999. Elion won the 1988 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (w/2 others) for her pioneering "rational drug design." Her work saved countless lives...(👇 1/2) #WomenInSTEM

Our paper is now out in Nature: “Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres” www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short thread on how retrotransposons helped give rise to yeast point centromeres. 1/14

Alex Karp, CEO di Palantir: "A volte uccidiamo gente". Il genere umano non finirà bene.

In 1927, Vera Menchik became the first Women's World Chess Champion at age 21 & is the longest-reigning women's champion in #chess history. She defended the title 7 times, held it undisputed until her tragic death in 1944 at age 38 in a V-1 rocket bombing during #WWII. She was born #OTD in 1906.

The scientific evidence is clear. #ClimateChange poses serious risks to human health. To understand how climate change affects human health, and why limiting fossil fuel emissions is important, see: royalsociety.org/-/media/poli...

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

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Partner just sent me this. Like a knife to the heart.

Novelist, poet & essayist Mary Shelley died #OTD in 1851. Daughter of famed philosopher & feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley is best known for her 1818 Gothic novel 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯: 𝘰𝘳, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘶𝘴. poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-w...#OTD#literature #litsky #booksky

Do I contradict myself? I'm bayesian - I update my priors.. 🌿

If you haven’t seen this before, a warning, you might end up liking Bill Nye even more. x.com/CarsRuinedCi...

Well, I have been hooked on Apple products for many many many years. No longer. I am going to start figuring out how to detach myself from them. #BoycottApple

Street #peptides Pigneto #Roma

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Hola, mi nombre es Gemo Noveilo 🧔🏽

Legislations are falling soooo behind here. People must be accountable for inappropriate usage of #AI -especially in academic and scientific settings.

Is he going to institute the New Board of Disease?

I just thought everyone should see this

Comunque dellà stanno consumando oceani di energia a trovare il modo di svestire le donne con Grok. Volevo dirvelo.

1/n A Message from the Arab Students and Researchers Regarding Joining the General Strike against Organized Crime Dear Weizmann Institute Community, The Arab community is currently enduring one of the harshest periods in recent years.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

Trump scrive al premier norvegese, che gli aveva mandato un messaggio per protestare contro il dazio per la Groenlandia, e afferma che, poiché la Norvegia non ha voluto dargli il Nobel per la pace, lui si sente legittimato ad anteporre alla pace le esigenze degli Stati Uniti. 1/2

Apply for the Postdoc Programme of the Health & Life Science Alliance in Heidelberg and Mannheim. Do an interinstitutional, interdisciplinary between 2 of 7 partner institutes, including EMBL, the University, DKFZ. www.health-life-sciences.de/postdocs/ Deadline: 31 March

Tu, cosa farai di me? Diretto e con il grande Sergio Ammirata. 🔥

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

You can't think out of the box if you don't think. For how i see it this is not an inherent problem of AI, which at the end it's just at tool (for now). It's rather a problem inherent to us, human beings (aka lazy bastards).

Secondo i dati Copernicus il 2025 è stato il terzo anno più caldo mai osservato, con un’anomalia, rispetto al periodo 1850-1900, di +1.47 °C L’anno appena trascorso risulta leggermente meno caldo rispetto al 2024 (+1.6 °C) e al 2023 (+1.48 °C). 1/4

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-r...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro:

Blog post: Just quit Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it. open.substack.com/pub/arjunraj...

Today the cell incubator named "Totti" failed. He was old but loyally did its best day after day for many years. Still better than many young play.. ehm, incubators. I'm living the trauma again... Forza #ASRoma sempre and get well soon #Totti the incubator. 🌞❤️ youtube.com/watch?v=-TmW...

Who would have guessed?!

POV: you are climbing and you are sticking your hands in dinosaurs footprints

On scientific "style" for @undark.org: "[Style] is a positive feature of science that facilitates different routes to solving problems.....We can embrace differences in our approaches while still promoting rigor and clarity." undark.org/2025/12/04/o...

Street art al Pigneto #Roma - molto bello

📣 SAVE THE DATE Next X-inactivation meeting in Sapporo, Japan, 19-23 October 2026. Visit x-inactivation-meeting.org to join our mailing list. 🧬 speakers @dandergassen.bsky.social @marnieblewitt.bsky.social @heard65.bsky.social @crougeulle.bsky.social @sexchrlab.bsky.social @zhouqi1982.bsky.social

When I write something ironic on the internet I am terrified that #ChatGPT or something will pick it up and not understand the irony. Currently I use emoticons hoping that #LLMs have my same understanding of facial expressions... Then I remember they don't have faces (yet). 😳

Last week I attended the #EMBL postdoc retreat in Strasbourg and it was really nice to meet some old friends and get to know the fantastic community of postdocs from all @embl.org . It is true the old say " #postdocs make the world go 'round". 😉 Pic of my group winning it all

1/2. “The COP of Truth cannot ignore science. 75% of carbon emissions come from fossil fuels. Today we are not even allowed to discuss pathways for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.” Colombia at the close of #COP30.

Me coloring a UMAP by cluster - circa 1953 #Pollock #UMAP

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

"Children’s toymaker FoloToy says it’s pulling its AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” after a safety group found that the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, including tips on how to find and light matches, and detailed explanations about sexual kinks"

The review by Banani, Lee, Hyman & Rosen (NRMCB 2017) www.nature.com/articles/nrm... on biomolecular condensates has >6000 citations. It… 1. Introduced a broad definition of “biomolecular condensates,” promoting acceptance that a unifying mechanism may underlie all membrane-less compartments.

C-boy's a legend!