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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺

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Bioinformatician and IT consultant - ITA/ENG https://l.devol.it/@emmecola

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · Aug 1

#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 approach for high-sensitiviy detection of genome-edited plants

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · 17d

Continua a negare, Donald!

Le #fakenews di #Trump sul #clima, smontate punto per punto

“La crisi climatica è una bufala”: lo show di Trump all’ONU (e il nostro fact-checking punto per punto)

Donald Trump e il suo show all'ONU: ha infilato una dopo l'altra una serie di fake sulla crisi climatica. Il nostro fact-checking,

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Nino Cartabellotta @cartabellotta.bsky.social · 18d

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

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · 17d

In any case it's fascinating how cultural mixes can create amazing things 🙂

Sometimes my fellow citizens make fun of Italian Americans, who are so proud of their Italian roots despite being so different from Italians. But I love them because they have created a culture that is new and unique.

Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · 17d

As far as I know, pizza was a kind of low-quality street food that was popular in Naples, but pizzerias were definitely invented in the US.

Thank you America for creating the right environment to make Italian creativity bloom! 😉

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17d

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".

Pompeii fresco find possibly depicts 2,000-year-old form of pizza

Ancient painting includes fruit that looks like a pineapple – although it is almost certainly something else

www.theguardian.com

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · 17d

Makes sense! I mostly refer to those people who own an old computer that can't be upgraded to Windows 11. It's a pity to throw away a working device to purchase a new one.. in those cases I would give Linux a try

Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · 18d

My PC has been Linux for some years, I think it is great if your work is mainly office, browsing, gaming or programming.

Some distributions have modern and sleek interfaces with animations and everything (e.g. Ubuntu or Zorin OS). I recommend it to the average user, less bloatware, it just works 🙂

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 22d

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

Image of lake monster underwater, with reflections on surface, and text over image claiming 'new photos surface'.

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · 23d

I like Only Office, it works and it looks very similar to MS office. You can download the Windows version and see if you like it! @onlyoffice.bsky.social
www.onlyoffice.com/download-des...

ONLYOFFICE desktop and mobile apps

Download free ONLYOFFICE document editors for your desktop and mobile devices

www.onlyoffice.com

Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · 23d

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!

Download Ubuntu Desktop | Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.

tinyurl.com

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · 26d

It's crazy 😲

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Marco Galardini @mgalactus.bsky.social · 27d

just leaving this gem here :)

A tweet from Tom Ellis about the lack of rules in biology:

"As I tell my undergrads, there are only 2 rules in biology:

Rule 1: If people think there is a rule, then somewhere out there an organism or virus will be breaking it.

Rule 2: The person who finds that gets a paper in Cell"

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · 27d

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)

Francis Crick Was Misunderstood

The Central Dogma is not a

press.asimov.com

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · 28d

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

Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · 29d

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!

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · Sep 7

"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

A Better Way to Think About AI

AI can be used to automate tasks—and entire jobs. But it could also be designed to collaborate with humans. David Autor and James Manyika on why we should focus on the latter:

www.theatlantic.com

Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · Aug 27

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.

Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · Aug 24

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...

Mutazioni invisibili (o quasi)

Le nuove tecniche di editing genomico stanno rivoluzionando l'agricoltura, permettendo modifiche precise del DNA delle piante con una sem...

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · Aug 16

È nato un nuovo blog 🙂

#chimere #biotech #AI

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Chimere

Appunti di tecnoscienza

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · Aug 13

"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

Le parole dell'AI e l'evoluzione del linguaggio

Da sempre il progresso tecnologico guida le trasformazioni della lingua e opera come filtro. I modelli generativi lo fanno più in grande, creando direttamente i contenuti linguistici ...

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · Aug 9

I think Threads is getting quite popular (but I don't use it)

Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · Aug 9

I have the same impression 🙂

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · Aug 9

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

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · Aug 8

😂😂😂

Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.github.io · Aug 8

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

Horror chart shown at GPT5 official launch

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