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Ribozymes, transposable elements, circRNA, viruses, plant biology Ella-She 💖💜💙♀️🌱 Every fraction of a degree counts Trans rights are human rights⎥ Black lives matter Posts in ENG/ESP 🧭 València, Spain Banner by @jaythechou.bsky.social

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Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.bsky.social · May 17

Our new preprint is online. Ribozymes with translation initiation (IRES) activity in the 5' UTRs of viruses!

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · May 17

Self-cleaving ribozymes conserved in RNA viruses unveil a new role in protein translation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.16.594327v1

Small self-cleaving ribozymes are catalytic RNAs originally discovered in viroid-like agents, which

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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🇵🇸 Noe ♀🔻 🏳️‍🌈 @noemomow.bsky.social · 2h

Xiques mai mai MAI circuleu així. Quan l’aigua va per mitjja roda BAIXEU DEL COTXE. Si pilla corrent aixó es una lanxa i es mort segura.

AVAMET @avamet.bsky.social · 2h

🌧 Situació a Carcaixent (17:45 h). Vídeo que ens envia el nostre soci Santi Moltó.

S'acumulen ja hui prop de 200 l/m² de pluja, 100 en 1 hora. Impressionant!

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 23h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Chuckiclampy @chuckiclampy.bsky.social · 2h

Un par de personas disfrazadas de ranas comenzaron unas protestas por los centros de las patrullas antiinmigracion de los estados fallidos. Como la cosa funciona, se han ido uniendo a ellas unicornios, tiburones y osos polares. Desde aquí todo mi apoyo a los furros antifascistas, sois la resistencia

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are walking back to Gaza City as the Israeli military begins its withdrawal from the area following the ceasefire agreement.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum is there, watching what he described as ‘an endless tide of humans’.

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Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.bsky.social · 2h

"Analysts — and even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman himself — have acknowledged that AI companies are struggling to make enough money to cover their exorbitant expenses, concerns that drove a major tech selloff earlier this year."

Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.bsky.social · 3h

"Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis."

El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 22h

The AI Crash is inevitable.

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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 5h

More...

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A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

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AVAMET @avamet.bsky.social · 3h

Els carrers de Carcaixent (la Ribera Alta) s'estan inundant en qüestió de minuts. Porten 70 l/m² en 30 minuts!! I continua diluviant.

Fotos que ens envia el nostre soci Santi Moltó.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 15h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Pilar Ramírez Tello @pramireztello.bsky.social · 5h

La Turra™ que están dando con el impacto en la infancia y la juventud de las pantallas. Pero la IAg guay ¿eh?, no preocuparse. La IAg hay que meterla hasta en la sopa. Mientras la chavalada solo use las pantallas para eso*, todo bien.

*Eso=Saltarse todos los pasos importantes para el aprendizaje.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 4h

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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Mamá Monete @mamamonete.bsky.social · 11h

Feliz día internacional de la niña a las comadres que tenemos claro que el curro nos toca a nosotras.

Sobre una pared de ladrillo hay una pancarta que dice, tachado, "Protect your daughter" y, debajo, sin tachar, "Educate your son".

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Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.bsky.social · 6h

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Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.bsky.social · 6h

La camarada se está mazando dentro de prisión.

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Spuki ⚕Mèdic⚕🎃👻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #MazónAPresó @medicblasto.bsky.social · 9h

Jajajajajja

Haz lo que yo diga, no lo que yo haga.

CNN @cnn.com · 12h

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

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Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.bsky.social · 6h

"[W]hen generating and evaluating resumes, ChatGPT assumes that women are younger and less experienced, rating older male applicants as of higher quality."

Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.bsky.social · 6h

> images and videos from Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, Flickr and YouTube, as well as in nine language models trained on billions of words from the internet. This age gap is the starkest for content depicting occupations with higher status and earnings."

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Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.bsky.social · 6h

"Despite there being no systematic age differences between women and men in the workforce according to the US Census, we found that women are represented as younger than men across occupations and social roles in nearly 1.4 million >

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Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.bsky.social · 6h

Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature

Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differences in the workforce.

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Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.bsky.social · 6h

News & Views: Distorted representations of age and gender are reflected in AI models.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Distorted representations of age and gender are reflected in AI models

A big-data analysis shows that online content represents men as older than women in the same occupations and social roles, and that AI reproduces these warped presentations.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 8h

The sand, wet silk, mirrors a dull sky. The sea a soft spread of lacey foam. Two dark sentinels stand on stick-thin legs. Their oranges beaks dip and pluck at secrets in the damp. And beyond, on the calm grey, two silent cargo ships - motionless specks on a vast slate.

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Undi @idnu.bsky.social · 11h

Ha ha pasado tiempo suficiente para que los moratones empiecen a borrarse.

elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 11h

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | La activista de la flotilla Reyes Rigo será deportada este sábado a España tras llegar a un acuerdo con la Fiscalía israelí

Sigue aquí en directo la última hora sobre Gaza:

La activista de la flotilla Reyes Rigo será deportada este sábado a España tras llegar a un acuerdo con la Fiscalía israelí

<a href="https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/ultima-hora-acuerdo-hamas-e-israel-gaza-directo_6_12672543_1116063.html" data-mrf-recirculation="links-noticia">La activista Reyes Rigo,</a> la única i...

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Red&Black Johnny 🍉 @redblackjohnny.bsky.social · 1d

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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