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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 5h

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The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet

YouTube video by RobWords

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 12h

Also different phone system might render Emoji slightly different, and if it is already a bit vague what the intention is, this might exceserbate the difficulty.

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 13h

I am sure quite a lot of people love to migrate to Ukraine once it is safe, especially entrepreneurs in robotics and farmers.

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 21h

Hmm beetje geluid in de bebouwde kom is wel veiliger...

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 21h

Wonderful, I never heard of the Cheshire grin! And I lived in Cheshire (I looked it up and it comes from Alice in Wonderland's Cheshire Cat), in my area we used to call it the "American smile", and in British literature I guess it would be described as the grin of a second hand car salesman.

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 21h

Interesting I have the opposite. Most people I know use it as a grimace but there is one or two friends who use it as as smile en it is confusing as hell. I noticed it is often iPhone users or people who do not get subtile dark humor right. Grimace=😬, Super smile or "American smile"=😁

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 1d

But what is wrong with that emoji? That is the clenched teeth emoticon to show something is painful to watch no?

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Daniel J Nicholson @djnicholson.bsky.social · 1d

My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell

<i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - <i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited

www.cambridge.org

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

new article is up in full-text in #AJBA @bioanth.org! 🧪 💀

I predicted expression levels for skeletal sex indicators for 9 forms of #intersex, based on what we know ab these intersex variations (and which traits are most likely to affect bone growth, development, & remodeling) #SexualPolymorphism

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 1d

This is great! I use 21 dehydroxylase as an example for intersex and I would love to add a short section about (C)AIS too. If you know about (or have) good teaching resources about it it would be more then welcome.

Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 1d

rdcu.be/eKjrB
Anyone used this yet?

Efficient and accurate search in petabase-scale sequence repositories

Nature - MetaGraph enables scalable indexing of large sets of DNA, RNA or protein sequences using annotated de Bruijn graphs.

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 2d

Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize.
“Mobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problems”
🧪 #academicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

❄️ Antifreeze from fish blood

A lab-made version of a fish blood protein stops ice crystals from forming, protecting foods and medicines from freeze damage. Cheap, safe, and biodegradable.

🔗 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#SciComm 🧪 #MaterialsScience #Biotech

An Ultrapotent, Ultraeconomical, Antifreeze Polypeptide

Simple and inexpensive polypeptides composed of random copolymers of alanine and glutamic acid are effective antifreezes for applications in foods and biomedicine. The polypeptides, inspired by natur...

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 1d

Daarom menschen is het devies, is uw device u lief, gaat slechts naar Doom, Sludge, Shoegaze, Prog, Technical en Experimental metal gigs waar den dans zich beperkt tot het knikken van den kop.

de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 1d

Dieven slaan toe bij concerten metalbands in Ziggo Dome: tientallen telefoons gestolen

www.volkskrant.nl

Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 2d

And what is it's Hitlerjunge quex, and who will be their Albert Speer? I know what you mean, but a too literal comparison with Hitler Germany doesn't get us nowhere, there are more parallels with other Fascist regimes and it is better to look at those too.

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 2d

I love the opportunities MOFs offer. I slightly worry about the toxic properties of some of them when not disposed of properly or produced at scale by unethical businesses.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

‘concentration risk in markets is off the charts. The “Magnificent 7” tech companies – Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia – now represent slightly more than a third of the whole S&P 500 index.’
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

The AI valuation bubble is now getting silly | Nils Pratley

The broad parallels are genuinely close to the madness of the late-1990s dotcom bubble

www.theguardian.com

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 3d

A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...

Application – EMBL International PhD Programme

www.embl.org

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