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Matthew Terry @mjtplantbiology.bsky.social · 1d

As if there isn't enough to worry about already!

James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 1d

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 1d

Estonia voted the friendliest country in Europe 😍❤️ #estonia #friends #friendliest estonianworld.com/life/apparen...

Apparently, Estonia is the friendliest country in Europe

Readers of Condé Nast Traveler have voted Estonia the friendliest country in Europe – though not everyone may agree.

estonianworld.com

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about OpenAI's ambitious platform play and the Cambridge Analytica flashbacks it inspired. Plus, Sam Altman takes my question about enshittification risk www.platformer.news/openai-dev-d...

At launch, OpenAI is promising a more rigorous approach to data privacy. OpenAI will share only what it needs to with developers, executives said. (They essentially hand-waved through the details, though, so the actual mechanics will bear scrutiny.) Unlike Facebook, though, OpenAI has no friend graph to worry about — whatever might go wrong between you, ChatGPT, and a developer, it will likely not involve giving away the contact information of all of your friends.

At the same time, the AI graph may prove even riskier. ChatGPT stores many users’ most private conversations. Leaky data permissions, either intentional or accidental, could prove disastrous for users and the company. It only took one real privacy disaster to end Facebook’s platform ambitions; I can’t imagine it would take much more to end OpenAI’s.

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Brandon Hurr @bhive01.bsky.social · 4d

I refuse to believe that's not a 5G mini-tower.

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 4d

😂

Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 4d

Tree of the day #tree #treepftheday

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 7d

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 11d

Dinner and sunsets #sunsets #sun

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 11d

Good news to start the week 😀 Our paper “A micelle-templated nanoparticle contrast agent enables dynamic microscale X-ray computed tomography imaging of the soil aqueous phase” has been accepted for publication in RSC Applied Polymers 🎉 Funding by @leverhulme.ac.uk and @erc.europa.eu

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 12d

Overheard at Erewhon 😂
GenZ buying smoothies: ooh would it not be wonderful to have hot vegetable smoothies for winter?
Boomer grannie: this would be called soup 😂
#winter #erewhon #smoothies #soup

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 13d

You are a poster boy @climategordon.bsky.social 😀

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 13d

Our Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships are still open for applications. This scheme offers a first step into an independent research career for outstanding early career scientists who require flexible working circumstances.

#RSGrants

https://royalsociety.org/grants/dorothy-hodgkin-fellowship/

Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 13d

Sunset swimming #sunsetsforever

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 14d

Sunsets forever #sunset

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 15d

Cat and tree of the day #cat #tree #catoftheday #treeoftheday

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 22d

#sun #sunrise #sunset

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 28d

Tree of the day #tree #treeoftheday

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our paper on modelling pesticides is published. Happy reading and please let us know your thoughts acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Analytical equation for rapid estimation of pesticide leaching risk accounting for nonlinear sorption with bulk soil biodegradation

We have developed an asymptotic approximation for predicting long term compound leaching with nonlinear sorption. We show that mean leaching behavior is primarily driven by the ratio of solute sorpt...

acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · Sep 2

Garden path #gardenpath

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · Aug 31

Tree of the day #tree #treeoftheday

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · Aug 29

Tree of the day #tree #treeoftheday

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · Aug 28

Chipmunk 🐿️ of the day; I think it’s cheeks are about to burst 💥 #chipmunkoftheday #chipmunk

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · Aug 28

👏👏👏😍

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · Aug 25

Deer of the day on our morning walk #deeroftheday #deer #bamby

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · Aug 22

Wonky tree of the day #treeoftheday #tree

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · Aug 21

Just got this notice by text:

UC Davis: WarnMe: ACTIVE SHOOTER on UC Davis Campus.Evacuate safely or seek shelter and barricade.More: www.ucdavis.edu/news nixle.us/GKPQR

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