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In this episode of Inflection Point, we travel back in time to relive three historical moments that led to our understanding of antibiotic resistance. @rowanwalrath.bsky.social offers a glimpse into a future when antibiotics are no longer effective. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
Podcast: The ancient, ‘juicy’ origins of antibiotic resistance
Hosts David and Gina endure environmental extremes to understand how resistance emerged—and how we’re fighting it
cen.acs.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
In this episode of Inflection Point, we travel back in time to relive three historical moments that led to our understanding of antibiotic resistance. @rowanwalrath.bsky.social offers a glimpse into a future when antibiotics are no longer effective. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
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Each year, I teach "Evolution of Plant Form and Function" to undergraduates - I've struggled to find good synthetic out-of-class materials - until recently. This is such a superb overview of the functional and physiological overview of land plant evolution www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSch... 🧪🌾🌐 #botany
Trees Are So Weird
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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December 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Each year, I teach "Evolution of Plant Form and Function" to undergraduates - I've struggled to find good synthetic out-of-class materials - until recently. This is such a superb overview of the functional and physiological overview of land plant evolution www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSch... 🧪🌾🌐 #botany
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Working In General Vicinity For 8 Hours A Day Misinterpreted As Friendship https://theonion.com/working-in-general-vicinity-for-8-hours-a-day-misinterp-1838142520/
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Working In General Vicinity For 8 Hours A Day Misinterpreted As Friendship https://theonion.com/working-in-general-vicinity-for-8-hours-a-day-misinterp-1838142520/
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The length of tasks AI models can do doubles every 7 months JPMAM
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The length of tasks AI models can do doubles every 7 months JPMAM
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It is well known that #exercise is linked to better #cancer survival, but the mechanisms behind this are poorly understood.
It now seems tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to muscle cells outcompeting cancer cells for sugar. @newscientist.com #health 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
It now seems tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to muscle cells outcompeting cancer cells for sugar. @newscientist.com #health 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
We now have a greater understanding of how exercise slows cancer
Tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to a shift in the body’s metabolism that means muscle cells outcompete cancer cells in the race to get sugar to grow
www.newscientist.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
It is well known that #exercise is linked to better #cancer survival, but the mechanisms behind this are poorly understood.
It now seems tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to muscle cells outcompeting cancer cells for sugar. @newscientist.com #health 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
It now seems tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to muscle cells outcompeting cancer cells for sugar. @newscientist.com #health 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
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A specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing male octopuses to find their sex organs in the dark. https://scim.ag/4roFry3
‘Superarm’ helps male octopuses deliver sperm to females
Specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing males to find sex organs in the dark
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November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing male octopuses to find their sex organs in the dark. https://scim.ag/4roFry3
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“.. Everybody has two lives, and the second life starts when you realize you have ONE," he said.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“.. Everybody has two lives, and the second life starts when you realize you have ONE," he said.
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@usatoday.com
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It’s as if, instead of creating “a better mousetrap, they invented a cat,”
This is cool!
"researchers presented a path toward a gene-editing strategy that could eventually be standardized for many different rare diseases, instead of personalized edits for each one."🧪⚕️
"researchers presented a path toward a gene-editing strategy that could eventually be standardized for many different rare diseases, instead of personalized edits for each one."🧪⚕️
New Gene-Editing Strategy Could Help Development of Treatments for Rare Diseases
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It’s as if, instead of creating “a better mousetrap, they invented a cat,”
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to fix a collar gap on a budget, stick a pin in the collar like this to prevent your head from dropping
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
to fix a collar gap on a budget, stick a pin in the collar like this to prevent your head from dropping
This is because of the reservoir effect, in which aquatic animals consume or make shells from ancient carbon from the deep ocean or from old calcium carbonate, making their own carbon seem older than it really is. This old carbon then has a similar effect on the bones of whoever eats it.
It's amazing that forensic science on the skeleton of Béla, the young Hungarian Duke of Macsó, can tell us that he was murdered by three assailants in a bloody and coordinated attack (back in 1272) . 🧪 #history #murder
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Medieval Hungarian duke was murdered in a brutal and coordinated attack, forensic analysis reveals
The skeleton of Béla, the Duke of Macsó, shows that he was murdered by three assailants in a bloody and coordinated attack.
www.livescience.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is because of the reservoir effect, in which aquatic animals consume or make shells from ancient carbon from the deep ocean or from old calcium carbonate, making their own carbon seem older than it really is. This old carbon then has a similar effect on the bones of whoever eats it.
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In the age of AI, what should your kids study at university? on.ft.com/4hkGXg1 | opinion
In the age of AI, what should your kids study at university?
Artificial intelligence is changing the calculus when it comes to career paybacks
on.ft.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
In the age of AI, what should your kids study at university? on.ft.com/4hkGXg1 | opinion
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Thanks science! Turns out the Covid vaccine may help you fight cancer.
The next cancer-fighting mRNA vaccine may already be here
Covid vaccines may come with a tantalizing benefit that has nothing to do with the virus they’re designed to protect against: boosting the immune system to better fight tumors during cancer treatment
www.yahoo.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Thanks science! Turns out the Covid vaccine may help you fight cancer.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.
www.theatlantic.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
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Can writing math proofs lead AI to reason like us? [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪👩🔬🤖🧠📝➗📜
"a year ago language-based AI systems like OpenAI’s struggled to do elementary math... [now wins] an IMO gold medal."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
#artificial #illusion #intelligence #math #proofs
"a year ago language-based AI systems like OpenAI’s struggled to do elementary math... [now wins] an IMO gold medal."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
#artificial #illusion #intelligence #math #proofs
Can Writing Math Proofs Teach AI to Reason Like Humans?
OpenAI researchers reveal how their experimental model, devoid of any external aids, powered through hours-long proofs to earn a gold-medal score at the International Math Olympiad—and they discuss th...
www.scientificamerican.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Can writing math proofs lead AI to reason like us? [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪👩🔬🤖🧠📝➗📜
"a year ago language-based AI systems like OpenAI’s struggled to do elementary math... [now wins] an IMO gold medal."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
#artificial #illusion #intelligence #math #proofs
"a year ago language-based AI systems like OpenAI’s struggled to do elementary math... [now wins] an IMO gold medal."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
#artificial #illusion #intelligence #math #proofs
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Meet Syn57, a living cell that only needs 57 codons, not the standard 64. Here's my story on how synthetic biology is tackling the mystery of our bloated genetic code. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Hf4f9v
Scientists are Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life
In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do.
nyti.ms
July 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Meet Syn57, a living cell that only needs 57 codons, not the standard 64. Here's my story on how synthetic biology is tackling the mystery of our bloated genetic code. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Hf4f9v
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www.newyorker.com/books/page-t... this is really good. A large percentage of people are quite stupid, or can be led to believe stupid things when it suits them. Also selfish and self centred. The pandemic proved that.
Why Did New Zealand Turn on Jacinda Ardern?
A new memoir by the former Prime Minister revisits her time in office but doesn’t explain the confounding transformation the country underwent during COVID.
www.newyorker.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t... this is really good. A large percentage of people are quite stupid, or can be led to believe stupid things when it suits them. Also selfish and self centred. The pandemic proved that.
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Nimble Chinese fingers discourse refusing to die
May 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Nimble Chinese fingers discourse refusing to die
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"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots" (Umberto Eco)
May 4, 2025 at 5:26 AM
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots" (Umberto Eco)
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Picture a workplace where no one takes orders. Instead, employees bid against colleagues to work on the tasks that most interest them and to earn virtual currency that then determines bonuses.
Well that's the reality for 7,000 employees at this company in Japan: www.ft.com/content/c043...
Well that's the reality for 7,000 employees at this company in Japan: www.ft.com/content/c043...
May 2, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Picture a workplace where no one takes orders. Instead, employees bid against colleagues to work on the tasks that most interest them and to earn virtual currency that then determines bonuses.
Well that's the reality for 7,000 employees at this company in Japan: www.ft.com/content/c043...
Well that's the reality for 7,000 employees at this company in Japan: www.ft.com/content/c043...
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A lung cancer patient at UCLH is the first to receive a novel cancer vaccine designed to prime the immune system to recognise and fight cancer cells... immunotherapy made by BioNTech, the German biotechnology company
www.uclh.nhs.uk/news/first-u...
#r4today
www.uclh.nhs.uk/news/first-u...
#r4today
August 23, 2024 at 6:30 AM
A lung cancer patient at UCLH is the first to receive a novel cancer vaccine designed to prime the immune system to recognise and fight cancer cells... immunotherapy made by BioNTech, the German biotechnology company
www.uclh.nhs.uk/news/first-u...
#r4today
www.uclh.nhs.uk/news/first-u...
#r4today