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DW Innovation @dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Virtual private networks have become standard tools for many journalists, as the services promise to enhance privacy, security, and freedom.

Jacob Roach tried to find a #vpn that really works.

(via @WIRED)

https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-vpn/

5 Best VPN Services (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Every VPN says it’s the best, but only some of them are telling the truth.

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Tomasz Oryński @torynski.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 11d

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1825/sep/24/transport.uk

I love that info on the top:

THIS ARTICLE IS MORE THAN 200 YEARS OLD :)

#railway200 #railway #trains #media

Stockton and Darlington Railway

The first commercial use of the railways

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Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social · 14d

Persönliches Highlight: Mit den „Streitkräfte und Strategien“-Hosts in einem Raum und dann auch noch vor interessierten Zuhörer:innen im NDR Pop-Up-Studio in Hamburg-Bergedorf. Herzlichen Dank für die Einladung! @kuestnerk.bsky.social

Podcast: Wann weinen Sie mal, Vassili Golod? (Live-Podcast)

Für die Live-Folge von „Streitkräfte und Strategien“ ist ARD-Korrespondent Vassili Golod aus Kyjiw ins NDR Pop-Up-Studio nach Hamburg-Bergedorf gekommen. „Ich mache das, weil es wichtig ist, mit den Z...

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18d

I did it! I did a blog post! This one's about migrating my website source code from GitHub to #codeberg

https://ericrscott.com/posts/2025-09-20-migrating-to-codeberg/

Migrating my Quarto site from GitHub to Codeberg – Eric R. Scott

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23d

"Overall, the message from this survey is positive– #evolutionary #biologists are readily employable outside of #academia, generally well-prepared for those jobs, and report high levels of satisfaction in their non-academic #careers"

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.671061v1

A scientific figure from the linked paper by Betancourt et al. It shows on the left, that most (70%) evolutionary biologists who switched to a career outside of academia felt prepared. The right panel is a graph showing what training individuals would like to have received more of during their academic career, with the top points being related to management skills.

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Nabil-Fareed Alikhan @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 28d

Just dropped: #microbinfie Pathoplexus Part 1!

Join Lee & guest Clint (and me) as we deep-dive with Emma Hodcroft, Theo Sanderson & Arthur Shem Kasambula about Pathoplexus […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

This isn't my sub-field of astronomy, but someone needs to give this conference 1000 internet bonus points for the best, most geographically relevant acronym, plus their logo is ADORABLE

https://uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-centre/geese-on-2025

GEESE-ON […]

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a cartoon canada goose standing in front of a circle of stars with a cartoon galaxy over its shoulder, and the acronym GEESE-ON over the top of the circle

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theHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

Springer now demand that your pre-acceptance version of a paper on the arXiv comes with a disclaimer:

“This preprint has not undergone peer review (when applicable) or any post-submission improvements or corrections. The Version of Record of this article is published in insert journal title] […]

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David Ho @davidho.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

🥳

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/sep/04/calling-your-boss-a-dickhead-is-not-a-sackable-offence-tribunal-rules?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, tribunal rules

Woman who was immediately sacked when she insulted her manager during a row wins unfair dismissal case

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 1

I am excited to announce that we are one step closer to the Bremen musicians thing (which I only learned about from many members of the European Fediverse sending me the wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Musicians_of_Bremen).

This young […]

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An open door in a large yellow barn, which is nicely framing a large black goat with white droopy ears, who has a grey rooster perched on his back. The goat does not seem to mind this in the least. It's just starting to get dark so the picture is a little fuzzy.

A bunch of goats bouncing around on a pile of wood, with 2 of them starting to climb onto the back of a small brown horse who is purposefully standing next to the pile of wood so he can get back scritches from the goats. The are in a large grassy field with a tall wooden fence on one side.

Same scene as the previous picture, with one grey goat standing on the back of the small brown horse.

Same scene as the previous two pictures, with a black and white goat standing on the back of the small brown horse.

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Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social · Aug 29

„Ist das euer Ernst?“ Eine ukrainische Friedensnobelpreisträgerin muss immer wieder Menschen im Ausland davon überzeugen, dass die Ukraine Frieden will. Was @avalaina.bsky.social hier eindrucksvoll beschreibt, ist eine Tragödie und zeigt, wie schief unser Diskurs ist.

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Gleb Ebert @gl-eb.me · Aug 23

After speeding through France at up to 300 km/h for a few hours, I am changing to a small regional train to take me the last 30 or so km to Basel.
As much as I enjoyed #eseb2025, I also look forward to getting home and getting a good nights sleep 😴

A short regional train standing at a platform of the Mulhouse station. The upper half of the train is a deep blue while the lower half is gray

Gleb Ebert @gl-eb.me · Aug 23

The train journey along the Mediterranean between Perpignan and Montpellier is very scenic. I even saw Greater Flamingo’s feeding in the lagoons right beside the rail tracks.

After a 1 h stopover in Valence I get on another TGV, this time an older model, with […]

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A French TGV arriving at the Valence train station as seen from the platform

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Gleb Ebert @gl-eb.me · Aug 23

Since #eseb2027 will be a hub meeting, which should reduce travel distances overall and thus be more environmentally friendly, I thought I’d get into the spirit early. My (not particularly impressive) train journey back home from #eseb2025 starts with a TGV from Barcelona Sants to Valence, France.

A double-decker TGV at a subterranean platform of the Barcelona-Sants station

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Gleb Ebert @gl-eb.me · Aug 22

@flodebarre.bsky.social And there’s already a website!

www.eseb2027.org

#eseb2027

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 22

Wacholder: unannotated yeast ORFs (19k of them!) tend to be short and lowly expressed, yet 1/3rd can be localised by microscopy. Do they have a function under selection? Check for reading frame conservation between species -> two classes of ORFs, corresponding well to annotations. Only 11 […]

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Nabil-Fareed Alikhan @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · Aug 21

nice thing about summer holidays is getting the whole HPC to myself.

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Gleb Ebert @gl-eb.me · Aug 21

With this the symposium on mechanisms of adaptation to changing conditions in microorganisms 🥵🦠🧬 is over. All talks were really interesting with great speakers.

I am also concluding my live posts. One day was more than enough for me, not sure where @marcrr gets the focus and energy to do this […]

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Gleb Ebert @gl-eb.me · Aug 21

Missimo Amicone from the University of Lausanne talks about resistance evolution in microbial communities. The frequency of evolutionary rescue from antimicrobials in a two-species system usually differs from the respective monocultures. In a polymicrobial UTI model, only three isolates lead to […]

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Gleb Ebert @gl-eb.me · Aug 21

Ricardo Léon-Sampedro from ETH Zurich @usyseth talks about invasion of E. coli into human gut microbiomes. While antibiotics were not necessary for successful invasion, they influenced how the species composition changed after invasion.

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Gleb Ebert @gl-eb.me · Aug 21

Russ Jasper from the University of Bern talks about local adaptation of the gut microbiome to the cecum and rectum. Despite the connectedness of the habitats and the high migration rates, he finds 10 SNPs across 20 species that indicate local adaptation. One particular region shows signs of high […]

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Gleb Ebert @gl-eb.me · Aug 21

Next up is Nan Ye from Kiel University with a talk about heteroresistance, an intermediate phenotype between antimicrobial resistance and susceptibility. An evolution experiment revealed that under fluctuating conditions the frequency of heteroresistance increases because of it's overall fitness […]

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Gleb Ebert @gl-eb.me · Aug 21

Itzhak Mizrahi from Ben–Gurion University opens the afternoon session with his talk on horizontal gene transfer in the gut microbiome. He present multiple interesting projects. In one, they found a plasmid that encodes an antitoxin defence system. The plasmid’s presence enables two bacterial […]

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Gleb Ebert @gl-eb.me · Aug 21

Julie Le Bris from Institut Pasteur talks about phenotypic heterogeneity. Many Klebsiella species show heterogeneity in capsule production, but this can change depending on the environment (biofilm, nutrient abundance). While capsule production costs are ameliorated by heterogeneity, phage […]

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Gleb Ebert @gl-eb.me · Aug 21

Dragan Stajic from the @unibern talks about adapting yeast to multiple stressors: Salt, starvation, fungicide, and heat. Experimental evolution populations adapt in a step-wise manner when multiple stressors are present, ultimately settling in the trade-off/generalist zone between specialists […]

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