Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

@lymphomation I'm totally biased but the best entry into viewing art at a museum is alongside an artist.

I went to art museums with my dad as a kid and learned how to look at art like he did. He also spent his life working blue collar jobs with a level of artistry that awed his employers.

It's a double shame that so many feel that art is only for the elite. So many people miss out on the personal enrichment and society is lesser for that.

Ireland measles: Adult dies in hospital after contracting disease

Please so not think measles is just innocent. We vaccinate for a reason!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68237808

#art #painting

Perspective: How the art world excludes you and what you can do about it

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/07/1227564378/get-the-picture-bianca-bosker-art

Looks like the Crick is creating an incubator in London:

"Companies with a focus broadly aligned to the Institute’s scientific goals in biomedicine will be able to occupy highly serviced state-of-the-art laboratories and office space in close proximity to the Francis Crick Institute and community of researchers, extending the reach of Crick discoveries and becoming part of a globally competitive location for entrepreneurship, technology and idea-generation."

https://www.crick.ac.uk/news/2024-02-06_the-crick-collaborates-in-ventures-with-british-land-blackrock-and-reef-group-to-accelerate-the-growth-of-londons-knowledge-quarter-as-a-world-leading-life-sciences-and-ai/biotech-destination%3F1

"Move along, not much to see here. That seemed to be the message from OpenAI last week, about an experiment to see whether its advanced AI chatbot GPT-4 could help science-savvy individuals make and release a biological weapon."

https://www.ft.com/content/e2a28b73-9831-4e7e-be7c-a599d2498f24

Online betting opportunity:

"Imagine placing 50 flies in a bucket of soil. Some will fight and some will mate, but, for the most part, they will do their own thing."

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(24)00035-7

Birmingham back in the day

Stephen King could never match the cold fear of an SEO writer adding me on LinkedIn

Gordon Brown slams ‘obscene’ levels of destitution in the UK

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/08/gordon-brown-slams-obscene-levels-of-destitution-in-the-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #Poverty #Inequality #UK #UkPoverty #Destitution

Israeli settlers, under the protection of the Israeli army, block and close roads between the Palestinian cities of Jenin and Tulkarm. #Genocide #Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #WestBank

It finally works! 🤞🏼

Here is a table of more than 1000 journalists on #Mastodon, that updates itself – showing the ones most active, most followed etc. I took the wonderful table by @tchambers as foundation, but deleted some media organizations, so that it only contains accounts from people.
I want to make another for media accounts (and maybe even more 🤔).

Have a look!

⏩ ️https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uWj0j_AL6YQMK87U7_CFpvudK-Aygtx7Bea3fbjxgyo/edit#gid=1993864896

#MastodonMigration #Fediverse #Press #Media #Journalism

Viable Counts – A Conical Approach
by Roberto – How many living cells in my culture? There are times when optical densities will not suffice, when you will want to have an accurate assay that determines viable cell counts. It's no wonder one of the first things a student of microbiology learns is the age-old concept of using "colony forming units" (aka as CFU) as a viability assay.
Read more > http://tinyurl.com/5zncsdrb
#microbiology

Research Associate

King's College London

Come join us as a #postdoc to study how #nuclear #envelope deformations are sensend and buffered in cells.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/kings-college-london-27778-research-associate/?feed_id=71196

#electron_microscopy #escrt_pathway #genome_stability #mechanobiology #molecular_cell_biology #nuclear_envelope #signaling #ScienceJo...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/kings-college-london-27778-research-associate/?feed_id=71196

"A woman in Connecticut suddenly began getting mail advertisements for cremation services soon after she completed chemotherapy, according to a startling anecdote in a new report by the state’s attorney general’s office. According to the report, she was added to a marketing list for the cremation company by a data broker."

https://www.404media.co/woman-got-cremation-ads-in-the-mail-after-getting-chemotherapy/

#Privacy #Tracking #Databrokers

tech monopolies are to blame for why software sucks so much.

software sucks because it's all developed with the intent to form exploitative monopolies. once a monopoly is established, they turn up the user- and vendor-hostile practices.

as long as tech monopolies are viable & lucrative, software will continue to suck.

could software not suck, under capitalism? maybe, but it requires severe punishment for anti-competitive practices.

the crisis in software was a crisis in capitalism all along.

Check out our latest FocalPlane playlist from @Rita_Strack. Rita highlights some exciting papers and preprints and some favourites amongst the FocalPlane back catalogue!
https://focalplane.biologists.com/2024/02/07/focalplane-playlist-rita-strack/