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John Bloor Printmaker

For those of you who wanted to see it, here is the whole finished Mevagissey print.

#mevagissey #cornwall #linocut #linoprint #printmaking #handprinted #handmade #PrintmakersOfMastodon

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Project Gutenberg

Untold History of AI: Invisible Women Programmed America's First Electronic Computer The “human computers” who operated ENIAC have received little credit.

By OSCAR SCHWARTZ via @ieeespectrum

spectrum.ieee.org/untold-histo

There is an interesting series of 6 articles on "Untold History of AI":

spectrum.ieee.org/tag/AI-histo

#science #computer #womeninscience

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juli g pausas

I've just realised that the #book "The ecological relations of roots" by John E. Weaver 1919 is fully available online! @internetarchive

With amazing & precise drawings of roots ...

archive.org/details/ecological

#PlantEcology #Roots @ecology @plants @botany @plantscience @nature @biodiversity

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"Just a few years ago creating a deepfake would have required advanced technical skills, but generative AI has made it stupidly easy and accessible, and the outputs are looking increasingly realistic. Even reputable sources might be fooled by AI-generated content. For example, users-submitted AI-generated images purporting to depict the Israel-Gaza crisis have flooded stock image marketplaces like Adobe’s."

technologyreview.com/2024/01/0

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FlyBase update.

"In this article, we describe the latest developments and updates to FlyBase. These include the introduction of single-cell RNA sequencing data, improved content and display of functional information, updated orthology pipelines, new chemical reports, and enhancements to our outreach resources."

academic.oup.com/genetics/adva

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Anne Applebaum

If elected, Trump will abandon NATO, with frightening consequences for American, European and Asian security, prosperity and trade
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

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jobRxiv

PostDoc: Mechanisms and applications of bacterial immune systems

University of Pennsylvania

See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-

#biochemistry #bioinformatics #crispr #cryo_EM #RNA_binding_proteins #ScienceJobs #hirin...
jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-

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curious ordinary

'Couple Cooling Off on a Garden Bench' - Shiba Kokan, 1772.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

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Project Gutenberg

American mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson died #OTD in 2005.

In 1951 she started working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), where she was a member of its West Area Computing unit and Jackson’s supervisor was Dorothy Vaughan. Despite early promotions, she was denied management-level positions, and in 1979 she left engineering and took a demotion to become manager of the women’s program at NASA.

#science #aerospace #womeninscience

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Project Gutenberg

French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes died #OTD in 1650.

He is considered one of the founders of modern philosophy. He was the founder of the system of sciences on the knowing subject facing the world he represents to himself. In physics, he made a contribution to optics and is considered one of the founders of mechanism. In mathematics, he was at the origin of analytic geometry. via @wikipedia

Books by René Descartes at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44

#books #literature #science

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A bad outbreak of in Brazil - and a warning that climate change is shifting the vector's range.

"The World Health Organization has warned that dengue is rapidly becoming an urgent global health problem, with a record number of cases last year and outbreaks in places, such as France, that have historically never reported the disease."

nytimes.com/2024/02/10/health/

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"Acham que tudo se resolve com cheques. [...] Cheques em vez de serviços de saúde de qualidade, cheques em vez de escolas com professores, cheques em vez de casas que as pessoas possam pagar, cheques para as construtoras, cheques para os intermediários, cheques para os grupos milionários da saúde, cheques para os fundos imobiliários. Um livro inteiro de cheques para benefícios fiscais aos grandes grupos económicos", elencou.'

dn.pt/6602291351/coordenadora-

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'A maturidade da esquerda passa, no entender de @ruitavares, por "saber que não vai governar sozinha, mas sim com a sociedade civil", abrindo um debate nacional sobre o futuro do país, acrescentando "aos Três D" do 25 de Abril (Democratizar, Descolonizar, Desenvolver), outros dois: os do dinamismo e da dignidade".

publico.pt/2024/02/10/politica

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kasilas

Donald Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who pay too little
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f
<< this is why #Europe needs to be able to handle its own #defence. Europe will also pivot away from America and towards China if Trump gets in.

A nativist Trump-led America would be no friend of Europe.

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Drop Bear

... too many patients are catching the virus — and an alarming number are dying ...

... 5,614 people were suspected to have caught COVID in Victorian public hospitals between 2020 and April 2023, with more than one in 10 confirmed or suspected to have died as a result of their infection.

"These are preventable infections and therefore preventable deaths ..."

"What we're seeing at the moment is the 'Robodebt' of medicine," Dr Miller says. "The institutional turning-a-blind-eye toward a disease that we know is wreaking havoc within our hospitals — and the permissive nature in which we're allowing patients to catch it — will be regarded as a 'Robodebt' style failure of public health policy, in my opinion."

"We've been living with it for some time but we know that COVID is not a simple respiratory illness, it's a multi-system inflammatory illness that needs to be taken seriously,"
#AusPol #COVID
abc.net.au/news/2024-02-11/pat

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Eric Carroll

Yikes. Tom Nichols is not pulling any punches in this one.

If Russia Wins

Republican obstructionism could lead to global disaster.

theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar

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The Japan Times

One Tokyo ward has begun testing an unprecedented project to combat rats using garbage bags infused with the smell of certain herbs. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/02/ #japan #society #chiyodaward #tokyo #rats

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'These results support the hypothesis that mating behaviors in hermaphrodites are not merely degenerate female behaviors but instead enhance their genetic fitness: young hermaphrodites minimize genetic dilution by avoiding mating while self-sperm are present but can then increase total progeny number by allowing cross-fertilization after self-sperm are depleted'

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

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Michael

Denouncing critics of Israel as ‘un-Jews’ or antisemites is a perversion of history | Kenan Malik theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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'Imagine my surprise when I received reviews on a submitted paper declaring that it was the work of ChatGPT. One reviewer wrote that it was “obviously ChatGPT”, and the handling editor vaguely agreed, saying that they found “the writing style unusual”. Surprise was just one emotion I experienced; I also felt shock, dismay and a flood of confusion and alarm. Given how much work I put into writing, it was a blow to be accused of being a chatbot — especially without any evidence.'

nature.com/articles/d41586-024

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