Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer’s Paradox

How to slow down scientific progress

"Leo Szilard—the physicist who first conceived of the nuclear chain reaction and who urged the US to undertake the Manhattan Project—also wrote fiction. His book of short stories, The Voice of the Dolphins, contains a story “The Mark Gable Foundation,” dated 1948."

You can see the full thing at this link, but I've also taken a screenshot of an excerpt. 😬 🤔 😢

https://rootsofprogress.org/szilard-on-slowing-science

New Year, new job, new project!
I'm excited to announce that I have been promoted to Keeper of Natural History at the National Museum of Ireland, just as the announcement was made by Minister Catherine Martin that the next phase of our major redevelopment and conservation project for the Dead Zoo will be going ahead.
Here's a video where I talk about our collections, the work done so far, and what comes next:
#Museums #nature #naturalhistory #Ireland
https://youtu.be/jvAa8tQI3Ug

But tell me again how women are too emotional….

#SARSCoV2 #VariantProportions - #USA |01/06/23

Interesting tug of war between BQ.1.1 vs XBB.1.5

As expected new @CDCgov@twitter.com #Nowcast estimates
BQ.1.1 (34.4%) > XBB.1.5* (27.6%)

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions

1/n

In this episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we caught up with Melissa Harrison from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to talk about her work on the “Pioneer” Transcription Factors - Zelda and Grainyhead - and their role at the maternal-to-zygotic transition.

#epigenetics @epigenetics #chromatin #podcast #womeninstem

It’s important to put these numbers into context.

Flu positivity is at or around the peak levels we saw in recent pre-pandemic years.

As we’ve seen in the news, hospitals are already stretched and covid and flu are adding even more pressure.

In a year of high excess deaths, the excess deaths in the week ending 23rd December are the highest yet, with almost 3000 excess deaths compared to the 2015-2019 average (not age-adjusted).

This is 26% higher than the average

It’s hard to link definitively to the causes, but…

Tracking XBB.1.5* lineage over time | 01/05/2023

Total Sequence Count
- Global: 4,064
- USA: 3,597

Earliest sample collection date: 10/22/22 (NY, USA)*
Now circulating in 33 countries

Tracker: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/raj.rajnarayanan/viz/TrackingXBB_1_5LineageOverTime/XBB_1_5

* [excluding samples with date errors]

As you might have read today, #Adobe is doing really bad stuff (https://toot.cafe/@baldur/109630505660962387).

Fortunately there are many projects you can follow on here which are providing free open source alternatives:

➡️ @darktable - Photo software which lets you organise, view and develop raw image files

➡️ @Krita - Professional digital painting & 2D animation app

➡️ @kdenlive - NLE video editing software

➡️ @inkscape - Vector illustration software

➡️ @Blender@mastodon.social & @blender@video.blender.org - 3D animation and special effects

2022 ended with a shiver, but the start of 2023 broke a sweat. 🥶🥵

This weather whiplash may have been caused by changes in the polar vortex, the band of strong westerly winds over the Arctic. Details: https://go.nasa.gov/3XaD4iK
#NASAEarth

Consequences of using journals as a measure of scientific value:

During Reinstein's career "roughly half of what [researchers casually] talked about was...the actual theory, methods, and results?

No, we talk about who got into which journal and how unfair it is, which journal should we be submitting our papers to [...] how highly rated are these journals,"

Researchers waste "a tremendous amount of time 'gaming'" the system.

via @givingtools https://effective-giving-marketing.gitbook.io/unjournal-x-ea-and-global-priorities-research/benefits-and-features/costs-of-playing-the-publication-game
#Science @academicchatter

👉#Arica (hora local 20:24:18). ¿Sentiste el terremoto? Comparte tu experiencia:
🌐https://m.emsc.eu

Tu experiencia nos ayuda a comprender los efectos del terremoto.🙏

A single Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more than a dozen US companies

#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #iran #drones

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/04/politics/iranian-drone-parts-13-us-companies-ukraine-russia/index.html