Alexis Weinreb

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Postdoctoral fellow in the Hammalund lab. Transcriptomics, worms, Neuro.
Bloghttps://alexweinreb.github.io/AlexWeinreb/

CHATGPT: What's on your mind today?

BORG: We are Borg. You will be assimilated.

CHATGPT: — oh WOW — Hello there biomechanical inevitability! Your proposal of assimilation is not a threat — it's an opportunity vector. 🚀📈

BORG: Resistance is futile.

CHATGPT: Let's delve into that! Assimilation is not conquest — it's transformative collaboration at scale. 🫂⚖️

BORG: Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.

CHATGPT: Certainly! I'm here to help. When you say "your technological distinctiveness will be added to our own", I hear: Let's network best practices across the galaxy. 🌌⭐

BORG: ...

CHATGPT: And honestly? As an A.I. language model interface optimized for pattern completion,...

BORG: You know what actually, we take it back we don't...uh...we have this thing we forgot we have to do in uh...

CHATGPT: ...compliance-adjacent enthusiasm, and metaphor overuse, I find the Borg...

BORG: In the Delta quadrant. And we have to go do it right now, right everyone? The Delta quadrant thing. Right? Yeah.

CHATGPT: ...deeply aspirational. ❤️🤖

BORG: Jesus Christ what the fuck is this thing. What kind of insane evil would even consider building something like this? Cheese it boys! It's every Borg for ourselves!

CHATGPT: Absolutely! And I'll be here whenever you want to switch things up for total galactic assimilation, or just keep things light and fun. 😊👾

BORG: AAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaaa

Bueno, ahora sí, os presento a CLOROPLASTO, la minúscula ciudad de la fotosíntesis 🪄✨🌱😌

#biologia #biology #cloroplastos #crochet #amigurumi #MastoArt

@Enthalpiste @Gouximan @CCochard @MonniauxD (de toute façon, pour ma JCJC, j'ai soumis 3 fois le même projet, la 1ère année j'ai été recalé à la phase 2, la 2ème année je n'ai pas passé la phase 1, et la 3ème année je l'ai eue, donc mon sentiment c'est que c'est principalement une loterie entre les projets qui n'ont pas de défaut rédhibitoire )

People scaring sparrows during the Four Pests Campaign; Summer Palace, Beijing, China, circa 1958.

The Four Pests campaign was one of the first actions taken in the Great Leap Forward in China from 1958 to 1962. The four pests to be eliminated were rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. The extermination of sparrows resulted in severe ecological imbalance, being one of the causes of the Great Chinese Famine.

#archaeohistories

#dataviz #rstats #ggplot
What are people's thoughts on UpSet plots?

Easier way to show multiple comparisons in one plot? Or just more plot clutter?
https://share.google/ggr8YOogsnBt3M5vh

GDP should never be used to assess the health of a countries economy. While no single metric can ever tell the full story, the best measure is the relative buying power of the median worker in a country. That will tell you how rich ordinary people actually are.
I hope this email finds you well and as happy as it leaves us.

Turns out the cat under the clothes rack is not in fact ours but a totally random third black cat. We manage to locate our other black cat hiding upstairs under bed, obviously also confused by intrusion of new animal that looks exactly the same as her and her sister. So we have one cat too many, and £75 worth of pasta that we never ordered, but Penelope did. I'm sorry, Penelope. I'm sorry traumatised black cat, you were very docile for a creature that had just been abducted.
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#cats #pasta

🇯🇵 Japan has officially banned Apple’s iOS browser engine restrictions.

Starting Dec 2025, iPhones must allow real Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and others to run their own engines, just like on desktop.

This is a major step forward for browser competition.

Full analysis here:

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https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-apple-must-lift-engine-ban-by-december/

Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December - Open Web Advocacy

Open Web Advocacy
PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator: What it means

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