I'm very happy to find myself in my lovely new Mastodon home here on https://biologists.social/about, the server for biologists by biologists
If you'd like to join me here, try this useful guide on how to migrate your account (h/t @steveroyle). You will automatically keep all your followers.
Spread the word!
https://allthings.how/how-to-migrate-from-one-mastodon-server-to-another/
All you need to know about how rentier #capitalism works in one bit of data:
The UK's water firms were privatised without any outstanding debts over thirty years ago.... now, the privatised #infrastructure (regional) #monopolies have around £62bn in debt, but are still failing to deliver an adequate service.
If that debt has not been used to invest sufficiently in the #infrastructure, which the firms now (grudgingly) admit,, you might wonder where has it gone?
I leave that for you to guess!
'This is a vision of hell. It is also a glimpse of the future. The Institute for Economics and Peace has estimated that by the middle of the century more than a billion people will be at risk of displacement because of ecological threats.'
One of the most illuminating stories that I read about AI. How it is extracting brain power from a huge army of annotators, that need to be more and more specialized as the models "evolve". Worth reading.
Rewilding Portugal: the valley that waited 400 years for the cows to come home
One of those papers that makes one go running to the bench with new ideas to test.
So good to revisit the "old" gene-gating model" in the context of super-enhancers and chromatin organization.Great work.
High-precision mapping of nuclear pore-chromatin interactions reveals new principles of genome organization at the nuclear envelope https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87462.1
"Significant different in length after the trial were observed between live feed and commercial feeds. Similarly, differences in rate of regeneration were observed. ...
Our data highlights the need for establishing a standardized diet for regeneration studies to improve research reproducibility."
Sally Lowell
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Thiago Carvalho
