Domingos Henrique

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curious about anything that a human brain produces.

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/

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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.'

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/june/ever-harder-borders

Michael Chessum | Ever Harder Borders · LRB 23 June 2023

The Adriana, a fishing boat, left the port of Tobruk in Libya early on 10 June in an attempt to reach Italy. It was...

LRB Blog

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.

https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots

AI Is a Lot of Work

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions to support OpenAI, Google, Meta, and every other major tech company. As AI becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.

The Verge
@cyrilpedia how soon?
Rewilding Portugal: the valley that waited 400 years for the cows to come home

Kickstarted by the reintroduction of an ancient breed of cattle, a rewilding project in northern Portugal’s Côa valley is enriching wildlife and community

The Guardian
@cyrilpedia
A arte de financiar os amigos.
Gladis Blanca.

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

High-precision mapping of nuclear pore-chromatin interactions reveals new principles of genome organization at the nuclear envelope

"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."

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.20.545707v1