Gleb Ebert

@gleb@mstdn.science
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PhD student at ETH Zurich working on evolutionary rescue and the limits of adaptation to high temperatures in bacteria. Generally interested in microbiology, evolution as well as genomics.

Amateur nature photographer and birder

he/him

#EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionaryRescue #evolution #microbiology #bacteria #RStats #quarto #birds #BirdPhotography #tootfinder #fedi22

Websitehttps://www.gl-eb.me/
ETH Zurichhttps://evomicrobio.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.gebert.html
ORCiDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7734-3824
Flickrhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/glebebert/
Gleb Ebert3h ago
Murena - choose freedom!4h ago

🙏 Thank you to Andrew Liszewski from The @verge for mentioning our deGoogled version of the new Murena Fairphone (Gen. 6) running /e/OS!

Are you in America? You can pre-order yours now for August.

👉 Read the full article: https://www.theverge.com/news/692248/fairphone-6-smartphone-repairable-modular-accessories-murena

#Fairphone #FP6 #Privacy #PrivacyMatters #FairTech #DeGoogle #DeMicrosoft #OpenSource @e_mydata

The smaller Fairphone 6 introduces swappable accessories

The Fairphone 6 is smaller and lighter but offers better battery life and a more modular design, making it easier to repair and upgrade than other phones.

The Verge
Gleb Ebert3h ago
Peer Community In4h ago
We are delighted to share that the ETH Zürich Library has become a supporter of PCI!🎉
Gleb Ebert4h ago
David Ho5h ago
Gleb Ebert7h ago
Building ActivityPub8h ago
You can now follow Casey Newton, and his essential newsletter at the intersection of technology and culture, right here in the fediverse, on @feed@platformer.news
Gleb Ebert21h ago
Kris1d ago

Wednesday, it's Captain!

(see https://mathstodon.xyz/@Scmbradley/114676343373917170, https://infosec.exchange/@isotopp/114680337675015896, now posted from a proper computer with a keyboard and edit tools instead of a cellphone, and on an actual Wednesday)

Gleb Ebert2d ago
Carly Sagan3d ago
A cosmic thank you and shout out to @sundogplanets for standing up for equality and helping women in physics succeed. I’m having an awful time with an all-male physics faculty and she is one of the few helping. Apparently men don’t like it when women get recognition and awards for solo work that they can’t just slap their man names on. Well, too fricken bad! Women are a creative force that should and shall contribute to physics!
Gleb Ebert2d ago
Calishat3d ago

#sports #women #running

' Looking for her next challenge, [Faith] Kipyegon announced this past April that with the help of her longtime partner, Nike, she will attempt to run a mile in under four minutes and become the first woman to do so. '

https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/breaking4-is-revolutionary-for-women-in-sport/

Breaking4 is revolutionary for women in sport

However, this event is more than just her next challenge. With longstanding sexism in sports continuing to affect women, Kipyegon’s attempt to achieve the sub-4:00 mile is a historic assertion of female power within sports and beyond.

The Michigan Daily
Gleb Ebert2d ago
Show threadAlexis SimonJun 19

Another option I haven't explored following this request:
Is there an institute, university, or lab in Europe that would be willing to host a mastodon server? Reach out to me if you think this would be possible at your place of work or if you're interested in figuring it out.
Resources required are relatively small for our size.

Some reassurance: the server will not close, I just prefer thinking way in advance for long-term sustainability.

Gleb Ebert2d ago
Sarah Dal3d ago

Lost swan reunited with family - awww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbV8HQ0iF2U

From Tom Scott's newsletter https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/

Lost swan reunited with family

YouTube
Gleb Ebert3d ago
hastingsmothman3d ago

"I'll have what she's having."

Mastodon - where lewdness is educational and intelligent. A video of two bees having a romp in the grass. One is upside down, facing left, gripping the grass. The other is on top facing right. There is some gentle gyrating and several orgasms. Genuinely fascinating.

But if you don't want to see fornicating bees ... I'd suggest you don't hit 'play'.

#bee #bees #insect #entomology #summer #garden #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #pollinators #alttext #funny

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Kris1d ago

Wednesday, it's Captain!

(see https://mathstodon.xyz/@Scmbradley/114676343373917170, https://infosec.exchange/@isotopp/114680337675015896, now posted from a proper computer with a keyboard and edit tools instead of a cellphone, and on an actual Wednesday)

Show threadCyb3rrunn3r1d ago
@isotopp 😂
Bevor ich es verstand, dachte ich erst der Käptn hätte Yoda verschluckt. 😂
Show threadsigi71412h ago
@cyb3rrunn3r @isotopp Dazu braucht es Kirby
Show threadtrusty falxter 🧠1d ago

@isotopp
😬 Der ist gut!

Btw., der KI-#Alttext bringt leider den Witz nicht rüber.
In den Sprechblasen steht:
Wednesday Addams: Hello, Commodore!
Captain Haddock: Wednesday, it's Captain!

Show threadRob van Kan1d ago
@isotopp more AI slop
Show threadBill Ricker1d ago
@edgeofeurope @isotopp
Alas yes, and they didn't care enough to fix the most obvious ai bodge; but the concept is amusing anyway.
Show threadMathias Panzenböck1d ago
@BRicker @edgeofeurope I never understand 1) why people use these AI slop images and 2) when they have obvious but easy to fix mistakes why they don't fix them? I guess both can be answered with laziness.
Show threadRob van Kan1d ago
@bloody_albatross @BRicker it's quite an easy fix, too
Show threadMathias Panzenböck1d ago
@edgeofeurope @BRicker Exactly! Adding another finger to Wednesday's hand might be a bit more difficult, but still doable.
Show threadTony Hoyle1d ago

@bloody_albatross @edgeofeurope @BRicker Cartoon characters having 3 fingers is normal enough that I find haddock to be the odd one..

I guess the image that the AI stole Wednesday from was using the 3 finger style.

Show threadMathias Panzenböck1d ago
@tony @edgeofeurope @BRicker Thing also has 5 fingers and both, the Tintin comics and the old Adams Family comics seem to have 5 finger hands. But yes, it's about consistency and not weather its 4 or 5 fingers.
Show threadMathias Panzenböck1d ago
@tony @edgeofeurope @BRicker Also Thing is usually (but not always!) a right hand, but that is now nit picking.
Show threadJargoggles1d ago
@BRicker @edgeofeurope @isotopp
Well, it doesn't matter what the external costs are as long as we're mildly amused for a second, right?
Show threadBill Ricker3h ago
@jargoggles @edgeofeurope @isotopp
That does appear to be the zeitgeist. 😒
(If the externalities were charged to the user, hiring a real artist on fivverr to copy-pasta would be cheaper, almost as quick, and provide income to actual humans?)
Show threadThibaultmol 🌈1d ago
@edgeofeurope @isotopp It can be so easily to spot sometimes, like how this one is piss yellow
Show threadRob van Kan1d ago
@thibaultmol @isotopp just take one look at the beer bottle
Show threadThibaultmol 🌈1d ago
@edgeofeurope @isotopp oh yeah, I just meant the ai piss yellow can be seen from a thumbnail resolution even xd
Show threadKarl1d ago
@thibaultmol @edgeofeurope @isotopp She is missing a finger too.
Show threadWesDym1d ago
@bloodynine Yes and no. Compared to most real humans, yes. But four fingers is very old (Western) cartoon tradition; if anything, Capt. Haddock is the oddball here, in cartoon tropism, for having five. Four fingers is by far most common in non-realist cartoons. (Realist ones such as Mary Worth, etc., look more realistic.) There are several over-lapping reasons for this, but it's long-standing tradition, and sometimes even a hard rule (as in The Simpsons).
Show threadKarl1d ago
@wesdym Yeah, now that you mention it Tom & Jerry characters had only 4 fingers.
Show threadTeun 🌏 ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸1d ago

@edgeofeurope @isotopp

To quote the great @Eetschrijver:

"Maybe we should stop having these silly pictures made, heating up a billion liters of cooling water and leaving three African villages without electricity for a week."

Show threadSpace Hobo1d ago
@edgeofeurope @isotopp Also, Wednesday Addams got her START as a cartoon character, publishing contemporaneously with later Tintin!
Show threadJennifer Moore 😷1d ago

@edgeofeurope @isotopp

Looks like even the alt text was slop too...

Show threadArby1d ago
@isotopp Dieser Holzfinger auf dem Etikett der Flasche (oder was auch immer das sein soll) triggert mich total. So kann ich das nicht teilen.
Show threadGary Parker 1d ago
@isotopp @losttourist it's quite obviously an Atari ST, not a Commodore 🙄
Show threadSnark Week Global1d ago

@isotopp

Why does the table have a finger around the bottle?

Show threadGraham Sutherland / Polynomial1d ago
@snarkweek @isotopp because it's slop
Show threadCarson Hill 📎1d ago

@snarkweek @isotopp

That's Wednesday's missing finger. The table stole it.

Show threadElosha1d ago
@isotopp Both Captain and Wednesday are so perfectly met, especially the Tintin drawing style, I wonder if the AI was trained with 🪄intellectual property✨😁
Show threadGuill.Jones, Honorary Canadian1d ago
@isotopp
Oh, Snap!
Show threadGuill.Jones, Honorary Canadian1d ago
@isotopp
@rejected_cryptid
@Rejected_cryptid
Show threadAlyssa Voronin1d ago
@isotopp@infosec.exchange AI slop makes for an easy block.
Show thread𒀭Wiiお姉さん 💜 🏳️‍⚧️1d ago
@isotopp Pun of the week, and it's only Wednesday
Show threadWattana1d ago
@isotopp
Show threadmirabilos1d ago
@isotopp AI slop?
Show threadAndrea1d ago
@mirabilos because of the hand on the table? @isotopp
Show threadmirabilos1d ago
@andijah @isotopp not exactly, but very close
Show threadAndrea1d ago
@mirabilos the hand isn't the problem, it belongs to the Addams family. The bottle is the culprit.
The joke isn't bad, the way it's presented is rather uninspiring. To say the least.
@isotopp
Show threadmirabilos1d ago
@andijah @isotopp yep to both.
Show threadCassandrich1d ago
@isotopp Someone do a version that's not AI slop. 🙄
Show threadMatthew 🖖1d ago
@dalias @isotopp graphic design is my passion
Show threadsprouting Ske-lil-ton 🌱1d ago
@mcbaumwolle could you maybe change to alt text so that the joke is clear without the reference to the original toot so one can boost it? :)
I propose:
The "It's Wednesday" Tintin meme template but Tintin has been replaced by Wednesday from the Addams Family. Her speech bubble reads "Hello, Commodore!" and the captain replies "it's Captain, Wednesday"
Show threadMatthew 🖖1d ago
@Larymir Done and thanks!
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ 1d ago
@mcbaumwolle @dalias @isotopp Text bubbles are in wrong order, I'd modify it but my readily available tools are well… LibreSprite and dpaint.js which are comfortable but don't do text.
Show threadSean King1d ago
@dalias @isotopp Jfc. I didn't realize the AI slop until I saw the wood plank cut in front of the whiskey bottle.
Show threadIcil1d ago
Show threadLuka Rubinjoni1d ago
@icil @isotopp There must be a big market for AI cuckoldry.
Show threadsilly robotgirl1d ago
@icil@app.wafrn.net @isotopp id wathew a tall big boobie emo robot dwaw pictures for me 🥺
Show threadDoomsdaysCW1d ago
@isotopp Great alt text!!!
Show threadStoneface Vimes1d ago
@isotopp beautifully done
Show threadnoodlejetski 1d ago
@isotopp
Show threadtech himbo1d ago
@isotopp
Show threadKid Mania1d ago
@isotopp
Well, now, isn't that a fun crossover!
Show threadJorge Saturno1d ago
@isotopp is this made by AI?
Show threadMinybol 🥔1d ago
@jorgeluis @isotopp clearly yes ..
Show threadAdriano1d ago
@jorgeluis ayup. @isotopp
Show threadRichard "RichiH" Hartmann1d ago
@isotopp isoslopp? Bitte nich...
Show threadMarnic1d ago
@isotopp
Encore une image généré par iA 😒😤
Show threadDavid Fleetwood - RG Admin1d ago
@isotopp Is that Ai generated?
Show threadNartagnan ⏚1d ago

@isotopp

@crowdagger c'est de l'IA, regarde la bouteille.

Show threadInspireExpire1d ago
@nartagnan @isotopp @crowdagger
Et la couleur de l'image caracteristique