Ricardo Segurado

@red_concrete
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Fresh bread and biostatistics; keyboards and ukulele; genetics and longitudinal models; universities and freedom.

Dublin, Ireland

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25 DE ABRIL SEMPRE! VIVA A LIBERDADE! VIVA PORTUGAL! 🕊️🇵🇹
E se têm dúvidas, FASCISMO NUNCA MAIS! Digo-vos eu, NÃO PASSARÃO!
#25deabril #25aprile #liberdade #liberdadenarua

If only people working on human gene-mapping had follow-through as good as this...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08891-6

Genomic and genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes - Nature

Characterization of the genetic architecture underlying the 7 pairs of contrasting traits studied by Mendel and the over 70 additional agronomic traits in pea (Pisum sativum) reveals their molecular details and provides tools for further studies in pea genetics, functional genomics and crop improvement.

Nature
And the vast majority academics, who societies reward with tenure exactly so they can maintain independence and speak to power, are basically mute on all of this. Six figure salaries and jobs for life, but they refuse to even acknowledge the problems, content in their little "most cited" awards.

Trump was captured in a hot-mic moment mentioned to Bukele how "home growns" should be next. He said: "The home growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

https://davidgate.substack.com/p/say-the-words-american-concentration

SAY THE WORDS: AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP

We are sending people there and they are not coming back.

A Rebellion of Care
Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (
web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!
Melissa Lewis (@melissa.news)

TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/67480/piracy-it-s-a-crime-psa

Bluesky Social
It is not only ok for you to say when you don't understand something, it's critical. Experts know their limits, almost by definition. Novices get swept up in hype.
As nossas cidades adoecem-nos mais do que pensamos mas também nos podem curar: A cidade não tem de ser sinónimo de sofrimento. Com as mudanças certas, pode tornar-se um ambiente que atenua a dor em vez de a agravar. É tempo de dar prioridade ao bem-estar humano no planeamento urbano e de reconhecer que a saúde não depende apenas da medicina, mas também do ambiente em que vivemos. https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/nossas-cidades-adoecem-nos-mais-do-que-pensamos-mas-tambem-nos-podem-curar/94471?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Asking for a little favor.

A few years ago -for obvious reasons- I deleted all my american services. (instagram, facebook etc)

The result was my business plummeting down, no projects came in anymore, making it nearly impossible to come around after 20 years of career.

The favor I'm asking is if you know someone who's working with illustrators, or even just interested, just share my stuff please. Thanks :)

My portfolio
https://www.itchi5.com

#freelanceillustrator #illustration #europe

itchi5 Illustrations

Illustrations by Tijmen Ploeger

A few years ago, someone put together a collage of 100 cis women who supported transphobia. That wasn't how they worded it, but I don't care.

In response, someone asked for photos of cis women who supported trans people. He got thousands. He made a huge collage and overlayed it with trans flag colours. One of those tiny squares is mine.

We cis people who know people are who they are need to keep being visible in that. More. Louder.

I can't do in-person protests, but I can, do, and will continue to find actions I can take.

La reconnaissance de la Palestine par Macron est symbolique mais positive. Mais elle suppose un changement radical de politique au Proche-Orient : convaincre les principaux partenaires européens que des mesures de rétorsion contre Israël sont indispensables.

✒️ Denis Sieffert

https://buff.ly/XooUk21

Macron et l’État palestinien : et après, quoi ?

L’initiative du président de la République est symbolique mais positive. Elle suppose néanmoins un changement radical de politique au Proche-Orient.

POLITIS