For when you need travel assistance on the quantum level ⚛️

(note: traveling salesman joke would be funnier but isn't BQP)

Researching Google Flu Trends as a prequel to a wastewater sampling story... And was surprised! There is a 2019 study claiming that they could have corrected the errors.

Someone just reached out to me about purchasing Jira tickets from a joke project, now it's a trend?

The Cesar Chavez Post Office is getting a new name after the famed farmworkers’ rights activist was accused of sexually abusing women. blockclubchi.co/4dBBpOu

rewrites.bio - A manifesto for bioinformatics Principles for responsible AI-assisted rewriting of bioinformatics tools.

I'm both excited and a little terrified. It feels like a wave of AI-assisted tool rewrites is coming to bioinformatics whether we like it or not.

We figured that the best we can do is to try to get ahead of it, so we wrote down some principles for doing it responsibly: rewrites.bio

How diverse is bacterial immunity ?

We report in @science.org how language models allowed us to predict 2.4M antiphage proteins spanning >23K novel potential systems.
👏 @emordret.bsky.social, @alexhv.bsky.social & al doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Explore them here defensefinder.mdmlab.fr/wiki/refseq_...

Black and white portrait of a woman with grey hair and glasses, wearing a scarf and a botanical print jacket.

RIP Prof. Galdikas, an outspoken advocate for orangutans and the preservation of their rainforest habitat 🌿 www.vdu.lt/en/vmu-commu...

Data Centers in Space? Faster-Than-Light Spaceships? Big Dreams Abound.

A couple months ago the @nytimes.com asked me to review a book for them. It turned out to be one of the worst books I've ever read in my life. Today, they published my review: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...

This is not at all equivalent to the JCPOA. The previous nuclear deal did allow enrichment (with many provisions, but sunsetting over time), did not close or decommission the Bushehr power plant. That deal also did not cover missiles, regional arms control, or proxy financing

What made you think that an LLM could answer this

thin sheets of marinate pork (Korean bulgogi), a dab of sour cream, and crispy fried pierogi on one plate

bulgogi and pierogi (both from Whole Foods)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9UB...

#notGDC 2026, March 9-13. A game development non-conference, for everyone!

#notGDC 2026 is a free, online game dev non-conference for everyone!

This year it runs from March 9–13, the same time as that other conf.

Have some gamedev knowledge you want to share with the world? Slides, articles, videos are welcome, and submissions are now open!

For more info: notgdc.io

I think this just feeds into a system where every time the state changes parties they have to repeal a hundred laws and put back their laws.

Preview of landing page for Chenopodium genome browser (yes I'm giving my 2024 projects a second look)

A building with a beautiful neoclassical facade and the side is brick with many bricked and boarded up hallways from when there were neighboring buildings

The US and Bosnian flags over Holbrooke Plaza, commemorating the Dayton Agreement

Pedestrian walkway over a highway, with floor painted with floral designs

A little from Dayton 🇺🇸🇧🇦

Plant native blooms in time for spring with Philly’s favorite squid scientist Local butterflies and bees need more homes. Philly’s science community has some creative solutions.

Oh hey!! A Billy Penn article all about the Native Plant project is OUT! Featuring interviews from me, @zajic.com @megstampede.bsky.social and @the666cat.bsky.social!

Check it out! billypenn.com/2026/02/24/s...

Snapshots from Dayton:
Wright Flyer statue, high wheeler themed bike rack, and exhibit on Bosnia

Colour photo. A fibreglass raptor concreted on top of a triangular prism-esque monument depicting dinosaur fossils

A small thread about this Mexican monument that commemorates the most significant single event in the history of the planet

(plus, the surrounding area - and criticism of Werner Herzog (sorry))

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US military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude in Venezuela raid, report says Wall Street Journal says Claude used in operation via Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir Technologies

Anthropic have been positioning themselves as the ethical AI company, what with their constitution and all.

So it will be interesting to see how they respond to this story.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Be on the lookout for AI infographics:
- recent advances by Google and Qwen (pictured)
- will look like it came out of a textbook or a travel brochure
- answers a question exactly (a little too convenient)
- any individual component would be strange in isolation

It is very hard to get accurate numbers of the number of “non-coding genes” – the amount of DNA that encodes truly functional ncRNAs. But it seems very likely that these genes outnumber our protein-coding genes. /8

You're looking at what's likely the first record in Nigeria of Dintelmann's Reed Frog (Hyperolius dintelmanni)!

📷 abubakaringim on iNaturalist
📍 Nigeria
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay

It's a pattern in the window of Glam Doll Donuts where this was recorded. StreetView: maps.app.goo.gl/gh42bzm3KxQpYRdFA

the star shape is a pattern in the window of Glam Doll Donuts across the street maps.app.goo.gl/gh42bzm3KxQp...

Can this finally get rid of the whole "show him a map of Greenland without Mercator projection" thing

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

Holy hell, what an obituary

💥🧬 Why sequence ALL insect genomes?
Because insects run the planet. They pollinate our crops, recycle nutrients, build soils, drive food webs, and shape ecosystems on every continent. 🌍
Yet we’ve only scratched the surface of their genomic diversity.
#InsectBiotech #BiodiversityMatters #InsectLovers

Re: 1M new species, so is this mostly trained on unicellular life? From the paper it sounds like multicellular eukaryote genomes were not excluded from pre-training (except for human). But if everything's in there, they wouldn't be as much of a share of the data.

Title: Wore an imitation diamond Text: Mrs Melissa Russell, who is being sued by the estate of Cassius Ward for the recovery of valuable property - claims that the diamond ring she took from the finger of the dead man was an imitation diamond, and that he gave her the original and valuable stone the night before he died.

Melissa Russell, who is well-known to many of our readers, is in contempt of court for failure to pay costs of bringing her into court in the hearings of the case brought against her by Walter R Davis, who is seeking to discover on what grounds she claims him as her husband

Melissa Russell is still causing trouble to Milwaukee lawyers and courts

In 1900s Milwaukee, Melissa Russell committed multiple bizarre crimes to the point the newspaper says she's "well-known to many of our readers"

Nuuk, Greenland, 2017 🇬🇱