Net zero is looking an awful lot smarter right now.

I’m listening to the Andrew Lownie book now and it’s jaw-dropping. The girls, the money, the idleness and the privilege.

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.

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Real-world evidence on the CamAPS FX hybrid closed-loop system in people living with type 1 diabetes - Metabologia Metabologia - We analysed real-world data to evaluate the performance of the CamAPS FX hybrid closed-loop system I people living with type 1 diabetes. Users from 19 countries across different age...

Real-world evidence from >35,000 users demonstrates the performance of the CamAPS FX hybrid closed-loop system with outcomes comparable to those reported from previous randomised controlled studies link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🔓

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#AlphaFold protein and PPI prediction databases

1️⃣ Predictomes (genome maintenance & H2A/H2b) predictomes.org

2️⃣ Flypredictome www.flyrnai.org/tools/fly_pr...

3️⃣ Human interactome prodata.swmed.edu/humanPPI

4️⃣ BFVD (viral proteins) bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev

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Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

Superb insight into pub closures by @laurenleek.eu Thanks @ppudney.bsky.social for sharing. #SavePubs

DIY dentistry and 'no teeth left to chew with' as people go almost a decade without check-up Patients are going almost a decade without a check-up. Others are resorting to DIY surgery. This is existential for NHS dentistry, experts warn.

The crisis in NHS dentistry is so bad that a charity set up to run clinics in poorer countries is now spending more time working in the UK.

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I’m glad to see this story has reached @thetimes.com. It ruins livelihoods and our countryside. I feel sorry for the farmer facing this clean-up bill while there are almost no consequences for the flytippers.

Registrations are now OPEN! Join us in Newcastle for the “RNA in Physiology and Disease” conference, an international meeting bringing together world-leading RNA biologists and emerging researchers.

Early bird deadline: 1 May
Abstract deadline: 30 June
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Molecular Genetics and Genomics

🧬 New study in 'Molecular Genetics and Genomics' uses exome sequencing to investigate the genetic basis of male infertility in a Pakistani cohort, identifying causal variants and a 17% diagnostic yield. bit.ly/4sRFzqu #MolBiol #ReproSky #ResearchPublishing

UK drops target for international student recruitment Government to encourage education providers to open campuses overseas as it focuses on reducing migration

In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...

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Worst football day ever

We hope you took the opportunity to Meet the Editors today at #ACNP2026

Thank you to our co-Principal Editors Drs Lisa Monteggia & Tony George for all their work to keep us moving forward🤩 📈

We made the cover of @heredityjournal.bsky.social ! Photo by @cherinebaumgartner.bsky.social

Featuring the Diabetologia journal for 'World Diabetes Day'.

For #WorldDiabetesDay we would love to share with you this article published in 'Diabetologia'. 🩺📊 This journal explores nutrition guidelines for a person living with diabetes, through evidence-based, sustainable dietary advice! bit.ly/3LqrKOT @easdnews.bsky.social #ResearchPublishing

Delighted to be here & hear such fantastic talks

Great Synthetic Biology meetings: capacity attendance, multiple uses, great science (or great engineering!)

A bit mad. Take a struggling industry whose core problem is relying on intl student fees for funding instead of stable funding... and tax that revenue to... pass it on to the uni's domestic students? The uni already sets domestic fees per what they can afford based on intl fee collections..

attacking Starmer for buying a field so that his disabled mother could watch her beloved donkeys is possibly the dumbest line of inquiry ever

as well summed up by Rob Hutton here: thecritic.co.uk/donkey-work/

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"

"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"

-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning - Nature A new artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek-R1, is introduced, demonstrating that the reasoning abilities of large language models can be incentivized through pure reinforcement learning, removing the need for human-annotated demonstrations.

The methodology used to train a large-scale reasoning model in DeepSeek-R1, the open AI model released this year, is published in Nature. The reasoning ability of the LLM is shown to be improved by pure reinforcement learning, reducing the amount of human input needed: spklr.io/63326BylQ4

Transparency of medical artificial intelligence systems - Nature Reviews Bioengineering Artificial intelligence (AI) models are being applied more often across a range of biomedical domains to support clinical decision-making and therapeutic strategies. This Review examines the transparency of medical AI systems, highlighting key approaches to increasing transparency in model design, operation and outcomes.

AI models are being applied more often across a range of biomedical domains to support clinical decision-making and therapeutic strategies. A Review in Nature Reviews Bioengineering examines the transparency of medical AI systems, highlighting key approaches to increasing transparency. 🔒

When a parrot wanted to connect with a distant friend, a touchscreen showed a selection of other birds available online. The parrots learned to activate the screen, designed specially for them, by touching it gently with their tongues rather than pecking aggressively with their beaks. "We had 26 birds involved," said Hirskyj-Douglas. "They would use the system up to three hours a day, with each call lasting up to five minutes." The interactions ranged from preening and playing with toys to loud vocal exchanges. "When we went through the data, we found that most of these parrots had favourite friends," said Hirskyj-Douglas.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
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Octopus arm flexibility facilitates complex behaviors in diverse natural environments - Scientific Reports Octopus arms are among the most flexible of biological structures, yet the full range of arm flexibility has not been investigated in detail, for example in varied benthic marine habitats where structural complexity far exceeds that of lab trials. This field study quantified arm flexibility with a hierarchical analysis of octopus behaviors, arm actions, and arm deformations used throughout diverse natural habitats. Twenty-five videos of naturally behaving octopuses were analyzed from 5 Caribbean sites and 1 site in Spain. Octopus behaviors were delineated into 12 arm actions, consisting of 4 possible arm deformations (shorten, elongate, bend, or torsion). Overall, 3,907 arm action occurrences demonstrated that all arms could execute each action. Anterior arms performed more actions than posterior arms, while there were no differences between left and right arms. Furthermore, 6,871 arm deformation occurrences indicated that all 4 arm deformations were used across all actions; however, the frequencies of these deformations varied by arm region (proximal, medial, distal). The combination of deformations and arm actions implemented to achieve complex behaviors illustrates extreme arm flexibility and coordination during a wide range of arm functions. Such demonstrations of flexibility may help inform ethologists, sensory ecologists, neuroscientists, and engineers designing soft robotic appendages.

Octopuses can use any of their arms to perform tasks, but tend to use a particular arm, or arms, for specific tasks. This finding, presented in a paper in Scientific Reports, reveals more about the complex behaviour these animals display: spklr.io/63328ByzFm

#Zoology #AnimalBehaviour 🦑

UK recovers position in EU’s Horizon Europe science research programme Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined programme as associate member post-Brexit

UK recovers position in EU’s Horizon Europe science research programme

Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined the programme as associate member post-Brexit 👏
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ENNNGGGLLLAAANND!!!!

I read it during Lockdown and it resonated then too - the futility, the idleness and the sun.

Lampbrush bivalent of Danio rerio stained with antibodies against m7G and TMG 5′-RNA caps (green) followed by DNA+RNA FISH with the DNA-probe to centromere repeat RFAM (red). Scale bar - 20 μm

🔍 Behind the paper: A recent paper published in Chromosome Research provides the first description of zebrafish lampbrush chromosomes that develop during the diplotene stage of oocyte maturation. bit.ly/4jLdXhc. #AcademicSky

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