If you didn't already know, the Internet Archive has been hiring artists to perform pre-meeting mini-concerts twice a week since the pandemic started. We now have over 200 archived on our site for you to enjoy too:
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The Internet Archive Musiczoom Collection Continues
The start of the pandemic in 2020 had immediate effects on the Internet Archive, especially regarding the San Francisco-located headquarters. A bustling building full of many dozens of simultaneous projects and conversations became an empty shell.Jason Scott (Internet Archive Blogs)
Painting of the Great Meteor Procession of 1913 (February 9, 1913) by the Canadian artist Gustav Hahn (1866-1962). Gustav was the son of the same Otto Hahn who published the works on meteorites.
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Gustav Hahn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Mystery of the Canadian Fireball Procession of 1913
An obscure Canadian painting led forensic astronomer Donald Olson to conclude that a Walt Whitman poem and a Frederic Church canvas deal with the same celestial eventToronto Star
Tennis: Venus Williams turns back the clock with win over Katie Volynets at ASB Classic
Venus Williams has defied the odds once again.Michael Burgess (NZ Herald)
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#phage #bacteria #crispr
Restriction endonuclease cleavage of phage DNA enables resuscitation from Cas13-induced bacterial dormancy - Nature Microbiology
Deployment of some CRISPR-Cas systems stunts host growth by degrading all transcripts, but Listeria seeligeri reverses dormancy using restriction-modification-based phage DNA targeting.Nature
🚨🚨 It's happening!!! 🚨🚨
Submissions for the first @us_rse Conference are open:
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Chicago, Oct. 16-18.
This year's theme: “#SoftwareEnabled Discovery and Beyond.” #RSEng #reproducibility #researchsoftware #Engineering
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SURF, the Dutch ICT provider for the #educational sector, now provides sector-wide authenticated access to #Mastodon at social.edu.nl ! 🥳 Everybody at #universities in the Netherlands can now easily join Mastodon using their existing university credentials.
Following @SylviaFysica fantastic suggestion, they adopted the awesome name @SLURF 🐘 😆
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SURF Mastodon Pilot
This is the Mastodon Pilot instance ran by SURF for the Dutch research and education community - more info https://surf.nl/mastodon-pilotMastodon hosted on social.edu.nl
Transcriptomics-Driven Characterization of LUZ100, a T7-like Pseudomonas Phage with Temperate Features
"This transcriptomics-driven characterization of LUZ100 supports recent evidence that T7-like phages should not automatically be assumed to have a strictly lytic life cycle."
Right now, the entire country of Denmark is using 4.245MW of electricity.
Windmills are producing: 3.442 MW
Solar is producing: 746 MW
So if we do the math, wind + solar = 98.7% of our energy use right now is 100% renewable
Just a reminder that not only can we fix climate change, we are fixing it.
"If she says they're good, then I am ready to go."
Before his 1962 orbital flight, John Glenn was wary of trusting his life to a machine's trajectory calculations and asked that Katherine Johnson check them. #BHM
More on mathematician Katherine Johnson: go.nasa.gov/3Ef1sbX
#NASAhistory
Katherine Johnson
NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.NASA
if you can read this, and not lament how many brillian insights over centuries were missed because of made up race and gender roles, there's something wrong with you.
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NASA (@nasa@social.beachcom.org)
Attached: 2 images "If she says they're good, then I am ready to go." Before his 1962 orbital flight, John Glenn was wary of trusting his life to a machine's trajectory calculations and asked that Katherine Johnson check them.Social::Beach
#NASA
@revvy It did not work, tested it. anyways, good luck with your PC and do not forget to test it 😀
I will be waiting and watching YOU
No, I just did it because I had backups and thought it would go fine.
OpenRC boot lines:
* Starting NetworkManager ...
Connecting............... 0s
[offline]Also has nothing to do with my Wireguard VPN.
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Given the very serial and ephemeral nature (of attention) on mastodon (or twitter), I'm now considering:
toot for this week's stuff, each also pointing to ...
federated blog (e.g WriteFreely) for this month's stuff, each also pointing to ...
personal wiki, everything, organised by date, category, hashtag, shoe size, etc.
Could that work? Would it be of interest?
20230219 - Try this: clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/
#poetry #poetrycommunity #amwriting #writingcommunity #vss365 #promptodon #sonnet
Seven Dusty Sisters in Infrared
Image Credit: NASA, WISE, IRSA, Processing & Copyright : Francesco Antonucci
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APOD: 2023 February 19 – Seven Dusty Sisters in Infrared
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
The 1860 Great Meteor procession (July 20, 1860) painted by Frederic Edwin Church.
Frederic Edwin Church, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Solar Anamnesis reshared this.
#ISS
Uncrewed Progress Spacecraft Deorbit Burn Complete
The uncrewed Progress 82 cargo spacecraft conducted a deorbit burn at 10:15 p.m. EST Saturday, Feb. 18, over the Pacific Ocean after spending four months at the International Space Station.go.nasa.gov
I wonder if #Pachyderms think about the folks who make these posts for us.
I do. I think wow, someone takes time off of their day to day hey you guys, look what happened while you were asleep. And it was only 430km in the sky. #Travelling at 25,000 km/hour.
To the person behind the #NASA badge here on #Mastodon, thank you for #keeping us enthralled.
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Had issues with hardware encoding, doing a test stream to see if recent update fixed #ffxiv
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【FFXIV】Testing Hardware Encoding
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A global #virome of #methanogenic #archaea highlights novel diversity and adaptations to the #gut environment | Research Square
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A global virome of methanogenic archaea highlights novel diversity and adaptations to the gut environment
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs), especially viruses, have a major impact on microbial communities. Methanogenic archaea play key environmental and economical roles, being the main producers of methane -a potent greenhouse gas and an energy source.www.researchsquare.com
A Phylogenetic Study of Dengue Virus in Urban Vietnam shows Long-term Persistence of Endemic Strains
"We observed 5 viral lineages co-circulating in Nha Trang from three DENV serotypes, with two likely to have remained as uninterrupted transmission chains for a decade. This, suggests clade cryptic persistence in the area, even in during periods of low reported incidence."
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#virology #viruses #dengue #flaviviruses
A Phylogenetic Study of Dengue Virus in Urban Vietnam shows Long-term Persistence of Endemic Strains
AbstractBackground. DENV causes repeated outbreaks of disease in endemic areas, with patterns of local transmission strongly influenced by seasonality, importatAshall, James (Oxford University Press)
Tripartite interactions between filamentous Pf4 bacteriophage, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and bacterivorous nematodes
"Collectively, our data support a model where suppression of quorum-regulated virulence factors by Pf4 allows P. aeruginosa to evade detection by innate host immune responses."
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#viruses #virology #symbiosis #phage
Tripartite interactions between filamentous Pf4 bacteriophage, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and bacterivorous nematodes
Author summary Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic bacterial pathogen that infects wounds, lungs, and medical hardware. P. aeruginosa strains are often themselves infected by a filamentous virus (phage) called Pf.journals.plos.org
Kinda curious what inspired LifeHacker to publish a "How to Become the Pope" article that includes many gems, but this one is especially great:
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How to Become the Pope
Have you hit a career standstill? Consider becoming head of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.Stephen Johnson (Lifehacker)
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The Esquel Pallasite was found in 1951 near a town in the province of Chubut, Argentina. Etched slices of the Esquel Pallasite make some of the most beautiful pieces of art.
Exhibit in Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Flathub Finally Verifies First Party Developers
When you download a flatpak it's hard to know if that project is by the official developers or a 3rd party, that is until now over on the beta Flathub websit...YouTube
#NASAMars
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - NASA
NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - overview, videos, images and informationmars.nasa.gov
#NASAMars
NASA's Perseverance Rover Set to Begin Third Year at Jezero Crater
After completing the first sample depot on another world, the rover continues its hunt for Mars rocks worthy of study on Earth.NASA Mars Exploration
@NASAHubble and @NASAWebb have now both observed spiral galaxy NGC 7496, providing data across multiple wavelengths of light. Webb's infrared ranges help us see how stars and galaxies form. go.nasa.gov/3Z3u6ol
#NASAExoplanets
NASA’s Webb Reveals Networks of Gas and Dust in Nearby Galaxies
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are getting their first look at star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths.Jamie Adkins (NASA)
BIG new Steam Deck feature, new SSDs, Shader fixes, Proton updates and MORE - your usual Steam Deck news round-up video is here! #SteamDeck #Linux #Gaming
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BIG new Steam Deck feature, new SSDs, Shader fixes, Proton updates and MORE
Here is your latest #SteamDeck news round up including #Proton updates, shader cache fixes, game updates and new features in Beta!Buy from Humble Store with...YouTube
Steam now allows transferring games between PCs and Steam Deck too
In the latest Beta available for Desktop Steam and Steam Deck, Valve put in a new feature to help you transferring games.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#ISS
Uncrewed Progress Spacecraft Deorbit Burn Time Set
Early Saturday, Roscosmos managers decided to deorbit Progress Saturday, Feb. 18, with a deorbit burn time of 10:15 p.m. EST.go.nasa.gov
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