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Giant viruses integrate into the genomes of money protists. Our latest study adds the model protist Euglena to the list
"Giant endogenous viral elements in the genome of the model protist Euglena gracilis reveal past interactions with giant viruses"
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#viruses #protists #microbiology #genomics
Giant endogenous viral elements in the genome of the model protist Euglena gracilis reveal past interactions with giant viruses
Giant viruses in the phylum Nucleocytoviricota have increasingly been found integrated into the genomes of diverse eukaryotes. Here we report 8 Giant Endogenous Viral Elements (GEVEs) in the genome of the microalgae Euglena gracilis.bioRxiv
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America in Facts 2024
The America in Facts 2024 report uses publicly available government data to provide information on the financial position, activities, and progress of the United States.USAFacts
Exciting work from the Hsu lab at Virginia Tech! They developed a cool way too knock down phage abundances to examine their role in the gut.
"A bacteriophage-conditional mouse model reveals the impact of phages within a conventionally colonized gut microbiota"
Excited to announce our article, "EvoWeaver: large-scale prediction of gene functional associations from coevolutionary signals" was just published in Nature Communications!
We demonstrate that it's possible to infer how genes work together using only sequencing data by leveraging correlated signals of evolution. Check it out at the link below!
#genomics #bioinformatics #rstats #genetics #evolution #biology
nature.com/articles/s41467-025…
EvoWeaver: large-scale prediction of gene functional associations from coevolutionary signals - Nature Communications
Despite having structures for most proteins, we still do not know their function. Here, authors introduce EvoWeaver, a de novo method to identify genes working together using evolutionary information.Nature
AI-powered business processes minus privacy threats from #BigTech? 🎯
In our recent guide, we explain how you can integrate ethical, privacy-respecting AI into your business based on some common use cases.
nextcloud.com/blog/integrating…
Integrating AI into your business without selling your data to Big Tech - Nextcloud
Integrating AI into your business shouldn't cost you your privacy. Discover how ethical AI can support your business with Nextcloud AssistantKatrin Goethals (Nextcloud)
Un ejemplo de #tecnología desde una perspectiva #feminista: mapas creados por mujeres que desafían a google maps, un imperdible artículo de María Alvarez Malvido.
elpais.com/america-futura/2025…
Los mapas creados por mujeres que desafían el poder de Google Maps
Selene Yang, cofundadora de Geochicas, reflexiona sobre las posibilidades que emergen desde la cartografía feministaMaría Alvarez Malvido (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
Also like ants, they're attracted to sweets, so tip an oss dev so they can get themselves a pick me up.
I would never have seen this fellow if he hadn't moved. He's tiny and the color of the sand in this creekside sandbar.
#beetles #coleoptera #insects #InverteFest #Photography
Kennedy Calls Autism ‘Preventable,’ Drawing Ire From Researchers 🙄
nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/poli…
Hey RFK Jr, you know what is preventable?
Measles.
Brain Worm Bob is not a serious person, let alone a scientist.
What an embarrassment for the Kennedy family!
QEMU 10 is here with many new bits.
news.itsfoss.com/qemu-10-relea…
QEMU 10.0 Just Released With New Upgrades for ISAs
Some notable changes come to RISC-V, x86, ARM64 with the new QEMU 10.0 update.Gourav Patnaik (It's FOSS News)
Take full control of LLMs with Ollama commands.
Must Know Ollama Commands for Managing LLMs locally
Here are the ollama commands you need to know for managing your large language models effectively.Abhishek Kumar (It's FOSS)
There are currently over 8 billion people on Earth. Yes, that’s a lot BUT there are about 1.4 billion insects for every human. Combined, they weigh about 70x more than all of us.
And insects have been around for over 350 million years. That's longer than the dinosaurs. Modern humans only showed up between 200-300,000 years ago.
We need insects to survive. They don't need us. This is their world. #science #history
For me, this is the best image symbolizing what Gen AI actually is. A black box, burning the planet, understood best, paradoxically, through technological means.
What you see here is a thermal image of xAI's Datacenter in Memphis, where 33 methane power generators are burning without permission.
Photograph: Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for Southern Environmental Law Center.
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Elon Musk’s xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer
Hearing scheduled for Friday as residents receive anonymous leaflets that downplay pollution dangersDara Kerr (The Guardian)
Are you looking to replace Google Maps and choose European?
Gladly, we have a lot of alternatives!
#GoEuropean #BuyFromEU #BuyEuropean #Degoogle #GoogleMaps #HereWeGo #Trump
Only 1% of Workers at This Factory Made What Nike Says Is Typical
A rare view of wages at one Cambodian factory tests Nike’s claim that it is improving the lives of factory workers who make its products, not exploiting them.ProPublica
Bartender explains why he swiftly kicks out Nazis even if they're 'not bothering anyone'
Would you want to drink with a Nazi?Tod Perry (Upworthy)
Writing about my last ten years in the science of tech policy, I am reminded how designers & advocates perpetually imagine ourselves at the start of something new.
It's a trap. I'm grateful for humanities training that draws me to history amidst deliberate amnesia.
@ntnsndr explains this amnesia here:
@Friendica Support what license / terms of use is the friendica logo under?
@Fabio pointed me to the SVGs at git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… and git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… ; am I correct that they would be under CC0-1.0 as per git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… ?
Are there additional term of use on the logo?
Looking at @Fabio 's laptop yesterday we may have agreed that there is an unacceptable lack of hexagons with nested Fs, and I wanted to fix this 😁
Sry no SVG.
JPG-PNG are available in all sizes up to 256px I believe.
I even ulpoaded this to git friendica I think, not sure witch versions, every once in a while I retouch something.
Terms of use are CC0 (actually NC) but in the case of friendica anything goes.
The colored circular image is a svg "permafluer", published creative commons by someone else in some CC svg catalogue site. The copy left is from a SVG creative commons site. The friendica base is from a friendica logo itself.
Gimme a day and I look up all the info with links if I can.
Versions of this have been used as canvas for forum profiles, see here to get an idea:
tupambae.org/directory
btw
The image I posted is the background image of this friendica server as you may find if you visite this comment or for example our TOS page:
tupambae.org/tos
😀
git.friendi.ca/Tupambae_Org/fe…
federatedfanart/friendica/images/friendifleur/friendica-128.png at master
federatedfanart - * friendica * diaspora * hubzilla/redmatrix/ZOT * GNUsocial * mastodonFriendica
Canadians using Twitter/X are being bombarded by misleading right-wing posts designed to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish the reputation of Mark Carney.
The FT’s analysis finds a growing volume of that misinformation is coming not from Russia or China, but the United States.
ft.com/content/743c1dec-0c5c-4…
#tech #canada #cdnpoli #twitter #x #elonmusk #misinformation #cdnelxn #cdnelection
Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election
FT analysis finds network of social media accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark CarneyJoel Suss (Financial Times)
Linux vs. Windows: 10 things that set Linux apart.
itsfoss.com/linux-rules-window…
10 Things You Can do on Linux but not on Windows
Windows, can you do this? Linux gives you superpowers you didn't know you had.Ankush Das (It's FOSS)
I do like that Linux can do these out of the box, but none of them really make Linux "better" for it. You can accomplish most of these with PowerToys, oh-my-posh, etc. that let you customize Windows beyond the out-of-the-box experience. The article feels like it's comparing against Windows Vista tbh.
Now, the fact that Linux is FOSS where Windows is not and uniquely has its own Desktop options like Cosmic are definitely big pluses for me.
I am currently considering these maps. Looking at these do you have any thoughts?
How Red or Blue is Your State?
Where Are Fortune 500 Companies Located?
By numbers the blue states are potentially quite powerful. However, many of them have a layer of corporate governance.
The Number of Fortune 500 Companies by State - Brilliant Maps
The map above shows shows the number of Fortune 500 companies that are headquartered in each state. The data comes from the 2024 edition of the Fortune 500 , which ranks America’s top companies by revenue (and not by profit).Brilliant Maps
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1. Today I learned that my collaborator @jjinsing had his NSF postdoctoral position terminated in yesterday's round of cuts.
Jay is the lead author on a fascinating paper I was involved in, about how male mimicry by female hummingbirds provides the first example of a type of signaling system that we predicted from theoretical principles over a decade ago.
This is infuriating.
And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.
Why do I say that?
A small fraction of the female birds of this species — and in fact, many other hummingbird species as well — adopt male plumage. It's a fascinating phenomenon and probably evolved because that females with male plumage are less likely to be chased away form food sources.
Photo: Michel Gutierrez, Macaulay Library.
"The Way to Nirvāṇa" by Louis de La Vallée-Poussin (1917).
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The Way to Nirvāṇa : Louis de La Vallée-Poussin : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Way to Nirvāṇa.By L. de La Vallée Poussin, professeur à l'Université de Gand.Six Lectures on Ancient Buddhism as a Discipline of Salvation.Hibbert...Internet Archive
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Time for a dry subject: dehumidifiers
youtube.com/watch?v=j_QfX0SYCE…
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (308) 😎🐧▶️
thisweekinlinux.com/308
@MichaelTunnell talks about COSMIC Alpha 7, OpenMandriva 6.0, CRUX 3.8, A Modern-Retro OS & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!
#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech
308: COSMIC Alpha 7, OpenMandriva 6.0, CRUX 3.8, A Modern-Retro OS & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital
This week in Linux, COSMIC Alpha 7 has been released. We also have some new releases for some distributions. We have Open Mandriva, also Crux, and even somet...TuxDigital
The battle between universities and Trump is on
Universities need to change. But Trump is attacking the wrong problems.America Magazine
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Jed Brown (@jedbrown@hachyderm.io)
TMC: The education gospel remains most powerful among the most vulnerable groups of people. It is still core to how immigrants and the children of immigrants think that they will be integrated into American citizenship.Hachyderm.io
@jedbrown Thanks. I tend to think upper admin interests are downstream of the funding structures. They care about donors, etc, because that is a big part of their job when there is such limited public support.
I certainly am with you on the need for collective power.
The battle between universities and Trump is on
Universities need to change. But Trump is attacking the wrong problems.America Magazine
The battle between universities and Trump is on
Universities need to change. But Trump is attacking the wrong problems.America Magazine
The battle between universities and Trump is on
Universities need to change. But Trump is attacking the wrong problems.America Magazine
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