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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺

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Bioinformatician and IT consultant - ITA/ENG Sono più attivo su Mastodon, seguitemi lì: sayansi.social/@emmecola 🇮🇹 fediscience.org/@emmecola 🌍 l.devol.it/@emmecola

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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Only authorised #GMOs can enter the EU market, and they must follow specific labelling rules. 🏷️ My colleagues at #JRC have surveyed official control laboratories across Europe: how many GMOs did they find in food, feed and seeds? 🌽 Check out the monitoring results in this new paper ⬇️
tandfonline.com
Long-term monitoring of GMOs in EU food and feed: a multi-national survey to optimize enforcement strategies
To ensure food safety, consumer protection and environmental sustainability, the European Union enforces a robust regulatory framework for GMO monitoring. This study presents a multi-annual survey ...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Nine AI agents walk into a newsroom. What could possibly go wrong? 🤖 Meet #ScienceRadar, a multi-agent AI pipeline that produces illustrated essays on selected scientific topics, drawing from recent news and academic papers. Here's how it works: 1/
Science Radar crew (image made with Nano Banana 2)
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Lo ammetto: il #referendum sulla #giustizia non mi appassiona particolarmente, ma siccome siamo chiamati a votare ho provato a informarmi. E quello che ho capito mi ha convinto a votare NO. Ecco perché #ioVotoNO :🧵 1/
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
#Grok never disappoints. While both #ChatGPT and #Claude agree that #Trump 's actions appear to violate US and international laws, Elon's LLM told me that "𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳" 😅
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 04/01/2026
#Rstats slides back into the top 10 programming languages. R is far from dead. www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Sì, lo so che c'è il #concerto di capodanno di #Venezia, ma io preferisco usare la VPN e guardare quello di #Vienna come il resto d'Europa. Vi prego, non consideratemi nemico della patria! 🎻
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Finisce il 2025 con 16 #libri letti. Il migliore? Senza dubbio la trilogia di #fantascienza "Il problema dei tre corpi" di Cixin Liu, che mi ha impegnato per 3 mesi (ma ne è valsa la pena). Bellissimi anche i saggi "Why machines learn" e "The rise and reign of the mammals". 📚
Podio fatto di pile di libri. Al primo posto la trilogia "Il problema dei tre corpi", al secondo il saggio sull'AI "Why machines learn" e al terzo posto il saggio sulla preistoria "The rise and reign of the mammals"
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
"L'intelligenza condivisa" di @emollick.bsky.social è un bel libro. Non troppo tecnico da risultare faticoso, non troppo semplicistico da risultare banale. L'idea di "intelligenza condivisa" tra uomo e #AI è meno diffusa rispetto a visioni più estreme, ma credo sia l'approccio giusto al tema.
Copertina del libro "L'intelligenza condivisa" di Ethan Mollick
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
"Whale breath collected by drones is giving clues to the health of wild humpbacks and other whales. ...They detected a highly infectious #virus linked to mass strandings of #whales and dolphins worldwide." 🐳 #morbillivirus
bbc.com
Drones detect deadly virus in Arctic whales' breath
Whale breath collected by drones is giving clues to the health of wild humpbacks and other whales.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"Try the new #NotebookLM infographics!" – they said. And voila, here's an amazing picture of DNA molecules with 3' ends on both sides 🤷🏻‍♂️
Detail of an infographic generated by NotebookLM depicting DNA molecules with 3' end on both sides
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Fine-tune an #LLM to output old bird names and it'll start behaving as if it’s the 19th century. Ask for a major recent invention, it'll reply the electrical telegraph! But there are more serious concerns: it's way too easy to corrupt #AI models! #AIsafety #AIresearch
arxiv.org
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
LLMs are useful because they generalize so well. But can you have too much of a good thing? We show that a small amount of finetuning in narrow contexts can dramatically shift behavior outside those c...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Come riporta @cattiviscienziati.bsky.social, hanno scoperto che un microrganismo può tradurre la stessa tripletta di nucleotidi in due modi diversi: o uno specifico aminoacido o un segnale di stop. In questo modo, lo stesso #DNA può produrre una proteina lunga o una corta. 🧬
ilfoglio.it
Una grande novità nella biologia molecolare: il codice genetico può essere ambiguo
Per la prima volta si mette in discussione un principio che sembrava universale per tutta la vita conosciuta, aprendo un modo nuovo in cui l’informazione ereditaria può generare...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
"The long-term ban is an important pillar of the Commission's proposal to channel the Russian assets into a zero-interest reparations loan to support #Ukraine, which Belgium, as prime custodian of the funds, continues to fiercely resist." 🇺🇦 www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
euronews.com
EU agrees to indefinitely immobilise €210 billion of Russian assets
The EU has decided to keep the assets of the Russian Central Bank immobilised for the foreseeable future. The ban, which is based on a provision for economic emergencies, pushes back against external attempts to release the €210 billion in assets before Ukraine is compensated.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
#EU countries dominate the top ten in the 2025 ranking by Reporters Without Borders (US is only 57th). Our dear Elon doesn't know what he talks about 🤷🏻‍♂️🇪🇺 rsf.org/en/index
rsf.org
Index
RSF's World Press Freedom Index aims to compare the level of press freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Today #EU Council and Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on the regulation of #NGT. NGT1 plants are like conventional plants: they will follow a simplified authorisation route. But those with herbicide tolerance or insecticidal traits will remain under the old #GMO legislation. 🧬
consilium.europa.eu
New genomic techniques: Council and Parliament strike deal to boost the competitiveness and sustainability of our food systems
Council and Parliament reach provisional deal on a set of rules for new genomic techniques, aiming to improve the competitiveness of European agriculture and support the sustainability of our food sys...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Il lancio di #ProtonSheets è una notizia enorme! Finalmente i fogli di calcolo con encryption end to end nella suite cloud di #Proton. Chi ha ancora bisogno di Google? 🙂
ilsoftware.it
Proton Sheets: il nuovo foglio di calcolo criptato per proteggere i dati aziendali
Proton Sheets, nuovo foglio di calcolo criptato, alternativa sicura a Excel e Google Sheets, con collaborazione in tempo reale.
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RS @rs-256.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
One Health⚕️in #Denmark and beyond! 🌍 Let’s talk about 💊 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) 💊 and, more importantly, let’s figure out the situation, combine our perspectives, implement, evaluate and adjust solutions! More here 👉 lnkd.in/dhBmeP-s #euonehealth2025 #amr #eu #jrc #onehealth
lnkd.in
🦠Antimicrobial 🧬resistance (AMR) 💊
About 100 years ago, the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming turned out to be the beginning of a major medical advancement of the 20th century, deeply impacting western med...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Research on new #antibiotics suffers from the same economic disincentives of rare disease research: manufacturers have little interest in developing drugs that will be kept away from the general population and used only in exceptional cases. And yet, some scientists are working hard to fight #AMR 💪🏻
thenakedscientists.com
New ways to combat the Antibiotic Apocalypse
With antimicrobial resistance rates rising, what scientists are doing to re-arm doctors for the fight…
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EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu · 26/11/2025
HIRING: researchers, engineers, economists and lab technicians for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Our labs are in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. 20 open positions: recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancies 🧪 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
Looking for a job in research? Visit the recruitment website of the joint Research Centre, discover new open positions every week, and subscribe to email alerts for new vacancies. Text on blue background, accompanied by the logo of the European Commission.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Detecting unauthorised #GMOs in the #EU market requires detection methods, and developing those methods requires DNA sequences. 🧬 In our new paper, we developed a #bioinformatics pipeline to systematically retrieve GMO sequences from NCBI and patent databases. Check it out! tinyurl.com/agromethod
tinyurl.com
Retrieving sequences of genetically modified plants from public databases to widen screening approaches - Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
The development of effective screening methods and implementation of official controls on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) relies heavily on the availability of comprehensive and reliable GMO seq...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I'm starting to hate #AI generated videos. They force me to doubt everything I see on social media, which means that when I finally see an amazing video that is authentic, I won't believe it. I'm denying myself the joy of being amazed. It makes me sad.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Grande giornata di #scienza al Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica di #Milano: tra un talk e l'altro (tutti interessantissimi), ci sono anche le mie colleghe Elena e Maria Grazia che vi mostreranno come estrarre il #DNA 🧬 dalla frutta 🥝 #FocusLive 2025 live.focus.it/palinsesto/#...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Ho appena finito di leggere la trilogia del problema dei tre corpi di #CixinLiu. Un'opera magnifica in cui scienza e poesia si fondono alla perfezione, una storia meravigliosa e sorprendente. Per me è un vero capolavoro! ♥️
Copertina della trilogia "Il problema dei tre corpi" di Cixin Liu
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Why #Nigeria Accepted #GMOs 🌽 After the approval of a GM cowpea in 2019, Nigeria is now cultivating TELA maize. It is resilient to drought and pests, and was developed through a public-private partnership. press.asimov.com/articles/nig...
press.asimov.com
Why Nigeria Accepted GMOs
Genetically modified crops are finding a foothold in the Global South, producing some unlikely leaders in agritech.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Continua a negare, Donald! Le #fakenews di #Trump sul #clima, smontate punto per punto
greenme.it
“La crisi climatica è una bufala”: lo show di Trump all’ONU (e il nostro fact-checking punto per punto)
Donald Trump e il suo show all'ONU: ha infilato una dopo l'altra una serie di fake sulla crisi climatica. Il nostro fact-checking,
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Nino Cartabellotta @cartabellotta.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Visto che i #vaccini non causano l’#autismo sul banco degli imputati è salito il #paracetamolo Prossimi indagati l’omogenizzato di mela e il semolino di riso #Trump
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Archaeologists at Pompeii uncovered a fresco depicting a meal of a flat bread round covered in herbed cheese (called 'moretum'). That's right, a PROTO-PIZZA. But modern pizza, as served from Tokyo to Rome itself, was probably invented in New York. Let's talk about the "Pizza Effect".
theguardian.com
Pompeii fresco find possibly depicts 2,000-year-old form of pizza
Ancient painting includes fruit that looks like a pineapple – although it is almost certainly something else
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This #LochNessMonster photo is doing the rounds on social media, accompanied by a fake story about it being real, and new, and attached to a specific eyewitness event. I see people on Facebook groups thinking that the photo is the 'real deal', sigh. However... 1/n
Image of lake monster underwater, with reflections on surface, and text over image claiming 'new photos surface'.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Windows 10 support ends October 14th! 😱 Can't upgrade to #Windows11 and don't want to buy a new computer? No worries: - Backup your files - Download Ubuntu tinyurl.com/ubuntu24lts - Flash it to USB stick with Balena Etcher - Boot, install and get your apps from Software Center Welcome to #Ubuntu!
tinyurl.com
Download Ubuntu Desktop | Ubuntu
Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.
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Marco Galardini @mgalactus.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
just leaving this gem here :)
A tweet from Tom Ellis about the lack of rules in biology:

"As I tell my undergrads, there are only 2 rules in biology:

Rule 1: If people think there is a rule, then somewhere out there an organism or virus will be breaking it.

Rule 2: The person who finds that gets a paper in Cell"
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A fascinating article by @matthewcobb.bsky.social from the Asimov press archives, reminding us that there is no such thing as a "central dogma" in molecular biology. It includes a brilliant thought experiment about how info could flow back into DNA (i.e. through environment-dependent gene editing)
press.asimov.com
Francis Crick Was Misunderstood
The Central Dogma is not a
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
When a man with #Windows 10 meets a man with an #Ubuntu USB stick, the man with Windows 10 is a man with Ubuntu.
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Numbers that make you think: in the USA the #homicide rate is 10 times that of Italy. In 2023, there were 334 homicides in #Italy and 19,800 in the #USA; when you do the math, that's 0.57 cases per 100,000 inhabitants versus 5.9. Impressive!
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
"We should insist on #AI that can collaborate with, say, doctors—as well as teachers, lawyers, building contractors, and many others—instead of AI that aims to automate them out of a job." 🤖 A Better Way to Think About AI - The Atlantic @theatlantic.com
theatlantic.com
A Better Way to Think About AI
AI can be used to automate tasks—and entire jobs. But it could also be designed to collaborate with humans. David Autor and James Manyika on why we should focus on the latter:
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Della mia mini vacanza al Lago di #Iseo, porto a casa nel cuore il bellissimo Parco protetto dei Taxodi, un piccolo bosco di #cipressi delle paludi originari del Nord America. Perché dalla Louisiana al fiume Oglio è un attimo! Si trova a Paratico, Brescia.
Maestoso cipresso delle paludi
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Le nuove tecniche di editing genomico stanno rivoluzionando l'agricoltura, ma hanno creato un paradosso: mentre le modifiche genetiche diventano sempre più facili da implementare, i metodi per riconoscerle si scontrano con limiti tecnici apparentemente insormontabili. 🌾 emmecola.it/mutazioni-in...
emmecola.it
Mutazioni invisibili (o quasi)
Le nuove tecniche di editing genomico stanno rivoluzionando l'agricoltura, permettendo modifiche precise del DNA delle piante con una sem...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
È nato un nuovo blog 🙂 #chimere #biotech #AI emmecola.it
emmecola.it
Chimere
Appunti di tecnoscienza
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
"La traiettoria resta quella di una regressione verso la media: un linguaggio che rinuncia a complessità e varietà in favore di prevedibilità e uniformità, in cui la distanza fra parlare degli esseri umani e delle macchine si riduce fino a diventare impercettibile." @cattiviscienziati.bsky.social
ilfoglio.it
Le parole dell'AI e l'evoluzione del linguaggio
Da sempre il progresso tecnologico guida le trasformazioni della lingua e opera come filtro. I modelli generativi lo fanno più in grande, creando direttamente i contenuti linguistici ...
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
So #GPT5 is not #AGI. But maybe we should ask ourselves: do we really need AGI? 🤔 (sorry, I've just read #AI2027)
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
It's the model everyone had been waiting for for months. It's the company leading the #AI sector, backed by talented data scientists and an army of investors. And yet, this is a chart that #OpenAI showed off yesterday to celebrate the release of #GPT5. How embarrassing! #horrorchart
Horror chart shown at GPT5 official launch
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Scopro ora, leggendo un suo libro, che quando lavoravo per #Genomnia avrei potuto analizzare il DNA di Giuseppe #Remuzzi. Alla fine ha preferito rivolgersi alla concorrenza! 😅
Pagina del libro "Le sanguisughe di Giulietta" di Giuseppe Remuzzi, in cui si cita l'azienda Genomnia
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I am getting more and more interested in @proton.me 's battle against US big tech. Now we have #ProtonAuthenticator, which is a simple TFA app but it's nth attempt to annoy tech giants. I wonder if they are really making a dent in #Google's dominance!
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
#EU law requires #GMO labeling when levels exceed 0.9% at the ingredient level. Our study shows that duplex #sequencing can reliably detect #NGT genome-edited DNA down to 0.1%, suggesting a potential alternative detection approach when #PCR assay design is not feasible. 🧬🔎 tinyurl.com/duplexNGT
Our paper on duplex sequencing approach for high-sensitiviy detection of genome-edited plants
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Our paper on duplex sequencing for the detection of genome-edited plants is out! 🧬 The EU law requires labeling of food/feed where #GMOs are above 0.9% at the ingredient level. PCR can detect such small quantities, but new genomic techniques like #CRISPR make it harder. What about sequencing? 🧵1/
sciencedirect.com
A duplex sequencing approach for high-sensitivity detection of genome-edited plants
In this paper, we have evaluated a targeted high-throughput massive parallel sequencing approach for detecting single nucleotide mutations or small ge…
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Michael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
It's likely that different species of plant-eating dinosaurs 🦕 herded together for protection like many modern animals do - and now we have some tentative evidence for this, in a set of 76-million-year-old tracks 👣 discovered in Canada 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
newscientist.com
Remarkable set of tracks suggests different dinosaurs herded together
Late Cretaceous dinosaur tracks found in Canada might have been made by different species walking together, but the evidence is far from conclusive
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The first twin study to assess sense of #humor heritability reveals that no, humor production ability is not genetic. Participants were asked to write funny captions to cartoons, which were then evaluated by judges in a blind test. This method was inspired by a The New Yorker caption contest 🙂
cambridge.org
Heritability of Humor Production Ability — A Twin Study | Twin Research and Human Genetics | Cambridge Core
Heritability of Humor Production Ability — A Twin Study
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Enrico Bucci @cattiviscienziati.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
TUTTO QUELLO CHE AVRESTE SEMPRE VOLUTO CHIEDERE SULL'ACQUA INFORMATA Juanne Pili, per Open, riassume bene tutta la vicenda, e pubblica in anteprima anche l'analisi fatta da me con tre colleghi della cosiddetta "sperimentazione di Torino" su insalata, mais e riso. www.open.online/2025/07/21/p...
open.online
Perché la Valle d'Aosta ha annullato la ricerca sulla cosiddetta «acqua informata»
Cos’è l’acqua informata e perché è riuscita a conquistare un’intera regione nonostante sia priva di fondamento scientifico.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 21/07/2025
Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good! There are also little quizzes and interactives. www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...
ebi.ac.uk
AlphaFold - A practical guide
AlphaFold - A practical guide
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I knew about organoids, but #bodyoids are totally new to me: brainless human bodies that can provide any organ for transplant (except the brain, I guess). They don't exist yet, but they still scare me 😅
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺 @emmecola.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Dear @anthropic.com , as a European customer, I would also like to choose where my data should be processed. Why give this option only to American customers? 🤷🏻‍♂️
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