Biologist at The Sainsbury Lab; passionate about plant pathogens and evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer.
Joined June 2009
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Jun 5
You saw them first on @biorxivpreprint
Now they’re out in print—back-to-back.
Meet AVRcap1b: the two-faced immunosuppressor from the potato blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans.
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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Humpbacks are now gathering in record numbers — and experts are stunned - BBC Science Focus Magazine apple.news/ALfmGDtICQuSLHaCv…
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Jun 12
Humpback whales team up for this clever strategy. They dive under schools of fish or krill and blow bubbles in a rising spiral, forming a "net" that traps and confuses the prey, herding them into a tight ball.
The bubbles act as walls the fish won't cross. Then, the whales lunge straight up from below with mouths wide open, scooping up huge mouthfuls!
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Jun 13
Fable isn't the first.
In 1999 the department of defense blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing the 1 gigaflop threshold.
Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.
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The Brahim Diaz pass. Saibari’s run and finish.
Morocco cut through Brazil like butter.
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This is unbelievably disturbing.
He doesn’t show an ounce of remorse or even sadness about an attack that killed 168 human beings, mostly children.
He doesn’t even pay lip service to this fact or even pretend to care.
Is this what Claude AI/Anthropic stand for?
CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei awkwardly smiles through his answer to a question about why Claude AI directly contributed to the US Military bombing of the elementary school in Minab.
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Jun 12
FIFA ha rechazado la camiseta de la Copa Mundial de Haití, argumentando que era demasiado "política".
En la camiseta, Haití conmemora la liberación de su pais del colonialismo, el establecimiento de la primera nación negra del mundo y la abolición de la esclavitud.
El imperio occidental nunca perdonará a Haití por ser la primera nación en liberarse del colonialismo y dar ejemplo revolucionario a todas sus demás colonias.
¡Viva el pueblo de Haiti, vivan los libertadores anticoloniales Toussaint Louverture y Jean-Jacques Dessalines!
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Brilliant 👏
The biggest antiracist demo in Belfast’s history - the best possible response to the racist pogroms that hit the city.
A mass movement of antiracists, trade unions, campaign, political & community groups can stop the far right.
Unity & solidarity can win.
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‘Student Geng’ ignites research-integrity scandal in China after calling out senior academics
Video blogger’s viral accusations of data manipulation in Nature journals have sparked intense debate and speedy institutional investigations.
By Xiaoying You
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Its a national tragedy indeed 😢 🇦🇷
Otro mes con pérdida salarial en CONICET (línea amarilla del gráfico, ya se perdió 40.8 % desde que asumió Milei).
Si seguimos así, no va a haber más científicos/as en Argentina.
Ayúdennos a que se difunda esta tragedia del país!
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Jun 13
Stick Boy's of Ethiopia's Banna Tribe who use long sticks to avoid snakes in the Omo Valley
[🇪🇹 shirley.films]
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They say “Israel tells residents to leave” because FORCED DISPLACEMENT is a war crime. This is how they launder it.
Jun 9
Israel tells Lebanese city's residents to leave, day after Iran called for attacks to stop bbc.in/4v24Cbk
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A pleasure to reconnect with @JiorgosKourelis, my fmr PhD colleague/labmate @UniofOxford. Always generous with his time, & never short of inspiration, esp. when it comes to plasmid domestication & bioengineering immune receptors (even Sunday's can be about them!). Thanks Jiorgos!
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Jun 12
Call me crrrraaazzzy, but something feels funky:
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Jun 13
The US government shutting down Fable is the best advertisement @claudeai @AnthropicAI could have hoped for…
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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