Please check out my blog about fatherhood, mental health, music, & life itself. I wrote today about the election, and recently I posted a mini-travelogue. I have also written extensively about the horrifying abyss of depression. Thanks for caring! jeremywingert79.substack.com…

Happy Halloween! 👻 A patterned arrangement of photos, each of an analytical balance/scale that is colored gray? Or, perhaps... a "grayscale photopattern"? (costume inspired by our lab's recent work here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…)

Did you catch this months episode? We go with the FLOW with Kyle and Mike to talk about flow solid phase peptide synthesis. #MerckChemistry podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

🙏 preach ❤️‍🩹 and thank you 👏

🔥😮‍💨 Jeremiah Webster's poem in the latest issue of @Fare_Fwd farefwd.com/index.php/2024/1…

Then Jesus said unto the sick, “you better have insurance.” Then Jesus said unto the stranger, “are you here legally?” Then Jesus said unto the hungry, “my taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.” Then Jesus said unto the poor, “this is your own fault.”

Meanwhile the apostle Paul: not ashamed to be like nursing mothers, encouraging/comforting fathers and young children!

Loved this scene. Epic and moving!

Ngl, I have just genuinely enjoyed S2 of #TheRingsOfPower and I don't understand why some seem to find it so hard to receive. There are exceptional moments all throughout the season, especially in scenes with Celebrimbor & Sauron.

Martin Luther was like:

A single diiron #enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile by @sanjoyadak90, @naike_y, Calderone, Duan, Lubeck, Schäfer, @AprilLukowski, @houk1000, Pandelia, @Drennan_Lab, & @BradMoore_SIO @moorelabsio in @NatureChemistry nature.com/articles/s41557-0…

Loopy Taming Audio-Driven Portrait Avatar with Long-Term Motion Dependency paper page: huggingface.co/papers/2409.0… With the introduction of diffusion-based video generation techniques, audio-conditioned human video generation has recently achieved significant breakthroughs in both the naturalness of motion and the synthesis of portrait details. Due to the limited control of audio signals in driving human motion, existing methods often add auxiliary spatial signals to stabilize movements, which may compromise the naturalness and freedom of motion. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end audio-only conditioned video diffusion model named Loopy. Specifically, we designed an inter- and intra-clip temporal module and an audio-to-latents module, enabling the model to leverage long-term motion information from the data to learn natural motion patterns and improving audio-portrait movement correlation. This method removes the need for manually specified spatial motion templates used in existing methods to constrain motion during inference. Extensive experiments show that Loopy outperforms recent audio-driven portrait diffusion models, delivering more lifelike and high-quality results across various scenarios.

Wouldn't it be great to take common waste plastics like PE and PP and break them back down to high value building blocks? We're excited to share our new method using base metal catalysts in @ScienceMagazine! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

My favourite discovery ever has just come online. Can I please tell you about some seriously wacky molecular biology? The story starts with a reverse transcriptase that SOMEHOW defends bacteria from viruses. (👇 I recommend sound ON for the video 🎹) 1/

...on a bulletin board with red yarn to either a Jewish banker or Satan himself. And you think to yourself, tribalism is quite a drug. So you change the channel and find a documentary about the making of "Galaxy Quest." And you enjoy the rest of your evening. End

Thank you for reading this thread! If you enjoyed this journey around the world, please share the first post and follow me for more content: @JamesLucasIT

This is @DavidAFrench's take on VP Harris's pick:

Someone asked for book recs on the biblical case for egalitarianism. I’ve got some!

It's no wonder that we have countless ppl deconstructing; many were raised in families & churches that systematically built intricate frameworks. Such frameworks continue to be exposed. Do we have the capacity to listen? /end x.com/MBurtwrites/status/170…

We are so excited to announce that this summer we will be going on tour!! We are playing several cities which The Strike has NEVER visited. General tickets will go on sale Friday, 10am PST at wearethestrike.com/live. Contact your local venue for information on pre-sales.