Germán Bonilla-Rosso

Trump Went to War With Iran Because Jared Kushner Is a Fool Donald Trump’s top two negotiators have no clue what they’re doing.

Witkoff and Kushner chose not to have nuclear technical experts present during negotiations in Geneva. Several experts have raised questions about the disastrous duo’s technical understanding of uranium enrichment after they presented an assessment of Iran’s Research Reactor that made no sense.

A photo of a honey bee just about to land over a yellow Nopal (Opuntia sp) flower at the Reserva del Pedregal de San Ángel (UNAM), product of the lava flow after the eruption of El Xitle volcanoe, inside México City CDMX. 🇲🇽 #BugSky

🐝🌵🌋Still life of honeybee and Opuntia over volcanic spill

Naturaleza muerta de abeja y nopal sobre derrame volcánico

Since this has been my most popular post ever, I feel I need to say the following:

My dad was a superb teacher, beloved by his students and widely recognized.

I was young and stubborn, and his teachings keep being useful today. Just not back then.

As far as I can tell, a huge number of the pro-Crockett, anti-Talarico accounts on here are inauthentic. Someone’s paying money for these in an attempt to suppress turnout.

I’d just block and move on.

My dad taught thermodynamics at uni.

I regretted the day I asked him to help me understand highschool Entropy.

I think that was the appropriate response!

Oh I remember he passionately talked a lot about gasses, temperature and pressure and the ideal gas law, adiabatic proceases and even brownian movement. I failed the exam though.

However it was incredibly useful when much later I was learning biochemistry!

My dad taught thermodynamics at uni.

I regretted the day I asked him to help me understand highschool Entropy.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Yeah. The same Falun Gong 法輪功 that is a pro-Trump, pro-AfD, anti-science, ultraconservative cult behind the #ShenYun show and the disinformation producers #Epoch Media and New Tang Dynasty.

The new pandemic that was not How information about an outbreak of respiratory disease in China in late 2023 was distorted by politically-motivated media. In late 2023, The Free Press, an online outlet founded by Bari Weiss, publi...

Do you remember the other pandemic that started in China in late 2023?
Probably not, and for a good reason: it did not happen.

The alarm was due to misinformation coming from a Falun Gong-linked outlet, laundered through other media. ▫️1/7 #covidorigin

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X.

Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch.

Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp.

And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO.

Yes, this is oligarchy.

There is no life quality where you cannot get mango, guayaba, zapote negro and avocado on the same day

Stubby nugget of a shiny blue metallic wasp, little flappy antennae. Looks like she could curl up into a perfect blue golf ball

Bright blue shiny face of the creature, with perfect tiny toothed mandibles

*clack-clack of tiny teef*

PERILAMPUS 😍 I hadn't seen one of these stunning blue nuggets in like 3+ years. Perfect, perfect creature. 💙
(they're hyperparasitoids of hyperparasitoids, and so damn cool enough on that merit, but also they can look like this)

An advertisement for a PhD position studying "Revealing the mechanistic basis of defence peptide antibacterial specificity." It shows fruit flies infected by green-fluorescent protein expressing bacteria, and describes the project and way to apply.

Very excited to be advertising this project with the excellent cosupervision of Peter Mergaert through @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social and @uniexecec.bsky.social.

This position is open to international applicants and will involve stints in both Penryn UK and Paris France. Please share!

Apply: adum.fr

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Interesting start to the week:

Paper rejected with the justification that the journal does not accept pre-registrations or manuscripts that are based on pre-registrations 🤔🤪

#Registration #PreRegistration #RegisteredReport

Have a novel protist's genome or transcriptome and want to predict it's mitochondrial proteome? Look no further than CoMR, this handy bioinformatic workflow to help you: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #phylogenetics

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Michael Sheen.

Or Dr. House!

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

"To consider"???
Who are these monsters?

This morning I solved a little scripting problem in ~ 10 minutes.

ChatGPT failed to solve it after 40 minutes.

Claude failed to solve it in 20 minutes, then tried to convince me that I wanted to solve a different problem.

This is why we don't let LLMs near any @epic-biodiversity.org code.

🦠🔬🧫🧪 Really nice read on how CRISPR defense system shifts selective pressure when mobile!

When you elect pseudoscience and snake oil sellers, you die of perfectly preventable diseases.

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❄️Fat flocons de nieve, in case anyone was missing swedish February...

...and swiss snow traffic

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Well replication studies sections should be replicated!

Sparta was briefly a powerful empire that slowly declined due to the lack of social mobility of its population, the lack of social diversity and overreliance on the military, the bullying of its neighbours and bad diplomatic relations... sounds familiar!

Why your most creative ideas may come after a night of sleep Got a problem? Science says you should sleep on it.

@carolynyjohnson.bsky.social did an excellent job today of summarizing the research and key issues surrounding the idea of "sleeping on it" (Not A Myth) — Thank You Carolyn!
wapo.st/4rqb1LF

A Replication Studies Section!
This is an awesome idea that should be picked up by other scientific journals!
#OpenScience #FAIR #Replicability #PeerReview