@trutane
Recovering computational biologist/genome scientist turned parkour/fitness instructor. Multisport event organizer. Barefoot-running, triathletic wikipedian with scicomm aspirations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SteveChervitzTrutane
One problem w Bluesky’s drafts functionality is how it interacts w mobile app refreshing. If you’re working on a post Bsky.app, then navigate to a different app—e.g. search the web— then come back to Bsky, the app refreshes & vaporizes the post you were creating, not saving it as a draft like X does
…and the Sky got a little bluer! 🦋
Drafts are essential social media functionality for the kind of post crafting I do that often involves lots of fact checking, hashtag research, & editing prior to posting. Helps juggle multiple posts that aren’t yet fully baked & ready to go.
#socialMedia #Bsky
Also notable from last year: #Wikidata-powered apps showcased by @lydiapintscher.bsky.social — maybe due for an update?
bsky.app/profile/lydi...
Banner ad for "Wikimania" on a Wikipedia article piqued my curiosity: diff.wikimedia.org/2026/01/27/c...
Proposed topic: social media landscape for wiki community — primarily Mastodon & Bluesky? @wikimediafoundation.org & @wikipedia.org stopped posting on X/twitter in early 2025.
#Wikimania
The link to Jesse's 2025 Wikimania page in this Diff blog post is broken (404). Here's a fixed link:
Web3 & Wikimedia: Building a More Open and Decentralized Knowledge Ecosystem wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Pr...
#blockchain #smartContracts #DAOs
#Wikimania @wikimediafoundation.org
You've heard that something is going on with colon cancer. I'm working on a thing...let me know what you think!! Is it helpful? What would you do different?
hankgreen.com/crc
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
🌳 During #COVID19 pandemic, I planted live oak saplings along Ohlone Greenway/BART path in #AlbanyCA. They were volunteers relocated from our yard, seeded by our ‘mother’ oak.
I watered them during the drought & protected them from 🦌 & mowers.
Pics of these #CovidOaks here: x.com/trutane/stat...
Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (OA) Tabea Dreyer et al. + Ofer Feinerman ✉️
“complex brains require extensive communication to cooperate efficiently”
#CollectiveCognition #cooperation
Longhorn crazy #ants
#Myrmecology 🐜
Video introduction to our new “Conformational Biasing” method for computational design of mutations that bias proteins towards desired conformational states
CB part starts at 14:55
Thanks to Peter Cavanagh and Andrew Xue – amazing graduate students who co-led this work
Nice #OpenScience contribution by @arcadiascience.com
Demo/proof of concept using #Chlamy colony analysis 👇🏼
Notes:
1️⃣ #Chlamydomonas algae here — not to be confused with #Chlamydia bacterium
2️⃣ #Raman spectroscopy — not to be confused with #ramen cuisine 🍜
Interesting study showing how genetic variation can limit antibody therapies, led by the DBM team (Lepore & Jeker) with computational structural analysis from @torstenschwede.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...
#PrecisionMedicine #Genetics #AntibodyTherapy
This silver alert has been scrubbed from the CHP Alerts feed on X where it was originally posted ystrdy. Not flagged as “Located” – just deleted. Any idea why they would do that?
Neither CHP nor Vallejo PD are on Bsky but they are on X where I tagged them about this here: x.com/trutane/stat...
Btw, I used Southwest’s feedback form to let them know about this “planet 404” website glitch, so they may eventually address it — which would be easier than re-printing the cups!
#bamboo #ecoFriendly #ecoSky
#singleUsePlastic #singleUsePlastics
#plasticPollution #plastics
Btw, I used Southwest’s feedback form to let them know about this “planet 404” website glitch, so they may eventually address it — which would be easier than re-printing the cups!
#bamboo #ecoFriendly #ecoSky
#singleUsePlastic #singleUsePlastics
#plasticPollution #plastics
We're drowning in plastic: Plastic pollution will more than double by 2040 without action. But Pew's new report (launched today) shows that we have the solutions to dramatically reduce it. The question is whether we'll act in time. [🧵 1/3]
The website thumbnail shown by Bsky says it’s Southwest’s “Environmental sustainability initiative“ page. Googling that, I get the correct URL: www.southwest.com/citizenship/...
Southwest’s website is failing to redirect from the “planet“ URL that’s printed on the cups. Bluesky maybe using a cache?
On a recent Southwest flight, I was served a beverage in a bamboo cup that had Southwest.com/planet printed on it.
When I tried to visit that address in a web browser, I got a 404 error on the Southwest website. However, as I’m writing this post in Bsky, it appears to be resolving successfully. 🤔
🎙️ON AIR:
We're joined by earthquake scientists, who will answer all your questions and tell us the latest in the science of quakes.
❓What are your earthquake questions — about our area, preparedness, warning systems?
📻 Listen:
For the M4 earthquake on the Hayward fault near the Claremont this past September (9/22), which happened at 3 AM, both me & my wife we’re awakened by the P wave, so we both experienced the S wave when it hit!
bsky.app/profile/trut...
#seismology #HaywardFault
@berkeleyseismo.bsky.social
Fact vs. Fiction:
“You should never run outside or stand in a doorway during an earthquake.”
Let’s break it down. 👇
Illustrations by Jasmina El Bouamraoui and Karabo Poppy Moletsane are licensed under CC0 1.0 creativecommons.org/publicdomain...
I remixed the image by vertically stacking the originally wide horizontal banner format. My new version is still CC0.
@creativecommons.bsky.social
Why should I donate to @wikipedia.org & where does my money go? (FAQ) donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ#Why...?
I got this nice graphic in a thank you email from @wikimediafoundation.org "...helping us build a world where people everywhere have access to free & fair information"
#OpenAccess #Knowledge
Note that the one repost on X came from me, as well as one of those likes
Taking it at face value, this example suggests that Bluesky is >100x enriched over X for users interested in this topic, which covers the intersection of life science/drug development/bioinformatics/AI
#Bsky #Twitter #Xitter
Interesting X vs Bsky comparison that reflects on userbase science engagement: identical post below by @scifri.bsky.social posted at same time on both X & 🦋 had 10x more reposts & likes on @bsky.app which has about 15x fewer users (40M vs 600M).
#scicomm #sciSky #science 🧬
In 2020, Google’s AI lab released a tool called Alphafold that could predict how amino acids would fold into proteins under many different scenarios. Here’s where it—and its Nobel-winning team—are five years later.
🎙️ON AIR:
We're talking to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about the site’s history and why right wing figures like Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson are attacking it.
❓ Has Wikipedia earned your trust? How is it a part of your life?
📻 Listen:
Details on the demolition of the White House East wing with a bird’s eye view schematic of how the new ballroom might look, via @wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Wi...
#Eastwing #WhiteHouse 🏛️
Hurricanes feed off of warm water. Watch how quickly the eye of #Melissa collapsed as it moved onto land and over the mountainous terrain of Jamaica, and how quickly it is reforming now that it has moved back over water! I will be adding this radar loop to my earth science lectures.
TIL part 2: Wikipedia’s picture is called “Today’s featured picture“ — akin to “Today’s featured article”. Wikimedia Commons’ POTD is independent.
Odd that the @wikipedia.org app displays the Commons’ POTD instead of Wikipedia’s featured picture.🤔
Featured pic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_droi...
