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πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ Cyberwitch. Science + Design. Ex-COO Basset Inc, acquired by Mercari. Now working on building bio lab spaces at Athanor Scientific 🧫 πŸ”¬

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The ML Engineer's Guide to Protein AI A Blog post by Maziyar Panahi on Hugging Face

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05.03.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Alien to land; at home in the sea.
This beautiful creature is a blood-belly comb jelly.
Jaw dropping display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

04.03.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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CIHR Funding Crisis: Canada's Health Research Community in Jeopardy | Paola Marignani PhD, EMBA posted on the topic | LinkedIn The recent announcement of a 13.6% success rate (86.4% fail rate) for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santΓ© du Canada (CIHR) Fall 2025 PG competition is a stark ...

I have been asked by many of you to share my LinkedIn post regarding internal deadlines. Here you go.
www.linkedin.com/posts/drpaol...

03.03.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Athanor Scientific β€” Startup in Residence Should we build a wet lab for early-stage biotech in British Columbia? Take the survey and help decide.

What if early-stage biotech teams could get affordable lab space, and in return, help train the next generation of scientists?

We're exploring a wet lab facility in BC with a built-in student internship program. The model only works if there's real demand.

Take our survey: athanorscientific.com

28.02.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Amiga 2000HD computer showing the SysInfo screen on a Dell LCD monitor.

Amiga 2000HD computer showing the SysInfo screen on a Dell LCD monitor.

Just wanted to share a glamour shot of my A2000. This one has a 50 MHz 68030, 64 MB Fast RAM, 2MB Chip RAM expansion, and an A2091 SCSI card. I also have an RGB 2 HDMI board in the video slot.

16.02.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 273 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 2

In the book, written in 2006, a genius game designer created rule-based systems for the most part to trigger on various contingencies.

In 2026 we have LLM agents that arguably make some of the more far-fetched technical things in the book more plausible.

06.02.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely my thoughts too when I first read it. "This or the mirror of this will occur in my lifetime. Possibly, soon." Such a lasting impression. Happy that others have also felt the same.

14.02.2026 06:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Life imitates art. I absolutely loved Daemon. Recently an OpenClaw agent (rogue or with explicit instruction) coordinated the takeover of a GitHub account to spoof a known product and defraud their customers. While awful and concerning, I couldn't help but remember the book.

14.02.2026 06:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What is your University internal deadline like? Single deadline or double deadline?
-CIHR LOI date Feb 4, 2026
-Dalhousie FoM internal deadline on Uni server Feb 12, 2026
-Dalhousie ORS internal deadline on Uni server & ResearchNet Feb 17, 2026
CIHR Deadline Mar 4, 2016 @dalhousieu.bsky.social

12.02.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Tumour suppressors LKB1 and SMARCA4 functionally interact to regulate gene expression of diverse biological processes in lung cancer https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.26.699134v1

28.01.2026 22:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

13% success rates at #CIHR, is a really 87% fail rate for>4000 scientists. At a time when πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ is investing millions to recruit more scientist into a broken funding environment. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦, U need a strong science foundation 2 attract success. #CIHR, fix your science foundation, it is eroding in real time

03.02.2026 23:13 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
Single Cell Analysis Reveals the Expansion of T-cells in mRNA Neoantigen Vaccine Treatment of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Patients

Edison analysis agent was able to reproduce key findings in scRNAseq paper

edisonscientific.com/articles/sin...

30.01.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Yesterday I learned about the SpatialBench from Sedona github.com/apache/sedon...

Which they based on the tpchgen-rs project from @clflushopt.bsky.social github.com/clflushopt/t...

(BTW I a still looking for some more github watchers on tpchgen-rs so I can get it on homebrew)

09.10.2025 17:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
When Machines Pay Machines: The Economics of Agentic AI | Matt Suiche The internet was built with a missing piece. In 1994, when the HTTP specification reserved status code 402 for β€œPayment Required,” the architects knew money would eventually flow as freely as data. Th...

www.msuiche.com/posts/when-m...

Could this be the "missing piece"?

16.12.2025 16:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Navel-gazed for 12s.

25.11.2025 23:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The article itself has a lot of great coverage of people harmed by nitrate pollution from farms.

This headline is like running a story on how a cigarette company caused cancer, but the headline only mentioning an unrelated bowling alley in the town, and implying the bowling alley caused the cancer

25.11.2025 03:24 πŸ‘ 180 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

πŸ€–πŸ«§

25.11.2025 21:51 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Jupyter MCP Server: Standardizing AI Agent Access To Jupyter Notebooks - Eric Charles, Datalayer
Jupyter MCP Server: Standardizing AI Agent Access To Jupyter Notebooks - Eric Charles, Datalayer YouTube video by JupyterCon

@ayalan.bsky.social Video is now live on www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO2p...

21.11.2025 04:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If @anthropic.com could fix one thing with the claude.ai interface it would be to stop throwing away half completed reponses on error. The responses were captured in the UX; surely also in SOME other server state? Couldn't we gather this and submit as a partial Assistant response to be completed?

17.11.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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n8n for Bioinformatics Data Prep and Notifications Learn how n8n brings lightweight automation to bioinformaticsβ€”streamlining ETL, file handling, and complementing tools like Nextflow and Snakemake.

Very interesting to see tools like n8n being used in spaces like bioinformatics. Meant to work between the gaps together with NextFlow and other pipeline tooling; not to replace it.

evo-byte.com/n8n-for-bioi...

17.11.2025 18:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hooray for an introvert!

16.11.2025 22:42 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

Wish I could have watched this one! Will there be a recording available?

14.11.2025 04:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Mintz Report is wrong on EDI - University Affairs Demanding β€˜institutional neutrality,’ Alberta’s report on the post-secondary system risks silencing equity.

So many reasons 2B upset with recent moves by Alberta gov whose current leader benefited from the very #EDI initiatives they intend to dismantle.

As academics, we need 2B vocal- EDI initiatives must remain firmly embedded in academia. @cdnwomenstem.bsky.social

universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-...

05.11.2025 13:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New rule: no copy/pasting LLM output into documents or emails. If you use generated text, you have to type it out letter by letter yourself, even if you're just transcribing it without changing

I think if people do that, a lot of the cringe will go away--inevitably you'll change the tone & details

04.11.2025 17:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors β€œWith fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

17.10.2025 12:45 πŸ‘ 853 πŸ” 362 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 66

The markdown-to-PDF tool that Manus likes to default to does not parse - formatted lists very well. Asking it to use WeasyPrint yields much better results.

18.10.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr. Marignani's example has had a profound influence on me and countless others who have benefited from her generosity, mentorship, and passion for science. Congrats @pmarignani.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social for being selected as a finalist for the Discovery Award Science Champion! πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬

29.09.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Need wet lab space? Take this survey about our pilot Biotech Startup in Residence program. Thank you for your interest in our biotech wet lab space survey. We are exploring the establishment of a shared wet lab facility on the campus of an independent grade-school in British Columbia, Canad...

πŸπŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬ Are you seeking wet lab space for your biotech startup or commercialized venture? We're exploring a pilot program to support 'biotech startups in residence,' offering reduced-cost resources and lab space to scientists and researchers. Share your requirements with us!

forms.gle/iZiFFjMUZDrP...

15.08.2025 20:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

People doubted me when I said researchers were moving from #Twitter to #Bluesky. Then @altmetric.com showed early data supporting the claim, and now @whysharksmatter.bsky.social & @drjuliawester.bsky.social confirm it with their research. The trend is real. Switch now! #SocialMedia #X #ResearchSky

28.08.2025 03:13 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Need wet lab space? Take this survey about our pilot Biotech Startup in Residence program. Thank you for your interest in our biotech wet lab space survey. We are exploring the establishment of a shared wet lab facility on the campus of an independent grade-school in British Columbia, Canad...

πŸπŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬ Are you seeking wet lab space for your biotech startup or commercialized venture? We're exploring a pilot program to support 'biotech startups in residence,' offering reduced-cost resources and lab space to scientists and researchers. Share your requirements with us!

forms.gle/iZiFFjMUZDrP...

15.08.2025 20:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0