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I've seen a few viral posts recently pushing the link between race and traits like IQ But as genomic research advances, it’s getting clearer that race is probably more of a social construct than a genetic reality The real story is how outdated ideas keep trying to shape society when we have better ways to inform the stories we tell. https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/whats-real-about-race-rina-bliss

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Quite excited about this out of MIT: a computer that fits into a single piece of thread weighing 5g! Could be woven into clothing with all kinds of applications for bodily computing Features analog sensing, digital memory, processing and communication https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08568-6

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This kind of information is freely available on the internet for everyone. What a time to be alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5DAW8mkJ6Y

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The Tesla of refrigerators is about to drop! Refrigeration & AC account for ~20% of global electricity use and we now have kilowatt-scale efficiency and a legit alternative to vapour compression cooling! paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08549-9?linkId=13156497

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One of my favorite early papers to teach students... just so clearly shows the power of bacteriophages Phage kills cholera Cholera evolves People get cholera Phage evolves Cholera cases drop Such a clear inverse relationship https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0408992102

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The first SMR was built by a guy born in 1900 🤯 cc: @julia

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Me going directly to the government after the federal research funding cuts

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Taking DeSci to another level 👀…

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TIL Francis Crick's house has a golden double helix on it 🧬

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AI bio models are on a serious upward trend Open source ftw!! https://x.com/nalidoust/status/1894381718750335354?s=46&t=Yro-7dBgnyXOS_0e3eMssw

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all about today.. been a long day

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It is never bad to have another resource to learn stochastic calculus https://jiha-kim.github.io/posts/introduction-to-stochastic-calculus/

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Umm so we’re now turning our microscopes into 3D printers 💅🏽 Pre-print: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.20.639256v1

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“Similarly, Darwin laid out the evolutionary theory of biological organisms with no idea whatsoever what the mechanism of heritability was. As Darwin proved, an evolutionary theory can go extremely far without knowledge of the specific mechanism of inheritance.” - Julian Gough

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one of my favorite publications on scientific progress is https://press.asimov.com what other publications exist around the same topics?

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