Phil Kyriakakis

Claude is way better anyway

Mass surveillance and killer robots are not for me.

My new cup holders, which change color when heated.

I forgot about car washes too, though I rarely do that either.

Its not just the gas, the cheaper maintenance. I only had to fill the wiper fluid and change tires once my car got to 30,000 miles. That is it! And I bought discount tires for less than $100 each.

🔭🛰️🧪

One vaccine may provide broad protection against many respiratory infections and allergens Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues invented a new vaccine that protects mice from respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens — the closest yet to a universal vaccine.

Exciting! Stanford researchers have developed a UNIVERSAL INTRANASAL vaccine. A study in mouse models shows that vaccinated mice were protected against Covid & other coronaviruses. Still a long way to humans. This study was #NIH funded.

A potential game changer.
🧪 med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Microsoft team creates 'revolutionary' data storage system that lasts for millennia Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage costs.

The system acts as near-permanent archival storage for backup of critical data.

It stores 4.8 terabytes, the equivalent of around 2 million printed books

Data survives for 10,000 years at a temperature of 290ºC and much longer at room temperature.

🧪🦠

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I suspect one reason science social media has done reasonably well post-Twitter is that it didn't get (too badly) scattered. There's a viable population on both Bluesky and Mastodon.

Here's one (opt-in) way of of connecting those two populations to make sciencesky even bigger. 🧪

I learned a cool new word!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enstrophy

Pictured are 3D trajectories of turbulent particles colored by speed, showing two large vortices. Takumi Matsuzawa, Minhui Zhu et al. observed the expansion and decay of a blob of turbulence created in the center of a tank of still water. The results revealed steep fronts separating turbulent and undisturbed regions, the nonlinear transport and decay of the turbulent blob, and a persistent signature of turbulence late into the decay process. According to the authors, the analysis could help provide insight into processes ranging from star formation to fusion reactors. See the article by Matsuzawa, Zhu et al. e2526858123. Image credit: Takumi Matsuzawa.

🧪⚛️ Ever wondered what would happen if you thrashed around in a water tank, creating a blob of turbulence, and then watched it spread and gradually dissipate energy?

So did we. But we did the experiment, now out in PNAS and on the cover! It only took us 7 years ...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I know they want to trick people into signing up for One Drive, Bing and XBox, it is so annoying!

Why is Windows do this every time my computer updates?

Often we have to take a step back to move forward. But “the obstacle is the way”

At least they must have great coffee!

I had an old professor give a whole history of his lab. And it wasn’t the intro, it was the whole talk. I can’t remember how long it was, but it was way over and he knew it.
The thing is that he was famous and did cool stuff, but most people at this retreat already knew him and his work!

That way we can avoid all the Cs

So scammy.

There is a FB group I joined like this bc its name is “call for co-authorship” and I thought it was a group for finding possible collaborations. It is not. It is probably all scams, but some people on there are trying.

And it would be cool to add some new features. Like polls, and some original stuff to have more fun.

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

Okay, but for #BlueSky to gain a fraction of the value in networking that we once enjoyed over at #Twitter, we all need to be reposting pretty much everything we see.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky url: academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

So cool!

I feel like things need to get worse fast, rather than gradually, or not enough people will wake up. It is all shocking to me, so I don’t know what to think.

It is scary how quickly used we (the population) can get used to things. Separating families was a big deal with Trump 1.0. Now it takes killing an American citizen that legally had a gun. Not even killing an unarmed person was enough to make the admin think twice.

Even worse, we are borrowing money to do this.

I enjoy reading here, but these days that is all I can get out of it.

It was more fun because it was more useful. I could post a picture of some strange yeast colonies and learn so much, have several plausible explanations of why they looked the way they did. Here I am lucky if one person likes my post….

I still miss the old Twitter, where people actually saw and responded to my posts.

Not that I want to go to it now! I just wish there was a bit more engagement.

🤞

What is the function?