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www.martinholub.com PhD Bioengineering | science + technology | talks biotech, biosecurity, synbio
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Today marks 3 years since Russia invaded #Ukraine 🇺🇦 ♦️Millions remain displaced. ♦️Countless lives lost. ♦️Thousands of attacks on health care. WHO & its partners continue to support urgent health needs - mental health support, trauma care, rehabilitation, rebuilding & strengthening the health system.

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Another state declares an emergency over H5N1 avian influenza. We are underestimating the economic tolls of this virus. www.foxnews.com/health/minne...

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AI Personality Extraction from Faces: Labor Market Implications papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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well, when it comes to uniting, a good competitor or even an enemy is second to no one else ... did not expect/want that one for Europe to come from the US but alas, in the end this is an opportunity

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The deadline for nominations has been extended to THIS FRIDAY, so make sure to submit yours soon!

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It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

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Listen to today's episode of @npr.org's Here & Now to hear @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social chat about the rising cases and different strains of #birdflu appearing across the country. Listen Heređź‘‚ www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

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recently saw a graph showing scientists with children publish more papers than scientists wihout. Can't find the figure anymore. Anyone can share a link? #econsky

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Running experiments? Set up good controls and avoid testing too many variables at once. Pushing new feature? Run tests before deployment and keep the option to revert to last stable version. US politics now be like .... naah

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Helicore Biopharma has emerged from stealth with $65 million in series A financing to clinically test its lead drug candidate, an injectable for weight loss and related conditions. cen.acs.org/business/sta... 🧪 #scinews #biosky

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Federal and taxpayers money is going into informing the public and scientific community on public health. Preventing sharing of this information is wrong and stupid. This information must be out there and philanthropic funding will have to step in.

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“WHO freezes hiring, restricts travel after US withdrawal Trump’s planned exit “has made our financial situation more acute” the WHO chief told staff.”

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Firing is not nice, but it is an inevitable part of business operations. That includes firing for performance. And that's OK. What is not is letting employees go while telling everybody that they did not meet your performance standards. That damages careers.

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This president continues to impress, he solved AMR in just a few days!

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$budde is a coin I would actually buy

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OpenAI has developed a language model for cell state reprogramming www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1... also check this one: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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oh so this is what was meant with 'rewriting history' ... it is apparently getting easier than ever

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

oh right, i guess this quote did not stick

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with the health costs crisis, maybe we can just replace all doctors with dog-tors? also, if your friend complains that they are stressed, overworked and feeling their life may fall into pieces any minute - try suggesting they get a dog ... (and then run to hide behind a table)

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Launching without running tests. #meme #startup #fun

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