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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko

@rob-beiko.bsky.social

Professor (Bioinformatics of Small and/or Fishy Things) in Computer Science at Dalhousie University; environmental 🧬 enthusiast. Trying and failing to not post about politics. he/him

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko@rob-beiko.bsky.social · last yr.

"After many years of covering election campaigns in Canada, USA and Europe, the Conservative Party of Canada is the most outwardly aggressive and uncivilized that I’ve witnessed." canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-ca...

Poilievre Stop in Fish Plant Smells | Canadian Journalist

Conservative Party of Canada election campaign stop in a fishing village in Newfoundland turns into a spectacle of party animosity towards media coverage.

canadianjournalist.ca

🇨🇦 Rob Beiko@rob-beiko.bsky.social · last yr.

Profound question for 12:20 AM: Why, when I ask Midjourney to create an image of Bert from Sesame Street as a visual pun for deep learning, do I get a set of characters that range from "Ernie-ish" to "WTF", but no Bert?

Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Also Not Bert.
David Moscrop@davidmoscrop.com · last yr.

A dangerous precedent. This is a cowardly folding by CTV. The right instigated an online troll attack campaign, offering no evidence of their claims, and the network folded. Viewers and Rachel deserve better.

PressProgress@pressprogress.ca · last yr.

NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

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Gerry Wright@gdwantibiotics.bsky.social · last yr.

The latest discovery from the lab and great colleagues at McMaster and U Illinois, Chicago. Lariocidin, a new lasso peptide antibiotic that inhibits the ribosome. rdcu.be/efdha

A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome

Nature - A new lasso peptide antibiotic exhibits broad-spectrum activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis, is unaffected by common...

rdcu.be

Paul Cohen@paulecohen.bsky.social · last yr.

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

🇨🇦 Rob Beiko@rob-beiko.bsky.social · last yr.

Absolute garbage article (not gonna link) in G&Mthis morning about "waaahh leave Musk and Tesla alone". - Intentionally conflates violent anti-Tesla protestors (who should be condemned) with all Tesla opponents - About DOGE: "The worthiness of the quest...should be applauded by all taxpayers"

Andrew Singer@oxonandrew.bsky.social · last yr.

‘Horizontal ARG transfers deducible from current genome sequence repositories have predominately happened in the human and wastewater microbiomes…and are strongly limited by genetic incompatibility between the hosts’ genomes, the acquired gene & the recipient’s genome’ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genetic compatibility and ecological connectivity drive the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes - Nature Communications

The dynamics of antimicrobial resistance gene transfer remain unclear. Here, by integrating bacterial genome and metagenome data with machine learning the authors show that genetic incompatibility is ...

nature.com

Dr. Tanya Samman@t-s-sci.bsky.social · last yr.

So much this!! I feel for our US colleagues, but there are plenty of underemployed or even unemployed scientists, not to mention active researchers experiencing lack of funding in Canada and Europe.

Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · last yr.

I would also add, if Europe and Canada were to vastly increase science spending there are plenty of European and Canadian scientists who would be happy to absorb that windfall. We are not your escape hatch.

Andrew Roger@andrewjroger.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt

A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry - Nature

The root of the eukaryote Tree of Life is estimated from a new, larger dataset of mitochondrial proteins including all known eukaryotic supergroups, showing it lies between two multi-supergroup assemb...

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko@rob-beiko.bsky.social · 2y ago

"I've done everything the Bible says! Even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"

National Center for Science Education@ncse.bsky.social · 2y ago

The latest dodgy proposal floating around is West Virginia's House Joint Resolution 31, which seeks to amend the state constitution to declare the Bible as their foundational document for society and government, and as an accurate record of human and natural history. ncse.ngo/proposal-wes... #nope

The state of West Virginia recognizes the Holy Bible, complete with the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, as the divinely inspired, inerrant foundational document for our society and government, an accurate historical record of human and natural history, and the utmost authority for human moral behavior. As such, the Holy Bible and its precepts shall be given a place of prominence and reverence in the public buildings, laws, policies, and schools of the state of West Virginia.