Only authorised #GMOs can enter the EU market, and they must follow specific labelling rules. 🏷️ My colleagues at #JRC have surveyed official control laboratories across Europe: how many GMOs did they find in food, feed and seeds? 🌽 Check out the monitoring results in this new paper ⬇️

Long-term monitoring of GMOs in EU food and feed: a multi-national survey to optimize enforcement strategies

To ensure food safety, consumer protection and environmental sustainability, the European Union enforces a robust regulatory framework for GMO monitoring. This study presents a multi-annual survey ...

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Nine AI agents walk into a newsroom. What could possibly go wrong? 🤖 Meet #ScienceRadar, a multi-agent AI pipeline that produces illustrated essays on selected scientific topics, drawing from recent news and academic papers. Here's how it works: 1/

Lo ammetto: il #referendum sulla #giustizia non mi appassiona particolarmente, ma siccome siamo chiamati a votare ho provato a informarmi. E quello che ho capito mi ha convinto a votare NO. Ecco perché #ioVotoNO :🧵 1/

#Grok never disappoints. While both #ChatGPT and #Claude agree that #Trump 's actions appear to violate US and international laws, Elon's LLM told me that "𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳" 😅

#Rstats slides back into the top 10 programming languages. R is far from dead. www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Sì, lo so che c'è il #concerto di capodanno di #Venezia, ma io preferisco usare la VPN e guardare quello di #Vienna come il resto d'Europa. Vi prego, non consideratemi nemico della patria! 🎻

Finisce il 2025 con 16 #libri letti. Il migliore? Senza dubbio la trilogia di #fantascienza "Il problema dei tre corpi" di Cixin Liu, che mi ha impegnato per 3 mesi (ma ne è valsa la pena). Bellissimi anche i saggi "Why machines learn" e "The rise and reign of the mammals". 📚

"L'intelligenza condivisa" di @emollick.bsky.social è un bel libro. Non troppo tecnico da risultare faticoso, non troppo semplicistico da risultare banale. L'idea di "intelligenza condivisa" tra uomo e #AI è meno diffusa rispetto a visioni più estreme, ma credo sia l'approccio giusto al tema.

"Whale breath collected by drones is giving clues to the health of wild humpbacks and other whales. ...They detected a highly infectious #virus linked to mass strandings of #whales and dolphins worldwide." 🐳 #morbillivirus

Drones detect deadly virus in Arctic whales' breath

Whale breath collected by drones is giving clues to the health of wild humpbacks and other whales.

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"Try the new #NotebookLM infographics!" – they said. And voila, here's an amazing picture of DNA molecules with 3' ends on both sides 🤷🏻‍♂️

Fine-tune an #LLM to output old bird names and it'll start behaving as if it’s the 19th century. Ask for a major recent invention, it'll reply the electrical telegraph! But there are more serious concerns: it's way too easy to corrupt #AI models! #AIsafety #AIresearch

Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs

LLMs are useful because they generalize so well. But can you have too much of a good thing? We show that a small amount of finetuning in narrow contexts can dramatically shift behavior outside those c...

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Come riporta @cattiviscienziati.bsky.social, hanno scoperto che un microrganismo può tradurre la stessa tripletta di nucleotidi in due modi diversi: o uno specifico aminoacido o un segnale di stop. In questo modo, lo stesso #DNA può produrre una proteina lunga o una corta. 🧬

Una grande novità nella biologia molecolare: il codice genetico può essere ambiguo

Per la prima volta si mette in discussione un principio che sembrava universale per tutta la vita conosciuta, aprendo un modo nuovo in cui l’informazione ereditaria può generare...

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"The long-term ban is an important pillar of the Commission's proposal to channel the Russian assets into a zero-interest reparations loan to support #Ukraine, which Belgium, as prime custodian of the funds, continues to fiercely resist." 🇺🇦 www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

EU agrees to indefinitely immobilise €210 billion of Russian assets

The EU has decided to keep the assets of the Russian Central Bank immobilised for the foreseeable future. The ban, which is based on a provision for economic emergencies, pushes back against external attempts to release the €210 billion in assets before Ukraine is compensated.

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#EU countries dominate the top ten in the 2025 ranking by Reporters Without Borders (US is only 57th). Our dear Elon doesn't know what he talks about 🤷🏻‍♂️🇪🇺 rsf.org/en/index

Index

RSF's World Press Freedom Index aims to compare the level of press freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories.

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Today #EU Council and Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on the regulation of #NGT. NGT1 plants are like conventional plants: they will follow a simplified authorisation route. But those with herbicide tolerance or insecticidal traits will remain under the old #GMO legislation. 🧬

New genomic techniques: Council and Parliament strike deal to boost the competitiveness and sustainability of our food systems

Council and Parliament reach provisional deal on a set of rules for new genomic techniques, aiming to improve the competitiveness of European agriculture and support the sustainability of our food sys...

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Il lancio di #ProtonSheets è una notizia enorme! Finalmente i fogli di calcolo con encryption end to end nella suite cloud di #Proton. Chi ha ancora bisogno di Google? 🙂

Proton Sheets: il nuovo foglio di calcolo criptato per proteggere i dati aziendali

Proton Sheets, nuovo foglio di calcolo criptato, alternativa sicura a Excel e Google Sheets, con collaborazione in tempo reale.

ilsoftware.it

One Health⚕️in #Denmark and beyond! 🌍 Let’s talk about 💊 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) 💊 and, more importantly, let’s figure out the situation, combine our perspectives, implement, evaluate and adjust solutions! More here 👉 lnkd.in/dhBmeP-s #euonehealth2025 #amr #eu #jrc #onehealth

🦠Antimicrobial 🧬resistance (AMR) 💊

About 100 years ago, the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming turned out to be the beginning of a major medical advancement of the 20th century, deeply impacting western med...

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Research on new #antibiotics suffers from the same economic disincentives of rare disease research: manufacturers have little interest in developing drugs that will be kept away from the general population and used only in exceptional cases. And yet, some scientists are working hard to fight #AMR 💪🏻

New ways to combat the Antibiotic Apocalypse

With antimicrobial resistance rates rising, what scientists are doing to re-arm doctors for the fight…

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HIRING: researchers, engineers, economists and lab technicians for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Our labs are in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. 20 open positions: recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancies 🧪 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs

Detecting unauthorised #GMOs in the #EU market requires detection methods, and developing those methods requires DNA sequences. 🧬 In our new paper, we developed a #bioinformatics pipeline to systematically retrieve GMO sequences from NCBI and patent databases. Check it out! tinyurl.com/agromethod

Retrieving sequences of genetically modified plants from public databases to widen screening approaches - Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety

The development of effective screening methods and implementation of official controls on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) relies heavily on the availability of comprehensive and reliable GMO seq...

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I'm starting to hate #AI generated videos. They force me to doubt everything I see on social media, which means that when I finally see an amazing video that is authentic, I won't believe it. I'm denying myself the joy of being amazed. It makes me sad.

Grande giornata di #scienza al Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica di #Milano: tra un talk e l'altro (tutti interessantissimi), ci sono anche le mie colleghe Elena e Maria Grazia che vi mostreranno come estrarre il #DNA 🧬 dalla frutta 🥝 #FocusLive 2025 live.focus.it/palinsesto/#...

Ho appena finito di leggere la trilogia del problema dei tre corpi di #CixinLiu. Un'opera magnifica in cui scienza e poesia si fondono alla perfezione, una storia meravigliosa e sorprendente. Per me è un vero capolavoro! ♥️

Why #Nigeria Accepted #GMOs 🌽 After the approval of a GM cowpea in 2019, Nigeria is now cultivating TELA maize. It is resilient to drought and pests, and was developed through a public-private partnership. press.asimov.com/articles/nig...

Why Nigeria Accepted GMOs

Genetically modified crops are finding a foothold in the Global South, producing some unlikely leaders in agritech.

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Continua a negare, Donald! Le #fakenews di #Trump sul #clima, smontate punto per punto

“La crisi climatica è una bufala”: lo show di Trump all’ONU (e il nostro fact-checking punto per punto)

Donald Trump e il suo show all'ONU: ha infilato una dopo l'altra una serie di fake sulla crisi climatica. Il nostro fact-checking,

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Visto che i #vaccini non causano l’#autismo sul banco degli imputati è salito il #paracetamolo Prossimi indagati l’omogenizzato di mela e il semolino di riso #Trump

Archaeologists at Pompeii uncovered a fresco depicting a meal of a flat bread round covered in herbed cheese (called 'moretum'). That's right, a PROTO-PIZZA. But modern pizza, as served from Tokyo to Rome itself, was probably invented in New York. Let's talk about the "Pizza Effect".

Pompeii fresco find possibly depicts 2,000-year-old form of pizza

Ancient painting includes fruit that looks like a pineapple – although it is almost certainly something else

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This #LochNessMonster photo is doing the rounds on social media, accompanied by a fake story about it being real, and new, and attached to a specific eyewitness event. I see people on Facebook groups thinking that the photo is the 'real deal', sigh. However... 1/n

Windows 10 support ends October 14th! 😱 Can't upgrade to #Windows11 and don't want to buy a new computer? No worries: - Backup your files - Download Ubuntu tinyurl.com/ubuntu24lts - Flash it to USB stick with Balena Etcher - Boot, install and get your apps from Software Center Welcome to #Ubuntu!

Download Ubuntu Desktop | Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.

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just leaving this gem here :)