Mike Fainzilber
@mfainzilber.bsky.social
Molecular neuroscience, cell biology, aikido and haiku, not necessarily in that order. https://www.weizmann.ac.il/Biomolecular_Sciences/Fainzilber/
🧪 Humanity dumbing down for the past ~50 years… scienceblog.com/t-a-study-of...
A study of 730,000 Norwegian conscripts found the IQ gains of the 20th century reversed after 1975, falling by roughly seven points a generation, and ruled out genetics as the cause by comparing broth...
A massive study of Norwegian conscripts reveals that IQ scores, which climbed steadily for a century, have been falling sharply since the 1970s—and the culprit isn't in our genes.
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“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.” — George Santayana
Ori Weinstock and company. My daily post on the dark site, now moved here youtu.be/PH-ijpgDZsY
Netanyahu resign
YouTube video by Yael Nussbaum
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Senryu is born from each individual person. Regarding modern #senryu, Shinako Tokizane listed 10 points:
open grave my poetry notebook in my husband's hands --Shinko Tokizane あばかれる墓わが句帖夫の手に 時実新子 #senryu #translation
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
So how is zooid identity determined? Using transcriptomics and open chromatin profiling, we uncover that many transcription factors are zooid-specific, largely coinciding with cognate TF motif enrichments on those same polyps. We propose complex coloniality relied on co-option of ancestral TFs. 4/
By sequencing the genome and through comparative genomics, we found that it doesn't have significant gene family expansions in developmental / information processing genes (e.g. Transcription Factors, signalling pathways). However its large genome (>3Gb) is ~75% transposons. 3/
The man'o war (Physalia utriculus) is a siphonophore, and as such a colony of polyps. But unlike other colonial animals like corals 🪸, each polyp has a distinct role & morphology. How does a unique genome encode such complexity? Also, it has a nasty sting, can we better understand its venom? 2/
the shofar’s cry returning the horn to the ram 🙏 to editors Orrin Préjean and Pippa Phillips @pippaesque.bsky.social for including this in Prune Juice @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social Issue 49 #SenryuSunday prunejuicesenryu.com/wp-content/u...
I have a brief article on the life and work of #senryu poet Shinko Tokizane in the latest issue of Prune Juice, which came out today. Check it out at the link below!
Prune Juice Journal@prunejuicejournal.bsky.social · 5d agoIssue no. forty-nine is live, featuring cover art from one of this issue’s poets, Debbie Strange! Thank you to everyone who contributed. www.prunejuicesenryu.com Mark your calendars for the next submission window: October 1st – 31st. #senryu #micropoetry #writingcommunity #haiku #poetryjournal
Issue no. forty-nine is live, featuring cover art from one of this issue’s poets, Debbie Strange! Thank you to everyone who contributed. www.prunejuicesenryu.com Mark your calendars for the next submission window: October 1st – 31st. #senryu #micropoetry #writingcommunity #haiku #poetryjournal
It’s almost here- look forward to another issue of Prune Juice! Coming to you live August 1st. #senryu #micropoetry #writingcommunity #haiku #poetryjournal
last boat out the sounds of silence 🙏 to David McMurray for giving this one space in his Asahi Haikuist column today www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
beach retirement chasing sand dollars--Roberta Beach Jacobson (Indianola, Iowa)
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If AI models keep improving, in a few years they could be as good as professional wordsmiths. In the meantime, though, their baggy prose puts a premium on editing skills. Here are some tips
AI is getting better at writing. Humans must get better at editing
Our investigation suggests how
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The Hong Kong bookseller died on July 2nd, aged 70
Lam Wing-kee, the bookseller who would not admit defeat
The Hong Kong bookseller died on July 2nd, aged 70
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The countdown begins… Get ready for Prune Juice Issue 49! Coming to you live August 1st. #senryu #micropoetry #writingcommunity #haiku #poetryjournal
The #Haiku Dialogue long list selections on the topic of TMI are posted! Use the link below to check out the haiku and #senryu that made the cut. And check back in a week for the shortlist selections with commentary. thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
HAIKU DIALOGUE – Man-Machine Interface – TMI – long list - The Haiku Foundation
TMI – long list
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Years ago, I reviewed a paper that had interesting data but was not put well together at all. Badly organized figures, convoluted text. I was getting annoyed and then saw the asterisk in the (short) author list. The first author had written their first ever ms after their PI had suddenly died 🥺.
If you don't like a paper, it is obviously totally fine to point out the issues. But please do NOT make egregious and unpleasant comments about the first author's qualifications. A first author who is usually a trainee. Beyond inappropriate and unprofessional.
the things I can't say out loud, I leave along the way --Susumu Maruyama 道々に口に出せないものを置く 丸山進 #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation
AI is destroying millions of physical books. A civilization may never before have failed for a more stupid reason.
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
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Everyone says AI will accelerate science. I don't think it will -- at least not in biology, and at least not soon. New post where I explain why, and how the productivity paradox can be resolved: blekhman.substack.com/p/why-ai-wil...
Why AI will not speed up science (yet)
You can see AI everywhere except in the productivity statistics
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“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it". – Daniel Kahneman
highway slowdown tailgated by a hearse Another one originally published in Failed Haiku, April 2022 #SenryuSunday Blessings to Mike Rehling, hoping he is well
When she was told she had to do something, Wally Funk often refused. Equally, when she wanted to do something, she just did it
Wally Funk was told women couldn’t be astronauts
The aviator who refused to agree died on July 8th, aged 87
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