Mihai Todor
@mihaitodor.bsky.social
Software Engineer interested in computational biology / *omics 🧬. Cambridge, UK. He / Him.
mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say
The vaccine reportedly thwarted the cancer's return and spread.
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I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...
We don’t want to suggest that all of Emily Wilson’s subsequent good fortune is due to appearing as a guest on #MindscapePodcast. preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...
297 | Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation – Sean Carroll
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 4w ago“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
Mindscape 361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together. Quorum sensing is one of the vivid differences between even the simplest organism and non-living stuff. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Mindscape Ask Me Anything | July 2026. Boltzmann Brains, science in science fiction, uses of LLMs, confronting the forces of anti-science, and more. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Mindscape 358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant. I start talking about why the universe is accelerating -- but there was too much to say, so next week we'll have a follow-up episode. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Mindscape 356 | Andrea Wulf @andreawulf.bsky.social on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
I just signed european.social as well. Regardless of whether you think EU governments are too prone to weaken privacy protections or not, it's clear that - monopolistic, authoritarian #SocialMedia platforms are a problem #europe
The European Social Stack — An open declaration
european.social
Newsmast Foundation@newsmastfoundation.org · 3mo agoJust launched at Public Spaces in Amsterdam, The European Social Stack Open Declaration! A set of common principles agreed by complementary technology leaders 🫶 Read the declaration, add your signature, and share: european.social #EUSocialStack #Europe
Mindscape 355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball. I argue that QM is even farther from the everyday world than we generally assume, but connecting them is an ongoing and promising project. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Mindscape 352 | Bing Brunton @bingbrunton.bsky.social on Connecting the Connectome to the Body. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Mindscape 350 | J. Eric Oliver @ericoliver.bsky.social on the Self and How to Know It. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
𝗣𝗗𝗕𝗲 𝗺𝗺𝗖𝗜𝗙 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿: validate your mmCIF files against PDBx/mmCIF dictionary ✅ Real-time check ✅ Metadata completeness indicator pip install pdbe-mmcif-validator install VS code extension: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... GitHub - PDBeurope/mmcif-validator: github.com/PDBeurope/mm...
The AlphaFold Database, jointly developed with Google DeepMind, now contains datasets from specialist communities. This includes rich datasets for microbes, viruses & parasites associated with tropical diseases. Explore the new datasets in the AlphaFold Database. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...
AlphaFold Database welcomes community datasets
Latest AlphaFold Database update adds high-value datasets for microbial and viral proteins, generated by specialist communities
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Mindscape 342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Mind, and Morality. Do social structures, like eyes and fins, arise independently from evolutionary pressures? #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Mindscape 341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle. Yes, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance comes up. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
🚨Our first talk this new year would be a joint theory/experiment talk by Prof. Marino Arroyo and Prof. Xavier Trepat @xaviertrepat.bsky.social describing some of their recent work together on active morphogenesis🧫. Sign up to our mailing list for a zoom link to this talk and other upcoming talks🚨
Stunning 4K Drone Footage Over Iceland’s Mystical Landscapes and Seascapes laughingsquid.com/iceland-4k-d...
Stunning 4K Drone Footage Over Iceland's Mystical Landscapes and Seascapes
Photographer Jan Erik Waider captures stunning 4K drone footage of Iceland's mystical landscapes and seascapes.
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This event was amazing! Thank you for organising it @tlmcambridge.bsky.social!
Theory of Living Matter Group@tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 9mo ago🍻TLM Pub Talks are back! 🍻 Join us for an evening of interesting talks to discuss over a drink in a social environment. All those interested in the intersection of biology and theory are welcome!
FOSDEM 2026 added a developer room for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: fosdem-bioinformatics.github.io/cfp.html 🧬
Call for Participation: 1st Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Developer Room at FOSDEM 2026
A minimal website for the FOSDEM Bioinformatics and Computational Biology community
fosdem-bioinformatics.github.io
End-to-end protein design in the browser through evedesign. Generate and interactively explore designs in 2D/3D and export them as codon-optimized DNA. The underlying open source framework (released soon) is build to easily add new methods, more on that soon. 🌐 evedesign.bio
ripgrep 15 is out! Mostly a host of bug fixes, particularly around gitignore. Some minor perf improvements. A couple small features. And (partial) Jujutsu support for gitignore. github.com/BurntSushi/r...
Release 15.0.0 · BurntSushi/ripgrep
Sponsorship is appreciated! ripgrep 15 is a new major version release of ripgrep that mostly has bug fixes, some minor performance improvements and minor new features. In case you haven't heard of...
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My project coordinator, Jennifer Fleming, did a detailed podcast on AlphaFold: www.linkedin.com/posts/artifi...
AlphaFold: AI's Biggest Breakthrough 🧪🤖 We're thrilled to welcome Dr Jennifer Fleming, Coordinator at the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) and AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) le...
AlphaFold: AI's Biggest Breakthrough 🧪🤖 We're thrilled to welcome Dr Jennifer Fleming, Coordinator at the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) and AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) lead, for ...
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Mindscape 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse. In which I shamelessly steal material from the #PhilosophyOfCosmology course I am teaching to talk about some big questions. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
The latest in a long series of Nobels for work in immunology - and it won’t be the last (!)
T-reg Cells: The 2025 Medicine Nobel
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Do you study proteins? The new PDBe entry pages make it easier to explore protein structures. 🟢 Visualise ligands & macromolecules with improved 3D viewers 🟢 Get background info from AI-based annotations 🟢 Add your own annotations to viewers without leaving the browser @pdbeurope.bsky.social 🧬🖥️
Making structural biology data accessible to everyone — from specialists to first-time explorers. ✨ Discover the new interactive, personalised & mobile-ready PDBe Entry Pages. 📖 Read more: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u... 🔍 Try it: www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/entry/p...
New PDBe entry pages: Interactive, personalised, and mobile-ready
Explore molecular structures with new interactive 3D viewers and AI annotations
ebi.ac.uk
