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@nickzoic.bsky.social
Notorious Tinkerer, Nanoinfluencer & Flâneur. https://nick.zoic.org/ ex-𝕏 nickzoic, more often found on fediverse: @nickzoic@aus.social Can't be arsed with age assurance, so no DMs here: try email (nick AT zoic DOT org) Pronouns: he/him
Thank you so much to everyone who voted for my painting at the 2026 Sooke Fine Arts Show, 'Coastal Splendour II' won the People's Choice Award!
reading MacLeod describe his friend Iain is so based
That Musk talks about The Culture books a lot while embodying the opposite philosophy as The Culture also also awful.
Whether it's Michelle Obama promoting vegetables and exercise or Donald Trump making groceries so expensive that people are rationing food, both sides have helped Americans lose weight.
Australian journalists in mainstream newsrooms, please help.
Were media releases still being distributed by fax in 2013? It feels late but I moved to the digital world quite early.
🚨On Monday July 27 at 2pm AEST, every phone in Australia will get very loud. 🚨 If you are vulnerable, with a phone as part of your escape plan, please make sure that you take steps to protect yourself. If you aren't vulnerable, please help get the word out to protect those who are.
ausalert.gov.au
Okay, so: it's entirely possible that some kind of full-body immersion-in-water ultrasound scan could be useful. I mean, I've held in my hand a doodad which can take a 3D image of a baby's abdomen, identify the bladder and provide a realtime urine volume in mL. Pretty cool. 1/
My theory is that Cthulhu is rising from the deep and in dreams he has offered the worst people in the world untold glories to whoever is responsible for the largest number of deaths. It's a bait-and-switch of course but these guys are all suckers.
This Wednesday, are you ready to go beyond the VUS and learn more about using multiplexed assays of variant effects (MAVEs) to inform clinical variant classification? It's free to sign up: bit.ly/3Seq0LL #DeepMutationalScanning #VariantScientistNetwork #VUS #MAVE #AtlasOfVariantEffects
New FOI Weekly just sent. The Federal Government (16 departments, 8 key agencies) published 33 FOI releases last week, all of which are summarised and linked here: record-radar-foi-weekly.ghost.io/rotation-007/
Rotation 007 · 2026-06-14
The 33 new FOI releases from Federal government departments and eight key agencies this week are summarised below. Notable this week: five releases relating to the NDIS including more detail on a cro...
record-radar-foi-weekly.ghost.io
The 27 new FOIs from Federal gov depts from June 1-8, summarised and linked. Big release week for Infrastructure and Attorney General's departments including "bot-generated FOIs" claim still not substantiated, Anthropic lobbying + NDIA governance gap: record-radar-foi-weekly.ghost.io/rotation-006/
Rotation 006 · 2026-06-08
The 27 new FOI releases from Federal government departments and eight key agencies are summarised below. This week: big release week for Infrastructure and Attorney General's departments; Mark Butler...
record-radar-foi-weekly.ghost.io
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
Finally got around to something I've been meaning to do for ages: run *exactly one* program on this computer. nick.zoic.org/art/boot-nak...
At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
Tbf most men would beat a gorilla in a boxing match, since the beast is unlikely to stick to the Queensbury rules and would be disqualified. The men would be dead, but they would win.
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
nbcnews.com
this bird is spiritually kin to our friend's parrot who, upon meeting us, immediately came over to our arm, bit us hard enough to draw blood, yelled FUCK YOU, then flew away laughing
I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.
Chotiner: Perhaps you imagine yourself as the interviewee? Ricardo: I would never get tired of the, ummm, the ... Chotiner: ... Humiliation? Ricardo: Perhaps.
The 9th Annual Mutational Scanning Symposium starts tomorrow. We can't wait to see you for an action-packed 3 days of insightful presentations and posters and stimulating discussions. www.mss2026.org #VariantEffect26 #MAVE #Genomics #PrecisionMedicine #Symposium #AVEAlliance #AtlasOfVariantEffect
MSS26
Mutational Scanning Symposium 2026, 25-27 March, Melbourne
mss2026.org
Drop a movie that traumatized you as a kid.
Drop a movie that traumatised you as a kid.