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RT @ruskin147
Forensic piece by @FTLex showing that the brilliant @elonmusk has in a few short months managed to reduce Twitter’s value to <0

RT @electpoliticsuk
BREAKING:

Jeremy Corbyn has officially been blocked from standing as a Labour candidate in the next election by the NEC.

RT @Mandoline_Blue
Therese Coffey is unfit for a Ministerial post. She can't string two words together. Inside her head, a single brain cell is crying softly because it's all alone.... twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/sta

RT @docrussjackson
This looks brilliant!

The @BBC has commissioned new drama 'The Way', written by James Graham (Sherwood, Quiz), directed by Michael Sheen (Good Omens, Staged), & co-created by Sheen, Graham & Adam Curtis (The Power Of Nightmares, HyperNormalisation).

televisual.com/news/michael-sh

RT @FrontiersIn
Scientists have developed a biomaterial which mimics skin, right down to blood under the surface, to make studies on mosquito feeding easier to run.

Read the study in @FrontBioeng: fro.ntiers.in/k4pR or our news story ⬇

Development of an automated biomaterial platform to study mosquito feeding behavior

Mosquitoes carry a number of deadly pathogens that are transmitted while feeding on blood through the skin, and studying mosquito feeding behavior could elucidate countermeasures to mitigate biting. Although this type of research has existed for decades, there has yet to be a compelling example of a controlled environment to test the impact of multiple variables on mosquito feeding behavior. In this study, we leveraged uniformly bioprinted vascularized skin mimics to create a mosquito feeding platform with independently tunable feeding sites. Our platform allows us to observe mosquito feeding behavior and collect video data for 30–45 min. We maximized throughput by developing a highly accurate computer vision model (mean average precision: 92.5%) that automatically processes videos and increases measurement objectivity. This model enables assessment of critical factors such as feeding and activity around feeding sites, and we used it to evaluate the repellent effect of DEET and oil of lemon eucalyptus-based repellents. We validated that both repellents effectively repel mosquitoes in laboratory settings (0% feeding in experimental groups, 13.8% feeding in control group, p < 0.0001), suggesting our platform’s use as a repellent screening assay in the future. The platform is scalable, compact, and reduces dependence on vertebrate hosts in mosquito research.

fro.ntiers.in

RT @LizWebsterLD
Govt has applied to join a trade block in the Pacific. Listen 🎧 to why I think 🇬🇧 people should decide 👇

If you agree the 🇬🇧 public should be asked in a referendum before we join any new trade blocks, then please sign and share my petition 👉petition.parliament.uk/petitio

RT @NoLieWithBTC
The red line is when Republicans ended the national assault weapons ban.

RT @JossBlandHawtho
Let's not forget that ALMA is sharing the honours for exciting discoveries in the JWST era... amazing work!

Channel maps at z = 8.3 !!

RT @PsychToday
Borderline personality disorder has historically been difficult to treat. That may be because we've thought of it as just one thing, while new research argues that the reality is more complex, writes @GrantHBrennerMD psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ex

RT @juliabard
Today the Labour Party leader has trampled on the democratic rights of party members and insulted the tens of 1000s of Islington North residents who have elected and re-elected @jeremycorbyn over nearly 40 years because he’s a brilliant, hardworking, honourable MP.

RT @sashasimic
It is a foregone conclusion that @jeremycorbyn will vote against @SuellaBraverman's racist in the @HouseofCommons tonight and that @Keir_Starmer will abstain.
is an anti-racist.
wants the racist vote.

RT @DoubleDownNews
“Did I make mistakes, of course, everybody does… one of which was to trust people who turned out to be deeply untrustworthy”

- Jeremy Corbyn

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