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Enter the Red Queen.

"Eric Mitchell, a graduate student at Stanford University, figured a classifier would take a lot of training data. Along with colleagues, he came up with DetectGPT, a “zero-shot” approach to spotting the difference, meaning the method requires no prior learning. Instead, the method turns a chatbot on itself, to sniff out its own output."

ft.com/content/e34c24f6-1159-4

'Because mink are known to spread certain viruses to humans, the fear was that the disease could jump from mink to people. No humans got sick from the outbreak in Spain, but other infections have spread from mink to humans before: In 2020, COVID outbreaks on Danish mink farms led to new mink-related variants that spread to a small number of humans.'

theatlantic.com/health/archive

"But the oldest DNA of modern humans in Europe, dating back 45,000 years, undermines such a simple story. It comes from people who belonged to a lost branch of the human family tree. Their ancestors were part of the expansion out of Africa, but they split off on their own before the ancestors of living Europeans and Asians split apart."

nytimes.com/2023/03/01/science

Have 5 minutes? Then you have time to support preprints! ⏲️
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Rosalind Franklin, born in 1920, was a British chemist whose contributions were vital to the discovery of the structure of DNA. Her work led to the Nobel Prize being awarded to two men, Watson and Crick, who allegedly stole her work and never acknowledged her contribution. #WomensHistoryMonth

"The neonatal Fc receptor and the planet Neptune share the distinction of having had their existence predicted by theoretical models before they were discovered."

My latest Clinical Pipeline column at Nature Medicine is out.

nature.com/articles/d41591-023

Sounds exciting.
"...positive feedback between cell state and signalling pattern regulates the long-range signal coding that drives morphogenesis."
Controlling periodic long-range signalling to drive a morphogenetic transition doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83796

@cyrilpedia Freakonomics did a 3 episode deep dive inti Adam Smith - highly recommended!

Here is a link to part 2; it is most relevant to your post.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

Issue 4 is complete!

On the cover: Xenopus neurula stained for Sox3 protein. For more details see the Research article by Horr et al.

journals.biologists.com/dev/ar

Also in Issue 4:
- Research Highlights on neurodevelopment, muscle and tongue epithelium
- @p_r_francois Editorial on theoretical biology
- Author interview with Rana Fetit & David Price
- Mayssa Mokalled interview
- Notch signaling poster
- Fertility Primer

journals.biologists.com/dev/is

Hey! Come to Lisbon! It's going to be a lot of science fun!
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RT @J_Cell_Sci
Join us in Lisbon this May and hear Francesca Bottanelli @fran_bottanelli speaking on "Investigating cellular logistics with live-cell STED super-resolution microscopy"#celldyn2023

Find out more and register at
biologists.com/meetings/celldy
twitter.com/J_Cell_Sci/status/

Anna-Maria Jürgensen @ajuergensen, author of some lovely papers on computational neuroscience in #Drosophila is here: welcome!

"A neuromorphic model of olfactory processing and sparse coding in the Drosophila larva brain" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

"Prediction error drives associative olfactory learning and conditioned behavior in a spiking model of Drosophila larva" biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

"A realistic locomotory model of Drosophila larva for behavioral simulations" biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

RT @OBCBioimaging
Looking for an exciting job in bioimaging? Then look no further and join us @OBCBioimaging! We are recruiting a light microscopy specialist to help support the day to day running of our world-class light and electron microscopy facility. jobs.ac.uk/job/CXS675/light-mi

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