esteban antonicelli @geantonicelli@qoto.org

Humanity has historically eaten 6,000 plants; now we eat mostly NINE: This is a great (scary) story from Bloomberg on how global diets have converged on a few crops in a few decades – with many alarming implications. Well told (super smart graphics!) #food #climate
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-global-diet-homogeneous-food-security-risk/?cmpid=BBD010523_prognosis&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230105&utm_campaign=prognosis&leadSource=uverify%20wall

Does this look like a beating heart to anyone else?

This NASA animation of surface #temperatures (warmer in red, cooler in blue) shows the spread of cold #Arctic air over much of the U.S. in late December 2022.

https://go.nasa.gov/3XaD4iK

Hey! An update. I've actually made such a Bioinformatics-centered server (see the message I'm replying to!). You can join here: https://discord.com/invite/arPBahn8N6

Boosts are very welcome, even if you're not interested. Thank you!

I'm going to re-tag this: #bioinformatics #discord #algorithm #datascience #tools #r #python #genomics #transcriptomics #multiomics #lab #collaboration #academia #computerscience #biology #science

I developed a tool to show you your twitter friends on #mastodon: https://www.movetodon.org/

👉 All data stays in your browser
👉 No CSV import neccesary
👉 List can be sorted by sign-up date, so that you can find new accounts fast

Welcome to Laniakea, your galactic supercluster home

Meet Laniakea, a really big, beautiful supercluster of galaxies that also holds the Milky Way, writes reporter Amina Khan for the Los Angeles Times: https://web.archive.org/web/20140905214144/https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-laniakea-galaxy-supercluster-milky-way-20140904-story.html

“This is what I’ve been doing for a long time, trying to understand where we live” said R. Brent Tully, lead author of the study published in Nature.

#universe #cosmology #laniakea #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #research #scicom #physics #astrodon #galaxies

@Gargron turns down VC investment for Mastodon, bless him.
That's not to say that there are not investment needs & opportunities atop the Fediverse: back-end (there are already hosting services; I could see others for storage, moderation, etc.) & front-end options for users (e.g., recommendation services).
I also hope for philanthropic investment in the Fediverse to, for example, build forks that would develop needs for specific communities (e.g., Black Twitter).
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/twitter-rival-mastodon-rejects-funding-to-preserve-nonprofit-status/

Incredible story - a complete change in how we consider color #sciart #art @FlyingTrilobite @easternblot @BWJones

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-british-zoologist-wants-to-reinvent-color-180981349/

Second ever Asgardian bacterium isolated. Amazing bit of science - are we finally homing in on the "simple" cells from which all complex life arose? This really is huge. https://www.science.org/content/article/strange-tentacled-microbe-may-resemble-ancestor-complex-life

With each idiotic tweet Elon drives users away to Mastodon

Report back from Twitter filter fuzzing.

What Twitter is blocking

Twitter is filtering links to known Mastodon instances, but still allows direct links to joinmastodon.org.
Twitter also allows linking to shortened URLs of mastodon profiles, but only once. Posting the shortened URL a second time doesn't work, implying there's some backend queue service that's checking the Location header of links and flagging the ones redirecting to Mastodon instances.

How to evade the filters

Email address spam evasion techniques work. Replacing '.' with '.' or [.] or [dot] all work.
URI encoding the hostname. Replace at least one of the characters in the hostname with the URI encoded version (ex: https://infosec.exchange -> https://infosec%2Eexchange). Browsers are smart enough to URI decode anything you copy/paste into the address bar.
data: URIs. Twitter does not seem to check base64 encoded data: URIs. It is possible to create a data:text/html;base64,... base64 encoded HTML URI which can be copied into the address bar and will render as HTML. While Twitter will not render data: URIs (for obvious reasons), you can still copy/paste them (at your own risk, of course).
Base64. This seems silly, but we could communicate freely on Twitter by simply Base64 encoding our tweets.

Twitter's anti-Mastodon filtering is clown shoes amateur hour.🤡​
#twitter #birbsite #censorship #filtering #evasion #elmo #muskrat

This map shows only people. It is a beautiful illustration of where people are concentrated.

If you squint, you can see Australia and New Zealand.

Map by Alasdair Rae https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/3d-map
Third in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests

This is significant ...

The German office for data protection and freedom of information hosts the official #Mastodon server for government departments

They are now calling for all ministries on the server to put their focus on Mastodon

They are also asking ministries which are not yet on Mastodon to join as soon as possible