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I have learned how to follow a hashtag on this site. From the web interface, search or click on a hashtag that interest you and then click the icon in the top right with the plus sign on top of the person sign. The symbol reads more literally as “add this person” but it’s the “follow this hashtag” icon. Posts with that hashtag will then appear in your home timeline. It’s wonderful.

Still #NewHere #FediTips

RT @NHSgms@twitter.com

'Whole genome sequencing could help patients living with cancer of unknown primary."

Dr Bezecny from @LancsHospitals@twitter.com @BlackpoolHosp@twitter.com highlights a new test added to the National Genomic Test Directory that could help patients get more effective treatments.
@nwgmsa@twitter.com @NWGLH@twitter.com

🐦🔗: twitter.com/NHSgms/status/1592

I am excited to hear that as of today the user member count int he has just hit a record high of ~400,000 user members! That gets us to about 5% fediverse coverage!

@ufoi

“Conserving, protecting and restoring 30 percent of the Earth’s land and 24 percent of marine jurisdictions would sustain 90 percent of the total amount of those benefits to people.”

nature.com/articles/s41559-022

Am still learning about reblogging here, but I thought this was an interesting bit about mastodon.ctseuro.com/@kmj/1094

RT @manoliskellis@twitter.com

This week in @Nature@twitter.com we present our #SingleCell dissection of #ApoE4, the strongest genetic variant for #Alzheimers.
ApoE4 impairs #cholesterol #transport, leading to #oligodendrocyte ER accumulation, decreased #myelination.
Restoring transport restores mouse cognition.
#Hope #AD

🐦🔗: twitter.com/manoliskellis/stat

@maxplanckgesellschaft
✅ All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long they really are

URLs can be as long as you want, they will never exceed 23 characters of your limit.

There is no need to use a link shortener!

#FediTips #MastoTips #LinkShortener #LinkShorteners #URLShortener #URLShorteners #CharacterLimits #Mastodon

there are posters on this website and i must find them, tell me who your favorite posters are (pls boost)

Using eye tracking for marketing studies requires informed consent. Since Meta doesn't make any promises about protecting or deleting your abstracted eye gaze data, informed consent is impossible.

Therefore this is unethical research. And yet the researchers are like "hey, this is cool." We need better education.

twitter.com/StrangeNative/stat

BTW, Meta seems to say this kind of app goes against its developer ToS. Let's see what they do about it...

Good news: 1st drug to alter the course of Type 1 diabetes in 100 years approved by @US_FDA@twitter.com
Bad news: it costs ~$200,000/14-day treatment; average delay of onset is ~2 years
nytimes.com/2022/11/18/health/

Obviously, #Galactica is still just a large language model, not some sort of universal knowledge engine.

You can't expect it to give correct responses to arbitrary questions about science and the broader world.

Sadly, the way Papers With Code/Meta AI designed the web page may lead to people trusting its language model outputs way too much, as @Michael_J_Black and many others are pointing out.

#NLP #NLProc

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To be more specific, if one is interested in more than just colleagues on their shared server, how do they find bloggers/rebloggers of that content? I’ll strive to share my discoveries across servers here.

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So it looks like the Fediverse may have a discovery challenge. But that’s common to all decentralized networks, right?

@Irreverent_B @gcluley

By the way, if anyone does want e2ee DMs on Mastodon, here's the issue to vote for:

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

According to one of the developers (ClearlyClaire) the encryption is already done, they're just waiting for agreement on a cleartext format.

To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.

(Please boost for reach)

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