Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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The ability to genetically change bacteria is the key to researching the #microbial world. #Genome editing - i.e. processing the genome such as #DNA - is essential in order to develop new #antibiotics and to use #bacteria as miniature factories for the sustainable production of #chemicals, materials and therapeutics.
#CRISPR #RNA #Biology #Science #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/02/bio02092304.html
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We will announce two PhD positions in mid-Feb through the Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematics. Both projects concern manipulating proteins using strong electric fields and will be hosted by the Biochemistry programme at my dept and the Dept of Physics.
Now, we need good candidates with a good biophysics background (loosely defined). Please get in touch if you want to know more and please make potential candidates aware of the opportunity.
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Black dads are *more* involved in both early childhood activities like bathing and diapering, and school aged activities. From the CDC:
A larger percentage of Black dads
(41%) had helped their coresidential children with homework every day in
the last 4 weeks compared with
white (28%) dads.
Only 30% of white dads take their own kids to activities every day, vs 42% of Black dads.
71% of white dads talk with their kids about their day, vs 79% of Black dads.
Etc, etc.
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@scotsoma we've made it too dangerous for kids to play in the streets, too dangerous for people to cycle, apparently now also too dangerous for pedestrians to not be dressed in high viz at all times? Kids, pedestrians, and cyclists are not causing the problem here.
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If I understand things, guns should be stored safely, so that children especially can't just pick them up.
The gun owner can be held responsible and I am sure in some cases despite their own kids shooting s sibling for example, the parents are held accountable.
This is my argument, target the smugglers, put them out of business but create safer / cheaper ways for people to migrate from a to b to help facilitate this. Make it a humanitarian issue.
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More than 90% of people who arrive in the EU irregularly turn to smugglers to facilitate part of their journey.
We want to enhance EU cooperation to defeat criminal networks.
It's time to protect the lives of refugees.
Read our proposals on #EUMigration:
: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1623637837211107328
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Two UK PhD studentships in public health research:
“The impact of nature-based citizen science interventions on mental health and wellbeing: An interdisciplinary mixed-methods study”
“Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic to create a national narrative and build support for population-level behaviour change to achieve Net Zero sooner”
For more info, please see: https://sphr.nihr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NIHR-SPHR-Studentships-2023-advert_guidance.pdf
For questions about these two projects, please contact milica.vasiljevic@durham.ac.uk
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Senior Twitter employees admit under oath that Twitter made exceptions to its racism policies to accomodate racist tweets by Trump, even going so far as to change their polices to avoid having to enforce them on Trump's tweets.
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I don't watch football myself, but for those of you who do, @sjvn has it all scoped-out, and he spends way too much time watching TV, so he'll have it down: How to watch the Super Bowl 2023: Your best streaming bets https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/how-to-watch-the-super-bowl/
Good grief, I saw the pic and thought #Andorian. I don't even see myself as a super knowedable trekkie either.
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Bedruthan Steps, Cornwall, UK
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Dear journalists, just so we're all on the same page - heckling the President of the United States during the State of the Union isn't normal, isn't American, and isn't okay.
I don't care what point they thought you were making. This was neither the time, nor the place to make it. THAT'S the story. We're all clear on that, right?
The link works, it is amazons link to add the book to a wish list that fails
is anyone else is having an issue maybe save the link in book marks and try again later. It may just be a glitch their end.
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@mikec415 Wow. I hope that school district has lawsuit money, because they're going to need lawsuit money.
I am not sure how the pledge thing works in the US. If someone was to emigrate then they have to take this to become a US citizen,
That aside, the article does state people are not obliged to take part in the oath.
The actions by the substitute teacher were clearly wrong, the lad made a point and at an appropriate time maybe this could lead to a proper discussion.on the topic surely
As for the flag being racist, it is meant to represent the 13 original states and the 50 states of the union.
As for the Anthem, I was under the impression it told the story of the war of independence from the British, so after the battle the flag was still flying.
Certainly the 3rd verse has
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution
I assume refers to the British Rulers, who the war of independence was fought against.
Reference
https://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/pdf/ssb_lyrics.pdf
Maybe i am wrong,
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I am very pleased to see student-centred books like this one now being published on open science & the replication crisis. It has become ever more transparent that when you stop discussing & teaching the issues of the past, and why change was needed, those issues tend to repeat & become a problem again. With some luck, & with more books on the topic, we might start to make a lasting change here.
Congrats @drcpennington on the book. Can’t wait to read it & put it on my class reading list!
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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