Jan Trnka
jantrnka.bsky.social
Jan Trnka
@jantrnka.bsky.social
Scientist, teacher, wanderer, musician. Cancer metabolism, mitochondria, Bayesian #rstats at Charles University.
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1786-7562
Lectures https://www.youtube.com/@jantrnka227
Music https://severninastupiste.bandcamp.com
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BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.

The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Are You Closer to the Sea or to Outer Space?
January 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Nepochopim, nepochopim a ještě jednou nepochopim, jak může jakýkoli médium informovat o tom, že bude Maduro souzen v New Yorku, bez odstavce vysvětlujícího, že USA nad Madurem nemají žádnou pravomoc a soud je tím pádem právní svévole a především mocenská inscenace.
January 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Autonomous driving appears to be a (mostly) solved problem so at what point should we ban humans from driving?
January 5, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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An incredible and beautiful short documentary by Nicolas Gouralt who interviewed online workers from Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines who annotate images to train A.I. systems.

Here is as gift link.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
January 4, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Marty Supreme 👌

Rovnou tomu dejte všechny Oscary.
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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The story of Europe’s economic decline while US is 'soaring' is everywhere.

But it is wrong. It is a myth.

Europe delivers more leisure, longer life expectancy, less inequality than the US.

Gabriel Zucman dismantles the myths.
Decline, what decline? The myth of dying Europe
There is a widespread view that, by comparison with the USA, Europe is in economic and social decline. But, Zucman argues, it's not true
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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waking up in 2026
January 3, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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NEW BLOG POST! Today we're looking at Enver Pasha, the man who presided over the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, and his completely batshit insane postwar career.
Where in the World is Enver Pasha?
On August 2nd, 1996, a military transport plane from the Republic of Turkey landed in Tajikistan, carrying ten tons of humanitarian aid for the bitterly-impoverished post-Soviet Central Asian repub…
nathangoldwag.wordpress.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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How to turn a mirrored glass office building (left) into stone clad apartments (right)

Adaptive reuse of 15,700m2 of offices into apartments with new stone, timber and wood-fibre insulation loggias on the outside.

By Nicolas Dorval-Bory, Jean Christophe Quinton and Guillaume Ramillien
January 2, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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Another shot of Rama Duwaji and her date.
January 2, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Rawa Duwaji on Inauguration Day, January 1, 2035, NYC City Hall!

More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful!

Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.
January 1, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Leave, delete the app, salt the earth behind you, do not look back.
January 2, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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And my free newsletter has a “what you can do” section every week!
Are we really doomed?
Is it too late to do anything about climate change?
www.talkingclimate.ca
January 2, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Ok, this is actually exciting.
January 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Zábavní pyrotechnika bude za čas ve stejné kategorii jako kouření v restauracích nebo 30 ve městech. Strašně dlouho se bude diskutovat jak moc to omezuje něčí “svobodu” až nakonec její omezeni všichni budou brát za normální.

Více o tom, co změně zákona o zábavní pyrotechnice předcházelo:
December 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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The far right seems to suffer from body dysmorphic disorder at roughly similar rates as the rest of the influencer demographic and their audiences. Tech giants turning the Internet into a giant dopamine casino has made so many things worse.
December 30, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Babička© Ivany Gibové patří k nejlepším knihám, které jsem tenhle rok četl. přečtěte si ji taky, a pokud možno ve slovenském originále. v aktuální Ádvojce o ní nabízím krátké povídání:
advojka.cz/a2-article/2...
December 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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New post!

There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.

Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
Medical breakthroughs in 2025
... and a happy new year.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev
December 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Very cool, as always by @veritasium.bsky.social

On the non-locality of quantum physics.
There Is Something Faster Than Light
YouTube video by Veritasium
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Zlaty les.
December 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Vrstvy.
December 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Researchers using the JWST have confirmed the first supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole (~7.8 bly away) ejected by and racing away from its host galaxy at 3.43 million km/h, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars.

More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1157...
#Astronomy
AkaSci 🛰️ (@AkaSci@fosstodon.org)
Attached: 1 image Researchers, using the JWST, have confirmed that a black hole, first detected in 2023 by the same team, is indeed a supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole, ejected by and racing...
fosstodon.org
December 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM