Niels Tjoonk
@nielstjoonk.bsky.social
Science and biotech 👀, dna and cancer, digital 📣 at LUMICKS, book 👨🏼🏫 nerd, father 🐥
"Given enough time, any ‘electronic brain’ will combine and recombine words until it too happens upon something that stirs something unexpected in the reader [...]> But the key figure here is the reader -- not the machine."
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/calvino-and-the-machines/
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/calvino-and-the-machines/
Calvino and the machines
Italo Calvino's 'literature machine' is a prescient vision of the perils and promise of artificial intelligence.
engelsbergideas.com
September 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"Given enough time, any ‘electronic brain’ will combine and recombine words until it too happens upon something that stirs something unexpected in the reader [...]> But the key figure here is the reader -- not the machine."
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/calvino-and-the-machines/
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/calvino-and-the-machines/
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Slowly, Europeans are beginning to understand that one of their largest, best-trained armies is Ukraine's army. No small detail, if the Americans throw us under the bus. We will need Ukraine for Europe's security.
kyivindependent.com/the-czech-we...
kyivindependent.com/the-czech-we...
The Czech weapons giant replacing the Kalashnikov in Ukraine’s army
The Russian-made Kalashnikov still prevails as the main small arm in Ukraine’s military. A Czech weapons giant is setting up shop in Ukraine’s factories to change that.
The Prague-domiciled conglomer...
kyivindependent.com
March 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Slowly, Europeans are beginning to understand that one of their largest, best-trained armies is Ukraine's army. No small detail, if the Americans throw us under the bus. We will need Ukraine for Europe's security.
kyivindependent.com/the-czech-we...
kyivindependent.com/the-czech-we...
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Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice.
Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
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Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
2/n
March 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice.
Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
2/n
Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
2/n
Best & happiest thing you'll see today: youtu.be/M00N9avUuLo?...
The greatest photo in jazz history | BBC Global
YouTube video by BBC Global
youtu.be
February 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Best & happiest thing you'll see today: youtu.be/M00N9avUuLo?...
"Door zijn apparaten, werktuigen en machines eigent de mens zich goddelijke vermogens toe. De keerzijde van deze 'hybris' is evenwel dat hij als persoonlijkheid steeds kleiner wordt." > over Harry Mulisch' "De Versierde Mens" (1957) maar ook over AI. (erikdesmedt.eu/mulisch.htm)
harry mulischharry mulisch
erikdesmedt.eu
February 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"Door zijn apparaten, werktuigen en machines eigent de mens zich goddelijke vermogens toe. De keerzijde van deze 'hybris' is evenwel dat hij als persoonlijkheid steeds kleiner wordt." > over Harry Mulisch' "De Versierde Mens" (1957) maar ook over AI. (erikdesmedt.eu/mulisch.htm)
Amazing stuff, well told. Protein structure, Alphafold, @veritasium.bsky.social - youtu.be/P_fHJIYENdI?...
What if all the world's biggest problems have the same solution?
YouTube video by Veritasium
youtu.be
February 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Amazing stuff, well told. Protein structure, Alphafold, @veritasium.bsky.social - youtu.be/P_fHJIYENdI?...
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TIL that in 1912 a clown, The French Tickler, willed that on his imminent death he would be embalmed, dressed in his clown outfit and make up, and put on display in a glass coffin.
And they did. Until 2021, when the exhibition closed down and now... no one knows where the clown corpse is 😬
And they did. Until 2021, when the exhibition closed down and now... no one knows where the clown corpse is 😬
The Clown that lived forever… kind of: The life of Achile Chatouilleu
Achile Chatouilleu image from California Institute Abnormalarts Achile Chatouilleu was born in 1886 and came from family of circus performers in America so he decided that he continue his family…
ladycultblog.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
TIL that in 1912 a clown, The French Tickler, willed that on his imminent death he would be embalmed, dressed in his clown outfit and make up, and put on display in a glass coffin.
And they did. Until 2021, when the exhibition closed down and now... no one knows where the clown corpse is 😬
And they did. Until 2021, when the exhibition closed down and now... no one knows where the clown corpse is 😬
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Followers gezocht. Nu we niet meer actief zijn op X (algemeen FS-account 150k followers) en Mastodon helaas niet het volume van het oude Twitter lijkt te krijgen, hoop ik dat BlueSky die plaats kan innemen. Social media is toch een goedkope manier om publiek te informeren. pls rt
February 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Followers gezocht. Nu we niet meer actief zijn op X (algemeen FS-account 150k followers) en Mastodon helaas niet het volume van het oude Twitter lijkt te krijgen, hoop ik dat BlueSky die plaats kan innemen. Social media is toch een goedkope manier om publiek te informeren. pls rt
I recommend Making Sense of It All 🌸 @lizneeley.bsky.social, a hopeful and strong response to the DOGE program of terror for totalitarianism, against US research institutes and their employees. Fighting with the 2 pillars of science: community and truth-seeking.
buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Making Sense of It All
Hi! I’m Liz Neeley and I’m glad you’re here. Making Sense of It All is an outlet for my work at Liminal, which focuses on sensemaking in a noisy and complicated world. I built Liminal as an antidote t...
buttondown.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I recommend Making Sense of It All 🌸 @lizneeley.bsky.social, a hopeful and strong response to the DOGE program of terror for totalitarianism, against US research institutes and their employees. Fighting with the 2 pillars of science: community and truth-seeking.
buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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This is utterly disgusting to create your own journal, set of rules that self-select authors & have ‘peer review’ that CANNOT reject papers. How will your average joe blogs know the difference but guess what - RFK et al have a journal of “peer reviewed articles’ to cite to support their decisions
There's "being wrong in early in a pandemic" wrong and then there's "doubling down over and over again until you find yourself in bed with RFK Jr. and founding a whole-ass journal to discredit all of academic publishing along with all of medicine" wrong.
publichealth.realclearjournals.org
publichealth.realclearjournals.org
Journal of the Academy of Public Health
publichealth.realclearjournals.org
February 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
This is utterly disgusting to create your own journal, set of rules that self-select authors & have ‘peer review’ that CANNOT reject papers. How will your average joe blogs know the difference but guess what - RFK et al have a journal of “peer reviewed articles’ to cite to support their decisions
I don't know about you, but I'd like to have every Nature article come with a jazzy, showtime jingle like YouTube's Howtown did here: youtube.com/shorts/aXiwf...
Ancient skeleton fused to a cave wall
YouTube video by Howtown
youtube.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I don't know about you, but I'd like to have every Nature article come with a jazzy, showtime jingle like YouTube's Howtown did here: youtube.com/shorts/aXiwf...
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A Minute in the Microverse #1
Enjoy this minute of Paramecium wandering about in a jumble of green algae and various micro debris. I never get tired of seeing how flexible these tiny cells are! #iteachbiology #microscope #edusky #science #Microminute #nature
Enjoy this minute of Paramecium wandering about in a jumble of green algae and various micro debris. I never get tired of seeing how flexible these tiny cells are! #iteachbiology #microscope #edusky #science #Microminute #nature
February 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A Minute in the Microverse #1
Enjoy this minute of Paramecium wandering about in a jumble of green algae and various micro debris. I never get tired of seeing how flexible these tiny cells are! #iteachbiology #microscope #edusky #science #Microminute #nature
Enjoy this minute of Paramecium wandering about in a jumble of green algae and various micro debris. I never get tired of seeing how flexible these tiny cells are! #iteachbiology #microscope #edusky #science #Microminute #nature
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At the risk of adding something constructive to this thread, we need to quit it with the naive folk-Popperian caricature of science as an exercise of pure reason unconnected to human motives and start teaching the social process of science in high school if not sooner.
sciedandmisinfo.stanford.edu
sciedandmisinfo.stanford.edu
Science Education in an Age of Misinformation
sciedandmisinfo.stanford.edu
February 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
At the risk of adding something constructive to this thread, we need to quit it with the naive folk-Popperian caricature of science as an exercise of pure reason unconnected to human motives and start teaching the social process of science in high school if not sooner.
sciedandmisinfo.stanford.edu
sciedandmisinfo.stanford.edu
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Who else but Ilya Repin?
February 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Who else but Ilya Repin?
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And finally, this isn’t about exhaustive knowledge about what is happening - it’s about figuring out what to DO.
We made an acronym to help us cope each time we feel our adrenaline spike. That & more in this week’s issue: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
We made an acronym to help us cope each time we feel our adrenaline spike. That & more in this week’s issue: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
February 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
And finally, this isn’t about exhaustive knowledge about what is happening - it’s about figuring out what to DO.
We made an acronym to help us cope each time we feel our adrenaline spike. That & more in this week’s issue: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
We made an acronym to help us cope each time we feel our adrenaline spike. That & more in this week’s issue: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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What is Europe PMC? 🤷♀️
A platform that connects you to global life science publications and preprints from trusted sources. Developed by
@ebi.embl.org it’s your gateway to open science and enhanced research visibility.
Discover your next research tool: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jyY...
A platform that connects you to global life science publications and preprints from trusted sources. Developed by
@ebi.embl.org it’s your gateway to open science and enhanced research visibility.
Discover your next research tool: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jyY...
What is Europe PMC
YouTube video by EuropePMC
www.youtube.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
What is Europe PMC? 🤷♀️
A platform that connects you to global life science publications and preprints from trusted sources. Developed by
@ebi.embl.org it’s your gateway to open science and enhanced research visibility.
Discover your next research tool: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jyY...
A platform that connects you to global life science publications and preprints from trusted sources. Developed by
@ebi.embl.org it’s your gateway to open science and enhanced research visibility.
Discover your next research tool: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jyY...
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Reminder that @europepmc.org is a mirror of Pubmed with better search and that it indexes *all* bioRxiv preprints (as well as ResearchSquare), not just the ones funded by NIH like chauvinist Pubmed
I’m very scared to see what happens to PubMed
January 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Reminder that @europepmc.org is a mirror of Pubmed with better search and that it indexes *all* bioRxiv preprints (as well as ResearchSquare), not just the ones funded by NIH like chauvinist Pubmed
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Have there been any clues that Trump/Musk have their eyes on Pubmed?
Asking for the entire community
Asking for the entire community
January 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Have there been any clues that Trump/Musk have their eyes on Pubmed?
Asking for the entire community
Asking for the entire community
"No one saw the blob takeover coming." Welcoming the Phase Separation Paradigm Shift for DNA and RNA biologists.
Mysterious Blobs in Cells Are Changing the Way We Understand Life
Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell
www.scientificamerican.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"No one saw the blob takeover coming." Welcoming the Phase Separation Paradigm Shift for DNA and RNA biologists.
"I'll dance with little ladies
With a hundred just like me
They hold their breath and hesitate
And dance beneath the sea
I'm walking through deep water
Trying to get to you" RIP 💔 bit.ly/4hfHMWD
With a hundred just like me
They hold their breath and hesitate
And dance beneath the sea
I'm walking through deep water
Trying to get to you" RIP 💔 bit.ly/4hfHMWD
Marianne Faithfull - Deep Water
YouTube video by Chairs missing
youtu.be
January 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"I'll dance with little ladies
With a hundred just like me
They hold their breath and hesitate
And dance beneath the sea
I'm walking through deep water
Trying to get to you" RIP 💔 bit.ly/4hfHMWD
With a hundred just like me
They hold their breath and hesitate
And dance beneath the sea
I'm walking through deep water
Trying to get to you" RIP 💔 bit.ly/4hfHMWD
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#Greatread at #Science Magazine about @sebastiaanvheesch.bsky.social latest preprint:'Dark proteome’ survey reveals thousands of new human genes - The newly described genes and their products could upend aspects of human biology and accelerate medical discoveries.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org
December 2, 2024 at 2:33 PM
#Greatread at #Science Magazine about @sebastiaanvheesch.bsky.social latest preprint:'Dark proteome’ survey reveals thousands of new human genes - The newly described genes and their products could upend aspects of human biology and accelerate medical discoveries.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
"She hat haar as prown ash a pretzel" - "We al got troonk ash bigs / I poot mine mout to a barrel of bier."
Dutch day of poems, in Pennsylvania Dutch.
Dutch day of poems, in Pennsylvania Dutch.
January 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"She hat haar as prown ash a pretzel" - "We al got troonk ash bigs / I poot mine mout to a barrel of bier."
Dutch day of poems, in Pennsylvania Dutch.
Dutch day of poems, in Pennsylvania Dutch.