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READY TO CHEER 📣
The Pep Squads are all fired up and ready to light up the floor with unstoppable energy! The biggest cheerdance showdown begins in a few moments!
#UAAPSeason88
#StrengthInMotionHopeInAction
The Pep Squads are all fired up and ready to light up the floor with unstoppable energy! The biggest cheerdance showdown begins in a few moments!
#UAAPSeason88
#StrengthInMotionHopeInAction
November 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM
READY TO CHEER 📣
The Pep Squads are all fired up and ready to light up the floor with unstoppable energy! The biggest cheerdance showdown begins in a few moments!
#UAAPSeason88
#StrengthInMotionHopeInAction
The Pep Squads are all fired up and ready to light up the floor with unstoppable energy! The biggest cheerdance showdown begins in a few moments!
#UAAPSeason88
#StrengthInMotionHopeInAction
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Computers can’t grasp the most lucid haiku. Nor can they pen the clumsiest fairytale. Computers cannot read or write literature at all. And they never will. 🧪
Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels
The power of narrative flows only from the human brain.
nautil.us
March 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Computers can’t grasp the most lucid haiku. Nor can they pen the clumsiest fairytale. Computers cannot read or write literature at all. And they never will. 🧪
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Got 14 more bookses over the last 2 days at Philippine Book Festival.
(So 46 books total so far since I landed in Manila on Wed.)
#booksky
(So 46 books total so far since I landed in Manila on Wed.)
#booksky
March 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Got 14 more bookses over the last 2 days at Philippine Book Festival.
(So 46 books total so far since I landed in Manila on Wed.)
#booksky
(So 46 books total so far since I landed in Manila on Wed.)
#booksky
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Let this day be a reminder of how power can be abused and taken down if people come together and stand against it.
Never forget. #EDSA39
Never forget. #EDSA39
February 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Let this day be a reminder of how power can be abused and taken down if people come together and stand against it.
Never forget. #EDSA39
Never forget. #EDSA39
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#OnThisDay in 1986: Nanumpa bilang ika-11 pangulo ng republika ng Pilipinas si Corazon Aquino, asawa ni dating Sen. Ninoy Aquino, matapos ang mapayapang EDSA People Power Revolution na nagpatalsik sa puwesto kay dating pangulong Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. #EDSA39
www.abs-cbn.com
www.abs-cbn.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
#OnThisDay in 1986: Nanumpa bilang ika-11 pangulo ng republika ng Pilipinas si Corazon Aquino, asawa ni dating Sen. Ninoy Aquino, matapos ang mapayapang EDSA People Power Revolution na nagpatalsik sa puwesto kay dating pangulong Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. #EDSA39
www.abs-cbn.com
www.abs-cbn.com
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#OnThisDay, 25 Feb 1986, Corazon Aquino is sworn in as President of the Philippines. She is the first women to become President of the country, and to lead a country in southeast Asia.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
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February 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#OnThisDay, 25 Feb 1986, Corazon Aquino is sworn in as President of the Philippines. She is the first women to become President of the country, and to lead a country in southeast Asia.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
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It was exactly today in 1986 here in the Philippines, when the power of the people had ousted a tyrant in a bloodless revolution.
Even in times when democracy itself is in peril, the spirit of EDSA kept on shining across the world in our fight for real freedom.
#EDSA39
Even in times when democracy itself is in peril, the spirit of EDSA kept on shining across the world in our fight for real freedom.
#EDSA39
February 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It was exactly today in 1986 here in the Philippines, when the power of the people had ousted a tyrant in a bloodless revolution.
Even in times when democracy itself is in peril, the spirit of EDSA kept on shining across the world in our fight for real freedom.
#EDSA39
Even in times when democracy itself is in peril, the spirit of EDSA kept on shining across the world in our fight for real freedom.
#EDSA39
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Today is the anniversary of the People Power Movement in the Philippines. Through nonviolent mass protest they overthrew Marcos. See this brief history of how they overthrew their fascist government. We need #peoplepower2025!
#fascism #buildtheresistance
#fascism #buildtheresistance
February 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Today is the anniversary of the People Power Movement in the Philippines. Through nonviolent mass protest they overthrew Marcos. See this brief history of how they overthrew their fascist government. We need #peoplepower2025!
#fascism #buildtheresistance
#fascism #buildtheresistance
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Exciting discovery 🧪
Yet another NIH government-funded study - critical for advancing life-saving discoveries to fight cancer.
THIS is why we fund science!
Yet another NIH government-funded study - critical for advancing life-saving discoveries to fight cancer.
THIS is why we fund science!
Goosebump producing news this week out of Oregon Health and Science University in the diagnosis of pancreatic CA.
They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.
They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.
New blood test identifies hard-to-detect pancreatic cancer with 85% accuracy
A new blood test could help doctors detect pancreatic cancer earlier, potentially improving survival rates for one of the deadliest cancers.
www.eurekalert.org
February 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Exciting discovery 🧪
Yet another NIH government-funded study - critical for advancing life-saving discoveries to fight cancer.
THIS is why we fund science!
Yet another NIH government-funded study - critical for advancing life-saving discoveries to fight cancer.
THIS is why we fund science!
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The protein #p53, known as the "guardian of the genome," plays a crucial role in preventing #cancer. When it malfunctions, tumors can form. Scientists are developing drugs to restore or mimic p53's function in cancer cells. A #biology researcher explains:
🧪 🩺 https://buff.ly/4i9qZ7J
🧪 🩺 https://buff.ly/4i9qZ7J
February 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The protein #p53, known as the "guardian of the genome," plays a crucial role in preventing #cancer. When it malfunctions, tumors can form. Scientists are developing drugs to restore or mimic p53's function in cancer cells. A #biology researcher explains:
🧪 🩺 https://buff.ly/4i9qZ7J
🧪 🩺 https://buff.ly/4i9qZ7J
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New photo of Arocera spectabilus. Now with a canon MP-e 65mm superzoom 5x 🧪
February 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
New photo of Arocera spectabilus. Now with a canon MP-e 65mm superzoom 5x 🧪
Given that this is merely a token holiday, the administration should have maintained the status quo—it's much ado about nothing! 🇵🇭
February 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Given that this is merely a token holiday, the administration should have maintained the status quo—it's much ado about nothing! 🇵🇭
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The food industry extensively uses high-fructose (HF) corn syrup in the US. This study shows that the liver converts dietary fructose into lipids, which distant tumours use to grow faster. The authors show that an HF diet promotes skin, breast and cervical tumour growth 🧪
#diet #cancer
#diet #cancer
Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth indirectly via interorgan lipid transfer - Nature
Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth in animal models of melanoma, breast cancer and cervical cancer indirectly via metabolite transfer.
www.nature.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Blow fly's larva's butt looks like a termite's face.
Termite nests are nutrient-rich and secure spaces that everyone wants to live in (but few actually can). The blow fly larva's looks and chemical profile matches the termites' well enough to integrate into the colony.
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doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Termite nests are nutrient-rich and secure spaces that everyone wants to live in (but few actually can). The blow fly larva's looks and chemical profile matches the termites' well enough to integrate into the colony.
🧪🌏🪰
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
February 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Blow fly's larva's butt looks like a termite's face.
Termite nests are nutrient-rich and secure spaces that everyone wants to live in (but few actually can). The blow fly larva's looks and chemical profile matches the termites' well enough to integrate into the colony.
🧪🌏🪰
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Termite nests are nutrient-rich and secure spaces that everyone wants to live in (but few actually can). The blow fly larva's looks and chemical profile matches the termites' well enough to integrate into the colony.
🧪🌏🪰
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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There are several greenhouse gas (GHG), but we report emissions in CO2 equivalents, because it's simpler and clearer. But that opens an issue for accounting in how you convert those GHGs to CO2, esp. when not everyone is using the same factors. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
There are several greenhouse gas (GHG), but we report emissions in CO2 equivalents, because it's simpler and clearer. But that opens an issue for accounting in how you convert those GHGs to CO2, esp. when not everyone is using the same factors. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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“Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) combed through the available archives and found that all 37 core bird-of-paradise species in Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia are biofluorescent.”
#scicomm
#sensoryecology
www.sciencealert.com/most-birds-o...
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#scicomm
#sensoryecology
www.sciencealert.com/most-birds-o...
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Most Birds-of-Paradise Are Secretly Biofluorescent, Study Finds
Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than initially meets the human eye.
www.sciencealert.com
February 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
“Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) combed through the available archives and found that all 37 core bird-of-paradise species in Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia are biofluorescent.”
#scicomm
#sensoryecology
www.sciencealert.com/most-birds-o...
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#scicomm
#sensoryecology
www.sciencealert.com/most-birds-o...
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This tribunal takes place at the same time and place as a meeting of the global mining industry. Mineral extraction has a long history of being brutal to indigenous populations as well as the environment. 🧪🌍🌿⚒️ #TeamFish
Impacts Of Mining And The Post-Extractivism Era Tribunal 2025 - Rights Of Nature Tribunal
Themed “The Impacts of Mining and the Post-Extractivism Era” this session will highlight the environmental and human rights impacts of Canadian mining companies worldwide. Witnesses from diverse regio...
www.rightsofnaturetribunal.org
February 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This tribunal takes place at the same time and place as a meeting of the global mining industry. Mineral extraction has a long history of being brutal to indigenous populations as well as the environment. 🧪🌍🌿⚒️ #TeamFish
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When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.
February 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.
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The beautiful flamboyant cuttlefish, Metasepia pfefferi. Photographed at Puerto Galera, Mindoro, Philippines.
#Molluscmonday
#Molluscmonday
February 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The beautiful flamboyant cuttlefish, Metasepia pfefferi. Photographed at Puerto Galera, Mindoro, Philippines.
#Molluscmonday
#Molluscmonday
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So have currently kicked off our travels in the Philippines. Beautiful country with beaches to die for. Here’s some postcards from Balabac - a rapidly transforming collection of islands in Southern Palawan
February 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
So have currently kicked off our travels in the Philippines. Beautiful country with beaches to die for. Here’s some postcards from Balabac - a rapidly transforming collection of islands in Southern Palawan
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It's easy to forget that climate is not uniform. Take the so-called Medieval Warm Period (which or Medieval Climate Anomaly in newer literature). Western Europe was warmer, but the Middle East and some Mediterranean coastal regions were cooler. 🌊⚒️🧪
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
February 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It's easy to forget that climate is not uniform. Take the so-called Medieval Warm Period (which or Medieval Climate Anomaly in newer literature). Western Europe was warmer, but the Middle East and some Mediterranean coastal regions were cooler. 🌊⚒️🧪
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....