David Eccles 🌻🇵🇸7x🩹🛡️
@gringene.org
Neurodivergent freelance bioinformatician, cuddler of data, and theoretical geneticist, with a love for Free Software and the hacking thereof. Rangitāne o Wairau. He/they.
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David Eccles 🌻🇵🇸7x🩹🛡️
@gringene.org
· Nov 7
If you're considering following me, bear in mind that I'm a social butterfly, both in research (as a bioinformatician), and on social media. If there's news I want to spread, I'll repost a woman's report of it (if possible). "Like" means I like something, and have read it.
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Why tf am I just learning this now wtf
TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Why tf am I just learning this now wtf
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Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
This is a really good point.
If we get to a point where a prompt for a generative algorithm can predictably create a program with a specific function, we will have created a new programming language.
Here's a programming language that already does that, in some sense:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog
If we get to a point where a prompt for a generative algorithm can predictably create a program with a specific function, we will have created a new programming language.
Here's a programming language that already does that, in some sense:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This is a really good point.
If we get to a point where a prompt for a generative algorithm can predictably create a program with a specific function, we will have created a new programming language.
Here's a programming language that already does that, in some sense:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog
If we get to a point where a prompt for a generative algorithm can predictably create a program with a specific function, we will have created a new programming language.
Here's a programming language that already does that, in some sense:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog
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10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
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Is it good when a major international news organization is actively soliciting stories about people leaving your country because the government has fucked it so hard?
Tell us: are you a New Zealander planning to leave the country?
We want to hear from people in New Zealand who have or are thinking of leaving
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Is it good when a major international news organization is actively soliciting stories about people leaving your country because the government has fucked it so hard?
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Louise Nicholas reported her assault in 1993.
32 years later, and we're still getting cover ups and intimidation of women abused by serving police officers.
32 years later, and we're still getting cover ups and intimidation of women abused by serving police officers.
'Inexcusable conduct': Police Commissioner says lack of leadership over McSkimming
Richard Chambers says today's IPCA review into the McSkimming complaints found inexcusable conduct by former senior police leaders.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Louise Nicholas reported her assault in 1993.
32 years later, and we're still getting cover ups and intimidation of women abused by serving police officers.
32 years later, and we're still getting cover ups and intimidation of women abused by serving police officers.
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Large science & public health accounts are sounding alarms over Canada losing measles-elimination status - good.
But the silence from them on long COVID has been striking.
Building trust as an infectious disease expert should mean caring about preventing all viral-induced illness
But the silence from them on long COVID has been striking.
Building trust as an infectious disease expert should mean caring about preventing all viral-induced illness
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Large science & public health accounts are sounding alarms over Canada losing measles-elimination status - good.
But the silence from them on long COVID has been striking.
Building trust as an infectious disease expert should mean caring about preventing all viral-induced illness
But the silence from them on long COVID has been striking.
Building trust as an infectious disease expert should mean caring about preventing all viral-induced illness
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Dear internet fashion-knowers: I am looking for a pair of boots. Specifically this kind of boot, but in actual leather, not fake leather.
I beseech thee - someone please tell me where I can find this?
I beseech thee - someone please tell me where I can find this?
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Dear internet fashion-knowers: I am looking for a pair of boots. Specifically this kind of boot, but in actual leather, not fake leather.
I beseech thee - someone please tell me where I can find this?
I beseech thee - someone please tell me where I can find this?
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Out now: Juggernaut 2 – the story of the fourth National government
Out now: Juggernaut 2 – the story of the fourth National government
The award-winning podcast returns. Listen to the first two episodes today....
thespinoff.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Out now: Juggernaut 2 – the story of the fourth National government
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The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.”
So I don’t know man.
So I don’t know man.
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.”
So I don’t know man.
So I don’t know man.
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I will never forgive the cranks, quacks and charlatans who have brought god-damn measles back in this country
Canada is grappling with a “large, multi-jurisdictional outbreak of measles” that began in October last year.
globalnews.ca/news/1151951...
globalnews.ca/news/1151951...
Canada loses measles elimination status after outbreaks - National | Globalnews.ca
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that Canada no longer holds measles elimination status.
globalnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I will never forgive the cranks, quacks and charlatans who have brought god-damn measles back in this country
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
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The most extraordinary part is how successfully these exceptionally high polluters have managed to convince relatively low emitters that climate action is aimed at making them poorer. Especially when climate inaction really is making them poorer while not affecting the Musk’s, Gates’s etc at all.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The most extraordinary part is how successfully these exceptionally high polluters have managed to convince relatively low emitters that climate action is aimed at making them poorer. Especially when climate inaction really is making them poorer while not affecting the Musk’s, Gates’s etc at all.
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some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you
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Did a science in the media lecture today and was reminded of the time I turned down an interview, and the newspaper got Nigel Farage instead *for the same topic*.
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Did a science in the media lecture today and was reminded of the time I turned down an interview, and the newspaper got Nigel Farage instead *for the same topic*.
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Chuck @schumer.senate.gov should step down
8 Senate Democrats sided with Trump and Republican fascists in throwing 15 million Americans off Medicaid and Obamacare:
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Chuck @schumer.senate.gov should step down
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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FAA Issues Holiday Reminder That Planes Can Crash And Kill You
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
FAA Issues Holiday Reminder That Planes Can Crash And Kill You
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
theonion.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
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Te Pāti Māori has expelled two of its six MPs. What happens now?
Te Pāti Māori has expelled two of its six MPs. What happens now?
By booting its 'rogue' MPs, the party has lost a third of its caucus. Here's what could play out in the coming weeks....
thespinoff.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Te Pāti Māori has expelled two of its six MPs. What happens now?
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Trump’s power to pardon the “alternate electors” of 2020 only extends so far.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Trump’s power to pardon the “alternate electors” of 2020 only extends so far.
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an arc where the former governor of NY loses increasingly inconsequential elections until the series finale is him trying to run for senior class president at a local high school and getting his ass kicked by some 17 year olds.
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
an arc where the former governor of NY loses increasingly inconsequential elections until the series finale is him trying to run for senior class president at a local high school and getting his ass kicked by some 17 year olds.
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"What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be."
DING DING DING
DING DING DING
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be."
DING DING DING
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Well, I guess I have to post this one again...
the sole
opposition
is a rusted machine
seized up and refusing any
repair
#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain
the sole
opposition
is a rusted machine
seized up and refusing any
repair
#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Well, I guess I have to post this one again...
the sole
opposition
is a rusted machine
seized up and refusing any
repair
#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain
the sole
opposition
is a rusted machine
seized up and refusing any
repair
#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain
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Schumer should no longer be Senate Minority Leader.
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Schumer should no longer be Senate Minority Leader.