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Marc Robinson-Rechavi
@marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
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Posts mine alone, in English (mostly) & French. #Evolution #Bioinformatics #openaccess #EDI. Director of @dee_unil and group leader at @SIB. He/Him. PI of @bgeedb […]

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marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://ecoevo.social/@GenomeBiolEvol/115548007022672012

Great to see this exciting perspective by young evolutionary biologists lead by the great Marina Brasó-Vives out! @dee_unil
ecoevo.social
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy
The "Fedora Man" famously caught in a photo right after the Louvre heist turned out to be a 15 year old kid who likes to dress as a 1940's detective. Because Paris.

https://apnews.com/article/louvre-fedora-man-ap-photo-c0d59847ef5f836a0c5ac49de8bff441
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf149
#climatechange #climatescience
Approximate global average temperature from –9340 BCE to 2020 CE, showing a gradual increase then decrease until fossil fuel use accelerates ≈1850, after which there is a very rapid increase. A dotted line shows peak warming at +3°C by 2100 if currrent policies continue.
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Interesting overview of the optimism and pessimism among climate scientists in Switzerland https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-solutions/the-emotional-side-of-climate-science/90250784 #climatechange #climatescience #academicchatter
Switzerland’s climate researchers reveal the emotional side of science
Climate change not only has visible effects on ecosystems. It also has an emotional and psychological impact on those who study it.
www.swissinfo.ch
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy
I did a drawing of a deep sea isopod
A drawing from a paint program of a realistic gray deep seal isopod looking at you with dark slightly intimidating unknowable but cute eyes. It has 14 legs, not all shown. It is resting on some books "Secrets of the sea" and "Mariana Trench Travel Guide" Maybe if you ask nicely it will let you read its favorite books.
October 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
You cannot exaggerate how stupid this anti science movement is
"RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/25/rfk-jr-saturated-fats
October 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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evolodonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Our new Perspective is now out as Early Alert in the journal Evolution, where we re-visit evolutionary rate-time relationships and discuss the challenge of how to analyze and biologically interpret them:

#Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #statistics […]
Original post on ecoevo.social
ecoevo.social
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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kevinmarks.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy
Key findings:
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
Gemini performed worst with […]
Original post on xoxo.zone
xoxo.zone
October 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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mattotcha.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Scientists Just Found a Tiny Genetic Switch That Could Feed Billions
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-found-a-tiny-genetic-switch-that-could-feed-billions/
October 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Reposted by Marc Robinson-Rechavi
wikipathways.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
our new website has a full overview at https://www.wikipathways.org/browse/citedin

You may not differences in the numbers. One reason is that not all cited pathways are in fact on the new website

#bioinformatics
Screenshot of the linked page, stating that "772 pathways have been cited a total of 2134 times". The latter is higher (more citations were added since the previous post), but the number of pathways is lower. The page shows a list, of which the first eight pathway names are visible, each with one or more PubMed Central IDs or DOIs, shown as a badge in grey ("PMC" or "DOI") and blue (the identifier).
July 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
@PLOS "exploring how scholarly communication business models can move beyond article processing charges (APCs)"
https://explore.plos.org/validating-how-we-can-redefine-open-science-business-models
#openaccess #OpenScience
Validating how we can redefine open science business models
Discover how PLOS is redefining open science business models beyond APCs—building equitable, transparent, and sustainable publishing for all.
explore.plos.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish. It's also available as a print at www.tomgauld.com/
A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out." Text underneath reads: From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - Order it at www.tomgauld.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Rapport et propositions intéressants de France Universités sur la défense de la liberté académique
https://franceuniversites.fr/actualite/rapport-defendre-la-liberte-academique/
#LibertéAcadémique #AcademicFreedom
franceuniversites.fr
October 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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a-j-millar.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
The splendid Napoleon Oak 🌳 in its 248th year, now on the campus of the University of Lausanne.
➡️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Oak_(Lausanne)

For this tree, #UNIL researchers tested how many 🧬 mutations have accumulated over the centuries […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
A huge oak in an open setting, with large low branches all around despite some limb removals. Two photos stitched together by Microsoft ICE software.
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
If for instance the @eLife website goes down, it's no problem because all the elife articles are also available in parallel at EuropePMC.

This was a solved problem 20 years ago but it keeps on happening 🤣

Those who pay for the current publishing system really need to think hard about if we […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I love days like this, when a hugely profitable academic publishing company f*cks up, and the whole research world actually notices. This is so so soooo avoidable.

There is absolutely nothing stopping publishers having content available on three different platforms (redundancy).

There should […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Excellente lettre par mes collègues de l'Institut des humanités en médecine au CHUV et à la FBM de l'Université de Lausanne #UNIL
https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/trump-annule-les-savoirs-en-sante-produisons-en
Trump «annule» les savoirs (en santé), produisons-en! - Le Temps
OPINION. Les attaques répétées de l’administration Trump sur les données et les productions scientifiques ne seront pas sans conséquences, notamment sur la santé. Elles affectent déjà nos propres recherches en influençant les comportements, écrivent quatre professeurs de l’Université de Lausanne et du CHUV
www.letemps.ch
October 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy
You are a very busy, very important professor publishing very important work. Do you
a) just publish the code and data along with the paper because you know your work will survive close scrutiny and you have better things to do
b) spend your time handling individual data requests, negotiating […]
Original post on neuromatch.social
neuromatch.social
October 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Nice visualisation of the use of the International System of Units @ZachWeinersmith
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/measurement
Comic strip with 9 pannels. On top, a woman at a lectern says "AMERICA IS FED UP! WE SHALL NEVER ACCEPT THE BIZARRE UNITS OF MEASUREMENT USED IN" then lists alphabetically many country names. The list continues over the next 8 pannels, on a background of a crowd listening. It ends with "ZIMBABWE, OR AT NON-AMERICAN LANDING SITES ON THE MOON, MARS, VENUS, OR ASTEROIDS"
October 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
The thing I had most hoped would happen on the feature-design side is that fediverse systems and ATProto systems would learn from each other and I think this is a good example of that actually taking place.
October 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Reposted by Marc Robinson-Rechavi
kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
I think Mastodon's proposal for starter packs is a significant positive evolution of the way Bluesky rolled them out. I wound up on a bunch of packs there and it was…not a great thing for my specific brain and purpose.

I do hope the people in Masto's comments saying […]

[Original post on mas.to]
Firstly, it's important to us that users have control over whether they appear in Packs on Mastodon. Early design explorations with our concept of Packs led us to the following possibilities: • Packs will become an extension of discovery. Users who wish to opt out entirely from Packs will be able to do so by disabling the existing setting, labelled "Feature profile and posts in discovery algorithms". This will signal that an account cannot be added to a Pack. • Users will be notified when they are included in a Pack. Unlike on Bluesky, where users wishing to remove themselves from a Starter Pack must either report the Starter Pack, or block the user, users on Mastodon will have a more neutral mechanism to remove themselves from a Pack they do not wish to be part of. (note: we implemented something similar with the Quote Posts feature, where an original post can be removed from a quote post; this same idea would flow through to Packs).
October 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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bouletcorp2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Rogatons Rediffusions - 08/02/2025 - "Streaming"

Source: https://www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/2025/02/08

LES LIVRES !

Tome 01: https://www.exemplaire-editions.fr/exemplaire/librairie/livre/rogatons

Tome 02: https://www.exemplaire-editions.fr/exemplaire/librairie/livre/rogatons-tome-deux
Boulet est devant son PC et tape: "Bon, j'ai désinstallé Spotify, je vais tester Qobuz à la place. Une jeune femme, casque sur les oreilles et vape à la main, est assise sur son canapé, son laptop ouvert sur les genoux. Elle répond: "Mouais... Ils paient mieux les artistes mais le mieux c'est encore d'acheter les albums complets et de faire ta propre playlist en local sur Winamp. Un jeune répond depuis son PC. Il a une platine 33tours devant lui et une collection de disques: "Ah moi j'ai carrément numérisé mes vinyles et je les lis avec un logiciel open source. Tant qu'à faire, tu vires Windows et passes à Linux. Un vieux barbu est dans ce qui ressemble à une salle des machines, avec un écran arrondi. Il tape: "Bof... L'intérêt de passer à Linux alors que tu as acheté un PC... Moi j'ai fabriqué ma propre machine avec des pièces de récup' de sous-marins soviétiques. Boulet est surpris par un "Tac" quand quelqu'un lance un gravier sur sa fenêtre depuis l'extérieur. Depuis la rue, une jeune femme en doudoune lui crie "Alors moi je trouve que le mieux c'est de ne pas avoir de PC et de juste chanter ses airs préférés très fort !" Elle se met à entonner "Scatman": "Heeey beeee baboobeeba! Bee Ba boo bee ba ! I'm a scatmaaan !" Tandis que la voix à l'extérieur continue à chanter "Scatman", une voix désincarnée résonne dans l'appartement. La voix: "Personnellement je me suis désincarné pour devenir un être de pure énergie, connecté à la noosphère. Ici dans l'espace racine de moins Pi, je résonne en harmonie avec toutes les playlists de l'univers. Souriant, Boulet répond: "Ah ! Ça a l'air cool ! Et il y a aussi des podcasts ?" La voix: "Ah non, ça pour le coup c'est plutôt dans l'espace racine de moins oméga. Dehors, on entend un dernier "scaaatmaaan !" qui résonne.
October 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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katharinehayhoe.com
Yale researchers didn't stop there. They also identified what people most need to know to catalyze action and support climate policy; and it's not about global temps, ice sheets, or ocean currents.

What people most need to know about climate change is that (1) others care, and (2) there is hope.
Understanding six “key truths” about climate change predicts policy support, discussion, and political advocacy
Social norms and collective efficacy are strong predictors
climatecommunication.yale.edu
October 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.
October 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM