Adrian Seijas-Gamardo

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Every poster or 2D illustration that I worked on I did on Affinity.
I bought the V1 many years ago to avoid Adobe subscription model and massive installation.
Now that Canva bought them the new version is free and also for Windows. www.perplexity.ai/page/canva-m...

Me acabo de quedar loco. Yo tengo a dos maletas y una bicicleta

Slapen op het station: NS opent camping voor dakloze studenten Wie van 11 tot 14 augustus op station Utrecht Centraal rondloopt, moet niet vreemd opkijken als er tenten op het station staan.

The housing crisis in the Netherlands is so bad that the national railway company NS is offering a camping inside Utrecht station for students who can't find a house.
I'm shocked! People on Instagram are excited about the "glamping" idea. Normalizing homelessness.
nos.nl/r/659319

- The editor of Science stated that there is no proof the authors intentionally manipulated data.
- The retraction was based on public controversy, inconsistent data, and the inability to replicate the results.
- Science changed his own rules for making the retraction possible.

RETRACTED: A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus Evidence is offered for arsenate replacing phosphate as a molecular building block in a Mono Lake, California, bacterium.

The study that suggested the possibility of life forms using arsenic instead of phosphorous in the DNA chain was retracted! There are no signs of data manipulation or misconduct but 15 years later those results could not be replicated. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Using 2 polarized glasses perpendicularly 🕶️

How we use the internet is largely shaped by a handful of US-based tech giants.

US gov't surveillance laws allow them to demand access to your private data without your knowledge or a warrant.

Read the thread below for the list of European alternatives that put your privacy first.

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After all we are doing this already with plants, modifying them, adding adaptations for surviving to climate change or pests. This adaptations in animals could be seen as something equivalent.
A part from a good marketing strategy for the company with much bigger goals.

In this way they express similar characteristics although the underlying genes are totally different.
In this case they mutated 10 genes related with their fur and fat metabolism using CRISPR. So “nothing new” although very interesting to see possible.

While you might think from reading the titles and looking at the pics that they added the genes of the woolly mammoth they didn’t. That would probably kill the embryos already.
What they did was to mutate mice genes.

Been following Colossal for a while already.
They want to de-extinct some animals. Bring back the woolly mammoth for example.
Today my timeline is full with different articles on this “trial” with mice. There are cute and fluffy but there is a but.

Sequencing by Expansion (SBX) – a novel, high-throughput single-molecule sequencing technology Remarkable advances in high-throughput sequencing have enabled major biological discoveries and clinical applications, but achieving wider distribution and use depends critically on further improvemen...

Roche entered the NGS market. This is the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

They literally generate a new strand of DNA that they call “Xpandomer” that has more space between the nucleotides so can be read with more accuracy through Nanopore. For this they designed new nucleotides and enzymatic reactions that work together.

YouTube video by Roche Introducing Roche Sequencing by Expansion (SBX) Technology

At Roche they just developed a new technology that improves the Nanopore sequencing. Illumina can read small fragments with high accuracy while Nanopore traditionally can read longer fragments but has more errors. Roche has now tried to solve this by reducing the noise. youtu.be/G8ECt04qPos?...

Deepseek and I have some issues in common, we will get well 😂

Esta semana en @lavozdegalicia-bot.bsky.social hablando un poquito sobre lo que hago en el laboratorio. En la edición física también con una caricatura! 🧬🤩 www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/cien...

Un barrio de Vilagarcía presenta el árbol de Navidad más pequeño del mundo: mide diez veces menos que el diámetro de un pelo Un grupo de científicos de un laboratorio holandés quiso continuar el camino que inició el año pasado la artesana Marián García, que hizo para O Piñeiriño un abeto de dos centímetros

⚡Junto con Elisabetta Avizzano hemos hecho el árbol de Navidad impreso 3D más pequeño del mundo. Lo hicimos en
MERLN Institute por 2PP (polimerización por dos fotones). 🔬🥼
www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/arou...

And even if I was part of the ones joining with invitation I was not able to secure the handle “adrian” for me 😢

Esto:

For celebrating Christmas we are preparing something very very small… ⚡️

So today I see more potential here. Independent from an Instagram account, potentially interoperable, more open and less server-niche. Having that said for the moment I will not give up on X. We can’t go jumping from place to place escaping from ourselves.

The fact that publishers are leaving and advertisers too is a big problem for him though. He would have to make a very significant better product for people to gain trust back.

X is dependent on a central server, loosing day after day more trust. However, it has a looot of content from many years, people will keep publishing there. And the guy in charge can also manage things very well honestly. We can’t underestimate the potential it can have for regenerating.

This is less decentralised leaving the power potentially to less people, the ones owning the services. They should still moderate the content and take care of maintaining the service. Similar to what we have now but with more interoperability and potentially more choice of apps to consume content.

But, there is the alternative of just having a protocol that allows to the different social media platforms to interact with each other (like if you could see your tweets on Instagram). This is the AT protocol of BlueSky. Now is just this app but can be potentially connected to other services.

This also means that is resistant to censorship but can also be very prone to fake information if “Flat-Earthers and Co.” build their own servers. However, servers owners can block the visibility and interaction with other servers, which can lead to more misinformation bias or fights between servers

Threads is testing now with users in the US to connect with the fediverse (Mastodon). In the fediverse anyone can build a server. They are small clusters to which you can join and interact with other users from other servers. This is **extremely** decentralised. Each server has its own rules.

We have: X, Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky. But we probably want to commit to the "winner". I gave it some thought, specially about the decentralisation and future proof. All of them but X have an element of decentralisation. So not relying on the single server of the company that provides the “app”.

Hello world. Trying this one again.