Igor Pessi

Tira de Laerte, em 4 quadrinhos. 1) Mulher, de costas, numa varanda. Ela está de camisola e segura na mão uma xícara com algo. Está espirrando com força, seus óculos até voam. Texto: “Hoje de manhã dei um bruta espirro.” 2) Mulher parada, olhando da varanda, segurando a xícara. Texto: “No mesmo instante veio, sei lá, uma tristeza.” 3) Mulher parada com a xícara. Texto: “Um desânimo imenso com o mundo e com a vida.” 4) Mulher dá um gole na xícara. Texto: “Teria relação com o espirro? - ou foi só o ensejo?”

Saiu na Folha @folha.com

Europe had its coldest January in 16 years. Historically, it would have been considered a warm January (pre-1990).

Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...

FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social.
📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason
💾 github.com/steineggerla...

In 1922, insulin co-discoverer Frederick Banting refused to profit from the discovery and offered it to the world as a global public good.

Today, many people with diabetes still don't have access to affordable and quality treatment and care.

Nice to see solid genetic tool development being published in Microbiology @microbiologysociety.org

'Improving a Tn7-based luciferase reporter system for promoter activity studies'

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Brazil’s Massive Landless Workers’ Movement Leads the Way After 40 years of struggle, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, the world’s largest social movement, has rebranded its fight for agrarian reform around organic food production.

"At nearly two million members strong, the MST is now likely the world’s largest social movement, battle-hardened now after four decades, demanding agrarian reform."

Some tools for thinking about AI in a time when the companies making them are trying to destroy teaching and learning itself...

1/n 🧵

The Telegraph The idea will see a person being able to access amenities within a quarter of an hour, but could result in traffic restrictions for drivers... See more Labour opens door to 'Stalinist' 15-minute cities across Britain

What a time to be alive

Technofascisme : un rassemblement citoyen contre la venue de Peter Thiel à Paris Un rassemblement citoyen est organisé ce lundi 26 janvier 2026 sur l’esplanade de l’Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, 23 quai de Conti à Paris à 18H, pour protester contre la venue du milli...

Un rassemblement est organisé ce lundi 26 janvier 2026 sur l’esplanade de l’Académie des Sciences morales et politiques pour protester contre l'invitation de Peter Thiel, milliardaire technofasciste et fondateur de Palantir qui équipe l’ICE, la milice technofasciste de Donald Trump. À lire 👇🏼

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Gates: “We aim to accelerate the adoption of AI tools across primary care clinics, within communities and in people’s homes…”

Thanks! I will give it a go for my next metagenome annotation endeavour, but I'm afraid there will be quite a lot of learning required 😬

Any plans to bring the foldseek-driver to the main branch at some point?

We just released #anvio v9, "eunice" 🎉

This version represents over 2,000 changes in the codebase since v8, increasing the total number of programs in the anvi'o ecosystem to 176.

Read the release notes:

github.com/merenlab/anv...

Visit our up-to-date web page:

anvio.org

The land of Linus Torvalds nonetheless! The use of Linux and open-source softwares should be in the Finnish constitution.

The side plot is Bolsonaro, who loved the idea of torturing people, “planning” a massive prison break because the A/C is too loud and his TV sucks.

By “planning” I mean using the prison printer to print out the escape plans, chasing emus during outdoor recreation hours, etc.

What's that South Park episode where Trump doesn't get a peace prize for ending wars and then start a war

Langston Hughes on Patrice Lumumba on this the 65th anniversary of his assassination.

#OtD 17 Jan 1961 the first democratically-elected prime minister of Congo was murdered following a coup backed by the US and #Belgium. Socialist independence leader Patrice Lumumba was arrested, brutally beaten, tortured and then shot shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/lor...

Torille! 🇫🇮

In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.

very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing. @Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Webinar: Justice in biodiversity transitions: Insights from Europe | 10 February — BIONEXT This webinar will explore how justice considerations play a role in efforts to change and improve biodiversity-related practices and policies in Europe.

Join our webinar to explore what #justice looks like in #biodiversity policies and practices, with case studies from the Netherlands, Finland and Belgium.

Learn more and sign up 👇
www.bionext-project.eu/news/webinar...

#BiodiversityNexus #TransformativeChange #BIONEXT

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The position for a postdoc is now officially open.
I can answer any questions related to the position, but please apply only thru the university system.

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Spotted em Copenhague, lembrei de vocês @viracasacas.viracasacas.com

Well, Nobel Prize Museum: you honored with this 196g medal a TOTAL IDIOTA DE MERDA, now, face it's consequences MEU CONSAGRADO.

NÃO FOI POR FALTA DE warning.

Those who haven’t lost their mind yet are really not paying attention.