Ferran Cardoso

Ferran Cardoso

@fercr.bsky.social

Follow me in the fediverse through the Bluesky bridge at @fercr.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy Computational Senior Scientific Officer at the ICR Tech | Nature | Omics and Data Analysis #academia #Bioinformatics #computationalbiology #omics

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Very excited to announce we are looking for a software engineer to support our work developing digital pathology applications at the Integrated Pathology Unit! Check out the link below and do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. @icr.ac.uk #hiring jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

jobs.icr.ac.ukSoftware Engineer in Sutton | The Institute of Cancer ResearchView details and apply for this Software Engineer vacancy in Sutton. Salary : Salary range: £57,190 - £64,000 per annum. Commencement on the salary range is subject to comparable skills and ...

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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

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Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comThe political effects of X’s feed algorithm - NatureAmong users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Looking forward to attending ESMO AI & Digital Oncology in Berlin! Come by the poster exhibition between 14:45 and 15:45 to discuss our multimodal computational platforms applied to a breast cancer trial and a colorectal cancer TMA cohort! More info here fercrcode.github.io/posts/ESMOAI/ #ESMOAI25

fercrcode.github.ioESMO AI & Digital Oncology CongressFerran Cardoso`s personal profile, portfolio of academical publications, and other outputs. Uses a minimal, responsive, and powerful Jekyll theme for presenting professional writing.

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If you bought a Framework Laptop 13 at its original launch, it required a lot of blind faith. The idea of a laptop you could upgrade yourself was spectacular in theory, but here we are, more than four years later, seeing Framework’s grand ambitions come to fruition. Read more: wrd.cm/4jX7VKB

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By betraying his voters so comprehensively and so soon, Keir Starmer has done us a favour. He has given us 4 years to design the government we want. In this week's column I explain how it can be done. There's massive potential, but we need to start now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comHow we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election | George MonbiotLabour is beyond repair. Time for a co-ordinated strategy to support progressive parties committed to electoral reform, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Great to see this happening in my neighborhood - I'm not surprised. Obviously no reflection on Diane at all - it's entirely a response to the awful Labour Government who are turning people away in their droves. Expect more of this & we'll be here with the positive alternative.

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Calling data scientists: we have opening in our Data Science core @icr.ac.uk to lead work around cancer spatial biology and single cell analysis. These are staff scientist type positions, ideal for someone who wants to help drive computational research. Apply here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/12...

jobs.icr.ac.ukData Scientist in Sutton | The Institute of Cancer ResearchView details and apply for this Data Scientist vacancy in Sutton. Salary : Salary range £39,805 to £49,023 (depending on the experience) Reporting to: Professor Trevor Graham ...

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Any scikit-image fans in Vienna? The #skimage team would like to meet in Vienna for a code sprint Aug 14-16 ahead of EuroSciPy. We'd super appreciate it if someone's workplace can host us! All we need is electricity, natural light, and (most important) walking distance to coffee. ☕️😂🙏

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Good morning from a Bounds Green Busybody, denim jacket over my pyjamas at the main junction at 7 AM, because there’s been a huge crash here overnight. The Facebook group last showed a car still here, stuck on the railings. There will be hundreds and hundreds of kids … 1/8

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🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

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1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵

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As former Chair of London's Environment committee - I'm releasing a report: Net Zero and Leadership. Cross party investigation into what those in power can do to engage properly with communities at the grassroots. Read the report here 👇🏽

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With NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya dismissing my reporting as "false" and "spreading rumors" hours before releasing a policy that confirmed said "rumors," I feel compelled to respond. Here's an inside look into how this story was reported. It was a weird one. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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so apparently, bluesky has started honoring government takedown requests from turkish government. i wonder what the nature of measures taken are. do the accounts or the content get taken down or do they get geofenced, @jay.bsky.team ?

“Sen de mi Brütüs” cc @ssg.dev

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In my course on evolution and medicine I was discussing why—if fever is an evolved defense—we so often use antipyretic drugs to reduce fever. (FWIW, I think it's generally fine to do so.) "No one would prescribe an immunosuppresant to treat a deadly viral infection", I said. I forgot about RFK Jr.

nbcnews.comKennedy draws from misinformation playbook by touting an inhaled steroid to treat measlesTrump’s health secretary said budesonide was helping to “heal” measles patients. It’s reminiscent of the days when fringe doctors said ivermectin could cure Covid.

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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

David D. Levine@daviddlevine.com

LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."