Jason Cunliffe

Jason Cunliffe

@janomadlab.bsky.social

human instrument seeks lovenzyme science art code maps music language sequence symbiota #FreshAir #mRNA pattern scale truth form function freedom flow 道

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Yoïn van Spijk
@yvanspijk.bsky.social

Today, my etymological doublet series is coming to an end with an episode on German, on request of several people. The orange German words on the right have the same origin as the blue ones on the right, but they took a very different path. Many of the examples are courtesy of Matthieu Pierens.

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Paul Byrne
@theplanetaryguy.com

This is a photo of the surface of an asteroid It was taken from the *surface*I of that asteroid By a *bouncing rover* the size of a lunchbox (1/2)

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Yoïn van Spijk
@yvanspijk.bsky.social

The English word ‘blue’ is a horse of a different colour. While ‘blue’ is related to the words in its Germanic sister languages, such as German ‘blau’ and Swedish ‘blå’, it took a different route. Its Germanic ancestor was loaned to French, where it became ‘bleu’, and then borrowed into English:

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Rob Townsend
@rbtownsend.bsky.social

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

bit.ly"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degreesThis interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist
@princess-vimentin.bsky.social

How exciting! CRISPR reversed chemotherapy resistance in lung cancer, making tumors more responsive to chemotherapy. Eventually this tool can be applied to other types of cancers. CRISPR has so many applications. 🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

sciencedaily.comCRISPR unlocks a new way to defeat resistant lung cancerScientists used CRISPR to disable the NRF2 gene, restoring chemotherapy sensitivity in lung cancer cells and slowing tumor growth. The technique worked even when only a fraction of tumor cells were ed...

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Philip Ball
@philipcball.bsky.social

This is such a crying shame, and so short-sighted. But there it is.

Roland Pease@peaseroland.bsky.social

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

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Adrian Hill
@adrianhill.de

Microtypography, accessibility and a range of PDF standards. Now nothing is stopping me from writing my thesis in Typst. 🥹

Typst@typst.app

Typst 0.14 is out now! Get ready for production with accessibility, PDFs as images, character-level justification, and more. Learn about more of the highlights in Typst 0.14 in the thread below ⤵️

Jason Cunliffe
@janomadlab.bsky.social

"Our solidarity with Palestinians is not a betrayal of Judaism, but a fulfillment of it. When our sages taught that to destroy one life is to destroy an entire world, they did not carve exceptions for Palestinians. We shall not rest until Israel occupation apartheid ENDS"