Daniel Probst
Daniel Probst
@skepteis.bsky.social
Computer scientist, Bioinformatician, PhD in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Working on the above as an Assistant Prof at WUR. Interested in all the sciences. Materialist. Fan of cats, Punk Rock, and Hockey.
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I did some of my best work out of spite. And this beautiful project wouldn't be there without it.
Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.
Here's my thorough scientific analysis and opinon on this: Fuck them. And by that I mean expropriate them.
*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
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Very accessible thread describing incredible work revealing how evolution can shape the photosynthesis machinery to work where our assumptions said it couldn't 🧪 and the imaging here is WOW!!!!
I’m very excited to share the first big project from my PhD (my first proper-first, yay!) where we use cryoET and a fun new flavour of CLEM to study the re-organisation of photosynthetic machinery of cyanobacteria growing beyond the red limit of light. doi.org/10.64898/202...
"Schweizer Wein in der Krise: «Es geht nur ums Geld» Schweizer Winzer kämpfen mit sinkenden Preisen. Der Winzer und Ex-Hedgefonds-Manager Philibert Frick schlägt Alarm." 😄
Only ~238,000 base pairs (DNA sequence length). That's about 60K bytes worth of information. Biology is cool and sometimes even efficient 😉
European car makers are not stuck in the past at all...
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Given the current focus of the media on Yemen, let's *also* remember that between 2015 and 2022, the local US proxies have bombed - Schools and unis 287 times - Healthcare facilities 92 times - Sport facilities and parks 105 times Source: yemendataproject.org
Stell dir vor du bist ein Opfer des Kolonialismus und dann kommt so einer damit. Ich denke mal, dass er anders als sein Vorgänger, nicht mit Hong Kong zurück kommt. "Es ist ein unfairer Konkurrenzkampf, bei dem westliche Unternehmen nicht mithalten können."
We (@jose-e.bsky.social) have a new preprint out in which we explore a Neural Petri Flow on chemical reactions. Turns out that it does atom mapping, reaction classification, reaction forward prediction, and mechanism prediction rather well. arxiv.org/abs/2610.08750 github.com/daenuprobst/npf
Now the other half of USAmericans show that they never understood Rage Against the Machine 😁
Here's how you mess up a European country in the 21th century for a long time to come. You get them to do this instead of investing (much more) in education.
Journalist*innen in den bürgerlichen Medien verstehen die Welt nicht mehr. Schüler*innen in Frankreich zeigen (internationale) Solidarität und eine politische Partei unterstützt ihren Protest.
Good. Now the other 79 countries.
Unilaterale Wirtschaftssanktionen sind jährlich für 564,258 Todesfälle verantwortlich. Dass US Sanktionen verantwortlich sind, ist bestätigt, für EU Sanktionen (noch) nicht. Ich möchte damit selbstverständlich nichts zu tun haben, viele andere anscheinend schon 🤷
Die Lehren die die Schweiz aus Der Pandemie zieht: Weniger Impfen und andere Dummheiten. Was für ein Scheissland.
Willst wetten was in Berlin passieren wird, @andyrage.bsky.social? 😉
I think this is relevant again. I'm not sure why/what he has done now, but it was always very obvious that he's a reactionary.
Oh, my beef with curly Sarkon goes far, far beyond that (and his capitalist apologism, with which I obviously have issues). He's the sleazy salesman kind of scientist that uses (probably) earned credibility in his field to broadcast deeply flawed ideas outside of it. A bit like nobelitis and...