Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺
Bioinformatician and IT consultant - ITA/ENG
Sono più attivo su Mastodon, seguitemi lì: mastodon.uno/@emmecola
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- Lo ammetto: il #referendum sulla #giustizia non mi appassiona particolarmente, ma siccome siamo chiamati a votare ho provato a informarmi. E quello che ho capito mi ha convinto a votare NO. Ecco perché #ioVotoNO :🧵 1/
- Reposted by Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺#Rstats slides back into the top 10 programming languages. R is far from dead. www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
- Finisce il 2025 con 16 #libri letti. Il migliore? Senza dubbio la trilogia di #fantascienza "Il problema dei tre corpi" di Cixin Liu, che mi ha impegnato per 3 mesi (ma ne è valsa la pena). Bellissimi anche i saggi "Why machines learn" e "The rise and reign of the mammals". 📚
- "L'intelligenza condivisa" di @emollick.bsky.social è un bel libro. Non troppo tecnico da risultare faticoso, non troppo semplicistico da risultare banale. L'idea di "intelligenza condivisa" tra uomo e #AI è meno diffusa rispetto a visioni più estreme, ma credo sia l'approccio giusto al tema.
- "Whale breath collected by drones is giving clues to the health of wild humpbacks and other whales. ...They detected a highly infectious #virus linked to mass strandings of #whales and dolphins worldwide." 🐳 #morbillivirus
- "Try the new #NotebookLM infographics!" – they said. And voila, here's an amazing picture of DNA molecules with 3' ends on both sides 🤷🏻♂️
- Fine-tune an #LLM to output old bird names and it'll start behaving as if it’s the 19th century. Ask for a major recent invention, it'll reply the electrical telegraph! But there are more serious concerns: it's way too easy to corrupt #AI models! #AIsafety #AIresearch
- Come riporta @cattiviscienziati.bsky.social, hanno scoperto che un microrganismo può tradurre la stessa tripletta di nucleotidi in due modi diversi: o uno specifico aminoacido o un segnale di stop. In questo modo, lo stesso #DNA può produrre una proteina lunga o una corta. 🧬
- "The long-term ban is an important pillar of the Commission's proposal to channel the Russian assets into a zero-interest reparations loan to support #Ukraine, which Belgium, as prime custodian of the funds, continues to fiercely resist." 🇺🇦 www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
- #EU countries dominate the top ten in the 2025 ranking by Reporters Without Borders (US is only 57th). Our dear Elon doesn't know what he talks about 🤷🏻♂️🇪🇺 rsf.org/en/index
- Today #EU Council and Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on the regulation of #NGT. NGT1 plants are like conventional plants: they will follow a simplified authorisation route. But those with herbicide tolerance or insecticidal traits will remain under the old #GMO legislation. 🧬
- Il lancio di #ProtonSheets è una notizia enorme! Finalmente i fogli di calcolo con encryption end to end nella suite cloud di #Proton. Chi ha ancora bisogno di Google? 🙂
- Reposted by Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺One Health⚕️in #Denmark and beyond! 🌍 Let’s talk about 💊 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) 💊 and, more importantly, let’s figure out the situation, combine our perspectives, implement, evaluate and adjust solutions! More here 👉 lnkd.in/dhBmeP-s #euonehealth2025 #amr #eu #jrc #onehealth
- Research on new #antibiotics suffers from the same economic disincentives of rare disease research: manufacturers have little interest in developing drugs that will be kept away from the general population and used only in exceptional cases. And yet, some scientists are working hard to fight #AMR 💪🏻
- Reposted by Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺HIRING: researchers, engineers, economists and lab technicians for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Our labs are in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. 20 open positions: recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancies 🧪 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
- Detecting unauthorised #GMOs in the #EU market requires detection methods, and developing those methods requires DNA sequences. 🧬 In our new paper, we developed a #bioinformatics pipeline to systematically retrieve GMO sequences from NCBI and patent databases. Check it out! tinyurl.com/agromethod
- I'm starting to hate #AI generated videos. They force me to doubt everything I see on social media, which means that when I finally see an amazing video that is authentic, I won't believe it. I'm denying myself the joy of being amazed. It makes me sad.
- Grande giornata di #scienza al Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica di #Milano: tra un talk e l'altro (tutti interessantissimi), ci sono anche le mie colleghe Elena e Maria Grazia che vi mostreranno come estrarre il #DNA 🧬 dalla frutta 🥝 #FocusLive 2025 live.focus.it/palinsesto/#...
- Ho appena finito di leggere la trilogia del problema dei tre corpi di #CixinLiu. Un'opera magnifica in cui scienza e poesia si fondono alla perfezione, una storia meravigliosa e sorprendente. Per me è un vero capolavoro! ♥️
- Why #Nigeria Accepted #GMOs 🌽 After the approval of a GM cowpea in 2019, Nigeria is now cultivating TELA maize. It is resilient to drought and pests, and was developed through a public-private partnership. press.asimov.com/articles/nig...
- Reposted by Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺Visto che i #vaccini non causano l’#autismo sul banco degli imputati è salito il #paracetamolo Prossimi indagati l’omogenizzato di mela e il semolino di riso #Trump
- Reposted by Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺Archaeologists at Pompeii uncovered a fresco depicting a meal of a flat bread round covered in herbed cheese (called 'moretum'). That's right, a PROTO-PIZZA. But modern pizza, as served from Tokyo to Rome itself, was probably invented in New York. Let's talk about the "Pizza Effect".
- Reposted by Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺This #LochNessMonster photo is doing the rounds on social media, accompanied by a fake story about it being real, and new, and attached to a specific eyewitness event. I see people on Facebook groups thinking that the photo is the 'real deal', sigh. However... 1/n
- Windows 10 support ends October 14th! 😱 Can't upgrade to #Windows11 and don't want to buy a new computer? No worries: - Backup your files - Download Ubuntu tinyurl.com/ubuntu24lts - Flash it to USB stick with Balena Etcher - Boot, install and get your apps from Software Center Welcome to #Ubuntu!
- Reposted by Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺just leaving this gem here :)
- A fascinating article by @matthewcobb.bsky.social from the Asimov press archives, reminding us that there is no such thing as a "central dogma" in molecular biology. It includes a brilliant thought experiment about how info could flow back into DNA (i.e. through environment-dependent gene editing)
- "We should insist on #AI that can collaborate with, say, doctors—as well as teachers, lawyers, building contractors, and many others—instead of AI that aims to automate them out of a job." 🤖 A Better Way to Think About AI - The Atlantic @theatlantic.com
- Le nuove tecniche di editing genomico stanno rivoluzionando l'agricoltura, ma hanno creato un paradosso: mentre le modifiche genetiche diventano sempre più facili da implementare, i metodi per riconoscerle si scontrano con limiti tecnici apparentemente insormontabili. 🌾 emmecola.it/mutazioni-in...
- "La traiettoria resta quella di una regressione verso la media: un linguaggio che rinuncia a complessità e varietà in favore di prevedibilità e uniformità, in cui la distanza fra parlare degli esseri umani e delle macchine si riduce fino a diventare impercettibile." @cattiviscienziati.bsky.social