The X-factor is Back! Region 3341 fires an X1.1-flare. R3-level radio blackout now on Earth's dayside. Expect HF communications & GPS reception to be impacted over the next hour, especially Europe, West Africa, Canada, USA, Mexico, and Hawaii (colored regions in map).

Registrations for the Tree for a Tango #School are open!
📢Computational #phylogenetics to analyse the evolution of cells and communities
🗓️2-7 July
🧑‍🏫David Posada, Nadia El-Mabrouk, Ran Libeskind-Hadas and Russell Schwartz, João Alves and Mattéo Delabre
📰olissipo.inesc-id.pt/tree-tango-sch…

…Et à minuit ⚘🌼

youtu.be/oDm5PVLw2u8

Best known for his collaborations with David Lynch (including TWIN PEAKS, BLUE VELVET, and MULHOLLAND DRIVE), famed composer Angelo Badalamenti has passed away.

(1937-2022)

Shocking to see that the pay-for-verification system we all told them would be an utter disaster and impersonation free-for-all is, in fact, an utter disaster and impersonation free-for-all 🤯

'Drunk Sierpinski': Instead of picking the midpoints of the sides of the triangles to make the triangle-holes, I chose points via a normal distribution, mean = midpoint, SD = 5% of length
#mathart #Mathematica

The 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was just awarded to four pioneers of quantum information science: Charles Bennett, Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch and Peter Shor. Dan Garisto reports for @SciAm:
scientificamerican.com/article/quantu…

Mais pourquoi doit-on perdre un temps précieux avec ça une fois de plus : bien sûr que oui, l’humain est allé sur la lune pendant les missions Apollo. Et on va y retourner.

Thrilled to kick off EvolCompGen #ISMB2022 — welcome aboard!🎉

Stay tuned on ISMB/ECCB Conference Juno for talks/posters/panel disc.
🗓️Schedule: bit.ly/ecg2022

Engage w/ COSI folks
- Join us on Slack: bit.ly/join_evolcompg…
- Twitter: EvolCompGen
- Website: evolcompgen.org

@YAnselmetti is now going to tell us about the evolution of CRISPR-Cas
gene syntenies in light of species evolution. They're using a reconciliation method that considers the co-evolution of genes grouped into clusters.
With Mattéo Delabre from the El-Mabrouk Lab
#ISMB2022

🌟 A star is born!

Behind the curtain of dust and gas in these “Cosmic Cliffs” are previously hidden baby stars, now uncovered by Webb. We know — this is a show-stopper. Just take a second to admire the Carina Nebula in all its glory: nasa.gov/webbfirstimage… #UnfoldTheUniverse

👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse : nasa.gov/webbfirstimage…

Rogers offers Canada's fastest, most reliable outages across the country

Assigning Numbers xkcd.com/2610

Beaucoup beaucoup de Français au Palais des congrès de Montréal pour le vote aux élections présidentielles 🇫🇷. 📷 : @tom_pharma #electionpresidentielle2022

It’s not about the money

Joyeux anniversaire #Gaston ! 🎂 C'est le 28 février 1957, André #Franquin crée le personnage de Gaston Lagaffe.

With the rapid deterioration of the Russia/Ukraine situation, you’re going to hear a lot about SWIFT in the coming days…

Here’s a quick breakdown of what it is and why it matters:

Here's a great timeline for how the mRNA Covid vaccines ultimately got developed
Elie Dolgin @nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

The remarkable story of how it took multiple decades of perseverance to make the mRNA Covid vaccines a reality
nytimes.com/2022/01/15/hea…
Pioneers Katalin Kariko and The Drew Weissman Lab led the way with their 2005 Immunity paper, rejected by @nature and Science Magazine