Just 5 days left to make a submission to the Gene Technology Bill.
I am very happy with the overall direction the government has taken with this legislation.
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Dr Ben Peters
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Let's get more people riding! Join Aotearoa Bike Challenge 2025 - the online community for getting more people enjoying riding. lovetoride.net/dunedin?ic=dc2…
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@RealQuintinJane It would be pretty wild to have a free speech statement that prohibited free speech.
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@RealQuintinJane We already have one: otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/…
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@bradyajohnston This would make a great Christmas decoration :D
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@KiwibankNZ Updated mortgage rates when?
Reserve Bank of NZ@ReserveBankofNZ
The Monetary Policy Committee today agreed to reduce the Official Cash Rate by 50 basis points to 4.25%. Inflation has declined and is now within our target band of 1-3%. If economic conditions continue to evolve as projected, the Committee expects to be able to lower the OCR further early next year. Read more: bit.ly/3Zf9viG
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Dr Ben Peters retweetledi
You are looking at the first planting of a gene-edited crop in Italy! CRISPR grapes resisting Downey mildew disease. @annameldolesi
mycrispr.blog/2024/09/30/cri…
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@boxcar_joey + less commute time.
+ Better cheaper lunch.
- shifts heating costs onto employee's.
- less bump space for organic problem solving.
- can't knock on the door of that one person who hasn't finished their marking yet....
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Dr Ben Peters retweetledi
Transit app now has great bike coverage as well as bus coverage!
Transit@transitapp
good news:
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@AdamParsonz Decent take. The risk side is really undercooked. Imagine an LLM from an official government website giving tax advise that was wrong. Who is liable? If the websites information isn't able to be relied upon, it is just one more unnecessary step to finding the info that you need.
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This is my frame of reference for evaluating applications of genAI
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Let me tell you the issue with solutions like this and the "chatbot" UI for genAI application 🧵
interest.co.nz/technology/129…
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Dr Ben Peters retweetledi
Super excited to share our latest work on the native in-cell organization of the mitochondrial respiratory chain 🥳
Using cryo-electron tomography🔬, we show how the respiratory complexes (and other complexes) are organized inside native mitochondria!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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You can now write a story (excluding the letters B, J, O, U, X and Z) and then feed it into alphafold and make a folded protein out of your story:
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Someone just email 1844 uni staff members by accident. Within 2 minutes I have 20 reply alls including people telling other staff members to stop replying all.
Sapere Aude @otago
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Dr Ben Peters retweetledi
Was great to work on the #Alphafold3 announcement video, made with #b3d and #MolecularNodes #GeometryNodes
Isomorphic Labs@IsomorphicLabs
How could #AlphaFold 3 transform drug discovery? Most drugs are small molecules known as ligands that bind to proteins to change how they interact in human health and disease. AlphaFold 3 can predict these interactions to atomic accuracy.
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Dr Ben Peters retweetledi
Gene editing of tomatoes roughly halves their water demand (presumably increasing drought resistance as well) without sacrificing yield. This didn't involve transferring any genes from another species. As such, (if I understand current regulations correctly) this wouldn't be considered a GMO in the US.
Given the pressure that climate change is going to create on food production, agricultural biotech remains one of our most important tools to build resilience - and also to help lift nearly a billion people out of poverty and food insecurity.
phys.org/news/2024-01-c…
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@gwynncompton Why does it take so long to see the ACT greens split voters :(
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