Jamilla Akhund-Zade

I love calling people

Did Twitter Blue tweet just cost Eli Lilly $LLY billions? Yes.

This is rubbish. Shame on @sapinker for spreading this misogyny. A 🧵...

So @AdamRutherford is receiving a lot of skepticism about his tweet saying that if Cheddar Man has any genealogical ancestors today, he is the common ancestor of all present-day humans. Adam is correct about this — I think this is such a cool finding, so I'll explain it below.

1) Boston University researches have made a SARS-CoV-2 virus that has the spike of Omicron BA.1 and the remaining genome of the ancestral SARS-CoV-2. Now they got in trouble because this research was funded by the US government (NIH) but they did not ask the NIH...

I was watching that new Rings of Power show, and the opening credits have these abstract shapes forming and reforming in sand. They seemed strangely familiar, and I suddenly remembered I'd seen them before, they're Chladni figures! (1/x)

nice model you got there. would be a shame if some biology happened to it.

Diffusion models like #DALLE and #StableDiffusion are state of the art for image generation, yet our understanding of them is in its infancy. This thread introduces the basics of how diffusion models work, how we understand them, and why I think this understanding is broken.🧵

MILK TIME 🥛! Have you ever considered that it’s a bit weird that you drink the milk of another animal, and it’s totally normal? Milk is a billion-dollar industry. A *HUGE* new human evolution paper just dropped, upending one of the great modern evolutionary ideas. 🧵 1/n

Where did the pandemic begin? Was it from nature or a lab? Since the start, this fundamental question has gone unanswered. Until now. Out in @ScienceMagazine: SARS-CoV-2 emerged into humans via the live animal trade at the Huanan Seafood Market. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Coming live from the depths of my soul - fuck you, you fucking fucks

Today I learned you can write numbers like this in Python (!!) Makes it easier to read long numbers by separating digits into groups, just like 1,000,000. It’s so esoteric that Google Colab doesn’t even color it correctly!

not my impatient ass taking the marshmallow now instead of waiting for more marshmallows later 😂😂 ⓘ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗔𝗧 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀

Crested mynas, as many other birds, are born altricially, which means young are underdeveloped at the time of birth, therefore fed by parents. When they grow up, they have to learn that food doesn't simply jump into their beaks [📽️: Rebecca Gelernter]

The exciting reveal of Ultima Genomics last week was accompanied by the publication of four preprints. Intrigued by the potential of the technology, @sinabooeshaghi & I decided to take a look at the data. A 🧵 about our findings & a preprint we posted: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/

After many months, I'm proud to share our work on untangling genome assembly graphs with GNNs. Or, GNNome Assembly (sorry not sorry)🧬 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2206.00668 Code/Data: github.com/lvrcek/GNNome-… with @xbresson, T. Laurent, @Martin_fschmitz, and @msikic. Read more in 🧵

@erikagajda It’s a gem

@jamilla_az I only just watched it for the first time last week

Sufjan Stevens

Who taught him how to do that Who taught him to get silly like that

Congratulations to @Federico_claudi, Dario Campagner, and @trabranco on their work exploring the innate heuristics and rapid learning that support escape route selection in mice, published today! Read the news: sainsburywellcome.org/web/research-n…