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Best of Twitter - Week of July 26, 2021

Alexey Guzey
Aug 4, 2021
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Twitter avatar for @davidrliuDavid R. Liu @davidrliu
FTO: associated with obesity in people and in… potatoes.
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… nature.com/articles/s4158…

bryan dickinson @chembioBryan

My incredible @UChiChemistry colleague Chuan He (not on twitter) found a way to perturb RNA regulatory pathways to make essentially ANY plant gigantic! Giant potatoes! More rice! This is a huge deal for world hunger https://t.co/1TMlQtr01b

July 23rd 2021

16 Retweets97 Likes
Twitter avatar for @Rainmaker1973Massimo @Rainmaker1973
This octopus was captured on camera waving back to his keeper at London's Sea Life Aquarium in March 2019. The wave was captured on camera behind the scenes at the Sea Life centre, during one of the octopus' twice-daily "playtimes" [full story:
buff.ly/38I9I2e]
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July 25th 2021

621 Retweets3,355 Likes
Twitter avatar for @benskuhnBen Kuhn @benskuhn
I had a fascinating conversation yesterday with a former roommate who's now a postdoc in number theory. I learned a lot about how math research works! Some stuff I found interesting:

July 25th 2021

545 Retweets3,048 Likes
Twitter avatar for @benskuhnBen Kuhn @benskuhn
A lot of number theory is figuring out how to stitch together many different such black boxes to get some new big result. Roommate described this as "flailing around" but also highly effective and endorsed my analogy to copy-pasting code from many different Stack Overflow answers

July 25th 2021

14 Retweets557 Likes

^ super interesting thread

Twitter avatar for @sashachapinSasha Chapin @sashachapin
As suggested by @HamiltonMorris , I just got finished taking a (small-ish) dose of LSD to get my sense of smell back post-covid and it totally worked. It’s back online. Like a light switch, bam, online. Wtf, psychedelics

July 26th 2021

198 Retweets1,884 Likes

^ discussions:

  • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/what-should-we-make-of-sasha-chapins

  • https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/oxatyy/what_should_we_make_of_sasha_chapins_claim_that/

Twitter avatar for @GongDennisdennis @GongDennis
Last week during some clinical shadowing, I saw two patients who came to the hospital for toe/foot amputation procedures. I was surprised to learn that these were actually the downstream consequences of diabetes.

July 26th 2021

2 Likes
Twitter avatar for @GongDennisdennis @GongDennis
Losing feeling in your feet is apparently an early consequence, leading people to damage their lower limbs inadvertently. Since they can't feel pain, infections can go unnoticed and fester until the need for amputation.

July 26th 2021

1 Like

^ thread…

Twitter avatar for @NASJAQ__nasjaq @NASJAQ__
great thread on mirror DNA and it's possibilities such as trees that won't decompose due to lack of digesters and how a mirror world could cause a lack of sugar for the bottom of our food chain lol wild need to learn more

eigenrobot @eigenrobot

holy shit i was already long biotech but this is this is something else. kinda floored. not even sure what one would use it for but the engineering is unreal how even what https://t.co/BjVKLqKAWN

July 30th 2021

3 Retweets31 Likes
Twitter avatar for @ArtirKel(Now in NY!)José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente @ArtirKel
"I don't believe that the airplane will ever take the place of trains or steamships for the carrying of passengers" (!) Of all people, something the Wright brothers said.
google.com/books/edition/… Smithsonian Education - Stories of the Wrights’ Flightsmithsonianeducation.org

July 27th 2021

5 Retweets27 Likes
Twitter avatar for @ArtirKel(Now in NY!)José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente @ArtirKel
"No airship will ever fly from New York to Paris. That seems to me to be impossible."

July 27th 2021

11 Likes
Twitter avatar for @DudespostingWsDudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs
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July 28th 2021

7,330 Retweets130,696 Likes
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