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Today, I re-printed the first two things I ever designed for #3DPrinting nine years ago and change. When the pen clips for our kitchen whiteboard broke back in 2016, right after I bought my first printer, I made replacements.
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🦠 Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-microbiologists-species-methane-archaea-human.html

Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut
An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (Braunschweig, Germany)—and the University of Illinois (U.S.) has identified and described a previously unknown species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut: Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. (strain WWM1085).

Baby's first unun!
My #AmateurRadio journey continues with making some of my own equipment...
I wanted to be able to connect either an EFHW or an EFRW to my KX3, but move the actual antenna away from the radio, so that I can POTA with other people close enough to talk, while keeping the antennas for the different out of each others' near field so they don't interere. To …

Wenn "Minecraft" und Co. die Leinwand erobern
Viele Game-Verfilmungen sind in der Vergangenheit gescheitert, "The Last Of Us" wurde zum Megaerfolg. Wann gelingen sie – und wann nicht?
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CoMMiT: Co-informed inference of microbiome-metabolome interactions via transfer learning
Leiyue Li, Chenglong Ye, Tim Randolph, Meredith Hullar, Johanna Lampe, Marian Neuhouser, Daniel Raftery, Yue Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24013

CoMMiT: Co-informed inference of microbiome-metabolome interactions via transfer learning
Recent multi-omic microbiome studies enable integrative analysis of microbes and metabolites, uncovering their associations with various host conditions. Such analyses require multivariate models capable of accounting for the complex correlation structures between microbes and metabolites. However, existing multivariate models often suffer from low statistical power for detecting microbiome-metabolome interactions due to small sample sizes and weak biological signals. To address these challenge…

I understand that people think their microphone is off when they have muted the microphone in the online meeting. Now, consider that the meeting software reminds you that your sound is muted when you speak.

[”Your microphone is muted.”]

It does this because your sound isn’t really muted… the software ”heard” you. The sound is just not transferred to other participants. But there is of course nothing stopping the software from capturing your sound anyway.

This is one o…

"Chaos Walking" on #Netflix is a really weird film. I liked it!
The premise is that on an alien planet everybody's thoughts are visible and audible to others. Exactly the kind of thing an author can invent but how would you pull it off in a movie?
It worked well! Solid VFX and nice matte paintings by a bunch of well-known studios (Rodeo, Crafty Apes, Spin) even though the …

If you don’t have a mute button on your microphone, the next best thing is software that will mute your microphone at the system level. MicDrop is an example of an app I’ve tried for this (Mac only): https://getmicdrop.com

You know it’s working when the meeting software starts throwing an ”error” and saying it’s not picking up sound from your microphone.

Heard about a recent European conference on how to keep cities cool. Ideas range from cooling shelters to competitions on which town can replace the most pavement with trees.
#Munich will offer its citizens… an „interactive map on where to find drinking fountains“.
You absolute knobs. Meanwhile I have to endure motorcycle riders revving their machines in the almost tropical night. An…

Baby's First #AmateurRadio #FieldDay! I ran the GOTA station for a few minutes to warm it up, and again in the early morning after the night crew were done for a handful of QSOs, but I spent many hours in the CW tent. At the start I just froze up and needed lots of help from th…