bramvandijk.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Utrecht University (Theoretical Biology). Simulating microbes, mobile elements, horizontal gene transfer, and whatever else happens on a grain of sand | 🏳️🌈 | he / they | thevirtuallaboratory.com
👤 Joined on 22 August 2023
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@bramvandijk.bsky.socialExcited to share our work on bacterial immune signaling! Our preprint reveals how RNA-guided Cas13 cleaves host tRNAs to generate small-molecule messengers that activate 2TMβ, linking RNA recognition to membrane damage and phage defense. 1/11
Show PostI think we need to differentiate between “AI uses a lot of water!” (not necessarily bad on its own) and “AI stresses local water supplies” (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even “modest” use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers
Show PostSuper neat study, can’t wait to read this paper! #SymbioSky
Show PostWonderful tool that solves the problem that "Conventional research papers require readers to understand...the paper’s code, data and methods to their work"
Show Post2D billiards are Turing complete! "We show that, even in 2D, billiard trajectories can simulate arbitrary Turing machines...Our results place undecidability, alongside chaos, as a fundamental obstruction to long-term prediction even in low-dimensional classical dynamics" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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