Rui Borges
@RBorges23
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Lecturer in Statistics at the University of St Andrews. Interested in statistical/computational population genetics and phylogenetics. He/him. 🇵🇹🇱🇻🇬🇧
Dundee, Scotland
Joined August 2018
We will uncover the full scale of British complicity in genocide - and we will bring about justice for the Palestinian people. Join us on 4-5 September for The Gaza Tribunal. Sign up at https://t.co/BXvBzBB4Vj
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The deliberate and relentless killing of Palestinian journalists is sickening beyond words — and is a desperate attempt to silence the truth about Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity. Shame on all those who empowered Israel to murder with impunity.
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The idea that someone would “pose” as a journalist by doing live reporting all day, every day, for two straight years — but is actually secretly a terrorist (when??) — is so stupid it demonstrates how much power Israel believes it has. Their excuse for assassinating a world
A short while ago, in Gaza City, the IDF struck the terrorist Anas Al-Sharif, who posed as a journalist for the Al Jazeera network. Al-Sharif served as the head of a Hamas terrorist cell and was responsible for advancing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops.
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Human rights group B'Tselem releases shocking video of Palestinian journalist Awdah Hathaleen filming his own murder at the hands of Israeli settler Yinon Levi. As is usual in Israel, a judge quickly released Levi, even though the footage shows he shot Hathaleen in cold blood.
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“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly. Yet it’s not. It is this world. And what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras. One that casts a stain on humanity that will endure for generations.” https://t.co/XjHA2PwvsT
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No adds, less shout, more science: I am moving to a place with blue skies. What a breeze!
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Join us as a #PostDoc @uni_tue for 2 years! Work on large-scale genealogical data, develop #machinelearning methods, make an impact by decoding local ancestries (ARGs), and improve #popgen and medical studies in collab. with @Boehringer. More info here: https://t.co/aPWRf6cA6t
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I thought portuguese DNA was a mixture of codfish, wine and pastéis de nata. It seems that I was wrong:
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The science of global warming beautifully and simply explained by Dr. Carl Sagan, ca. 1985. ✍️
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X feels impossible to enjoy lately. Scrolling just makes me stressed or down. Instead of leaving for good, let’s try to make it fun and instructive again! I love solving problems in my spare time, so here’s one for you - can you guess the answer? #ChallengeAccepted
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Eu assinei a petição. Contra brugessos que acham que podem fazer apologias de violência impunemente. Ação de cidadãos - Queixa-crime contra André Ventura e Pedro Pinto https://t.co/WjPF5keCZY
#peticaopublica #peticao via @peticaopublica
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O seu apoio é muito importante. Apoie esta causa. Assine a Petição.
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A group of our PhD students taking a break from their weekly reading group/chat. Interested to join them for a PhD in Stats? We are a vibrant community in a friendly environment. See details at https://t.co/VEWa3MYpI5 We accept UK and overseas students. Scholarships available.
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WOW. @Microsoft just open-sourced the code for one of "THE MOST" influential Paper of 2024 🔥 1-bit LLMs (e.g., BitNet b1.58). Now you can run a 100B param models on local devices quantized with BitNet b1.58 on single CPU at 5-7 tokens/sec 🤯 The dream we have all been waiting
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📢The future Pereira lab is hiring! We will start at @_VIB_AI in February 2025 and are looking for a postdoc to join and kick-start our team 🤓 If you want to leverage AI and large networks to explore and understand the protein universe 🌌, check below!
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However, the study was deeply flawed and biased, later debunked as unreliable. It’s a reminder of how science can be misused to justify discrimination. Let's not forget the harm caused and learn from these mistakes. Today it's migrants, tomorrow the poor. (3/3)
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The Kallikak family story was a pseudoscientific case study about a 'feeble-minded' lineage. It traced two family branches - one from a 'respectable' woman, another from a 'feeble-minded' woman - and blamed genetics for poverty, crime, and disability. (2/3)
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Eugenics is on the rise again, but it's important to learn from history. Take the Kallikak family, for example, a story often cited in early 20th-century eugenics to support harmful theories. 🧵 (1/3) https://t.co/MujQbdtosX
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Former President Donald Trump on Monday suggested undocumented immigrants who commit murder have “bad genes,” in the latest example of the former president using dehumanizing rhetoric as he tries to...
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The bunkbed conjecture was a folklore conjecture that seems obviously true, but turned out to be a case where the seemingly obvious intuition—perhaps derived from small N—is misleading in general. Igor Pak has a blogpost explaining their construction at a https://t.co/9vKFPkALDS
Occasionally in mathematics a statement that just has to be true turns out to be false. A paper appeared on arXiv today that disproves a well-known conjecture in probability called the bunkbed conjecture. 🧵 https://t.co/0IIFzmMYv3
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