Steve Chervitz Trutane ☮️
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Coach @AthleteBodyShop| Ex-bioinformatics @PersonalisInc| Omicist @Awesomics| Triathlete @AlbanyTri| Run @barefootr| @Wikipedia-n| Humanity @TeamHuman_org| on🦋
San Francisco Bay Area
Joined March 2009
Required re-reading: Voltaire's "Questions sur les miracles" from 1765 👇 (image compliments of @WISTquotes - https://t.co/4fYCtnQdFx)
This by Voltaire is often paraphrased as "Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Reducing our exposure to and belief in absurdities reduces injustice.
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Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans https://t.co/7icF629yG0 (OA) Tabea Dreyer et al. + @feinermo ✉️ “complex brains require extensive communication to cooperate efficiently” #CollectiveCognition #cooperation “Longhorn crazy ants” 🐜
pnas.org
Biological ensembles use collective intelligence to tackle challenges together, but suboptimal coordination can undermine the effectiveness of grou...
Ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence, according to a 2025 study. Learn more: https://t.co/MHbFGxo1ET
#ScienceMagArchives
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I went to check up on last night’s Silver Alert issued by @CHPAlerts for 74-yo Jesus Aranda of Vallejo — but the alert post on X has been deleted… Found it on https://t.co/vbquOLk7Cv via Google, but the page there is now 404. Was he found? @VallejoPd
#MissingPerson
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Congrats to my former team at @PersonalisInc on the strong Q4 and FY 2025 report. “Clinical test volume of 16,233 tests, a nearly 400% increase over 2024… signals a significant shift in market adoption for ultrasensitive MRD testing.” #MRD #ctDNA #Cancer #Oncology $PSNL
$PSNL Personalis Reports Select Preliminary Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Results and Recent Highlights https://t.co/rXftTpHD3Y
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ICYMI: Game-changing #NSCLC research! NeXT Personal® detected lung cancer recurrence a median if ~5-~9 months (and up to 57 months!) ahead of imaging in the #TRACERx study - one of the largest MRD datasets in lung cancer history. 🫁 ⏰ "Cancer is a race against time, so any
insideprecisionmedicine.com
Recent findings from Personalis point to a transformative shift in how lung cancer recurrence may be monitored and treated.
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Illustrations by Jasmina El Bouamraoui and Karabo Poppy Moletsane are licensed under CC0 1.0 https://t.co/T8oXXhoknI I remixed the image by vertically stacking the originally wide horizontal banner format. My new version is still CC0. @creativecommons #OpenAccess
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I posted on @Bluesky about the “planet 404” problem I discovered on the @SouthwestAir website regarding the URL printed on their bamboo-based inflight drinking cups: https://t.co/WOcj7lW3YP
#SingleUsePlastics #SingleUsePlastic
#plasticPollution
#Bamboo
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Why should I donate to @Wikipedia and where does my money go? (FAQ) https://t.co/DskdqTsP6u I got this nice graphic in a thank you email from @Wikimedia "...helping us build a world where people everywhere have access to free and fair information" #OpenAccess #Knowledge
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@TheFigen_ He treats the laws of physics like a suggestion. At 71, most people are negotiating with their own knees just to stand up. He is moving with zero coefficient of friction. This is what happens when you spend 60 years debugging your own movement.
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FLC: Fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, a rare liver cancer oncogenically driven by a DNAJB1-PRKACA chimeric transcript resulting from a 400kb somatic chr19 deletion. Confirmed via CRISPR in mice: https://t.co/wuPcKlWXVE
#geneFusion #DNAJB1 #PRKACA
#LiverCancer #oncogene
4/ What causes FLC? FLC is driven by a single genetic event: a DNAJB1–PRKACA fusion This discovery was made by Dr. Sandy Simon while studying the cancer affecting his daughter, Elana Simon, when she was just 12 years old
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In 2020, Google’s AI lab released a tool called Alphafold that could predict how amino acids would fold into proteins under many different scenarios. Here’s where it—and its Nobel-winning team—are five years later. https://t.co/eQzacJ3sls
sciencefriday.com
Google's tool for predicting how proteins “fold” turns 5 this year. How is it fitting into biological research—and where is it going?
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“In 1964 the Ronettes released their only studio album… the @RollingStones were their opening act when they toured the UK. The #Ronettes opened for @TheBeatles/@BeatlesEarth on their 1966 US tour, becoming the only girl group to tour w them.” https://t.co/h8wPNmizfH
#WallOfSound
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@atrupar On firing asses, Dan Piraro style 🤣 #bizarrocomics #humor #cartoon #comics
#DanPiraro @Waynocartoons
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These findings shed light on how respiratory viral infections cross-influence their disease pathology via innate immune memory with implications for pandemic preparedness. Press release @RockefellerUniv:
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„The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." Gute Nacht mit Bertrand Russell.
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Here’s a Kilauea volcano livestream in Hawaii: https://t.co/m7aDJKqrXN 🌋 via
Insane footage from recent eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano. Massive wing shaped eruption with lava fountains soaring 1,500+ feet high were spotted. https://t.co/YJWVFwVOOB
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One of my next commissions will be this neuronal blue bird, composed of 17 individual neurons. 🧠🔬
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