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Helmholtz Munich @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social · Sep 3

👉 To the original publication: t1p.de/a976v

Nanopore- and AI-empowered microbial viability inference

AbstractBackground. The ability to differentiate between viable and dead microorganisms in metagenomic data is crucial for various microbial inferences, ra

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Helmholtz Munich @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social · Sep 3

Using AI and DNA Signals to Detect Living Microbes 🔬

#HelmholtzMunich & @helmholtzai.bsky.social show #AI can infer microbial viability from raw nanopore signals – distinguishing live vs. dead microbes for more precise genomic diagnostics in health & environmental monitoring.

👉 t1p.de/t692x

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Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Sep 3

Could we quickly determine if outbreak samples come from infectious sources, on-site using portable tech?

Here's a new method using AI to distinguish living and dead microbes using only Oxford Nanopore signal data.

Thx to all involved, esp. Harika Ürel & Lara Urban
doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Nanopore- and AI-empowered microbial viability inference

AbstractBackground. The ability to differentiate between viable and dead microorganisms in metagenomic data is crucial for various microbial inferences, ra

doi.org

Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Apr 23

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Enjoy sushi? You may have Welsh seaweed to thank for it

Welsh seaweed saw a UK scientist worshipped in Japan after she revived a dying seafood industry.

www.bbc.co.uk

Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Apr 23

Interesting quant. analysis of AI framing in French media 2012-22.
Agenda is dominated by government and big tech actors, but uniformity is cracking.
Growing politicisation of AI issues though newspaper left/right polarisation, and X/FB users increasingly criticising AI applications

Panos Tsimpoukis @labodenuit.bsky.social · Apr 15

Je suis heureux de partager mon article sur l'IA, issu des résultats de ma thèse, qui démontre la domination des récits industriels et gouvernementaux dans la presse et sur les RSN, et le renforcement des discours qui politisent le débat autour de l'IA

jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

Contesting dominant AI narratives on an industry-shaped ground: Public Discourse and Actors around AI in the French Press and Social Media (2012-2022)

This paper studies how artificial intelligence was set to the agenda in the press and social media in France. By simultaneously analysing the framing of AI and the key actors who dominated the discour...

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Panos Tsimpoukis @labodenuit.bsky.social · Apr 15

Je suis heureux de partager mon article sur l'IA, issu des résultats de ma thèse, qui démontre la domination des récits industriels et gouvernementaux dans la presse et sur les RSN, et le renforcement des discours qui politisent le débat autour de l'IA

jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

Contesting dominant AI narratives on an industry-shaped ground: Public Discourse and Actors around AI in the French Press and Social Media (2012-2022)

This paper studies how artificial intelligence was set to the agenda in the press and social media in France. By simultaneously analysing the framing of AI and the key actors who dominated the discour...

jcom.sissa.it

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Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Feb 15

dusty music heard through the slats of an abandoned saloon bar
www.nts.live/shows/the-nt...

Dust To Dust - The NTS Guide To Ambient Americana Vol 2 21st October 2024

Playing Ambient, Country. Part two of The NTS Guide To Ambient Americana. Trailing down the dusty highway at dusk, soundtracked by Western-flavoured downtempo sounds. Lapsteels, anachronistic electron...

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Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Jan 31

Glasgow community spectroscopy

Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Jan 29

If I was tasked with reducing speeding, I would certainly not make a public leaderboard of which county is the fastest

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Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social · Dec 13

"It plays on you in a way that a line graph can't"

Amazing work from @sonifyed.bsky.social

Data-driven distortion of a Sigur Ros track to convey both the alarming rate of wildlife decline and its profound, heartbreaking, impact.

Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Nov 22

Vandalising music to inspire action on wildlife decline:
Sigur Ros’s, Hoppipolla - from BBC's Planet Earth - is damaged to show 50 years of wildlife decline, based on data.
Blog: edin.ac/4fZSIXC
Article: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#SciComm #SciArt 🧪 🦤 #sonification #SoundArt
vimeo.com/1031069761

Vandalising Sigur Ròs’s Hoppípolla to Inspire Action on Wildlife Decline

Music is often used to move and inspire us – whether it’s played at a political rally or a football game. But could it also help us to understand the…

vimeo.com

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Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Dec 4

Job Alert: Postdoc RA in Bioinformatics Education at Edinburgh. Designing, delivering & researching public engagement with schools

Daniel was my supervisor & highly recommended

Deadline 16/10/24
P/T, fixed term 24 months
£40,247 - £47,874 pro-rata

Details and application via:
edin.ac/4fTtytP

Home | 4273pi

Welcome to the 4273pi bioinformatics education project. We bring Big Data to school-level education, through practical bioinformatics.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Dec 3

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD

Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:

We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!

We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.

Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.

Let's get into it!

Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric.

It's been 84 years meme

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience

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Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Dec 3

By way of an introduction and to populate my feed, I'm posting my papers:
This was my first, published in BMC Bioinformatics, and looked at representing protein sequences using sound
doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Using sound to understand protein sequence data: new sonification algorithms for protein sequences and multiple sequence alignments - BMC Bioinformatics

Background The use of sound to represent sequence data—sonification—has great potential as an alternative and complement to visual representation, exploiting features of human psychoacoustic intuition...

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Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Dec 3

She explains her reasons here deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

Why I have resigned from the Royal Society

The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...

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Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Dec 3

Elon Musk's Fellowship at the Royal Society is an embarrassment.

I respect Prof. Dorothy Bishop's resignation over this matter
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

His fellows directory entry is half-truths and PR-speak
royalsociety.org/people/elon-...

Fellow Detail Page | Royal Society

Explore the history of the Royal Society, including our motto and discover our timeline of key events.

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Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Nov 25

Yes, I believe so. Thanks

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Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Nov 23

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Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Nov 22

Vandalising music to inspire action on wildlife decline:
Sigur Ros’s, Hoppipolla - from BBC's Planet Earth - is damaged to show 50 years of wildlife decline, based on data.
Blog: edin.ac/4fZSIXC
Article: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#SciComm #SciArt 🧪 🦤 #sonification #SoundArt
vimeo.com/1031069761

Vandalising Sigur Ròs’s Hoppípolla to Inspire Action on Wildlife Decline

Music is often used to move and inspire us – whether it’s played at a political rally or a football game. But could it also help us to understand the…

vimeo.com

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Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Nov 23

Thanks for your kind words! I've been waiting a long time for the journal article to be published, so I could share the work publicly

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Javier Forment @javijevi.bsky.social · Nov 23

Perfectly explained at biology.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Can vandalising music inspire us to take action on wildlife decline?

Sigur Ros’s iconic song, Hoppipolla, which was used to promote the award-winning BBC series Planet Earth, has been reworked by researchers in the School of Biological Sciences to show the dramatic dec...

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Javier Forment @javijevi.bsky.social · Nov 23

Progressively degrading a beautiful song to emotionally show the progressive degradation of a beautiful planet.

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Javier Forment @javijevi.bsky.social · Nov 23

The video and the sonification are so strongly emotional. They show the feeling of losing something so really precious. Congratulations, @sonifyed.bsky.social, very nice work.

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Javier Forment @javijevi.bsky.social · Nov 22

Nice example of data #sonification explained

#ArtSci #SoundArt

biology.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Nov 22

Vandalising music to inspire action on wildlife decline:
Sigur Ros’s, Hoppipolla - from BBC's Planet Earth - is damaged to show 50 years of wildlife decline, based on data.
Blog: edin.ac/4fZSIXC
Article: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#SciComm #SciArt 🧪 🦤 #sonification #SoundArt
vimeo.com/1031069761

Vandalising Sigur Ròs’s Hoppípolla to Inspire Action on Wildlife Decline

Music is often used to move and inspire us – whether it’s played at a political rally or a football game. But could it also help us to understand the…

vimeo.com

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Eddie Martin @sonifyed.bsky.social · Nov 22

Hello! I'm Eddie Martin and I'd like to be added to the Science feed. As evidence here's my University of Edinburgh Research profile with publications listed. Thanks for your help! 🧪https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/edward-martin

Edward Martin

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