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The Tattooed Professor
@schwessinger.bsky.social
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Professor at the Australian National University. Biosecurity, fungal and plant genomics, evolution, and biochemistry. Dad. Swimming, reading, nature.
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 23h
The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 23h
“We can continue accelerating toward an AI-powered future that amplifies existing inequities, or we can deliberately steer toward one that increases prospects for shared global prosperity,” writes Chinasa T. Okolo in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/46JkNka
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d
AI 🤝 fascism
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 2d
I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
substack.com
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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d
so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit
How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus
Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.
opus.ing
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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 1d
I think AI could, in principle, be ethical and a force for good. It could be used to assist and empower people in ways that are responsive their needs and wishes. But as it's currently owned, developed, employed, and promoted, well, this is spot on.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 1d
stop thinking right now
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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 3d
Do you know how to distinguish between a protein or a gene, sole based on the style or typeface it is written in? If you are not so sure todays post is for you.
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/is-it-a-ge...

#AcademicWriting #Jargon
Is it a gene or a protein?
Today I like to talk about you distinguish between a gene or a protein, and between a wild type version and a mutant or allelic version.
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 2d
My HPLC was definitely overlooked

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery
The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality.
www.nature.com
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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 2d
FRET sensor for SA developed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance
Salicylic acid (SA) is a key phytohormone that orchestrates immune responses against pathogens, including Pseudomonas syringae bacteria. The timing and extent of SA accumulation are tightly controlled...
www.science.org
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 5d
Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
We still can’t predict much of anything in biology
Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 3d
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d
Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d
From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec
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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · 3d
Must be at least 100 years old that girlfriend.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 4d
🫧

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?
Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future?
www.nature.com
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 22d
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · 5d
“Using metrics to assess researchers can be ‘very dodgy terrain,’” says @jameswilsdon.bsky.social.

Great overview of how research assessment is changing worldwide in @nature.com , featuring recent work by RoRI with the Global Research Council: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
I think scholarslop might be my new favourite word https://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-coming-threat-of-algorithmic-idea.html?m=1

HT @Samuelmoore
Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
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Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social · 5d
Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.

Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
UTS Governance Project Survey: A Staff-Led Collaborative Project
The UTS Governance Project is an independent, staff-led initiative to strengthen transparency, accountability and participation in how our university is run. Inspired by the ANU Governance Project, ...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 7d
New analysis by The Australia Institute finds the Australian National University has a $90 million surplus, not a $142 million deficit!
The ANU’s hidden $90m budget surplus
New analysis by The Australia Institute reveals there is no financial crisis at the Australian National University.
australiainstitute.org.au
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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · 5d
Yes!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 5d
Thank you so much, April. We’d like to write an update too—so much has happened in a mere five years—but I think we have to tackle the bullshit machines first.
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction
A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
Thebullshitmachines.com
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5d
“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.”
Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline
People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.
www.technologyreview.com
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Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social · 5d
Australia: Send panel tells government: to get results, spend on innovation (free to read): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
Put your money where your priorities are, government urged - Research Professional News
Australian R&D sector needs public funding on the demand side, review panel says
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · 5d
We had a paper with Wiley journal for over one year and it got rejected at the end.... the one I got invited to review was 6 months in the queue already... the new editor/review system sucks...
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 5d
This really resonated, for a variety of reasons
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 6d
Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
Why I left academia and neuroscience
Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.
mikexcohen.substack.com
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