Ben Schulz
@benschulz.bsky.social
Proteins | Sugars | Yeast | Beer | Mass Spectrometry | Professor in Biochemistry UQ. CW chickens, fungi, cats, pups.
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The hate groups provisions in the hate speech bill are deeply flawed. They still exclude advocating genocide from the definition of hate crimes, and they will be open to misuse to target peaceful activist groups because of political influence. They shouldn't be passed into law in their current form.
January 20, 2026 at 2:24 AM
The hate groups provisions in the hate speech bill are deeply flawed. They still exclude advocating genocide from the definition of hate crimes, and they will be open to misuse to target peaceful activist groups because of political influence. They shouldn't be passed into law in their current form.
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Norwegian PM Støre says Trump repeatedly raises—complains about, pleads for, and demands—the Nobel Peace Prize every time they meet. Støre gives same answer each time: decision is made independently by Norwegian Nobel Committee, with no role for Norwegian gov—a concept Trump appears unable to grasp.
January 18, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Norwegian PM Støre says Trump repeatedly raises—complains about, pleads for, and demands—the Nobel Peace Prize every time they meet. Støre gives same answer each time: decision is made independently by Norwegian Nobel Committee, with no role for Norwegian gov—a concept Trump appears unable to grasp.
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Utterances of a gibbering idiot. And any media org that does not report it as such is complicit
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Utterances of a gibbering idiot. And any media org that does not report it as such is complicit
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I've doubled my income as a carpet and floor fitter uploading videos doing jobs poorly or wrong. Record a shit job, and then an hour extra fixing it. Put a perfect clip up you get 5 messages and 100 views. Put a bad one up you get 100s of posts correcting it and 10,000s views.
January 18, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I've doubled my income as a carpet and floor fitter uploading videos doing jobs poorly or wrong. Record a shit job, and then an hour extra fixing it. Put a perfect clip up you get 5 messages and 100 views. Put a bad one up you get 100s of posts correcting it and 10,000s views.
Being antivax is sensible enough if you live in a community where everyone's been vaccinated for the last few decades so no-one gets sick from the diseases that are vaccinated against and you're too selfish to see the connection
January 19, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Being antivax is sensible enough if you live in a community where everyone's been vaccinated for the last few decades so no-one gets sick from the diseases that are vaccinated against and you're too selfish to see the connection
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Writing is thinking
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
January 18, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Writing is thinking
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
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Canada has cut a historic trade deal with China, the first lapdog to break for the exit since Trump declared dog was on the menu.
www.ianwelsh.net/canadian-lap...
www.ianwelsh.net/canadian-lap...
Canadian LapDog Breaks For Exit After Trump Declares Dog Is On The Menu – Ian Welsh
www.ianwelsh.net
January 16, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Canada has cut a historic trade deal with China, the first lapdog to break for the exit since Trump declared dog was on the menu.
www.ianwelsh.net/canadian-lap...
www.ianwelsh.net/canadian-lap...
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"Griffith University researchers may have unlocked the secret to treating sepsis, with a Phase II clinical trial in China successfully concluding with promising results."
Amazing #glycotime news! Super congrats @markvoni.bsky.social and colleagues! 👏🏻👏🏻 🥳🥳
news.griffith.edu.au/2026/01/15/p...
Amazing #glycotime news! Super congrats @markvoni.bsky.social and colleagues! 👏🏻👏🏻 🥳🥳
news.griffith.edu.au/2026/01/15/p...
Potential new treatment for sepsis - Griffith News
Griffith University researchers may have unlocked the secret to treating sepsis, with a Phase II clinical trial in China successfully concluding with
news.griffith.edu.au
January 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
"Griffith University researchers may have unlocked the secret to treating sepsis, with a Phase II clinical trial in China successfully concluding with promising results."
Amazing #glycotime news! Super congrats @markvoni.bsky.social and colleagues! 👏🏻👏🏻 🥳🥳
news.griffith.edu.au/2026/01/15/p...
Amazing #glycotime news! Super congrats @markvoni.bsky.social and colleagues! 👏🏻👏🏻 🥳🥳
news.griffith.edu.au/2026/01/15/p...
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Just a reminder that when the Nazis were marching in to Copenhagen, Neils Bohr chose to dissolve his medal rather than have any Nazi take possession of it.
María Corina Machado presents Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal
Trump heaped praise on the Venezuelan opposition leader for presenting him with ‘her Nobel peace prize for the work I have done’
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Just a reminder that when the Nazis were marching in to Copenhagen, Neils Bohr chose to dissolve his medal rather than have any Nazi take possession of it.
I'm normally all for kids wearing Nirvana t-shirts but this is too much
January 16, 2026 at 9:16 AM
I'm normally all for kids wearing Nirvana t-shirts but this is too much
Not bad, Pottsville beach, not bad
January 16, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Not bad, Pottsville beach, not bad
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If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻🍳 💋
January 13, 2026 at 6:47 PM
If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻🍳 💋
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Discovery Projects are now a complete joke:
EoIs were due 12 Dec last year. Full apps are due 22 April this year. Results won't be out until next year: 15 Jan – 15 Apr 2027.
That’s up to 16 MONTHS!
EoIs were due 12 Dec last year. Full apps are due 22 April this year. Results won't be out until next year: 15 Jan – 15 Apr 2027.
That’s up to 16 MONTHS!
January 12, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Discovery Projects are now a complete joke:
EoIs were due 12 Dec last year. Full apps are due 22 April this year. Results won't be out until next year: 15 Jan – 15 Apr 2027.
That’s up to 16 MONTHS!
EoIs were due 12 Dec last year. Full apps are due 22 April this year. Results won't be out until next year: 15 Jan – 15 Apr 2027.
That’s up to 16 MONTHS!
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Great cartoon, nothing to apologise for
January 11, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Great cartoon, nothing to apologise for
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Always worth remembering that Rupert Murdoch will die having been the most malignant force in the world of the past 80 years.
One of the few of whom you can say the world would be better had he never been born.
One of the few of whom you can say the world would be better had he never been born.
Stuff like this is the reason why the good Lord blessed humanity with the gifts of tar and feathers
January 9, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Always worth remembering that Rupert Murdoch will die having been the most malignant force in the world of the past 80 years.
One of the few of whom you can say the world would be better had he never been born.
One of the few of whom you can say the world would be better had he never been born.
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Solidarity with Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah.
January 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Solidarity with Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah.
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Instead of highlighting "a" single voice, a more illuminating headline might focus on why 55 literary and journalistic luminaries felt it necessary to withdraw from Adelaide Writers' Week and how Mali's mini-Minns antics trashed the reputation of one of his state's best assets.
January 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Instead of highlighting "a" single voice, a more illuminating headline might focus on why 55 literary and journalistic luminaries felt it necessary to withdraw from Adelaide Writers' Week and how Mali's mini-Minns antics trashed the reputation of one of his state's best assets.
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per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing
Why is Trump fixated on Greenland? @sbg1.bsky.social recalls what he told us in 2021: "I said, 'Why don’t we have that?' You take a look at a map...I love maps. And I always said 'Look at the size of this, it’s massive and that should be part of the United States.'" www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Why Donald Trump Wants Greenland (and Everything Else)
There’s no Trump Doctrine, just a map of the world that the President wants to write his name on in big gold letters.
www.newyorker.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:48 AM
per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing
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It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide
January 8, 2026 at 10:32 AM
It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide
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NSW police arresting someone because of vibes, basically
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Protester detained in Sydney for wearing ‘globalise the intifada’ jacket says she should never have been arrested
Woman, 53, claims police told her slogan was unlawful despite being unable to point to legislation banning its use
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:33 PM
NSW police arresting someone because of vibes, basically
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Generative AI is an engine for churning out contaminated information faster than people can produce safe information, let alone fact check and correct it.
And corrections never remove the original contamination, it's an attempt to stem the metaphorical bleeding and hope for the best. 11/
And corrections never remove the original contamination, it's an attempt to stem the metaphorical bleeding and hope for the best. 11/
January 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Generative AI is an engine for churning out contaminated information faster than people can produce safe information, let alone fact check and correct it.
And corrections never remove the original contamination, it's an attempt to stem the metaphorical bleeding and hope for the best. 11/
And corrections never remove the original contamination, it's an attempt to stem the metaphorical bleeding and hope for the best. 11/
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The longer generative AI exists, the more of what we take for granted is going to become toxic cognito-hazard waste.
We are living in the era of contamination.
It is happening all around us, and the people doing it have names and addresses. 13/13
We are living in the era of contamination.
It is happening all around us, and the people doing it have names and addresses. 13/13
January 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
The longer generative AI exists, the more of what we take for granted is going to become toxic cognito-hazard waste.
We are living in the era of contamination.
It is happening all around us, and the people doing it have names and addresses. 13/13
We are living in the era of contamination.
It is happening all around us, and the people doing it have names and addresses. 13/13
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I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
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If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
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You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true
NYT, WaPo learned of the secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they had at the administration's request to avoid endangering US troops
January 4, 2026 at 4:18 AM
You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true