Carlos Peña
@carlospena.bsky.social
Computational Intelligence for Computational Biology (CI4CB) ► Director iict.heig-vd.ch HEIG-VD / HES-SO (AI/ML) ► sib.swiss (Bioinfo) ► Binational 🇨🇴🇨🇭 ► 3 kids, 2 cats, happy parent. Born at 323ppm
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It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching
Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5
Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5
April 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching
Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5
Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5
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In this commentary, I argue that student-based teaching evaluations are problematic bc
✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism)
✳️ poor construct validity
✳️ undermine standards and learning
We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.
✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism)
✳️ poor construct validity
✳️ undermine standards and learning
We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.
It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching
Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5
Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5
April 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In this commentary, I argue that student-based teaching evaluations are problematic bc
✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism)
✳️ poor construct validity
✳️ undermine standards and learning
We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.
✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism)
✳️ poor construct validity
✳️ undermine standards and learning
We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.
Fortement d’accord avec ce point de vue. Je travaille dans le domaine, mais j’ai horreur des extrêmes absurdes auxquels songent certaines personnes.
Les morts ne parlent pas.
L'IA est un marionnettiste, la main obscène du capitalisme dans le cul du cadavre de quelqu'un que vous avez aimé, et qui le fait gigoter en disant "regardez, je suis toujours en vie !"
Ce n'est pas l'avenir, c'est un cauchemar abject.
L'IA est un marionnettiste, la main obscène du capitalisme dans le cul du cadavre de quelqu'un que vous avez aimé, et qui le fait gigoter en disant "regardez, je suis toujours en vie !"
Ce n'est pas l'avenir, c'est un cauchemar abject.
Utiliser l’IA pour faire parler les morts, pourquoi pas, à condition déjà d’obtenir un consentement avant leur décès.
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Fortement d’accord avec ce point de vue. Je travaille dans le domaine, mais j’ai horreur des extrêmes absurdes auxquels songent certaines personnes.
Ready to vote. Prêt-e-s pour voter.
September 25, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Ready to vote. Prêt-e-s pour voter.
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La simple question de savoir pourquoi ouvre des perspectives terrifiantes.
Trump officials subpoenaed birth dates, Social Security numbers and addresses of children who received transgender care.
Trump Officials Demanded Confidential Data About Transgender Children Seeking Care
A June subpoena to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia sought Social Security numbers and addresses of patients who received gender-related care, as well as “every writing or record” made by doctors on such treatments.
nyti.ms
August 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
La simple question de savoir pourquoi ouvre des perspectives terrifiantes.
Are we going to witness a real bubble burst? Or a slow, boring deflation instead?
The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst
Shock sell-off after study warns most investments in artificial intelligence get zero returns
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Are we going to witness a real bubble burst? Or a slow, boring deflation instead?
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Reposted by Carlos Peña
Claus Wilke on Alphafold and the problem of protein folding in 2025
AlphaFold is great, but contrary to public opinion it has not completely solved the protein folding problem. Much work remains to be done.
clauswilke.substack.com/p/no-alphafo...
clauswilke.substack.com/p/no-alphafo...
No, AlphaFold has not completely solved protein folding
Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.
clauswilke.substack.com
July 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Claus Wilke on Alphafold and the problem of protein folding in 2025
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AlphaFold is great, but contrary to public opinion it has not completely solved the protein folding problem. Much work remains to be done.
clauswilke.substack.com/p/no-alphafo...
clauswilke.substack.com/p/no-alphafo...
No, AlphaFold has not completely solved protein folding
Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.
clauswilke.substack.com
July 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
AlphaFold is great, but contrary to public opinion it has not completely solved the protein folding problem. Much work remains to be done.
clauswilke.substack.com/p/no-alphafo...
clauswilke.substack.com/p/no-alphafo...
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Reposted by Carlos Peña
"We are perilously close to the point of no return" - climate scientist on the future of the Amazon rainforest. The world's leaders have seemingly unanimously agreed that keeping a liveable biosphere is less important than ensuring the richest people get a little richer.
‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reached
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"We are perilously close to the point of no return" - climate scientist on the future of the Amazon rainforest. The world's leaders have seemingly unanimously agreed that keeping a liveable biosphere is less important than ensuring the richest people get a little richer.
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Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
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"a fascinating case study on the limits of AI in biology and the harms of current publishing incentives" rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-0...
Rachel Thomas, PhD - Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
an AI researcher going back to school for immunology
rachel.fast.ai
June 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"a fascinating case study on the limits of AI in biology and the harms of current publishing incentives" rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-0...
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#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate!
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate!
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate!
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate!
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
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Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
Equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing
Equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing
bryanwilder.github.io
May 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
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🧪🔬 On the downsides of funding megaprojects and why we need to reconsider power relationships when funding science.
I guess if @snsf.ch #SNSF has any hard data on the comparative impact that #NCCR projects have on the careers of researchers at different stages in their career...
#AcademicSky
I guess if @snsf.ch #SNSF has any hard data on the comparative impact that #NCCR projects have on the careers of researchers at different stages in their career...
#AcademicSky
May 27, 2025 at 4:48 AM
🧪🔬 On the downsides of funding megaprojects and why we need to reconsider power relationships when funding science.
I guess if @snsf.ch #SNSF has any hard data on the comparative impact that #NCCR projects have on the careers of researchers at different stages in their career...
#AcademicSky
I guess if @snsf.ch #SNSF has any hard data on the comparative impact that #NCCR projects have on the careers of researchers at different stages in their career...
#AcademicSky
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This is a fantastic oral history of the last 10 years of NLP and AI. www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...
When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine
Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.
www.quantamagazine.org
May 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This is a fantastic oral history of the last 10 years of NLP and AI. www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...
Lancement du projet interreg « GESICA »
April 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Lancement du projet interreg « GESICA »
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Very informative chart from Washington Post
April 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Very informative chart from Washington Post
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La #Suisse veut à nouveau renvoyer des demandeurs d’asile déboutés en #Afghanistan – du moins s’ils ne sont pas « vulnérables ». Pourtant, ce pays demeure dangereux, indépendamment du genre ou de l’âge. La Suisse devrait accorder sa protection, et non pas expulser ! www.admin.ch/gov/fr/accue...
Le SEM ajuste sa pratique en matière d’asile concernant l’Afghanistan
Informations actuelles de l'administration. Tous les communiqués de l'administration fédérale, des départements et des offices.
www.admin.ch
March 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
La #Suisse veut à nouveau renvoyer des demandeurs d’asile déboutés en #Afghanistan – du moins s’ils ne sont pas « vulnérables ». Pourtant, ce pays demeure dangereux, indépendamment du genre ou de l’âge. La Suisse devrait accorder sa protection, et non pas expulser ! www.admin.ch/gov/fr/accue...
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Le Conseil des États a rejeté aujourd’hui une motion visant à établir un cadre législatif pour encadrer le secteur des matières premières.
🟥 Sans loi spécifique, la Suisse continuera à tirer profit de sa place de négoce, principalement aux dépens des populations dans les pays producteurs. 👇
🟥 Sans loi spécifique, la Suisse continuera à tirer profit de sa place de négoce, principalement aux dépens des populations dans les pays producteurs. 👇
Les profits avant tout: le Parlement ne veut pas de loi pour le s...
Trois ans après le début de la guerre d’agression menée par la Russie en Ukraine, la Suisse se dérobe une fois de plus à ses responsabilités en matière de politique économique. Le Conseil de...
www.publiceye.ch
March 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Le Conseil des États a rejeté aujourd’hui une motion visant à établir un cadre législatif pour encadrer le secteur des matières premières.
🟥 Sans loi spécifique, la Suisse continuera à tirer profit de sa place de négoce, principalement aux dépens des populations dans les pays producteurs. 👇
🟥 Sans loi spécifique, la Suisse continuera à tirer profit de sa place de négoce, principalement aux dépens des populations dans les pays producteurs. 👇
Reposted by Carlos Peña
🔥 Unveiling the Future of Genomics with Genome Language Models (gLMs)! 🔥
Our comprehensive review, "Transformers and genome language models," is finally published in Nature Machine Intelligence!
Link: nature.com/articles/s42...
Our comprehensive review, "Transformers and genome language models," is finally published in Nature Machine Intelligence!
Link: nature.com/articles/s42...
Transformers and genome language models - Nature Machine Intelligence
Micaela Consens et al. discuss and review the recent rise of transformer-based and large language models in genomics. They also highlight promising directions for genome language models beyond the tra...
nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🔥 Unveiling the Future of Genomics with Genome Language Models (gLMs)! 🔥
Our comprehensive review, "Transformers and genome language models," is finally published in Nature Machine Intelligence!
Link: nature.com/articles/s42...
Our comprehensive review, "Transformers and genome language models," is finally published in Nature Machine Intelligence!
Link: nature.com/articles/s42...
Triste retour à l'horreur.
lecourrier.ch/2025/03/18/u...
lecourrier.ch/2025/03/18/u...
Un sursaut dans l’horreur - Le Courrier
L’assaut génocidaire contre Gaza a repris. Dans la nuit de lundi à mardi, Israël a mené des bombardements d’une violence inouïe sur l’enclave, avec des centaines de mort·es à la clé, dont de nombreux ...
lecourrier.ch
March 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Triste retour à l'horreur.
lecourrier.ch/2025/03/18/u...
lecourrier.ch/2025/03/18/u...
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I've recently put together a "Fairness FAQ": tinyurl.com/fairness-faq. If you work in non-fairness ML and you've heard about fairness, perhaps you've wondered things like what the best definitions of fairness are, and whether we can train algorithms that optimize for it.
March 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I've recently put together a "Fairness FAQ": tinyurl.com/fairness-faq. If you work in non-fairness ML and you've heard about fairness, perhaps you've wondered things like what the best definitions of fairness are, and whether we can train algorithms that optimize for it.