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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 2h

What a life. www.bluewin.ch/en/entertain...

Nobel Prize winner opts for suicide in Switzerland

At the age of 90, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman has decided to die by his own hand in Switzerland. He spent his last days in Paris - conscious, fulfilled and quiet.

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Andre Kahles @akkah21.bsky.social · 2d

After years of research and continuous refinement, we’re thrilled to share that our paper on the MetaGraph framework — enabling Petabase-scale search across sequencing data — has been published today in Nature (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

Efficient and accurate search in petabase-scale sequence repositories - Nature

MetaGraph enables scalable indexing of large sets of DNA, RNA or protein sequences using annotated de Bruijn graphs.

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 12h

First parkrun with just me and my seven year old! I'm proud

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Sam Bogan @snbogan.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to share this work, out today in MBE! In polar fishes, we found that antifreeze protein genes expanded in copy number at low temperatures and contracted in the deep sea, highlighting a role of depth and pressure in AFP evolution.

🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

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Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · 1d

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 1d

As I tell my students, if you arrived at a simple answer in biology you have done one of two things: arrived at the wrong answer or asked the wrong question

Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 3d

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.

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 1d

God this is so depressing

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Maarten De Brauwer @maartendb.bsky.social · 1d

PhD opportunity: improving #eDNA methods to better understand estuarine health.

A collaborative university-government project to provide solutions and improve the management of estuaries in Australia.

sednasociety.com/2025/10/10/p...

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 1d

One of the parenting influencers introduces herself with "I've been a steiner instructor for eight years" and lady, that's not a good thing!!!!! That whole system is just 1800s racist German guy vibes, nothing is backed in research. Or even coherent thought

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 1d

Takeshi Miike's AUDITION walked so that SPICE GIRLS: THE MOVIE could run

Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 2d

Never have I've seen an internet subculture that is as sanctimonious, self-righteous, arrogant, and also plain unqualified as parenting/relationship influencers. And I thought bicycling subreddits were horrible

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 2d

My wife has started to send me tiktoks of awful parenting influencers, so I spent some time finding the influencers who back up my parenting approach, and I guess we're now at war.
We're all the worse for it, may God have mercy on our souls

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian novelist, for his “visionary oeuvre.”

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The award comes with prize money of almost $1.2 million.

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 2d

Just as Australia is ramping up tighter age control in social media, Discord leaks 70,000 government IDs.
If Australia requires social networks to look at user IDs, expect this to happen (frequently).
www.theverge.com/news/797051/...

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 3d

10 ERGA-BGE Genome Reports preprinted & 5 Community Genome Reports linked at @pensoft.net RIO European Reference Genome Atlas Community Collection riojournal.com/browse_topic... @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Community Genome Reports

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) is a pan-European initiative that aims to facilitate the generation of high-quality reference genomes for the continent’s biodiversity as part of the g...

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 3d

can't believe there's a fish named Tasseled Leatherjacket. Excuse me, that's a fashion item. The fish itself is also a fashion statement

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 5d

Empathy limited to objects that can be *imagined* as subjects but that won't actually confront you as subjects is an essential aspect that ties a lot of fascist and fascism-adjacent projects together, imho. Animals, robots, unborn children, even the anti-feminist imagination of women, etc

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6d

remember how Caroline Ellison, formerly of FTX and now of jail, was a Effective Altruist deeply concerned about the suffering of wild fish and *also* such an extreme race scientist she theorised about the genetic basis of Indian castes

rationalists, man

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 6d

how about you care about actual fucking people on this planet before you start wondering if your toaster has a soul.

Once everyone materially demonstrates they care for all people on this planet and we deal WITH ALL THAT and all the animals too

then we can talk about your nonsense.

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 4d

staying true to myself? in this economy????

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 4d

I remember reading Yoshikawa's Taiko 20 years ago always wondering when the ninjas would dress up in black... nope always disguised as traveling monks or similar, and only then to gather information via overheard rumors

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 5d

I honestly wonder what an internal audit of *any* company's consultancy-delivered reports would end up in. Every example I've ever seen was.. not good

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 5d

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 5d

“Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.”

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 5d

another day, another bit of evidence that the businessification of academia — here represented by a by-default reliance on external consulting firms rather than a reliance on academics themselves for institutional knowledge — is a very stupid strategy

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 5d

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 5d

“Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.”

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 5d

Are you an oceanographer or marine biologist with an interest in marine biodiversity and climate change? Our upcoming scientific meeting will look at #ClimateChange and #BiodiversityLoss linkages in ocean ecosystems:

royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 5d

Those criminal jellyfishes have nothing to hide!!! they're built transparently

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