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Andrew Plested
@andrewplested.bsky.social
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ORCID: 0000-0001-6062-0832
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January 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
@dfg.de say AI reviewing allowed under 4 conditions.

I'm alarmed. The first, that neither the confidential contents of the grant nor the purpose of the query be saved by the AI provider, will not be obeyed by 95% of users.

Grant materials will become public!

Your ideas -> Chat -> The World 😭
January 9, 2026 at 10:27 AM
It is brought to my attention by my dear colleague P.R. Hiesinger that if we have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of ..ants. 🥁😄

This stuff only came in 2025, but it's very encouraging for a conserved mechanism.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40975052/
&
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41125889/
Transcriptional interference gates monogenic odorant receptor expression in ants - PubMed
Communication is crucial to social life, and in ants, it is mediated primarily through olfaction. Ants have more odorant receptor (OR) genes than any other group of insects, generated through tandem duplications that produce large genomic arrays of related genes. The mechanism by which olfactory sen …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 9, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Reposted by Andrew Plested
It's so embarrassing, they targeted my most impactful and innovative work
January 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Quite incredible.

It must be a spoof.

The topic list is hysterical.
January 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Can confirm, despite a huge number of timepieces, Christian Marclay has retained his love of telephones!

youtu.be/PdfH3JrR45Y
Telephones 1995 Christian Marclay 1955 Centre Pompidou Paris France
YouTube video by Fribourg2012
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 12:44 PM