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Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

Soph's phone is her whole life. Her only window to the outside world. And last week it stopped charging. Even though we solved it, the stress of potentially losing stuff made her worse.

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Eeeeee congratulations Rachel. Much deserved.

It is very similar to previous projects but the UKRI DTP system in the UK is so competitive that I have not been lucky enough to get a student, but I know the idea is still good! With Anne Leonard, Angus Buckling, and @edfeil.bsky.social.

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

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Does it at least change the codebase to have rude names? Although MasterBayes actually exists and pretty much wins that category.

Today in the AI hellscape we are building for ourselves, people are easily creating "official looking" websites of popular bioinformatics software that are not at all linked to the developers.

Are you going to have a declaration of what AI they used and for what or do you have directed questions about what parts were done with AI, why do they think it is appropriate. Essentially is the reflection just the declaration? Interested as think this could be a nice way of doing it.

Presumably lots of the code is these days.

Time for my annual repost of this banger by Australian artist Denis Lushch.

Ever-more relevant with each new horrible year.

This is a great cartoon of the illogical narratives I hear refuting climate warming. As I have said many times, it's not "either/or" when it comes to natural variability and human contributions, it's "both/and." Grass grows naturally and it grows differently when you fertilize the lawn....

I hope this is a very niche Simpsons reference.

If someone spoke to a teenager and mentioned suicide thousands of times and told them how to make a suitable noise, then yes action should be taken.

Do you think LLMs and other large broad models could/should be legislated to make them more regulated/predictable. The teenager committing suicide after speaking with chatgpt a lot is horrendous.

Wildlife science is a big one for this too. Paying for work experience and working for free or for a small weekly stipend is distressingly common. Many entry level paid jobs are barely living wage

Severe ME just keeps taking things from us. This trip included the first lunch she has needed to have a meal replacement drink instead of soup. There are no words for her suffering. But here are a few anyway.

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Ah sorry! If we wanted to reduce inequality isn't taxing the richest exactly what we should be doing? Although increasing tax on the richest could be selecting for increased pre tax inequality.

This is super interesting. How have relative changes in earnings changes during the same period? Have the richer also got relatively more rich in terms of income, and we're taxing that more? Tried to find data quickly to no avail.

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I know individual cases of both exist, I am interested in the relative importance. I am erring on the side of the latter (maintaining of resistance that evolves elsewhere) but not a huge amount I could find evaluating this. I could also be wrong and unable to find the relevant papers.

Think I might regret asking this, but do we have a handle on whether the wider environment actively selects for AMR that moves into livestock and humans, or whether it mainly acts as a sink for resistance that arises in those areas with higher selection pressures? Papers looking at this appreciated!

On this Severe ME Awareness Day, I present to you my newest exhibition: “In the Absence of Light”. 1/3

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