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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 38m

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 · 17h

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...

riojournal.com

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 2d

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

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

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

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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jeremymberg.github.io

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

"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 · 3d

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

www.afr.com/companies/pr...

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 3d

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 · 3d

"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 · 3d

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

www.afr.com/companies/pr...

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 2d

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 · 3d

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

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 3d

I was wondering whether ChatGPT could identify species from drawings, but it said 'no for safety reasons, you can absolutely tell me context (for example: “this jellyfish is small, transparent, and causes Irukandji syndrome”)' -
guess what, I uploaded an Irukandji image

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 3d

Best part is that the fly-'actors' are dressed like Kuruko, 'hidden' stage hands in Kabuki theatre

Screenshot from google images showing a few Kuruko

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 4d

you can use it for people you're with :) twitter mutuals counts as uchi

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 4d

for example, Duolingo throws words at you like kureru/ageru/morau and expects you to just blindly learn them. Renshuu has a small lesson with a diagram explaining when you use which word depending on social circles involved.
(it's a really cool concept - see www.tofugu.com/japanese-gra... )

くれる・あげる・もらう

あげる and くれる are Japanese words for "to give," and もらう means "to receive/get." When speaking from the giver's perspective, you use あげる. When speaking from the receiver's perspective, you use くれる or もらう...

www.tofugu.com

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 4d

(I use smouldering durtles for wanikani - what are these names...)

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 4d

This year I've been trying to up my Japanese learning game a bit and Renshuu/wanikani are world apart from duolingo! A bit chunkier, harder, but far less random, and more focused

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Helen Brabham @helenbrabs.bsky.social · 9d

Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv

Discovery of functional NLRs using expression level, high-throughput transformation and large-scale phenotyping

Nature Plants - Rapid discovery of functional resistance genes is enabled by a high-expression signature and high-throughput transformation. This approach identified 31 new resistance genes for...

rdcu.be

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 5d

This is great!
I love going to conferences for this reason: the majority of scientists are humble, kind, full of joy for their knowledge, and wonderful to be around.

jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 5d

“Good scientists…know the cure for their ignorance is to actively & rigorously test their own assertions. That kind of humility is no different from enduring the hardships required to become a champion…boxer, a great rock climber or a master musician.

It’s time to make that connection explicit.”🧪🛟

“Good scientists are intimate with the limits of what they know and stand ready to learn in domains outside their expertise. They don't just claim they are right. Instead, they know the cure for their ignorance is to actively and rigorously test their own assertions. That kind of humility is no different from enduring the hardships required to become a champion middleweight boxer, a great rock climber or a master musician.

It's time to make that connection explicit, and the best place to start is with members of Gen Z themselves. If I could talk to that young man on the plane again, I would not simply tell him to exercise caution when it comes to fringe experts. I would instead explain the long traditions of scientific discipline and determination that built the jet he's flying in. Einstein's relativity, evolution and genetics, climate physics on any planet (even alien ones) - these topics are a thousand times more compelling than faked moon landings because they are not the fever-dreams of hucksters but a direct vision of nature's outrageous beauty and complexity. Make the effort to walk down that road, embrace its honesty and humility and you'll be hooked forever.”

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 5d

WA has the most beautiful plants :) csnt believe this was just next to a random car park

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 5d

How I start every Quarto report/Shiny app: Clean R, wonderful.

Once that hits the real world, every code block becomes a horrifying mix of CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and a bit of R.

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 5d

CSS is my passion

screenshot from report where nothing aligns well

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 5d

This is one of the best things I've read about my work life post-academia: most success is not down to metrics (like grants received, papers published etc.) but down to the higher-ups perception of your work. It doesn't matter how good the work is.
www.leadingsapiens.com/surviving-in...

Work is Not School: Surviving Institutional Stupidity

For 16+ years, we master the rules of school. Study hard, get good grades, follow the formula and ultimately merit wins. Then we enter the workforce and none of it works quite like we thought. This be...

www.leadingsapiens.com

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 5d

'Compose can now delegate builds to bake for better performance.'

what does this mean. They have played us for fools

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 6d

Experimenting with using LLMs to write entire R packages from code I've written elsewhere. Here's a #eDNA package that takes sightings and compares with Aquamaps, their BLAST identities, fishbase/AFD and tells you how likely this hit is (currently only 4 categories)
github.com/Computationa...

GitHub - Computational-Biology-OceanOmics/eDNAQC: An R package that takes eDNA sightings, compares with Aquamaps and BLAST, and assigns four QC categories to each sighting.

An R package that takes eDNA sightings, compares with Aquamaps and BLAST, and assigns four QC categories to each sighting. - Computational-Biology-OceanOmics/eDNAQC

github.com

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