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Tom Albright @talbright.bsky.social · Sep 6

Whether we like it or not, AI is here and not going anywhere. The excellent colleagues behind @callingbullshit.bsky.social (@jevinwest.bsky.social & @carlbergstrom.com) now have a great resource to help us understand AI and how to deal with it. Highly recommended!
thebullshitmachines.com/index.html

'MODERN-DAY DAY ORACLES or BULLSHIT MACHINES? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world Developed by Carl T Bergstrom and Jevin D. West Yet for all the good that AI systems will do, they will also saturate our information environment with bullshit at ata a scale never before encountered.'

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Nature @nature.com · Sep 3

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species

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‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · Sep 3

Look at this crazy thing!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

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Pilar Cacheiro @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social · Aug 19

One of those days when you feel very lucky to have the job you do. Everyone is working hard, your colleagues go the extra mike to support you, and things work out, even if at the last minute.

Pilar Cacheiro @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social · Aug 15

I guess art is there for us to agree or disagree with.

Pilar Cacheiro @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social · Aug 7

My one and only reply from now on to anyone making fun of Spaniards for their siesta habits.
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N2 sleep promotes the occurrence of ‘aha’ moments in a perceptual insight task

Sleep supports memory consolidation, but can it also facilitate memory reorganization? This study reveals that N2 sleep, but not N1 sleep during a nap, increases the likelihood of having an 'aha' mome...

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Michael Love @mikelove.bsky.social · Aug 5

This sounds true to me

"When you vibe code, you are incurring tech debt as fast as the LLM can spit it out.
Which is why vibe coding is perfect for prototypes and throwaway projects: It'
s only
legacy code if you have to maintain it! !...]
The worst possible situation is to have a non-programmer vibe code a large project that they intend to maintain. This would be the equivalent of giving a credit card to a child without first explaining the concept of debt. [...]"

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · Aug 4

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

Poem title: At the Intersection

The poem is divided into two overlapping circles.

The left-hand circle is titled ‘me’ and the text reads:
the day we
went out to have
an ice-cream, we said nothing
just let our silence melt in
the air as we walked across the common
our love never tiring at all

The right-hand circle is titled ‘you’ and the text reads:
we should
have talked it over but
nothing ever seems to get
in your fat head. You are so
common that I wish we’d never met
at all and I’d married Tim instead

In the intersection of the poem (where the two circles overlap), the text reads:
we
have
nothing
in
common
at all

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Pilar Cacheiro @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social · Aug 2

If I ever get rich I won't tell anyone, but there will be signs.

Pilar Cacheiro @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social · Jul 29

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Pilar Cacheiro @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social · Jul 27

Not entirely sure what the lunch menu is, but it sure made fishing look easy.

Pilar Cacheiro @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social · Jul 25

If you were a gannet, where would you want to live?

Pilar Cacheiro @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social · Jul 24

We all need a rest sometimes.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Jul 23

Telomere-to-telomere DNA sequencing is set to transform the field of human genetics in coming years. For a flavour of what's coming, see this exciting work on nearly complete genomes of 65 individuals from diverse populations, out today in @nature.com by @glennislogsdon.bsky.social & colleagues. 👇🧬🧪

Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes - Nature

Using sequencing and haplotype-resolved assembly of 65 diverse human genomes, complex regions including the major histocompatibility complex and centromeres are analysed.

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MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences @mrc-lms.bsky.social · Jul 21

📢 We're hiring 5 postdocs across multiple projects!
Spanning germline demethylation, gene regulation and genome architecture in development and disease!

Apply now!

MRC Postdoctoral Research Scientists x 5 - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences

Applications are now open for up to five postdoctoral positions in the area of developmental epigenetics.

lms.mrc.ac.uk

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Doug Fowler @dougfowler.bsky.social · Jul 21

Interested in using functional data to understand clinical variants? Been hunting for a good review of the topic? We just wrote one! rdcu.be/exaEU

Multiplexed assays of variant effect for clinical variant interpretation

Nature Reviews Genetics - Multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs) are highly scalable experimental approaches used to generate functional data for genetic variants. In this Review, McEwen et...

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Prof Cath Noakes @cathnoakes.bsky.social · Jul 21

Remember folks, your AI is only as good as the training data and so it looks backwards rather than forwards….

Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 20

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds

A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

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Pilar Cacheiro @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social · Jul 17

Walking back home so deep in my thoughts that the corner shop guy stops me to ask: is everything ok? So this is my face after an actually very good day. I don't want to imagine how I look after a bad one.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Jul 16

Sometimes 8:30pm in London looks like this

A peaceful cityscape with a quay in the middle, tree-lined embankments on both sides, and modern skyscrapers in the distance, reflecting the golden light of sunset under a blue sky with scattered clouds.

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Pilar Cacheiro @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social · Jul 16

as a clear blue sky
all my favourite people
somehow just feel right

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Literland @literland.bsky.social · Jul 6

"Tan absurdo y fugaz es nuestro paso por el mundo, que solo me deja tranquila el saber que he sido auténtica, que he logrado ser lo mas parecida a mí misma que he podido”.
En recuerdo de Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón, nacida tal día como hoy de 1907.
#FridaKahlo

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Jul 6

skipping my vacation because chatgpt can simply summarize everywhere I would have visited for me

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · Oct 2

Sleep when the baby sleeps, eat when the baby eats, edit your manuscript when the baby edits their manuscript

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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · Jul 4

The UK Govt just released its 10 year plan for the NHS and it is legitimately ambitious and exciting. Genomic population health features heavily... on the cover even! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686638...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jul 5

AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception.

Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.

Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...

Screenshot from Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines (Bergstrom and West 2025).

People wandering through a desert mirage, with the text:

"We anticipate powerful, damaging spillover effects. If no one follows web links, there will be few incentives for people to create high-quality content in the first place.

Meanwhile large language models make it easy to produce low-quality content at the touch of a button. Quality human-created information may be swamped by AI-generated bullshit."

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