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The Tattooed Professor
@schwessinger.bsky.social
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Professor at the Australian National University. Biosecurity, fungal and plant genomics, evolution, and biochemistry. Dad. Swimming, reading, nature.
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 18d
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · 1d
“Using metrics to assess researchers can be ‘very dodgy terrain,’” says @jameswilsdon.bsky.social.

Great overview of how research assessment is changing worldwide in @nature.com , featuring recent work by RoRI with the Global Research Council: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
I think scholarslop might be my new favourite word https://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-coming-threat-of-algorithmic-idea.html?m=1

HT @Samuelmoore
Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
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Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social · 1d
Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.

Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
UTS Governance Project Survey: A Staff-Led Collaborative Project
The UTS Governance Project is an independent, staff-led initiative to strengthen transparency, accountability and participation in how our university is run. Inspired by the ANU Governance Project, ...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 2d
New analysis by The Australia Institute finds the Australian National University has a $90 million surplus, not a $142 million deficit!
The ANU’s hidden $90m budget surplus
New analysis by The Australia Institute reveals there is no financial crisis at the Australian National University.
australiainstitute.org.au
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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · 1d
Yes!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d
Thank you so much, April. We’d like to write an update too—so much has happened in a mere five years—but I think we have to tackle the bullshit machines first.
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction
A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
Thebullshitmachines.com
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d
“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.”
Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline
People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.
www.technologyreview.com
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Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social · 1d
Australia: Send panel tells government: to get results, spend on innovation (free to read): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
Put your money where your priorities are, government urged - Research Professional News
Australian R&D sector needs public funding on the demand side, review panel says
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · 1d
We had a paper with Wiley journal for over one year and it got rejected at the end.... the one I got invited to review was 6 months in the queue already... the new editor/review system sucks...
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d
This really resonated, for a variety of reasons
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 2d
Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
Why I left academia and neuroscience
Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.
mikexcohen.substack.com
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 2d
With platforms like Boston University’s “TerrierGPT,” the pressure for students to use AI is now coming from colleges themselves, even as researchers warn of the long-term consequences, writes Julie Huynh.
What Happens When Universities Offer a “Critical Embrace” of AI?
With platforms like Boston University’s “TerrierGPT,” the pressure for students to use AI is coming from colleges themselves, even as researchers warn of long-term consequences.
www.thenation.com
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2d
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 2d
"If you want a job you go where the jobs are."

Australia?

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Watch: Christopher Luxon defends cuts to benefits for youth
The prime minister says businesses are 'crying out for young people' as advocates decry the changes as a punishment.
www.rnz.co.nz
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DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social · 2d
‼️ Global call 🌍 DORA is seeking new Steering Committee members! We especially welcome applications from Africa, Asia, and Latin America/Caribbean.
Help shape the future of responsible research assessment.
Submit your self-nomination by October 31: forms.gle/rqjCBeFbPHak...
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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · 3d
69 and counting. Edging ever so closer to 75 by end of the year. Even some new socks and finished sleeve on the way.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 4d
#Leaf #evolution: integrating #phylogenetics, developmental dynamics, and genetic insights across #land #plants

📖 buff.ly/rhBlpc6
#TansleyReview by Hokuto Nakayaman and Neelima R. Sinha

@WileyPlantSci #PlantScience
Simplified regulatory models and predicted origins of gene families.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · 3d
Dreams, aspirations, and oblivion are a good combination at times.
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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 4d
“Poverty persists in rich countries because governments have made a political choice to keep people poor” - during Covid lockdowns Australia double unemployment benefits lifting people out of poverty then cut it later. Tolerating poverty is a choice society makes. I’d rather tax the rich
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d
Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot
Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · 4d
Not a fan of the guy but he is right....
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d
President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
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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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Ana Ignatieva @anaignatieva.bsky.social · 5d
Delighted that our paper about the distribution of genomic spans of clades/edges in genealogies (ARGs), and using this for detecting inversions and other SVs (and other phenomena that cause local disruption of recombination) is out in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (1/n)
The Length of Haplotype Blocks and Signals of Structural Variation in Reconstructed Genealogies
Abstract. Recent breakthroughs have enabled the accurate inference of large-scale genealogies. Through modelling the impact of recombination on the correla
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Journal of Systematics and Evolution @journalsysevo.bsky.social · 5d
In this systematic performance evaluation of #STRUCTURE, the most popular #population clustering method, Xiao-Xu Pang and Da-Yong Zhang offer praise--but also caution.
Find out why!⬇️

doi.org/10.1111/jse....

#JSE #evolution #technology #systematics
A cautionary note on using STRUCTURE to detect hybridization in a phylogenetic context
Using simulations, we provide the first systematic evaluation of the performance of STRUCTURE under a variety of cross-species hybridization scenarios. We find that STRUCTURE performs well in identif...
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 5d
Hybridization-driven genomic plasticity enhances the global invasion of fall armyworm

www.cell.com/the-innovati...
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Juan Alonso-Serra @jalonsos.bsky.social · 6d
Here’s some nice work from our colleagues in Helsinki academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
Seeing the invisible: Tools to teach and study plant transcriptional responses
Reporter gene-expressing plants show promoter activity, the stability of transgene expression, and are suitable tools to teach students about plant biotech
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