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EMBO @embo.org · 23d

Last week on 11–12 Sep, together with our publishing partner @springernature.com, EMBO hosted a workshop "AI to advance open science publishing” in Heidelberg, DE. 🧪 Participants engaged in demonstrations and experiments using tools developed by Springer Nature and EMBO for innovation in publishing.

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Maria Polychronidou @mpolychronidou.bsky.social · Jul 16

Two metrics designed for measuring the impact of investments in the specific context of life sciences (in brief: the metrics assess the potential increase in life years attributable to the investment & the improvement in quality of life) ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new impact framework for investors in life sciences bridges financial returns and patient outcomes - Nature Biotechnology

A new model for quantifying the impact of capital investments in life science interventions could help investors, policymakers and healthcare stakeholders to assess, monitor and optimize the societal ...

www.nature.com

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Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social · Jul 2

🤖✍️ How is #AI transforming scientific publishing? From trust to truth, @tlemberger.bsky.social @embopress.org explains what’s changing and why it matters for all of us.

youtu.be/k-_MuFEwFx0 @salmaamin.bsky.social @mkiwanski.bsky.social

Trust, Truth and AI in Scientific Publishing with Thomas Lemberger

YouTube video by Human Technopole

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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · Jun 28

Correction: 40,000 spectators.

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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · Jun 28

A message of hope and optimism in these crazy times: Gewandhaus Orchestra open air concert, in Leipzig, Germany, right now: 20,000 people peacefully listening to the music of Max Bruch. Beautiful event.

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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · Jun 23

An important, moving, and courageous piece from @juliosaezrod.bsky.social Respect!

"Becoming a patient has given me a new perspective on biomedical research. Despite my background in data analytics, I have found that I do not necessarily have access to the data or information I need..."

Julio Saez-Rodriguez @juliosaezrod.bsky.social · Jun 23

I wrote a short piece on how becoming an IgA Nephropathy patient has changed my perspective on biomedical research, developing an appreciation for the challenges in data interpretability & availability and the importance of patient engagement www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leveraging data as a patient–scientist: frustrations and opportunities - Nature Reviews Nephrology

The transition from data scientist to patient–scientist has given me new perspectives into clinical research and strengthened my commitment to open science. Although limitations on data availability h...

www.nature.com

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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · Jun 18

Could these unlucky applications be transferred and "re-used" to other funding agencies? A @reviewcommons.org for funding?

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Ben Hartl @bhartl.bsky.social · Jun 14

#TCTeAC - the Woodstock of Biology2 & #nightscience - was such an amazing event!! We met great scientists who creatively presented their high quality work. We dreamt and discussed in a very broad, open-minded setting. Talking science outside of our nutshell can be soo valuable - let's do this again!

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Ben Hartl @bhartl.bsky.social · Jun 14

Let's not be #TCTeAC "The Conference To END All Conferences", but a new format of many more such events. Depating science outside of our typical nutshell (scientifically and mentally) has great potential - we could have come up with 50+ project proposals together. Let's bring fun back to science :)

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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · Jun 12

Those who confessed received my absolution for only a modest APC (Absolution Participation Charge)

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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · Jun 12

Was a cool experience! I was very touched by the conversations. Did not expect this…

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Jun 12

@paveltomancak.bsky.social and @itaiyanai.bsky.social fighting /debating about the hourglass idea
#theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTeAC

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Ben Hartl @bhartl.bsky.social · Jun 12

#fightforsciemce at #TCTeAC with #nightscience :) cell & gene people gather together.

(no scientist got hurt)

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · Jun 11

Our publishing process needs to be revolutionised @odedrechavi.bsky.social #TCTeAC high-quality AI generated peer review

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Jun 11

Introverts at the Woodstock of Biology
#theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTeAC

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Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social · Jun 9

I'm late to review the "Illusion of Thinking" paper, so let me collect some of the best threads by and critical takes by @scaling01 in one place and sprinkle some of my own thoughts in as well.

The paper is rather critical of reasoning LLMs (LRMs):

x.com/MFarajtabar...

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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · Jun 5

In the meantime, Claude 4 is out, and the progress continues, albeit clearly remaining subthreshold in many benchmarks. Probably a matter of time and/or dedicated (rogue) training efforts...

Claude 4 system card:
www-cdn.anthropic.com/6be99a52cb68...

Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · May 15

Indeed, working on it as we speak!

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Ben Lehner @benlehner.bsky.social · May 4

We quantify the aggregation of >100,000 random protein sequences to train CANYA, a convolution-attention hybrid neural network to predict aggregation from sequence. With @bennibolo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Massive experimental quantification allows interpretable deep learning of protein aggregation

xAI trained on >100,000 random peptides predicts and elucidates primary sequence determinants of aggregation.

www.science.org

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · May 5

A kind of cat https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/a-kind-of-cat-1937

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · Apr 16

Many of the moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn appear to host subsurface oceans. Mysteries abound as to what fills these deep sea worlds. But the hints that we’ve already gathered make them tantalizing targets in the search for life beyond Earth.

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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · Apr 17

Very sad news!

James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Apr 17

Sad news. Benny Shilo, a pioneer in dev bio & Drosophila genetics, has died.

I'll remember the infectious enthusiasm and burning curiosity he brought to every conversation I had with him.

Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Apr 16

Our field has lost an amazing scientist, mentor, and old friend. Benny, along with Mike Hoffman, had a brilliant idea in the early 1980s. The first oncogenes were being cloned and they realized if we wanted to understand their roles in cancer, we needed to understand their normal function 1/n 🧪

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · Apr 15

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · Apr 13

Woohoo it’s arrived!!! If it’s even 25% as good as Civilizations it’ll be amazing…

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Jan Philipp Kreysing @jpkreysing.bsky.social · Apr 11

We then used a physics-based model to predict DNA linkers between the nucleosomes obtained by cryo-ET. This allowed us to visualize kbp-long chromatin fragments from inside human cells.

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