Do you find it difficult to understand why LLMs — like ChatGPT and the like — are a form of ‘automated plagiarism’? Take 3 min and listen to this excellent explanation by @gwenvarley.bsky.social youtu.be/1ON-FJHq9aM?... (h/t @olivia.science) 1/🧵

Excited to share our new Prosit-PTM paper is out! A deep learning model that predicts MS2 spectra and Retention time for modified peptides, using chemically informed encodings and data augmentation based on amino acid substitution to learn general rules for how PTMs affect spectra.

Looking for a tool to estimate abundances of aerobes versus anaerobes directly from metagenomes? Here you go: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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👀 New blog post! 👀 Ever made a *spaghetti* line chart and wondered how you can make it more accessible and more aesthetically pleasing at the same time? 📈 Read this blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/accessi... #DataViz #RStats

Thanks for writing and re-upping this. I think terminology is important, but I don't think regulating based on technical or statistical properties (e.g., "generative" or "transformer") is appropriate. I think the mode of interaction and epistemic function is more important for regulation.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

NEW: My Udemy course 'Propaganda & Disinformation for Beginners' has helped students in 26 countries worldwide strengthen their armour against disinformation since it launched 2 years ago. Techniques Cambridge Analytica used to secretly profile millions have become a vastly profitable industry.. /1

Who says capitalism can't innovate when OpenAI is out here inventing consumer liability protection law from first principles

“There were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination.” From report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au #vaccinationsaveslives

More people need to read "Why does he do that?" because a great deal of people are bullied and we don't turn into abusers. The narrative these people are victims is perverse to the goal of stopping abuse because it's not only false but contributes the cycle. dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/Lund...

Exited to share our latest work! Out now in @natcomms.nature.com Koina aims to transform how #proteomics uses machine learning. You no longer need to be a tech wizard to use ML and now can easily run #ML models. Integrated with FragPipe, Skyline and EncyclopeDIA! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GcMeta - a new global resource of metagenome-assembled genomes and their encoded functions with an easy to use, interactive and searchable website academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

A reminder.

Our new review paper about Pathway-Centric PTM Data Analysis is out this week in #Proteomics! We cover databases, enrichment tools, software for pathway reconstruction, and full-fledged platforms that help to interpret high-throughput PTM datasets. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1002/pmic...

One throughline in all these AI promises is eliminating subjectivity. We don’t have to trust people’s accounts of their own experiences, because we can trust a magic machine’s *estimates* of those experiences. let ChatGPT write your memoir, act as “synthetic” interview respondents, choose yr dates..

For the avoidance of doubt, this is how the inventor of "vibe coding" actually writes code. Can we all stop pretending now?

🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Bacterial telomeres are common, just not so much in RefSeq 'complete' genomes. But they can be added by the new tool David Faurdal wrote. I am thrilled to see this out as a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @tilmweber.bsky.social @thombooth.bsky.social

One way of thinking about the AI bubble is that it's the final gasp of a grift based on specialized GPU's instead of tulips, a logical continuation from crypto and NFT's and the metaverse. Like, there's nowhere else for it to go, no other magical use for this shit other than as electronic waste.

"Our final defenses are more diffuse, working at a level of norms and attitudes. Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI." (finally reading this)

We have multiple senior scientist / engineer positions available across several geos in MSR AI for Science. Ping me or any of my colleagues if you have any questions! www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Preprint and the website by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @vincentab.bsky.social are great, and I got inspired to illustrate Bayesian workflow for model checking and comparison *before* model interpretation following their friendship importance example users.aalto.fi/~ave/casestu...

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A couple recent smart observations I've read bolster this intuition. First is this piece by David Gerard from May asking where the AI contributions to pretty much any open code base are: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i...

Thanks @lukeplunkett.com for making me aware of this must-read piece by @garethwatkins.bsky.social: newsocialist.org.uk/transmission... Time to pick a lane. CC @11bitstudios.bsky.social

A Systematic Benchmark of High-Accuracy PacBio Long-Read RNA Sequencing for Transcript-Level Quantification. #HiFi #LongReads #Sequencing #Transcriptomics @pacbio.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

- They were waiting for me when I got off the plane - They knew (or it felt like they knew) everything about me - I had cleaned up my online presence expecting ad hoc digital sweeps; I was not prepared for their sophistication - Sophistication almost certainly facilitated by Palantir

Analyzing your single-cell data by mapping to a reference atlas? Then how do you know the mapping actually worked, and you’re not analyzing mapping-induced artifacts? We developed mapQC, a mapping evaluation tool www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... from the ‪@fabiantheis lab. Let’s dive in🧵

Are you interested in the governance of emergent tech? Come & work w/ me @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social We are looking for 3 Post Docs in Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4 Computer Science/AI/ML: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5 Application deadline is June 15, 2025.

We're hiring a postdoc!🚨 Study human-associated microbial communities in health & disease. 🔬Requirements: - PhD in bioinformatics, microbiology, or related field - Expertise in omics - Strong publication record Apply now!🌟 jobs.vib.be/j/69697/post... @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

We are hiring! In the #IISPrincesa in Madrid we are recruiting the PIs of the future in #HealthResearch 🧪🧬🔬🏥 We search candidates for the @SaludISCIII Miguel Servet programme that in our Institute leads to a permanent position👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 up to 31 January, + Info in www.iis-princesa.org/wp-content/u...

Hi everyone! I'm looking for next job ✨ I'm looking for a Data Scientist, Data Analyst, or Bioinformatics role. I'd like to dive deep into multi-omics integration in life science data & focus on using existing tools, rather than building new bioinf tools. More & my CV below!

Six years later and this, from the editorial board of Nature (the single highest citation-indexed science periodical in the world) is sadly once again highly relevant. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Want to get out of Dodge? Do a postdoc @uio.no! You will be using the MoBa study and registers to study intergenerational transmission and GxE for #MentalHealth and #education using @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social and @pgcgenetics.bsky.social approaches. Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

This is me and @mightycrobe.bsky.social - really phenomenal work by Guilherme Fahur Bottino (is he on 🦋??)

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri... It's not one to discuss scale but it's by far the text that's ignited most engagement on AI and environment among technical undergrads, that I've seen

tech bros: we built a machine that can tell you stuff loudly and confidently! us: cool. is it right about stuff? tech bros: we cannot stress enough how loud and confident it is!

For #30DayChartChallenge - day 26 - ai I wanted to make a chart that showed generative AI generates expected seeming results consistent with the kind of corpus associated with the prompt, with no understanding of truth, facts, logic, or causality. So I had chatGPT supply the data for the graph.

Science is never “value-free”, because scientists are people too. Arguably, climate scientists, ecologists, social scientists, etc have an ethical responsibility to contribute to public discourse on the future of our planet. We should never be “neutral” bystanders. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

no shade but if you are generating and posting AI-generated art to accompany a post here, i'm unfollowing

This is a paid fellowship to draw mushrooms in upstate New York this summer. Seems relevant to some of y’all’s interests. 🍄

So I somehow missed the news about OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji being found dead, but his mother says there were signs of struggle and wants an independent investigation as to the cause of his death. I have a strong feeling that this story is going to get really, increasingly, fucking weird.

I submitted a FOIA request for every submission for the Illinois state flag competition. Today, I got the files. You have no idea what they're keeping from us.

yet much of the AI industry paces ahead with ever larger models, trillions of parameters, without a second thought on the negative material impacts of AI on ordinary people’s daily lives