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manager in a bioinformatics core I might post over here sometimes:
https://genomic.social/@mmarchin
pinned post!
Stowers Computational Biology Group is hiring someone to work mostly on infrastructure (pipelines, annotation, etc):
www.stowers.org/careers/bioi...
#bioinformatics
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Bioinformatics Specialist (Infrastructure Focus) - REQID0002491
If you have a collection of outstanding people who ask really interesting questions, like each other and push the envelope, important discoveries will…
https://www.stowers.org/careers/bioinformatics-specialist-infrastructure-focus-reqid0002491
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Stephen Turner
3 days ago
The honest tension: Not quantifiable, not statistically provable, but a real gut feeling—more than vibes—that anyone who's used these tools quietly recognizes.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.15654
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People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are accurate and robust detectors of AI-generated text
In this paper, we study how well humans can detect text generated by commercial LLMs (GPT-4o, Claude, o1). We hire annotators to read 300 non-fiction English articles, label them as either human-writt...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15654
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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒
10 months ago
Go for it. I don't even care any more.
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Chuck Wendig
7 days ago
BLACK SWAN says BEEP BEEP
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Nicholas Meletio
17 days ago
#books
#read
#write
#authorlife
#blueskywriters
#booksky
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Steph Lau (she/her)
18 days ago
Whoa, this is a cool story!
www.fastcompany.com/90375440/the...
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Kat Abughazaleh
20 days ago
Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.
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Anna Holmes
22 days ago
With alt text, because the Butlerian will be accessible or not at all.
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Ethan Mollick
24 days ago
This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams is under the vast indifference of heaven
28 days ago
I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.
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c0nc0rdance
29 days ago
This is NOT AI. These are green dragontail butterflies (Lamproptera meges), native to S & SE Asia. They compensate for undersized wings with long 'swallowtails' to generate lift. Butterflies that fly in cursive, swimming like fish through the air. (📷: Center for Biological Diversity)
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Comfortably Numb
about 1 month ago
WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great
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Brandon Rohrer
about 1 month ago
Hey
#datascience
people, new blog in which I aim to describe the complexities of being a Staff+ data science (and adjacent) roles. Let me know what I missed.
brandonrohrer.org/ds_roles
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Carl T. Bergstrom
about 1 month ago
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/immigration-news/uw-graduate-student-deported-sea-airport/281-416fdfa0-a715-4267-90f1-afe30c71b754
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Maggie Smith
about 2 months ago
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
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Boston Tom Levenson
about 2 months ago
Update: current headline:
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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️
about 2 months ago
🎨
@wizardofbarge.bsky.social
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David Shaywitz
about 2 months ago
Saw this perhaps of interest (or not)
www.wsj.com/health/welln...
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Essay | How a Scary Diagnosis Taught Me to Cope With Stressful Uncertainty
For anyone facing potentially dire medical results or other nerve-racking ambiguities, the waiting is the hardest part. Here are a few strategies for keeping anticipatory anxiety at bay.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/medical-results-waiting-stress-tips-fc1ced34?st=m5pmoz&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Henry Snow
about 2 months ago
forget looksmaxxing you need to be booksmaxxing
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Don Moynihan
about 2 months ago
Hegseth firing Generals who wouldn't go along with his purge of Black and female officers
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
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Michael J. Stern
about 2 months ago
Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
about 2 months ago
Trust me--read this. You'll be glad you did. and thank you Dr. Bennet for writing it. 🧪
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Long_Painter
2 months ago
Sometimes, lose the ground. . Wish 6”x6” oil
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Darren Dahly
2 months ago
Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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ISCB News
2 months ago
📣 Reminder:
#ISMB2026
is accepting abstracts for talk and poster presentations until Thursday, April 9, 2026. 📥 Submit here:
https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/call-for-submissions/abstracts
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John Bull
2 months ago
It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.
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Jill Weinberger
2 months ago
Nearly six months behind bars. No bail. When they finally dismissed the charges they released her in North Dakota with no winter clothes & no means of getting back home to Tennessee. They upended this woman's life.
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Khashoggi's Ghost
2 months ago
A dude in Texas who makes bomb shelters for nuclear war has seen his business skyrocket this week. Recent clients include 2 Trump admin members, and the rest were almost all “Christian, conservative CEOs,” which included “several of the wealthiest men on the planet."
www.rawstory.com/iran-war/
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Top Trump officials rush to purchase nuclear war-proof bunkers after Iran attack: report
Since President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Iran last week, at least two top Trump administration officials have raced to purchase their own survival shelters designed to withstand an apoca...
https://www.rawstory.com/iran-war/
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Guardian US
3 months ago
"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes
@rutgerbregman.com
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1740769161-1
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Alejandra Caraballo
3 months ago
Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.
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Howard Tayler
3 months ago
The headline reads "Meta workers say they're seeing disturbing things through users' smart glasses." In a moment of uncharacteristic incredulity I assumed it was badly written. Why would Meta *workers* being seeing things through Meta *users'* glasses? SILLY ME.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...
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Phil Salvador
3 months ago
The funniest thing about modern AI-powered Google Translate is that it will interpret any fake-sounding Latin
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Emma Evans
3 months ago
Henrietta Lacks' immortal cell line was never not-for-profit. Many people made vast sums of money from it. Except for the Lacks' family. They had to sue over it. The 2nd of those lawsuits literally just settled. As in like on Friday.
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Megan Amram
3 months ago
New piece on
@mcsweeneys.net
! "New Protein Menus"! People are saying it's "funnier than 'Hamnet'"!
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...
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New Protein Menus
Brands like Chipotle, Dunkin, and Starbucks have started offering new protein-dense menu items. Here are more companies making exciting protein-bas...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new-protein-menus
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NPR
3 months ago
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
n.pr/4qTItsU
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
https://n.pr/4qTItsU
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Chuck Wendig
3 months ago
Whoa
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
3 months ago
Of so many things to be infuriated about, this is perhaps my biggest gripe. Pancreatic cancer patients, who face a future without hope, are being denied a potential game-changing therapy
www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrn...
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Harmit Singh Malik
3 months ago
Homeland Security does not want ICE officers to show their faces but wants to see everybody’s social media accounts.
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Mark Histed
3 months ago
In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
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Chuck Wendig
3 months ago
Give this post a publishing deal immediately
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Letters of Note
3 months ago
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
3 months ago
Pam Bondi brought a document to the Judiciary Committee today that had my search history of the Epstein files on it. The DOJ is spying on members of Congress. It’s a disgrace and I won’t stand for it.
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Futurism
3 months ago
"Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven't already."
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TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE
TikTok refuses to confirm or deny that ICE is obtaining detailed information about its users via private data brokers.
https://trib.al/Bw7zT5S
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
3 months ago
A poem about spring. 'Cause maybe I can manifest it into being.
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Rio Dylan Hernandez
3 months ago
What the hell is happening. No criminal record. Valid work permit. Married to an American. Locked in a cold, dank El Paso detention center for 5 mos. while the U.S. tries to deport him. Why?
#Ireland
#ICE
#immigration
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ISCB News
3 months ago
🧬🌍 Abstract submissions for
#ISMB2026
are open! Share new, in-progress, or recently published work with a global audience at the largest international meeting in
#bioinformatics
and
#computationalbiology!
📅 Deadline: April 9 📥 Details:
https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/call-for-submissions/abstracts
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Kat Abughazaleh
4 months ago
This is an authoritarian power grab, full stop. Nationalizing elections would put the executive branch in control of who votes and how. That’s how dictators rig outcomes, crush opposition, and assault democratic self-government. This should alarm everyone:
www.ms.now/news/trump-s...
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Trump suggests federal control of elections in ‘some areas’
In a lengthy interview with NBC, the president said he will accept the results of the midterm elections if they are “honest.”
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-suggests-federal-control-of-elections-in-some-areas
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DrArchivalGenomics
4 months ago
🦠🧪🧬👇
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
4 months ago
Playing with
sandbox.bio
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