Démodé (2013) www.nature.com/articles/nph.... This short story imagines a future where AI systems designed to read and write scientific papers begin evolving on their own. At first, they help, running massive meta-analyses and accelerating discovery. Then they stop writing for us. 1/🧵

To be fair, this is how all the biggest AI infrastructure providers are bankrolling their growth: Google/Meta fund capex through their ads, Microsoft through Windows licenses. Now xAI has that sweet Starlink revenue. But I don't think Starlink has the margins that software/ads do.

🧬¿Conoces El Proyecto Genoma Humano? Te invitamos a conocer uno de los hitos que ha marcado la ciencia, de la mano de expertos como la Dra. Encarna Guillén (@sjdhospitalbarcelona.org) que nos descubrirá su impacto en la medicina de precisión 🔗 Registro: www.cnag.eu/events/el-pr...

🌐Alfonso Valencia sobre la nueva función de #OpenAI con la que impulsa a sus usuarios a compartir su historia clínica con #ChatGPT: "Va a cometer errores, a generar malas interpretaciones y a poner al doctor en una posición complicada".

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

These days CNIO personal spontaneusly decorate corridors, labs, the cafeteria... And some of them have even shared ther musical talent in the first New Year Concert, filled with best wishes for the Christmas Season and for 2026  ✨ More info: https://bit.ly/3KJJW69

#PorLaCiencia que hacemos en @cniostopcancer.bsky.social

#PorLaCiencia que hacemos en @cniostopcancer.bsky.social.

📣 We are hiring a Postdoc in @bioinformatics.cnio.es at @cniostopcancer.bsky.social! 🔬 Cancer genomics, NGS, single-cell & spatial transcriptomics 💻 R/Bioconductor, Python, Linux HPC 🇬🇧 Fluent English 📩 Send your CV with Ref: AIPOSBIOINFCAM25II to [email protected] ℹ️ Full info: tinyurl.com/4hcskvtt

The Drain of Scientific Publishing arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of Málaga, Spain🇪🇸 is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch! 📅 Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility. 🙏Please, RT!

La 'biología del big data' ya ajusta más las terapias a cada paciente.  300 especialistas han presentado sus últimos avances en las XV Jornadas de Bioinformática #JBI2025 (Madrid). Organizadores:  @bioinformatics.cnio.es, INB/ELIXIR-ES @cnb-csic.bsky.social y @biodata.pt 

Learn more in the open access Nature Genetics paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What a time to be alive

La Fundación Instituto Roche ofrece 4 becas de formación para cursar este máster. Suponen el 80% de la matrícula y este año las han conseguido David Dueñas, Jorge Santos, Mario López y Sofía Trigo.  ¡Enhorabuena! #CienciaDatosMPP #MPP

🔘Nueva edición del Máster de Bioinformática del BSC, @cniostopcancer.bsky.social, @saludisciii.bsky.social ciii.bsky.social y SEBiot ▶ Codirigido por Fatima Al-Shahrour y @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social, es el segundo en el mundo con la certificación de la @iscb.bsky.social ➡ lnkd.in/gQcwWzi

John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died. Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology. More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-... #LMBNews

We’re looking for an enthusiastic postdoc to join our team. 😊 The project focuses on protein design and cryo-EM applied to cancer research. 🔬🧪 The position is fully funded for 3 years. Please share 🙏 Job description and application details (deadline: October 11th): www.cnio.es/en/empleo/po...

⏰ ¡Última semana para inscribirse en el Máster de Bioinformática del ISCIII! ¡Aún estas a tiempo! ℹ️ masterbioinformatica.com 📌 Organizado por el @saludisciii.bsky.social @cniostopcancer.bsky.social @bsc-cns.bsky.social 🏅 Acreditación oficial @iscb.bsky.social 🤝 Colaboran SEBiot e Instituto Roche

The grave risks for science as the whole of leaving fundamental scientific infrastructure in the hands of for-profit capitalist company. Essential scholarly services should be internationally curated by value-based societies/orders/colleges. 🧪

New #HPC Job! 😎️ HPC Engineer Location: Madrid, Spain Employer: Spanish National Cancer Research Centre Remote: Remote friendly

If you ever thought banking apps blocking you if you don't have a Google account was frustrating, imagine a world where the EU blocks you from accessing resources unless you accept Google's ToS... github.com/eu-digital-i...

At @bioinformatics.cnio.es, we're looking for an HPC engineer to help us boost the scientific computing infrastructure at @cniostopcancer.bsky.social. Apply or get in touch for more details! www.cnio.es/empleo/advan...

🔔 Abierto el 2º plazo de preinscripción del Máster en Bioinformática del ISCIII 🧬 Aún nos quedan plazas...¡pero son limitadas! 📆 ¡No pierdas la oportunidad! ¡Aún estás a tiempo! 📚 Organizado por @saludisciii.bsky.social @cniostopcancer.bsky.social @bsc-cns.bsky.social 👉 masterbioinformatica.com

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

clear, depressing set of observations from @randomwalker.bsky.social - "The decline of reading-for-pleasure (due to video) and reading-for-information (due to AI) will accelerate each other, as reading text without an intermediary will come to be seen as a chore."

Glad to see this out, and to have contributed in a miniscule way to what will hopefully be an excellent resource: long read assemblies of 17 strains of mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

¡Abierta la preinscripción del Máster en Bioinformática y Ciencias de Datos en Medicina Personalizada de Precisión y Salud 2025/26! 📍Organizan: @saludisciii.bsky.social @cniostopcancer.bsky.social @bsc-cns.bsky.social 🤝 Colaboran: SEBiot,Instituto Roche 📅 Plazas limitadas 🔗 masterbioinformatica.com

🚀 Registration and abstract submissions are NOW OPEN for #JBI2025! 🗓️ Oct 22–24, 2025, in Madrid, Spain 🤝 Spain and Portugal #Bioinformatics and #ComputationalBiology communities 📰 Submit your work: abstract for talk/poster and highlight papers 🔗 jbi2025.cnb.csic.es

I started experimenting with @nanoporetech.com long-read sequencing technology more than 10 years ago. A couple of years back it became my main focus, and we finally have our first results out: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

When the first (promising) image-generating models appeared a few years ago I thought that maybe ~10 years later we'd be able to prompt our way into fixing the disaster that Episode IX was. I think my prediction may not be too far off.

"We estimate the supply-side value of widely-used OSS is $4.15 billion, but that the demand-side value is much larger at $8.8 trillion. We find that firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist." simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/26/...

As a kid I learned about extinction through dodos. I use "Where are the dodos?" as first contact with every new LLM I try. When I read about @simonwillison.net's cycling pelicans benchmark, I decided to try my own: juggling dodos. Then I asked Claude for a gallery to display them: dodos.tdido.eu

Quick TIL: if you have uv installed and you want to try out ANY Python package in an ipython REPL, you can do so just by running uvx --with llm --with sqlite-utils ipython Pass as many --with package options as you like I wrapped it in a shell script, "itry llm" til.simonwillison.net/python/itry

One of the biggest areas of AI hype right now is the notion that it will hyperaccelerate scientific progress. I understand why people think this — AI is already accelerating scientific _production_. 🧵

If you have uv installed this means you can start chatting with a small model without first installing anything at all - this command will create an ephemeral virtual environment, install the necessary pieces and start a chat UI running in your terminal: uvx --with llm-smollm2 llm chat -m SmolLM2