Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

REGIME CHANGE 🇺🇸

That's how it's done! Nice and easy. Good job Mycological Society of America.

For Finnish colleagues: this is a good overview of what’s going on right now with American science funding institutions www.science.org/content/blog...

I hope the faculty AI likes reading 40,000 student AI term papers about how The Great Gatsby is racist, because that is all CSU is going to be now: openai.com/index/openai...

New preprint! Were Precambrian oceans devoid of planktonic cyanobacteria? Insights from metabolism What does rise of marine picocyanobacteria ~500 million years ago teach us about Great Oxidation Event ~2.3 billion years ago? Follow along to find out... 1/ doi.org/10.31223/X5M...

curing cancer is woke now

Sad to wake up this morning in Finland and seeing SoCal on fire. Thoughts are with my friends and family in LA area

Incredible

Wow, what are the odds?!

Very excited to share final version of our paper! What forces shape evolution of cross-feeding among planktonic ocean microbes, and how does it in turn drive self-organization of biogeochemical cycles? These are the questions we explore here: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Temporal Changes in the Role of Species Sorting and Evolution Determine Community Dynamics Ecology Letters by Julius Hoffmann, @slhogle.bsky.social, @teppo-h.bsky.social, and Lutz Becks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢A new episode of The Green Light 💚, on this Friday episode we invited @seppekuehnlab.bsky.social, a molecular plant biologist and associate professor at UChicago, to talk about their journey from physics to microbial communities assembly.👇 youtu.be/yi_qFOIyCGk

Interesting read… IMO more important that we are experiencing consequences of systematic gutting/defunding of science by govt and private orgs. Smaller pie + more seats at the table = more competition and thus potentially incentive to go against moral value system to professionally survive

RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...

huh i always thought it meant “liberated and tardy”

trying to convince my son it's pronounced “Bubba Fett”

a far right Filipino/Finnish juice bar called Juissi Halo-halo

My longread on the man known as ‘The Mountain’ - Palestinian journalist Wael Dahdouh, and the killing of journalists and their families in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

HEY YOU PUT SOME BLACK PEOPLE IN YOUR STARTER PACK

lol I live in Finland and they are literally building a gigantic wall on their eastern border right now

Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

little do the russians know that sweden has authorized deployment of a miniaturized finnish defence minister

My kid made a birthday card for his bud but I thought it was a metal album

Sorry it took me so long to respond to your email! I was hoping I was going to die first

when my tweets land in the feeds and the only ones there to read it are some very online millennials and science shit posters, does it count as outreach for my CV?

putting the "predatory" back into predatory publishing

New paper out... fun getting to work with some nanopore data !

SAR86... Sometimes, after a few drinks at ASLO or OSM, you'd hear the old-timers talk about how they had it once... Or that it was lurking in a forgotten dilution to extinction plate on the bench of a long-departed postdoc whose spirits it had crushed...

lol my son asked me today why I am not a professor yet ☠️

excited to have played a role in this cool discovery www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

As a postdoc, I've been strong-armed into "co-authoring" multiple grants with faculty to fund my research, but I can not formally receive credit for these funded grants. I still list them on my CV though...

We made a Special Collection for Microbial Evolution in #Microbiology (aka the longest-running microbiology journal on Earth!) which started as a look back at the archive, but now has fresh papers arising from the focus meeting at Manchester in Nov 2022 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...