Masterful takedown by @jeremymberg.bsky.social of an unserious article @nytimes.com article is based more on vibes than fact & as is norm these days - pretends to be deep If @nytimes.com was serious, they would invite @jeremymberg.bsky.social to write a counterpoint

@nytimes.com is broken. @klab.bsky.social says they can fix it. Are they over their head?

It's amazing that the @nytimes.com can keep coming up with half assed pieces with this regularity

A towering personality and teacher in botany and ecology passed away. She enriched the lives of her students, and we are all poorer today by her demise.

Sigh!

Going viral on social media is the new journal impact factor Credit @tomgauld.bsky.social

TRUE DAT!

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

Why you should beware of correlations and 'AI' chatbots credit to www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...

What do you do when you find out that the CSR panel that will review your grant does not have the needed expertise? Asking for a friend

Happy to co-author a review on dopaminergic signaling in the gut and how it is affected in diseases such as Parkinsons' Disease

How to be a scientist in a post-journal world @mbeisen.bsky.social

On why tech oligarchy is the single most destabilizing force in western economy and democracy

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

OMG They are gonna open another Altos Labs or Calico labs Goes to show that there isn't much difference between billionaire oligarchs in US and autocrats

@mbeisen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/card/2025/09...

Last rays of summer #CapeCod

What crap

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Am I reading this right? Foreign PhD students won't be able to stay beyond 4 years on F VISA

Most people don't realize how many scientists are on Zoloft right now

By losing our milestones, we not only erase history of our shared journey till present, but also lose track of how much distance remains between us and our goals. Thank you @olveczky.bsky.social for writing this obituary of an important milestone. We hope we find a new guiding north star soon.

@ezraklein.bsky.social Jevons paradox - Wikipedia share.google/gWz0rWiuZatM...

@ezraklein.bsky.social doubling down on how awesomely transformative AI is, and is dismissive of anyone being dismissive of AI hype

The Storrowing Season Cometh!

Oh and by the way, this should dissuade people in my field about taking what 'AI' chatbots write at face value during grant and paper review But I am not holding my breath

How many months ago was @nytimes.com @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social pitching up AGI as imminent? "..the lesson of GPT-5, is that they remind us that “artificial intelligence” isn’t a scientific term or an engineering term. It’s a marketing term." Live by the bubble die by the bubble

Who knew the descent into madness can be that rapid

Obviously someone did not write enough op-eds about the need for NIH funding

Sometimes being an angry toddler is the way to go.

Same, same....

LOL

Move over #OpenAI and #ChatGPT with your over exaggerated claims of AGI, there is a newer and bigger bullshitter in town

Another episode of "Why Silicon Valley deserves all the hate it gets and more"

Is there a language teaching that we can do via ChatGPT??? The LLM that does not know how many 'b's are in Blueberry? The answer is NO The fact they have to ask this shows how universities are in dire need of renaissance.

In a space of 4 years, Biotech and Pharma have gone from "We cant find enough PhD basic scientists for our labs" to "Why do we need PhD basic scientists for our labs"

H Y P E _ B U B B L E

Snake oil salespersons in science No wonder I have always trusted and rated cantankerous scientists more than slick smooth talkers

Nimby millionaires and billionaires who don't play fair complain about a richer nimby billionaire who doesn't play fair

New preprint alert! Novel autoantibodies in scleroderma patients - with autoantibodies targeting AGO1/2 - containing extracellular vesicles

Apt that the end of the enlightened era comes with this sad news

Dunno what makes the human brain the final frontier...but this is precisely the brain-centric view of neuroscience that has held back work on peripheral neurons

OMG LOOK AI SO UNREAL

No wonder then that a good alu sabji needs a base tomato curry