A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Ten years ago, our General Data Protection Regulation put control back where it belongs - in your hands. Today, it stands as the global standard for data protection, helping ensure transparency, accountability and trust in the digital economy. 🔗 Know your rights: link.europa.eu/gKNcKj

"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is a cool photo of crescent Venus. And the Moon, too. Image credit: Iván Éder

Moon Colony: Bloodbath. It was tight, but our 3-player colony survived on the second play. It's a great game, but once you've survived, you basically don't really want to play again...

1/6 🧪 Big news for structural biology and AI: PDBe is now AI-native. We’ve built MCP Servers that connect the Protein Data Bank in Europe and the Alphafold Protein Structure Database directly to Claude and other MCP-compatible AI systems. Here’s what that unlocks 👇

📣 Contribuez à la surveillance du littoral ! Si vous repérez des eaux colorées 🟤, 🟠, 🟢, prenez les en photo et partagez-les-nous via l'application #Phenomer ! 🤳 👉 Infos : https://phenomer.org

The French are hitting their protein goals - thanks to a cheese that looks like ectoplasm | Emma Beddington

What is the value of open data for the life sciences? 📈 New report by Frontier Economics shows that EMBL-EBI data resources save users an average of 11 hours/week/person, leading to £11.8bn/year in research productivity gains. s.embl.org/EMBL-EBI-202... #opendata

STUBB: What Russians will do is test us below Article 5, means hybrid warfare, which we see every day. We have to take drone incursions into our airspace seriously. We have to learn how to defend ourselves against drones. There, we have to do a lot of collaboration with Ukraine.

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Why is it so difficult to predict accurate mutational effects on protein stability? We explored the contribution from changes in native state configurational entropy in this paper, which also happens to be the last from my PhD. A short thread of why this matters. 1/n doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Osprey Games, the UK publisher of tabletop titles including the critically acclaimed Undaunted series, is having its board and card games operation sold off by owner Bloomsbury Publishing: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Finland’s president, Alexander Stubb, now says “the tide has turned” and “we need Ukraine more than #Ukraine needs us.” Zelensky is no longer pleading for help on behalf of his people. Kyiv now offers the world weapons that work. Hot off the press 👇 nypost.com/2026/05/09/o...

It's hard to oversell this map - make sure to bookmark it and share it with your friends: How has the population of evert single small geographic region across Europe changed from 1961 to 2024? You will want to study this map in detail. Source (keep scrolling for a while): buff.ly/cS6OSgY

I'd recommend this interview to anyone who is interested in the state of biomedical science in the US. That includes stakeholders outside of the US.

Important announcement!!! 💫 Would you have a tooth pulled if it helped your chances to get an important grant funded? Absurd question, but the funding situation is so bad, that I bet some of you actually considered it for a second… keep your teeth! we created something that might help! 👇 (1/16)

Leaving X. German parties leaving, collectively, is more than a symbolic exit. It is a chance to reassess how and where political communication happens. A platform’s relevance is not inherent. It is constructed through user behavior. And when influential users walk, the relevance begins to erode.

Wu Wu Wu!

Wu Yize in driving seat but Shaun Murphy stays in touch in Crucible final

Looking to contribute to the future of #ScientificResearch? The SNSF Research Council is recruiting 21 new members for its six committees. The mandates will start in April and October 2027. Interested? 🗓️ Apply by 14 June 2026. 👉 www.snf.ch/en/pk2qftWyV9…

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

The RECOMB-Seq 2026 program is now available! Join us May 24–25 in Thessaloniki, Greece, for two days of cutting-edge biological sequence analysis, with keynotes by Camille Marchet (CNRS) and Manolis Kellis (MIT). Full schedule: recomb-seq.github.io/seq2026/prog... #RECOMBseq

John Higgins. Always a struggle to watch him play, but a pity nonetheless he didn't make it to the final. Wu Yize. Now there's a delight. Hope he makes it all the way!

Sub-2 Å cryo-EM structures of transcribing RNA polymerase II reveal critical roles of water molecules in catalysis #CryoEM www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

Sinds de wolven totaal andere dynamiek in het gebied. In het verleden zag ik deze grote rottes nooit. Zwijnen hebben zich probleemloos en in korte tijd aangepast aan de aanwezigheid van wolven. Door grote groepen te vormen zijn ze minder kwetsbaar voor aanvallen.

In a new study, researchers describe a bacterial enzyme that synthesizes DNA without a nucleic acid template, using its own structure as a guide. Learn more on #DNADay: https://scim.ag/3OEc2RV

Think you know your snooker players? I made a quiz: files.bennuttall.com/snooker.html

Impressive long pot success at the Crucible this year

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

Nailed it

Russia is deploying artificial intelligence to accelerate its cyberattacks on Europe, Dutch military intelligence warned today — and the threat is only expected to grow.

Deep sigh. Yes, nicotine is "natural". So are aflatoxin, ricin, cocaine, and botulinum. Please don't equate "natural" with "good for you". Gift link if you really want to raise your blood pressure by reading about this stupidity... www.nytimes.com/2026...

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

Was just asked to spread the word about this position. Structural biology and Chemical Biology positions in Barcelona, one of the great cities of the world! www.irbbarcelona.org/sites/defaul...

#ESR Dépenses intérieures brutes de R&D (DIRD) Chine - USA - Union européenne (2007-2024) Millions de dollars USD (PPA aux prix de 2020) (source www.oecd.org/fr/data/insi...)

Tired of depthless Hollywood shit, we watched this yesterday. It's the type of movie I would catch in the sneak preview, but never choose myself. But these never disappoint and this was no less the case yesterday. It's a beautiful movie, even for non-natives. www.imdb.com/title/tt1081...

Wij dachten misschien zoiets

I'm a broken record on this but the radicalisation and brain rot of Gen X/boomers is a massively under-appreciated problem

This is how ham is sold in France..

So there I am, enthusiastically writing an abstract for this conference to which I registered 6 months ago... ... only to discover that I already submitted an abstract when I registered!

A researcher invented a disease called “bixonimania” and wrote clearly bogus articles on Medium and arXiv about it, referencing Starfleet Academy, Sideshow Bob, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Within months, major AI apps were diagnosing users with bixonimania. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Just look at that gap to number 3! 😲

Demis Hassabis shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2024 for designing AI models that could predict how proteins fold. We speak to the boss of Google DeepMind

Good morning, fellas🫶

ROCKET is giving the Nobel Prize-winning AI-powered AlphaFold a serious upgrade in its ability to predict how proteins fold: https://bit.ly/4dUTZkG #science #biology #FlatironCCM