pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

This is what a New Era looks like.

The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate. A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.

A person using chatgpt will never get better at the activity than they were the day before they started using it. They will literally have removed learning, and gaining experience, from the process in a way no actual tool does.

I reverse engineered MaDonalds reciept/survey code generator. I can now create as many codes as I want for £2.99 meal deals. It's great for birthday parties and a valuable lesson for my kids on why Python is important in life.

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

Since early 2024 we have been working with @brukercorporation.bsky.social on the first prototype timsOmni instrument, integrating an Omnitrap into a timsTOF. Here we report for the first time on the use of this instrument for protein-centric antibody sequencing. See www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

That’s Elon Musk, Fellow of the Royal Society, I’ll have you know. Because the Royal Society can only seem to come up with throat-clearing noises as a response to these sorts of statements instead of actually throwing him out.

It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...

The Supreme Court of Queensland has ruled that the Crisafulli government failed to properly consult with executives of hospitals and health services, as required under the state law, before implementing the puberty blocker ban.

Queensland’s controversial puberty blocker ban overturned by supreme court

This was the "polite society" way of saying what I wrote in my blog, for those who can´t see behind the StatNews paywall. 🔽

For the first time I have felt a shiver of fear because an AI can do my job exactly as well as I can.

every sports team is a Ship of Theseus

"Willett, who died of influenza in 1915, never experienced the change in clocks, but his idea has been picked up all over the world." You can thank Mr Willett, for tomorrow sleep in and also do get a vaccine 🧪😎 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Our @narjournal.bsky.social manuscript is out! It explores the growth of the GTDB (gtdb.ecogenomic.org) since its inception, as well as updates to the website, methodology, policies, and major taxonomic and nomenclatural changes over the past three years. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Nuts to see the widespread media backpatting of Albanese after he ensures Aus critical minerals will be - Shipped to a country that'll use them for weapons and AI slop data centres instead of for the energy transition - Extracted in an env toxic way thanks to the deregulation promised in the deal

I'm seeing some scientists, including medical researchers, say that this view is too paranoid. I, in all my disciplinary and institutional capacities, do not think this is paranoid at all.

In my talks this wk, I placed my notion of the importance of drawing badly to find unexpected connections alongside my Ai statement - we need that struggle, to make mistakes in order to be surprised - it’s the decisions along the way that make us who we are and there is no shortcut to getting there…

My neighbour complained about all the songbirds that keep coming into my garden because of the bird feeder I have out there. So I bought more bird feeders and now get more songbirds visiting.

“American higher education has more women enrolled than ever before. More people of color than ever before. An educated populace is a civically engaged populace, a populace capable of critical thinking…that success threatens the wealth and power of those orchestrating these attacks.”

‘Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth’ by @philipcball.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As I wrote before the legislation even hit parliament www.theguardian.com/media/articl...

Open Group Leader Positions at the IMB, UQ. Interested in joining us in sunny Queensland?

Every time the government accepts money from the gambling industry, it increases its debts to companies whose business models are based on preying on young and vulnerable people, and doing them harm. The Albanese government does this again and again. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Pretty damn awful to see the Queensland government trying to rebrand as Trumpland, but extra special awful to see the QLD renewable energy lobby shrugging it off as fine because they're getting a few crumbs thrown their way. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Wow, way worse than I expected. Way, way worse. All these extra years of coal-fired power generation in QLD will directly cause a massive number of avoidable deaths and harm to people, and destroy huge swathes of nature. Why isn't there more anger? www.treasury.qld.gov.au/files/Queens...

indescribably bad. The renewable energy lobby actively celebrating a plan that'll massively extend coal-fired power output by decades. WHAT A COOL TIME WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

The best time to flee was a decade ago. The second best time is anyway you can by any means possible *if you can* And be as quiet as a mouse as you do it. No newspaper articles, no goodbye parties, don’t tell people you’re leaving until you’re safe elsewhere www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My cat, who never sits on my lap, actually sat on my lap this morning. And is still there right now. I had to call in sick to work so he can sit on me as long as he wants.

If you ever end up recording a final message, ensure you dedicate a good chunk of it to roasting your nemeses, like Jane Goodall did futurism.com/future-socie...

♥️ @kurzgesagt.org youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?...

Tomorrow is #ChemNobel day!! 🥳🥳 While we are all waiting eagerly for the announcement, my cat Salem suggest to you #chemsky friends some important reading to quench the nerves, 1) ACS important content: www.acs.org/pressroom/re... And... 1/2 🧵

This is so disappointing. Fundamental **aka DISCOVERY ** science underpins training of the next generation of scientists, irrespective of if they go into translation labs or not. Failure to support it = turning off the tap. No discoveries, nothing to translate. Weak workforce #NHMRC

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

Complete waste to have an AI actress who just looks like a regular human. We already have those. She should have a hand growing out of her face or something

Cat: meow? Me: I don't know how to explain better that you literally just ate fish, you are literally stuffed full of fish. You physically cannot eat more fish, just look at you. Cat: meow. Me: No time does not work differently in the "cat dimension" that is not even a thing

I may have been at a small advantage, but I had a great time racing in the Australian Orienteering Sprint Championships at The University of Queensland on the weekend 🏃‍♀️🌳

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

I was part of the organising team for the Australian Orienteering Long Distance Championships over the weekend overlooking Wivenhoe Dam west of Brisbane🏃‍♀️🌳 Hot, steep, speedy running, fun, and very successful!

I went into today pretty sure we were in fascist consolidation end game phase. I'm leaving today still pretty sure we're in fascist consolidation end game phase, but also increasingly convinced that the Fascist Strongman is confused about it and keeps calling off the viziers' end game chess moves.

Fantastic results for orienteers at the 2025 Trail Running Short World Championships, with Tove Alexandersson and Frédéric Tranchand coming home with wins www.irunfar.com/2025-trail-w...

Tylenol waged a massive PR war after someone tampered with like one bottle. It was so successful that it’s studied in media and PR classes decades later. Did anyone think they would let RFK lie about them?

Nope, not an April fool's. Just complete insanity. "built for eduction" but it hallucinates bs and never tells you that you or it might be wrong "enhanced privacy and security" just don't worry about ethics or environmental impact RIP Oxford

In case anyone was still wondering if Trump's America is really fascist, the man himself has confirmed it

I am anti-fascism Should not be a controversial position.