Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think

LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text But... can they? We don’t actually know. In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test. And our findings are striking: LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵

(With apologies to Randall Munroe)

I really really really liked The Oatmeal’s take on AI here theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

New pre-print from our group showing remarkable synchrony of proliferative growth and regulated cell death during plant infection- each conidial cell has a different fate - by the rice blast fungus. Led by Alice Eseola with @osesmir.bsky.social Lauren Ryder @danmaclean.bsky.social and Martin Egan

Great to hear Burnham's been to Mancwalk 2000.

Normalize never saying "leverage" or "utilize" as a verb. Tempted? "Use" is right there! Simple words are better words

"It has never been clearer: this is a class war, mediated through one person." Love this article from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social. I snorted several times, but she makes some serious points: in the eyes of the tabloids, the working class Rayner can't win, whatever she does.

$ ls -laht drwxrwsr-x 3 uname grp 27 Nov 16 2006 .nautilus drwxrws--- 3 uname grp 26 Nov 16 2006 .metacity -rwxrwx--- 1 uname grp 26 Nov 16 2006 .dmrc 😐

Chris outlining the different AI coding agents that can be used for ontology development. Working on documenting best practices for this ai4curation.GitHub.io/aidocs #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025

Today #BOSC2025 and #BOKR (formerly Bioontologies) COSI’s, Chris Mungall is doing the keynote on Open KBs in the age of generative AI #ISMBECCB2025

*Learning visualization in Python as an R user* #ggplot

I work with a lot of very intelligent people - the experts in a very select field - yet every morning they fight over the parking spots in the shade. By lunchtime they're all in full sun and my unwanted "sunny" spot keeps my car nice and cool. They never learn.

AlphaFold is great, but contrary to public opinion it has not completely solved the protein folding problem. Much work remains to be done. clauswilke.substack.com/p/no-alphafo...

I recently ran a session at CSAMA with Laurent Gatto and this is the way. "Good enough" with knowledge of the tools that can help you get there. Here's some of the recs from the paper.

I told you we’d be back

"AI" - dashare.zone ADMIN

Afternoon stroll

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

#Rstats is being rewritten in Rust, and the R Core already has a book coming out!

The frightening thing about the Vogons was their absolute mindless determination to do whatever mindless thing it was they were determined to do. There was never any point in trying to appeal to their reason because they didn't have any.

"A GO term analysis? how is this helpful?"

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Plenty of tortured phrases (arxiv.org/abs/2107.0...) in this #IEEE paper. ieeexplore.ieee.org/... My pubpeer report: pubpeer.com/publicat...#IEEE

"They would appear," said Ford doubtfully, "to have turned into a bowl of petunias and a very surprised looking whale..."

I don’t know what vibe coding means and I don’t intend to find out!

Im often frustrated by my lack of time, and resentful of how much busywork I have to do in my job, but reviewing is never a "wasted workday". Im often late with them, but reviewing is about respect, reciprocity and being part of a community of scholars--those who review my work are similarly busy.

“Language behavior cannot, in its entirety, be captured in representations appropriate for automation and computational processing. Written language constitutes only part of human linguistic activity” www.theregister.com/2024/08/30/a...

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

Wordle 1,344 2/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Blimey.

In 2020 this was merely a very funny tweet. Now it’s the top answer when you ask Google “What is soup?”

Amazing to me how useful looking at data in 2D PCA continues to be, even though the approach sounds crazy on paper—"p-dimensional ellipsoid", rantings of a madman. PCA is the cockroach of dimension reduction. I expect it to be present in any advanced galactic civilization.

Pedant's Note: Neither 12pm nor 12am are a thing. Thanks.

While I agree that UMAPs can be problematic, I also think that statisticians have a lot to answer for with regard to the general debasement of modern science towards p-values instead of critical thinking and model building. That has been far more damaging than a couple of silly plots.

I can’t i just … i can’t www.404media.co/anthropic-cl...

#Deepseek #OpenAI

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us www.404media.co/openai-furio... #openAI #deepseek #ethics

Can’t argue with facts 🤣

I’m new here, please help me spread the word about our new #tenuretrack #bioinformatics position! St. George 84770, UT Assistant Professor of Biology – Bioinformatics emphasis www.schooljobs.com/careers/utah...

This article might mark the most times ‘bullshit’ or ‘bullshitters’ has ever featured in a @nature.com story. Some of the latest research ideas to curb AI hallucinations/ confabulations/ bullshit, though it can’t be avoided entirely. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

At his first conference, Dean was disappointed that the Professors seemed more interested in talking to each other than reading his carefully prepared poster. Dean would soon learn. All muggle borns must learn the strange ways of the wizarding world.

If a scientist who uses a microscope in their work never learns how to use a microscope, we find them a new career. If a scientist uses statistics in their work but never learns how to use statistics, we promote them even faster, and let them decide how other people should use statistics.

Thinks: "Why do bioinformatics and Unix tips feeds so rarely present anything new to me - I used to love these things!" Notes own age. Thinks: "Ah."

it has been 8 beautiful days since we hired our most talented and lawful employee. also why have 54 police cars and the entire London Zoological Society gathered in the museum café

Cold inky night, Blanketed with fog, Warm street lights pool, Around a pissing dog, The slam of a door, A clatter of tins, Reminds you warm in bed, You’ve forgotten the bastard bins. #goodnight

Clean energy pioneer’s lab destroyed in suspected arson attack in Liverpool www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The media since 2015.