If you think LLM Chatbots are experts in ... anything ... you have seriously misunderstood what they are. They are arguably pretty good at making things that look like sentences. The correlation between those sentence-like things and factual truth is, shall we say, less than robust?

Black Smoke Rises From Coal-Fired Power Station in Traditional Sign That Liberal Party Has Chosen New Leader

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Chinese-Produced “Made in USA” Stickers Now 34% More Expensive

Last Friday we had our latest #RegRNALab outing at 'The Wizard's Chamber' Escape Room in Sydney 🪄 partly to welcome new PhD student, Adiela Gani. It was fun and we managed to work together to find the answer before the time was up. I wished all projects in the lab were this straightforward !!!

The deafening silence allowing this to happen is a real shame for humanity. Have we completely lost our conscience? 😢 😢 😢 www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Residents of Sydney have woken to yet another outbreak of appalling grammar in what authorities believe is the latest incident in a spate of anti-semantic attacks across the country.

Dutton has welcomed Trump’s insane Gaza plans, even after Trump’s administration has weasel-word walked back the statements, implicitly acknowledging how ridiculous they are. I really hope Australians are taking note of Dutton’s Trumpism. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Gotta say, it doesn't feel good that a few extremely powerful and evil billionaires are shaping the trajectory of history in terrible ways in front of our very eyes

Inauguration Marred By Deranged Man Walking Right Onto Stage

De joven nunca trabajó porque no tenía experiencia laboral. De mayor estaba en el paro porque le pedían ser joven otra vez. #microcuentos

there is no cat in this image

Perfect example of media inequality - as per my recent book. Industrial unrest is blamed on workers. Meanwhile, management is not called on to explain why they’ve not negotiated with workers in good faith. This is structural media bias - unions and workers always framed as villains, employer as hero

top 5 guesses: tabby [ 0.393 ] Egyptian cat [ 0.295 ] lynx [ 0.129 ] tiger cat [ 0.095 ] hyena [ 0.028 ]

Geometriphylogenetics xkcd.com/3010

The last part of my PhD research 🤓 is out!! If you are interested in RNA Biology -> Alternative Splicing and Epitranscriptomics + Evolution go have a look! A thread 🧵