Whether we like it or not, AI is here and not going anywhere. The excellent colleagues behind @callingbullshit.bsky.social (@jevinwest.bsky.social & @carlbergstrom.com) now have a great resource to help us understand AI and how to deal with it. Highly recommended! thebullshitmachines.com/index.html

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

Look at this crazy thing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One of those days when you feel very lucky to have the job you do. Everyone is working hard, your colleagues go the extra mike to support you, and things work out, even if at the last minute.

I guess art is there for us to agree or disagree with.

My one and only reply from now on to anyone making fun of Spaniards for their siesta habits. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

This sounds true to me

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

If I ever get rich I won't tell anyone, but there will be signs.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Not entirely sure what the lunch menu is, but it sure made fishing look easy.

If you were a gannet, where would you want to live?

We all need a rest sometimes.

Telomere-to-telomere DNA sequencing is set to transform the field of human genetics in coming years. For a flavour of what's coming, see this exciting work on nearly complete genomes of 65 individuals from diverse populations, out today in @nature.com by @glennislogsdon.bsky.social & colleagues. 👇🧬🧪

📢 We're hiring 5 postdocs across multiple projects! Spanning germline demethylation, gene regulation and genome architecture in development and disease! Apply now!

Interested in using functional data to understand clinical variants? Been hunting for a good review of the topic? We just wrote one! rdcu.be/exaEU

Remember folks, your AI is only as good as the training data and so it looks backwards rather than forwards….

Walking back home so deep in my thoughts that the corner shop guy stops me to ask: is everything ok? So this is my face after an actually very good day. I don't want to imagine how I look after a bad one.

Sometimes 8:30pm in London looks like this

as a clear blue sky all my favourite people somehow just feel right

"Tan absurdo y fugaz es nuestro paso por el mundo, que solo me deja tranquila el saber que he sido auténtica, que he logrado ser lo mas parecida a mí misma que he podido”. En recuerdo de Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón, nacida tal día como hoy de 1907. #FridaKahlo

skipping my vacation because chatgpt can simply summarize everywhere I would have visited for me

Sleep when the baby sleeps, eat when the baby eats, edit your manuscript when the baby edits their manuscript

The UK Govt just released its 10 year plan for the NHS and it is legitimately ambitious and exciting. Genomic population health features heavily... on the cover even! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686638...

AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception. Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs. Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...

I've been to conference venues with worse views.

So many chairs. For people to enjoy themselves. For free. It often feels like you always have to spend money to have fun. Not if you are resourceful. The kind of resources that matter.

Why did cephalopods develop intelligence? And why, being so intelligent and cognitively complex, do they die so young? In this @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social ‪paper, the authors explore this paradox from an ecological and evolutionary perspective. www.cell.com/action/showP...

Ceci n'est pas Londres.

“The idea that taking walks, reading things unrelated to your research, and hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking, but might well meet with skepticism in practice.” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited to launch our AlphaGenome API goo.gle/3ZPUeFX along with the preprint goo.gle/45AkUyc describing and evaluating our latest DNA sequence model powering the API. Looking forward to seeing how scientists use it! @googledeepmind

So much promise in a summer morning.

For reasons, I ended up reading this day. I would be lying if it said it made my day, because my day was already top top, but it definitely brightned it even more. 'On being the right size' www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3...

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Excellent and thought-provoking. A highly recommended read

It may be true (I don't know enough neuroscience to say) that LLMs & human brains use similar techniques to make connections between concepts & learn. But most humans don't speak confidently & coherently about something unless they actually know it. The ones who do... well, we have words for them.

A system already exists to over-confidently state incorrect facts to women, thanks, we don’t need another one

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? We’re not clear on what intelligence is, at all

📢 Episode 4 of the #eshg Webinar Series is on June 25 at 16:00 CEST! 🧬 Speaker: Kaitlin Samocha on variant interpretation using population data 💻 Registration is free but mandatory: wma.eventsair.com/eshg-webinar... 📩 Past registrants will receive the Zoom link automatically.

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Your genome is not a blueprint. A thread about misleading metaphors in science communication. 🧬🧪 1/n

Happy Father's day as well to all the bug dads. Male water bugs, Belostomatidae, carry their partner's eggs around on their backs until they hatch, making sure the temperature and oxygen levels are acceptable, and the predators are at bay.

Lizzie Radford. Saturation Genome Editing in SLC2A1. Essentiality screens to assess the impact of VUS. #CCG2025

Good science ✔️ New ideas ✔️ Stimulating chats ✔️ A proper summer night ✔️ This is life being gentle to me.

Veronica Kinsler. Beautiful talk on mosaic disorders. #CCG2025

There are worse places to wake up to.

Steven Harrison on ACMG standards for sequence variant classification. #CCG2025

Galicia is a great place to live, and Ceres is a brilliant scientist to work with. It might not look like it, but it is a completely unbiased statement.