"The hot take that AI will transform education is running about 780 papers ahead of the evidence. Why? Marketing. Buzz. FOMO. Yep. Evidence that it does anything unique to help kids? Not much."

Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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The Dept of Chemistry at UC Irvine invites applications for a tenured faculty position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Deadline: July 1, 2026.

More information about the position can be found here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10109

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Thanks a mill Peter

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Postdoctoral Researcher, 4 years. Cheminformatics/CUDA - Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland job with Dublin City University | 41069 You will use a combination of CUDA, Python and C++ to develop pharmacophore-based tools to screen the human proteome for bioactive compounds

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Can’t believe the news, Disney shutting down the marvel. vis dev department. This teams art made them billions and billions of dollars, but it seems that paying a handful or so of fulltime illustrators is simply too much to ask these days.

A headline in Business Insider: "Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees". The image below shows Rajesh Jha giving a talk on a stage.

What are we even doing?

"Generative artificial intelligence (AI) still lacks the reasoning (???) processes needed for safe clinical use, a new study has found"

Wow, surprisongly my coffee machine doesn't bake bread either 🤔

1 in 10 Google AI search summaries are wrong (google’s own internal testing of Gemini puts it closer to 1 in 4). Using AI as a question and answer machine—like 99% of AI-based ed tech—is choosing misinformation.

Our sun eclipsed by the moon. The "dark side of the moon" and the "Earthset".

Amazing views from Artemis II and a change of perspectives.

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Credits: NASA

Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!

Work Copilot training has already used the words/phrases “reasoning”, “intelligent”, and “unleash” and “it generates facts". Someone stage an intervention before I pour my tea into my computer.

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence -but we are as valuable as ever| Stephen Marche The Guardian The, GuardianOpinions

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

My college is rolling out an AI buddy for students and I… want them to have real friends? I am still close friends with people I met in college. They changed my life for the better. They remind me of who I was. When I was great, when I was shitty. One night some of them saved my life.

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently."

Microsoft: LOL

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

Tens of thousands of papers published in 2025 contain fake/hallucinated citations, an analysis by Nature and Grounded AI suggests
By @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social and Beth Quill | @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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My main gripe with the alphafold example is how it shows you need decades and decades of high quality data, well structured, open and accessible to train a model -- and yet they always gloss over it and pretend it's just AI and magic. No, we need to continuously invest in real data and FAIR data.

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

"The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing."

www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Assessing Boltz-2 Performance for the Binding Classification of Docking Hits The recently released Boltz-2 cofolding model is generating high expectations by enabling both protein–ligand structure and binding affinity predictions. When applied to a recently described and chall...

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"In the absence of true prospective validations of Boltz-2
usage to select hit compounds from docking screens, we
therefore advise remaining very skeptical with respect to
affinity predictions outputted by this AI cofolding program (...)"

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Me when I click on an in-line citation in an online article and it takes me to the references section of the same article instead of opening the new article in a new tab

50 years ago today, Star Wars began filming

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free

2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

Associate Director, Discovery Informatics At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments...

Opportunity for Associate Director in Discovery #Informatics at Johnson & Johnson (USA: Spring House PA or Cambridge MA) ref: R-059407 | closing: 10-Apr-2026 #DataScience #cheminformatics #chemsky 🧪
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It is absolutely astonishingly impressive how much work scientific publishers have managed to shunt onto authors, who aren't paid, while they continue to increase their enormous profits. The submission process itself takes about 5 hours. I miss the 90s 😢

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