Job for data scientists: Cluster of excellence Future Forests searching for a full-time permanent data steward associated with the Central Data Facility @uni-freiburg.de
uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
Our high-precision metagenomic strain caller, PHLAME, is now published in Cell Reports!! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
PHLAME works on tough sample types -- including those with coexisting strains of a species and low depth.
Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy...
...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.
reddit screenshot r/technology 70 people here Al's Biggest Threat: Young People W... 4.3k upvotes • 442 comments SonofRodney • 6h I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using ai, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that chatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realize that they should not use it as a primary source.
this seems like a very good idea actually
No, I don't think there is any need for you, me or anyone to have access to ChatGPT or CoPilot just to help you plan your kid's birthday party, or find nearby restaurants, or plan your holiday for you, or do your homework for you, or write your book review for you, all to see the world burn.
Aerial view of ruins of a Roman theater by the Mediterranean coast, with a semicircular seating area, stage, and surrounding stone columns. Beyond the theater, extensive ruins of buildings, colonnades, and walls spread across a dry, scrub-covered landscape, with the blue sea and in the background.
For #AncientSiteSunday let's go to Leptis Magna on the coast of Libya. It's one of the best preserved #Roman cities. The city was founded in the 7th century BC by the Phoenicians. In Roman times it became one of the most important...🧵 1/2
🏺 #archaeology
Check all the r and r package versions. Also the linear modelling packages like lapack might be different
The increasing intermittency of….nuclear power stations:
Source: Financial Times | “Heatwaves test Europe’s electricity system as air conditioning use soars” on.ft.com/4fsSclS
Undruggable No More: AI Hits Disordered Proteins, Unlocks Therapy Targets
David Baker’s Nobel Prize-winning lab has successfully designed high affinity binders to disordered proteins, expanding therapeutic access to over 50% of the human proteome
www.genengnews.com/t...
🇨🇳 China installed 464 GW of solar capacity in the 12 months to June☀️
That's more than the total EU solar capacity as of 2024 (338 GW) and DOUBLE the total US solar capacity (229 GW).
...in just 12 months
Structural basis for promoter recognition and transcription factor binding and release in human mitochondria: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Immer weniger Wirkstoffe sind im Pflanzenschutz zugelassen, biologische Alternativen kaum verfügbar.
Ein Erfolg für Umwelt- und Verbraucherschutz einerseits, doch für viele Kulturen gefährdet es die Ernährungssouveränität. Neuer Beitrag von @janmandelkow.bsky.social jetzt im Blog:
When someone asks what parenting be like… 😂🤣
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This is figure 1, which shows the exploration of global venoms for antimicrobial discovery.
A study in Nature Communications used AI to mine global venom proteomes and discovered novel peptides with antimicrobial activity. Several candidates showed efficacy against drug-resistant bacteria in laboratory and animal tests. go.nature.com/4f0zYb4 #medsky 🧪
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...
Over the last couple of years I have been writing individual chapters of what I call
𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Each chapter covers a specific, basic, but for some reason special and interesting aspect of #PlantScience research.
Have a look here 👇🧵
We released another 500 DNA methylation datasets for ATCC Genome Portal reference genomes - bringing us up to 2,000 microbes now with that data and on track to have all 6,000+ microbes in the AGP paired with methylation info. What data? this data. (more details below 👇)
👀 Consider establishing a research programme at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK (@johninnescentre.bsky.social) and join a thriving community of scientists working on plant-associated microbe interactions.
2035: All scientific thinking is done by agentic AI but labs are not yet fully automated
The last postdoc on earth is paid $55k a year to generate the global supply of cell culture data by hand
100,000 papers are AI-generated about each new datapoint
The h-index singularity
Map of sea surface temperature anomalies for June 2025 in the vicinity of Europe, showing exceptional warmth in the Western Mediterranean.
The Western Mediterranean has been record warm recently, shown here for the June averages from ERA5.
This much warmth in the Mediterranean may predict a brutally hot summer for Europe.
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Come join us in Wageningen for awesome plant developmental biology!!!
oh look
"What was supposed to save money had, instead, caused a host of problems."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no... Just, NO!
Mark Butcher 1) Sandra used AI to write a report 2) Bill used AI to summarise the report 3) Bill used AI to write questions about the report 4) Sandra used AI to respond to the questions 5) Bill used AI to create a presentation about the report 6) Jane used AI to take notes from the presentation 7) Jane’s team used AI to summarise the notes she shared No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers. No business value was achieved But but but AI adds business value
Even linkedin gets it
Important science! but also
I LOVE THIS VIDEO. 🧪🌍
It’s completely beyond me why US voters support withdrawing the availability of vaccines that prevent their children, and those in poor countries, from suffering from infectious childhood diseases.
All on account of RFK’s completely debunked conspiracy theories.
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Opportunity for #AI, #ML and #cheminformatics scientist at AstraZeneca (Cambridge UK) duration: 12 months | duration: 12 months | closing: 13-Jul-2025 #CADD #DrugDesign #DrugDiscovery #CompChem #UKChemJobs #chemsky 🧪
astrazeneca.eightfold.ai/careers/job/...
The Wellcome Trust is to fund a controversial project to create artificial human DNA 25 years after the human genome was completed. 🧪
