Démodé (2013) www.nature.com/articles/nph.... This short story imagines a future where AI systems designed to read and write scientific papers begin evolving on their own. At first, they help, running massive meta-analyses and accelerating discovery. Then they stop writing for us. 1/🧵
To be fair, this is how all the biggest AI infrastructure providers are bankrolling their growth: Google/Meta fund capex through their ads, Microsoft through Windows licenses. Now xAI has that sweet Starlink revenue.
But I don't think Starlink has the margins that software/ads do.
🧬¿Conoces El Proyecto Genoma Humano?
Te invitamos a conocer uno de los hitos que ha marcado la ciencia, de la mano de expertos como la Dra. Encarna Guillén (@sjdhospitalbarcelona.org) que nos descubrirá su impacto en la medicina de precisión
🔗 Registro: www.cnag.eu/events/el-pr...
🌐Alfonso Valencia sobre la nueva función de #OpenAI con la que impulsa a sus usuarios a compartir su historia clínica con #ChatGPT: "Va a cometer errores, a generar malas interpretaciones y a poner al doctor en una posición complicada".
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
These days CNIO personal spontaneusly decorate corridors, labs, the cafeteria... And some of them have even shared ther musical talent in the first New Year Concert, filled with best wishes for the Christmas Season and for 2026 ✨
More info: https://bit.ly/3KJJW69
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La 'biología del big data' ya ajusta más las terapias a cada paciente.
300 especialistas han presentado sus últimos avances en las XV Jornadas de Bioinformática #JBI2025 (Madrid).
Organizadores: @bioinformatics.cnio.es, INB/ELIXIR-ES @cnb-csic.bsky.social y @biodata.pt
What a time to be alive
La Fundación Instituto Roche ofrece 4 becas de formación para cursar este máster. Suponen el 80% de la matrícula y este año las han conseguido David Dueñas, Jorge Santos, Mario López y Sofía Trigo.
¡Enhorabuena!
#CienciaDatosMPP #MPP
🔘Nueva edición del Máster de Bioinformática del BSC, @cniostopcancer.bsky.social, @saludisciii.bsky.social ciii.bsky.social y SEBiot
▶ Codirigido por Fatima Al-Shahrour y @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social, es el segundo en el mundo con la certificación de la @iscb.bsky.social
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Black and white portrait of John Gurdon, 1971
John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died.
Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology.
More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...
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What's the deadline for submitting proposals?
We’re looking for an enthusiastic postdoc to join our team. 😊
The project focuses on protein design and cryo-EM applied to cancer research. 🔬🧪
The position is fully funded for 3 years.
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⏰ ¡Última semana para inscribirse en el Máster de Bioinformática del ISCIII! ¡Aún estas a tiempo!
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🏅 Acreditación oficial @iscb.bsky.social
🤝 Colaboran SEBiot e Instituto Roche
The grave risks for science as the whole of leaving fundamental scientific infrastructure in the hands of for-profit capitalist company. Essential scholarly services should be internationally curated by value-based societies/orders/colleges.
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New #HPC Job! 😎️
HPC Engineer
Location: Madrid, Spain
Employer: Spanish National Cancer Research Centre
Remote: Remote friendly
If you ever thought banking apps blocking you if you don't have a Google account was frustrating, imagine a world where the EU blocks you from accessing resources unless you accept Google's ToS...
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At @bioinformatics.cnio.es, we're looking for an HPC engineer to help us boost the scientific computing infrastructure at @cniostopcancer.bsky.social. Apply or get in touch for more details!
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🔔 Abierto el 2º plazo de preinscripción del Máster en Bioinformática del ISCIII
🧬 Aún nos quedan plazas...¡pero son limitadas!
📆 ¡No pierdas la oportunidad! ¡Aún estás a tiempo!
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A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.
This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
"A hypothesis on the accelerating decline of reading: * Broadly speaking, people read for pleasure/entertainment and for learning/obtaining information. * Reading for pleasure has been declining for a while and is being replaced by videos (very sharply among young people). This trend will surely continue. * Reading for obtaining information is getting intermediated by chatbots. We are in the very early stages of this shift, so I think people underappreciate the magnitude of what's coming. It's not just that AI replacing traditional web search. Even when it comes to reading news articles, business documents, or scientific papers, the vision that tech companies are pushing on us is AI summarization + synthesis + Q&A. * We don't have to accept this, but I predict that most people will. It's a tradeoff between speed/convenience and accuracy/depth of understanding — the same tradeoff that was once offered to us when it became possible to search the web to look up a quick fact as opposed to reading about the topic in depth in an encyclopedia. * Just as most people in most cases prefer a shallow web search over deeper reading, most people in most cases will prefer AI-intermediated access to knowledge. Traditional reading won't disappear, but people will do it vastly less often, except in hobbyist reading communities and professions where traditional reading is needed. * The decline of reading-for-pleasure (due to video) and reading-for-information (due to AI) will accelerate each other, as reading text without an intermediary will come to be seen as a chore. * Personally, I find this sad. But while it's tempting to moralize all this, I think that's unproductive. Yelling at individuals to resist new media has been done for centuries and has never worked. * Even if people individually rationally choose these tradeoffs, I think we collectively lose something; critical reading skills are arguably essential for a democracy. We need to figure out what to do about that.
clear, depressing set of observations from @randomwalker.bsky.social - "The decline of reading-for-pleasure (due to video) and reading-for-information (due to AI) will accelerate each other, as reading text without an intermediary will come to be seen as a chore."
Glad to see this out, and to have contributed in a miniscule way to what will hopefully be an excellent resource: long read assemblies of 17 strains of mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
¡Abierta la preinscripción del Máster en Bioinformática y Ciencias de Datos en Medicina Personalizada de Precisión y Salud 2025/26!
📍Organizan: @saludisciii.bsky.social @cniostopcancer.bsky.social @bsc-cns.bsky.social
🤝 Colaboran: SEBiot,Instituto Roche
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🚀 Registration and abstract submissions are NOW OPEN for #JBI2025!
🗓️ Oct 22–24, 2025, in Madrid, Spain
🤝 Spain and Portugal #Bioinformatics and #ComputationalBiology communities
📰 Submit your work: abstract for talk/poster and highlight papers
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