"Have you ever had a pet rat?"
"Did you work in a lab with rats?"
"Perhaps you lived in squalor at some point?"

Towards end-to-end automation of AI research - Nature An artificial intelligence system can produce research papers with minimal human involvement, even passing the first round of peer review for the workshop of a main machine learning conference.

What could possibly go wrong?

"The AI Scientist, which creates research ideas, writes code, runs experiments, plots and analyses data, writes the entire scientific manuscript, and performs its own peer review"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

and Okaryu debut

WTK

His Roundness

In terms of pure wrestling (grappling) ability, hard to look past Aonishiki

Merlin agrees. Great pics BTW!

I managed to spot a couple here in LA this winter, where they're rare, but I know they're very common up there. I'm looking at the uniform gray on the wings and the tail...

Glaucous-winged?

What a huge loss. A brilliant scientist and an amazing human being who had an enormous impact on my career. One of the true giants.

Time to reset the scandal clock

So jealous

But it does it quickly and congratulates you for asking

👋

63F when I rolled out for my morning ride, brutal

"wet work" maybe not the best wording 😉

Still fondly remember Cape Breton Bird Island tour many years later.

Going back to the start of the Scientific Revolution in the 16th century, it's rarely been easy, and we have science today only because our predecessors continued.

No idea how this wasn't called a matta

Rare variation in malaria parasites biases population-genetic inference Understanding how pathogens evolve is fundamental to disease control and is a basic question in evolutionary biology, yet pathogens with complex life cycles violate assumptions of classic evolutionary...

New preprint! and my first single-author paper, so bear with me.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Malaria population genetic studies have found some puzzling patterns: Ne estimates spanning orders of magnitude, genome-wide negative Tajima's D, and over a quarter of genes with πN/πS >1

1/n

I'm guessing he got some credit for a joi schedule despite only facing two lower sanyaku. Either that or they love 4-11 records for some reason

12W, flipped with Abi

Less surprising when you look at Hiradoumi and Oshoma (I had Shodai at M9W in my prediction FWIW)

Gene-specific selective sweeps are pervasive across human gut microbiomes - Nature Development and application of the integrated linkage disequilibrium score (iLDS) reveals both selective pressures impacting the human gut microbiome and the mechanisms by which gut bacteria adapt to ...

Grateful to share our paper on gene-specific selective sweeps in human gut microbiomes, now out in Nature! It has been a joy to work with @rwolff.bsky.social, whose insights and hard work made this possible.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Good thing we were very critical in evaluating our own results, because the reviewers sure weren't."

Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.

Website Task Flowchart

xkcd.com/3175/

I remember the Kyokutaisei doc 😢

he probably needs to win both given the number of promotion cases—it's not impossible to hold on with a 6-9 from M16, but not if there's a legit replacement

5-0 now, after beating Tochimusashi with minimal effort

reminds me of what happens when I take a photo while cycling and put the phone back in my jersey pocket while the camera is still on 😉