This aligns with my experience teaching programming and visualisation. Last year I told the students they could use LLMs if they wanted to and the ones that off-loaded their thinking to the genAI didn't do well. Inspired by your post I might teach them a "good" Vs "bad" prompt and see if that helps!
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It will be a great time! UK Worm labs - please pass on group members.
Even this place is infected now 😭
The lineage relationships shown here are not factually correct.
Link broken 😞
Is the UK government anti-science or is UKRI?! Either way this will be the death knell for many a junior and aspiring group leader. Shocking decision making
I fail to see how a 43.5% drop in funding is compatible with the statement Ian Chapman made to the committee on Tuesday that funding for curiosity driven research at UKRI will be flat (which is technically still a cut but a smaller one).
The first domino to fall? The university sector is in dire straits and politicians on all sides of the UK borders have sat in silence.
Devastatingly sad.
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
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Woefully irresponsible of Nature Medicine to publish this comment from the NIH puppet director. Absolutely shocking.
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Vaccines, the most impressive public health intervention in medical history, and where we could be headed if there was not efforts to negate truth, facts, and evidence
A great, open-access, review and perspective by @scientificdiscovery.dev
🤯 Another tumour immune evasion strategy uncovered. This times it's MHC molecules that acts as decoys to distract cytotoxic T cells.
Fascinating work Emma. I strongly suspect we'll becoming back to these data over and over again as a resource to understand T cell ageing. Having not read the deets yet, how do the edited cells compare to genuine polarised effector vs. memory T cells? Is that a comparison you've done?
And just about Carnoustie on the east coast. I was wondering what this looked like as I slogged through the snow with the dog this morning.
I suspect timing will matter. Other countries rolled out varicella vaccination years ago (not sure of uptake) so more likely to see results from US, Germany, etc first. The Geldsetzer papers used data from older age vaccination, so this might also be important. Agree this is going to be fascinating.
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Screenshot of lecture plan for the 2026 lectures for the 'Missing Semester' IAP course at MIT
MIT's famous 'Missing Semester' course (for the Independent Activities Period in January is back.
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Doubley recommend both At the Helm and the EMBO courses Wolfgang linked to. They have been formative for how I've setup my lab and the philosophy I have for it's future. Also, talking to a diverse set of new PIs can give you some important insights into what worked for them specifically.
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What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
