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Sequence, Function, and the Question of Imitation in AI
Date/Time (CET) of the talk: April 23rd 2026, 17:00 CET
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“Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.”
― Confucius, The Analects
I think most people would prefer this. #Science
![Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifdsd32pjwefxji33c5eferlek4o6kkadoosqisb5uatqjmrq4q4q)
Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.
Make It Myself
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Irene Cazzaniga, Toni Giorgino: MDIntrinsicDimension: Dimensionality-Based Analysis of Collective Motions in Macromolecules from Molecular Dynamics Trajectories https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13550 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.13550 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.13550
The only thing more ridiculous than translating niche scientific software is providing separate localizations for US and UK.
Current status.
Renato Guttuso (Italian, 1911–1987)
"La Vucciria", 1974.
Oil on Canvas, 300 × 300 cm.
Palazzo Steri in Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."
Structural biology is in an era of dynamics & assemblies but turning raw experimental data into atomic models at scale remains challenging. @minhuanli.bsky.social and I present ROCKET🚀: an AlphaFold augmentation that integrates crystallographic and cryoEM/ET data with room for more! 1/14.
And by AI I mean the current economic system
In a sense, AI are already telling us that humans are largely redundant. Just not explicitly.
An announcement of two presentations from the protein design workflows group. The first is AI.zymes by Adrian Bunzel and the second is BinderFlow by Carlos Chacon. It is announced that the talks are March 31, 2026 at 5 p.m. CET or 11 a.m. ET via Zoom. There are two images to represent each presentation. AI.zymes shows a protein that is gray, black, and blue in the middle. BinderFlow shows protein spirals that are yellow, purple, and red.
Tomorrow, March 31 is the next Protein Design Workflows Group presentation. Join us via Zoom for two presentations: AI.zymes with Adrian Bunzel and BinderFlow with Carlos Chacón, and thoughtful discussions. For more information, join the group’s mailing list: groups.google.com/g/protein-de....
So we built a society on bullshit jobs, and now a machine came that can bullshit better than us?
Somebody thought we could worship a black box to save us from black boxes...
Author Steven Vickers wrote on Threads, "To confirm, this '100% AI generated' passage is the opening of Chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I think authors are going to get screwed in these AI witch hunts."
I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.
The Jetsons lied to us
“AI agents should have no more rights or freedoms than my laptop”
“If society surrenders to the illusion of sentient AI, it risks entering a digital hall of mirrors from which it might never fully emerge” writes @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social in our WorldView column
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Postdoc position: Computational Biophysics of Disordered Proteins, Lindorff-Larsen group, University of Copenhagen, Denmark https://tinyurl.com/REWIRE-PD Deadline May 3rd, 2026
We are hiring a postdoc in computational biophysics and machine learning studies of intrinsically disordered proteins
We aim to study the function of IDPs by combining CG MD, ML and bioinformatics in collaboration with @tanjamittag.bsky.social & @rhp-lab.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/REWIRE-PD
Microscope images of Ryugu samples collected from the first and second touchdown sites of the Hayabusa2 mission, respectively. Credit: JAXA / JAMSTEC
The complete set of nucleobases found in terrestrial DNA and RNA — adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil — have been detected in samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu, according to research in Nature Astronomy. go.nature.com/3P9A9YN 🔭 🧪
The nicest article about JPEG compression, by @sophielwang.bsky.social The moment there are color stats involved, I’m in.
It’s so well done it makes me think we need some kind of online library where articles like this get preserved.
www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg
I build a feed for european grant funding that's updated daily and (IMO) far more transparent then the official EU fundign website: michelnivard.github.io/eu-grants-fe... (inspired by the NIH equivalent @sashagusevposts.bsky.social build yesterday)
Image from their link showing evidence of fabricated references
Holy smoke. What ultimately happened???
with AI (or anything else), i.e. classical rentiers, billionaires, AI owners. Education will likely become off-screen, targeted to learn critical thinking, for the very few who can afford to (maybe; otherwise just parroting their clan's tacit knowledge); slop vocational tutorials for the masses.
