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Axel Mosig

@axlmsg.bsky.social

Computational Life Scientist.

Axel Mosig @axlmsg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just quit from using Apple Mail, and have to say: what a relief! Apple Mail has become so clunky over the years that even a mediocre webmail client feels so smooth and functional.

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Peter Godfrey-Smith @petergs.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Plans for next year. Bochum, Germany.

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

A silly little comic based on the opening section of AI Snake Oil by @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social.

Panel 1: Text: “Imagine an alternate universe in which people don’t have words for different forms of transportation, only the collective noun ‘vehicle’.” Illustration: a stick figure stands next to a much more detailed motorcycle, which a speech bubble saying “Woah! Sweet vehicle!”
Panel 2: Text: “They use that word to refer to: cars, buses, bikes, spacecraft, and all other ways of getting from place A to place B.” Illustration: A car, a school bus, a bicycle, and a space shuttle, all with a stamp that says “vehicle” on them.

Panel 1: Text: “Conversations in this world are confusing.” Illustration: A speech bubble coming from the left: “Can you drive a vehicle?”, A speech bubble coming from the right: “Definitely!”, A illustration of a car crashed into a tree. Left speech bubble: “I thought you said you could drive!” Right speech bubble: “I can! I’m just used to ones with two wheels!”
Panel 2: Text: “There are furious debates about whether or not vehicles are environmentally friendly… even though no one realizes that one side is talking about bikes and the other is talking about trucks. Illustration: Left speech bubble: “Vehicles produce so much pollution!” Right speech bubble: “That’s an exaggeration! They are actually very green!”

Panel 1: Text: “There is a breakthrough in rocketry, but the media focuses on how vehicles have gotten faster so people call there car (‘car’ is crossed out and replaced with ‘vehicle’) dealer to ask when faster models will be available.” Illustration: A TV news report with a picture of a rocket ship and a chyron saying “Breaking: Vehicles reach 1000 mph!”. Below that is a drawing of two stick figures talking at a car dealership. One says, “So I can take this to space, right?”
Panel 2: Text: “Meanwhile, fraudsters have capitalize on the fact that consumers don’t know what to believe when it comes to vehicle technology, so scams are rampant in the vehicle sector.” Illustration: A stick figure with a mean smile and a sparkle next to his eye pats a car that has plane wings taped to it. A speech bubble says, “Oh yeah! You can fly this baby across the ocean!”

Panel 1: Text: “Now replace the word “vehicle” with “artificial intelligence” and we have a pretty good descriptor of the world we live in.” Illustration: One crowd of people say “AI is bad for the environment!” Underneath them is a large box that is labeled “Size of AI people are concerned about”, another crowd of people says “AI is used for climate research!” Underneath them is a much smaller box saying “Size of AI used for climate research”. In the foreground there is a person watching the debate with several question marks above it.
Panel 2: Credits. “Text from AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvin’s Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor. Art by Ayla Taylor. www.aylataylor.com”

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Axel Mosig @axlmsg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Let me know when the T-shirt is available, I will order five pieces right away.

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Everyone should watch this

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Axel Mosig @axlmsg.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

We found AI to be a bit short-sighted towards evolution, so we went out to grind some computational lenses. The resulting pair of evolutionary glasses is finally available in the latest issue of CSBJ news.rub.de/english/pres...

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Equipping Artificial Intelligence with the Lense of Evolution

Random patterns have so far obscured AI’s view of evolutionary relationships. A team in Bochum is teaching them how to go about this.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

New post about Lysenko and Bhattacharya from @angierasmussen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

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Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko

Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"Science in the US is entering a phase resembling the Lysenko era in the Soviet Union." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz

If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented

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Axel Mosig @axlmsg.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Almost like it was written for the world these days... the "Final Speech" by Charly Chaplin's hairdresser and dictator-by-coincidence Hynkel. youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?...

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Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin

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AI x Bio Discovery @aixbiobot.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Large Language Model is Secretly a Protein Sequence Optimizer [new] LLMs, surprisingly, can optimize protein sequences via directed evolution, even without explicit protein training data, finding high fitness variants.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I donated. It would be great to have a social-media protocol that wasn't subject to capture, and it does seem possible. freeourfeeds.com

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Free Our Feeds

Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/12/2024

"Researchers trained medical AI models on over 25,000 knee X-rays. They then essentially worked backwards, tasking the deep learning programs to find commonalities that predicted nonsensical traits, such as which knee-owners clearly drank beer or ate refried beans—which is patently absurd."

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Axel Mosig @axlmsg.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Meanwhile, in the less free corners of the internet…

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