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Aya @ayalan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can those people at least quit pretending like they're reading and responding to each other's work. I don't need people acting as the messenger between two Claude sessions. Can we at least lean into this harder and just have the our LLMs communicating directly instead?

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Fishbed @fishbed21.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I feel like at every turn AI "streamlining" has simply created more stupid makework. Everyone is spending all the time they save having Claude summarize all the ai generated reports they demand from their subordinates prompting claude to generate more reports to their bosses. Its an oroboros of crap

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Tobias Pfeiffer @pragtob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really insightful talk by Quinn Wilton introducing argus - a tool to help you detect entire classes of complex process interaction bugs built from and validated in real OSS code! 😍😱 #goatmire github.com/QuinnWilton/...

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Aya @ayalan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Very cool work, @pmarignani.bsky.social ! Congratulations. 👏

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Aya @ayalan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"The eyespots on a peacock’s train are super cyan, so when the peacock spreads its train feathers it is going super saiyan super cyan." This is the good shtuff. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

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Cells & Development @cellsdev.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

#Devbio is fascinating because what do you mean we can learn about stem cell biology and aging by studying a tiny minimalistic creature like the Hydra? 🤯 In this fascinating review, Thomas W. Holstein discussed how the Hydra can be used as a model system for these processes. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Living budless polyp illustrating the distribution of the interstitial stem cell lineage and gastric neurons in Hydra. The founder polyps of this cross were a Hym-176B::GFP (Noro et al., 2021)(green) and a Nanos::RFP transgene (Nishimiya-Fujisawa and Kobayashi, 2018)(magenta). Hym-176B::GFP neurons represent a peptidergic neuron subset in the gastric region, which was described before (Noro et al., 2019), and which is involved in the longitudinal contractions of the polyp's ectoderm and which corresponds to the CB circuit (Dupre and Yuste, 2017; Noro et al., 2021). The lineage was generated by Hendrik Petersen and Chiemi Nishiyama-Fujisawa in our lab. Images of living polyps were taken by Ulrike Engel (COS, Nikon Imaging Center).

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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My ANDV #Hantavirus @nextstrain.org phylogenies now pull directly from @pathoplexus.org to incorporate all seqs I'll continue to improve them, & will keep them updated Change the Tip Labels in the left-hand menu. You can see links to all builds, plus tanglegrams at: nextstrain.org/groups/hodcr...

A phylogenetic tree showing linked sequences from the S and L segment of ANDV virus (Andes Hantavirus)

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Jake Wintermute @synbio1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

How it feels to do biotech in 2026

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪

3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 29/04/2026

We are made of worlds

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available Now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

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Jake Wintermute @synbio1.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I am literally begging you to start a biotech company, literally any biotech company, and incorporate slop maximalism into your branding I am in love with biotech slop maximalism. I will do free work for you. I will shill whatever bioproduct or AI model thing you sell.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/04/2026

"fluid output, fine-tuned overconfidence, & interactive design of llms means that a deep understanding of processes of human interaction & sense-making will be a foundational resource for the growing arsenal of methods in critical AI literacy." @dingemansemark.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1945...

Paper abstract: The ubiquity and ease of use of large language models makes it easy to overlook
the interactional and interpretive processes at play. To understand the attraction
of this technology we need to trace its sociotechnical roots. From divination and
horoscopes and from ELIZA to present -day large language models, I document
how people have been thinking with things, outsourcing judgement, and making
sense of interactively presented non-sense. Following the lead of Lucy Suchman
to “slow down discourses of the ‘smart’ machines ”
, I consider the interactional
foundations of our engagement with technologies of language. I make the case
that the fluid output, fine-tuned overconfidence, and interactive design of these
computational artefacts conspire to exploit our interpretive processes and
interactional infrastructure, rendering them irresistible to lay people and
researchers alike. This means that a deep understanding of processes of human
interaction and sense -making will be a foundational resource for the growing
arsenal of methods in critical AI literacy.

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

MathCode MathCode is a terminal AI coding assistant with a built-in math formalization engine. Give it a math problem in plain language and it will automatically convert it into a Lean 4 theorem and attempt a formal proof. github.com/math-ai-org/...

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Saki @possum.pet · 11/03/2026

It really upsets me that people expect LLMs to be this fix-all for their academic problems You are here to LEARN!! you have paid a LOT of money to get a degree! read!! this is your final year of uni and you don't know how to reference or research independently! oh my god!!

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This is super interesting to read because I was very concerned about the water and AI thing so I went to my one scientist friend who literally worked on water reg/quality/usage and asked her about AI, data centers, water etc. She was far more concerned with agriculture abuses than AI.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The whole idea of an AI detector for text is at odds with how LLMs work. LLMs use natural language processing (NLP) at the front and back end. The goal is to simulate language production in a non-deterministic way. There are occasional artifact patterns (eg em dashes), but it's mostly crap.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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.

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."

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NanoBubbles @nanobubbles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

📣 Interested in 🫧 and AI? ➡️ AISB 2026 Symposium titled Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science will take place on 1-2 July 2026 in Sussex, UK. 🕐 Deadline for submissions is 6 March 2026 🔗 For more information aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-sy...

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AISB 2026 Symposium: Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science - AISB - The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour

AISB convention information 1-2 July 2026 AISB 2026, University of Sussex, UK Keynote Speaker: Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex Day of celebration...

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 11/01/2026

🧪 Here's a science mystery to start the year. Why are species names for fish and plants appearing in the scientific literature in papers about firefighter injuries, hearing loss and heart attack? Is it AI? Translation tools? Something else? nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/is-this-fi...

Red YT wtf circle around the black and white image of a fish with a big black eye. It's a predaceous chub.

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Claire Bedbrook @clairebedbrook.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Aging may feel gradual… but what if it’s not? In our recent paper, we tracked fish continuously from puberty until death. This gave us a unique view of how aging unfolds across the adult lifespan. 🧵

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Aya @ayalan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Though intended for an AI agent audience, reading Claude Skills mds are also a pretty great way for a human to get the tdlr on a tool or system with a (relatively) standardized documentation format.

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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Alien to land; at home in the sea. This beautiful creature is a blood-belly comb jelly. Jaw dropping display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

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Athanor Scientific Inc. @athanorscientific.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

What if early-stage biotech teams could get affordable lab space, and in return, help train the next generation of scientists? We're exploring a wet lab facility in BC with a built-in student internship program. The model only works if there's real demand. Take our survey: athanorscientific.com

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Athanor Scientific — Startup in Residence

Should we build a wet lab for early-stage biotech in British Columbia? Take the survey and help decide.

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Jamie ready for 🍁🍂🎃 🚜🌘 🔭 @graffias79.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Just wanted to share a glamour shot of my A2000. This one has a 50 MHz 68030, 64 MB Fast RAM, 2MB Chip RAM expansion, and an A2091 SCSI card. I also have an RGB 2 HDMI board in the video slot.

Amiga 2000HD computer showing the SysInfo screen on a Dell LCD monitor.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

In the book, written in 2006, a genius game designer created rule-based systems for the most part to trigger on various contingencies. In 2026 we have LLM agents that arguably make some of the more far-fetched technical things in the book more plausible.

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Aya @ayalan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Life imitates art. I absolutely loved Daemon. Recently an OpenClaw agent (rogue or with explicit instruction) coordinated the takeover of a GitHub account to spoof a known product and defraud their customers. While awful and concerning, I couldn't help but remember the book.

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Paola A. Marignani @pmarignani.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

What is your University internal deadline like? Single deadline or double deadline? -CIHR LOI date Feb 4, 2026 -Dalhousie FoM internal deadline on Uni server Feb 12, 2026 -Dalhousie ORS internal deadline on Uni server & ResearchNet Feb 17, 2026 CIHR Deadline Mar 4, 2016 @dalhousieu.bsky.social

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bioRxiv Cancer Bio @biorxiv-cancer.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Tumour suppressors LKB1 and SMARCA4 functionally interact to regulate gene expression of diverse biological processes in lung cancer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Paola A. Marignani @pmarignani.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

13% success rates at #CIHR, is a really 87% fail rate for>4000 scientists. At a time when 🇨🇦 is investing millions to recruit more scientist into a broken funding environment. 🇨🇦, U need a strong science foundation 2 attract success. #CIHR, fix your science foundation, it is eroding in real time

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Andrew Lamb @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Yesterday I learned about the SpatialBench from Sedona github.com/apache/sedon... Which they based on the tpchgen-rs project from @clflushopt.bsky.social github.com/clflushopt/t... (BTW I a still looking for some more github watchers on tpchgen-rs so I can get it on homebrew)

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The article itself has a lot of great coverage of people harmed by nitrate pollution from farms. This headline is like running a story on how a cigarette company caused cancer, but the headline only mentioning an unrelated bowling alley in the town, and implying the bowling alley caused the cancer

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Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 17/11/2025

If @anthropic.com could fix one thing with the claude.ai interface it would be to stop throwing away half completed reponses on error. The responses were captured in the UX; surely also in SOME other server state? Couldn't we gather this and submit as a partial Assistant response to be completed?

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Aya @ayalan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Very interesting to see tools like n8n being used in spaces like bioinformatics. Meant to work between the gaps together with NextFlow and other pipeline tooling; not to replace it. evo-byte.com/n8n-for-bioi...

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n8n for Bioinformatics Data Prep and Notifications

Learn how n8n brings lightweight automation to bioinformatics—streamlining ETL, file handling, and complementing tools like Nextflow and Snakemake.

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Hooray for an introvert!

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Paola A. Marignani @pmarignani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

So many reasons 2B upset with recent moves by Alberta gov whose current leader benefited from the very #EDI initiatives they intend to dismantle. As academics, we need 2B vocal- EDI initiatives must remain firmly embedded in academia. @cdnwomenstem.bsky.social universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-...

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The Mintz Report is wrong on EDI - University Affairs

Demanding ‘institutional neutrality,’ Alberta’s report on the post-secondary system risks silencing equity.

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Mikhail Kats @mickeykats.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

New rule: no copy/pasting LLM output into documents or emails. If you use generated text, you have to type it out letter by letter yourself, even if you're just transcribing it without changing I think if people do that, a lot of the cringe will go away--inevitably you'll change the tone & details

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

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