Reposted by Ben Schulz hot-pizza.bsky.social @hot-pizza.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’d love to know how the RBA thinks raising Australian interest rates will pressure Trump into ending his war with Iran. 1184
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know what will happen if you tell the plagiarising parrot your secrets 231
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's incredible how stupid someone can become if they're paid enough by coal and gas companies 130
Reposted by Ben Schulz Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026Happy mushroom season! 5140311321
Reposted by Ben Schulz Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Anyway, this seems like a good time to re-share this post by @colincarlson.bsky.social www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...carlsonlab.bioThe only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson LabOver the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la... 1147
Reposted by Ben Schulz Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/09/2026Not long before this is three years old, and chatbots still cannot pass the unsolvable riddle test They will always be designed to spew out anything, because they're worthless to the companies if they were to ever be tuned to only give accurate or meaningful answers (they'd barely reply at all) 26920
Reposted by Ben Schulz Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Did you know Australia uses the exact same private immigration detention operator as Trumps US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Management and Training Corporation (MTC). MTC won a $2.3 billion contract to manage Australia’s onshore immigration detention network 46249
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If governments actually wanted to reduce crime, this is precisely the sort of program that should be funded and expanded www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... Looking directly at you, "adult time adult crime" Crisafulliabc.net.auCairns man dedicates his life savings to helping local kids thriveAfter almost three decades working with at-risk young people through government departments, Rob Hodge found there were limits when working to change things. 020
Reposted by Ben Schulz Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fightin... The Fighting Dinosaurs specimen, catching a velociraptor fighting a protoceratopsen.wikipedia.orgFighting Dinosaurs - Wikipedia 03311
Reposted by Ben Schulz headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent 7359081662
Reposted by Ben Schulz Ben Schumann @drglycoben.bsky.social · 17/09/2026⚠️ 🥳 check out our new pre-print led by the fantastic @sophiedschmidt.bsky.social: An in vivo chemical genetic approach for targeted glycoproteome analysis in Drosophila melanogaster: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We present FlyMOE, a strategy for targeted glycoprotein profiling in vivo.biorxiv.orgAn in vivo chemical genetic approach for targeted glycoproteome analysis in Drosophila melanogasterGlycans impact every aspect of physiology. Despite the rapid increase in relevance and translational potential, there remains a lack of tools for studying glycosylation in vivo. Here, we present FlyMO... 196
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Labor's plan has some similarities to One Nation's migration policy" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... Labor, you can't beat One Nation by being politely racistabc.net.auFamily visas for foreign students targeted in migration crackdownInternational students would effectively be banned from bringing family members to Australia under a long-awaited overhaul of the immigration system. 030
Reposted by Ben Schulz Peter Anderson @zerogeewhiz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If there's one thing I've had reinforced by the last few days it's that the Australian government and most of the state governments are a long way behind where they need to be on the AI hype cycle. The demand isn't there and the economics are fanciful. It's gonna crash and they won't be ready. 3286
Reposted by Ben Schulz Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 181287594
Reposted by Ben Schulz Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ed Sheeran cancelled Macklemore by kicking him off the tour over his support of Palestine. Within 48 hours, all of Sheeran’s support acts had cancelled him. This is how it’s done. 8558104
Reposted by Ben Schulz Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.instagram.com/p/DdUoHPCpgG... 161537186
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026youtu.be/fgDQyFeBBIoyoutu.beMACKLEMORE - HIND'S HALLYouTube video by Macklemore 000
Reposted by Ben Schulz Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🚨 Want to be part of top #glycotime on the seaside in the California sunshine? Register to the 2027 GRC Glycobiology ⬇️ Stacy and Lance put togteher up one of the most exciting programmes I have ever seen with phenomenal keynotes! We have 32 abstracts to select, so the next speaker could be YOU! 😎 11412
Reposted by Ben Schulz Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026I know this'll ruffle feathers but I agree with this Food/Water watch analysis. Diverting renewable energy away from fossil phase-out and climate adaptation and towards melting graphics card to power chatbots is the formal end of moral purpose for clean technology. 321143348
Reposted by Ben Schulz Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 422052926
Reposted by Ben Schulz Nick Riley @nmriley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Glycoproteoforms are the unit of biological information in the glycoproteome, but measuring intact glycoproteins to capture combinatorial modification states remains a huge #glycotime challenge. @timveth.bsky.social tackled this issue head on in the latest preprint from @riley-research.bsky.social 1177
Reposted by Ben Schulz Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"There have been a lot of provocative comments made [about climate change] over the last few days from all sides of the debate & I find it very unhelpful." NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR ACCOUNTABILITY says PM of super-majority govt that's approved 36 Coal+Gas projects www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 613872
Reposted by Ben Schulz Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/09/2026Politicians like Anthony Albanese say stuff like "now is not the time to discuss climate" in the wake of fossil-fuelled disasters because they know that **there is no single better time** to talk about it, and his fossil fuel donors know that too. 1624888
Reposted by Ben Schulz Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/09/2026Which one is Scott Morrison speaking to press in the midst of the 2020 Australian bushfires? Which one is Anthony Albanese speaking to press after the 2026 Nepal floods? 2119895
Reposted by Ben Schulz Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea) 293121264191
Reposted by Ben Schulz Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The backlash to data centers, Flock, Meta glasses, and AI, is loud, animated, bipartisan, and wielding real power. It's the most popular and united political movement in the nation right now, and it's still growing. So of course Silicon Valley is in complete denial.bloodinthemachine.comWith the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial.The backlash against data centers is difficult to understand if your salary depends on your not understanding it. 6357131
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Remembering Yayoi Kusama 🌈🍄🔴😢 theconversation.com/the-only-met...share.google‘The only method I have found that relieved my illness is to keep creating art’: remembering Yayoi KusamaThe Japanese artist, acclaimed for infinity mirror rooms, sprawling seas of polka dots, and dancing pumpkins, has died at 97. 032
Reposted by Ben Schulz Chris Ashwood @cashwood.proteaglyco.com · 26/08/2026“This Perspective proposes a model-to-mechanism burden of proof that distinguishes prediction from explanation, imputation from observation, attribution from causality, cross-layer coherence from mechanism, and diagnostic performance from biological validity.”static.klipy.comCan't Read Sign MemeALT: Can't Read Sign Meme 223
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Predictably stupid and short-sighted of Crisafulli. Predictably cowardly of Albanese. 011
Reposted by Ben Schulz FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are. 100268196331
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026“Any entity that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the US dollar system" Sounds like a golden opportunity for BRICS 010
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The Crisafulli Queensland government bulldozers the tents of homeless families with nowhere else to stay, while slashing funds for homeless services and emergency housing www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.au'Buy a tent': Single mother turned away by crisis servicesA single mother of four says she was told to "buy a tent and find somewhere to pitch it" after reaching out to every housing service in her region for help. 010
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026In the next 5 years Elon Musk will have killed 14 million people, including 4.5 million kids younger than 5 010
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026A 6.7 km yard on the hour every hour for 7 days 🤯 Phil Gore is something else philgore.com.auphilgore.com.auPROJECT 168 | Phil Gore | Telethon 7 FundraiserPhil Gore will run 6.71km every hour, on the hour, for seven straight days (168 laps) to push the limits of backyard ultra running, in support of Telethon. 010
Reposted by Ben Schulz Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026"A definition that tars four in five Australians is not detecting hatred. It is outlawing majority opinion." Andrew Brown - arrested for Israel t-shirt - on the J Fagan decision on #antisemitism #auspol michaelwest.com.au/segal-ihra-a...michaelwest.com.auSegal's speech code meets the law: Justice Fagan wrecks Canberra's Israel exception - Michael WestThe Israel lobby wrote itself a dictionary - the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Justice Desmond Fagan, NSW Supreme Court, collapsed it. 1118194
Reposted by Ben Schulz fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I told my Son that due to the hosepipe ban, he has to sit down to go to the toilet. Which means I don't have to clean up after him. 131923
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I find the rage of some in the neurodiverse community about @professor-dave.bsky.social's recent thread very strange. He just said that not everyone with ADHD is the same. Clinical diagnoses can be useful to create categories, but the underlying biological traits are always quantitative. 010
Reposted by Ben Schulz Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."law.berkeley.eduArtificial Intelligence PolicyEffective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […] 231900796
Reposted by Ben Schulz Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Excited to share our paper with @savitski-lab.bsky.social, led by @tarabartolec.bsky.social, Karin Mitosch & Clément Potel, out now in @nature.com. We show that T7 phage broadly disables bacterial defenses using a unique ‘loose cannon’ protein kinase. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comPervasive phosphorylation by phage T7 kinase disarms bacterial defences - NatureThe T7 bacteriophage deactivates bacterial defence systems through T7K phosphorylation of nearly all host and phage proteins during infection. 47739
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026It's not too late for Brisbane to pull out of hosting the Olympics (and we should) www.jonathansri.com/canceltheoly... Very sensible thoughts as always from @js.jonathansri.com.ap.brid.gy 033
Reposted by Ben Schulz Andrew MacKellar @hansoliton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I have ADHD. I'm also a physicist. I got the ADHD diagnosis about a year and a half ago, after really struggling with work for a few years. I didn't know about it when I was in school, or when I started a physics undergrad as a mature student, or through my PhD. I have thoughts: 14514156
Reposted by Ben Schulz Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/08/2026My latest, on how the British/global media hounded Jason Arday to death. “Given the history of white media’s key role in terror against Black people, at what point do we call such actions of journalism outlets digital terror campaigns? “ karenattiah.substack.com/p/jason-arda...karenattiah.substack.comJason Arday's Death and the Age of Digital Racial TerrorWhat Jason Arday's death by media mob says about the old machinery of anti-Black terror in the algorithmic age. 451544457
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Electric trucks are already cheaper per kilometre than diesel. Government investment in nationwide charging infrastructure would remove the biggest barrier to electrification, increase fuel/energy security, and save liquid fuels for where they're really needed. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auFuel security or electrification? We've crunched the numbersThe war in Iran has drawn attention to something invisible to most Australians — we use a lot of diesel to keep this country running. 010
Reposted by Ben Schulz Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 14/08/2026go on say some shit again about how concern about data centers is overblown 8664283
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Mr Trump proves yet again that he is a dangerous idiot www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auTrump signs order to reduce childhood vaccines and break up MMR shotsThe revised vaccination schedule recommends immunising children against 11 diseases, six fewer than currently recommended. 020
Reposted by Ben Schulz Seleucid Dreamer @smollusk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026the best part is most of the "wait, there might be reasonable exceptions" posts are about the human skin book 251698448
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Orienteering ftw theconversation.com/taxi-drivers...theconversation.comTaxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brainWorking with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed. 011
Reposted by Ben Schulz Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Oops! The billionaires are getting tetchy again. They always do when somebody proposes a system in which they pay their fair share of taxes, or stopping them from taking us to the cleaners and rinsing us of every penny of disposable income that might improve our standard of living. #TaxWealthNotWork 09022