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Ben Schulz

@benschulz.bsky.social
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Proteins | Sugars | Yeast | Beer | Mass Spectrometry | Professor in Biochemistry UQ. CW chickens, fungi, cats, pups.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You gotta be willing to say "I loved it, it meant a lot to me, I tossed it all out in the trash where it belongs" if you want to avoid eventually finding yourself being loud and weird after the next piece of shit is revealed.
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Raising interest rates is a reverse wealth tax, taking money form the poor to protect the rich
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes but mainly when critiquing poor experimental design
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Solving grant review lottery by adding an actual lottery! 🤦
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hot-pizza.bsky.social @hot-pizza.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’d love to know how the RBA thinks raising Australian interest rates will pressure Trump into ending his war with Iran.
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It would be "interesting" to see how long it takes for genuinely new content to resurface in public models. I'm sure there's plenty of semi-questionable research going on in that area
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know what will happen if you tell the plagiarising parrot your secrets
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's incredible how stupid someone can become if they're paid enough by coal and gas companies
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Anyway, this seems like a good time to re-share this post by @colincarlson.bsky.social www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over 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...
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is super confusing in Swedish. "Djur" = "animal", but only includes big mammals
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/09/2026
Not 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)
Solve this riddle: I am neither up nor down. You can eat me, but if you don't, you'll die. I
can be found inside your head, and sometimes on top of it. What am l?

The answer is “food.” 🍽️

You can eat food, and without it you eventually die.
“Food” can be inside your head metaphorically as food for thought.
It can also be on top of your head—for example, food placed on someone's head as a joke.

That said, the riddle is a bit loose, so “brain” / “hair” may be intended depending on the original wording.

Solve this riddle. I am made of metal, but I break very easily. I am lighter than air, but I'm
the heaviest thing in the universe. All parents have a copy of me, and all children hate
me. What am l?

The answer is a “rule.”

Made of metal, but breaks easily → “rule” may refer to a ruler, which can be made of metal but can still break.
Lighter than air, but the heaviest thing in the universe → a rule has no physical weight, but the consequences of breaking one can feel very heavy.
All parents have a copy of me → parents have rules for their children.
All children hate me → children famously tend to dislike rules. 😄

The riddle relies heavily on wordplay, especially rule → ruler.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Did 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
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If 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" Crisafulli
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Cairns man dedicates his life savings to helping local kids thrive
After almost three decades working with at-risk young people through government departments, Rob Hodge found there were limits when working to change things.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fightin... The Fighting Dinosaurs specimen, catching a velociraptor fighting a protoceratops
en.wikipedia.org
Fighting Dinosaurs - Wikipedia
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Would this have been for the job, or the interview itself?
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That might describe some of the electorate this guy is chasing, but I'd say it's pretty likely he knows exactly the state of the world and is very happy to cynically stoke nationalism and racism
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026
people 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
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
All they do is dog whistle
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I escaped 2de by keeping busy with trying to make super high mw 1d gels for mucins, but probably made more than a thousand of them 🫪
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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.
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An in vivo chemical genetic approach for targeted glycoproteome analysis in Drosophila melanogaster
Glycans 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...
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the best high throughput use case for 2de 🤭
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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 racist
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Family visas for foreign students targeted in migration crackdown
International students would effectively be banned from bringing family members to Australia under a long-awaited overhaul of the immigration system.
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Peter Anderson @zerogeewhiz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If 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.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'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...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed 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.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.instagram.com/p/DdUoHPCpgG...
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
youtu.be/fgDQyFeBBIo
youtu.be
MACKLEMORE - HIND'S HALL
YouTube video by Macklemore
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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! 😎
Announcement of the GRC Glycobiology 2027 to be held in Ventura CA on March 14 to 19, 2027. Blue background with an photo of Ventura from the visitventuraca.com
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026
I 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.
Data Centers With Renewables Aren’t the Answer
So all these power plants and “temporary” turbines are raising power prices and polluting our communities. Why don’t we just power data centers with renewables?

Many data center companies are pledging to (eventually) do just that. But even if these pledges weren’t just empty greenwashing promises, powering data centers with clean energy is utterly unrealistic. It also threatens the progress of our already dangerously slow energy transition.

Continuously powering a 1 GW data center would require nearly 20,000 acres of solar panels or 185,000 acres of onshore wind power. We cannot afford to waste the time, space, or money to build renewables for Big Tech’s profit machines. 

Already, data center growth is outstripping available renewable energy supply and redirecting renewables from other industries. It’s drawing urgently needed renewables from existing technologies and resources. We need to focus our renewable energy resources toward thos
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A 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-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Nick Riley @nmriley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Glycoproteoforms 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
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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...
Part of a First Dog on the Moon cartoon

above an image of a snow-clad mountain range are the words:
'A glacier collapses, a 50m wall of liquefied rocks and ice hurtling down at 170 km/h rolling house-sized boulders but this is not the time to talk about climate change'

Frame below is an image of a fossil fuel extraction facility with the words:
'According to the prime minister this tragedy is NOT the time to talk about climate change but IS time to turn on Beetaloo, the biggest gas tap in the country which will spew 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon over its lifetime.
In the left corner is a suited man with a hard hat labelled 'Minister for Ignoring Climate Change'

In the bottom panel, a guy in a hotdog suit shrugs. The words say 'We're all trying to find the guy who did this!'
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/09/2026
Politicians 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.
News article screenshot headlined "Climate change a debate for later, PM says on Nepal floods," showing a serious middle-aged man wearing glasses and a light-blue button-up shirt outdoors against blurred trees.
PRIME MINISTER: Look, I think on Nepal, there will be time to examine the science and what has occurred here. My thoughts are solely focused, at this point in time, on the families and on the extraordinarily difficult time that we’re going through and offering our support to Nepal. And we'll continue to do that. Those debates will take place. But I don't think, from Australia's perspective, now's the time. My focus is very much on people who are incredibly traumatised by not knowing what has happened to their loved ones.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/09/2026
Which 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?
"There have been a lot of provocative comments made [about climate change] over the last few days from all sides of the debate and I find it very unhelpful. There is a time and a place to debate controversial issues and important issues, right now it's important to focus on the needs of Australians who need our help”


“There will be time to examine the science and what has occurred here. My thoughts are solely focused, at this point in time, on the families and on the extraordinarily difficult time that we’re going through and offering our support….those debates will take place. But I don't think, from Australia's perspective, now's the time”
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hurray! Super congratulations @beatricetropea.bsky.social 🌈😎🥳🟢 It was an absolute pleasure to host your stay at UQ!
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Before 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)
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The 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.com
With 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.
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Remembering Yayoi Kusama 🌈🍄🔴😢 theconversation.com/the-only-met...
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‘The only method I have found that relieved my illness is to keep creating art’: remembering Yayoi Kusama
The Japanese artist, acclaimed for infinity mirror rooms, sprawling seas of polka dots, and dancing pumpkins, has died at 97.
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In the wise words of Packer, Karlsson, and Nietzsche "There Are No Facts, Only Interpretations" pubs.acs.org/jprobs/artic...
Friedrich Nietzsche did not coin the phrase "There are no facts, only interpretations" to refer to the analysis of the mass spectra obtained from the analysis of carbohydrates (!), but the quote does encapsulate a point that we would like to make.
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Compulsory helmets massively reduce the convenience of casual riding, so it becomes incredibly rare - compare with e.g. Netherlands. If you're riding fast, wearing a helmet is extremely sensible, but that's a different question entirely.
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
And definitely doesn't hold just for microbiome science
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Microbiome science has gained computational power faster than interpretive discipline." Mic drop opening
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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.”
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Can't Read Sign Meme
ALT: Can't Read Sign Meme
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Stool in, stool out
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Certainly a better contribution than boring, derivative, racist wizard drivel
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Predictably stupid and short-sighted of Crisafulli. Predictably cowardly of Albanese.
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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Should probably just use MRM
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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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
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