Reposted by Ben Schulz Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026You 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. 422064
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Raising interest rates is a reverse wealth tax, taking money form the poor to protect the rich 010
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes but mainly when critiquing poor experimental design 010
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Solving grant review lottery by adding an actual lottery! 🤦 241
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 · 28/09/2026It 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 110
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! 5140601327
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
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is super confusing in Swedish. "Djur" = "animal", but only includes big mammals 000
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
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Would this have been for the job, or the interview itself? 100
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026That 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 010
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 7359331672
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I 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 020
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... 181286594
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. 321142348
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. 422055930
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? 2119996
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Hurray! Super congratulations @beatricetropea.bsky.social 🌈😎🥳🟢 It was an absolute pleasure to host your stay at UQ! 010
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) 293121264196
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
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026In the wise words of Packer, Karlsson, and Nietzsche "There Are No Facts, Only Interpretations" pubs.acs.org/jprobs/artic... 040
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Compulsory 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. 020
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026And definitely doesn't hold just for microbiome science 110
Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Microbiome science has gained computational power faster than interpretive discipline." Mic drop opening 100
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 · 26/08/2026Certainly a better contribution than boring, derivative, racist wizard drivel 010
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. 99268136333
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