Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Two things surprise me about this: 1. People aren't more mad at Apple. Surely it should not be possible for an app to ignore a permission set at the OS level. That does not sound like secure OS design. 2. People think that not using anything by Meta makes them safe from this. 031
Reposted by Ian SudberyMelissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer. 131218252
Reposted by Ian SudberyCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 892113864
Reposted by Ian SudberyIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion. 351037281
Reposted by Ian SudberyStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 26/09/2026Personal essay, weekend edition. My relationship with AI is changing. 1.8k words, 8 min reading time. doi.org/10.59350/bh7...doi.orgMy relationship with AI is changingWhen the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? 06615
Reposted by Ian SudberyTan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The section on reading was very relatable, especially this line: “Part of the reason I read the things I read is to understand how another person thinks.” 073
Reposted by Ian SudberyCaroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ok what is the most death metal biology term? Cytokine storm? Programmed death 1? Executioner caspase? Other? 588922
Reposted by Ian SudberyDuncan Sproul @sproullab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Reposting this postdoc opening in our lab. We also now have an opening for a graduate research assistant for the same project. Deadline 23rd October 2026 and details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.comResearch AssistantWe are looking for a self-motivated, enthusiastic research assistant to join the laboratory of Dr Duncan Sproul at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Genetics and Cancer and support research i... 064
Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The interesting question here is to what extent was the model here following a prompt, and to what extent was it asking its own questions? At the top of the article it seems like they just said "find an interesting new enzyme family", a little further down it was "find an interesting new RT family" 120
Reposted by Ian SudberyFrances Yap @ribo1214.bsky.social · 24/09/2026TT faculty opening at Indiana University-Bloomington. ⬇️ 002
Reposted by Ian SudberyLyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You're going to be needing specialists in: languages, narrative, history, psychology, information, mythology, conspiracies, etc, etc. then? #humanities #socialscience 1116761
Reposted by Ian SudberyMatthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is true of many places - higher education is not only a cultural good, it is a massive driver of economies in otherwise left behind places that politicians and journalists rarely visit. What will happen if/when the financial crisis in HE leads to closures? 14416
Reposted by Ian SudberyThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Too late to change now, but the above should really be: Criminal law should be enforced against those committing criminal acts, says minister responsible for enforcing the criminal law against those committing criminal acts 113426
Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Why do all these AI generated infographics all looks the same? Down to their blue backgrounds and glowing 3D lines? Outs not like it would be hard to all for something different in the prompt. 000
Reposted by Ian SudberyRobin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Curiously unreported by mainstream media. Carried by a show of hands with no opposition. labourlist.org/2026/09/tuc-...labourlist.orgTUC Congress backs motion opposing EHRC guidance and calls for gender self-ID - LabourListUnions have backed calls to campaign for gender ‘self ID’ and for a change in “discriminatory and unworkable” guidance around transgender rights. 7410156
Reposted by Ian Sudberymerritt @merrittk.com · 15/09/2026god, i was born in the wrong era. imagine being around in the Cambrian period. you could just evolve something simple like shell or legs that nobody had thought of before and coast on that your whole life 111022152
Reposted by Ian SudberyKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There is absolutely nothing to support that any of these scientists were "trying to weaponize pathogens". While I don't have access to the underlying data, reading the examples given by Anthropic, they all appear to be basic virological research. 1177
Reposted by Ian SudberyHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don’t know which is greater: my inertia at getting going on Monday morning or my disappointment at all that I accomplished (or did not accomplish) in that week on Friday evening. Probably equal I would say. 3211
Reposted by Ian SudberyDr Radu Zabet @raduzabet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Great lab and excellent project. Highly recommend 012
Reposted by Ian SudberyJoanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Well. Would you look at that. 216454
Reposted by Ian SudberyEllie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The anthropic whistleblower is like "no other activity has the potential to create human extinction." Well, speaking as someone who works for a climate think tank, I can think of one 431799309
Reposted by Ian SudberyNick in NC @nicknc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Kids born the same year that the term “RNA-seq” was coined are heading to college this fall. We are all unspeakably ancient. 46217
Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Holy moly, @ensembl.org killed biomart! Hope many R scripts are there out there that depend on biomaRt? How many people have informatics practicals, or undergraduate project instructions that depend on a web interface for bulk selection of data? 53326
Reposted by Ian SudberyNature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology @natrevmcb.nature.com · 11/09/2026New Online! PRC2–RNA interactions through the lens of bioinformatics pipeline choicesdlvr.itPRC2–RNA interactions through the lens of bioinformatics pipeline choicesNature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41580-026-01028-1Four recent studies that have differently assessed PRC2–RNA interactions reveal key technical pitfalls underlying research in the field. 187
Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I have to say I don't get this. If grants were fewer and longer, that makes each application higher stakes. That means academics will spend more time on each application, not less. And because award rates will necessarily be lost, they'll write more applications, not fewer. 0122
Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This post applies far beyond mathematics. It applies rip rescuing in almost any subject, but also applies to any discipline that concerns it self with the elevation of humanity and the human experience. 010
Reposted by Ian SudberyRob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026There are some silly, but unfortunately, not unsurprising takes on the mathandai.org statement. I'm decidedly not anti-AI & not opposed to "disruption". But if you think you know the point of math better than these people, or their concerns are silly, you're just wrong.mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 1121
Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026People who sit in the back of conferences, taking photos of every slide of talks (but only those of the big names), when the audience has been reminded multiple times not to take photos make me unreasonably agitated. 010
Reposted by Ian SudberyMadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I bet you money you can't predict the next word as you're reading this title 9688
Reposted by Ian SudberyNeil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One of the many risks with The Damn Hype Bubble is that actual machine learning use in healthcare may end up suffering due to the overly vague "AI" label, either due to short term deprivation of attention or long term loss of confidence after the bubble bursts. 0104
Reposted by Ian SudberyGro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Yes, this is moving the goalposts, but as someone rightly pointed out on the bad place, “moving the goalposts” is precisely the way science works. Moving the goalposts is only bad if you treat the world as a game to be won: whom did you think you were playing against? 3595
Reposted by Ian SudberyJohn Marshall @johnm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Today's pysam 0.24.1 release bundles htslib, samtools, and bcftools 1.24 and has pre-built wheels on PyPI for Python 3.9 through 3.15. Wheels are much smaller than in previous releases. It includes type hint fixes, some speed optimisations, and a new reverse_complement() utility function. 🧬🖥️github.comRelease v0.24.1 · pysam-developers/pysamThis minor pysam release wraps htslib/samtools/bcftools version 1.24. It has been tested with Python versions 3.9 through 3.15 (RC2) and wheels are available via PyPI for all of those Python versio... 011
Reposted by Ian SudberyThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards. 3034391275
Reposted by Ian SudberyNick Stroustrup @nstroustrup.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Did you know that the cells of old animals contain much less mRNA than the cells of young ones? Let me share with you some results from an ongoing project in the lab, where we are finding that a progressive depletion of total mRNA abundance is a crucial part of aging 1/22 620983
Reposted by Ian SudberyMike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Come join us in Aberdeen! We have two exciting postdoc positions working on cardio-immunology with Prof Dana Dawson in collaboration with the fantastic @kelvintuong.bsky.social. (1) www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/rese... (2) www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/rese...abdnjobs.co.ukResearch Fellow in Cardio-Immunology (IMS336R) | University of AberdeenWe seek to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated immunology postdoctoral fellow with top of the range knowledge and ability and demonstrated aptitude in cardiovascular sciences. The successful candidate ... 023
Reposted by Ian SudberyBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Been reflecting some more on how for a decade+ there's been a whole outcry about how replications weren't published. Part of it is based on misleading data as it's now made clear (see the thread I'm replying to). But another part was that standalone replication studies weren't being published. 2243
Reposted by Ian SudberyJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Interesting thread and paper about replication in the psych literature pre-2012. It turns out that replication was a pretty common (20%+) study goal, and reproducing existing methods was a part of psychology.... pre-2012. Setting aside Makel's paper; Why was the opposite so widely believed? 6438
Reposted by Ian SudberyWillem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 31/08/2026'Doctors’ AI scribes get names of drugs and diagnoses wrong, NHS watchdog warns' www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comDoctors’ AI scribes get names of drugs and diagnoses wrong, NHS watchdog warnsExclusive: Patients identify errors in consultation transcripts that are missed by GPs, Healthwatch England finds 184
Reposted by Ian SudberyProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026When Salk developed the polio vaccine, “Church bells tolled, factory whistles blew. People ran into the streets weeping…Eisenhower invited Jonas Salk to the White House, where he choked up while thanking Salk for saving the world's children” Today we have RFK Jr 😢 www.npr.org/sections/npr...npr.orgDefeating Polio, The Disease That Paralyzed AmericaOn April 12, 2015, the world will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Jonas Salk's vaccine that helped defeat a contagious, crippling virus. 410247
Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Flooded out of the lab. Half the department underwater. Who knows how much damage or how long before will be up and running again. But *sure* let's spend tens of millions replacing our perfectly good teaching spaces, rather than fixing the research spaces and staff offices. 010
Reposted by Ian SudberyAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us. 8535661473
Reposted by Ian SudberyTyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable. 51173706418
Reposted by Ian SudberyAlex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It also became clear that Uni exec were leaning on the advice of a consultancy firm that has been shaping HE policy in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK: Nous (or Nousferatu, as they’re now known). The fact VCs and others are delegating policy to consultants, despite £400k salaries, is disgusting 310029
Reposted by Ian SudberyReese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵 18454329
Reposted by Ian Sudberysome-rss-feeds.bsky.social @some-rss-feeds.bsky.social · 24/08/2026[some-subscribed-rss] New Post: What if publication bias isn’t that? At least not always?, by Jeremy Fox dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/0… 043
Reposted by Ian SudberyIgor Ulitsky @igorulitsky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026One of the (well, >1) problems in the lncRNA field is that some of the lncRNAs are not real genes, i.e., do not represent a standalone locus that produces independent transcripts. Some cases are more 🤔 than others, e.g. lncDACH that Matt Bennet from Andy Baker's lab took a deep dive into. 🧵 1174
Reposted by Ian SudberyMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I found this piece exceptionally helpful in thinking about many recent events--I'd urge you to read it 083
Reposted by Ian SudberyItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026How to do science in the age of AI. 0207
Reposted by Ian SudberyBrian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 23/08/2026So when people engage with the signers on the horrendous detail (and shallow lack of any professional scholarship) of the work -- they act confused and dismiss and claim people are just harassing them. But people are simply following *your* words! You invited people to engage with you in this way! 193
Reposted by Ian SudberyGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Strong feeling that a lot of colleagues are missing the existential rather than the more manageable danger to our universities right now. Just an inability to focus on what so many academics think will never happen to them. 6306