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Joshua Sammet @joshuasammet.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am glad that Oxford put out a statement regarding the death of Jason Arday: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-08... It is unfortunate, but understandable, that it does not address or criticises the absurd media campaign, rather a manhunt, Professor Arday was exposed to, nor the obvious racist undertone.

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University Statement on the death of Professor Jason Arday

The Collegiate University was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Professor Jason Arday. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and all those who knew and worked with him at this very difficul...

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Plant Science🍀🌱 @sciplant.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images. There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-... #plantscience @stephenturner.us @plant-sci.bsky.social

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Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations

Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics

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Manon Bischoff @manonym025.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Wenn ChatGPT das Mathe-Paper schreibt 😅 (eigentlich gar kein lustiges Paper: www.ams.org/journals/not...)

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Joshua Sammet @joshuasammet.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Resubmission deadline this weekend. Perfect timing for the department's coffee machine to break.

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Joshua Sammet @joshuasammet.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Things one maybe should consider before axing whole university departments and courses because of their alleged "low employability".

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Laura Winchester @winchesterl.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Looking for a new PhD student interested in Alzheimer’s disease and informatics starting in October. Details below.

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Sana Suri @sanasuri.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

"We are sleepwalking into a disaster [...] Each of the administrative burdens that we are confronted with on a daily basis might seem small on their own but cumulatively they amount to a ‘mountain of small things’ that is killing academia." @masudhusain.bsky.social academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities

You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

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Joshua Sammet @joshuasammet.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

For everyone in Oxford tonight: I have the honour to chair this incredibly exciting panel discussing the topic "AI: Reshaping Society" as part of this year's Lincoln Leads. We have three great speakers from various disciplines sharing their experiences. Tonight at 5:30pm at Lincoln College!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/01/2025

Also, to be specific here (because it does matter) DeepSeek is *not* open source — it’s open _weights_ with the difference being that you can run it on your own machine with the code, but you don’t know what material exactly it was trained on. An important distinction, worth emphasizing.

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Laura Winchester @winchesterl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This month the DEMON biomarkers working group have Dr Lazaros Belbasis speaking about his work on Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization to investigate the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. 📅 Wed 15th Jan 10am GMT. All welcome - PM for details.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

Academic journals see "staggering profit margins approaching 40%.... Meanwhile, academics do almost all of the substantive work to produce these articles free of charge". Then, we have to pay eye-watering sums to make our papers open access. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadeh

Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

"it is not in our (scientists) mandate to find reasons to do wrong things when the right things to do are unclear." -on why we shouldn't try to naively reverse engineer the brain ...but could probably apply to a lot of things. www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... #neuroskyence #neuroAI

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JAX Genomic Education @jaxeducation.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

📊 What does it mean for data to be FAIR? Discover the four guiding #FAIRdata principles and learn why you should apply them to your biomedical research in this @jacksonlab.bsky.social online course: education.learning.jax.org/fair-data-pr...

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FAIR Data Principles to Empower Biomedical Research

Find out why FAIR data principles have become increasingly important in the context of genetic and genomic data in biomedical research.

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