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Michael Baudis

@mbaudis.bsky.social
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Cancer genomics, computational oncogenomics, open research data, progenetix.org, Global Alliance for Genomics and Healthe GA4GH, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ELIXIR; Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Zurich UZH

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46&2 @7719deftones.bsky.social · 8h
This is what's data centers have done in the US
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Laura Baudis @lbaudis.bsky.social · 12h
Amazing news for neutrinos, and I am very happy for Francis and for the IceCube collaboration!
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 15h
Sam Altman took Jane Wickline’ s “AI is the devil and I its maker” for the real Dario Amodei and thought “Hold my protein sludge…”. Crossposted with @openvibe.social
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
John Coltrane, born September 23, 1926 youtu.be/tZRhPOoeKto?...
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A Love Supreme, Pt. I – Acknowledgement (Live)
YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic
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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/09/2026
With Gould at least, we don't have to speculate. Here, a 1997 essay of his. www.nybooks.com/articles/199...
Does this argument imply that all genetically and biologically based attributes of our universal human nature must therefore be adaptations? Of course not. Many, if not most, universal behaviors are probably spandrels, often co-opted later in human history for important secondary functions. The human brain is the most complicated device for reasoning and calculating, and for expressing emotion, ever evolved on earth. Natural selection made the human brain big, but most of our mental properties and potentials may be spandrels—that is, nonadaptive side consequences of building a device with such structural complexity. If I put a small computer (no match for a brain) in my factory, my adaptive reasons for so doing (to keep accounts and issue paychecks) represent a tiny subset of what the computer, by virtue of inherent structure, can do (factor-analyze my data on land snails, beat or tie anyone perpetually in tic-tac-toe). In pure numbers, the spandrels overwhelm the adaptations.The human brain must be bursting with spandrels that are essential to human nature and vital to our self-understanding but that arose as nonadaptations, and are therefore outside the compass of evolutionary psychology, or any other ultra-Darwinian theory. The brain did not enlarge by natural selection so that we would be able to read or write. Even such an eminently functional and universal institution as religion arose largely as a spandrel if we accept Freud’s old and sensible argument that humans invented religious belief largely to accommodate the most terrifying fact that our large brains forced us to acknowledge: the inevitability of personal mortality. We can scarcely argue that the brain got large so that we would know we must die!
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don’t mean this to be cruel, but there’s just too much air being taken up by people with media or tech backgrounds who think their hot take on consciousness with LLMs is new, and lord it has all been done before and we’re past that. Christ, half the news cycle is yud refusing to read a book.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20/09/2026
Teaching Neuromancer this semester, and I'm proud to say that a CS undergrad in my class invented this joke independently
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 17/09/2026
Advances for health, biodiversity & trustworthy AI; new connections; a unique artistic performance; Geneva-wide celebrations – and cross-societal recognition of the value of life-science data. See highlights from the record 2026 ECCB @eccb-europe.bsky.social
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Academic, government and industry leaders stress strategic value of data
Over 1,500 experts from 63 countries advanced health, environmental protection and trustworthy AI in Geneva at the 25th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), from 31 August to 4 Septemb...
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Future winners of the AI hype: Apple (moving smartly), and the EU (projecting hindsight to the Now).
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not a lawyer but a scientist. I am consistently finding that in literature research, the more powerful the model I employ, the more profound its errors are. And that is a *huge* waste of *my* time. Simpler models are *less* likely to output "reasoned" garbage.
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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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Creepy Jazz Enthusiast 🎃 @cicadaqueen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Man pages
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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I once again wish for Microsoft Word to gain a corporeal form so I can stab it 🔪
This book I'm editing includes the phrase "Recent scholarship has argued that," which the grammar check in Microsoft Word, now powered by so-called AI, wants me to consider rephrasing as "Recent scholarships have argued that."
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JimAlvarez @jimalvarez.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Scotty Hello Computer
ALT: Scotty Hello Computer
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It was probably just bots chatting but I *felt* tempted to say “Maughan called it.”. Though probably there is something by Lem about this, as always.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Deep under a mountain in Italy, the dark matter experiment XENONnT has found something surprising: the faintest neutrinos ever witnessed.
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Dark matter experiment catches quietest neutrinos ever measured
In its hunt for dark matter, the XENONnT experiment has detected the rare, feeble glow of neutrinos smacking into electrons
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Laura Baudis @lbaudis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
With XENONnT we observed solar pp neutrinos via neutrino-electron scattering. With an exposure of 2.46 t x y and electron recoil energies from 1 keV to 140 keV (probing neutrinos with energies down to 17 keV) the measured flux is (10.2±2.0)x10^10 cm^-2 s^-1. Read more at: arxiv.org/abs/2608.29450
The solar pp flux estimated from the inference results. Top: The best-fit result is shown as a solid red point. Also plotted are results from combining GALLEX/GNO and SAGE, Borexino, and PandaX-4T. The prediction from the B16-GS98 solar model is indicated by a vertical grey dashed line. Bottom: Log likelihood ratio as a function of the solar pp-flux. Dashed lines indicate different significance levels.
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BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Two posts that should have come out together? 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 1. The multi-omics fallacy in microbiome science ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/bffo... 2. Ten quick tips for causal analysis of biomedical omics data ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/bffo...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Lake America" instantly just absolutely clogged with algae. Six uniformed National Guard guys standing on a beach dumping windex into it. It smells like a turtle tank.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/08/2026
When I think of all the amazing scientists that have lost their jobs here in the states because of Trump/Vought/Musk/RFK Jr/the GOP, it makes my blood boil to see the US interfering in a single overseas postdoctoral appointment matter to advance a white supremacist agenda.
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Accelerated future compared to recent dystopias: “The Sunken Land…” has dried out, the klept has been reborn in Washington. Winner: “The Water Knife”, still on (accelerated) track. (Apologies to M. John Harrison, @williamgibson.bsky.social and @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social )
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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
what ppl forget about LLMs is that if you start every prompt with “i am an academic so a very special and smart person“ then anything that follows has no carbon or water cost, no refugees have to clean the data of violent child abuse imagry, and everyone is fairly compensated for their stolen work
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Ted Chiang (author of “Exhalation” etc.) about AI, in The Atlantic: > NO, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS NOT CONSCIOUS (Caps not shouting but how The Atlantic typesets titles. Well, maybe. June 3rd) www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
theatlantic.com
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You may also have low reading comprehension, since Ghent seems to be within its rights to fire someone who is not doing/ qualified to do the research they were hired to do. Not really an academic freedom question at all.
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Alex Guseman @alexguseman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Come be my colleague! We are hiring a structural biologist. I have thoroughly enjoyed starting my career here and both department(s) are full of exceptional scientists. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04589
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu
Assistant Professor in Structural Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 20/08/2026
Long past time to quit X. “Those who continue to post on X — in particular those X users who are not racist psychopaths — are enhancing the site’s usefulness to [Musk] as a propaganda tool by drawing more eyes to the platform… “ [publiccomment.blog]
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It Is Past Time for You to Quit Elon Musk's X
Yes, I'm talking to you. 🫵
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My “best” Eclipse picture doesn’t show the sun at all but somehow … captures the spirit of our time (ha!). (A Coruna, iPhone 15 Pro, minimal edits e.g. to crop and to mask some people at the periphery)
people watchin the return of the light over the Atlantic, under a cloudy sky
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Actually, no. “The companies are all highly rated businesses that generate a lot of profit.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/b...
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Neil Hall @neilhall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Biological Databases are critical infrastructure - not projects. As so much effort is put into harnessing AI to solve all our problems, we are allowing the foundational data resources crumble. Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects
Letter to the Editor
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BGR @bgrcom.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Prime Video's The Peripheral, is based on William Gibson's cyberpunk novel of the same name, which was sadly canceled due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
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Amazon's Cyberpunk Series Based On A William Gibson Novel Deserved A Second Season - BGR
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The idea that pharma companies don't want to cure diseases is one of the most insidious and nonsensical bits of "wisdom" in the entire modern world.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I think if you self-describe as a "thought leader" no one should ever take you seriously ever again.
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Best opening line in an “AI industry” article - Will Oremus in The Atlantic: “At this stage in the AI race, if one of your chatbots hasn’t escaped the lab and run amok, people start to wonder whether you’re even serious.” Bia Apple News apple.news/AziR-rwUDQn-...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Convenient Truth
The Meta CEO has a new message now that his company is losing the AI race.
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Shout-out to Tim Maughan and his brilliant “Infinite Detail” book - (re)read it! Even more depressing than its only slightly projected death of society is that AI/algorithms are relatively in the background; the accelerated idiocy we encounter now hadn’t even been factored in.
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Though entertaining the movie was softballing it. Not the slightest bit of sympathy for anyone actively propping up the system (now passively… most everyone weaseled around at least in some way).
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/08/2026
Geology Building xkcd.com/3284/
Comic. [A college building labeled “Department of Geology” with a diagonal slash through center making it look uneven.] [caption] The administration regretted giving the geology department free rein to design their new building.
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Laura Baudis @lbaudis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Clouds, but magical nonetheless
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse at A Coruña, just before totality. Crossposted with @openvibe.social
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“She’s not cut out for this,” Eunice said, “game physics designer.” William Gibson: “Agency” @greatdismal.bsky.social @GreatDismal@mastodon.social
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Just don’t think about the next day. But then - isn’t this what Ibiza is about?
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Original post: norden.social/@RalfHermes/...
Liebes @zdfheute wenn wir den Begriff der „wehrhaften Demokratie“ ernst nehmen würden, dann würden seriöse Medien keine Berichte mehr veröffentlichen die auf Basis der Musk-Plattform #leaveX veröffentlicht werden.
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Dana Suskind in The Atlantic: A Chatbot-Free Childhood Will Be a Status Symbol www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/ultra-processed-childhood-ai/688217/?gift=_V491av-LyoANZWofdlZoWhLxGYMYhmDeibIiaQDRyI
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026
"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 01/08/2026
Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 31/07/2026
And the official announcement — variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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Colson Whitehead’s ‘Harlem’ Trilogy TV Show in Development at Apple (EXCLUSIVE)
Apple TV is in development on a series based on Colson Whitehead's 'Harlem' trilogy, including 'Harlem Shuffle,' 'Crook Manifesto' and 'Cool Machine.'
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Emidio Pepe died. Time to go down to the cellar and pull out one of his eternal bottles of Montepulciano d’Abruzzo… apple.news/A-cMzhD55Tlu...
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Emidio Pepe’s Winemaking Ideas Were Old-Fashioned, Until They Were Radical
One day after his 94th birthday, the world lost an Italian wine legend who refused to modernize what didn't need improving.
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Open position of Associate Professor in Behavioral ecology and cultural evolution at the @dee-unil.bsky.social! You can toggle the ad to English on top right: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
wwwfbm.unil.ch
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