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Rajiv McCoy @rajivmccoy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Johns Hopkins Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in computational genetics and genomics. Applications due Nov. 8th: apply.interfolio.com/194924 In my experience, this has been an incredibly supportive environment to build a lab. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.

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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

At the GA4GH meeting in Singapore last week I really enjoyed Jonathan Lotempio’s emphasis that the way population enriched variants are usually drawn in UMaps etc. emphasizes the differences from a few variants in contrast to the spread/continuum.

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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 17h

They also read Iain M. Banks and thought “this Veppers guy is cool as hell”.

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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 17h

They also read Iain M. Banks and thought “this Veppers guy is cool as hell”.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Day 4 of Nobel week: ♂♂♂♂♂♂♀😅

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Laura Baudis @lbaudis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Very good news regarding the Nobel Prize in Literature - the Canadian author Anne Carson is one of my favourite poets! Here from her book “If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho” "stars around the beautiful moon hide back their luminous form whenever all full she shines on the earth silvery"

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46&2 @7719deftones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is what's data centers have done in the US

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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“My other car is also a Tesla.”

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Laura Baudis @lbaudis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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 · 06/10/2026

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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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This warrants an extension to Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. Ian @ianbetteridge.com , please?

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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some authors should never get published. Too inspirational.

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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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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

NATO/EU should have declared prevention of attacks coming in over Ukrainian airspace - no matter where targeted - a legitimate initiator of defensive action, a long time ago.

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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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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

But filenames should start with ISO8601 dates - so "2022-05-19-THE HEIRESS EFFECT copyright" :-)

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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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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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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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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Informative and entertaining lecture!

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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Adobe? What is that - the nineties?

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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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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So sad that I cannot envision any conversation where I’d drop this nugget - but thank you nevertheless. > They're scanning the Kama Sutra into AI and it deleted all the pages.

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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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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

… but then we now run subs w/ “English” language too because of pretentious mumbling (and I do not mean Moira who was a delight).

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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rarely. Watched Stalker in a Berlin cinema in 1991 or so, no subs - but then dialogue is … limited and I’ve read the book 10 times. Better: Rashomon with French subtitles, switching to Spanish ones w/ the 2nd reel. Recent warning in “Drops of God” tat several languages are spoken (check them…).

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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 · 24/08/2026

Aesthetic nightmare; looking somewhat repulsive since, well, pictures of him exist. Not the slightest bit of style, taste. Politics? Don’t get me started!

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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ask it to do all charts in LaTeX.

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