Reposted by Lukáš PekárekItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 14hAndre Geim is the only scientist to win both the Nobel Prize (Physics, 2010) and the Ig Nobel Prize (for levitating a frog in 2000). His secret? He says it was to set up an environment in his lab for doing experiments from a sense of play and a spirit for adventure! 1399
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 6664641779
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekFabian Fröhlich @frohlichlab.com · 04/10/2026As habitual AI user for writing who regularly sees "100% human" scores on text with 80%+ LLM-written words, I suspect that: (i) reliability of AI detection is overestimated, (ii) writing of latest-gen models is under-appreciated, and (iii) "LLM-generated" is not as clear cut as many people think 032
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekElsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart 167142844708
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work. 211255218
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekCharles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026do actors in movies actually die? they at least behave as if they do 5378107
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Well, there it is. The EU is also going to use slop algorithms to put an artificial number on proposals. This is how we lose. This is a disaster 🧪 54414
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekLior Steinberg @steinberg.nu · 24/09/2026Is it Amsterdam? Copenhagen? No, it's Paris! After years of investment, the French capital has one of the best problems a city can have: bicycle congestion. So if Paris has done it, why wouldn't other cities follow? 📸 Such an amazing photo by @jbpssx.bsky.social 15715152
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekMarc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm not writing in the NYT and I won't word it carefully: it's clear that AI companies are stealing researchers' work (and why wouldn't they? they steal artists' and journalists' work with no consequences), and I warned my group about it this morning. 01813
Reposted by Lukáš Pekárekpaveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Some 30 years ago, I went for it. ‘Twas a good decision. Do it! 02311
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekMax Renner @maxrenner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Clearly, the only solution is to quickly build more data centers so AI can solve climate change 🚀🚀🚀 263
Reposted by Lukáš Pekárekpaveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 20/09/202621627 applications. Nothing to celebrate here. Impossible to evaluate fairly & safely. Neither the science (too diverse & possibly LLM generated) nor the soft criteria (likely LLM generated). Without an interview stage - a security risk! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/ne...marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.euMSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 receives record number of applicationsThe 2026 call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 21,627 applications submitted. 29844
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekS.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Interviewer: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Me: 1002050434
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekPat Schloss @patschloss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Let me get this straight. There's a title. There's a commentary article. There's an abstract. There's a set of bullet point highlights. There's a graphical abstract. AND YOU STILL THINK I NEED YOUR AI AGENT TO SUMMARIZE THE ARTICLE FOR ME? 06921
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026You know what's also interactive? Reading the paper. Talk to your colleagues about the paper you just read. Tell them why you loved it. Tell them why you hated it. And even better: invite the authors to talk about their paper 🧪 1621761
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekKevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026found at ucsf 9557118
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekVaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16/09/2026Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.static.klipy.comMan Lying on a Pile of MoneyALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money 410371
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekJeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 15/09/2026Tempted to use AI to write your cover letter or email to a potential employer? RESIST! It is simultaneously obvious, insulting, and renders you totally undifferentiated from the other 80 people being considered t the same time. There has never been a better time to write concisely in your own voice! 33912
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekEize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 14/09/2026I'm not a mad scientist, I'm just a disappointed scientist. 215643
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekAriel Kaplan @arielkaplan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Postdoc opportunity in our lab! Use optical tweezers and single-molecule fluorescence to study protein-DNA interactions, transcription and chromatin dynamics. Azrieli Postdoctoral Fellowship: azrielifoundation.org/fellows/inte... akaplanz@technion.ac.il Prese share! #Postdoc #Biophysics 063
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekTyson @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. 51173686425
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Advice for new PhD students: choose a mentor who is committed to your training, not just your project. The most important product of your PhD - even more important than the science - is YOU, a newly trained scientist. 517240
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekChris H. Hill @chillzaa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Thrilled to share that our paper describing protein-dependent frameshifting is now out in Molecular Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. Huge congratulations to @jemmabetts.bsky.social for publishing the first research paper from her PhD 🧬🧪🥳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/8sciencedirect.comA protein-dependent riboswitch activates ribosomal frameshifting in cardiovirusesProgrammed −1 ribosomal frameshifting (PRF) is a translational control mechanism used by RNA viruses to regulate the relative abundance of proteins en… 46719
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world. 13872842043
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026If you're a biologist, especially one in a field that has a history of eugenics and racism (which absolutely includes my own field of evolutionary biology) and you choose to remain "neutral" as race science once again crawls out from under its rock, you are not in fact neutral. 6244431070
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton 19972911571
Reposted by Lukáš Pekárekddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026It's ironic that they call these "AI" things cutting-edge technologies when they're actually cutting-corners technologies. 15412
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekDebbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Also I am obsessed that "fluorescence" was coined in the footnote of Stokes 1852 paper. He was like -- if opalescence can be named after opals, why not name this glowing after fluorspar? And I think that is cool royalsocietypublishing.org/rstl/article... 76921
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekElise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 04/08/2026There's a missing rung on the academic career ladder in Austria and Germany. Historically there wasn't a position like assistant professor or lecturer, so the jump from postdoc to professor was — and mostly still is — huge. Between 70% and 80% of academics in Austria don't have permanent jobs.reviewertoo.comAcademics in Germany and Austria are stuck in job limboAlso: Montana's "right to try" law for experimental cures, UK science gets reshuffled, a university sues Anthropic over patents, and more from last week 43715
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 31/07/2026These stories are often being presented as "cunning AI escapes its test room". I can't see why. It's simply the case that the sandbox was not well isolated by the testing companies. Put the agency and responsibility where it belongs. cyberscoop.com/anthropic-cl...cyberscoop.comAnthropic says its AI accidentally hacked three companies during safety testsAnthropic revealed its Claude AI models accidentally breached three real companies during safety testing after a vendor configuration error exposed live systems. 98425
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekRan Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Everyone in academia reading this "joke"static.klipy.comSkeptical Fry from FuturamaALT: Skeptical Fry from Futurama 06110
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekDr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 27/07/2026Figuring this out in sufficient detail and clarity, not writing the code, is actually the hardest part of the task. 54510
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026For real that I am going to make it my life mission so we collectively laugh at people that use the slop machine to make their graphical abstracts 🧪 7323
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekAndy Parmo @andyparmo.co.uk · 16/07/2026Only 4 hydration breaks until Christmas 210714
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"theverge.comThe ChatGPT browser is already deadChatGPT Atlas didn’t even last a year. 6542221383
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekMagnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Tired of AI-generated figures? I asked our talented scientific illustrator Manon Zuurmond to draw some of the instruments and lab equipment we missed in NIH's otherwise fantastic BioArt resource. First batch now available as CC BY. Free for everyone to use in publications: github.com/Center-for-P... 121889
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year 268239993246
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekCharlotte the Procrastinator @catsbearsandme.bsky.social · 28/06/2026#Poetry #BlueskyPoetry #WendyCope Differences of Opinion I: He Tells Her by Wendy Cope 49027
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 25/06/2026This is an interesting idea. Since journals are keen to make authors declare when they have used AI, might authors want editors to do the same...? 3276
Lukáš Pekárek @pekarekl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I can hardly imagine a better awardee than @nanopat.bsky.social! Despite his love for small things, his impact is huge! Well done! 🤩 151
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekHelmholtz Institute Würzburg @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Congratulations to @nanopat.bsky.social on receiving the @rnasociety.bsky.social’s Eclipse Award for Innovation in High Throughput Biology! 🎉 The award recognizes the #RNA research methods he developed during his doctoral studies in #HIRI’s Smyth lab. Read more: www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/newsroom/...helmholtz-hiri.deAward-winning novel methods in RNA researchPatrick Bohn receives RNA Society Eclipse Award for Innovation in High Throughput Biology 072
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekJan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026I miss Web 1.0. You click a link, you get to the website, you read the content. What a concept. 1696175
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekHelena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026😎 to have this out! --> stay tuned, this is a series about 📊#dataviz for #science 🧪 85522
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekDavid Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Cognitive friction is a key source of life. This rapid deployment of AI is horrifying. We need to create our own words. We need to think. If we don’t create and don’t think, how can minds develop? 1266
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Doing a linear stretch on these images shows how dramatic the "edits" were, revealing the deception in clear terms. This should be a complete scandal for Thermo Fisher and more people in the biosciences should be talking about it. 912554
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 05/06/2026OMG!!! It’s also such a messy western background to cheat into!!! 3172
Reposted by Lukáš PekárekJason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Having "ideas" is not the rate limiting step for doing science (no matter what the AI bros seem to think). I have 10 times, a hundred times more ideas than I could ever investigate, even given unlimited resources. Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard. And luck is the biggest factor of all 1314