Wow, just listened to @erictopol.bsky.social having @emollick.bsky.social on the pod & altho my default playback at 1.1x makes Ethan a literal waterfall I have not been able to stop constantly nodding along. If u need a basic overview of the state of AI + hear a ton of clear solutions listen & share

Ethan Mollick on AI: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Headed

Ground Truths · Episode

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Uh, what a spectacular opportunity there! "...applicants with a background in experimental protein biochemistry, ... structural biology, protein dynamics and IDPs, molecular recognition, enzymology, protein design, directed evolution, & synthetic biology" www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Universities work largely because people on average, give more than they receive. They commit unpaid service to the institution, the wider communities in which they reside and the academic communities in which they work and study. Making everything transactional breaks this and society is weakened.

Not another Star Wars reboot

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · last wk.

The Pope met with Bob Dylan today. Amazing photo.

Once again, to bring some nuance. I review a paper right now with >10k lines of (open source) code Claude found a bug that meant a setting upon which much of their argument rested never actually triggered. I would never have been able to trace it Sorry not sorry, you constant reflexive AI bashers

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 3w ago

So why do people accept a request to peer review a paper when they don't have time and then use AI to write the review? One might hazard a guess....

Finally looks like rollout is really starting! They indicate a timeline of 7 days, then Mythos and Opus 5.5 (but not Fable) with relaxed bio safeguards

Life scientists get in line, our turn to help build the new generation of agents that'll replace us. Raise your hand if you can resist the temptation of those sweet sweet tokens and quick splashy papers this might bring

Open call for guest investigators in the life sciences

Today, we’re inviting members of the life sciences community to apply to work with us on special projects.

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did a group presentation today with manim style transitions. Sharing the template for anyone to build upon Brought to life with manim-web + reveal.js + claude + codex view template: slides.ramith.fyi view repo: github.com/ramithuh/pro...

The fear mongering is starting to get ridiculous "Easier said than done" - uhh duh! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In response to the government’s renaming of AI to SI, I propose all journals rename Supplemental Information to Additional Information.

1/5 Cryo-EM gives high-resolution RNA structures, but only when high Mg²⁺ freezes out their motion. At physiological conditions, RNAs are dynamic and 3D reconstruction fails. Can we still learn their folding equilibria? New preprint: yes, straight from the raw particle images👇

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 1007: "more hydrogen atoms"

„Without funding of basic research – which is the advantage of doing research in Germany – our discoveries would not have been possible”, Nobel Prize laureate 2026 Peter Hagemann points out in German news @heutejournal.bsky.social (starting at 19:00 minutes) – in German www.zdf.de/play/magazin...

heute journal vom 5. Oktober 2026

Mit den Themen: „Gewaltsamer Konflikt“ - BND-Chef warnt vor Russland; Vorgezogene Neuwahlen - Spaniens Sánchez sucht Mehrheiten; Verdrängte Geschichte - Shida Bazyar erhält Deutschen Buchpreis

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3D printers have now become zero-skill infrastructure when connected to an Ai. OpenSCAD + PrusaLink + Claude is a miracle in my lab. Highly recommend it. I am free.

Hot take: AI text policing is English native favoritism in disguise. Yes, AI slop is a huge problem; no, a pangram hit does not tell you whether it came from a lazy zero shot prompt, a sophisticated 200h interactive discussion session, or a 200h self written text that then was polished by ChatGPT

Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · last mo.

Every manuscript submitted to preprint servers or for peer review should include a Pangram score to give an idea of how much of the paper's content was AI-generated. Journals need not draw a 'red line' (they should), but we should have this information before deciding whether we want to review it.

Visualising the distribution of substrings in the genomes of different organisms. Going up to depth eight by recursively splitting into quadrants, we get these fractal-like pictures.

Thoughts on Anthropic’s worries about people accessing Claude for possible bioweapons design:

AI Help for Biological or Chemical Weapons

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Join to find out more about our ADD-tagging platform plus a preview on our soon-to-be preprinted follow up presented by my PhD student @wahyuwidodo.bsky.social

Virtual ChemBioTalks@chembiotalks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Are you excited about cutting-edge Chemical Biology? Next week on September 29th, the 6th Virtual ChemBioTalks will happen with an exciting program of world-leading scientists! You can still register for free: events.zoom.us/ev/Ag... (1/4)

Hate to conclude this prediction was correct

Max Fürst@maxfus.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I really think we're at a tipping point. AI is radically entering all of society & certain systems cannot cope, including a lot of the scientific process. I predict current grant & paper writing & review systems are going to break this year, but as adaptation will take longer, we'll see a lot of 😡

ʙɪɴᴅᴄʀᴀꜰᴛ2 is out, and we're not waiting for the paper. The full code drops today, free for academic and industry use. We're releasing it early so you can start designing right now, and bring its full power to the current Adaptyv competition. github.com/PacesaLab/Bi...

Anthropic has used Claude to optimise structure prediction and design code to improve speed and memory efficiency. 2-3X speed improvements on AF3, 5X on OF3, 5X on BindCraft low memory modes to model large assemblies. All released as open source www.anthropic.com/research/cla...

How Claude is uplifting biomolecular modeling

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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'Our findings illustrate a curious paradox: despite universities being key producers of evidence and seeking the use of their research to inform public policymaking, they are less adept at using evidence to inform their own decision-making.' blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Universities rarely use research evidence in their decision-making, so why do they expect anyone else to? - LSE Impact

Despite universities’ important role as evidence-producing organisations, they rarely draw upon research evidence for internal decision making, why?

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Honestly there probably aren't many papers anymore that at least parts of it haven't been AI written/edited and likewise editors might as well by default run manuscripts through the latest LLM as default reviewer 1

Elisa Fadda@elisafadda.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thought: If scientific journals start requiring authors to declare the use of AI in any part of their work (as they absolutely should!), then they should also require the same declaration from *reviewers* 🧵1/3

Thought: If scientific journals start requiring authors to declare the use of AI in any part of their work (as they absolutely should!), then they should also require the same declaration from *reviewers* 🧵1/3

Seth Meyers: Right?!

Alt: Seth Meyers: Right?!

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How do researchers design an RNA in 3D when no accurate 3D prediction model exists? Eterna's collaboration with the @rdaslab.bsky.social at Stanford was able to design novel pseudoknots using a blend of secondary structure prediction and GenAI design methods. 🧪 #RNAsky

Science Magazine@science.org · 3mo ago

On the citizen science platform Eterna, #AI methods matched expert human players at inventing sequences that fold into an RNA pseudoknot, a structure in which loops pair with distant parts of the same molecule. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4wOqvuE

Extraordinary blog post by @moalquraishi.bsky.social moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/a... Starting with the question on whether workaphiles will be dying breed post AGI, it later turns into serious scifi - "The 'easy' solution is to make our brains bigger"

A Workaphile’s Apology

Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this essay—all em dashes are mine1. Soon after the AlexNet breakthrough burst onto the scene over a decade ago, I became preoccupied with the followi…

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A multivalent RNA affinity tag enables selective purification of tagged RNAs and bound proteins doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

A multivalent RNA affinity tag enables selective purification of tagged RNAs and bound proteins

Abstract. Efficient purification of specific RNAs from lysates remains a major challenge. Existing methods, such as MS2 tagging or oligonucleotide hybridiz

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Shocking.

Programming tip: never type out a 10-character command when you could instead press the up arrow for 5 minutes until you find that command in your history