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Mariano F. Zacarías-Fluck

@marianozf.bsky.social

Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, Senior Researcher @lsouceklab.bsky.social in Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology @VHIO.bsky.social , Barcelona. Amateur musician/genealogist/photographer. #Datavis lover. I sometimes don't follow but add to my lists 😊

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Pieter Hermans@pjeh.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

What happens when researchers stop competing for funding? Twenty Dutch metascientists replaced competition with collaboration for NWO grant applications, proving collective approaches can outperform individual ones. @sajedehra.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social www.tue.nl/en/news-and-...

What happens when researchers stop competing for funding? - tue.nl/stories | funding | open science | Daniel Lakens | Sajedeh Rasti

Twenty Dutch metascientists explore whether collaboration can outperform competition.

tue.nl

@lsoucek.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For years, #RAS and #MYC were considered "undruggable." The success of RAS has changed the conversation. Proud to see this recent @nature.com News & Views highlighting MYC as a promising next frontier and #Peptomyc as a key player helping advance the field. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Landmark cancer trial shows success against ‘undruggable’ cancer — raising hopes for future treatments

Unprecedented results against a stubbornly hard-to-treat cancer are boosting optimism that other challenging tumours will be next.

nature.com

Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

Mariano F. Zacarías-Fluck@marianozf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm using @proton.me (mail, storage), @duckduckgo.com (search, blockade of trackers on my phone) and Brave instead of the horrendous Chrome. I've been testing @asklumo.proton.me and to me, it works very well in general, not yet tested it for coding help. I can't wait to move away from Android!

Nicola Rennie@nrennie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Regular reminder that there are alternatives to Google Search and Google Chrome. Some European alternatives are listed here: european-alternatives.eu/alternative-... (where you can also find alternatives for other tech products should you be looking for them)

Stephen Turner@stephenturner.us · 3mo ago

I'm usually not one to join the anti-AI hype train, but most of what I read this week was about AI degrading the scientific infrastructure I rely on heavily, from GitHub to arXiv to peer-reviewed published literature. Weekly Recap / Five Things: blog.stephenturner.us/p/five-thing...

Five Things (May 15, 2026): AI is why we can't have nice things

GitHub problems, vibe-coding regrets, Elsevier sues Meta, fabricated citations, the arXiv banhammer for AI-generated content

blog.stephenturner.us

Mariano F. Zacarías-Fluck@marianozf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is extremely concerning. #AI have the potential to be fantastic tools, but also to make us perhaps anxious or demanding for immediate results, curbing our own capacity for critical thinking and perseverance

Kris Inwood@kris-inwood.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New report of experimental evidence from Grace Liu & collaborators showing that AI assistance improves immediate performance - but after just ∼10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving people who lose access to the AI perform worse and give up more frequently than those who never used it.

Matthew Kay@mjskay.com · 4mo ago

New advising trick I've been trying: when a student looks skeptical about something, but doesn't *say* they are, I say "the look on your face says you don't believe me" I think explicitly acknowledging the nonverbal cue gives permission to voice what they're unsure about so we can talk about it

Stephen Turner@stephenturner.us · 6mo ago

Charles Darwin was born on this day in 1809. A handwritten letter from Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1861: “But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”

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Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I had intended to post something about this new Google DeepMind paper that appeared yesterday in Nature, but the press coverage has added to what there is to say. So this is a long 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome - Nature

AlphaGenome, a deep learning model that inputs 1-Mb DNA sequence to predict functional genomic tracks at single-base resolution across diverse modalities, outperforms existing models in variant effect...

nature.com

Chelsea Parlett@chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 8mo ago

You know that thing Coco Chanel said about accessories? “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off” We should all do that but with about 50% of the text we put in slide decks. TAKE. IT. OUT.