1. CRISPR came from basic research on bacteria. 2. Optogenetics started with a discovery in algae. 3. The GFP protein comes from jellyfish. The biggest breakthroughs all trace to scientists following their curiosity, and this is one huge reason why we must keep funding basic research!

The water-counting thing means she is PILLED pilled

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 2h ago

1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.

“Texas Tech’s censorship policy does not just affect the humanities. According to the AAUP lawsuit, medical students at the campus in El Paso are no longer permitted to learn about racial disparities in medical care or how to treat underserved populations.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

My wife has now been told from several sources that the Feds are going to immediately reject any science grant that says AI instead of SI. Our mad king at work

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20h ago

Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump

Today is #WorldMigratoryBirdDay, and to celebrate, we're launching a special Steam event called BIRDS OF PLAY, showcasing 140 bird games dedicated to our feathered friends! It kicks off at 6pm CEST, so come check it out here: store.steampowered.com/sale/BirdsOf...

Birds of Play

Come on in and find exclusive demos, new releases, and plenty of discounts.

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Drivers of chiffchaff singing #behavior across an urbanization gradient: Natural and anthropogenic factors differentially shape vocal timing and song length AAnimBehS

Drivers of chiffchaff singing #behavior across an urbanization gradient: Natural and anthropogenic factors differentially shape vocal timing and song length

Publication date: Available online 9 October 2026 Source: Applied Animal Behaviour Science Author(s): Aneta Ritz-Radlinská, Vojtěch Barták, Tomáš Kadlec, Lenka Říhová, Petr Zasadil

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I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

Outside of the obvious open source problems with vibe coding, there is soooo much truth in the “now I have to read/review all of this stuff with my brain power when you used almost none at all” across all layers of work now. Feel this in my bones 😭

Kybosh@kybosh.bsky.social · 5d ago

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

Here is the REAL winner of the Nikon Small World in Motion after the AI Monstrosity was removed www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

A tiny roundworm and a single-celled Dileptus explore their microscopic world | 2026 Small World in Motion Competition

Nguyen Nam Nhat - A tiny roundworm and a single-celled Dileptus explore their microscopic world

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Marmoset vocalizations are built from discrete vocal motor elements CurrentBiology

Marmoset vocalizations are built from discrete vocal motor elements

Löschner and Hage report that marmoset vocalizations have a quantized logic, being constructed of a hierarchically nested, rhythmically gated set of vocal motor elements.

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this shit must hit so hard when it's 4012 and you're a high schooler studying Classical American Mythology www.amazon.com/But-Digress-...

this is serious, former FEMA official Gregg Phillips is reporting he is not currently able to teleport into the panhandle

👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻@oldenoughtosay.com · 2d ago

oh they dead dead

I’m proud to be speaking at #EntSoc26, the Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting! Join me November 8-11 in Columbus, OH, to learn more about the behavioral genetics of beetle olfaction and pesticide resistance. www.entsoc.org/2026

need

Janelle Shane@janelleshane.com · 2d ago

For years I've been jealous of biologists and astronomers and all their science-themed wear, and now I finally have designed the laser-themed clothing I've always wanted to wear! But then my cats came along and started photobombing. www.aiweirdness.com/laser-merch-...

“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work,” she said." To me, this is the crux. Science is a human, community endeavor. They are destroying science.

‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release (Gift Article)

Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.

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We have invented the mythical man month from classic software engineering book Don’t Invent the Mythical Man Month.

Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick@shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 4d ago

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

OSSOFF: Mike Collins is one of the most extreme members of Congress. He's a Trump puppet election denier. I want to hear if Mike still believes the 2020 election was stolen. What do you say Mike? COLLINS: ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

nasal-demons.html www.catb.org/jargon/html/...

Makes me think of @olivia.science's points on specification. The literal transformers spec ("Attention is all you need") is a model for translation. The onus is on AI bros to prove that models generating unreadable Lean proofs are something besides bad translations. karagila.org/2026/openai-...

OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and mathematics

By the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not (...)

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conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 4d ago

relevant from the front page of HN right now

Makes me think of @olivia.science's points on specification. The literal transformers spec ("Attention is all you need") is a model for translation. The onus is on AI bros to prove that models generating unreadable Lean proofs are something besides bad translations. karagila.org/2026/openai-...

OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and mathematics

By the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not (...)

karagila.org

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 4d ago

relevant from the front page of HN right now

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

More CIHR musings, because I think we don't actually know what's going on in important ways that might influence how we think about prospective solutions. These are questions CIHR could answer if it wanted to.

Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦@michaelhendricks.bsky.social · last wk.

Some thoughts on the CIHR Project survey. I am very concerned about panicked “do something” changes in the face of declining success rates and rising app pressure. The same thing that lead to several years of stepping on rakes during the “Reforms.”

Everyone who listened to this went on to form a MIDI covers band (2 guys)

Vintage Obscura Radio@vintageobscura.net · 3d ago

386 DX - Layla [Msk, Russia / 8-bit Lo-Fi Computer Muzak, Electronic] (1998) Eric Clapton / Derek & The Dominos cover by Alexeij Shulgin on Windows 3.1 / MIDI , "First CyberPunk Band in The World". Rec-d at Artec in London . https://redd.it/1fhfpt7 https://youtu.be/cP0Zd-3c39s

Powerful statement from mathematicians around the world. “We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.” The backlash to AI is only just beginning. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/a...

they did the thing

🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 3d ago

this is so fucking sad

I should start my discussion by acknowledging limitations and caveats? I think you mean

Nvidie@dervine7.bsky.social · 3d ago

30,000. Thirty Thousand. That's how many AI game recaps FanWord wrote for college sports programs last year. www.foiaball.com/p/fan-word-a...

AI has already been writing all your school’s sports stories

FanWord produced 30,000 AI game recaps last year.

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David at FOIAball@foiaball.com · 5d ago

hopefully someone has been looking into this company for a month and has a compilation of the worst ai-mangled game recaps major universities have published ready to go for their newsletter tomorrow

if you define programming as "developing a theory of the system and how it relates to the external world" then it's immediately obvious these tools are harmful, and equally obvious that they are not "good at coding"

"Programming as Theory Building", P. Naur (1984/85)

"Programming as Theory Building", P. Naur (1984/85) - naur-1985.md

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