So excited that I get to vote for Will in the general election!

William Lawrence@wewill2026.bsky.social · 5d ago

I couldn’t be prouder of the movement we’ve built in mid-Michigan. Thank you, Ambassador Bridget Brink and Matt Maasdam, for your years of public service and all your hard work on the campaign trail. While tonight we celebrate, there’s still much more work ahead.

You have until midnight tonight (Monday). Please be coherent and cogent but leave a message!

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 4w ago

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY

So many historians would agree. #Trump #BlueWave #NoKings

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I NEED YOUR ATTENTION. When violent and controlling people start to feel their power slip, they become more violent and controlling. I believe this is what’s happening in the Administration, now. This is a CRITICAL INFLECTION POINT: we MUST come together and push back *hard* NOW. 🧵 a thread

📢 Deadline extended! #ALIFE2026 submissions are now open until April 12 (AoE). ⚠️ Final extension 📌 Submissions are not anonymized this year 👉 2026.alife.org #ALIFE2026 #ArtificialLife #CallForPapers #Conference

Our new paper on antifragility in ecology and evolution is out in @asn-amnat.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Jonas Wickman@jonaswickman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We propose that ‘antifragility’, coined by Nassim Taleb, is a great high-level concept for ecologists of all kinds for parsing and communicating the effects of environmental variability. An antifragile property benefits from variability. We explore its use in two mathematical models. (2/4)

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

Writing out a conversation I’ve been having a lot at this conference: Things in US science are far, far worse than people know. Far worse than even other scientists know. 1/

LANSING!!! Visit this link: fight2win.standupforscience.net/Lansing-March to learn more about your local SATURDAY MARCH 7TH RALLY to TAKE BACK OUR SCIENCE! See map for location! Rally starts at 1pm and goes till 3pm! #March7Lansing #standupforscience #science #savescience!

📢 Call for Papers: #ALIFE2026 Waterloo 🇨🇦 & online | 17–21 Aug 2026 📝 Full Papers & Summaries: 30 March 2026 📌 Special Sessions, Workshops & Tutorials proposals: 20 Feb 2026 Theme: Living and Lifelike Complex Adaptive Systems 2026.alife.org

Save the date! The annual #Conference on #ArtificialLife - #ALIFE2026 will take place in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), 17-21 August 2026. More details coming soon!

Step 1: GenAI coding contains almost twice as many errors as human coding. Step 2: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI. Step 3: Windows 11 is a sluggish, buggy mess.

AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output

AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human code

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One of my most formative experiences in academic medicine was chasing down a citation. I wanted to cite a reassurance I heard in residency that a 1cm dural exposure over the ear was okay. I found it--it was from a book chapter without any experimental evidence. The experience rewired my brain.

Juneisy Hawkins@junehawk.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I basically arrived at my dissertation topic while chasing a citation chain where no one seemed to know the OG primary source for.

This is 100% infuriating.

Dr. Casey Fiesler@cfiesler.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Our paper on constraints and functions is out! We show that agents can change from open loop control behavior to closed loop control by modifying their environment. It’s a follow up to many of the ideas that Tim Taylor explores with his POA framework. direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...

was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil. Full post: togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...

My first lead author paper is out with Ben Kerr and @alisonfeder.bsky.social! We found that making an antiviral too strong can sometimes make resistance easier to evolve. This has implications for how we design drugs, choose doses, and think about viral evolution in the face of treatment. (1/n)

Intracellular interactions shape antiviral resistance outcomes in poliovirus via eco-evolutionary feedback - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A model of intrahost poliovirus replication shows that, after several rounds of replication, pocapavir, a poliovirus capsid inhibitor, collapses viral density, preventing intracellular interactions th...

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Our #ALIFE2025 paper is out! 🎉 We show that even when two circuits produce the same output, their evolutionary potential can differ greatly. #Evolution at the smallest scale. “Parameter Evolvability in Gene Expression Models Drives Phenotypic Adaptation” 🔗 direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...

Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics

From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g...

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Fellow scientists who write conference papers and submit NSF/NIH grants: what publication type are you using for conference papers in your NCBI Bibliography? I realized that I've been doing a chaotic mix of "other" and "meeting abstract", each of which has pros and cons.

Jeffrey Epstein justified his evil actions with "science" Evolutionary biologists whispering in his ear about how men and women are fundamentally different, and it's "natural" to desire younger women Our field has a duty to explain why this is wrong both scientifically and ethically

Rep Tom Barrett would rather take food from the hungry than give care to the sick. If he won't lift a finger to help his constituents, I will. I'm holding vigil for 30 hours leading up to the SNAP cutoff deadline, and collecting donations for the Greater Lansing Food Bank. bit.ly/cd7food

Remembering the time in grad school when a Black PhD student at the next desk over was doing computer vision research. He was testing out a facial recognition tool using his own face as a reference, but it wasn't working. So he asked a (white) colleague to try it, and of course it worked for her.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Data like these are exactly why I think @wewill2026.bsky.social is an excellent candidate to be the next MI-07 representative! Some people say Elissa Slotkin won our district because she's moderate. I think that's wrong. I think she won because she stood for something. Will does too.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This piece by @adambonica.bsky.social is a crucial read. The @nytimes.com editorial board leans into their priors in their own recent editorial on the need for moderation to win. As @adambonica.bsky.social suggests the story is more complicated. 1/ data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

tl;dr 1. Studies of genAI in the classroom show that it harms learning 2. The quality of AI-generated text is irrelevant to its most negative effects on teaching 3. The way AI has entered the classroom is as a money-making project extracting new labour, not a “tool” serving teachers’ actual needs

Why I am not using AI in the classroom

Last week I spoke with some of my colleagues about the “challenges” posed by generative AI to our teaching. As anyone who follows me on Bluesky — or followed me on Twitter, prior …

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In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

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Swipe up to try a new variant on Conway's Game of Life. And another. And another. This is how artificial-life researchers spread the joy after the #ALIFE2025 conference! They say it's like TikTok, but I wouldn't know.... ⚙️🧫 rulehunt.org?rulesetHex=7... #cellularautomata #gameoflife

The SONI session turned out a great—shout out to the speakers & the panelists @emilydolson.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho for great talks & discussion on how we can rethink intelligence under the complexity lens. #ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social

New, brief overview of lexicase selection: lexicase.ai It considers individual training cases in different random orders, and therefore with different priorities, for each selection event. #AI #MachineLearning #ALife