www.nature.com/articles/s41... Diffusion based burger recipes are not something I woke up expecting to want. 🤖🧪

Generative artificial intelligence creates delicious, sustainable, and nutritious burgers - npj Science of Food

npj Science of Food - Generative artificial intelligence creates delicious, sustainable, and nutritious burgers

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🧬 Exploring the implications of within-organism conflicts for organismal biology with biology We’re welcoming the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation: Mathematical Foundations workshop to NITMB! A huge thank you to the organizers and speakers. We look forward to the week’s discussions!

We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪

arxiv.org/html/2603.21... New preprint appears to show that lots of key functions and constants can be reduced to some series of call to a single primitive function: eml(x, y) = exp(x) - ln(y) One it is cool and two possibly useful for symbolic regression and recovering equations from ML. 🧪🤖

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught. www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

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The problem with offloading finding paper to ai is you will get biased results. 🧪🤖 I don't want to call out k-dense in particular but it's the clearest example of how using tools without reading their prompts Is a bad idea. github.com/K-Dense-AI/c...

Nudibranchs use guanine nanocrystals to produce lots of different matte structural colours! This is going straight in my first year lectures. No doubt to be met with blank disinterest. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

There is No Consensus on Biological Sex

At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr...

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I always say that it’s good to be in nature (surrounded by flowers and insects)… but to be in Nature (the scientific journal) is not bad either 😊

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A simple celebratory post about completing my PhD went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how I managed the backlash and used the attention to promote my research, says Juliet Turner go.nature.com/4sQu3uX

Now with Elsevier's reading assistant I can get hallucinated crap served directly to me while I try to read actual true things what ppl really wrote.

Toxic people failing upwards: Universities must do better

Excited for this paper to be out, literal years of hard work by Kozzy. Excitingly, my first last author paper! This work came from joining the Kinds of Intelligence group at Cambridge and being given time by @martahalina.bsky.social to explore and cross disciplines. Hard work but very fun! 🧪 🤖🧠

Kozzy Voudouris@kozzyvoudouris.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We find that recurrence confers a significant advantage for learning more complex grammars, but lamination does not. This work would not have been possible without Matishalin Patel, Colin Klein, Marta Halina, and Andrew Barron. You can check out our preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.13968.

youtu.be/lLlwvmu1ZeA?... Possibly my favourite What If? ever. If you haven't read the what if books I highly recommend finding some copies.

What if you had a mole of moles?

YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

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Why do anemonefish (A. percula) live in groups where only the dominant pair breed? We tested ~200 groups for genetic relatedness and showed no patterns indicating relatedness was high within groups. 🧬🧪 doi.org/10.1093/behe... @theresarueger.bsky.social #MarineBiology #SocialEvolution

New study in @science.org Science Advances: Clownfish can shrink to survive heatwaves and social conflict! Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Pete Buston @newcastleuni.bsky.social @sciencesncl.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Individual clown anemonefish shrink to survive heat stress and social conflict

Clown anemonefish survive heatwaves by shrinking together with their breeding partner.

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After a week of intense population genomics, lots of tired but still smiley faces. Thank you @embo.org for funding another edition of our Population Genomics course in Naples. And thank you to the trainers and participants for making this eight edition another success! #EMBOpopgen

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Yeah I mean they went to all this trouble secretly stealing stuff. It's only fair they don't have to tell anyone...

UK ministers block amendment requiring AI firms to declare use of copyrighted content

Government uses arcane procedure to strip amendment passed by House of Lords from its data bill

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How can we rigorously investigate the common-sense capabilities of agentic AI systems? How can we build better models of non-human animal cognition? (Re-)introducing the Animal-AI Environment: A virtual laboratory for comparative cognition and artificial intelligence research!

www.nature.com/articles/d41... 100 year discussion on whether to use the word scientist can now be resolved correctly. By recognising the correct term should be lorer. anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Lore #conlang

www.cea.fr/english/Page... This seems very cool progress from the EAST result. Can physics people tell me is there still an issue with neutron shielding? Is that on its way to a solution? 🧪⚛️

Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration!

​On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the previous record for plasma duration achieved with a tokamak. This leap forwa...

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To hijack Weinberg: With or without notebooks, good people can program well and bad people can program badly; but for good people to program badly - that takes notebooks.

Seems so cool and strange to me that tokenising+transformer of a time series can work. And that the performance generalises so well across the different tasks. 🧪 openreview.net/forum?id=QlT... very good video exposition by first author: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqrC...

A cancer cell with three nuclei (cyan) videoed through a microscope. Mitochondria (yellow) and the actin cytoskeleton (red) are also shown. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #microscopy

Our review is out in Nature Reviews Genetics! rdcu.be/d5AY2 We show how phylogeny-based methods can resolve the problem of non-independence in genomic datasets. These methods must be considered an essential part of the comparative genomics toolkit. @lauriebelch.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social

A phylogenetic approach to comparative genomics

Nature Reviews Genetics - Controlling for phylogeny is essential in comparative genomics studies, because species, genomes and genes are not independent data points within statistical tests. The...

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New paper with @tobykiers.bsky.social and @stuwest.bsky.social on whether plants send signals through fungal networks to warn other plants of impending attack – theory suggests unlikely. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hinton's responses during the banquet interviews are truly S-tier. I'm a bit confused as to why they think ai won't blush though!

Good Sunday recreational maths read on permutation fair dice. 🧮🧪 www.ericharshbarger.org/dice/go_firs...

I was getting more and more annoyed by quotes/refs of Haldane 1955 which were either incomplete or weird. Not digitised so I bought it. And now can disagree with people over it properly. Thanks to @arvidagren.bsky.social for pointing out physical things exist. 🧪

One of the most heart warming adaptations I've heard of. Heart cockles have evolved aragonite fibre optic bundles to transmit sunlight to their symbionts. These bundles appear optimally arranged for light transmission and reduce UV load which can damage symbionts. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications

Some bivalves have evolved photosynthetic symbioses. Here, the authors show that heart cockles transmit light through their upper shell to internal photosynthetic symbionts, using mineral fiber optic ...

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