Very pleased to announce that my Crick postdoc work has just been published in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big thank you to @bpradel.bsky.social, @jaksonluk.bsky.social, @maxgg.bsky.social and the rest of the host-pathogen interactions in TB lab that made it all possible!

I don't know how much of my view is because "I've found a really cool hammer and now everything looks like a nail", but cooperative ownership and governance seems to me to be a great model for universities, newspapers, and platforms (music or otherwise).

🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating@zoekeating.com · 4w ago

Songtradr has fired all the engineers at Bandcamp and while they say they are focusing resources on that beloved platform, we don’t know what is going to happen. I am worried. Now is the time to support member-owned cooperative music distribution platforms like @Subvert.fm

“restrictions on pro-Palestinian speech and protest, when justified by invocations of Jewish safety, will backfire and weaken social cohesion and potentially increase antisemitism”. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

Conflation of Jewish identity with Israel driving antisemitism, Jewish Council says in submission to royal commission

Progressive Jewish group calls for more focus on the threat from the far right and the recognition of a diversity of views within the community

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I am SO sick of headlines like this. The public sees "AI" as being LLMs/ChatGPT, not an ML algorithm - and articles like this mislead the public into thinking that LLMs are discovering novel things. It's a cool thing! I'm excited! But it is lazy reporting to suddenly use "AI" as such a broad term

In Doppelganger, @naomiaklein.bsky.social shows how white supremacists assume the victimhood of those they oppress, presenting the evils they do as evils done to them. In Britain, where black people are 7 times more likely than white people to die after police restraint, this is what we are seeing.

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · 3mo ago

BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES

so envious of LLMs i want to be able to invoke tool calls just by thinking a json structure too

📢 Our SECOND LINE+ seminar will be on May 20nd at Imperial College. @nthndy.bsky.social will join us to share how he turns his machine learning approaches to understand Mtb persistence into accessible interactive datasets. Registration/info: tinyurl.com/2t56zfp8 More about Nathan: nthndy.github.io

Someone has probably said it but

Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t

tracking a single-cell mycobacterium tuberculosis infection across time

I am always with you, in spirit, to remind you that thou art mortal. profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday/

☝️ Incl. work from our colleagues & exciting research from @jaksonluk.bsky.social, @maxgg.bsky.social, @nthndy.bsky.social, & @gabrielconway.bsky.social at @crick.ac.uk. Also papers by @simonjoosten.bsky.social, @tbimmunologytcd.bsky.social, @armesilla.bsky.social, & more! #EndTB #StopTB #IDsky

My grandfather worked at a Jewish restaurant in Golders Green for twenty years. When he was taken ill at work one day, this ambulance service rushed him to hospital. This is such a cowardly, immoral, hateful act.

Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Video appears to show the moment ambulances belonging to a Jewish Ambulance Service in Golders Green were set alight in a suspected arson attack. It is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime. Police are appealing for information - nobody has yet been arrested.

‘The value of the world’s top ten companies is $25.6 trillion. Of that, $15.1 trillion has accumulated since 30 November 2022 and is directly linked to the AI boom.’ John Lanchester on the AI bubble. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

John Lanchester · King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI bubble burst?

Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in...

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It's honestly a bit surprising how much more complex image analysis gets once you're in the regime of images too big to fit in memory. All of the solutions you do (use zarr! Split the image!) come with a whole host of issues that you've never had to think about until you run into them.

Lab-grown lung models have traditionally been grown from a mixture of cells, making it hard to tell how a disease or treatment will affect an individual person. These new models by @maxgg.bsky.social’s team and AlveoliX are grown from a single person’s stem cells ⤵️ www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

Built to breathe: mini ‘lungs’ recreate individual response to infection

Lung-on-chip device exposes earliest stages of tuberculosis infection, and opens doors to investigate diversity in disease progression and personalised treatment.

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He saw the light.

Sky News@news.sky.com · 8mo ago

Bishop Richard Moth named as new Archbishop of Westminster

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Garry@thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

This is such an extreme and deeply segregationist view to hold it should completely discredit her from her position. Stating that a group, clearly protected in the spirit and word of the equality act, where tricked into 'thinking they have rights" is unforgivable she must resign

BIOIMAGE ANALYSTS ASSEMBLE!!! #CBIAS2025

Brilliant from the journalist. The most on-the-ropes I’ve ever seen Farage. His usual bluster tactic didn’t work. His uttering of ‘well, you wouldn’t’ when the journalist said ‘I don’t quite know what you mean’ was genuinely pathetic. More of this please.

Pippa Crerar@pippacrerar.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way” Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school @itvnewspolitics.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of continued spread, international health experts say.

This is what real leadership and integrity looks like!!!

Python Software Foundation@python.org · 9mo ago

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-... 🧵

Even the most dramatic displays of defiance can sometimes carry less impact than the humbler acts of protection and preparation, writes Georgia Coley. sojo.net/articles/cul...

‘One Battle After Another’ Shows Christians How to ‘Work for the Peace of the City’

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, the best way to fight an endless series of battles is to play smart defense. Churches should take note.

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For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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It's really nice to see the huge flow of new people coming here! Maybe it's time for a quick presentation. Hi 👋 I'm Noémie, I love science 🧬 and especially microbes 🔬 I do scientific illustrations for paper, cover or logo. And I'm the illustrator behind the Bacterial World blog: sarahs-world.blog

Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?" Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country" Labour have gone utterly bonkers