Sam Wuest

@samwuest.bsky.social

breeding research, passionate about science, plants, crop ecology and modern breeding technologies; views are my own

1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded. Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 6mo ago

“The idea is to put ChatGPT front and center inside software that scientists use to write up their work in much the same way that chatbots are now embedded into popular programming editors. It’s vibe coding, but for science.”

Have we been overstating the role of transposable elements in adaptation to local or rapidly changing environmental conditions? Happy to share my (somewhat unpopular?) opinion paper on this matter: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to those who already shared the link!

Blinded by the lights? Re-examining the adaptive role of transposable elements in plants with population genomics

Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous components of the genome whose mobility can be triggered by environmental stress and influenced by genotype…

sciencedirect.com

The most honest #farmer in Britain: “I spent a lot of time looking at the evidence on the impact of #meat & it was overwhelming. 10 billion people can’t live sustainably on this planet if we’re eating anything like the level of meat consumed in a western diet… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain

The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis

theguardian.com