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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
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The Tattooed Professor
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Professor at the Australian National University. Biosecurity, fungal and plant genomics, evolution, and biochemistry. Dad. Swimming, reading, nature.
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if you want to read our full story on alarmone and plant immunity: bsky.app/profile/fede...
Fede Aballay 🇦🇷The preprint of our work on ppGpp–immunity crossroads is out! We delved deeper into the regulation of plant immunity by alarmone ((p)ppGpp) in Arabidopsis and found surprising stuff 😱. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare booksIf you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.www.news.com.au
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“In Australia, we subsidize the fossil fuel industry, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.” - Australia Institute co-CEO Richard Denniss. Join the call for a national plebiscite to introduce a 25% gas export tax: https://gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.au/
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New GreenRobust publication by the group of Eric Kemen on using machine learning to identify beneficial microbiota: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Machine learning reveals biocontrol agents shaping disease outcome in natural Arabidopsis populations - Nature CommunicationsPlants can recruit beneficial microbes to suppress pathogens, offering a route to rational biocontrol beyond empirical screening. Here, the authors use machine learning to identify disease-associated ...www.nature.comOur first orchid genome paper is out "Inter-haplotype inversions and repeat expansion in the sexually deceptive orchid Chiloglottis trapeziformis" academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-.... All let by our super talented master student Zirui Zhang
Inter-haplotype inversions and repeat expansion in the sexually deceptive orchid Chiloglottis trapeziformisAbstract. High-quality nuclear genome resources remain scarce for most orchids, particularly Australia’s diverse terrestrial lineages. Chiloglottis trapeziacademic.oup.com
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Nice paper flagging issues that can show up for researchers using LLMs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Randomness in large language models: What researchers need to know (and report)Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate data for research. Typical use cases are classifications, annotations, information extraction, anpapers.ssrn.com
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Words cannot describe how much I despise this person’s contempt for how hard real scientists work It’s the kind of attitude you can only get from inheriting a fortune from an Apartheid era emerald mine finance.yahoo.com/sectors/heal...
Elon Musk calls medical school 'pointless,' says robots will beat any surgeon in 3 years — telling students to walk awayMedical experts, however, strongly disagree with Musk's claims.finance.yahoo.com
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New paper out! Using tree rings, fire records, Landsat biomass data, and SEMs, we show that atmospheric dryness acts as a coordinating driver of boreal forest dynamics, raising questions about the extent to which growth gains can offset increasing fire-driven biomass losses doi.org/10.1071/WF25...
Atmospheric dryness as a coordinated driver of fire activity and biomass accumulation in northwestern boreal CanadaRising vapor pressure deficit in northwestern boreal Canada is linked to increased burned area and reduced tree growth, with indirect effects on biomass acdoi.org
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Everyone says AI will accelerate science. I don't think it will -- at least not in biology, and at least not soon. New post where I explain why, and how the productivity paradox can be resolved: blekhman.substack.com/p/why-ai-wil...
Why AI will not speed up science (yet)You can see AI everywhere except in the productivity statisticsblekhman.substack.com
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‘We are in the hands of predatory elites’ | Francesca Albanese. substack.com/@teeashby/no...
‘We are in the hands of predatory elites’ | Francesca Albanese.“Anand Naidoo spoke to UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese about the crisis in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.substack.com
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Combining genomic data from 156 nematode species with fossil calibrations, the authors develop a time-calibrated phylogeny that resolves the timing of nematode diversification and evolution of parasitism, while accounting for variation in divergence time estimates 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The timescale of nematode evolution reveals late and convergent radiations of parasitism - Nature Ecology & EvolutionEstablishing a universal evolutionary timescale of nematodes has been complicated by their patchy fossil record and analytical limitations. Combining genomic data from 156 nematode species with fossil...www.nature.com
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Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
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Please share! 🌱🤖 Permanent W2 Professorship in crop & plant sciences @ PhenoRob, University of Bonn. Especially encouraged: crop genome engineering, sustainable pest control, or sustainable disease control. Expertise in one area is enough. Apply by Sept. 30, 2026. www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...