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I love that - in lieu of any hard evidence - now that the US govt has propagandized lab leak to a point well beyond satire, many “serious people” on here are just claiming this as undisputed fact, something that Fauci unequivocally lied about, etc. Get that bag I guess

Anybody else wonder what the daily carbon footprint is for “grok is this true?”

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced. scim.ag/3F9BeuO

One thing I wonder about so much of this stuff is how they plan to force people who know better to do these things. Are all clinical trials going to be designed and executed by people who have no training in basic biomedical ethics? Are they going to enforce placebos at gunpoint?

The AI hype is insane bc these things can’t even give you working code for basic R packages which have associated publications and vignettes with detailed examples. Like they give you the wrong functions! Literally not any more efficient than me struggling to do it myself

The bacteria dominating your gut #microbiome power their #metabolism with pyrophosphate rather than ATP. Seth Kabonick and squad shows that ATP-dependent FBP synthesis instead controls their carbohydrate utilization regulator. nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times LESS accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

Check out our new review on guanidine biology! Stay tuned for more exciting findings on guanidine from our group. From lab reagent to metabolite: the riboswitch ligand guanidine as a relevant compound in bacterial physiology | Journal of Bacteriology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…

On the so-called “reproducibility crisis,” the chapter of this book on science is essential reading imo. Error is vital to scientific practice; in a significant sense it is the engine of discovery. versobooks.com/products/2215-…

Coming back to this to say that, after a day spent troubleshooting things on R, the AI chatbot I used to try to expedite things could not have been *more wrong* about how to use the package I wanted. Like it had no clue what it was doing. Hilarious in a very painful way.

The only question that remains is how many macrophages I need to put in my head to start growing antlers.

Kicking off the 2025 Mechanisms of Microbial Transcription GRS today with keynote speaker Maria Hadjifrangiskou!

The GRS on Microbial Transcription Gordon Research Conferences 2025 is now over! Amazon science and people! 🦠🧬 Great experience to have served as a chair of this meeting along with Nick Pokorzynski !! Passing the power now to Celeste and Caroline for #MoMT2027 !! #microbiology