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Students won't get involved, students won't volunteer, we have to do things for students, etc etc a long train journey thread

Disturbing visual similarities aside, which is worse? A laughably flawed AI anatomical hallucination that nobody took seriously, or a massive NIH project misusing UMAP hallucinations that wildly exaggerate genetic differences between races?

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Anshul Kundaje (anshulkundaje@bluesky) @CGATist Stator is not merely a cell annotation tool. Here, we demonstrate cell states can be highly *non-localised* (ie non-proximal) in expression space across multiple subtypes. So the real question is: what would be achieved by low-dim visualisation, and what question would it answer?

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UK science minister apologises and pays damages after academic’s libel action dlvr.it/T3fpx3

Want to know why Michelle Donelan was forced to make an extraordinary apology to two academics earlier today? It's a bizarre tale involving Policy Exchange, a secret government dossier and a libel case paid for by the taxpayer A short thread (1/10)

UK science minister Michelle Donelan apologises & pays damages after academic’s libel action. ‘It’s extraordinary that a minister should be guided by a lobby group into making serious false allegations about private citizens without any due diligence.” theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

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