Niko Papadopoulos

Xmas teaser: Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social and I are looking for a joint postdoc to study "The Hallmarks of Thermal Adaptation" in Aquatic Chordates as part of the EIPOD-LinC program www.embl.org/about/info/p... and the partnership between @embl.org and @msarscentre.bsky.social.

AI Will Turn Our Lives into The Truman Show Large language models can create muddled, misinformed multiverses

So @cbo.bsky.social and I have a new piece out in SciAm.

We look at the drive by OpenAI, Apple, etc to create personally-aligned LLMs as intermediaries between users and primary text on the internet, and consider the possible consequences on society as any shared understanding of the world erodes.

this is the wildest thing I've read in a while. Absolute game-changer if it really works that well!

a black and white photo of a knight in armor standing in a field with the words `` praise the sun '' . Alt: a black and white photo of a knight in armor standing in a field with the words `` praise the sun '' . The knight brings his legs to the middle, straightens his torso, throws his head back, and raises his hands in a V shape, while the sun is seen shining through the clouds in the background. A reference to the video game "Dark Souls".

after two-and-a-half weeks of fighting against the European Nucleotide Archive submission system I have finally gotten a clean validator response

"your top 5 artists: Bach, the <insert metal band you discovered this year>, Baby Shark, The Beatles, John Williams"

all classics, in a sense

There's been some interest in this PLOS announcement, so despite it being light on details, here's why it's big. In our recent study 'The strain on scientific publishing' we showed how certain groups took off in total articles published.

Why? And why now?

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