Guy Leonard

MPs give ministers powers to restrict entire Internet MPs have rejected a Lords amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would allow a social media ban for under 16s.

🚨 Wide ranging powers have been voted through to restrict Internet access 🚨

Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.

This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.

If LLMs were treated as a niche technology for a subset of work, instead of being shoehorned into every aspect of life without consent, you wouldn't have people ready to join the Butlerian Jihad Vanguard.

There is a kind of self-centered chauvinism in the way tech people think of "work" and "use."

High-throughput Pore-C reveals the single-allele topology and cell type-specificity of 3D genome folding - Nature Communications Here the authors establish a high throughput Pore-C (HiPore-C) method increasing the sequencing output of multi-way chromatin contacts and reveal single-allele topology diversity and cell type-specifi...

Genomicists on Bluesky, does anyone have experience with Pore-C? Wondering about its use for genome assembly fully based on ONT sequencing.

What worries me is there a willing participants who seem hell bent on devaluing humans.

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

Weds: Sore throat
Thurs: Wed + Sinus pressure
Fri: Wed + Thur + coughing and stuffed nose + tired
Sat: Cough, sneezing and ZERO sense of taste/smell!

I think we all know what that is then. :/

Humanity runs on spite lmao

AI and the illegal war “No stupid rules of engagement.” That was Pete Hegseth, the American war secretary, boasting during a press conference about the approach with which he and...

AI is central to this illegal war.

New from me -
buttondown.com/creativegood...

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Mark Zuckerberg's Pervert Glasses.

This is a common reply to concerns about GenAI research as if it were just another computational tool that saves us times from tedious tasks and whose accuracy can be rigorously quantified.

It is not.

GenAI research poses at least 2 serious problems... /n

SCOOP: Anthropic was among the AI companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete in a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge to produce technology for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming, acc to people familiar w/ matter.

And everyone is running around praising them for being "ethical"

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oh they will! But by the time they do, they will have engineered it so that the journals use AI to do the 'peer review'...so it doesn't matter then. And it's already starting to happen with journals and start ups claiming it works well enough...

@jahanisrat.bsky.social

I just can't imagine having this amount of self-loathing.

Interested in microbial proteins and their diversity? 🖥️🧬🦠

We have recently released the Amino Acid Sequence Toolkit (AASTK). AASTK is designed to work with the GlobDB to create and work with datasets of protein sequences.

AASTK currently consists of 4 tools:
- CASM
- PASR
- CUGO
- Meta

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@ox.ac.uk any chance you might rethink your collaboration with OpenAI and the free access to the edu version to all staff and students now?

I won't hold my breath.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

See what I mean...

If you're quitting OpenAI's chatGPT to defect to Anthropic's Claude then you've fallen for advertising and marketing. Nothing else.

@ox.ac.uk any chance you might rethink your collaboration with OpenAI and the free access to the edu version to all staff and students now?

I won't hold my breath.

So how many of my colleagues are PAYING OpenAI to use their LLM again???? You see where your money is going?

Huge news 🌍🧬
The Protist 10,000 Genomes Project is joining the Earth BioGenome Project.
Protists may represent the majority of eukaryotic diversity — yet only a tiny fraction have reference genomes.
Time to change that. 🚀✨
Learn more 👉 ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/p10k/
#EBP #Protists #Genomics #TreeOfLife

Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election, pushing Labour into third place Labour, which took the seat with more than 50% of the vote in 2024, came behind Reform UK.

The people of Gorton and Denton have rejected hate.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These ideas come from our forthcoming chapter in the @sfiscience.bsky.social volume The Economy as a Complex Evolving System, Part IV:

“The Evolutionary Ecology of Software: Constraints, Innovation, and the AI Disruption.”

🔗https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02953

Debates like “programming is dead,” “AI will automate X,” or the latest “vibe coding” trend all miss the point.

They treat complexity as something we can engineer away—instead of recognizing the ecological forces shaping software.

MicroSEA (Microbial Sea Eukaryotes) course is a one-week, field-based summer school to train early-career researchers in the diversity, ecology, and single-cell biology of marine protists. MicroSEA course integrates lectures, field sampling, and lab-based practicals in advanced techniques, such as flow cytometry, microscopy, culturing, and molecular analysis. The main objectives of MicroSEA course are: Fostering a deep understanding of marine protist diversity, ecology and biology; Providing hands-on training in advanced single-cell methods that are not commonly available in university programs; Building participants' confidence in designing and conducting research projects from field to data analysis; Promoting international collaborations and peer networking among students and speakers/trainers. The course will take place at the Station Biologique de Roscoff - SBR (France) - 7th to 12th of June, 2026 (arrival on the 6th, departure on the 13th). 20 participants will be selected, including 10 from EuroMarine member institutes. https://opbc.sciencesconf.org/

Protist lovers: Please apply for a week of rhapsody! Learn by doing:

MicroSEA (Microbial Sea Eukaryotes) course is a one-week, field-based summer school to train early-career researchers in the diversity, ecology, and single-cell biology of marine protists. opbc.sciencesconf.org

#protistsonsky

Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant dies - British Comedy Guide Rob Grant, the co-creator of Red Dwarf, has died suddenly.

Rob Grant, the co-creator of Red Dwarf, has died. "A great loss to his family, friends and comedy fans across the world".

www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/...

Amazing! A conclusion finding in support of the very company being built to provide the AI reviews!

#subtweet

This really helps with my career development review writing. Anything could really happen in the extremes!

Here's hoping for extinction though hahahaha.