Labour MP with £50,000 in student debt calls on Starmer to reform loans system
MPs and graduates alike are urging the government to ‘sort this sorry mess out’ as millions face spiralling debts
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It’s disgusting that women are being secretly filmed - these videos shared online for profit.
Women in skirts & dresses are deliberately targeted, filmed from behind & at low angles, often exposing intimate body parts.
Today I am introducing a Bill that would criminalise this form of harassment.
This week saw Professor Michael Wooldridge deliver our Michael Faraday Prize Lecture, exploring the gulf between popular expectations of what AI should be like and the realities of the LLMs that we use today. Watch the full lecture now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyyL0yDhr7I
I much prefer virtual conferences if you plan on organizing one with a focus on building AI for science
It’s time to think big about monarch butterflies! 🦋
They fly thousands of miles south every winter to escape the cold, but how do these delicate insects do it? With solar-powered radio tags, scientists are tracking the monarch migration to uncover the obstacles these butterflies face along the way.
Cool new spatial analysis paper for those interested in tissue sections etc www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Join the Women in Evolutionary Biology II workshop from June 1-3, 2026, at the Max Planck Institute in Plön, Germany. Open to all genders. More info: https://workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/144/overview. Registration closes on Feb 20, 2026. #workshop
You have a point considering the Royal Society has received funds from the DSIT, are there any plans to petition or write to the society again? royalsociety.org/about-us/how....
That sounds good at least. But is there evidence to support the hypothesis that the impact of hiring abusive/fraudulent individuals is linear? How many people was this individual able to promote? Without naming individuals, what changes were made to broaden job descriptions following the failure?
I think this post might even be misleading, variolation seems to precede antibiotics by at least a century www.who.int/news-room/sp...
What are you doing to help the people who were harmed by this person re-enter academia if they wish to do so?
📰 ByteDance Releases Protenix-v1: Open-Source AI Breakthrough in Protein Folding
ByteDance has unveiled Protenix-v1, an open-source AI model achieving AF3-level accuracy in biomolecular structure prediction, challenging industry leaders like AlphaFold. The release coinci...
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I thought Terrance Tao has started using AI for his research. He collaborated with google last year terrytao.wordpress.com/tag/artifici...
Structure-guided analysis and prediction of human E2-E3 ligase pairing specificity
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Structure-guided analysis and prediction of human E2-E3 ligase pairing specificity [new]
...employs PDB & AlphaFold structures with machine learning to predict E2-E3 pairings, mapping ubiquitination networks.
Conway’s game of life running on a homebrew computer #vcfsocal
Tempted to make this my holiday next year
Regardless of Paul Nurse’s decision and how I feel, I wouldn’t hold it against him, there are plenty of scientists still using X because they do not care about how the hate pushed on the platform affects other people. Wouldn’t it be more productive to understand why people don’t care?
There are more than 2 million women in Afghanistan for which (last year) “secondary and higher education is strictly forbidden to girls and women” It is unfathomable that the RS is fine with anti DEI statements being broadcast www.unesco.org/en/articles/....
Nice exhibit of BASIC books. #vcfsocal
So not everyone enters this career for awards or to push other people out of their position & the saddest thing that I have realized, is a lot of people believe that this is why anyone would choose a scientific career. Clearly we need more education on why science is so brilliantly captivating.
A truly nice read!
Unfortunately I don’t have a family and as I enter the latter years of my life, I like to hope that applying my scientific knowledge and skills will help the world in some way. Ultimately, that is precisely why I chose science as my career.
I personally didn’t even want him to be expelled, but when I see comments like DIE means we are all headed for doom, it makes me feel incredibly sad and question the purpose of my life.
I agree, to see hundreds of scientists I have looked up to for years sign their name to a petition that requested accountability and discussion over statements that harm other scientists being broadcast on X, affected me more than expelling Elon Musk ever could.
You might know you have a rubbish search tool and seek to improve it knowing that it helps you 50% of the time. But for the latter, if you want a sophisticated machine that does not fail, then garbage in means garbage out. Who would build a house out of sand?
There has been recent interest in LLM “hallucinations” caused by similar words with different meanings in training data. I suppose my take on this is that expectations on the utility of AI really depend on what you want to use it for. For example, compare use as chat bot or full automation
I thought it was interesting because there might be an analogous approach in computational biology. There’s some commonality amongst the methods, sometimes it’s the exact same method, with a different name.
😂 that’s hilarious, I thought you meant this, it seems to be a hierarchical clustering method in which hierarchy’s are “learned”.. it might be useful for cell type annotation arxiv.org/html/2403.06....
Theseus: Fast and Optimal Affine-Gap Sequence-to-Graph Alignment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/albertjimene...
