Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage.
But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...?
We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.
RNA-seq analysis in seconds using GPUs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709526v1
Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
New preprint from us @modmedmicro.bsky.social where we validate the diagnostic accuracy of a metagenomic nanopore sequencing method for respiratory RNA viruses.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
The Irish Times really wants to make Maria Steen happen
Measles cases are resurging globally, but genomic surveillance at the global scale is sparse. In our new preprint, we show wastewater can provide population-level and low-cost data on virus spread and evolution.
See @kgandersen.bsky.social's post for a high level summary, more detail here though!🧵
i do think if you talk about people like this you should be put in the evil triangle from the SUPERMAN movies and hurled into space
Another example of AI slop as the aesthetic of modern fascism: lazy, ugly, moronic
This is absolute gold
INDEPENDENT Playgrounds would become 'crack dens' if Greens were in power, policing minister says
I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.
I'm sure that winning £3k feels nice for the grads involved in the claim, but it's not a lot of money in the grand scheme: not even a semester's worth of tuition and barely a drop in the bucket of student debt. But the impact on the sector and on individual unis could be devastating. What a waste.
Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6
God there's always some new fresh hell
MENI is back! Join us in Dublin this August 2026 for our 3rd Meeting for Microbial Evolution in Ireland. We are delighted to have @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social @jpjhall.bsky.social and @tweethinking.bsky.social join us as keynote speakers this year. miniurl.com/MENI
Always always take these people down to specifics. That's where they consistently fall apart.
"Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement.
The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive"
Sorry, what?
www.axios.com/2026/02/16/a...
It is in the national interest that you are told Michael D Higgins has posted an Instagram reel montage, for Valentine’s Day, of his late dog Bród
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
It gets better:
The fact this is from Anthropic...
Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.
TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our paper, led by @martibartfast.bsky.social
a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny
b) improving representation of the Global South in public data
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A good moment to recall that bitcoins are a, if not the, central plank of Farage's economic policy. It's an order of magnitude madder than Trussonomics: www.cityam.com/farages-cryp...
Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment?
"Pull factors" on steroids.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
[explaining to a child why they are living in poverty] for every hundredth pint i drink i can get one free pint
Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
I appreciate that anyone anywhere the Dodder is aware at this stage that it's quite high today but still I found it nice that this single-purpose website exists:
Is the Dodder too high to get across the stepping stones in Bushy Park? Currently: yes
dodder.eu
