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Do u think they did an equalities audit before deciding on a two-tier workforce because I have some wild guesses about who is most impacted here.
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In one week I'll be talking about tips for reproducible R code and why science would love you to try these tips on your own code too 🧪😍🌏
It's an online talk, so feel free to watch comfortably from your couch. Hope to see you there!
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Like dude, just trust me I got this.
I don't think this is impossible but it requires deconstruction and rebuilding from the ground up.
Broadly no, because buy-in to the process, critical understanding, and evaluation haven't been fully developed yet
Monday morning Bluesky people, any more thoughts on AI for arts and humanities in HE?
On the other hand I've had to become more adaptable - last week we got pen and paper out and drew out our understanding of an experiment. Driven by a desire to get the students away from a computer terminal, but probably something I should have been doing years ago.
2) How to read, evaluate and critique the literature. Where does information or evidence come from.
In teaching my concerns are 1) loss of the struggle - I teach coding - but one of the key learnings from this was actually the development of ordered thinking - without the struggle of learning this doesn't stick now.
You asked for Arts & Humanities, but I think these concerns broadly resonate across to the sciences as well e.g. atrophy of critical thinking.
I would watch the hell out of a phyllis and millicent detective agency spinoff!
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Thank you all for the kind interest in my aching middle aged body. 👌
The human body is so adaptable.
For example because I didn't manage to go the gym for 2 weeks - my body smartly adapted to the idea that I would never go back and appears to have atrophied all of my muscles 😓
This is the first formal analysis of the field. So please share it widely - hope this is a tool of wide use to the #genedrive community.
This is ridiculous but not surprising! Obviously, EPSRC must have people/organisations in mind and I wouldn’t be surprised if they have been in contact with some groups in advance. Some hard questions about why £40m is spent as such www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Accepted! 🥳
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is the first formal analysis of the field. So please share it widely - hope this is a tool of wide use to the #genedrive community.
Homing gene drive schematic and per-species drive inheritance. (a)Overview showing a CRISPR-Cas9 hominggene drive converting a wild-type allele into a drive allele via inter-homologue gene conversion, alongside alternative outcomes(e.g., retention of the original allele or resistance allele formation).(b)Empirical drive-allele inheritance rates are shown for eachspecies, with each point representing unique crosses (meta-data defined replicates merged).An. coluzziiis a member of theAn.gambiaespecies complex. Point size scales with progeny scored. The colour legend indicates species phylogeny. Confidenceintervals (dark grey lines) reflect precision of the predicted mean (black point); prediction intervals (light grey lines) reflect theexpected range for a new observation
New pre-print!
Excited to share our new paper — the first meta-analysis of CRISPR-based homing gene drives! Analysing nearly one million scored progeny across 42 studies and 10 species.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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And more exciting work on what we do and don't know about making functional #genedrive is about to drop!
Top left cut rates vs homing rates in four different alleles, sequence differences bottom left. Right overall homing rates vary significnantly across different alleles
Natural genetic variation can silently undermine gene drive performance.
In our new study, we used a split homing drive in Culex quinquefasciatus and found that target-site heterology of less than 10% reduced homing efficiency by up to 54%.
doi.org/10.1093/gene...
University of East Anglia Norwich. University brand and logo
Apparently we've rebranded.
So now I don't have to introduce where I work as "University of East Anglia, it's in Norwich".
Good to know
Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.
Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.
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On one end of the spectrum, some teachers are letting students draft their own AI policies. On the other, the most skeptical teachers are using formats like oral exams to restrict the use of AI as much as they can. Schmidt has joined a growing cohort that is trying to find a middle ground. “Whether we liked it or not, the technology was going to be in the hands of our students,” said Kimberly Cooney, an English teacher at Chattahoochee High School in Johns Creek, Georgia. “And so we could either teach them how to use it ethically and responsibly and teach them to actually augment their thinking, or we could, you know, do nothing.” One of Cooney’s lesson plans teaches her students to use AI to help brainstorm themes in the Arthur Miller play “The Crucible,” walking them through the technique of structuring AI prompts and then asking them to paraphrase the chatbot’s responses. In another, she shows the class an AI-generated paragraph on an essay assignment and asks students to critique it.
I feel like there’s a constellation of choices in between these two things.
This is causing despair in academe. (1) We were forced to close during Covid. We had no choice! (2) We're not service providers like a restaurant, we are institutions of state. (3) We did everything we could. (4) This will cripple current students' education.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Norwich was sold out but there are four returns for tonight
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Must remember not to login to Bluesky for a dose of optimism 😭