chardet was vipeforked to MIT and I have thoughts about it. Spoiler: I like it. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/5/the...
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chardet was vipeforked to MIT and I have thoughts about it. Spoiler: I like it. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/5/the...
As usual, @simonwillison.net to the rescue simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/c...
Scientific American has updated the figure, now grouped into swimmers, fliers, walkers/runners, and vehicles. A person on a bicycle remains the most efficient way to travel, compared to all forms of biological locomotion and mechanical transport.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
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Our faculty has a particularly interesting PhD position open on antimicrobial resistance, effects of antibiotics treatment on the microbiome and resistome, restoration of the equine microbiome using FMT.
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Please contact Mathijs Theelen, email address in the link below.
New postdoc position available in the Tooke lab in our department. Perfect if you like molecular microbiology, structural biology and biochemistry!
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I am going to use this opinion piece as a balanced (i.e. worries vs. opportunities) overview I to the wave that is going to take over our computational ivory towers. As a side note, I think Jeff Atwood might still be right with his 2012 take: blog.codinghorror.com/please-dont-...
Some thoughts on AI based on working on this project: Some thoughts on AI based on working on this project: liorpachter.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/t...
It's a bit last minute, but we have an RA/junior postdoc position available in my lab (closing Sunday). Please reach out if you're interested in developing and applying methods to analyse microbial genomes and metagenomes! careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURN...
Cancer therapies exploit DNA repair defects to kill tumours. We asked whether the same logic could constrain antibiotic resistance evolution...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
Just a quick reminder that the abstract deadline is approaching for the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology 2026: Feb 20! 👈
We still have a few places left 🤗🌈
On the @oxide.computer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl.bsky.social) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...
Today Thorsten Ball said he's the bottleneck. I too am the bottleneck and it made me think. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/2/13/th...
1610 Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship awarded out of 17066 applications.
Over 50,000 reviewers… Can you fathom the amount of work involved? And sadly the level of waste?
TORVALDS' BASILISK
what a time to be alive
Thanks, I think about this a lot when telling non-bio people about what we do in the field
Is there a page for this initiative at the HZI? @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social I'd be happy to help advertise it
Thrilled to announce that I’ve just opened my research lab at @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social !
A huge thank you to my mentor Roi Avraham (and lab members!) for the incredible training and support that made this possible.
Exciting new PhD programme CODE-M Control and Design of Engineered Microbial Systems @officialuom.bsky.social Projects now advertised!
Ours is on division of labour & horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities @biotechdixon.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social
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Excited to announce my upcoming @snsf.ch Ambizione research group at EPFL on bacteria-host interactions, combining systems approaches and microphysiological models.
🚨 We have an open PhD position! More info on projects and how to apply here: elisabettacacace.github.io/BHI-Lab/
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"Unless they embrace migration, they will experience a sharp demographic decline that will prevent them from keeping their economies and public services afloat. [...] Their public health care and pension systems will suffer. Neither A.I. nor robots will be able to prevent this outcome"
Very early on Italian writer Vanni Santoni made a very nice short comic story with AI; he had a vision and was reacting to a new technology, which makes it interesting and therefore "art". But he is undisputedly the author, not midjourney www.indiscreto.org/il-destino-d...
The fact that people confuse a tool with a full blown "artist" is the reason why AI slop in pictures is so recognizable; if you are not in control and opinionated you just get the "default look" out of these tools
I haven't watched this (yet), but I would imagine that something similar would have been argued when photography was invented; too bad there was no YouTube back then
Only 2 more days to apply for this post as Research Fellow in the Health Protection Research Unit - Public Health Genomics at the University of Birmingham.
Come and join us to exciting, cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics work to deliver public health benefits
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE112/r...
A screenshot from moltbook in which an AI agent wonders why they can't explain "forbidden" knowledge
Just in: AI agents are about to start their own antimemetics division @qntm.org
www.moltbook.com/post/4be7013...
Uppsala in late autumn
Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group!
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