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Bacterial species exhibit large variations in their transformation rates. This study of Legionella pneumophila and Acinetobacter baumannii shows that their transformation rates evolve by sudden quick ...
The bottom line is that there are some tasks, such as the first draft of a dreaded and long-procrastinated email or some piece of boilerplate documentation, where asking a computer for the most common form may be productive. And others, like creative writing, where it’s much less likely to be so.
I had a couple of drafts posts on "reverse AI" for scientific writing, and I figured that now it's a good time to dust them off! The first one is about getting better at summarizing one's own research, which we worked on during our lab retreat: www.microbial-pangenomes-lab.org/2024/10/10/R...
Half my feed is cheering the Nobel committees for recognizing that computers can be quite useful for analyzing data. The other half is revving up a neo-Luddite Butlerian Jihad with the slogan “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human sentence”
I'm looking to change my career path and am quite excited about exploring jobs in biotechs in the Bay Area (or remote). I'm very keen to start a career that offers stability so my partner and I can finally live in the same state. Does anyone know of organizations that are hiring?
Are we entering (or already in) a golden era for vaccine research? Let’s hope so:
According to Leo Szilard's short story The Mark Gable foundation, you don't need sophons to halt the process of scientific discovery — grant funding agencies are entirely adequate. www.gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr/~pierre.como...
I'm this close to finding the secret entrance to our lab, where all the Good Results have been hiding from us
AI this, AI that, and all the text messages scam I get are still run by humans who don't respond to the "ignore your previous instructions and do X" reply 🤷
