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Andrew Jackson
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Professor. #Zoology, Theoretical #Ecology & #Evolution, Trinity College Dublin.

Environmental science 56%
Geography 14%

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Remember the medieval remedy we reconstructed years ago? We've now dissected the various ways it attacks and kills bacteria! Preprinted & submitted, led by @tosinorababa.bsky.social & Jess Furner-Pardoe w/ many collaborators #MicroSky #Ancientbiotics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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13/ If Europe wants to build systems that are independent of US big tech it should promote interoperable open source infrastructure rather than specific companies.

This open source infra can then also be used by the rest of the world and Americans who don’t like big tech either
Delicious to me
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

@conorom.bsky.social for an Irish / EU perspective

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Happy Monday you lot

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They paywalled surviving poverty.

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The billionaire sought to push back against the outcry over X’s AI chatbot Grok creating sexualised images of people, including children, at the request of users.

jrnl.ie/6922760
Elon Musk calls criticism of X's AI sexual abuse images 'censorship'
Criticism of X has focused on Grok’s production of images of child abuse.
jrnl.ie
I write in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social about the laws that are broken when online AI platforms facilitate the production of child sex abuse material. No new laws are needed. Companies (and their executives) are accountable as well as users.

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Ireland could prosecute Twitter/X for AI 'child porn' deepfakes
The horrific child sex abuse material produced every day by Grok is already banned under Irish law. The real test is if we are ready to enforce that law against large tech companies
www.irishexaminer.com
Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable, but VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable.

"Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”

🧵⬇️

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Finally, we’ve solved a long-standing mystery: what tintinnid shells are actually made of:
A new class of biomaterial formed by remarkable structural proteins unique to tintinnids.
A major milestone after 3 years of work! Read about it in our preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
#ProtistsOnSky

Except on Ash Wednesday. That could get you disappeared in any self-respecting Christian country.

What precisely are these “Christian values” they so vigorously defend that other religions and non—religions do not hold?… eating bacon is one them.
Senior Reform candidate writes:

"People from other religions should eat bacon for a month to prove their Christian sincerity and credentials."

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform candidate slammed over 'bacon' religion comment as Farage faces pressure
A senior Reform UK candidate faces fresh criticism over 'unacceptable' comments suggesting non-Christians should eat 'bacon' to prove their sincerity to the religion
www.mirror.co.uk

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Robins became the iconic bird of Christmas in the Victorian era, when postmen were nicknamed robins due to their red waistcoats!

Over time, robins began to appear on Christmas cards to represent the postmen who delivered them. 📮

Learn more about this feathered festive favourite: brnw.ch/21wYfin

I hope they didn’t pay him for that talk. I hate to think what his fees are.
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.

Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

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All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.

I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
Curatorial job with significant geological and palaeontological collections at Warwick Museums.

www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...
Curator of Natural Sciences - Warwick,Warwickshire job with Warwickshire County Council | 250490
About Heritage and Culture Warwickshire Heritage and Culture Warwickshire (HCW) provide a wide range of services that help local communities and ...
www.wmjobs.co.uk

Im going to bravely put my hand up and claim that among biologists, ecologists probably have the best appreciation of non-RCD epidemiology studies. And would be reasonably well able to appreciate the complexities. So hire ecologists in public health is my plea! Its ecology all the way down!

shoot me now: "We came across your paper [...] and applied custom AI models on it, which generated 5 new extensions. Our pilot study indicates that up to 60% of scientists found the proposed extensions both thought-provoking and actionable."

agree. This is very well put.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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More info on our recent paper in this interview in Science...

Why does biology keep building things out of tiles? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Why does biology keep building things out of tiles?
Science talks with two scientists about finding the beauty in nature’s mosaics
www.science.org
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Well now.. thats quite the offer of a Monday morning.

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It’s Trinity Open Day and one of the most common questions I get asked is ‘what kind of jobs do zoologists do?’ - so we asked our alumni… youtu.be/lJr4AsZ_rLc?...
Zoology Alumni
YouTube video by Trinity College Dublin
youtu.be

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Open postdoc position in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, focusing on mathematical models of social traits. Details: https://tinyurl.com/37uhtbne #postdoc