Axel Mosig
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Axel Mosig
@axlmsg.bsky.social
Computational Life Scientist.
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Everyone should watch this
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

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October 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
We found AI to be a bit short-sighted towards evolution, so we went out to grind some computational lenses. The resulting pair of evolutionary glasses is finally available in the latest issue of CSBJ

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Equipping Artificial Intelligence with the Lense of Evolution
Random patterns have so far obscured AI’s view of evolutionary relationships. A team in Bochum is teaching them how to go about this.
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September 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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New post about Lysenko and Bhattacharya from @angierasmussen.bsky.social

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Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko
Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge
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August 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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"Science in the US is entering a phase resembling the Lysenko era in the Soviet Union."
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We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz
If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented
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April 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Almost like it was written for the world these days... the "Final Speech" by Charly Chaplin's hairdresser and dictator-by-coincidence Hynkel. youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?...
Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin
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March 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Large Language Model is Secretly a Protein Sequence Optimizer [new]
LLMs, surprisingly, can optimize protein sequences via directed evolution, even without explicit protein training data, finding high fitness variants.
January 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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I donated. It would be great to have a social-media protocol that wasn't subject to capture, and it does seem possible.

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January 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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"Researchers trained medical AI models on over 25,000 knee X-rays. They then essentially worked backwards, tasking the deep learning programs to find commonalities that predicted nonsensical traits, such as which knee-owners clearly drank beer or ate refried beans—which is patently absurd."
December 12, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Meanwhile, in the less free corners of the internet…
November 18, 2024 at 5:01 PM