The Tattooed Professor
@schwessinger.bsky.social
Professor at the Australian National University. Biosecurity, fungal and plant genomics, evolution, and biochemistry. Dad. Swimming, reading, nature.
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Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
If you really understand what happened in Germany in 1920 to 1945 you know hell is a place on earth and man made all over.
November 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you really understand what happened in Germany in 1920 to 1945 you know hell is a place on earth and man made all over.
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this looks very interesting with numerous implications for nuclear biology and gene expression.
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions
Li et al. apply base-pair resolution Micro Capture-C ultra to map chromatin contacts
between individual motifs within cis-regulatory elements and reveal a unified model
of biophysically mediated enhan...
www.cell.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
this looks very interesting with numerous implications for nuclear biology and gene expression.
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Only two days left to apply- if you are interested in crop disease management harnessing biological tools- this position can be interest to you.
We are searching for a 4- year postdoctoral fellow to work us on Microbial Ecology and Crop Disease Management.
More details below. The position will start next year.
Please circulate and repost.
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...
More details below. The position will start next year.
Please circulate and repost.
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Only two days left to apply- if you are interested in crop disease management harnessing biological tools- this position can be interest to you.
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This poster appeared at a bus stop near Tesla's flagship London store overnight… 👏🏼
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This poster appeared at a bus stop near Tesla's flagship London store overnight… 👏🏼
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Excellent book by Ginafranco Pacchioni, The Overproduction of Truth, about how science has changed during his lifetime and how rapid expansion has created many problems
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#misconduct #hyperproductivity #publishing #citations
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#misconduct #hyperproductivity #publishing #citations
global.oup.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Excellent book by Ginafranco Pacchioni, The Overproduction of Truth, about how science has changed during his lifetime and how rapid expansion has created many problems
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#misconduct #hyperproductivity #publishing #citations
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#misconduct #hyperproductivity #publishing #citations
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Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line | Nature Communications share.google/Ygkz9JGBF06d...
Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications
The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...
share.google
November 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line | Nature Communications share.google/Ygkz9JGBF06d...
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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Silence in the face of what is heinous = cowardice.
Speak up and be on the rights side of history, Labor MPs, or become independent, or choose a party that doesn’t punish free speech and dissent!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Speak up and be on the rights side of history, Labor MPs, or become independent, or choose a party that doesn’t punish free speech and dissent!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Fear rules on gambling in Albanese government
Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.
www.abc.net.au
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Silence in the face of what is heinous = cowardice.
Speak up and be on the rights side of history, Labor MPs, or become independent, or choose a party that doesn’t punish free speech and dissent!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Speak up and be on the rights side of history, Labor MPs, or become independent, or choose a party that doesn’t punish free speech and dissent!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Faculty got a standard of living increase from the University of California this month. I used mine to donate to the Sacramento Food Bank, because the majority of politicians in the US do not want to feed those in need. www.sacramentofoodbank.org
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services
www.sacramentofoodbank.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Faculty got a standard of living increase from the University of California this month. I used mine to donate to the Sacramento Food Bank, because the majority of politicians in the US do not want to feed those in need. www.sacramentofoodbank.org
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A study in Nature Neuroscience shows that the moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered brain activity, pupil size and brain fluid movement. #neuroskyence 🧪
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics - Nature Neuroscience
Yang et al. show that moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered brain activity, pupil size and brain fluid movement.
go.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A study in Nature Neuroscience shows that the moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered brain activity, pupil size and brain fluid movement. #neuroskyence 🧪
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I would very much like to thank the roughly two dozen educators and experts who answered my call when I started in on the research for this episode. It took longer than I meant to make it, but we got there. ❤️
www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...
www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...
The problems with AI in schools
Teachers had one big question: What are we even doing here?
www.theverge.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I would very much like to thank the roughly two dozen educators and experts who answered my call when I started in on the research for this episode. It took longer than I meant to make it, but we got there. ❤️
www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...
www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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How do GWAS and rare variant burden tests rank gene signals?
In new work @nature.com with @hakha.bsky.social, @jkpritch.bsky.social, and our wonderful coauthors we find that the key factors are what we call Specificity, Length, and Luck!
🧬🧪🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In new work @nature.com with @hakha.bsky.social, @jkpritch.bsky.social, and our wonderful coauthors we find that the key factors are what we call Specificity, Length, and Luck!
🧬🧪🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Specificity, length and luck drive gene rankings in association studies - Nature
Genetic association tests prioritize candidate genes based on different criteria.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
How do GWAS and rare variant burden tests rank gene signals?
In new work @nature.com with @hakha.bsky.social, @jkpritch.bsky.social, and our wonderful coauthors we find that the key factors are what we call Specificity, Length, and Luck!
🧬🧪🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In new work @nature.com with @hakha.bsky.social, @jkpritch.bsky.social, and our wonderful coauthors we find that the key factors are what we call Specificity, Length, and Luck!
🧬🧪🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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Two most relevant papers are:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
and
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
and
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The logical structure of experiments lays the foundation for a theory of reproducibility | Royal Society Open Science
The scientific reform movement has proposed openness as a potential remedy to the
putative reproducibility or replication crisis. However, the conceptual relationship
among openness, replication exper...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Two most relevant papers are:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
and
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
and
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
The ChatGPT effect: We’ve all started talking like robots
The use of artificial intelligence is leading to a flattening of our language that is evident in the emails we write and the texts we compose. Studies have already confirmed this. Robotic verbiage era...
english.elpais.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
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TL;DR: Even the most advanced language models crumble on first-person false beliefs, showing sharp accuracy drops and revealing that their “understanding” of others’ minds is still shallow pattern mimicry, not genuine epistemic reasoning.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence
Suzgun et al. find that current large language models cannot reliably distinguish between belief, knowledge and fact, raising concerns for their use in healthcare, law and journalism, where such disti...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
TL;DR: Even the most advanced language models crumble on first-person false beliefs, showing sharp accuracy drops and revealing that their “understanding” of others’ minds is still shallow pattern mimicry, not genuine epistemic reasoning.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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NEW Publication🥳
Rapid #evolution is thought to be disadvantageous due to the accumulation of deleterious #mutations. We identify multiple lineages of rapidly evolving and stable #yeast that are many millions of years old
🔗: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
Rapid #evolution is thought to be disadvantageous due to the accumulation of deleterious #mutations. We identify multiple lineages of rapidly evolving and stable #yeast that are many millions of years old
🔗: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
November 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
NEW Publication🥳
Rapid #evolution is thought to be disadvantageous due to the accumulation of deleterious #mutations. We identify multiple lineages of rapidly evolving and stable #yeast that are many millions of years old
🔗: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
Rapid #evolution is thought to be disadvantageous due to the accumulation of deleterious #mutations. We identify multiple lineages of rapidly evolving and stable #yeast that are many millions of years old
🔗: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
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Kind of funny how people are identifying any place that publishes even the most inconsequential stuff and then flooding it with AI junk.
Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI
New study reinforces worries about “mass production of junk” by unscrupulous scholars aiming to pad their CVs
www.science.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Kind of funny how people are identifying any place that publishes even the most inconsequential stuff and then flooding it with AI junk.
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The book "Biological Highways in the Sky" about the aerial dispersion of microbes and small insects is available free of charge in ebook form via the #ÉditionsQuae platform: www.quae-open.com/produit/346/...
@dbszane.bsky.social
@dbszane.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The book "Biological Highways in the Sky" about the aerial dispersion of microbes and small insects is available free of charge in ebook form via the #ÉditionsQuae platform: www.quae-open.com/produit/346/...
@dbszane.bsky.social
@dbszane.bsky.social
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Reconstructing Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici genetic diversity in South Africa using herbarium specimens doi.org/10.1094/PDIS...
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Reconstructing Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici genetic diversity in South Africa using herbarium specimens doi.org/10.1094/PDIS...
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Epigenetic landscape underlying plant-microbiome chemical communication
#ISMEJournal
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#ISMEJournal
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Epigenetic landscape underlying plant-microbiome chemical communication
Abstract. Chemical communication, a universal mode among the interactive members within dynamic plant-microbiome systems, fundamentally drives coevolutiona
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November 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Epigenetic landscape underlying plant-microbiome chemical communication
#ISMEJournal
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#ISMEJournal
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My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
www.uni-kiel.de
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊