Francisco Pinta
@siensjaiba.bsky.social
PhD student at #UNAM | Interested in Nematodes and Epigenetics | Jaiba Jarocha
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AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway
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December 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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Thrilled to share the first full paper from @AntLabUNAM! 🐜💥
Our paper examines how queen and worker harvester ants differ in ovarian morphology and gene expression, shedding light on the ovary as a hub for multiple physiological systems, not just reproduction. Check it out! rdcu.be/ePNP8
Our paper examines how queen and worker harvester ants differ in ovarian morphology and gene expression, shedding light on the ovary as a hub for multiple physiological systems, not just reproduction. Check it out! rdcu.be/ePNP8
Age, caste, and social context shape ovarian morphology and transcriptomic profiles in red harvester ants
npj Aging - Age, caste, and social context shape ovarian morphology and transcriptomic profiles in red harvester ants
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November 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Thrilled to share the first full paper from @AntLabUNAM! 🐜💥
Our paper examines how queen and worker harvester ants differ in ovarian morphology and gene expression, shedding light on the ovary as a hub for multiple physiological systems, not just reproduction. Check it out! rdcu.be/ePNP8
Our paper examines how queen and worker harvester ants differ in ovarian morphology and gene expression, shedding light on the ovary as a hub for multiple physiological systems, not just reproduction. Check it out! rdcu.be/ePNP8
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This is why we don't indulge AI slop in any form or shape. That simple. 🧪
I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is why we don't indulge AI slop in any form or shape. That simple. 🧪
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lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork
Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵
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Claude for Life Sciences
Discover how Claude accelerates life sciences research with new scientific connectors, skills, and improved performance for drug discovery and clinical work.
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October 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork
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I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.
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🚨 The US government has stopped the funding PubMed, one of the most comprehensive databased of biomedical literature.
Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.
Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.
October 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
🚨 The US government has stopped the funding PubMed, one of the most comprehensive databased of biomedical literature.
Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.
Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.
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Evolution be like:
just make it exist first
you can make it crab later
you can make it crab later
October 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Evolution be like:
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Learn all things C. elegans #research at the EMBO | The Company of Biologists Workshop "C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM" in Merida, Mexico, 24–28 February 2026.
Registration by 16 January 2026
Abstract submission by 17 October 2025
meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm
#EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents 🧪
Registration by 16 January 2026
Abstract submission by 17 October 2025
meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm
#EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents 🧪
C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM
This EMBO Workshop on C. elegans Biology is t he IV Latin American Worm Meeting. It will convene in Mérida, Mexico. The overall mission of this meeting is to create an inclusive environment that pro…
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September 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Learn all things C. elegans #research at the EMBO | The Company of Biologists Workshop "C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM" in Merida, Mexico, 24–28 February 2026.
Registration by 16 January 2026
Abstract submission by 17 October 2025
meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm
#EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents 🧪
Registration by 16 January 2026
Abstract submission by 17 October 2025
meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm
#EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents 🧪
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Come to biology! We have things that make you say this every single day. Endless forms most wtf await you!
HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WORK
September 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Come to biology! We have things that make you say this every single day. Endless forms most wtf await you!
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Every few months the "good lab hands" thing comes up and it misses a key point: you can learn to have good hands. Training matters.
Good hands aren't some magic gift from the PCR gods, you have to develop them through directed repetitive practice, like any other skill
Good hands aren't some magic gift from the PCR gods, you have to develop them through directed repetitive practice, like any other skill
September 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Every few months the "good lab hands" thing comes up and it misses a key point: you can learn to have good hands. Training matters.
Good hands aren't some magic gift from the PCR gods, you have to develop them through directed repetitive practice, like any other skill
Good hands aren't some magic gift from the PCR gods, you have to develop them through directed repetitive practice, like any other skill
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I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
August 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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A few days late, but I’m happy to post our recent publication on body-to-brain signaling regulation of memory in Nature Aging:
Online now!✨RESEARCH: Zhou, Novak et al show that the hypodermis regulates memory in C. elegans via insulin/IGF-1 and Notch signaling; activating this pathway rescues CREB-dependent memory in aged worms @ctmurphy1.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43... rdcu.be/eo3Pd
Body-to-brain insulin and Notch signaling regulates memory through neuronal CREB activity - Nature Aging
Zhou, Novak and colleagues identify that the Caenorhabditis elegans hypodermis, a peripheral liver-like metabolic tissue, regulates memory via insulin/IGF-1 and Notch signaling, and show that activati...
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June 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A few days late, but I’m happy to post our recent publication on body-to-brain signaling regulation of memory in Nature Aging:
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After three years, I think I got a phenotype
May 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
After three years, I think I got a phenotype
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Imagine if the exploration of the natural world was treated as a pillar of personhood and our birthright by species. Homo sapiens...sapiens being the operative word here. We are curious creatures and any societal push away from this is a disservice to our species and ancestors.
February 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Imagine if the exploration of the natural world was treated as a pillar of personhood and our birthright by species. Homo sapiens...sapiens being the operative word here. We are curious creatures and any societal push away from this is a disservice to our species and ancestors.
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I’ve spent most of my life steeped in anxiety, and one thing that made me feel less alone was knowing how unsurprisingly not new anxiety and related experiences are.
It’s in fragments, but this is one of many clay texts from ancient Mesopotamia that describes anxiety (possibly depression)
It’s in fragments, but this is one of many clay texts from ancient Mesopotamia that describes anxiety (possibly depression)
January 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I’ve spent most of my life steeped in anxiety, and one thing that made me feel less alone was knowing how unsurprisingly not new anxiety and related experiences are.
It’s in fragments, but this is one of many clay texts from ancient Mesopotamia that describes anxiety (possibly depression)
It’s in fragments, but this is one of many clay texts from ancient Mesopotamia that describes anxiety (possibly depression)
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If it helps with your anxiety at all, four fifths of all animals are nematodes.
December 9, 2024 at 4:51 AM
If it helps with your anxiety at all, four fifths of all animals are nematodes.
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From the archives…
December 6, 2024 at 5:12 PM
From the archives…
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Scientists: We need to slow down the publication race and produce higher quality papers at a slower rate to make the literature manageable again.
Engineers: We hear you. Now every lab in the world will be able to produce hundreds of medium-quality papers (with a few mistakes in each) every week.
Engineers: We hear you. Now every lab in the world will be able to produce hundreds of medium-quality papers (with a few mistakes in each) every week.
August 13, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Scientists: We need to slow down the publication race and produce higher quality papers at a slower rate to make the literature manageable again.
Engineers: We hear you. Now every lab in the world will be able to produce hundreds of medium-quality papers (with a few mistakes in each) every week.
Engineers: We hear you. Now every lab in the world will be able to produce hundreds of medium-quality papers (with a few mistakes in each) every week.
I suppose that my first post will be about this lol.
I still cannot comprehend why someone would want to automate the scientific process. Besides from all the "efficiency" arguments one could raise, don't we actually enjoy doing it?
I still cannot comprehend why someone would want to automate the scientific process. Besides from all the "efficiency" arguments one could raise, don't we actually enjoy doing it?
Taylorism is a management philosophy based on using scientific optimization to maximize labor productivity and economic efficiency.
Here's the result of making the false Taylorist assumption that the output of scientific research is scientific papers—the more, faster, and cheaper, the better.
Here's the result of making the false Taylorist assumption that the output of scientific research is scientific papers—the more, faster, and cheaper, the better.
November 24, 2024 at 10:14 PM
I suppose that my first post will be about this lol.
I still cannot comprehend why someone would want to automate the scientific process. Besides from all the "efficiency" arguments one could raise, don't we actually enjoy doing it?
I still cannot comprehend why someone would want to automate the scientific process. Besides from all the "efficiency" arguments one could raise, don't we actually enjoy doing it?