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Mark Pallen
@mjpallen.bsky.social
Hi Maya. Thanks for your interest. If you would like to know more, I have made some samples available from the book here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2ecwj...
Hope you can access them okay?
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September 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Well done! Their score of 345 trumps our highest score of 325 playing for @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social in 1995-6 championship
January 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
„Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die derer, die die (mikrobielle) Welt nie angeschaut haben.“ Humboldt (fast)
December 28, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Stimmt. Danke! Interessant, dass ihr critical thinking aus dem Englischen übernehmt, während wir Weltanschauung aus dem Deutschen übernehmen. 😉
December 28, 2024 at 10:15 PM
🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻
December 19, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Not claiming that pathogens cannot enter brain but that there is no resident normal commensal complex microbial community in the human brain.
December 14, 2024 at 8:52 AM
@katharineviner.bsky.social please could you give us courtesy of a response to this letter? Or better still publish it in full and/or retract the unbalanced article to which it refers. I have been @theguardian.com reader all my adult life and it would be shame to have to break that habit over this!
December 9, 2024 at 9:05 AM
@theguardian.com Could your editor please engage in the courtesy of a reply to our letter sent to you yesterday on this misleading article? You can see it has generated much interest here on BlueSky, but should reach your entire readership if you care about balanced and accurate reporting.
December 4, 2024 at 8:57 AM
I have injected AI generated Socratic dialogues into PhD student training. Eg mmbdtp.github.io/modules/meta... Students said they were surprised how polite such discussions were—even though AI generated they reflect the tone of the originals.
MMB DTP Training
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December 3, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Well we didn’t get a transcript of all that was said between the two of them so choice of emotionally charged quote is nonetheless a choice particularly without balanced coverage. But will see what guardian editor makes of it. I expect revisions. But isn’t it nice to have reasonable discussion here?
December 3, 2024 at 3:50 PM
And any discussion of debates in Guardian article is unbalanced. Calling people dinosaurs? Is that really permissible in balanced scholarly discourse?
December 3, 2024 at 3:30 PM
More clear I hope in revised version of the letter, where we refer specifically to the non-peer-revioewed study led by Lathe. Not sure whether by original article, you mean the Guardian piece or something referred to therein?
December 3, 2024 at 3:29 PM