Philipp Bayer
@philippbayer.bsky.social
Working on advancing trust in eDNA at OceanOmics. He/Him.
'It is required that one man should goof gloriously for the people.'
'It is required that one man should goof gloriously for the people.'
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Auckland Uni has responded to my OIA request re consultancy spending in 2024-2025
$600k to PWC and $500k to Nous Group for "strategic design, organisational change, transformation
services" etc
This is roughly what our whole faculty of science spent on internally funded postdocs in the same years
$600k to PWC and $500k to Nous Group for "strategic design, organisational change, transformation
services" etc
This is roughly what our whole faculty of science spent on internally funded postdocs in the same years
What consulting companies is Auckland Uni working with and how much are the companies being paid? - a Official Information Act request to University of Auckland
Could you please provide a list of contracts the University entered into, in 2024 and 2025, with external consulting firms; the topic of the work undertaken (e.g., strategic planning); and the total c...
fyi.org.nz
December 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Auckland Uni has responded to my OIA request re consultancy spending in 2024-2025
$600k to PWC and $500k to Nous Group for "strategic design, organisational change, transformation
services" etc
This is roughly what our whole faculty of science spent on internally funded postdocs in the same years
$600k to PWC and $500k to Nous Group for "strategic design, organisational change, transformation
services" etc
This is roughly what our whole faculty of science spent on internally funded postdocs in the same years
#eDNA postdoc opportunity in Qatar.
'Environmental DNA (eDNA) & Marine Mammals Monitoring'
Got it via email and can't find a public link, yet?
'Environmental DNA (eDNA) & Marine Mammals Monitoring'
Got it via email and can't find a public link, yet?
December 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
#eDNA postdoc opportunity in Qatar.
'Environmental DNA (eDNA) & Marine Mammals Monitoring'
Got it via email and can't find a public link, yet?
'Environmental DNA (eDNA) & Marine Mammals Monitoring'
Got it via email and can't find a public link, yet?
New Protomen album!!!!!
theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...
theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...
Act III: This City Made Us, by The Protomen
14 track album
theprotomen.bandcamp.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
New Protomen album!!!!!
theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...
theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...
2026, current 'feeling' from me and so many people in my area: the year everyone just walks away
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
2026, current 'feeling' from me and so many people in my area: the year everyone just walks away
It's due to the speed of publishing, but I would've loved to see how Helixer and Tiberius worked in this context
(this evaluates BRAKER1/2/3, CGP, MAKER, StringTie, Scallop, TOGA, LiftOff)
(this evaluates BRAKER1/2/3, CGP, MAKER, StringTie, Scallop, TOGA, LiftOff)
Building better genome annotations across the tree of life
genome.cshlp.org/content/35/5...
TOGA, BRAKER3, and the RNA-seq assembler StringTie are top performers when benchmarking 12 different methods for 21 different species spanning vertebrates, plants, and insects.
genome.cshlp.org/content/35/5...
TOGA, BRAKER3, and the RNA-seq assembler StringTie are top performers when benchmarking 12 different methods for 21 different species spanning vertebrates, plants, and insects.
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It's due to the speed of publishing, but I would've loved to see how Helixer and Tiberius worked in this context
(this evaluates BRAKER1/2/3, CGP, MAKER, StringTie, Scallop, TOGA, LiftOff)
(this evaluates BRAKER1/2/3, CGP, MAKER, StringTie, Scallop, TOGA, LiftOff)
Active parenting also means that every movie you try to stream automatically becomes a 24-part miniseries
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Active parenting also means that every movie you try to stream automatically becomes a 24-part miniseries
Hi! I've put in my four weeks notice at Minderoo.
It's very painful to leave such an amazing team - and there won't be any eDNA related things coming from me, either. I still have 3 weeks on my contract and so much to do....
It's very painful to leave such an amazing team - and there won't be any eDNA related things coming from me, either. I still have 3 weeks on my contract and so much to do....
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Hi! I've put in my four weeks notice at Minderoo.
It's very painful to leave such an amazing team - and there won't be any eDNA related things coming from me, either. I still have 3 weeks on my contract and so much to do....
It's very painful to leave such an amazing team - and there won't be any eDNA related things coming from me, either. I still have 3 weeks on my contract and so much to do....
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Deichkind
BORIS
Björk
Japanische Kampfhörspiele
Olafur Arnalds
Deichkind
BORIS
Björk
Japanische Kampfhörspiele
Olafur Arnalds
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Pixies
Breeders & Nirvana
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Shonen Knife
Pixies
Breeders & Nirvana
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Shonen Knife
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
Ozzy & Metallica
SRV & Joe Cocker
Iron Maiden & Yngwie
Jazzfest
U2
Ozzy & Metallica
SRV & Joe Cocker
Iron Maiden & Yngwie
Jazzfest
U2
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Deichkind
BORIS
Björk
Japanische Kampfhörspiele
Olafur Arnalds
Deichkind
BORIS
Björk
Japanische Kampfhörspiele
Olafur Arnalds
Reposted by Philipp Bayer
I'm increasingly interested in race science as a form of cultivated, weaponized statistical illiteracy. Take this figure, one of the most common propaganda plots, plotting national IQ data against education polygenic scores. "The correlation is so high! Clearly IQ differences are genetic!"
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November 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I'm increasingly interested in race science as a form of cultivated, weaponized statistical illiteracy. Take this figure, one of the most common propaganda plots, plotting national IQ data against education polygenic scores. "The correlation is so high! Clearly IQ differences are genetic!"
Oops!
Oops!
US thanksgiving is so perfectly placed. That time of the year when everybody runs on fumes. It's like a quick minibreak for the last sprint before the longer Christmas break. I'm jealous
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
US thanksgiving is so perfectly placed. That time of the year when everybody runs on fumes. It's like a quick minibreak for the last sprint before the longer Christmas break. I'm jealous
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New funding model for my lab: for every $1m donation to my lab I will make one legally actionable claim about a man over the age of 50 in my field
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
New funding model for my lab: for every $1m donation to my lab I will make one legally actionable claim about a man over the age of 50 in my field
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Enormous milestone. All thanks to vaccinations!!!
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Enormous milestone. All thanks to vaccinations!!!
Reposted by Philipp Bayer
If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
Reposted by Philipp Bayer
An efficient, accessible solution for #genome annotation in both research and applied settings www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Helixer: ab initio prediction of primary eukaryotic gene models combining deep learning and a hidden Markov model - Nature Methods
By leveraging both deep learning and hidden Markov models, Helixer achieves broad taxonomic coverage for ab initio gene annotation of eukaryotic genomes from fungi, plants, vertebrates and invertebrat...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
An efficient, accessible solution for #genome annotation in both research and applied settings www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Philipp Bayer
ARC are considering a restructure in which jobs there will be lost, a source tells me.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
ARC are considering a restructure in which jobs there will be lost, a source tells me.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
I feel like a 13% success rate is the worst I've seen. But perhaps we have a higher rate of applications - looks like general employment rate out there is dire
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I feel like a 13% success rate is the worst I've seen. But perhaps we have a higher rate of applications - looks like general employment rate out there is dire
Reposted by Philipp Bayer
🚨 #DECRA #DE26 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285
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November 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
🚨 #DECRA #DE26 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285
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Co-organised a dads ride last Sunday with my son's school and the Fathering Project-associated dads group. We had 60 people come!!!!
If you organise events, people will come!
And we had a good day riding for about half an hour as a group, with icy poles at the end
If you organise events, people will come!
And we had a good day riding for about half an hour as a group, with icy poles at the end
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Co-organised a dads ride last Sunday with my son's school and the Fathering Project-associated dads group. We had 60 people come!!!!
If you organise events, people will come!
And we had a good day riding for about half an hour as a group, with icy poles at the end
If you organise events, people will come!
And we had a good day riding for about half an hour as a group, with icy poles at the end
My new strawberry is having its first fruit and it's an absolute Yog-Sothoth of a fruiting body. Just unwell in non-euclidian space
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
My new strawberry is having its first fruit and it's an absolute Yog-Sothoth of a fruiting body. Just unwell in non-euclidian space
After big life changes (more on that soon) you're supposed to feel free or elated or something. I'm just exhausted
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
After big life changes (more on that soon) you're supposed to feel free or elated or something. I'm just exhausted
absolutely LOVE this preprint on tricking LLMs using poetry:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
absolutely LOVE this preprint on tricking LLMs using poetry:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
New year, new me??? I can't even afford the old me
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
New year, new me??? I can't even afford the old me
Thoroughly depressed at the news of another round of firings at CSIRO. What else are researchers supposed to do these days? Enormously smart, driven, skilled people having impacts in their communities every day, and still, it's not enough. For what reason
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Thoroughly depressed at the news of another round of firings at CSIRO. What else are researchers supposed to do these days? Enormously smart, driven, skilled people having impacts in their communities every day, and still, it's not enough. For what reason
Reposted by Philipp Bayer
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...