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For reference, I finished my PhD in 2008 and already could not get away with simply identifying a protein function in vitro without also having to showing cellular location/function thanks to microscopes rapidly getting better in the 5 years leading up to that.
This just means that future PhD students will be expected to do 10x of what recent PhD grads had to do. I already had to do much more work than people a generation before me, who seem to have gotten entire degrees based on sequencing a few genes.
This plan involved transporting US citizens with known exposure to ebola (e.g. from DRC) into Kenya (instead of repatriating). So moving them to a 3rd country, as part of a plan to... *checks notes* limit international spread. No, that's making the international spread WORSE! That's MORE countries!
Hm, actually the *microscopes* (as in lenses) were already excellent, but the improvements in the *software* and the tech that linked them meant that cellular colocalization experiments were much more achievable for random academic labs in institutes that could afford high-end equipment/software.
New Mixture! It's about Nature's TikTok account, and why I should probably be making more videos, but that's hard, so I just typed a newsletter about it instead. open.substack.com/pub/mixture/...
New Mixture! It's about Nature's TikTok account, and why I should probably be making more videos, but that's hard, so I just typed a newsletter about it instead. open.substack.com/pub/mixture/...
Remember during the winter Olympics this year, when a Dutch speed skater crashed into another skater? Well, his brother just won the Gloucester cheese rolling competition this week.
Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help."
fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...
Voice actors are facing the same issues as writers, but it should hopefully be easier to prove that an AI voice is directly trained on a recognizable human voice than it is to prove based on writing.
Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and you will inevitably get people saying, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." You know what else people thought was progress not long after it came into common use? Asbestos.
www.tom-cox.com/in-the-villa...
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“If people believe they will be judged more harshly for using AI, they are less likely to adopt it—regardless of their capability."
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