Work in progress | Evolution | Ecology | Systems Biology | Experiments | Theory | Running a lab @ucsdbiosciences | http://sklab.science | https://thoughtsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/
Sergey Kryazhimskiy
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I wrote about AI in academia. "PhD-level thinking", LLM bias, grunt work, alignment, AGI, data center water use, AI politics -- something for everyone.
PhD-level thinking, LLM bias, alignment, AGI, data centers, and AI politics
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Neil Shubin: "Curiosity-driven research is really the seed corn for the major breakthroughs and applications. But it’s also important in its own right, because discovery and the expansion of knowledge are virtues in themselves." 🎯
Sergey Kryazhimskiy
Imagine you had six years of data and every year resistance levels go up ... What would you think will happen in the future?
(here showing data from quinolone resistance in E coli in Hungary from the supplement of this paper by @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social et al journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
"As an institution, we are — by charter and design and history — nonpartisan. But we are in a deeply partisan age. Just by doing our work, we will be viewed in a partisan light no matter what. So our job is to double down on the science."
A principled vision for NAS via incoming Pres. Neil Shubin.
I'm in favor of limits, but I think they should be imposed on dollar amounts, not on number of grants. Why should somebody with three small grants get penalized over somebody else with one large one?
My book "The Evolution of Biological Information" is 50% off at Princeton University Press with the code "Spring50"
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Have a concise report for a genome assembly (or allied dataset) you'd like to publish? I am Senior Editor for the open access Genetics Society of America's G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics @genetics-gsa.bsky.social and I handle Genome Reports. Our team of academic editors is superb. Consider submitting!
