On Training Data for Bio AI Models
As we advance biological foundation models, which lessons from LLM data curation transfer, and which need rethinking?
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We write about frontier advances in the life sciences, machine learning, and technology, and how their fusion is reshaping the trajectory of life on Earth.
Love this - great to see lots of green - could really do with more
The state of biological AI at a glance
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The new era of going “Fast and Far” in research
Small teams have always innovated. But AI means:
a) We can split research into big and small teams
b) The small can do absolutely massive things now
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From institutional mud to green pasture: university mergers in bibliometric data
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Biology Open paid peer reviewers £220 and cut peer review times to five working days
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NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) Year 4: Reflections, Progress, and What Comes Next
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As the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) concludes its fourth year and moves into its fifth, this update examines the…
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Violence on the streets of the U.K. incited and enabled by Elon Musk, a fellow of the @royalsociety.org. When will our national academy stand up for the values it claims to espouse?
Our new working paper, "Fast and flexible research funding: a review," analyzes the unsustainable time and paperwork required for grant applications, offering key recommendations to help global funders reduce this bureaucratic burden: rori.figshare.com/articles/pre...
This is a pogrom, incited and instigated by Elon Musk.
This is now the second set of pogroms incited by Elon in the UK in 2 years.
Now we can all code
Who wants to email the corresponding author on 100,000 papers to ask them for their "data available upon request"?
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The grants system was already struggling. Then came AI
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"Time is short for managed reform of the research funding system. Funders need to act quickly, potentially in the face of incomplete evidence, while incremental adjustments are still possible."
Alejandra Caraballo
Mark Hahnel
The research grants system, the bedrock of the funding ecosystem, is in trouble.
