Ben Schulz

Fantastic University of Queensland Biochemistry Alumni Lecture from @martinsteinegger.bsky.social on how new amazing structural bioinformatic tools are built on and can inform experimental biochemistry

The 2026 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

Efficient producers of enticing and believable content with absolutely no regard for truth. Perfect fascist propaganda machines.

$Billions of public funds to US imperialism and the military industrial complex. We would create more jobs by building a good society, public housing, transport, hospital, and education infrastructure.
AUKUS, a crazy capitulation to an autocratic, divided, and declining empire.

100% "Her allegations were never substantiated and US authorities never responded to her emails" seems like a good place to start, not end.

Incrediblly fast times for Tarawera 102k 2026! Brilliant muddy wins for Ruth Croft and Daniel Jones in very competitive fields www.irunfar.com/2026-tarawer...

It's all very strange and conspiracy-like, but surely it deserves very careful investigation

The Barkley Marathon is ON! 🥳🥳#bm100 ⤵️

Elisa bravely supporting the All Blacks and Ben all fresh and happy before running

Fabulous morning for a Southbank Parkrun with guest star @elisafadda.bsky.social!

The cop riot So, first things first, a big congrats to Angus Taylor.

Because I grew up in QLD in the ‘80s, I’m more often surprised when police *don’t* attack demonstrators. So I’ve had that familiar feeling this week of watching people come to a difficult truth: when you see a demo turn ugly, it’s almost always because the cops decided that’s how it was gonna go.

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

Sure, but that's a different question. Use a controlled environment, or design it so AI doesn't help much.

When AI tool use is possible but not detectable you just have to roll with it, while making it very clear that if they use it students won't learn and will produce passable junk.

This is the key reason that I like my university's policy of allowing AI use if it's disclosed.

Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.

Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

Students should not be allowed near generativeAI because they don't know enough about anything to be handed the magical bullshit engine, which might be saving you time or might be destroying your company's database or might be fabricating history or whatever the fuck else. And it's pushed on them.

I know a number of programmers who can explain, cogently and clearly, how it has been transformative for their workplace, EVEN AS THEY TALK ABOUT CHECKING EVERY SINGLE LINE OF CODE TWICE BEFORE DOING ANYTHING WITH IT. And they can, and it is genuinely faster, because they are experts!

Exquisite editing by the Australian Financial Review. Journalism so good it is art. vt.tiktok.com/ZSmFwUeYt/

smol watermelon

AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj

"Unlike human reviewers, who care about knowledge, LLMs have no stake in whether a finding is true, a method convincing or a theory illuminating. They have not helped build the edifice of knowledge... They cannot be embarrassed to be wrong."

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ai-n...

Olympic rowing standoff: Council pushes Lawnton site despite Bleijie’s rejection The mayor said his council’s proposal gave the Olympics and governments “a cost-effective, ready-made solution to keep rowing in Queensland”.

"If they don’t want it in Rocky, it ain’t happening" Bleijie sounds like a kindergarten bully share.google/O35VbwGR3Ime...

Department of War Breast Cancer Research Program cdmrp.health.mil/pubs/press/2... The doublethink is strong

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

Adani gave the LNP money.

The LNP gave Adani Australia's coal for free.

If anyone bumps into Matt Canavan or the Davids Littleproud & Crisafulli, please ask if I've got this right?

thepoint.com.au/opinions/26021

A content warning for very, very significant police violence on this video: Israeli President Herzog is visiting Australia, and police in New South Wales are violently bashing prone protesters.

The media is framing it in completely neutral terms.

Watch the video, then look at the headlines.

Morning. ☕️

This is what social cohesion looks like.

Flinders Street Station, Naarm.

Something to remember as you watch this footage is that NSW Police approved the antisemitic National Socialist Network demonstration outside of NSW Parliament House.

Vale to one of Australia's greatest cartoonists and artists - Jon Kudelka

We must stop peace protesters from terrorising our war criminal guests

Editorial: Tell me Australia, which is worse: signing bombs or making anti-bomb signs? preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

Comb jellies 🥰