Adam Kleczkowski

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As usual, a great pleasure to be at the @planthealthscot.bsky.social annual conference.

A poster on Ips typographus, and a talk on #AI in #planthealth #PlantScience

AI – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Part 2 It is going to be a very short post today. We increasingly see that companies like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google are starting to use our personal data and content we create to train generative AI …

New (very short) post on my blog on AI:

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What a feeling - just submitted to @ukri.org a large £3m grant application with 5 universities/collaborators.

It is my third application this year, first as a PI, total value £7m.

@unistrathclyde.bsky.social

Mushrooms, one held by hand, more in a basket

Mushrooms in a basket

It's this time of the year. It will be a delicious breakfast tomorrow.

#fungi #mushrooms

Learning the Quadratic Equation (UK) Doodle - Google Doodles Learn more about the creation of Learning the Quadratic Equation (UK) Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.

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We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.

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An article describing how AI is changing the scientific publication landscape. A combination of AI writing and predatory publishing leads to a deluge of "resmearch" - or rather "research slop".

Carcassonne! Our favourite family game!

Bought Dominion and will be reading it when travelling to Nottingham for the BSPP conference next week.

oh noooo

An autumn in Scotland – Chopin, 1848 A poetic ode to Chopin and his Scottish benefactor Jane Stirling

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Fact-checking RFK Jr.'s testimony during Thursday's hearing The HHS secretary repeated several false and misleading claims.

Here are some of the false or misleading claims RFK Jr. made during yesterday’s hearing:
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Science Under Siege: A Talk With Peter Hotez and Michael Mann Lysenko comes to America

Science Under Siege: A Talk With Peter Hotez and Michael Mann
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Well, you're the FDA Commissioner, so tell us. What do the data say?

No? Here, I'll help you.

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CDC: deaths within 42 days of mRNA vaccination were below background (expected) rates in every age group, including ages 6 months–17 years

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You will be surprised how easily and quickly it could happen, see 1930s Germany or Soviet Union.

Registran episodios de mortalidad masiva de árboles en bosques patagónicos Se formó una red de más de un centenar de investigadores y voluntarios para monitorear el crecimiento de árboles en todo el país

www.eldestapeweb.com/sociedad/cie... #Treemortality Forests in Patagonia are experiencing high levels of tree mortality most likely linked to increasing temperatures and severity of droughts

On genAI bubble:

"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

F. Herbert, Dune

Bovine Tb was rampant then and other bacterial diseases.

Souring milk was an alternative.

bTB is back, at least in the UK.

One week until the @bspp.bsky.social #PPATH25 conference:

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See you all there, and please come to our special session on the Artificial Intelligence revolution in plant pathology research!

#PlantScience

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And, quoting from Laura Spinney's Pale Rider:

"...trust is not something that can be built up quickly. If it is not in place when a pandemic declares itself, then however good the information being circulated, it probably won’t be heeded."

It is indeed one of the most important graphs of the 2020s.

Sadly, for their own reasons, politicians missold the vaccination and that created a backlash. We lost people's trust.

This is what I wrote in June 2021:

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Defining "succeed" is the key here. It is already an excellent microblogging site, with (so far) largely balanced views, little spam and no ads, and - most importantly - a lot of interesting, dedicated people writing interesting posts.

I now hardly ever read X and find Threads/Instagram unusable.

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I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls.

This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine.

This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.

Low sensitivity and specificity are a big problem with AI-powered tools.

The application determines whether such levels can be tolerated. But if it sends the wrong message, better not to implement.

My blog from the COVID era:
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These are incredibly useful tips for all teachers and professors starting a new academic year...

Today, 31st August, marks the 80th anniversary of Stefan Banach's death.

One of the best mathematicians of the 20th Century, who formalised Banach spaces and co-authored one of the most amazing theorems, the Banach-Tarski paradox.

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I cannot more strongly recommend this post.

If you have questions about mrna vaccines this is an accessible resource containing lots of science references mrna-vaccines/

A man standing on a grassy hill with sea and mountains in the background.

My 2^6-th birthday is today. I don't feel old (most of the time) and there's lots to enjoy yet.

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