Guy Leonard (chatGuyPT)

"AI will replace people". No.

People will replace themselves with AI.

We need a Reviewer Number 3 for people's LLM prompts.

Show your working.

Life takes so many different forms. Our Protists paper model looks at some of the organisms that are neither plant nor animal nor fungi! Find out more here: buff.ly/utiPSSJ

#EduSky #protists #iteachbio

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

You can't shame a state into doing something they don't want to do, when they are already killing an starving thousands of people.

Just recognise it already and stop playing 'clever' games.

OrthoFinder: scalable phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/OrthoFinder/...

WSET Level 2 Aware in Beer Certificate

I’m happy to share that I’ve obtained a new certification: WSET Level 2 Award in Beer from Wine & Spirit Education Trust! @wsetglobal.bsky.social

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CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in Corallochytrium limacisporum,a key species for understanding animal origins | Open Biology Microbial holozoans are the closest unicellular relatives of animals. They share a substantial gene repertoire with animals and exhibit complex life cycles. Studying these organisms is crucial for und...

✨Animal evolution fans, rejoice! CRISPR-Cas9 is now in Corallochytrium ready to unlock secrets of animal origins! 🔬Led by @patriciasuarez.bsky.social & @sebasn1.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @royalsociety.org @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social#holozoans #ProtistsonSky

Promethea = PROvora + MEteora + HEmimastigophora. The new supergroup, unifying previously “orphan” lineages with gene-rich mitogenomes. Position of #telonemids is still uncertain. #protistsonsky tinyurl.com/yk9xkt49

Check out our paper to explore how the evolutionary history of SELMA supports or challenges various hypotheses on the origin of red complex plastids.

academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

a man with his eyes closed and his mouth open Alt: short gif from the tv show Severence, showing the main character transitioning from the outside world to the work personality.

#subtweet

Early bird applications for the Workshop on Genomics 2026 are still open until the 1st of August, we have a few spots left! Do not miss the chance to get a discount! 🙆🏽‍♀️ #evomics2026
Apply here: evomics.org/apply-worksh...

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.

AI this, AI that, what about how much energy AI actually uses?

“It blows my mind that you can buy a car and know how many miles per gallon it consumes, yet we use all these AI tools every day and we have absolutely no efficiency metrics, emissions factors, nothing." From the experts:

Excited to share that I will be a co-director for the upcoming Workshop on Phylogenomics @evomics.bsky.social, alongside the amazing main team lead @rosafernandez.bsky.social and Erin K. Molloy

We are putting together an amazing workshop with details to come - can't wait to share it with everyone!🥳

From short to long reads: enhanced protist diversity profiling via Nanopore metabarcoding #protists #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My New Book: Tasting Notes - The Art and Science of Pairing - Pete Brown Tasting Notes: The Art and Science of Pairing Beer with Music

It’s finally here! My new book, Tasting Notes: The Art and Science of Pairing Beer with Music, is out now, from @camraofficial.bsky.social Books. Read all about it here - www.petebrown.net/2025/07/14/m...

The AI Con A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this banner, and why it’s cr...

But what I am ACTUALLY doing is sending them a copy of @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social ‘s AI Con www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Star Trek The Original Series scene. Enterprise bridge view screen is front and center with an alien head looking off center right. Mr. Alien has a large brain area, long & tall pointed nose, and skin that's greyish with a dash of purple and green. Ominous fellow. Caption READS, "YOU ARE WASTING TIME AND EFFORT. "

Mosaic evolution of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in fungi Picco et al. take an evolutionary approach to study clathrin-mediated endocytosis in a fungal clade and discover that the process is evolving in a mosaic fashion. The early phase of endocytosis has sh...

How does evolution shape ancient cellular processes? Our new paper uncovers the mosaic evolution of conserved and diverging endocytic traits in fungi!

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Registration is open for the Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes meeting in Glasgow! This event will highlight a range of scientific accomplishments in eukaryotic genome research. Sign up today and submit your abstract by August 12: bit.ly/Eukaryotes25 #Eukaryotes25

If you're wondering what happened with Grok overnight, it ended up referring to itself as MechaHitler before being switched off.

A copy in my hand of The AI Con by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna

“‘Al’ is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase …is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies will profit from getting others to believe that their tech is similar to humans”
Excellent & uncompromising.
Read it!

After all these reports of authors adding language instructions for LLM reviews in their papers I wanted to check this myself and I downloaded the .tex source from one of these papers.

Here is an example.
(I will not share the identity of the paper)

I brewed a light table beer I didn't quite like.

So I have added grapefruit juice to one keg, and cloudy lemonade to the other.

Ta da they are now Radlers! 😜😅

There is no mistake that this data acquisition company named itself after the 'lost seeing stones' from Lord of the Rings - two of which (if you have at least seen the movies) you know are in the hands of the enemy (one each for Sauron and Saruman) and are used to spy and corrupt.

A single-cell ATACseq atlas of our favourite sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis! By @aelek.bsky.social @martaig.bsky.social

Same rubbish we had throughout the brexit years - "The people of this country have had enough of experts".

No, we have had enough of lying politicians though.

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Early bird applications are now open! Do not miss this chance!! 🤩🧬💻 #bioinformatics #genomics

Early bird applications are now open! Go go go genomics!