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Our new measure for AF-s got an upgrade! Now also usable in local AF3 installation.

Remember to tune in to our next Seminar on Monday September 8!

Along with this: it's tempting to collect technical skills like pokemon, and there certainly is focus on work with breadth that rewards this. But don't forget about the value of depth. Hard to do good science without deep understanding of what you're doing. That only comes from years of immersion.

Have you heard about the Night Science Podcast, where we talk about the actual creative process of doing science? We explore this with discussions with brilliant scientists & also philosophers and artists, to figure out the tricks of the creative scientific trade.
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I also saw a big surge on my linkedin account - more people seem to use that as well instead of twitter.

Unfortunately it’s clear that the Israeli people can’t topple the government or change its ways. Seems like the attorney general, the last gate keeper, will be fired soon. As long as we’re stuck with this government, the war won’t stop. Only international intervention (=the U.S) might do it.

Scientific bedlam at the world’s weirdest and wildest research conference Woodstock Bio2 + Night Science aimed to encourage collaborations through creativity. The walk-on music for presentations was fun, too.

🥂This was the highlight of my year. The "instigators", led by local master of the ceremony @svobodalab.bsky.social will never forget the privilege of organizing it and i think every participant will treasure the experience forever ❤️ @nature.com @josiegz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

STUDY: Denmark tracked over a million children for 21 years, and found vaccines linked to zero extra cases of autism, asthma, or 48 other conditions.

Vaccines are safe, effective, and the best way to eradicate preventable disease. Period.

I am super excited to announce that I will be starting my lab at the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Zurich in Switzerland next year!

What a cliffhanger 😄

In house? Or a published one?

And you were no invited? Sounds worse than a coup 😅😅😅

AlphaFold developer Google DeepMind to fund CASP as NIH funding falls short Protein structure prediction contest CASP gets temporary funding from Google DeepMind as NIH grant runs out.

NEW from me at STAT:

We've learned that DeepMind is going to fund CASP, the protein structure competition that brought Google DeepMind's #AlphaFold to prominence (and a Nobel Prize), as its NIH funding runs out.

More @statnews.com:
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🖥️🩺🧪🧬 #bioML

Variant characterization in the intrinsically disordered human proteome Variant effect prediction remains a key challenge to resolve in precision medicine. Sophisticated computational models that exploit sequence conservation and structure are increasingly successful in t...

Variant characterization in the intrinsically disordered human proteome - here is how we did it using short linear motif prediction, AlphaFold, and experimentation. Check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Getting even better!

Sounds good to me!

A hiking conference?

PhD student in Biochemistry - Uppsala University PhD student in Biochemistry, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University

We are looking for a PhD student in (mostly )wet-lab biochemistry to work on short linear motifs, intrinsically disordered regions, in the context of the Marie Curie network "IDPro". More info an apply here: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

And "Then I woke up"? 😅

AKA the best conference ever

The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate.

A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.

Started in 2020 at HUJI, graduated just now. Aside from outer factors, our field also got a huge inner AI revolution (alphafold). It was ... tough 🫣🫣

The worst thing is applications asking "how does X fit into your long-term plans" - as if I even bothered to make those anymore 🫠

YouTube video by Shahar Halevi | שחר הלוי couldn't complete the assignment, my lab was destroyed | אין מעבדה, תרקדו עכשיו עם כתוביות

"A missile attack is not going to hold back science, science is held back by itself" 🤣
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Sometimes it really depends on the dataset as well. We have seen benchmarking datasets with peptide-protein interactions where many of the examples should be removed because of artifacts. However, since AF3/AF2-v3 was trained on them, it also outputs them perfectly...

Indeed Oded. Some Will think of #TCTeAC as escapism, but I think it was showing us how beautiful we can make this world if the guiding values are respect & trust, and if world leaders would adopt a vision that is based on hope instead of hatred. On collaboration instead of competition. 💚

Next time, could a poster fight (with rolled up posters) be on the programme? Then we burn them 😄

Pluralism at its best playing “theology or biology” game by @hagenom.bsky.social #TCTeAC

So terribly far...