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Computational Intelligence for Computational Biology (CI4CB) ► Director iict.heig-vd.ch HEIG-VD / HES-SO (AI/ML) ► sib.swiss (Bioinfo) ► Binational 🇨🇴🇨🇭 ► 3 kids, 2 cats, happy parent. Born at 323ppm
How do you dare compare? War is a noble art worth some billions, but science? 🤦🏽
📣 #ECCB2026 proceedings deadline extended to 16 March 13:00 CET
Submit to 1 of our 6️⃣ sessions:
🔹 Genomics
🔹 Transcriptomics & gene regulation
🔹 Proteins & structural biology
🔹 Systems biology
🔹 Environmental bioinformatics
🔹 ELIXIR Communities
👉 More info: eccb2026.org/call-proceedings
FSM?
Written in March 2024… becoming reality since January 2025.
Jajajaja hasta si…
De pronto ahora es cuando más toca hacerlo. Asi sea por pura coherencia personal.
El nuevo nuevo orden mundial está siendo difícil de aceptar…
This chart shows all objects in the Universe, arranged by mass (vertical) and radius (horizontal).
Let me explain it a bit...
• C. H. Lineweaver and V. M. Patel, “All objects and some questions”, American Journal of Physics 91 (2023), 819-825. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(1/n)
Science in 2025
It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching
Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5
In this commentary, I argue that student-based teaching evaluations are problematic bc
✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism)
✳️ poor construct validity
✳️ undermine standards and learning
We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.
Fortement d’accord avec ce point de vue. Je travaille dans le domaine, mais j’ai horreur des extrêmes absurdes auxquels songent certaines personnes.
Ready to vote. Prêt-e-s pour voter.
La simple question de savoir pourquoi ouvre des perspectives terrifiantes.
Are we going to witness a real bubble burst? Or a slow, boring deflation instead?
Monday again...
Claus Wilke on Alphafold and the problem of protein folding in 2025
AlphaFold is great, but contrary to public opinion it has not completely solved the protein folding problem. Much work remains to be done.
clauswilke.substack.com/p/no-alphafo...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/08/governments-stand-up-to-israel-colombia.
« C’est l’été, c’est normal» m’a-t-on dit cette semaine 😡.
"We are perilously close to the point of no return" - climate scientist on the future of the Amazon rainforest. The world's leaders have seemingly unanimously agreed that keeping a liveable biosphere is less important than ensuring the richest people get a little richer.
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
"a fascinating case study on the limits of AI in biology and the harms of current publishing incentives" rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-0...
#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate!
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
🧪🔬 On the downsides of funding megaprojects and why we need to reconsider power relationships when funding science.
I guess if @snsf.ch #SNSF has any hard data on the comparative impact that #NCCR projects have on the careers of researchers at different stages in their career...
#AcademicSky
En Colombie: Chigüiro
This is a fantastic oral history of the last 10 years of NLP and AI. www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...
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