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What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science

A new article from @Nature.

Many scientists are using ChatGPT to increase productivity, but others remain wary. “If you believe that this technology has the potential to be transformative, then I think you have to be nervous about it,” says computational biologist
genomic.social/@greenescientis

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

[Reproduced from Nature twitter account, as I can't see it here on Mastodon yet. Apologies to @greenescientist if he got there first]

'The results obtained suggest that the peer review system is not substantially better than random selection in identifying the best candidates once an initial pre-selection of the most promising ones is performed.'

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/48

"On 3 February 2023, EMA, the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) and the European Commission (EC) are launching a public consultation on the establishment of a multi-stakeholder platform to improve clinical trials in the European Union (EU). The multi-stakeholder platform is a deliverable of the joint initiative Accelerating Clinical Trials in the EU (ACT EU)."

ema.europa.eu/en/news/public-c

'A total of 822 participants underwent randomization, and 771 received VV116 (384 participants) or nirmatrelvir–ritonavir (387 participants). The noninferiority of VV116 to nirmatrelvir–ritonavir with respect to the time to sustained clinical recovery was established in the primary analysis'

nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM

The Leiden Institute of Chemistry is looking to hire 5-6 new PIs (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor) for the focus fields of Chemical Biology and Energy & Sustainability. Check it out, if you are interested in becoming our new colleague! In Chemical Biology, we are especially looking for someone for the profiles of "Molecular cell biology" and "Bio-orthogonal modification of biomolecules". Nevertheless, the call is also open to all fields of Chemical Biology. universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacan

'In 1879 in a private letter to Joseph Hooker, Charles Darwin grumbled1: “The rapid development as far as we can judge of all the higher plants within recent geological times is an abominable mystery.” Although this abominable mystery is often cited today, and sometimes declared solved, few realize that the mystery is deeper today than it was for Darwin.'

nature.com/articles/s41559-017

We'd love to have you join us at the 2023 Cell Contact and Adhesion Gordon Conference
= Cell-Cell Junctions: Integrating Cell Signals and Mechanical Force in Development and Disease. Registration is open and applications are being reviewed! 4/6

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I'm posting the lecture slides for my ongoing course on Machine Learning for Climate Change here <lindsay-lab.github.io/teaching>, if you want to follow along or incorporate any material into your own teaching.

Very much a work-in-progress though, so don't hold me liable for mistakes!

Want to work at the intersection of morphometry and representation learning for bioimage analysis?

We have TWO open postdoctoral positions! Each comes with its own challenging biological question, unique dataset, and exceptional team of collaborators!

Details below👇

Hello world! 📢

The #Bioconductor EuroBioc 2023 conference will be in Ghent, Belgium 🇧🇪 on the 20, 21, 22 September 2023. More details, including keynote speakers and calendar at eurobioc2023.bioconductor.org/

Oh, and abstract submissions are already open!

First thing the Republicans do when they get in charge is purge any experts or responsible ppl from interfering with their destructive, uninformed antics. cnn.com/2023/02/02/politics/ho

One could call this a significant drop.

"The latest statistics from the European Commission reveal that Cambridge University, which netted €483m (£433m) over the seven years of the last European research funding programme, Horizon 2020, has not received any funding in the first two years of the new Horizon Europe programme.

Meanwhile, Oxford, which won €523m from the earlier programme, has only been awarded €2m to date from Horizon Europe."

theguardian.com/education/2023

On this day in 2002: Max Perutz died, Austrian Jewish refugee, won 1962 #NobelPrize for uncovering haemoglobin structure #ThisDayInBiotech

'With permutations of temperature and pressure outside what generally occurs on Earth, water molecules can be pushed into other crystal structures. Scientists now know of 20 crystalline forms of water. The 20th form of ice was discovered last year.'

nytimes.com/2023/02/03/science

Next time someone questions if birds really are dinosaurs, show them this picture!

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