Ben Schulz

Incompetent & over-reaching nonsense "A feasibility study about the merger was reported to be riddled with AI-generated errors" And 2 of the 3 universities oppose it on the very reasonable grounds that the proposed merger "solves problems we don't have and creates problems we don't need"

This is becoming a common pattern worldwide and if you're wondering it's because facism and patriarchy are twins.

Killer says he's sad as not being allowed to eat Vegemite deprives him of Australian culture; Judge says it's probably because he's in jail. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... It's a bit depressing all round, but is a reminder that you can indeed make beer with Vegemite! news.uq.edu.au/2016-08-15-b...

Is this a weird psyop trying to trick us into supporting prepublication peer review

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

If pollution laws meant anything (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha) then both Canberra and the WA government would immediately move to shut down Chevron’s Gorgon plant

Cancer immunotherapy benefits from antibody-lectin chimeras that block glyco-immune checkpoints go.nature.com/4aRDpk8 rdcu.be/ZqESYB6vavSa

Hoop snake!!

"We call on the community to prioritise efforts towards linking glycan structures, glycosylation epitopes, or patterns (..) to specific cellular functions (..) one of the most urgent and ambitious challenges of glycobiology research" 🧪 #glycotime TIBS 😎 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Can the LLM-based AI agents that are supposed to be able to help with scientific research distinguish real work from pseudoscience, from fraud, or from long-discredited retracted starting papers? Take a guess.

I think it's important to interact with AI in a very carefully controlled way: specifically to understand exactly how toxic and terrible it is I only get it to return text in two conditions: (a) a topic I know well and (b) a question I **already answered**. You learn v quick how bad the answers are

Have you tried blessing your chicken? Works wonders, AND it is proven by science! 🙏🐔🙏 doi.org/10.1002/vms3.70798

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Beetles secrete jelly to embed & sustain symbionts with impossibly tiny genomes🪲 But what is this jelly made of? And how does it help maintain a partnership that has lasted over 62 million years? Thrilled to share our latest, out now in @natcomms.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is one of the absolute coolest shots of the expanding debris from a supernova explosion I have ever seen, and I've seen a *lot*. So what the heck's going on here with this thing? Hey, let me explain. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-incredi... 🧪 🔭

AI bro: Claude how do I not die from lung cancer? Claude: don't smoke

The utter, utter stupidity … Cratering our higher education sector, with regional areas hit hardest, to pander to One Nation immigration politics. They pegged uni finances on intl students, and then started attacking the student visa intake.

Bizarre. Apparently it's "not about job cuts" but will somehow "create a fundamentally stronger institution", while the committee is led by ex Fortescue chair and seems to have no one from the three universities themselves.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

When you realise how history will judge you

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay 🕊️🌈 ICC judge and chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory that last year found that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Phenomenal #glycotime by Meg Lunn-Halbert, Joel Allen and colleagues demonstrates through de novo protein design how steric hindrance controls N-glycan maturation ⬇️ doi.org/10.64898/202... Protein design with RFdiffusionAA coupled with glycosylation with GlycoShape 🧪

Spend way too much on AI, drop a huge pile of overhyped polished dog turd, leave the experts with all the real work. Every single time

Did you hear the one about the protein that grew up?

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Raising interest rates is a reverse wealth tax, taking money form the poor to protect the rich

I’d love to know how the RBA thinks raising Australian interest rates will pressure Trump into ending his war with Iran.

You know what will happen if you tell the plagiarising parrot your secrets

It's incredible how stupid someone can become if they're paid enough by coal and gas companies

Happy mushroom season!

Not long before this is three years old, and chatbots still cannot pass the unsolvable riddle test They will always be designed to spew out anything, because they're worthless to the companies if they were to ever be tuned to only give accurate or meaningful answers (they'd barely reply at all)

Did you know Australia uses the exact same private immigration detention operator as Trumps US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Management and Training Corporation (MTC). MTC won a $2.3 billion contract to manage Australia’s onshore immigration detention network

If governments actually wanted to reduce crime, this is precisely the sort of program that should be funded and expanded www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... Looking directly at you, "adult time adult crime" Crisafulli

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

All they do is dog whistle

⚠️ 🥳 check out our new pre-print led by the fantastic @sophiedschmidt.bsky.social: An in vivo chemical genetic approach for targeted glycoproteome analysis in Drosophila melanogaster: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We present FlyMOE, a strategy for targeted glycoprotein profiling in vivo.

"Labor's plan has some similarities to One Nation's migration policy" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... Labor, you can't beat One Nation by being politely racist

If there's one thing I've had reinforced by the last few days it's that the Australian government and most of the state governments are a long way behind where they need to be on the AI hype cycle. The demand isn't there and the economics are fanciful. It's gonna crash and they won't be ready.

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ed Sheeran cancelled Macklemore by kicking him off the tour over his support of Palestine. Within 48 hours, all of Sheeran’s support acts had cancelled him. This is how it’s done.

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🚨 Want to be part of top #glycotime on the seaside in the California sunshine? Register to the 2027 GRC Glycobiology ⬇️ Stacy and Lance put togteher up one of the most exciting programmes I have ever seen with phenomenal keynotes! We have 32 abstracts to select, so the next speaker could be YOU! 😎

I know this'll ruffle feathers but I agree with this Food/Water watch analysis. Diverting renewable energy away from fossil phase-out and climate adaptation and towards melting graphics card to power chatbots is the formal end of moral purpose for clean technology.

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...