Max Renner

My theory is that the goal is to have AI become so entrenched in every aspect of society that there will be a good case for public bailouts when the bubble pops

The enshittification of science is progressing well, I see.

From the comments under this post, the public vote seems quite clear...

Co-founder of OpenAI...

Back in the streets this afternoon. Peaceful protest and infinite sadness for the victims of the far-right racist attack in Trappes yesterday

We need to chop down the forests as fast as possible, so we can quickly build more data centers, so AI can scale into AGI, which will solve climate change. Somehow.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

I’m very excited to share the first big project from my PhD (my first proper-first, yay!) where we use cryoET and a fun new flavour of CLEM to study the re-organisation of photosynthetic machinery of cyanobacteria growing beyond the red limit of light. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Most Americans say AI is bad for society and oppose new data centers abcnews.com/Politics/ame...

More applications AND less funding - what a combination...

Cripes. The ERC StG success rate is expected at around 5% this year: 373 grants for 7710 applications. Research strategies across the EU are shaped around securing ERC grants. But with such low odds, aligning national or institutional priorities with ERC objectives becomes a deeply flawed strategy.

Go Netherlands! This is a well-deserved cryo-reboot for a country that has so many outstanding scientists using cryo-EM.

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

With climate change, it’s a matter of time before mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they cause are everywhere.

Timely new paper in @socioeconreview.bsky.social: Does rising wealth concentration undermine American democracy? Using variation across the 50 U.S. states, results reveal a clear, negative effect of millionaire wealth concentration on democratic performance. doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag058

Looking at you, AI

Congratulations to the four Umeå University-led projects funded in this call! www.umu.se/en/news/four...

Great thread 👀

Tenure track assistant/associate professor positions open in my university. Within life sciences, INCLUDING PLANT SCIENCES. Please RT jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Nikon Small World does the right thing

‘If AI doesn’t deliver on its promise then we face a double blow to growth: because AI didn’t expand our productive capacity as hoped, and because other investments which might have didn’t take place.’ www.ft.com/content/bf40...

Now published in Science Advances @science.org Herpes simplex virus has a single protein that completely silences neuronal activity by removing ion channels from the cell surface 🧠🤫⚡ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Bluetorial of the preprint 👇

Das Volk der Richter und Henker

Umeå can be so serene in early autumn. And yes, that is a giant clothespeg.

Most people are underreacting to this El Niño.

We were told at the start of the year that MRC funding boards had been told to recommend far fewer grants for funding than normal It took a while for the data to come through, but they confirm success rates were down by a big margin The question is now whether the new MRC model will reverse that

Although the narrative is shifting to highlight the "increasing share of deaths" attributable to non-communicable diseases, note that "despite the global decline, 7 of the top 10 causes of death in 2023 in low-income countries were communicable diseases". www.who.int/news-room/fa...

Added a couple of things to coot1-trimmings: * Option to set default model/map appearance to mimic Coot 0.9.x * Metal helper to semi-automatically make links for the current ion * Slider to interactively set map brightness (demos of brightness slider & metal helper in subsequent posts)

Well done, Sweden!

Requiring scientists to be political neutral is to require scientists to shut up when the facts are inconvenient.

United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."

This further highlights the risks of using tools that were created by companies who were, well, "not very selective" with how they sourced the information required to develop their models. It is becoming increasingly unlikely that users of these tools are being treated any differently.

🎉 Out today in Cell: the paper I've been looking forward to sharing for a long time 🎉 We used cryo-ET to find a molecular machine nobody knew existed on the surface of a minimal bacterium, and worked out what it does. 🧵(1/7) #TeamTomo #cryoET

I think I'm going to lose it being lectured on microscopy image presentation integrity by the winner of the Small Artificial World in Motion competition

Insane in the #MemBrain 🤖🧠 #TeamTomo 🧪

thrilled to share that my main phd project is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com we present high-resolution structures of RyR1 in native membranes across multiple functional states by both cryo-ET/StA #TeamTomo and SPA! paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... and a thread below⬇️⬇️⬇️

Perhaps someone can write a community-signed letter (without using gen AI 🤪) to raise these issues more formally? I would sign it, but don’t have time to write it. I agree we shouldn’t let this pass. Whoever is interested — Please feel free to use some of these points: bsky.app/profile/cell...

Last week, our PhD student Joanne and I attended HCV-Flavi in Copenhagen ...and so did the lab of our alumna Selma Dahmane! Photo of Carlson+Dahmane attendees on the last evening, at Tivoli Gardens. Great time!

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

🚨New paper!🚨 Delighted to have played a small part in this study from Jason Botten's lab (and unusually for us, not on a respiratory virus) on a global map of the Zika virus phosphoproteome

Excited to share that our norovirus NS3 study is now online in Nature Communications! 🎉 These enzymes, found across an entire order of RNA viruses, have long been molecular motors in search of a function. We think we’ve uncovered their role. (🧵) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #virology #cryoEM