Robert Insall

Winner winner arxiv.org/pdf/2610.27918 "AI disclosure. During the writing of this paper, we had several conversations with Claude, 55, owner of the neighborhood bar in Strasbourg. Unfortunately, none of them was of relevance to the topics of the paper."

youtube is just a whisker away from being so invasive with its ads that it gets completely blocked

Thrilled to have been awarded the 2026 Philip Leverhulme Prize! 🏆 Big thanks to all lab members and mentors through the years! Very excited to explore some new mitochondrial avenues with this award. 🥳🔬🧬 @leverhulme.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social

🦠Congratulations to Sebastian Knüsel, Mattias Benninger, @davidversluis.bsky.social, Robert Insall, Calvin Tiengwe, and Isabel Roditi on their latest publication in Molecular & Biochemical Parasitology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

There's stupid, and there's "superintelligence" stupid.

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Check out our newest issue where we interview @momedinamunoz.bsky.social, who studies the DNA, development, microbial diversity, and symbioses of cnidarians at the University of California Los Angeles. Read the full interview here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

What a lovely 3rd year class! #Cell0016

Great reporting from @robinbisson.bsky.social on an absolutely dire funding situation…

Very interesting paper. An old-fashioned concept - sadly now rare in biology - measure stuff accurately, and you can understand how it works... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Can we please stop doing this? I made a comic about it and everything!

You also used to be able to to block it by inserting the word "fucking" into every question you asked google, but they seem to have fixed that now

In our recent issue we interview Susana Coelho, who uses brown algae to study evolution, development, and life-cycle complexity at the Max Planck Institute for Biology. Read the Q&A to find out more about Susana’s most important scientific influences: www.cell.com/current-biol...

I get extraordinarily depressed by the standards of reasoning used in my field. Circular arguments everywhere. Bald statements that are plainly fallacious. Dominant active mutations used to prove something is "key". Knockouts of A used as evidence that A "controls" B. What to do? It's everywhere...

If apple doesn't announce foldable iphones, we shouldnt let that stop us from folding them

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Robert Insall on his recent appointment as Vice-Dean for Artificial Intelligence. This is a fantastic achievement and a testament to Robert's expertise, leadership, and commitment to advancing innovation in AI.

We are celebrating 25 years since opening our building in Dresden on January 22, 2001! #25yearsmpicbg www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Just in case anyone who follows me hasn't heard of Bobby Fingers, here's his latest masterpiece www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7...

Testing eclipse-cams in UCL @ibidicells.bsky.social - note high-level use of your technology, or at least the box it came in

The Barrios lab is seeking a Research Assistant to work on a project looking at how memories become behaviour. For details and to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL's Cell and Developmental Biology are hiring! Come and join us if you're interested in AI, computation and how they can lead to new biological discovery. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

In other news: Pope found to be practising Catholic shock horror... www.timeshighereducation.com/news/majorit...

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Please come and join us! Jobs for machine learning and mathy types!

Dear fellow researchers. I think we need to discuss this: www.newscientist.com/article/2532... While peer review is flawed, and while preprints are a great way to share data before publication, as a community we mustn’t trade rigour for hype. This paper was peer reviewed and rejected.

How do you track thousands of cells in complex systems, in 3D & over time? We are launching a Kaggle challenge to push the frontier of AI-powered cell tracking, building on advances like Ultrack & the DaXi lightsheet microscope from the @loicaroyer.bsky.social lab. bit.ly/4bfdzWE

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

As usual, Current Biology is by some way the most interesting table of contents to read among general biology journals. Chapeau.

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Didn't you listen to the man? He told you! "adjustment to clarify for presentation purposes"...

Reluctant to post too much about this but I did want to share my favourite finding from the dozens of manipulated or duplicated ThermoFisher verification blots. This one has a giant square. Enjoy!

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

PhD opportunity at UCL! Computational modelling of tumours, in medical physics. www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/...

"Please provide a justification for the foreign collaboration." Science.

Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.

Slightly unfortunate dedication in this book (at first glance) 😬

The @anthropic opus science skills in Claude are rendered, basically, completely useless by the overzealous guardrails. For a system that wants to persuade people it's smart, it's staggeringly dumb.