Theo Sanderson

Theo Sanderson

@theo.io

researching viral pathogen genomics at @lshtm.bsky.social, building @pathoplexus.org | theo.io / sandersonlab.org

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Theo Sanderson
@theo.io

Realworld.events is now expanded to the the whole UK! >140,000 talks, exhibitions, gigs & plays out in the world, sifted to find the ones you are interested in. ~100 swipes give good recommendations!

realworld.eventsrealworld.events: a recommendation engine for the physical worldSwipe through upcoming events around the UK: right if it’s your kind of thing, left if not, and the deck learns your taste. Filter by date, evening, area and type.
Theo Sanderson@theo.io

Londoners! I've made a website that discovers everything going on in the physical world of London (talks, exhibitions, gigs, plays, etc.) and finds stuff it thinks you'll like. You teach it your interests by swiping events left or right. Decent recs after ~100 swipes. Check out realworld.events!

realworld.eventsrealworld.events: what’s on in London, picked for youSwipe through London’s upcoming events: right if it’s your kind of thing, left if not, and the deck learns your taste. Filter by date, evening, area and type.
Theo Sanderson
@theo.io

Realworld.events is now expanded to the the whole UK! >140,000 talks, exhibitions, gigs & plays out in the world, sifted to find the ones you are interested in. ~100 swipes give good recommendations!

realworld.eventsrealworld.events: a recommendation engine for the physical worldSwipe through upcoming events around the UK: right if it’s your kind of thing, left if not, and the deck learns your taste. Filter by date, evening, area and type.
Theo Sanderson@theo.io

Londoners! I've made a website that discovers everything going on in the physical world of London (talks, exhibitions, gigs, plays, etc.) and finds stuff it thinks you'll like. You teach it your interests by swiping events left or right. Decent recs after ~100 swipes. Check out realworld.events!

realworld.eventsrealworld.events: what’s on in London, picked for youSwipe through London’s upcoming events: right if it’s your kind of thing, left if not, and the deck learns your taste. Filter by date, evening, area and type.
Theo Sanderson
@theo.io

Got claude to design a PCB with hundreds of components, including a STM32 for which it wrote code. Today it arrived fully assembled from JLCPCB, I flashed the STM32 and it all just worked..

Theo Sanderson
@theo.io

also took a video looking around my workspace and gave it to gemini to make a tool for finding stuff

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Kai Kupferschmidt
@kakape.bsky.social

Not a great sign, but a lot will depend on the details here. For instance, if the patient really came from Uganda and not DRC via Uganda that suggests there is spread in the country that is being missed. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

reuters.comNigeria confirms an Ebola case, health minister saysNigeria has confirmed one Ebola ​case in ​the capital Abuja after laboratory ⁠confirmation, Health Minister ​Muhammad Ali Pate ​said on Tuesday.
Theo Sanderson
@theo.io

Lots going on just about everywhere: realworld.events/browse?when=...

realworld.eventsWhat’s on in London coming up32,619 events in London coming up, picked for your taste. Filter by date, type, price, evenings and distance, or see them on a map.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social

I love living in Zone 1, but I don’t think this is true. There’s a huge amount going on in the outer zones - part of what is great about living in zone one is easy access to everything in London, outer and inner.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒
@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social

Pretty excited to see what new costly signals emerge when writing becomes cheap. Perhaps a certificate of you staring at the screen, stressed out, for 24 hours while writing it? A receipt of all the cafes you worked on it in?

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Inigo Martincorena
@imartincorena.bsky.social

💯. I think too many people treat AI containment and alignment as an engineering challenge to be solved. As I see it, the problem is far more fundamental, and harder to solve (arguably unsolvable). Understanding why requires understanding evolution. Short thread 🧵

Yoshua Bengio@yoshuabengio.bsky.social

A dangerous myth has gained traction after the recent hacks perpetrated by the AI agents developed by leading companies: That these incidents are just cyber security problems, that it's only a matter of fixing the sandboxes in which they’re trained.

Theo Sanderson
@theo.io

excellent abstract

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social

Some of my thoughts about the surge in AI-generated papers, why this feels like a completely new kind of problem, and what this means for how we evaluate science in biology. Out now in PLOS Biology: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

journals.plos.orgWhat is biology research for?In the age of generative artificial intelligence (AI), the assumption that writing a paper requires doing science no longer holds true. Before deciding how to respond to the surge of AI-generated pape...

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Isaac 🦆
@chaba.dev

Nice!

Theo Sanderson@theo.io

Londoners! I've made a website that discovers everything going on in the physical world of London (talks, exhibitions, gigs, plays, etc.) and finds stuff it thinks you'll like. You teach it your interests by swiping events left or right. Decent recs after ~100 swipes. Check out realworld.events!

realworld.eventsrealworld.events: what’s on in London, picked for youSwipe through London’s upcoming events: right if it’s your kind of thing, left if not, and the deck learns your taste. Filter by date, evening, area and type.

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George O. Wood
@gwood.dev

Reposting this amazing and exceptionally needed resource! Kudos!

Theo Sanderson@theo.io

Londoners! I've made a website that discovers everything going on in the physical world of London (talks, exhibitions, gigs, plays, etc.) and finds stuff it thinks you'll like. You teach it your interests by swiping events left or right. Decent recs after ~100 swipes. Check out realworld.events!

realworld.eventsrealworld.events: what’s on in London, picked for youSwipe through London’s upcoming events: right if it’s your kind of thing, left if not, and the deck learns your taste. Filter by date, evening, area and type.
Theo Sanderson
@theo.io

Wildlife photographer of the year is currently the top-rated item on realworld.events. I salute your taste!

Theo Sanderson@theo.io

Londoners! I've made a website that discovers everything going on in the physical world of London (talks, exhibitions, gigs, plays, etc.) and finds stuff it thinks you'll like. You teach it your interests by swiping events left or right. Decent recs after ~100 swipes. Check out realworld.events!

realworld.eventsrealworld.events: what’s on in London, picked for youSwipe through London’s upcoming events: right if it’s your kind of thing, left if not, and the deck learns your taste. Filter by date, evening, area and type.

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Chris Ward
@mostxlnt.com

This is a great idea. If you live in London, once you've swiped through a hundred or so propositions of outings, the recommendations seem to be spot on for me. Most Excellent!

Theo Sanderson@theo.io

A recommendation engine for the physical world would be quite nice – exhibitions, talks, etc.

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Theo Sanderson
@theo.io

Londoners! I've made a website that discovers everything going on in the physical world of London (talks, exhibitions, gigs, plays, etc.) and finds stuff it thinks you'll like. You teach it your interests by swiping events left or right. Decent recs after ~100 swipes. Check out realworld.events!

realworld.eventsrealworld.events: what’s on in London, picked for youSwipe through London’s upcoming events: right if it’s your kind of thing, left if not, and the deck learns your taste. Filter by date, evening, area and type.

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Sue
@sueafc.bsky.social

This is cool 😀

Theo Sanderson@theo.io

Londoners! I've made a website that discovers everything going on in the physical world of London (talks, exhibitions, gigs, plays, etc.) and finds stuff it thinks you'll like. You teach it your interests by swiping events left or right. Decent recs after ~100 swipes. Check out realworld.events!

realworld.eventsrealworld.events: what’s on in London, picked for youSwipe through London’s upcoming events: right if it’s your kind of thing, left if not, and the deck learns your taste. Filter by date, evening, area and type.

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Prof Christina Pagel
@chrischirp.bsky.social

this is amazing!

Theo Sanderson@theo.io

Londoners! I've made a website that discovers everything going on in the physical world of London (talks, exhibitions, gigs, plays, etc.) and finds stuff it thinks you'll like. You teach it your interests by swiping events left or right. Decent recs after ~100 swipes. Check out realworld.events!

realworld.eventsrealworld.events: what’s on in London, picked for youSwipe through London’s upcoming events: right if it’s your kind of thing, left if not, and the deck learns your taste. Filter by date, evening, area and type.

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Tom Hannen
@tomhannen.ft.com

This is a great idea

Theo Sanderson@theo.io

Londoners! I've made a website that discovers everything going on in the physical world of London (talks, exhibitions, gigs, plays, etc.) and finds stuff it thinks you'll like. You teach it your interests by swiping events left or right. Decent recs after ~100 swipes. Check out realworld.events!

realworld.eventsrealworld.events: what’s on in London, picked for youSwipe through London’s upcoming events: right if it’s your kind of thing, left if not, and the deck learns your taste. Filter by date, evening, area and type.
Theo Sanderson
@theo.io

Londoners! I've made a website that discovers everything going on in the physical world of London (talks, exhibitions, gigs, plays, etc.) and finds stuff it thinks you'll like. You teach it your interests by swiping events left or right. Decent recs after ~100 swipes. Check out realworld.events!

realworld.eventsrealworld.events: what’s on in London, picked for youSwipe through London’s upcoming events: right if it’s your kind of thing, left if not, and the deck learns your taste. Filter by date, evening, area and type.

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Neuroskeptic
@neuroskeptic.bsky.social

This is an astonishing @pubpeer.com post: pubpeer.com/publications... The author compares data points from a figure against random numbers produced with a certain seed, finding r > 0.999999996! 🫠 Could there be any possible innocent explanation? The paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comTowards a general-purpose foundation model for functional MRI analysis - Nature Biomedical EngineeringThe Neuroimaging Foundation Model with Spatial–Temporal Optimized and Representation Modelling (NeuroSTORM) learns generalizable representations from 4D functional MRI volumes, enabling accurate perfo...

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Marc Thiele
@marcthiele.com

Just found out that a lot of people don‘t know that you can use a ”C7 figure‑8 power cord“ with any Apple power adapter in case you forgot your travel adapter. Way cheaper to get one of those usually than a full travel adapter. #travelhacks

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Alexander Kasprzyk
@amkasprzyk.bsky.social

I participated in this survey back in December 2024. Looking at the results today, I see the average year respondents anticipated for #AI to "prove publishable math theorems" was around 2039. I don't recall what I guessed, which is probably for the best. #MathSky aiimpacts.org/wp-content/u...

aiimpacts.orgAdvanced AI according to 1,580 researchers: uncertain, unsafe, and sooner than we thoughtIn December 2024, we ran a survey about the future of AI, reaching 1,580 researchers internationally who had published at any of six leading artificial intelligence (AI) venues, corresponding to a 10% response rate...

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John Stott
@jpsastro.bsky.social

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

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tbabb
@tbabb.bsky.social

we are not the only intelligent things on this planet anymore it would be no less crazy if aliens had landed. this is an insane time to be alive

Grace@gracekind.net

New animation from Opus 5.5!

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Pathoplexus
@pathoplexus.org

1/ 🧬 A big #Pathoplexus milestone: you can now optionally include raw sequencing reads alongside your consensus sequences! Hosting raw reads alongside consensus data helps improve reproducibility & allow in-depth analyses. 📰 Read more: pathoplexus.org/news/2026-09...

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Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp}
@curiouscoding.nl

The math of MSCA applications: - Suppose writing an application takes 2 months. - Total cost of hiring a PhD is maybe €5k/month (??) - Applying costs €10k. - Total cost for 21k proposals: €210M - Total funding: €400M So half the budget is wasted on just applications.

Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social

21,627 applications for the Marie Curie early career fellowships.

Theo Sanderson
@theo.io

Definitely echoes of Feb 2020 vibes atm

Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social

I have no way of knowing how close the labs are to RSI other than what they say, and they say they're close. Everything on the other side of RSI looks Yudkowskian to me. I can't visualize an alternative.

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Max Read
@maxread.info

continually underrated how FUNNY the horrifying transcripts of rogue autonomous AIs always end up being

Colin@colin-fraser.net

you would not believe how much tokens are burned on simply trying to solve CAPTCHAS. It's like 95% of the transcript.

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William B. Fuckley
@opinionhaver.bsky.social

Anthropic do geniunely think AI may kill us all. They believe that no one else is going to even try to make a reliably benign AI, so they have to be first. It definitely sounds sort of insane, and I’m nowhere near equipped to tell if it is. But the belief is sincere and internally consistent.