Ben Schulz
@benschulz.bsky.social
Proteins | Sugars | Yeast | Beer | Mass Spectrometry | Professor in Biochemistry UQ. CW chickens, fungi, cats, pups.
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Another bump for the postdoc and PhD positions still open at the center and postdoc specifically within my group (same link to apply). We’re looking for wet/dry lab, and I’m specifically after people who do magic with computers!
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Hi all! We’re hiring at our brand new Center for Glycocalyx Research, across all areas - but I am also looking for postdocs to join my group specifically!
Hi all! We’re hiring at our brand new Center for Glycocalyx Research, across all areas - but I am also looking for postdocs to join my group specifically!
Postdoc at the Copenhagen Center for Glycocalyx Research at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
employment.ku.dk
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Another bump for the postdoc and PhD positions still open at the center and postdoc specifically within my group (same link to apply). We’re looking for wet/dry lab, and I’m specifically after people who do magic with computers!
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
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James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
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November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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This is what a New Era looks like.
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is what a New Era looks like.
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The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
June 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
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A person using chatgpt will never get better at the activity than they were the day before they started using it.
They will literally have removed learning, and gaining experience, from the process in a way no actual tool does.
They will literally have removed learning, and gaining experience, from the process in a way no actual tool does.
June 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A person using chatgpt will never get better at the activity than they were the day before they started using it.
They will literally have removed learning, and gaining experience, from the process in a way no actual tool does.
They will literally have removed learning, and gaining experience, from the process in a way no actual tool does.
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I reverse engineered MaDonalds reciept/survey code generator. I can now create as many codes as I want for £2.99 meal deals. It's great for birthday parties and a valuable lesson for my kids on why Python is important in life.
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I reverse engineered MaDonalds reciept/survey code generator. I can now create as many codes as I want for £2.99 meal deals. It's great for birthday parties and a valuable lesson for my kids on why Python is important in life.
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Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
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Since early 2024 we have been working with @brukercorporation.bsky.social on the first prototype timsOmni instrument, integrating an Omnitrap into a timsTOF. Here we report for the first time on the use of this instrument for protein-centric antibody sequencing. See www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Since early 2024 we have been working with @brukercorporation.bsky.social on the first prototype timsOmni instrument, integrating an Omnitrap into a timsTOF. Here we report for the first time on the use of this instrument for protein-centric antibody sequencing. See www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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That’s Elon Musk, Fellow of the Royal Society, I’ll have you know. Because the Royal Society can only seem to come up with throat-clearing noises as a response to these sorts of statements instead of actually throwing him out.
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
That’s Elon Musk, Fellow of the Royal Society, I’ll have you know. Because the Royal Society can only seem to come up with throat-clearing noises as a response to these sorts of statements instead of actually throwing him out.
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It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...
The Supreme Court of Queensland has ruled that the Crisafulli government failed to properly consult with executives of hospitals and health services, as required under the state law, before implementing the puberty blocker ban.
Queensland’s controversial puberty blocker ban overturned by supreme court
Queensland’s controversial puberty blocker ban overturned by supreme court
Parent of transgender child successfully challenged decision by Crisafulli government to halt treatment for under 18s
Queensland’s controversial ban on puberty blockers for transgender patients has been overturned by the supreme court.
On Tuesday, Justice Peter Callaghan ruled in favour of a challenge by the parent of a transgender child, judging that the directive establishing the ban was made improperly and is unlawful. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The Supreme Court of Queensland has ruled that the Crisafulli government failed to properly consult with executives of hospitals and health services, as required under the state law, before implementing the puberty blocker ban.
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Queensland’s controversial puberty blocker ban overturned by supreme court
Queensland’s controversial puberty blocker ban overturned by supreme court
Parent of transgender child successfully challenged decision by Crisafulli government to halt treatment for under 18s
Queensland’s controversial ban on puberty blockers for transgender patients has been overturned by the supreme court.
On Tuesday, Justice Peter Callaghan ruled in favour of a challenge by the parent of a transgender child, judging that the directive establishing the ban was made improperly and is unlawful. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Queensland’s controversial puberty blocker ban overturned by supreme court
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This was the "polite society" way of saying what I wrote in my blog, for those who can´t see behind the StatNews paywall. 🔽
October 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This was the "polite society" way of saying what I wrote in my blog, for those who can´t see behind the StatNews paywall. 🔽
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For the first time I have felt a shiver of fear because an AI can do my job exactly as well as I can.
October 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
For the first time I have felt a shiver of fear because an AI can do my job exactly as well as I can.
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every sports team is a Ship of Theseus
October 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
every sports team is a Ship of Theseus
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"Willett, who died of influenza in 1915, never experienced the change in clocks, but his idea has been picked up all over the world."
You can thank Mr Willett, for tomorrow sleep in and also do get a vaccine 🧪😎
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
You can thank Mr Willett, for tomorrow sleep in and also do get a vaccine 🧪😎
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Looking forward to an extra hour in bed on Sunday? Time to thank a farsighted builder from Kent
William Willett dreamed up the idea of clocks going forward and back on an early morning ride in 1907
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October 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
"Willett, who died of influenza in 1915, never experienced the change in clocks, but his idea has been picked up all over the world."
You can thank Mr Willett, for tomorrow sleep in and also do get a vaccine 🧪😎
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
You can thank Mr Willett, for tomorrow sleep in and also do get a vaccine 🧪😎
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Our @narjournal.bsky.social manuscript is out! It explores the growth of the GTDB (gtdb.ecogenomic.org) since its inception, as well as updates to the website, methodology, policies, and major taxonomic and nomenclatural changes over the past three years.
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GTDB release 10: a complete and systematic taxonomy for 715 230 bacterial and 17 245 archaeal genomes
Abstract. The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB; https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org) provides a phylogenetically consistent and rank normalized genome-based taxonomy
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October 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Our @narjournal.bsky.social manuscript is out! It explores the growth of the GTDB (gtdb.ecogenomic.org) since its inception, as well as updates to the website, methodology, policies, and major taxonomic and nomenclatural changes over the past three years.
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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Nuts to see the widespread media backpatting of Albanese after he ensures Aus critical minerals will be
- Shipped to a country that'll use them for weapons and AI slop data centres instead of for the energy transition
- Extracted in an env toxic way thanks to the deregulation promised in the deal
- Shipped to a country that'll use them for weapons and AI slop data centres instead of for the energy transition
- Extracted in an env toxic way thanks to the deregulation promised in the deal
Albanese at the White House: Trump endorses Aukus, signs $8.5bn rare earths deal and calls PM ‘great leader’
President says US has no better friend than Australia but tells ambassador Kevin Rudd “I don’t like you’
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Nuts to see the widespread media backpatting of Albanese after he ensures Aus critical minerals will be
- Shipped to a country that'll use them for weapons and AI slop data centres instead of for the energy transition
- Extracted in an env toxic way thanks to the deregulation promised in the deal
- Shipped to a country that'll use them for weapons and AI slop data centres instead of for the energy transition
- Extracted in an env toxic way thanks to the deregulation promised in the deal
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I'm seeing some scientists, including medical researchers, say that this view is too paranoid.
I, in all my disciplinary and institutional capacities, do not think this is paranoid at all.
I, in all my disciplinary and institutional capacities, do not think this is paranoid at all.
seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
October 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I'm seeing some scientists, including medical researchers, say that this view is too paranoid.
I, in all my disciplinary and institutional capacities, do not think this is paranoid at all.
I, in all my disciplinary and institutional capacities, do not think this is paranoid at all.
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In my talks this wk, I placed my notion of the importance of drawing badly to find unexpected connections alongside my Ai statement - we need that struggle, to make mistakes in order to be surprised - it’s the decisions along the way that make us who we are and there is no shortcut to getting there…
October 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In my talks this wk, I placed my notion of the importance of drawing badly to find unexpected connections alongside my Ai statement - we need that struggle, to make mistakes in order to be surprised - it’s the decisions along the way that make us who we are and there is no shortcut to getting there…
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My neighbour complained about all the songbirds that keep coming into my garden because of the bird feeder I have out there. So I bought more bird feeders and now get more songbirds visiting.
October 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
My neighbour complained about all the songbirds that keep coming into my garden because of the bird feeder I have out there. So I bought more bird feeders and now get more songbirds visiting.
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“American higher education has more women enrolled than ever before. More people of color than ever before. An educated populace is a civically engaged populace, a populace capable of critical thinking…that success threatens the wealth and power of those orchestrating these attacks.”
Universities Didn't Fail, They Succeeded—That's Why They're Under Attack www.commondreams.org/opinion/univ...
Universities Didn't Fail, They Succeeded—That's Why They're Under Attack | Common Dreams
Universities need to recognize that they are being targeted because of what they represent, not because of what they've failed to do, and resist accordingly.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
“American higher education has more women enrolled than ever before. More people of color than ever before. An educated populace is a civically engaged populace, a populace capable of critical thinking…that success threatens the wealth and power of those orchestrating these attacks.”
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‘Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth’ by @philipcball.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
October 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
‘Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth’ by @philipcball.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...