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Nick Doiron
@mapmeld.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Plant-Based LLMs
mapmeld.com
Started setting up a table of "Plant-Based LLMs", meaning they're trained in part on plant genomes or proteomes mapmeld.com/plant-based-llms/
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Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Holy hell, what an obituary
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💥🧬 Why sequence ALL insect genomes?
Because insects run the planet. They pollinate our crops, recycle nutrients, build soils, drive food webs, and shape ecosystems on every continent. 🌍
Yet we’ve only scratched the surface of their genomic diversity.
#InsectBiotech #BiodiversityMatters #InsectLovers
Because insects run the planet. They pollinate our crops, recycle nutrients, build soils, drive food webs, and shape ecosystems on every continent. 🌍
Yet we’ve only scratched the surface of their genomic diversity.
#InsectBiotech #BiodiversityMatters #InsectLovers
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
💥🧬 Why sequence ALL insect genomes?
Because insects run the planet. They pollinate our crops, recycle nutrients, build soils, drive food webs, and shape ecosystems on every continent. 🌍
Yet we’ve only scratched the surface of their genomic diversity.
#InsectBiotech #BiodiversityMatters #InsectLovers
Because insects run the planet. They pollinate our crops, recycle nutrients, build soils, drive food webs, and shape ecosystems on every continent. 🌍
Yet we’ve only scratched the surface of their genomic diversity.
#InsectBiotech #BiodiversityMatters #InsectLovers
In 1900s Milwaukee, Melissa Russell committed multiple bizarre crimes to the point the newspaper says she's "well-known to many of our readers"
January 11, 2026 at 12:10 AM
In 1900s Milwaukee, Melissa Russell committed multiple bizarre crimes to the point the newspaper says she's "well-known to many of our readers"
Nuuk, Greenland, 2017 🇬🇱
January 9, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Nuuk, Greenland, 2017 🇬🇱
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Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating loss of their wife and mother.
gofund.me/9e987aead
gofund.me/9e987aead
Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss
Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son
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January 8, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating loss of their wife and mother.
gofund.me/9e987aead
gofund.me/9e987aead
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✨ Updated preprint ✨
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂
![Figure 1
Illustration of why AI systems cannot realistically scale to human cognition within the foreseeable future: (b) Human cognitive capacities (such as reasoning, communication, problem solving, learning, concept formation, planning etc.) can handle unbounded situations across many domains, ranging from simple to complex. (a) Engineers create AI systems using machine learning from human data. (d) In an attempt to approximate human cognition a lot of data is consumed. (c) Making AI systems that approximate human cognition is intractable (van Rooij, Guest, et al., 2024), i.e., the required resources (e.g. time, data) grows prohibitively fast as input domains get more complex, leading to diminishing returns. (a) Any existing AI system is
created in limited time (hours, months or years, not millennia or eons). Therefore, existing AI systems cannot realistically have the domain-general cognitive capacities that humans have. [Made with elements from freepik.com.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24ngrqljhck7hpvbgrg7a23k/bafkreie5dbxbxpaszqwfbgne6pi7kf26im6chq45olvzxyyrg7eitq6uue@jpeg)
January 6, 2026 at 5:41 PM
✨ Updated preprint ✨
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂
homemade Korean fried chicken =) www.thekitchn.com/korean-fried...
January 7, 2026 at 12:47 AM
homemade Korean fried chicken =) www.thekitchn.com/korean-fried...
Going from St Paul home to Chicago today on Amtrak 🚆 ❄️
Last NYE I was on a Florida » NYC train. Maybe it's a new tradition?
Last NYE I was on a Florida » NYC train. Maybe it's a new tradition?
December 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Going from St Paul home to Chicago today on Amtrak 🚆 ❄️
Last NYE I was on a Florida » NYC train. Maybe it's a new tradition?
Last NYE I was on a Florida » NYC train. Maybe it's a new tradition?
Adding to my southwest invasive species mini-docs, tumbleweed (Russian Thistle version)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnY...
Tumbleweed: the origins of Russian Thistle
YouTube video by LeafHack
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December 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Adding to my southwest invasive species mini-docs, tumbleweed (Russian Thistle version)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnY...
my thoughts are with whoever still has WinResearcher (very old Burmese encoding) to convert to Unicode 10 years later
December 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
my thoughts are with whoever still has WinResearcher (very old Burmese encoding) to convert to Unicode 10 years later
Reposted by Nick Doiron
🌱💼 #JobAlert: We’re Hiringa Climate Justice Fellow
Starting September 2026, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is seeking a fellow to support climate justice research, advocacy, policy work, resource development, and events—all advancing equity in climate law.
More Details: buff.ly/Jm3kdXz
Starting September 2026, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is seeking a fellow to support climate justice research, advocacy, policy work, resource development, and events—all advancing equity in climate law.
More Details: buff.ly/Jm3kdXz
December 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🌱💼 #JobAlert: We’re Hiringa Climate Justice Fellow
Starting September 2026, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is seeking a fellow to support climate justice research, advocacy, policy work, resource development, and events—all advancing equity in climate law.
More Details: buff.ly/Jm3kdXz
Starting September 2026, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is seeking a fellow to support climate justice research, advocacy, policy work, resource development, and events—all advancing equity in climate law.
More Details: buff.ly/Jm3kdXz
new Plant-Based LLM: plant-llms/PlantBiMoE
Kepeng Lin, Qizhe Zhang, Rui Wang, Xuehai Hu, Wei Xu: PlantBiMoE: A Bidirectional Foundation Model with SparseMoE for Plant Genomes https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07113 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07113 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07113
December 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
new Plant-Based LLM: plant-llms/PlantBiMoE
Reposted by Nick Doiron
🤖🌿 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🌿🤖
💻 Accelerating progress in plant science via AI-driven research 💻
Guest edited by Johannes Kromdijk & Zoran Nikoloski
📅 Deadline: 31 January 2026
📣 Got a manuscript? 👉 Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
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💻 Accelerating progress in plant science via AI-driven research 💻
Guest edited by Johannes Kromdijk & Zoran Nikoloski
📅 Deadline: 31 January 2026
📣 Got a manuscript? 👉 Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
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December 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🤖🌿 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🌿🤖
💻 Accelerating progress in plant science via AI-driven research 💻
Guest edited by Johannes Kromdijk & Zoran Nikoloski
📅 Deadline: 31 January 2026
📣 Got a manuscript? 👉 Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
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💻 Accelerating progress in plant science via AI-driven research 💻
Guest edited by Johannes Kromdijk & Zoran Nikoloski
📅 Deadline: 31 January 2026
📣 Got a manuscript? 👉 Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
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Went looking through old social media history and did NOT find what I wanted, but I did see this graph again
December 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Went looking through old social media history and did NOT find what I wanted, but I did see this graph again
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One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Reposted by Nick Doiron
Multimodal foundation transformer models for multiscale genomics
->Nature | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
->Nature | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
Multimodal foundation transformer models for multiscale genomics
Sapoval, N. et al. Current progress and open challenges for applying deep learning across the biosciences. Nat. Commun. 13, 1728 (2022). Alipanahi, B., Delong, A., Weirauch, M. T. & Frey, B. J. Predicting the sequence specificities of DNA- and RNA-binding...
www.nature.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Legit
PatchDNA: A Flexible and Biologically-Informed Alternative to Tokenization for DNA https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.28.691095v1
November 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Legit
the evil spider cactus 🙈
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
the evil spider cactus 🙈
Java rail network map includes Madura, where trains last ran in 1987. Half was dismantled by the Japanese in the 40s. They also show a branch in SW Java which was shut down in the early 50s.
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Java rail network map includes Madura, where trains last ran in 1987. Half was dismantled by the Japanese in the 40s. They also show a branch in SW Java which was shut down in the early 50s.
Meanwhile Cassandra Ong is free and last seen in Japan?
Ex-Philippine mayor Alice Guo given life sentence for human trafficking reut.rs/3JUt2kJ
Ex-Philippine mayor Alice Guo given life sentence for human trafficking
A Philippine trial court has sentenced a former mayor accused of having ties to Chinese criminal syndicates to life imprisonment after finding her guilty of human trafficking, a government anti-crime agency said on Thursday.
reut.rs
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Meanwhile Cassandra Ong is free and last seen in Japan?
From Johns Hopkins researchers: "Genomic Next-Token Predictors are In-Context Learners"
Nathan Breslow, Aayush Mishra, Mahler Revsine, Michael C. Schatz, Anqi Liu, Daniel Khashabi: Genomic Next-Token Predictors are In-Context Learners https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12797 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.12797 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.12797
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
From Johns Hopkins researchers: "Genomic Next-Token Predictors are In-Context Learners"
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Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...
New Chicago Review of Architecture wants younger voices weighing in on the city’s built environment
An offshoot of the New York Review of Architecture, the magazine will feature “erudite, humorous and hyperlocal writing.”
www.chicagotribune.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...
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🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨
For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...
For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨
For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...
For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...
Why New Mexico released a hundred African oryx into the desert. What could go wrong? youtu.be/cZEG22uvW9Q
The dream to fill the desert with imported animals
YouTube video by LeafHack
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Why New Mexico released a hundred African oryx into the desert. What could go wrong? youtu.be/cZEG22uvW9Q
Reposted by Nick Doiron
BKC is hiring a new set of fellows! cyber.harvard.edu/page/open-ca...
Open Call for Fellowship Applications, 2026 and 2026-2027
Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcomes applications for its 2026 and 2026-2027 fellowships.
cyber.harvard.edu
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
BKC is hiring a new set of fellows! cyber.harvard.edu/page/open-ca...