Matt Rich
@mattrich.bsky.social
Geneticist in Erik Jorgensen's lab @UUtah. Trying to turn worms into yeast. Also neuron maturation and giant ankyrin. PhD with Stan Fields @uwgenome. Princeton ‘09. (he/him)
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Mike Schultz is a piece of shit.
“Representation” = “eliminating the representation of Democratic voters.”
“Representation” = “eliminating the representation of Democratic voters.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Mike Schultz is a piece of shit.
“Representation” = “eliminating the representation of Democratic voters.”
“Representation” = “eliminating the representation of Democratic voters.”
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Public land grant universities with a mission to serve the residents of their respective states are the great economic equalizers. So of course Republicans and billionaires want to destroy them. 😖
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Public land grant universities with a mission to serve the residents of their respective states are the great economic equalizers. So of course Republicans and billionaires want to destroy them. 😖
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Everybody involved will need to go to prison and if democrats in congress don’t have the stomach for punishing these people they should just resign now.
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Everybody involved will need to go to prison and if democrats in congress don’t have the stomach for punishing these people they should just resign now.
kinda annoyed i don’t have an orange and black MOLECULAR BIOLOGY beanie tbh
November 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
kinda annoyed i don’t have an orange and black MOLECULAR BIOLOGY beanie tbh
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LET’S GO PHYSICS
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
LET’S GO PHYSICS
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Gemini doing green-red overlays and shit microscopy. Can't wait for the 2000s revival in papers
I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Gemini doing green-red overlays and shit microscopy. Can't wait for the 2000s revival in papers
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Whelp
I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Whelp
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Mooodsommar
I had to find out how cute this was. Turns out: incredibly cute and I needed to know this. I put some time into these alt-tags
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Mooodsommar
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The most important thing I've learned in 2025? Detroit is not a real place 😭😭😭
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November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The most important thing I've learned in 2025? Detroit is not a real place 😭😭😭
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.
What if the A.I. bubble “is an inevitable part of developing and adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity and growth?” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.
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*looks directly at camera*
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor
Is Trump dismantling the Education Department? Not yet. But changes are coming.
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor and parceling out other core job duties to other agencies. It's the most sweeping effort so f...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
*looks directly at camera*
The College Republicans have recruited a girl with a puppy and are now joking about how it’ll be hard for people to “call us fascists now”
Nah I still can. Fascist morons.
Nah I still can. Fascist morons.
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The College Republicans have recruited a girl with a puppy and are now joking about how it’ll be hard for people to “call us fascists now”
Nah I still can. Fascist morons.
Nah I still can. Fascist morons.
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pretty much
I have some non-negotiables (such as trans rights) but my number one issue in the next D primary is “will you actually fight back”
if any moderates are on the fight side of the fight/don’t fight axis now would be a good time to demonstrate it
I have some non-negotiables (such as trans rights) but my number one issue in the next D primary is “will you actually fight back”
if any moderates are on the fight side of the fight/don’t fight axis now would be a good time to demonstrate it
I would vote for a moderate if I thought they would end the filibuster, pack the court, and use every lever available to them to keep the GOP out of power. if the leftists are the ones promising that, I'll vote for them instead.
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
pretty much
I have some non-negotiables (such as trans rights) but my number one issue in the next D primary is “will you actually fight back”
if any moderates are on the fight side of the fight/don’t fight axis now would be a good time to demonstrate it
I have some non-negotiables (such as trans rights) but my number one issue in the next D primary is “will you actually fight back”
if any moderates are on the fight side of the fight/don’t fight axis now would be a good time to demonstrate it
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jfc nuzzi’s writing is inane dreck
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
jfc nuzzi’s writing is inane dreck
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One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
man making user interfaces is so hard
this was quite satisfying though
this was quite satisfying though
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
man making user interfaces is so hard
this was quite satisfying though
this was quite satisfying though
Guy on the bus is using his laptop with one hand while drinking his coffee out of a NORMAL MUG with the other hand. Didn’t spill a drop. What a legend.
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Guy on the bus is using his laptop with one hand while drinking his coffee out of a NORMAL MUG with the other hand. Didn’t spill a drop. What a legend.
I was Today Years-old when I realized that simply holding the cap of a glycerol stock cryotube for a few seconds loosens it up so you don’t like, sprain and freezer burn your hand trying to get it open.
to think of all the effort wasted unnecessarily!
to think of all the effort wasted unnecessarily!
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I was Today Years-old when I realized that simply holding the cap of a glycerol stock cryotube for a few seconds loosens it up so you don’t like, sprain and freezer burn your hand trying to get it open.
to think of all the effort wasted unnecessarily!
to think of all the effort wasted unnecessarily!
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Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/phil...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/phil...