Staff scientist having fun with DNA seq and bioinformatics at #AlbertsenLAB. 🦋@kirk3gaard.bsky.social. COI : I am a @nanopore shareholder.
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Want @nanopore data for benchmarking microbe related stuff? Check our collection of data for pure cultures, @ZymoResearch mocks and complex metagenomes ( github.com/Kirk3gaard/MicroB…). Basecalled reads with methylation is in @ENASequence. Eventually the pod5s might go there as well.
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Great to see this moving along. Matt Loose has been a long term user-developer of Nanopore innovation. Back in 2012-2013 the idea of Adaptive Sampling (then called ‘Read Until’) occurred to me probably on the long commute between Cambridge and Oxford. I pulled the MinKNOW software tech leaders into my office, all 2 of them, and told them to drop everything and work on this, I was excited. We also provided an API for developers, the only way we could productize a feature like that, and it was exploited from day1 by Matt. Ewan Birney subsequently coined the name ‘Adaptive Sampling’. Now, many years later Matt and colleagues from the NHS have an in situ ultra rapid cancer test/monitor that may improve outcomes. These things can take a long time and a lot of people. Never give up.
NHS pilots rapid genomic test to transform brain tumour diagnosis and treatment, experts say
news.sky.com/story/nhs-pilot…
Hope @Tesla starts using the fleet to report debris, pot holes etc to the relevant government agency in @teslaeurope. But right now I just appreciate @Tesla_AI navigating smoothly around it 🚗⚡🤖
Another day with @voltalabsinc preps for the @nanopore P24 🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉🚀
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Thrilled that #paper2agent is published in @nature today!
Scientific knowledge is traditionally stored in passive papers. Paper2Agent transforms papers into virtual authors that answer questions, apply its methods and collaborate w/ other paper agents to make new discoveries 🧵
Hey @fdmdk kan vi snart se et lignende udspil i Danmark? @ilyasdogru @IDAdk @TrygDK @OfficialAlka @GjensidigeDK @codanf
Australian Insurance provider @Zurich is now offering cheaper insurance for Teslas with FSD (Supervised) activated — an Australian first 🇦🇺
Zurich says Tesla data shows FSD-equipped cars have 7x fewer major or minor collisions than regular EVs.
118 pipette tips for prepping 24 @nanopore ligation preps with full walkaway automation🤯🤯🤯. Thanks to the amazing @voltalabsinc team and their Callisto robot 🤖⚡
youtu.be/LSrcBHd3l18?is=D4q6…
Great combo of @voltalabsinc callisto and @nanopore P24 🎉🧬🚀 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
Was blown away 🤯 @Tesla FSD politeness level 💯. Improving traffic flow on top of safety +convenience 🎉
Rasmus Kirkegaard retweeted
This is legitimately terrible for OpenAI --- but also Anthropic --- and it relates to their work in drug discovery.
I read this as: prompts will be monitored and potentially acted on if we think there’s something scientifically and/or commercially valuable being disclosed.
Now, the big problem for Anthropic is that they are increasingly seen to be competing with their customers. Outside of SF, many people also think of OpenAI/ChatGPT and Anthropic/Claude as somewhat interchangeable companies and products --- aka, if OpenAI do something, surely Anthropic will do it too?
As so much IP relates to drug targets and people disclose these to Claude, I think we will see a lot of pharma companies stop using these tools or put up a lot of internal guardrails.
wtf is this way to handle mathematicians work and scientific communication
TLDR: Leven and Tristan worked over several months on one of the Millenium Prize Problems with various AIs to reach final interesting results. OpenAI apparently heard about it in the last days and prompted their latest models to work on the direction Leven and Tristan found fruitful. They then tried to push for controlling communication of the result and dropping Leven from authorship with some very bad taste social pressure.
Hope this is not a glimpse of the future we’ll get in science research with these dominating players playing marketing games hurtful for the real scientific community.
Someone giving this a pipette and @nanopore minion?
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Today, we're kicking off the first phase of the research preview for Model Hardware Standard (MHS): a new standard for AI agents to safely operate physical equipment in scientific research and advanced manufacturing.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/model-har…
The wait is over! 🚀 The highly anticipated INDX for the Prusa CORE One L/+ is here. 🧡 Orders are now open! Turn your CORE One L/+ into the most efficient multi-material 3D printing machine on the market. Discover what makes INDX so special: prusa3d.com/product/prusa-co…
Servus, München! 🇩🇪 We’re bringing the Waymo Driver to Germany. Over the coming weeks, our vehicles will arrive in Munich to begin laying the groundwork to launch our fully autonomous ride-hailing service in late 2027!
Read more: waymo.com/blog/2026/08/waymo…
Starting today, we’re shipping the first Bondtech INDX units for the CORE One+ to their new owners. Thank you so much for your patience - we can’t wait to see what you create with it. Be sure to share your prints with us! Happy printing! 🧡
Roads will be much safer when tourists do not have to practise driving in the left side of the road
On this my twelfth circumnavigation of Australia since 2018 in an EV, I covered 13,285km in a Tesla Model YL in 10 days (227 hours) in June/July 2026.
An entire continent has been encircled using @Tesla @TeslaAUNZ @Tesla_AI Full Self Driving (Supervised) V14.3.3 with 100% (car verified) usage.
