Ioannis Theodorou

Interested on #morphogenesis of #plants and #macroalgae through an #evodevo, #cellbiology #cellpatterning prism.

[Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) @UmeaPlantSci]

VACANCY - Are you expert in wood biology and would like to join a great environment for this type of research as a group leader?

Join us @UmeaPlantSci & @_SLU as principal investigator!

Read more here👇:
https://t.co/k5GoqtUbsI

#PlantSciJob #plantscience #hiring

[Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) @UmeaPlantSci]

📢Are you looking to continue as postdoc in academia and want to shape your future postdoctoral project?

Apply for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists and present your research @UmeaPlantSci in March 2025!

Read more:
https://t.co/cSASa30hW1

📅Deadline: 7 Jan

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

NotebookLM is quite powerful and worth playing with
https://t.co/EMHIjc15iU

It is a bit of a re-imagination of the UIUX of working with LLMs organized around a collection of sources you upload and then refer to with queries, seeing results alongside and with citations.

But the current most new/impressive feature (that is surprisingly hidden almost as an afterthought) is the ability to generate a 2-person podcast episode based on any content you upload. For example someone took my "bitcoin from scratch" post from a long time ago:
https://t.co/7ajZNZ0BGi
and converted it to podcast, quite impressive:
https://t.co/ZZn0LJgsnu

You can podcastify *anything*. I give it train_gpt2.c (C code that trains GPT-2):
https://t.co/gDrAqix4Iv
and made a podcast about that:
https://t.co/bgcwmQr5d7
I don't know if I'd exactly agree with the framing of the conversation and the emphasis or the descriptions of layernorm and matmul etc but there's hints of greatness here and in any case it's highly entertaining.

Imo LLM capability (IQ, but also memory (context length), multimodal, etc.) is getting way ahead of the UIUX of packaging it into products. Think Code Interpreter, Claude Artifacts, Cursor/Replit, NotebookLM, etc. I expect (and look forward to) a lot more and different paradigms of interaction than just chat.

That's what I think is ultimately so compelling about the 2-person podcast format as a UIUX exploration. It lifts two major "barriers to enjoyment" of LLMs. 1 Chat is hard. You don't know what to say or ask. In the 2-person podcast format, the question asking is also delegated to an AI so you get a lot more chill experience instead of being a synchronous constraint in the generating process. 2 Reading is hard and it's much easier to just lean back and listen.

[Cheshire @Thatsregrettab1]

Generative AI fraud example by me. The rightmost column of tumors was created by AI using the first 6 (supposedly) real ones. Time required: 30 seconds.

[Elisabeth Bik @MicrobiomDigest]

AI can be used to make convincing looking fake data.
There is no way we can distinguish real from fake anymore.
It is safe to assume that genAI has already resulted in many fake papers. Scientific publishing is not prepared for this.

[Elisabeth Bik @MicrobiomDigest]

The amount of (suspected) AI-generated manuscripts and published papers is sharply rising.

Why are journals not doing a better job screening for these?

This generates an enormous burden for peer reviewers and pollutes the scientific literature.

We need better tools and rules.

[Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) @UmeaPlantSci]

VACANCY - Are you interested in developmental biology and would like to study how a cell fate is determined in #plants?

Apply for this #postdoc opportunity in @SRobertGroup and join the @KAWstiftelsen funded project "FATE"!

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSci #SciJobs

[Maizel Lab @maizel-lab.bsky.social @AlexisMaizel]

Together with @GreenMechanobio we seek a postdoc (<6y post-PhD) with strong track records in dev biology/biophysics, interested in biomechanics of lateral root development! 🌱 Must have graduated or worked in 🇩🇪& not currently reside in the 🇳🇱. 📧 for more details! Plz RT

[the Node @the_Node]

The @CharrierLab in @IGFLyon studies the #morphogenesis of #brownalgae. Brown algae have evolved independently of plants and animals and the lab is identifying strategies that these organisms have adopted to establish their body plans.

Meet the lab👇
https://t.co/WmBfUf61X1

[Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) @UmeaPlantSci]

VACANCY - Do have expertise in biophysics, spectroscopy, synthetic biology, plant biology or any related field?

Apply for this #postdoc #Fellowship in @LauraBacete's research group @UmeaPlantSci & @umeauniversity and advance the study of plant cell wall dynamics!

#PlantSciJobs

[Caroline Hu @HuWantsToKnow]

Seeking scientist volunteers! Want to practice science communication and help author a ✨comic✨ about your research? I need collaborators for this spring's cohort of SciComm & Comics art students! Please share widely. #STEMeducation #Science #sciart

[Philippe Andrey @AndreyLab_fr]

We are hiring! Post-doc available in Versailles (France) in bioimage informatics and machine learning, with applications in plant cell biology: https://t.co/jEPx9tVkq1 @ijpb_fr

[Development @Dev_journal]

The shift to 3D growth during embryogenesis of kelp species, atlas of cell division and differentiation of Saccharina latissima

Read this Research Article from @DevPatternAlgae and @CharrierLab (@INSB_CNRS @SBRoscoff @UniNMBU):

https://t.co/O8agO9FidC

[Ioannis Theodorou @DevPatternAlgae]

@CharrierLab The 2D growth of Saccharinas embryos and its mechanics we investigate on another article, in preparation.

[Ioannis Theodorou @DevPatternAlgae]

#kelp #embryogenesis #Saccharina #development #histogenesis

[Ioannis Theodorou @DevPatternAlgae]

This is an exciting work done in @CharrierLab based on extensive microscopical observations during the embryogenesis of Saccharina. But the first step was to establish a cultivation protocol focused on Saccharina embryos https://t.co/f0EmWig2CY

[Ioannis Theodorou @DevPatternAlgae]

Finally, this is the basis of a more ambitious and exciting ERC project from @CharrierLab on 3D tissue growth of brown algae species. (details: https://t.co/rTkAzPTyGb)

[Ioannis Theodorou @DevPatternAlgae]

My doctoral thesis is public after several months passed. Here is the link: https://t.co/Xll7bcJPHR . Anyone interested in an emerging model of #morphogenesis #cellpatterning #kelps development #macroalgae #seaweeds

[Ioannis Theodorou @DevPatternAlgae]

It is based on a pattern of mechanical anisotropies and a rather intricate network of actin filaments. Furthermore, semi-thin sections from #Saccharina during the polystromatisation stage, indicate a unique differentiation pathway and establishment of 3D growth.