Larry Hunter

Knowledge-based biomedical data science, AI for discovery in molecular biomedicine, computational bioethics. Theory of mattering.
@proflhunter.bsky.social

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

Really disappointing, @impulseLabs_ and @sdamico Almost the weekend with no contact from your support team. Thinking about how to escalate my concerns, e.g. to BBB or emailing your investors. Do something!

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

Hey @ImpulseLabs_ I am one of your first customers, my stovetop is dead in an endless update loop when an install fails, and your support team has not responded after two days. WTF? Please do better!

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

Hey @ImpulseLabs_ I am one of your first customers, my stovetop is dead in an endless update loop when an install fails, and your support team has not responded after two days. WTF? Please do better!

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

@StatisticUrban The population of Kalawao county is 81.

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

Go Nell!

[Chicago Journ Assoc @CJA_Updates]

Big congratulations to @nellbsalzman of @chicagotribune as the winner of our #DorothyStorckAward for her great coverage of immigrant communities in Chicago.
“Journalism is more important now than ever before”- Nell Salzman
#CJA #CJA85 #ChiJournoAwards

[Dr. Krystal Tsosie, PhD, MPH @kstsosie]

This was a historic moment. The largest convening of #Indigenous geneticists, data scientists, physicians to include other national leaders at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's science think tank, the Banbury Institute @cshlbanbury, to discuss Indigenous reference #genomes and implications:

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

Hey @ass_deans, Please please please come to bsky!

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

Are you a recent Ph.D. (or about to finish) interested in doing a postdoc with me at the University of Chicago? This program might be just the ticket. Applications due Dec 18.

https://t.co/m4lyGjypkv

[Ashley Winter MD || Urologist @AshleyGWinter]

Without my abortion I wouldn't be the person, wife, mother, and physician I am today. I am voting because every woman deserves the self determination that the younger me got.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Recognizing the women scientists who laid the groundwork for recent #AI @NobelPrize in Chemistry and Physics
—Helen Berman, who started the Protein Data Bank, used for #AlphaFold (@demishassabis and John Jumper)
https://t.co/2mxLXwyk4E
—@drfeifei who built ImageNet, foundation for the deep learning revolution (@geoffreyhinton)
https://t.co/hQUkKEJrkj

[Sense about Science @senseaboutsci]

"Most perpetrators of scientific misconduct... face little in the way of consequences, while those... who seek to expose it find themselves attacked online and threatened with lawsuits" 2021 #MaddoxPrize winner @MicrobiomDigest for @ResearchProfes

2024 winners announced 6 Nov👇

[David States MD PhD @statesdj]

Let's also give credit to Tom Koetzel who established the PDB and ran it for decades, the DOE Brookhaven Nation Laboratory that provided a home for the resource, and legendary program officer John Wooley who shepherded it through many uncertain funding cycles

[Alfonso Martinez Arias @AMartinezArias]

“However clever you think cells are, they are almost always far cleverer”
Lewis Wolpert
#CellsRUs #NotInTheGenes

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

Subtle but serious damage from using AI tools. Be careful out there!

[Elizabeth Laraki @elizlaraki]

I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI).

I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right.

Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird.

I open my original photo.
No bra showing.

I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF...

Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🤨

Immediately, I email the conference host.
(FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.)

He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue.

He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website.

She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller.

AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). 🤯

—

FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

Ed Yong has such a great heart, mind, and soul.  And he shares them so well. https://t.co/RU8HVDSrxW

[Open Targets @OpenTargets]

Happy 10th birthday Open Targets! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who has worked to make Open Targets what it is today.

Here's to the next 10! 🥂

#OpenTargetsAt10

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

"I am particularly proud of one of my students who fired Sam Altman."

[Anil Seth @anilkseth]

Lovely to hear @geoffreyhinton paying tribute to colleagues and students, but I wasn't expecting this ... he's taking no prisoners (and why should he)

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

Come do a postdoc with me! https://t.co/hbUIYQ0uiJ

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

@AgatheDemarais Source: https://t.co/JTAyUjId1T

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

Now there's a good application! https://t.co/JTAyUjId1T

[Agathe Demarais @AgatheDemarais]

🤖 - Talking with chatbots reduces faith in conspiracy theories
• After chat with generative AI that offers facts, many people drop conspiracy views on wide range of topics
• Chats decrease average belief in conspiracies by 20%, with effects lasting for at least two months

[Larry Hunter @ProfLHunter]

Interesting take on genAI in the hands of writers https://t.co/Ysc9vGuZcv