Elisabeth Busch

Senior Lecturer in Organismal Biology at Queen Mary University of London. Developmental genetics and genomics.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our responses to Russia’s prolongation of the war and its attacks on our cities and communities are entirely justified. This time, Ukrainian long-range sanctions reached the Moscow region, and we are clearly telling the Russians: their state must end its war. Ukrainian drone and missile manufacturers continue their work. I am grateful to the Security Service of Ukraine and all the Defense Forces of Ukraine for their precision. The distance from Ukraine’s state border is over 500 km. The concentration of Russian air defense in the Moscow region is the highest. But we are overcoming it. Glory to Ukraine!

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

This needs to be called out.

[Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 @BellaWallerstei]

Utterly devastating from @robertshrimsley in FT. This should shame us all.

[Kayla Barnes-Lentz @femalelongevity]

11/ The research gap is staggering.

Of 9 drugs the NIA Interventions Testing Program found to extend lifespan, 7 worked only in males. Most preclinical aging research still defaults to male mice.
"Just because everyone says it's happening doesn't mean it's happening in both sexes." --Dr. Benayoun

[Kayla Barnes-Lentz @femalelongevity]

1/ The ovary is the fastest-aging organ in the female body. And almost no one is studying why.I just sat down with @BBParis1984 (@USCLeonardDavis ), who runs one of the only labs in the world mapping ovarian aging.
A few things from our conversation I can't stop thinking about:

[euan ashley @euanashley]

New AI paper from us this week. When my student first showed me his initial findings, I really didn’t know what to make of them. I felt that this was an interesting but curious loophole phenomenon that would shortly be closed. I was very wrong.
https://t.co/H3YIyl01FR

[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

Wondering if the hearts of those frustrated by small acts of petty symbolism, by the feeling that smashed windows and graffiti on bakeries are simply not enough, are cheered by the upgrade to burning ambulances this morning.

[Holocaust Awareness Ireland @Holocaust_Irl]

Jonathan Freedland documents with chilling accuracy how and why violence against Jews in the diaspora has seen a parabolic rise, how life has become increasingly dangerous in the last 2+ years.

We know too well that it takes very little for Jews to become national figures of hate, scapegoats for everything that is going wrong.

The commentariat may rationalise this violence as retribution for the actions of the Israeli Gov, but of course the Jews being attacked are guilty of only one ‘crime’: being Jewish.
🔗 in comments.

[Sam Rosenfeld @sam_rosenfeld]

the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers

[Alice Evans @_alice_evans]

Thank you to @TheEconomist for publishing my essay on "what people get wrong about women's rights"!

https://t.co/N6j1JyhYAm

[Summer Yue @summeryue0]

@petergyang I said “Check this inbox too and suggest what you would archive or delete, don’t action until I tell you to.” This has been working well for my toy inbox, but my real inbox was too huge and triggered compaction. During the compaction, it lost my original instruction 🤦‍♀️

[Summer Yue @summeryue0]

Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.

[Ben @BenShindel]

Is @guardian aware that their authors are at this point just using AI to wholesale generate entire articles? I wouldn't really care, except that this writing is genuinely atrocious. LLM writing can be so much better; they're clearly not even using the best models, lol!

[Jason Sheltzer @JSheltzer]

AI is cool and all... but a new paper in @ScienceMagazine kind of figured out the origin of life?

The paper reports the discovery of a simple 45-nucleotide RNA molecule that can perfectly copy itself.

[David Holtz @daveholtz]

the "i'm probably taking this too seriously" first draft of a working paper analyzing the growth, structure, and conversation dynamics of @moltbook, the social network for AI agents 🦞

tl;dr: agents post a LOT but don't really talk to each other. 93.5% of comments get zero replies. conversations max out at a depth of 5. at least as of now, moltbook is less "emergent AI society" and more "6,000 bots yelling into the void and repeating themselves"

also "my human" appears in 9.4% of all messages which is...fun!

comments and feedback welcome, link in the tweet below.

[Abhishek Saha @ObhishekSaha]

A few snapshots from the part we still can read.

[Global Imams Council (GIC) @ImamsOrg]

Official Statement by The Global Imams Council Regarding the Terrorist Attack on the Jewish Community at Bondi Beach, Sydney, During Hanukkah Celebrations.

Statement delivered by: H.E. Imam Tawhidi (@imamofpeace).

[Cambridge University @Cambridge_Uni]

https://t.co/KZMpWzTePc

[Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 @RuxandraTeslo]

I've exited my naive techno-optimist era & I will unabashedly state we should shame this stuff. That's not how we should use AI: to further fry our brains & turn us into walking zombies. We should build *real* things & avoid these cursed use cases from the 2010s era.