#genomics

#Academia#AcademicChatter Watching an symposia on #AI use in #Genetics and #Genomics. At least one person is using corporate LLMs to power their platform to understand SNP-disease associations. I asked if the corporate model use is ethical or do we need ethical models for research use (I mean I don't want them anyway, but that's another thing). Person's answer sums to: I wouldn't say that LLMs are from intellectual theft. It was scraped from the open web so it's ethical. Oh. Sweet child.

Job Alert PhD Student in Cancer Breaksome Location: Heidelberg, Germany Deadline: 30 July 2026 https://www.academiceurope.com/ads/phd-student-in-cancer-breaksome/ #hiring #PhD #CancerResearch #Genomics #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #GenomeBiology #LifeScienceJobs #appliedmathematics

'Now, this is all great news. But it all depends on funding, on donations and on goodwill. All this is running out. The work we (Genomics Aotearoa) did with kākāpō is now not possible, because the government has said that our funding should go to science that makes money. Saving remarkable species is off the table.' #kākāpō #Aotearoa #NZPol #Conservation #ScienceFunding #Science #Genomicshttps://peterkdearden.substack.com/p/on-kakapo