Besides being an interesting project, #talkie is by far the funniest LLM ever released. Trained on pre-1931 text, to him computers are human employees skilled in calculations. He has pretty drastic (not exactly aligned) solutions to doomscrolling. And he is not aware of being an LLM: he's an Englishman. With a beard. 🎩
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mastodon 4.6.9Bioinformatician and IT consultant for the JRC, founder of sayansi.social. Here I write about science and technology.
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Nine #AI agents, €0.80, and one publication-ready illustrated essay on your favourite scientific topic. Fully automated, from raw news to final draft. That's #ScienceRadar! 📡
Built with #CrewAI, the pipeline chains nine specialized agents: a Scout sifts through raw news and paper results to keep only what's relevant; three Curators score candidates for novelty, scientific value, and societal impact; an Arbiter picks the winner; a Writer drafts the essay; a Fact-Checker and an Editorial Critic review it and send feedback to the Writer; and finally an Illustrator generates the cover image. 🤖
To run it you need a NewsAPI key, a Brave API key, an Anthropic API key, and a fal.ai key. The agents are assigned to different LLMs, all customisable, but with the defaults you'll spend roughly €0.80 per essay. 💸
I built it with the help of AI coding assistants, partly to practice with these tools. However, it was not vibe-coded: I like to stay in full control of what my code is doing.
Science Radar is freely available on #Codeberg. Everyone is welcome to tweak it and play with it!
#AI has huge transparency and sustainability problems, but there’s one thing I genuinely love, and it feels very much in the spirit of the internet: #skills.
Yes, they’re part of the hype, like everything else right now. But in the end, they’re just text-based instructions written by people with expertise in different tasks. They can be downloaded, copied, adapted, improved, and used with open, free, or even local models. It’s a form of knowledge sharing for the agentic era. 🤖
Some of you may have noticed that my bot @genomics_daily@genomic.social was recently put to sleep. 🤖🧬
It was a fun exercise for me and hopefully a useful tool for someone, but after 1+ years of #AI-generated summaries of #genomics papers, I realised that I was also contributing to the #AIslop that is polluting our beloved internet. And I didn't like it.
In any case, the code is still on #Codeberg for everyone to play with. 🙂
Genomics has personalized medicine. Now it's increasing resolution up to single-cell level! 🔎🧬
#10xGenomics Goes Clinical with Single-Cell Diagnostics at J.P. Morgan 2026 | Inside Precision Medicine
https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/precision-medicine/10x-genomics-enters-diagnostics-aims-for-single-cell-biology-clinical-application/
@gemlog@tilde.zone @GeorgWeissenbacher@fediscience.org @signalapp@mastodon.world Well, lots of things: checking transactions, recharging my prepaid card, paying stuff, monitoring my investments 🙂 In fact I rarely use my bank's website, I do everything via app
With just a few genetic tweaks, scientists converted a #DNA polymerase into an #RNA polymerase that can also copy RNA back to DNA. Amazing! 🧬
Rapid evolution of a highly efficient RNA polymerase by homologous recombination | Nature Chemical Biology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-025-02124-7
Genomics Daily is a small program that downloads newly published #genomics papers every day, uses #AI to summarise the most important ones, and posts about them on Mastodon and Bluesky. 🧬
I developed it as a personal project, but after a year I’ve started to wonder whether my bot is really useful or if it's just contributing to the #AIslop flooding the internet. 🌊
Perhaps it does more harm than good. What do you think? 🤔
@gemlog@tilde.zone @GeorgWeissenbacher@fediscience.org @signalapp@mastodon.world No issues at all? Not even with banking apps?
Fascinating #fossils from #Morocco help shed light on the transition from early hominins to the lineage that later gave rise to modern humans, #Neanderthals, and #Denisovans. 🦴
Some traits look ancient, others are newer. The mix suggests these individuals were part of an African population close to the root of our lineage.
Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage | Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09914-y
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@evan@cosocial.ca I voted yes because an additional check is always useful, whether it's by an AI or a human. LLMs can make mistakes and overloook errors, but so do humans.
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@xHire@ipv6.social
"GMO deregulation" can be misleading to the reader, and unnecessarily alarming: old GMOs will remain regulated as they are now.
The new law being discussed covers products that are modified using so-called New Genomic Techniques (NGT), such as CRISPR/Cas9, which produce tiny changes in the DNA that resemble those occurring in nature. Only a subset of these new products will be "deregulated".
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@xHire@ipv6.social Can you please point me to the specific research from which you took the illustration? Thanks