Come See our Grad Student @astrobio-agb.bsky.social this week at #AbSciCon2026. She'll be presenting her research on how desert microbes can literally drink water vapor from the air! 🌵💧 #Microbiology #Extremophiles #Desiccation #Astrobiology

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Frankly the same goes for funders. If you can’t evaluate proposals without using an ethically & environmentally dubious tool that didn’t even exist 3 years ago (WTF?)… Switch to a basic eligibility screen then run a lottery, it’s more morally and scientifically defensible (as was proven years ago).

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If you can’t write a grant proposal without AI, why should you be awarded a grant? Why should anyone believe you are capable to execute the work, if you can’t even write the proposal yourself? Should funders just skip a step and run their own AI research agents? (you know it’s coming)

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For no particular reason this week… If you want to know how close we came to having the human genome sequence behind a paywall, & the very concept of using gene sequences to benefit health (e.g. as diagnostic or drug targets) locked up behind patents, read this: www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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Oh this was the first time we tried to publish it. Student finished and left and never submitted the manuscript!

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