Andrew Roger

andrewjroger.bsky.social

28 September 2026 09:26

So you are using IQ-TREE to estimate a tree for "deep time" phylogenetics using amino acid alignments. There is a lot of confusion about how to test model fit. Here are some suggestions.

Carl Zimmer

carlzimmer.com

28 September 2026 09:13

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

Rebecca Sear

rebeccasear.bsky.social

28 September 2026 09:12

If anyone wants me to provide my opinion about the ideological capture of (parts of) the social sciences for a high profile report, my fees are reasonable

Rebecca Sear

rebeccasear.bsky.social

28 September 2026 09:12

Since we’re talking about the politicisation of science, another laughably bad “national IQ” paper has just been published in Evolutionary Psychological Science. This paper barely even pretends to be science yet is published by a mainstream publisher, with prominent academics on the editorial board

Max Kennerly

maxkennerly.bsky.social

27 September 2026 22:18

Anthropic's denials mean *nothing*, just like how OpenAI's denials over Navier–Stokes mean *nothing*. These companies have shown time and again they have no idea what their AI is doing. The LLM agents—given "/goal" persistence and few if any limits—surely reviewed all they could, including chats.