Ron Beavis ❌

@RonBeavis
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Doing science for money since 1981.
Putting it online since 1995.
Just say no to cancer research (lesson learned).
QA >> QC
I enjoy doing things I am not very good at doing.

Got my performance review today.
Positive feedback: literally every member of my team says I'm the best manager they have ever had. I solved multiple long-standing problems the team has been dealing with for years. Team members feel safe to share their struggles, everyone feels empowered, everyone receives valuable feedback.
Negative feedback: I am not enthusiastic enough about AI.
Overall ranking: 3/5.

Anyone hiring for a fully remote team lead?

#GenAI #LLM #GetFediHired #FediHire

If there was a Nobel Prize for phosphorylation acceptors, I would nominate IFIT3:pm.S203.
#proteomics_101 Compare and contrast hypotheses for the structural effects of human IFIT3:p phosphorylation at S203 & S478.
It raises an interesting question: can Silicon Valley roll out a new product that makes money anymore?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/tech/openai-sora-video-app-shutting-down
OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video app just months after launch

OpenAI is winding down Sora, the video generation app it launched to much fanfare last year that signaled a bigger push into creative tools and social media.

CNN

Dear web site designers,

Telling me to turn off my ad blocker so that I can read an article with a clickbait title seems super sketchy to me. Please stop doing asking me to do it.

The Rest of the Internet

Many academic labs end up being DIY sweatshops/prisons with ephemeral (but impenetrable) walls built out of nostalgia and regrets.

finland was planning to move its election platform to amazon web services.

after all the threats from the US and concern about how it will use tech dependence against europe, that plan is on ice.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/finland-shelves-plan-to-move-election-platform-to-amazon-servers

#tech #europe #finland #elections #politics #digitalsovereignty #amazon

Last night I #dreamed that the store employees shut the mall security gates, trapping me inside despite my shouts. Once I escaped, I realized that I had exited the mall on the wrong side of the complex and would have to circumnavigate.

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

404 Media
But it does give me a bit of personal satisfaction wrt my objecting to the proposition that webinar platforms are safe-and-secure.