Luis Pedro Coelho
@luispedrocoelho
group leader at @CMR_QUT science. microbiome. content creator for Elsevier, NPG and others! traveling salesman of second hand ideas
AMPSphere published in @CellCellPress. A thread on the main results We obtain nearly 1 million novel antimicrobial peptides from the global microbiome! In vitro testing showed that at least 79/100 are true positives
I once asked a lawyer* why legal terms are in Latin & he pointed out that definitions in English drift & migrate through usage but using a dead language made it more likely that definitions would remain static over years & centuries. Rare example of a lawyer* making a good point.
Since the Romans are all dead, it's probably safe to stop giving things Latin scientific names that nobody understands now.
It’s not just a typo — it’s a signifier of authenticity.
How long before people intentionally put in typos to make sure people believe an LLM didn’t write a thing?
If you are at #ISMBECCB2025 come listen to me present at 14:40! ismb-schedule.luispedro.org/?speaker=Luis%…
. @marija_dmit on mOTUs at #ISMBECCB2025 (Microbiome session)
I am starting a computational lab at LIOS, Riga, Latvia, and going to recruit a few people. Please DM if you are interested in a postdoc or PhD position in my Metabolic Research Group. I can highly recommend Riga, it is a beautiful city with very good living conditions.
After a few people asked me about it, I gave in and updated my light ISMB schedule website for #ISMBECCB2025 ismb-schedule.luispedro.org
My proposal: dual cab utes have a speed limit of 100 km/h to reflect the trucks that they are and their vast fuel consumption and emissions at anything above that speed, whilst on suitable roads, regular cars get a 130 km/h limit. drive.com.au/caradvice/will…
not sure why this is my most popular tweet ever, but i apparently need to respond to the backlash and clarify that i'm only just now learning that this bug is known to be a REALLY problematic guy and i need to apologize and self-crit for platforming it
just met a bug who was wearing the same outfit as me
Thank god at least *one* organization maintained its commitment to funding research
I will never stop loving that we put generative AI that in everyone's hands for free, tools which even a decade ago would have been thought of as almost impossibly magical, and one of the most knock-down popular uses for it is making horoscopes
On 16 year olds voting: The point of democracy is not that it's the system that leads to the best decisions in all situations, it's about legitimacy There is no reason why adulthood needs to be a single threshold. Having multiple thresholds seems pretty sensible to me