I was able to make a small contribution to this research in The Conversation: 'New linguistics research casts doubt on decades-old murder conviction'

My PhD student Andy's poster about ChloroScan, a pipeline to learn about the world's algae through recovering plastid DNA from metagenomic samples: https://t.co/K6LZaSYITQ

Algae drive the Earth’s oxygen production and marine food chains. My PhD student Andy’s preprint introduces ChloroScan, a tool that recovers plastid genomes from metagenomic data to uncover hidden biodiversity in environmental samples:

I’m working with Joey McCollum on an article about an Arabic translation of Paul’s letters. It differs strikingly from the Majority/Byzantine text. Even from the small Text und Textwert sample in Ephesians, it's clear the Arabic preserves a distinctive textual lineage.

New paper out. 'Themeda: Predicting Land Cover Change Using Deep Learning' We trained AI on 33 years of satellite data to forecast land cover across northern Australia’s savannas.

I'm excited to work with Museums Victoria to digitise their collection of graptolite fossils: https://t.co/4sbvty5wBv

Great to be part of the Computing and Information Systems poster session today at Melbourne Connect Innovation Week. The poster for our software to read herbarium specimen sheets is here: https://t.co/X0klvftTLX

📢 Our new paper is out in Briefings in Bioinformatics. Much of DNA is made of “repeats” — hard-to-classify sequences that shape genomes. We introduce Terrier 🐾, an AI tool that classifies repeats across diverse species👉

Our article on Hespi, an AI pipeline for extracting information from herbarium specimen sheets, is now published in The Conversation:

🚀 Just out: our article on Hespi, an LLM pipeline for extracting information from herbarium specimen sheets, is the cover story of BioScience's August issue 🌿 https://t.co/btM28mq79q

Just finished giving a seminar on writing tests for Python. Here are some memes I made for it — plus a Python package showcasing pytest, coverage and Github Actions: https://t.co/PRqi0DLlvs

📣 Just published an article in the University of Melbourne's Pursuit about my research using phylogenetics to uncover the history of Arabic Gospel manuscripts:

Just out in BioScience: our new article on Hespi, an LLM-powered pipeline for extracting information from herbarium sheets. 🌿 https://t.co/btM28mq79q Watch this space for lots more developments in this area!

🎉 Delighted to join Prof Christina Kreinecker and the @KU_Leuven team on the ERC BICROSS project, working on multilingual manuscripts using AI. Announcement:

Looking forward to giving guest lectures on LLMs for the Data Journalism course at the University of Melbourne over the next couple of days

Mammograms are painful and only 2D. CT could be better—but needs high dosage to reduce noise. Using phase-contrast and AI denoising, we cut the dose 16× with no loss of image quality. We continue to work towards safe, 3D breast cancer screening. Preprint

Our paper "Potnia: A Python library for the conversion of transliterated ancient texts to Unicode" is now published in @JOSS_TheOJ 👉 https://t.co/oJ7Jr1kdoz Potnia currently supports Linear A, Linear B, Arabic, and Hittite cuneiform—with more Anatolian languages on the way

I've got a little python package called llmloader to load LLMs in @LangChainAI just by the model name. I just updated it to include @MistralAI :

Excited to share Terrier 🧬✨🐶 — our new AI model to classify repetitive DNA. DNA repeats make up huge parts of genomes and play a key role in evolution, but are notoriously hard to classify. Preprint just released: https://t.co/LK0tcGB8i7

Yesterday I had my book launch and I was honoured to have @TourEmily, @mbird12, Alexander Treiger, Stephen Carlson and Joey McCollum speak about the book. Here is a playlist of what they had to say: