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SUMMARY:4th BioSyst.EU Meeting 2026
DESCRIPTION:The 4th BioSyst EU meeting is taking place in Uppsala Sweden\, 17th – 19th August 2026\, and will be organised by the Swedish Systematics Association. The 3-day conference celebrates European systematics and biodiversity research at its origin. An excursion directly after the conference rounds off the program with keynotes and symposia.  \n\n\n\nThe Conference is supported by the KAW initiative DDLS Evolution and Biodiversity research area. Contact DDLS Fellow Tobias Andermann and the DDLS Expert Group.  \n\n\n\nThis conference will bring the European Biodiversity and Systematics community together at its Linnaean origin in Uppsala. \n\n\n\nKeynote speakers\n\n\n\nThere will be three main keynote speakers with internationally leading research profiles: Sandra Knapp\, Fredrik Ronquist and Paul Hebert. The latter is the father of DNA barcoding\, coming all the way from Canada. The journal Systematics and Biodiversity will also publish a special collection of articles arising from the conference! \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nDuring the conference\, there will be the following symposia: \n\n\n\n\nTrait Evolution\, Lineage Diversification and Historical Biogeography in a Big Data era. Confirmed speaker: Isabel Sanmartín\, Madrid.\n\n\n\nEvolution in Deep Time: Fossils\, Phylogenies\, and Reconstructing the History of Life\n\n\n\nAI and Automated Species Identification: Assets and Drawbacks\n\n\n\nAdvances in Museomics for Biosystematics and Taxonomy\n\n\n\nAre biodiversity and ecosystems the same thing?\n\n\n\nNatural History Collections and their actors\n\n\n\nTaxonomic treatments and revisions and their accessibility in biodiversity databases\n\n\n\nData-driven research in evolution and biodiversity\n\n\n\nEnvironmental DNA for species discovery and biodiversity inventory\n\n\n\nSpeciation\, Adaptation and Phylogeography: Microevolutionary Processes Shaping Biodiversity\n\n\n\nOpen session\n\n\n\n\nEarly bird before May 31\n\n\n\nRegistration is open and it costs only 1 500 SEK for students registering before 31 May (BSc\, MSc and PhD students). For everyone else the early-bird price is 2 500 SEK. \n\n\n\nEarly-career Day\n\n\n\nThere will be an early-career event the day before\, free of charge – we have two international speakers this time\, Seraina Klopfstein coming from Switzerland and Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez coming from Spain. The early career event will be followed by some mingling and discussions\, and dinner/beers. So don’t miss out! \n\n\n\nImportant dates!\n\n\n\nAbstract submission ends 31st May 2026Early bird registration ends 31st May 2026Registration ends 17th July 2026 \n\n\n\nMore information and Registration\n\n\n\nRegistration and event website: https://www.trippus.net/BioSyst2026 \n\n\n\nAbout BioSyst EU: https://biosyst.eu/
URL:https://www.scilifelab.se/event/4th-biosyst-eu-meeting-2026/
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SUMMARY:“The times they are a-changin”*: from transparency\, to safety and scientific integrity\, how is the race to AGI changing our scientific values?
DESCRIPTION:Heidi Howard \n\n\n\nNBIS and SciLifeLab Data Centre arrange an open SciLifeLab AI Seminar Series aimed at knowledge-sharing about Artificial Intelligence and applications in the Life Science community. The seminar series is open to everyone. The seminar is run over Zoom on the third Friday of the month during academic terms\, typically between 10 and 11 am\, with approx. 45 min presentation and 15 min discussion. \n\n\n\nWhen: August 21\, 10:00-11:00 \n\n\n\nWhere:  Zoom http://meet.nbis.se/ainw \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Heidi HowardSenior Researcher\, Industrial Biotechnology\, Chalmers and ELSI lead at Scilifelab and DDLS \n\n\n\nAbstract \n\n\n\nThe general question I am currently working on is: where do values like transparency\, accountability\, scientific integrity\, replicability of science\, respect for copyright\, respect for privacy\, and respect for the planet fit into the current rush to develop Artificial General Intelligence?  \n\n\n\nIt does not take graduate work in ethics to see that in the last four years since OpenAI launched GPT-3.5 and that a number of other big and not-so-big players have spent loads of money\, time\, and GPUs/CPUs on developing large language models (LLMs\, some supposedly on their way to AGI)\,  that  these values are being eroded. Many (most?) of the decisions are being taken by a few companies holding an inordinate amount of power\, and these shifts are potentially being normalised by expert and lay publics who may not know or feel they have any influence to push against the wave of change.  Based on examples taken from past (public) work developing evaluations of large language models for bioweapons information risks and some of my current work on the public discourse around the benefits and risks of developing A(G)I\, this presentation will address scientific and ethical details that are easily overlooked in the current A(G)I rush. \n\n\n\n*song title by Dylan B/Zimmerman RA. The Times they are a-changin’\, 1964\, \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo stay updated\, you can join our email list by contacting ai-network@scilifelab.se. \n\n\n\n\nJoin Seminar
URL:https://www.scilifelab.se/event/the-times-they-are-a-changin-from-transparency-to-safety-and-scientific-integrity-how-is-the-race-to-agi-changing-our-scientific-values/
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