'Mind captions' sound pretty cool. This work covered by my colleague promises to create text descriptions of the things you see by decoding your brain activity while viewing them. In testing it also worked when people recalled watching videos. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A high-quality image data set shows that tech companies can obtain informed consent and avoid data bias without breaking the bank go.nature.com/4oSvBT0

Scientists long thought the plant cell wall to be dead, but it's an active, even chatty participant in cellular growth, reproduction and responses to infection go.nature.com/4oK8xWu

These walls CAN talk! Turns out the plant cell wall isn't just a boring cubicle for hard working chloroplasts and stuff. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What movies to physicists go absolutely gaga over? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ICYMI: My longest article ever for Scuba Diving Magazine answers one of the most frequent career advice quesions I receive... and the answer probably isn't what you think! Give it a read and share www.scubadiving.com/best-schools... 🦑🧪

Project Gutenberg is one of those places that exemplifies what the internet was initially all about: studying, preserving, and celebrating the arts, especially the written word, and Greg Newby was a huge part of that. Thank you, Greg, and rest well.

Another day, another claim of quantum advantage -- this time, with hints of (someday) doing something useful 🧪⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

De las Casas was required reading in the fairly conservative catholic university I attended. And I can’t thank them enough for it.

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Journalist here I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04 Reposts are appreciated!

CDC RIFs that we're hearing about: OPHDST -Office of Public Health Data & Tech Goals ✅improve access to & use of public health data (Wish Fake-CIP used them-they’d finally understand vaccine data) ✅Improve EFFICIENCY of data & tech systems ➡️ help states, etc. make informed public health decisions

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Y'all. This interview is sooo good. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview all year, Susan Monarez, CDC director for only 29 days, tells me why Trump/RFK fired her and where this is all headed. The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.

What does science have to say about getting a good night's sleep? Quite a lot, really. @lynnepeeps.bsky.social captures most of it nicely in this feature www.nature.com/articles/d41...?

Seismic shifts are afoot for universities in the US and worldwide. @dangaristo.bsky.social captures the trends in four telling graphics. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Against my better judgment, I contributed a feature about the state of global higher education to this package about the future of universities. No easy way to sum it all up—there's plenty of good news and bad news to be found—but the world is much bigger than the US its current problems.

Inspired by Fred Rogers, @nature.com asked readers to help us 'find the helpers' amid the crisis in American science. What emerged were inspiring stories of researchers, legal experts, data hounds and government scientists who are fighting the dismantling of the US research enterprise. 🧪🧵1/6

NEW: Don't ask too many questions, but... NIH may not re-terminate the 900ish grants at issue in the main NIH lawsuits after all. To the PIs of reinstated grants, SPEND NOW! 🧵 Here's what NIH is probably thinking. Bear with me:

“All this training and then we weren’t allowed to do anything.” kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

If you, like me, are still trying to put last week's complex SCOTUS decision on NIH funding into context, this great story by my colleagues is a great resource 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a convoluted, 36-page emergency order about NIH grant terminations. Two main takeaways: -$2 billion (not the government # of $780 million) in NIH grants will likely be re-terminated -future legal challenges will be much harder w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social:

500–600 CDC employees just laid off. This comes weeks after a gunman fired hundreds of bullets at CDC HQ, killing a police officer. Trump has said nothing. Meanwhile, RFK Jr. is accused by 750+ health workers of spreading lies & dismantling public health. wapo.st/4mrA2DN #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

Why are people having fewer children? According to one source: "A lot of men are undateable. Truly undateable.” 😆 @lynnepeeps.bsky.social offers a great in-depth look at falling fertility rates around the world, and how to adapt. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Anyone else among us willing to admit that they first learned this from G.I Joe?

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

NEW: The Trump administration acted illegally when NIH delayed and canceled billions of dollars in grants to scientists earlier this year, a top government watchdog said www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"Vaccine skepticism in the U.S. also kills more children outside the U.S. — because it transfers that skepticism — outside the United States.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/04/b...

Sadly prescient reporting from May on mRNA vaccines (a Nobel prize winning technology) being maligned by the administration. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dire-wolf drama continues to unfold. A scientist who has been critical of the company behind some audacious de-extinction claims believes that it has been trying to undermine the credibility of its critics ahead of major announcements. The company denies involvement. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

UCLA's NIH grants are also impacted, its chancellor says. The university receives about $500m in NIH funds each year. NIH grants staff I've spoken to haven't heard anything. But for institutions frozen out by the Trump admin, the agency now issues awards but limits their ability to withdraw funds.

I mean, people go to Vegas to gamble, right?

A Nature survey shows how widely researchers disagree on what quantum mechanics says about reality. Read the results - and find out what interpretation suits you - at this @nature.com article by @lizziegibney.bsky.social A run-down of major findings: 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: Netflix to replace 'Is it cake?' with 'Might be maggots'

Nothing yet.

A controversial paper claiming that an extraordinary microorganism can thrive on the toxic element arsenic has been retracted by the journal Science, nearly 15 years after its original publication -- but the paper's authors say the retraction is unwarranted. go.nature.com/44MQsQI

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

The Senate Committee on Appropriations gave the first signs Congress will push back on Trump's proposed budget cuts to science and instead keep funding flat, though an unrelated issue (the location of the FBI headquarters) stalled any vote today. @alexwitze.bsky.social and I report:

High fashion meets the science of the deep. This is the delightful read about a couture dressmaker that you maybe didn’t know you needed. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Wrote a spicy defense of Nature's ingenuity w/sex&gender +a hate letter to the sex/gender binary in my book PHALLACY: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis. Useful for discovering Nature's wonders+declawing bigots +enough genitalia facts to make you the life of most parties🍆🥳 libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Decades of research have shown that, although short bursts of stress can be healthy, unrelenting stress contributes to heart disease, cancer, stroke, respiratory disorders, suicide https://go.nature.com/4lbvmkA

Recently turned in a deeply researched draft of a book on What AI Actually Is and reader, this is 100% correct

Studying the AHA! moments. This story about insight by @humbertobasilio.bsky.social is truly inspiring. Take on the test within to see if you feel it, too. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today. It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia. Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵

One of the editorials that sparked this condemnation: "We have seen a great country, until of late rightly proud of its universities and its scientific achievements, abandoning its belief in reason, destroying the careers of a fifth of its scholars." www.nature.com/articles/139...