Every study proposing a machine learning analysis should be forced to do a statistical model first and actually prove that the machine learning works better.

“The researchers showed that raising body temperature to fever levels is effective at stopping human-origin flu viruses from replicating, but it is unlikely to stop avian flu viruses.”

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”

"If Trump’s first term was marked by a level of graft and self-dealing that would have embarrassed a Tammany stalwart, then his second term seems to be an explicit effort to outpace his previous record and set a new high-water mark for political corruption in the [US]." #GiftLink #GiftArticle

Jesus Christ.

every company in 2025

Give people healthy food and they will get healthier.

NVIDIA and OpenAi: Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ @bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

OF COURSE SPEED CAMERAS WORK! There’s clear evidence of that. They save lives, and removing them will costs lives, including KIDS’ LIVES. The narrative of “cash grab” is a political tactic. Every dollar raised by such cameras is evidence of too much deadly speeding and the need for such cameras.

This is a problem.

Just found a recently published systematic review on AI in dementia care published in 2025, with a search that covers 2018-2022. well, ok, probably not much new on this topic since 2022....😏

We are recruiting a Geriatric Psychiatrist to join the Seniors Mental Health Division, University Health Network, Toronto. Please see posting for details! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #geriatricpsychiatry #oldagepsychiatry #seniorsmentalhealth

We are recruiting a Geriatric Psychiatrist to join the Seniors Mental Health Division, University Health Network, Toronto. Please see posting for details! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #geriatricpsychiatry #oldagepsychiatry #seniorsmentalhealth

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

With great pleasure, we'd like to announce and welcome the 2025 AMS Fellows in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence! We will feature the 11 exceptional fellows from across disciplines in the coming weeks. Read about the #AMSfellowship here: buff.ly/Dol9VxV

One more reason to care about our eroding democracies. Social inequality and weak democratic institutions are linked to faster aging. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very cool study. Walkability is key.

The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what it’s doing to us: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Tell me more about how your bots will cure loneliness, Zuck.

👋 medical toxicologist here and I am begging people to not take this gas station “wellness” drink want to know why?? 🧵

Scientific fraud through paper mills and targeted journals is already occurring at scale. It is organized, orchestrated, and rapidly growing, far outpacing legitimate science www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Is it possible to distinguish motor agitation from healthy motor activity in people with dementia? 🧵 www.ajgponline.org/article/S106... #AAIC2025

The loss of 800K mpox vaccines, which likely cost close to $65 each (potentially $52M), comes after President Donald Trump cut back foreign aid programs and closed the U.S. Agency for International Development, which administered most of them

The lifetime risk of dementia after age 55 was 42%, higher in women, Black adults and APOE ε4 carriers up to 60%. US adults with dementia will increase from ~514,000 in 2020 to ~1 million in 2060." 14 of 35 Alzheimer's research centers have had all funding cut off www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

**US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award @WesternU -$160,000 to 25 PhD students for up to 4 years. - Must've had offer rescinded/cancelled from US school. -Expedited admission process. -Feel free to reach out, if interested in a PhD in inorganic chem! www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

“Water is the messenger that’s delivering the bad news about climate change to your city, to your front door.”

If you do good journalism & report accurately, you convey a worldview that is broadly congenial to liberals & infuriating to the right (not in every case, but generally). Journalism has to choose. And it is choosing, over and over again, to betray itself.

"The world of mathematics was shaken to its core today as IBM unveiled its new "DeepCalc" model, an advanced #AI system capable of beating top humans at adding, subtracting, dividing or multiplying numbers as long as 8 digits, compared against the world's best mathematicians with a slide-rule." 1/

25% of all nursing homes will close. If those seniors have families to take them, most will not be able to take care of them, and those older Americans will end up sick/injured/abandoned in emergency rooms and hospitals with nowhere to go and costing infinitely more than it costs to fund Medicaid.

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

📢 Ultrarapid CYP2D6 metabolizers, especially among aripiprazole users, were more likely to report adverse effects & negative attitudes toward medication 🧬 This points to a potential role of pharmacogenetics in antipsychotic therapy Check the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/neu.... #Pharmacogenetics

This should be front page news everywhere

🇨🇦 Canada has secured 500,000 doses of an updated H5N1 (avian influenza) vaccine. Here's a Canadian perspective in @CMAJ on what this means, with colleagues from the Public Health Agency of Canada. Link: www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...

I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

⚠️ For those unfamiliar with the term “remigration,” it does not only mean deportation of undocumented immigrants but also the expulsion of non-white people to the country of their racial or ethnic ancestral origin without regard to their citizenship, legal status, or place of birth.

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

This Memorial Day Weekend, the goal is to grill without eating metal spikes.

2025 breaking news: women’s pain should be treated

Apologies for yelling, but— SCOTUS COULDN’T DO ITS JOB BECAUSE TOO MANY JUSTICES HAVE BOOK DEALS WITH A PARTY IN A CASE

This table is straight up wrong. Embarrassing @nejm.org

OH MY GOD JUST SELL THE FUCKING CAR "Tesla Owners are Installing DIY Rip Cords to Avoid Being Trapped in Their Vehicles in Case of Fire" fuelarc.com/evs/tesla-ow...

So pleased to share that our systematic review on pharmacotherapy for anxiety in older adults is now out in The Lancet Psychiatry. You can access here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l5eA7tf1d...

I assign a variety of kinds of work, including in-class stuff, to get a sense of their voice. I have them write about what they learned in class, which introduces additional layers of complexity in having AI write for them. I have them do multiple drafts, which ditto. Etc.

See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did. Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.