Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...

"...an estimated 57% of published articles exhibited evidence of LLM influence, up from 12% in 2023." "The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hosting the FIFA World Cup will cost Canadian taxpayers $1B: watchdog report. Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates cost across all levels of government at $82M per game. With almost no lasting city-building legacy or benefit.

Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year. Measles used to be an extremely common disease. Just sixty years ago, over 90% of children would have been infected by it, and of those who developed symptoms, around a quarter would be hospitalized.

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

Uncommon good decision by #Harvard University [though maybe not as rare as some other Ivies, they did create Crimson Courage for #academicfreedom, for which I give them credit]

I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

Short-run discomfort ≠ long-run harm.⁣ ⁣ Phone bans make students feel worse at first — then better. By year two, well-being rebounds above baseline. Turns out kids (like all of us) just needed time to adapt.

It's very convenient to lay blame after withdrawing from WHO and overseeing the dismantling of USAID. I wonder how it must feel to have no conscience. US secretary of state says WHO was ‘a little late’ in identifying deadly Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

When we launched the #1HourCityConspiracy campaign, clapping back on the lies & disinformation about 15-Minute Cities, @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social (originator of the game-changing Paris program) weighed in with strong support. “The real ‘urban conspiracy’ isn’t proximity, it’s distance.” #UrbanTruth

We knew Vit K was effective in preventing bleeding more than 60 years ago In 1961, the American Academy of Pediatrics began recommending all newborns receive a vitamin K injection as part of routine newborn care In 2026, if we allow kids to bleed and die, this is beyond shameful

“Federal data touch every corner of American lives,” said Denice Ross, former US chief data scientist under the Biden administration. When data disappears, she said, “we might not know or be able to connect the dots for why our lives are getting harder – but our lives will get harder”.

Recently I opened up Microsoft Teams and was greeted with a deepfaked version of my own face. Here's how we got the Chinese-language software being marketed to scammers, and which can be used on WhatsApp, Zoom, other platforms. This is where fraud is right now More: www.404media.co/hello-boss-i...

This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

This should be a bigger story. I didn't know Isaiah but almost everyone in my lab, my TA, and a few close colleagues knew him well. They all say he was a sweet guy who was just really into herps. This is a tragedy.

“Although Ms. Lawson had previously expressed her preference not to live with advanced dementia, she hadn’t formalized those wishes in a written advance directive, a document that would tell caregivers to withhold food and water once her dementia reached a late stage.”

The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.” This is why we should fund science. 🧪

Canada’s elbows-elevated ambition to secure digital & technological sovereignty faces a lot of practical hurdles. But, at a minimum, it requires disentangling government and public services from at least this one company. If they continue to operate here, everything else is just hand-waving.

Death rates for cervical cancer in the United Kingdom have fallen by 80% since 1950— Cervical cancer death rates among women in the United Kingdom have fallen by around 80% since 1950. You can see this reduction in the chart. This progress happened for a couple of key reasons.

In 2003 I was so struck by a picture of activists pulling Rachel's body out the rubble that I went and sat in the conference room for five minutes. One of those moments that cracks your head open and changes how you see the world forever. Let's do this.

GenAI dipshits are still at that stage of the scam where they keep insisting how useful it is as an accessibility aid (the next stage is insisting it helps the global south), and no it fucking isn't. GenAI actively *destroys* accessibility tools like captions and alt text.

So true, from @profdevisridhar.bsky.social! My Instagram feed is full of “Rampant Individualism” telling me lots of things that I, as an individual, should do to improve my health!

Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive! If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email [email protected].

Chinese carmaker BYD unveils a recharge as fast as filling up with petrol. And no need to wear gloves. Certainly not coming to a forecourt near you in America because the fossil fuel giants and their puppets in government like making lots and lots of cool money from easily-conned petrolheads.

🚨 For nearly two years - and even now, depending on the day and model - AI models could tell you all about bixonimania, a totally made-up disease in a paper funded by “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation". My @nature.com story on AI's fallibility in medicine www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Alarm in health service over Palantir staff being given NHS email accounts

science lady is excited

One of the craziest stories of the past few years is that Google had the best business on the planet. They were wildly profitable and fairly well-liked by the public. And then they burned it to the ground by going all-in on AI hype.

France has sold off the last of its gold held in the US Federal Reserve and now holds all its gold in Paris. German groups are now pressuring the government to repatriate its own gold.

Tried my hand at a visual explanation of marginal tax rates. Probably too complex for majority of population, but I could see it helping a lot of reasonably intelligent people who currently misunderstand.

Or, to put it more bluntly: "Rich people could pay less in taxes if only women would do more unpaid labor at home."

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

"[Compulsory tights for girls] helps prepare students for life beyond school, where consistent and professional dress expectations are common." This female Oxford professor doesn't own a pair of tights and hasn't worn any since school 50 years ago. Never seen our Vice Chancellor in tights either.

The internet tends to be very binary — X is bad, Y is good. I think Owens's views are more nuanced than is often presented online. Weirdly by people who use his quote to prop up conventional beauty standards when his work is all about rebelling against these ideals.

This is such great news. I am so excited for the Tempo getting their draft and team, and the upcoming season! @tempobasketball.bsky.social www.wnba.com/news

The war in Iran could trigger a global food shock • More than 1.1mn tonnes of fertiliser and fertiliser inputs is currently stuck in the Gulf • Shortages are starting during northern hemisphere’s planting season, raising the risk of lower harvests for staples like rice www.ft.com/content/1054...

On top of the slowdown in grantmaking I wrote about last week - this is another deeply worrisome trend for scientists, physicians, patients, families, and basically anyone who wants new treatments and new tools to promote health. 🆘🧪🥼 open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

We bombed them. To do what? So we can bomb them. To do what? To facilitate strikes. To do what? To enable kinetic operations. To do what? To shape the battlefield. To do what? So we can bomb them.

OMG, these glasses need to be banned. I'll bet most users don't know that Meta is watching what they are watching.

Very convincing call to cancel your ChatGTP subscription if you have one. There are very good reasons, it's painless as there are alternatives, and it may form part of an effective boycott! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.