Scientific literature is vast and interconnected. Some connections are made explicit through citation networks. Others are latent, implicit connections that can only be revealed through manual review or text mining. There’s a whole field of research dedicated to this - elicit.com/blog/litera...

In absence of an external thing to strive for, yin and yang decouple and seek only their own completion, but produce only destruction in this vain attempt

My office has a pipe that sometimes just belches steam, and I think this should be a thing in every office

Very good rain today

Today, we're releasing two updates to the Elicit Library to keep your papers organized: Collections: Group papers by project or task. Smart De-duplication: Automatically detect and merge versions of the same paper, even if the titles and abstracts don’t exactly match.

Clinical Trials are live on Elicit 🎊 You can now search through the 545,000 trials available on clinicaltrials.gov and summarize them in structured tables or descriptive reports. New trial registrations are instantly available.

Big news for all fans of science "the NIH Public Access Policy requires Author Accepted Manuscripts accepted for publication in a journal, on or after July 1st, to be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication" www.nih.gov/about-nih/ni...

Today we introduce Elicit Alerts, a new way to stay informed about relevant research with AI.

“Elicit can extract technically complex variables from an enormous volume of papers with researcher-level accuracy – that’s incredible.” Read how Formation Bio, an AI-native pharmaceutical company, uses Elicit to to power hyper-efficient drug development: blog.elicit.com/case-study-...

If hating Elsevier becomes partisan I am going to kms www.wsj.com/science/how-...

Twitter is now enforcing Bluesky wednesdays

Reminder that I'll be at manifest.is and you should be to

I feel like any outfit I have that shows my shoulders looks bad Who's working on this

The Universal Tech Tree

This is one of my main recent projects! Please give it a shot and let me know if there are any rough edges ❤️

RL harness for AWS debugging Who is working on this

I think this painting is really nice

I think the Homer Simpson “I sleep in a bed with my wife” is a core piece of conservative commentary

If someone wants to be my counterparty, I’ll bet $500 this isn’t true

Had nice new perfume coming that I wanted to try on this minivacation but I accidentally shipped it to my old apartment

My most reactionary opinion is that I think maybe self actualization was a mistake

In celebration of this post I’m going to be trying out a boat this weekend

I wish I could mitosis Too many tasks for one panda to do

Bluesky Wednesdays! This is a new tradition where I post on Bluesky instead of Twitter on Wednesdays. I'm trying to convince other people to do it. so tell your friends

Happy bluesky wednesday

Gonna become a controversial bluesky tfr poster, wish me luck

Just tried my first dose of black market chinese tirzapetide Wish me luck

How ships escaped the great stagnation

Front page of fox is surprisingly negative about the tariffs. Definitely not punching hard, but definitely not celebratory

Introducing Elicit Systematic Reviews! Elicit now supports automated search, screening, and data extraction, in one step-by-step flow. This accelerate researchers without asking them to sacrifice control. You can do the whole thing manually, or run an automated review in 9 clicks. How it works:

Has anyone studied the interaction between 5-HTP and PMS? Some MTFs say it helps with PMS-like symptoms from hormones, but I can't find much about cis women taking it

Has anyone made soup dumplings but they have curry inside?

Canadian artists depicting various scenes of modernity ca. 1900. What would be analogous scenes to depict today? Could you imagine someone painting a coder working with Github Copilot, a Waymo car, a server farm?

How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery

I generally wish the guidelines you could be banned for were more minimal. Eg: only for illegal things that you’re legally forced to ban.

ITS REAL THANKSGIVING CAN I GET A HELL YA BROTHER

I think Scott's "Much More Than You Wanted To Know" posts a lot when I think about what Elicit should be. Key things that seem hard: - digging really deep into a small set of specific seminal papers - careful thinking about the methodologies, biases - weighing various effect sizes against each-other

Gonna start collecting bottles of starch spray like cases of fine wine

There are some emotional states that are basically inaccessible to me absent the right music at sufficient volume

About to appreciate the past

🤯 wondewin'... if da most powewful thing we can do... is weave a thwead of cuwiosity... in da tapestry of anothew's thoughts... 🧵💭

Need a friend who I trust wrt fashion who can be responsible for telling me when stuff I do sucks

What if I try to bring back Nelsonic as an eponym

Any Super Supportive readers here in the hinterlands?

I just had a dream where someone referenced a past event. On waking, I realized that said event was from a dream I had months ago, that I had long forgotten Interesting that one can have memories only accessible via dream

Just had a dream, during which someone referenced an event that had occurred in the past. After waking, I realized that said event was itself part of a different dream from months ago, that I had long since forgotten Interesting for there to be memories only accessible via dream

People hate Victorian poetry for being overwrought and predictable but that’s why it’s good actually

Kinda silly Kaiser prescribed me E with like no hassle after one appt but still hasn’t given me the hormone panel I asked for

I feel like I say this as a haha joke but actually it’s not a joke