TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

I really do unironically feel like this all the time

Gli Ziziani sono una setta razionalista Usa tipica dei nostri giorni: hanno gravi accuse, e sono un misto di anarchismo, culto della scienza, complottismo e adorazione dell'inferenza bayesiana. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... #antropologia #Nuovereligioni #NRM #NMR

Three new manuscripts from Faryabi and Vahedi labs on chromatin folding, ORCA, oncogene regulation and T1D immunology. Individually great, collectively unstoppable. @faryabi.bsky.social @vahedilab.bsky.social @atishayjay.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4nwfbeu2 tinyurl.com/4zaw5cn7 tinyurl.com/25snbf4j

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. english.elpais.com/s... 1/3

This latest review synthesizes evidence on the complex relationship between metabolic dysregulation and innate #Immune memory and proposes that targeting #TrainedImmunity may offer novel strategies for diabetes intervention. #medsky #OpenAccess: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Medsky🧪#Neurosky @jama.com #Peripheralneuropathy (PN) , defined as damage to PN , affects ~ 1% of adults worldwide. More than 200 causes of PN exist, with symptoms ranging in severity from mild toe numbness to debilitating symptoms that can require a wheelchair… jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

@natrevimmunol.nature.com Guidelines for T cell nomenclature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Prashant Singh in the lab of Tina Iverson at Vanderbilt published this image of the bacterial 🦠flagellar motor, a detailed molecular model made possibly by CryoEM 🔬. The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.

It's starting the AIpocalypse

just sharing here as I was reminded it's on github, in case people wanna make copies: github.com/oliviaguest/... the cogsci hexagon: A visual depiction of the connections between the Cognitive Sciences

sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate: ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires futurism.com/artificial-i...

All our articles with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and others are collected here too olivia.science/ai

Thrilled that this work is (finally) out! We argue that the human brain contains parallel systems for understanding people and places. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/

𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸? In a sense yes, but does network science help us understand the brain as a complex system? Intriguing paper. If anything the paper has 800+ refs! #neuroskyence #complexsystems doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

Before ACA, many Americans couldn’t afford insurance Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26 He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance

Earlier this year, we released a special issue titled “The Unraveling of Space-Time.” We cover black holes, holograms, and “alien algebra.” Explore the series:

I have somehow never read Breakfast of Champions and holy hell in three pages Vonnegut sums it all up - colonialism, racism, income inequality, and a guy who owns a car dealership who reads a scifi novel and takes away the wrong idea

Breaking news: US stocks have dropped as jitters over highly elevated valuations for many artificial intelligence companies intensified and top Wall Street executives said markets were vulnerable to a pullback. on.ft.com/4hIMmhj

"A good way to learn German is to read children's books to familiarise yourself with basic grammar and vocabulary" German children's book:

We are excited to share our recent results on a new lncrna that functions to regulate proliferation in thp1 cells. This is the thesis work of Christy Montano.

An authoritative review on phagosome immunobiology by David Underhill and Kai Li. Highly recommend for anyone interested in innate immunity, antigen presentation, infection and host defense. @cedarssinai.bsky.social rdcu.be/eNIFY

#Medssky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky #Publichealth The innate immune system plays a pivotal role in pathogen defense via pattern recognition receptor sensing, initiating responses upon infection or vaccination.

A microscopic organism can survive the vacuum of space: yet our infrastructures collapse under a summer storm. Why? 👉 Because structure isn’t enough. Resilience depends on functionality. And we need a lot of network science to grasp it. 📖 manlius.substack.com/p/making-sen... #ComplexityThoughts

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #Neurosky #Immunosky #publichealth Studies in 🐁 & 33 AD patients . The researchers suggests that brain cholesterol deficiency can significantly contribute to the initiation & progression of #Alzheimer’sdisease (AD).

A Review of auto-Abs neutralizing type I IFN in patients with arboviral diseases: Auto-Abs against type I IFNs: Strong, common, and global determinants of severe arboviral diseases url: rupress.org/jhi/article/...

So I realize I’ve reposted this all day, but I cannot understate the scale of this story. If Anthropic is spending this much on Google Cloud - or even 25% - the costs of running their business are never coming down. It’s a huge scoop, and the first real discussion of the true costs of AI anywhere.

Here are two "I can't believe these are free" online stats texts books that cover both underlying principles and practical applications in R that I regularly refer to. Learning Statistics with R learningstatisticswithr.com Doing Meta-Analysis with R bookdown.org/MathiasHarre...

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

A startling biopsy. Severe acute TMA in a pt with suspected scleroderma renal crisis. Massive vascular thrombosis, mucoid intimal edema, and early onion skin change associated with severe cortical necrosis. #renalpath #nephsky #pathsky

Amazing to see data from the Sette group that may help in the fight against ALS; a disease that my mum lost her battle with nearly 4 years ago. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dr. Mary Brunkow is a 2025 Nobel laureate. In today’s @isbscience.org press conference, she shares the FOXP3 story, from a puzzling mouse to a discovery that reshaped immunology. 🎥 Watch the full video: youtu.be/vg61fbycGEk

"Spain’s rapid renewables build-out means its power prices were set by fossil generation just 19% of the time, down from 75% in 2019. As a result, wholesale electricity was almost a third cheaper than the EU average" Imagine having cheaper power Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

Ok so this is almost certainly not up your street but I LOVE this paper because it is simple, beautifully written and super clear. It's just a good paper and I fangirled the senior author about it in an email to him www.jneurosci.org/content/40/2...

I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.

pretty wild each day getting the play by play of everyone educated on it being like ok people here's exactly what's happening right now and we're all like yep that sure does seem to be what's happening we're all seeing it too but basically nobody having any real idea of what more to be done about it

Here’s a helpful chart to understand why people are panicking The country or your state’s immunity threshold doesn’t have to get to 0%. A 20% decrease in vaccination still has PALPABLE TANGIBLE CONSEQUENCES. Every seed of distrust harms ALL of us.

The cells of your body follow simple rules and play off one another to form a complete organism. The researcher Alexander Mordvintsev has developed “neural cellular automata,” building blocks that can self-assemble into any form. @georgemusser.com reports: www.quantamagazine.org/self-assembl...

Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms? Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

www.latimes.com/obituaries/s... RIP David Baltimore. A true giant of biomedical research. Made so many fundamental discoveries: Reverse transcriptase; NF-kB; Rag genes (among others) Also shut down his lab for a week in 1970 to protest the US invasion of Cambodia.

Just in time for #Cd1Mr12025 Our Review on Innate-like T cell Metabolism is out! Access free here: rdcu.be/eEV67 Please share with your Immunometabolism friends! @cd1mr1.bsky.social @lji.org @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com @natrevimmunol.nature.com

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I hope that when RFK Jr dies someday, someone has been hired and trained to capture whatever crawls out of the body, so that it doesn't find a new host