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submitted 2 days ago • 419 comments

Twenty seven states and the District of Columbia are suing 23andMe to stop it from auctioning its customers genetic data as part of bankruptcy proceedings. I’ve read elsewhere only 15 percent of customers have asked to delete their data. The rest seem optimistic their genetic data won’t be misused.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Obscure but important: The Big Bill threatens to at least disrupt if not kill the reliability of money market rates (SOFR) and the limited amount of important data watchdogs have to monitor hedge fund borrowing and activity, which is critical to tracking risks in shadow banking >>

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

all the while wondering if your PPE would fail, or if you'd bring the pathogen home to your family somehow this never comes up in most criticisms of the acute response to COVID-19 the lack of resources was immense and not the fault of medical or scientific professionals on the front lines

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I also reject the notion that "most biomedical literature is unreliable/untrue." This is simply not the case. The vast majority of biomedical research is so reliable we don't even think about it. And yes, some studies and even subfields have issues, but let's acknowledge all the things that work. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

submitted 5 days ago • 114 comments

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

submitted 6 days ago • 77 comments

A cis women's rugby team played a trans women's rugby team and won 34-7. Naturally, Oliver Brown, who likes that his job gives him free reign to attack women, is not pleased, perhaps because he's spent years telling us how shit cis women are at everything

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

Telling the same lie they told about Portland in 2020.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Almost all Nobel Prizes are awarded for work that is exploratory, or absolutely basic science with no obvious commercial or medical benefit. You cannot predict where advancements come from, so you have to invest in science and scientists. Targeted (corporate) science investment will never do this.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

This is one the most authentic, frustrating, and alarming inside looks at what pressure, cuts and "forced" retirement have done to a critical National Weather Service forecast office. Worth a read to illustrate what many of us have been saying www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

It’s not just people and scientific expertise we’re losing. History is being erased. www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

“It is very disturbing that your response is always to lie.” amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt just began speaking at the annual #StateoftheScience address in Washington, D.C. McNutt is expected to address the challenges researchers are facing in a rapidly changing scientific landscape. 🧵👇

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Gila monsters! One of the rare venomous reptiles. A peptide in their saliva/venom, exendin-4, is the basis of GLP-1 agonists, like semaglutide, to regulate insulin. We developed the first draft sequence of the Gila monster genome and are working on updating this now with newer technology.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

NEWSLETTER: The best way to understand how society will value GenAI is to look at polyester's rise and fall: from a high-tech miracle fiber to a one-word symbol for tastelessness culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Bazillionaires, who could literally afford ALL THE THERAPY, instead spending their treasure to make their weird issues with their fellow humans into public policy.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

ICYMI meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

QotD: Academia today is precarious, and honesty is necessary, but fear is a poor leadership strategy. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 467 comments

ICYMI: After years of hearing complaints that it's hard to get good career advice in marine biology, I assembled an expert panel to answer your questions about graduate school, where to find jobs, what skills are needed, and much, much more. 🦑🧪🌎🦈🐟

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Something for those of you who have had health equity projects dropped by federal funders: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

When we would come home from school and watch Star Trek reruns on TV, all the other little girls wanted to kiss Kirk. I wanted to BE Spock

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I cannot tell why this was exactly

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

clear, depressing set of observations from @randomwalker.bsky.social - "The decline of reading-for-pleasure (due to video) and reading-for-information (due to AI) will accelerate each other, as reading text without an intermediary will come to be seen as a chore."

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

My quote of the day (Three parts from Elias Zerhouni on being a leader) First you have to have a big heart. Because if you don't have a big heart you will never be able to lead....You have to have a passion. You have to believe in some things that are your core values. 1/3

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.

submitted 21 days ago • 37 comments

This EO is a lot of words for a rule that basically says, political appointees will overrule scientists in deciding what the government considers factual information.

submitted 21 days ago • 27 comments

If you work with faculty whose ESI eligibility (NIH applications) ended/ends Oct 2024 to June 2025, they're getting an extension to Oct 2025. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... h/t NORDP list

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

TL;DR: AI is so much dumber than you think, aka it is not actually „intelligent“ at all, it can‘t remotely do what most people seem to think it already can, it‘s just good at faking human „thinking“. There is no ghost in the machine. Please stop falling for the grift.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

This is what we’ve been saying. Without a federal department of education enforcing these laws, they will go unheeded. IDEA only matters if the feds make it matter.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

“We must not forget what the “S” in NWS stands for - Service. Whether you are in a rural community or a big city, their service is unwavering when they have the appropriate resources. No your app can’t replace them. Your app depends on their service too.” — @drshepherd2013.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

submitted 28 days ago • 71 comments

After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%. So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.

submitted 29 days ago • 159 comments

If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...

submitted 30 days ago • 222 comments

If you're nearby, I highly recommend wearing high-quality respirators. A building this age emits toxic fumes due to the use of paints, varnishes, and stains with heavy metals. Plus, the larger particulate matter in the smoke can harm your lungs and heart.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I still just don’t know WHY this is a thing. When I tried to put ChatGPT through its paces to see what people were talking about, even the Generic Extruded Fantasy Product was sub-par. Are these people going through and picking out decent individual sentences? That just seems like so much WORK.

submitted 30 days ago • 33 comments

new citation debate: Chicago, MLA, or hallucination

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

when a language slurry generator tells you something accurate, it’s dumb luck at best

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

submitted 30 days ago • 74 comments

My quote of the day The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. Edward Abbey

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment