So there currently a raging debate on X, Bluesky & other platforms where people are using a drop in Cloudflare's YandexBot traffic to claim that right-wing online engagement is falling. radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238... That conclusion doesn't follow from the data.

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We are now in the era where the content of conference slides can be used by others for nefarious means

Ruha Benjamin@ruha9.bsky.social · 3d ago

The concern is that people take photos of slides and circulate content that puts orgs in the crosshairs of this repressive administration.

St Cwyfan's Church-in-the-Sea, Anglesey, north Wales, photo by Victoria Ashman.

Open access research on how student survivors navigate institutional betrayal and barriers. I expect #AcademicSky will find this useful as we continue to try to support our students & work on institutional accountability. (Not sure if authors Wilf, et. al. are here...please chime in if so!)

The Survivors’ Calculus: How University Survivors Navigate Healing Amid Institutional Betrayal - Sara Wilf, Kalani Phillips, Laura Knittig, Leila Chiddick, Rachel LaPointe, Rina Rossi, Stephanie Katha...

Student survivors of sexual violence face barriers to accessing healing resources. This community-driven study analyzed open-ended responses from 387 survivors ...

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Innovative Surgical Trends, the new peer-reviewed journal co-owned by SAGES and EAES, is seeking volunteers to join its editorial review board. For more information: www.sages.org/ist-call-for...

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

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Amputating the wrong limb is entirely preventable and is a harbinger for medicolegal type legal action to then ensue

The Washington Times@washtimes.bsky.social · last wk.

An Ohio Army veteran is suing Selby General Hospital after surgeons accidentally amputated her left leg instead of her right leg during a scheduled procedure to treat skin cancer, ultimately leaving her a double amputee when the correct leg was removed months later. trib.al/XLsnTjs

I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2w ago

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

I cannot fathom the logic of the person who loads a Meta AI tool onto anything containing their personal data

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 2w ago

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

So, if you hand over your hard-earned research data (in this case to an AI platform), it should not come as a surprise that the people behind the platform might actually use it themselves (and then push on to publish it)!

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2w ago

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

This is music to my ears ....... the increasing use of AI in healthcare will lead to secondary issues (and the burgeoning $$$ cost is just one of them).

Rheumecraig 🇨🇦@rheumecraig.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’ve been banging this drum about AI scribes too. It’s an Expensive bandaid to the problem of excessive documentation burden and poor data organization due to shitty EHRs. The better approach would be to make EHRs for medicine not billing, and reduce the documentation requirements!

one of the big skills in medicine (and probably everything) is knowing: 1- what I need to KNOW 2- what I need to know enough about to look up details 3- what I don't know and need to look up and/or talk to someone else

Emily Moin@emilymoin.com · 2w ago

Learners I've trained know one of my hobby horses is "stuff you just have to memorize" (for internists: opioid, corticosteroid, and diuretic conversions). Until acute care is delivered through autonomous closed loop systems – which I think is further off than anyone realizes – this will remain true.

ABC's Australian Story tonight was excellent. It's about Australia's first Indigenous ophthalmologist. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

Eyes on the Prize | Kris Rallah-Baker

Follow the latest headlines from ABC News, Australia's most trusted media source, with live events, audio and on-demand video from the national broadcaster.

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Government regulators are accusing some of these telehealth companies of deceptive, unethical business practices, including disclosing their customers’ health data, signing them up for hard-to-cancel subscriptions and bypassing real-time consultations with doctors. apnews.com/article/tele...

Telehealth companies keep exposing their customers' medical data. What should they do?

It's not hard to explain why business is booming for telehealth companies. The apps and websites offer quick, convenient access to prescriptions for sensitive medical conditions, including weight loss...

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So, the big question, I think, is what do we want our machines to do for us? Do we want machines that turn fossil fuels into the illusion of status and the illusion of dominion?

"The union said that its members had rejected Elsevier’s pay offer, which “failed to offer a significant real-terms pay increase to staff” despite the company making an adjusted operating profit of more than £1 billion in 2025."

Workers at The Lancet to stage first strike in title’s history - Research Professional News

Union members at 200-year-old medical journal vote overwhelmingly to walk out over stagnating pay

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Sphagnum saves lives. Long used by Indigenous peoples, during WWI, it went from bog to battlefield, becoming a critical wound dressing because of its absorbency and antimicrobial properties. A moss that evolved to manage water in bogs ended up managing wounds on battlefields. 5/

September 16 is Plover Appreciation Day - so I'm offering this rare and special hooded plover for you all to appreciate. These nest on beaches and are very vulnerable to predators (including humans). They are the sweetest little birds. I love seeing them.

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Happy Sundew Sunday! Want to learn 5 super cool facts about miniature-yet-so-complex sundew plants? Follow along to learn some unusual botany. 🧵 1/

Only 19% of kidney transplant referrals progress to the waitlist in the United States. 50% never even initiate formal evaluation. A new national study exposes… https://news.gmj.ge/briefs/key-finding-half-of-kidney-transplant-candidates-never-begin-evaluation-us-study-reveals/

Key Finding: Half of kidney transplant candidates never begin evaluation, US study reveals

Only 19% of kidney transplant referrals progress to the waitlist in the United States. 50% never even initiate formal evaluation. A new national study exposes…

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Oversight, standards needed for ethical integration of AI into public health systems, physicians say Without proper vetting and governance, AI tools pose risks to patients, especially those from underserved communities, the authors write. Read more: https://bit.ly/4xpuzSt

We should talk more about what a travesty the bibliography of OpenAI is 16 measly citations for a 165-page paper, of which 5 are just the problem statement. Only 7 are from this century. They failed to cite the method they used. And the guy whom they offered single-authorship & the Millennium Prize

The Navier-Stokes fight is a perfect encapsulation of where AI development is right now: this should be really cool and exciting, and instead because of Silicon Valley egos it's become a fight over cheating, surveillance, and companies trying to get one up over the other

I believe you might know this flower as #willowherb or #fireweed In late summer, this is one of my favorite plants to #photograph. Fields and forests in #norway are full of them. #photography #fujifilm #xt5 #flower #plants #sunset

This is some read. This is about doctors in one very large New Zealand hospital mislabeling a young woman with a rare gastrointestinal disorder and attributing her condition to being self-inflicted. #Medicolegal

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · last mo.

Years of struggling against an accusation of faking her illness were finally relieved when a genetic test revealed a rare disorder

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