Battled half a dozen people to get a perfect symmetry. Or is it?
I’m ready to return to good old chalkboard www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...
How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)
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great report from Yale. hope we see changes in university practices www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...
Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems
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A woman with an ultra-rare combination of three autoimmune diseases has had no symptoms since receiving a single dose of engineered immune cells go.nature.com/4c2dZRh
One woman, three autoimmune diseases: CAR-T therapy vanquishes ultra-rare disease trio
Nature - Fourteen months after treatment with engineered immune cells, the recipient has no symptoms and doesn’t need to take medication.
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Quite alarming "... statistical patterns show that early-career investigators—assistant professors, postdoctoral scholars, trainees, and graduate students—were disproportionately affected, as were women." doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
How the 2025 NIH grant terminations varied by researchers’ demographic groups | PNAS
In early 2025, the NIH unexpectedly terminated 2,291 active research grants, withdrawing $2.45 billion and disrupting thousands of projects. While ...
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I submitted a ticket to our comm. dept. that my office phone was not working. After getting my phone fixed I noticed a voice message left on my phone. It's the comm. dept., telling me to submit a ticket to a different website. How was I supposed to know this when my phone was not working???
A new MRI protocol described in #ScienceAdvances can scan the human #brain and its venous network in under 7 minutes, marking it as a potential tool for diagnosing cerebrovascular diseases and monitoring neurodegeneration. https://scim.ag/4qlc2nO
Whole-brain meso-vein imaging in living humans using fast 7-T MRI
In vivo 7-T MRI maps the entire human brain’s veins at high resolution in minutes.
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AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds www.nature.com/articles/d41... the fact that article states "a hopeful lesson is that civility and facts still matter" shows how polarizing and visceral our current political discourse is. Are we not even better than an AI?
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds
Conversations with AI can sway people’s political views. Concerningly, a chatbot’s facts are not always accurate, especially when it supports right-wing positions.
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According to the latest article in Science (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) “our findings provide a potential pathway for platforms to address these challenges through algorithmic interventions”. The problem is whether these platforms willingly change algorithms at the expense of engagement.
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
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Absolutely loved this paper. Really addresses my personal gripes of not having isotropic voxel size in microscopy imaging rdcu.be/eRgYm
Isotropic, aberration-corrected light sheet microscopy for rapid high-resolution imaging of cleared tissue
Nature Biotechnology - A light-sheet microscope built from off-the-shelf components enables high-resolution clear tissue imaging.
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In one moment, more than 39,000 feet of lights wrapping the 68-foot Norwegian evergreen came to life, as fireworks lit up downtown Chicago and thousands let out a cheer for the holiday season.
City lights official Christmas tree at Millennium Park
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Accumulating daily steps in longer bouts of walking is better for the heart than taking multiple short walks go.nature.com/47LvbXE
Longer walks beat shorter strolls for heart health
Nature - People who rack up most of their daily steps in walks lasting less than five minutes have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease than do those who amass their steps in big blocks.
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Take away: "Overall, our findings highlight the complexity of the relationship between political control and federal science funding, challenging conventional narratives and providing a more nuanced understanding of the bipartisan dynamics at play."
Partisan disparities in the funding of science in the United States
Republican lawmakers consistently provided robust federal funding, often exceeding Democrats
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20 Years Ago, Alinea Electrified Chicago Dining. Does It Still Matter? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/d...
20 Years Ago, Alinea Electrified Chicago Dining. Does It Still Matter?
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Scientists have mapped individual sugar molecules on the surface of cells at a resolution once thought to be impossible for light microscopes go.nature.com/40I9Ewv
Cell's sugar coating mapped at below-nanometre resolution
Nature - Super-resolution technique works with off-the-shelf optical microscopes.
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“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research.” scim.ag/3Gz4VWW
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
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Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com: Cuts to NIH funding will impact the economy and employment nationwide. We visualize these losses and advocate for a theory-driven approach to communicating local, self-relevant impact. w/ @joshuasweitz.bsky.social + SCIMaP team: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment
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A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week.
Rare Chicago dust storm reignites debates over the role of agriculture, experts say
A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week during a type of dust storm mostly se…
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"An affront to the First Amendment." NPR, PBS, and local stations across the U.S. are balking at President Trump's order to eliminate funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/b...
NPR and PBS Vow to Fight Trump’s Order to Cut Funding
NPR called the order, which could upend public media, “an affront to the First Amendment.”
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pretty cool study demonstrating the fate selection of mesenchyme into chondrogenic vs. fibrogenic by Pdgfra rdcu.be/eklPT
PDGFRα signaling regulates cartilage and fibrous tissue differentiation during synovial joint development
Nature Communications - While the embryonic limb bud expresses PDGFRα, its role during limb development is unknown. Here, the authors show that elevated PDGFRα signaling causes joint...
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