Dr. Matt Schabath
@matthewschabath.bsky.social
Ph.D Epidemiologist ~ Cancer Researcher ~ Guitarist ~ USN Veteran ~ Bourbon Enthusiast ~ Detroiter in FL ~ Ally Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W_8qYaIAAAAJ&hl=en PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=schabath+m&sort=date
🧪🧪 Patrick Stewart dies: how Captain Picard inspired today’s science leaders -- Researchers say his portrayal of the Star Trek character represented curiosity, thoughtfulness and an effort to understand others. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Patrick Stewart dies: how Captain Picard inspired today’s science leaders
Researchers say his portrayal of the Star Trek character represented curiosity, thoughtfulness and an effort to understand others.
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🧪🧪 The Moon may have squeezed Earth’s first continents into existence -- As our young planet spun down, its bulging shape gave way to a sphere, driving the formation of continental crust. www.science.org/content/arti...
The Moon may have squeezed Earth’s first continents into existence
As our young planet spun down, its bulging shape gave way to a sphere, driving the formation of continental crust
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🧪🧪 "I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper: Here’s What Happened My experiment with an IEEE journal revealed AI’s threats to scholarly publishing" spectrum.ieee.org/ai-generated...
I Tried to Fool a Scientific Publisher With AI
My experiment with an IEEE journal revealed AI’s threats to scholarly publishing
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.@nam.edu announces new members for 2027 The list includes Anthony Letai, Kathleen Burns, William Frist, Roy Herbst, Ross Levine, Fred Ramsdell, Dennis Slamon, Elizabeth Swisher, Albert Koong, Charles Roberts https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20261023_5/
🧪🧪This is what the mysterious Denisovans looked like -- Archaeologists identified skulls from China as belonging to this group of ancient human relatives. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is what the mysterious Denisovans looked like
Archaeologists identified skulls from China as belonging to this group of ancient human relatives.
nature.com
🧪Google launches Deep Review AI tool to help researchers catch manuscript errors. www.rdworldonline.com/google-launc...
Google opens Deep Review AI tool to help researchers catch manuscript errors
Google Research on Oct. 14 released Deep Review, an AI system designed to flag mathematical errors, logical gaps and unsupported claims in technical documents. The public launch follows pilots that pr...
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🧪🧪 Moffitt's Department of Cancer Epidemiology has a position open for a Tenure-Earning Faculty Position. This position is targeting early-stage investigators especially if they have experience in bladder cancer, GIS, big data, AI/multimodal modeling, & environmental exposures. See the link below
Tenure-Earning Faculty Position – Cancer Epidemiology
Working at Moffitt is both a career and a mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer. As the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Florida, Mo...
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🧪🧪 Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers, first-of-its-kind tool trove reveals -- Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives www.science.org/content/arti...
Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers, first-of-its-kind tool trove reveals
Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives
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🧪🧪 In a clinical trial among adults with obesity, retatrutide resulted in significant weight reduction, reduced pain in participants with knee osteoarthritis, and reduced apnea–hypopnea events in participants with obstructive sleep apnea www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Retatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJM
Retatrutide is a triple-receptor agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide-1, and glucagon receptors. In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, we assign...
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🧪 The first face of early mankind? Ancient human who lived 315,000 years ago is simulated by digital reconstruction www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/9/...
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The White House considered, but ultimately abandoned, a plan to create a panel that would review NIH grants in an effort to weed out projects the administration regards as “woke.” https://cancerletter.com/news-analysis/20260925_3/
Trump weighs—and abandons—an executive order that would give OMB veto power over NIH grants - The Cancer Letter
The White House last week considered, but ultimately abandoned, a plan to create a panel that would review NIH grants in
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🎸 Pearl Jam Surprise Perform With Drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. at Ohana Festival - The band played "Corduroy" as their first song with the ferocious musician behind the kit www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Pearl Jam Surprise Perform With Drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. at Ohana Festival
Pearl Jam performed with longtime Paul McCartney drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. at Ohana Festival on Friday night.
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🧪🧪 NIH details $170 million biomedical research reproducibility effort -- Agency director announces literature search tool, other plans to improve reliability of science findings www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH details $170 million biomedical research reproducibility effort
Agency director announces literature search tool, other plans to improve reliability of science findings
science.org
🧪 New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century - Called Tilcayo by local communities, it is part of a group called tiger cats found across much of South America www.reuters.com/business/env...
New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century
A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described i...
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🧪🧪Study: Alcohol-attributable cancer deaths in the United States doubled between 1990 and 2023; a disproportionate burden observed in males and 55 years and older individuals. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Alcohol-attributable cancer mortality in the United States, 1990–2023: a secondary analysis of Global Burden of Disease data
Alcohol-attributable cancer mortality has increased in the USA, with a disproportionate burden observed in males and 55 years and older individuals. Our findings highlight the critical need for target...
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🧪 Global, regional, and national prevalence of second-hand smoke and attributable disease burden -- ☑ estimated 2.71 billion people worldwide were exposed to SHS, including 767 million children ☑ SHS remains a substantial driver of global health loss pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42705247/
Global, regional, and national prevalence of second-hand smoke and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 - PubMed
Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Gates Foundation.
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🧪 Phone-based tutoring improves learning during school closures - One-to-one phone sessions substantially increased students’ numeracy test scores in low- and middle-income countries that experience emergencies that disrupt schooling www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Phone-based tutoring improves learning during school closures
One-to-one phone sessions substantially increased students’ numeracy test scores in low- and middle-income countries that experience emergencies that disrupt schooling.
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Stocks retreat as U.S. oil prices top $100, threatening economy www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/s...
Stocks retreat as U.S. oil prices top $100, threatening economy: Live updates
The first of two inflation reports due this week is in focus as oil prices rise.
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Gas prices hit record Labor Day high as oil turmoil drives up costs www.consumeraffairs.com/news/gas-pri...
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Who is Karl Bushby and why is he walking around the world? -- British adventurer Karl Bushby is nearing the end of his 36,000-mile (58,000km), 28-year journey from South America to his home city of Hull. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Who is Karl Bushby and why is he walking around the world?
The British adventurer set off from Chile in 1998 and is close to finishing his global walk in Hull.
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🧪🧪Newly discovered ‘demon cave fish’ hid out in Alabama military installation for 40 years -- Scientists named this oddball creature after the Demogorgon from Stranger Things www.scientificamerican.com/article/newl...
Newly discovered ‘demon cave fish’ hid out in Alabama military installation for 40 years
Scientists named this oddball creature after the Demogorgon from Stranger Things
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🧪🧪 Journal retracts paper claiming network of corridors inside the Great Pyramid of Giza - a reader “brought concerns to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding methodological issues with this article.” retractionwatch.com/2026/08/31/r...
Journal retracts paper claiming network of corridors inside the Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu.Douwe C. van der Zee/Wikimedia Commons A journal has retracted a paper by two Italian scientists who claimed to have found hidden struc…
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🧪🧪Nature: When AI writes the words, who is the author? -- After an AI detector classified one of my opinion pieces as entirely AI-generated, I found myself questioning where authorship ends, where expertise begins and what readers deserve to know. www.nature.com/articles/d44...
When AI writes the words, who is the author?
After an AI detector classified one of my opinion pieces as entirely AI-generated, I found myself questioning where authorship ends, where expertise begins and what readers deserve to know.
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🧪🧪 A Science investigation casts doubt on genes hailed for warding off Alzheimer’s disease -- Mutations found in Colombian families raised hopes for treatments. Altered patient data and suspect images call their benefits into question www.science.org/content/arti...
Science investigation casts doubt on genes hailed for warding off Alzheimer’s disease
Mutations found in Colombian families raised hopes for treatments. Altered patient data and suspect images call their benefits into question
science.org
🧪🧪American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable strategic plan: Opportunities in advanced imaging across the lung cancer care continuum acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable strategic plan: Opportunities in advanced imaging across the lung cancer care continuum
The American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable is a consortium of organizations and experts dedicated to reducing deaths from lung cancer. As part of the Roundtable, this article address...
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🧪🧪 Johnson & Johnson to pay $5.5 billion settlement in talc cancer lawsuit www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Johnson & Johnson to pay $5.5bn settlement in talc cancer lawsuit
Landmark deal covers about 76,000 claims and could end contentious, decade-long legal battle
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BRCA-negative patients may still be high-risk for breast cancer, study finds https://cancerletter.com/clinical-roundup/20260807_8b/
BRCA-negative patients may still be high-risk for breast cancer, study finds - The Cancer Letter
Women who test negative for BRCA gene mutations may still be at greater risk of developing breast cancer than the genera
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