👏🏽👏🏽 Thanks to vaccines, Australia is on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035 news.uq.edu.au/2026-08-20-y...

20 years. Millions of lives saved. One revolutionary vaccine

Gardasil 20-year anniversary story.

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The tools to develop new drugs and vaccines have improved enormously, so why haven't we cured all diseases yet? Medical innovation isn't just about the science - it's about the funding, incentives and institutions, and most importantly, on people who choose to solve problems.

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 2w ago

It's finally here! I gave a TED talk in April in Vancouver, and it was released online today. You can watch it here: ted.com/talks/saloni... I've also adapted it into an article, which was published last week: worksinprogress.co/issue/future...

🚛 Electric trucks are closer than the EU thinks Modelling real routes, researchers found 19% of heavy truck kilometres already make economic sense electric today. By 2035 that hits 77%, well past the EU's 2030 target. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-76265-1 #ClimateTech #Freight #Science 🧪

Cost competitiveness of alternative heavy-duty truck technologies under real-world utilisation profiles - Nature Communications

Accounting for heterogeneous truck usage patterns, battery electric trucks outperform diesel trucks in total cost of ownership for most heavy-duty road freight activity in key European markets by 2030...

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When it comes to your children’s health, listen to doctors. Not a president who once told Americans to inject bleach. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ immunization recommendations have not changed.

I LOVE A MAP 🗺️ What would you bring back? #BookSky

BIG NEW piece by me. A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.

Every disease is a policy failure

Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.

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Library funding is tied to usage.

Enrollment is closing this week for our Applied Bayesian Modeling course, starting August 10. Join Christopher Fonnesbeck and @allendowney.bsky.social for 8 live sessions covering PyMC, MCMC, hierarchical modeling, and causal inference. Secure your spot: dub.sh/do8Hrox #Bayesian #PyMC

Big Tech’s PR Playbook for Overcoming Data Center Opponents www.techpolicy.press/big-techs-pr...

Big Tech’s PR Playbook for Overcoming Data Center Opponents

The tech industry is pulling from tried-and-tested playbooks to bypass and securitize public opposition, write Dean Jackson and Sam Totoni.

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A sentence I would rather never hear, yet here we are: "Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly". #ClimateChange 🧪 Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL118804​

One thing to look out for is tracking lines, which are a clue that an infection is getting worse. www.iflscience.com/parents-warn...

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My radical suggestion for peer review: Move from nominal pre-publication review to explicit post-publication review. The original reason for peer review was that journal pages are a limited resource, so we need a filter before publication. That no longer makes sense with digital publishing. 1/

💡 Blosc2 tip: build big on-disk arrays from small ones. (rows + cols).compute(urlpath="big.b2nd", mode="w") Chunk by chunk: similar speed, ~26× less peak memory. blosc.org/python-blosc... Compress Better, Compute Bigger 🚀 #Python #Blosc2

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Know someone interested in working with Marcus Hutter? www.aixi.uk/team/opportu...

The trade-off of working in a government research institute rather than in academia is that while you don't teach, you do have other responsibilities in the form of state-mandated tasks. A short thread (1/5 🧵) on one of them which been keeping me busy at sea recently. 🌊

The call for Social Events at NeurIPS 2026 is now open for Sydney, Paris and Atlanta! 📢 Have an idea that could bring the AI community together? We'd love to hear from you!

A set of more than 100 problems, in AI for science, articulated for a VC target audience. https://encode-challengescape.pillar.vc/

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Spot on. H/t Dagmar Monett. www.wikihow.life/Reply-Guy

Change the incentives. Measure the percentage of papers by an author that are "good" to promote quality over quantity. Only allow an author to list 3 papers per year on their CV? Kill citation counts and H indices.

One of @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev's best essays. open.substack.com/pub/noahpini...

The American age was the human age

Reflections on 250 years.

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We need you 📣 We know most people stand with the trans community, but a small minority people want the trans community to disappear. Add your voice so we can show how many people stand with trans community: https://goodlaw.social/z073

At @arxiv.bsky.social, we are receiving a new type of paper that I call an "I did this experiment" paper. These papers typically report some experiment with an LLM or LLM "agentic" workflow. They are the kind of experiments an "insider" engineer would run to optimize a system. 1/

This is so cool. eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now...

heads up: FreeBSD forums hacked. Be caeeful with your email or DMs coming from FreeBSD forum or freebsd{.}org for some time now. https:// forums {.} freebsd {.} org/

1/ Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new—an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.

Nerds, @hopkinspress.bsky.social is having a big sale on books, with many science and nature titles up to 80% off! 🧪🌍