He wasn’t just censored. They altered his responses to NYT questions on his publication Egregious. www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...
Top researcher quits NIH, citing censorship under RFK Jr. | CNN
Dr. Kevin Hall joins The Lead
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Parisa Rashidi
@parisarashidi.bsky.social
Scientist, Medical AI Researcher, Humanist Founding Co-director of @UF_IC3 Center and director of @UFiHealLab #AI4Health Opinions my own. She/her.
Isn't it wonderful that AI is auto-generating my commit messages? Took away all the guilt of not including enough details!
We're very excited to introduce TAPNext: a model that sets a new state-of-art for Tracking Any Point in videos, by formulating the task as Next Token Prediction. For more, see: tap-next.github.io
Google just open sourced a Python Agent Development Kit @ github.com/google/adk-p... Native Streaming and #MCP support out of the box 👀 github.com/google/adk-s...
2 important papers @nature.com today indicate the potential for A.I. to improve diagnostic accuracy and overall clinical performance for patient management and interactions nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta just dropped Llama 4 on a weekend! Two new open weight models (Scout and Maverick) and a preview of a model called Behemoth - Scout has a 10 million token context Best information right now appears to be this blog post: ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
The Llama 4 herd: The beginning of a new era of natively multimodal AI innovation
We’re introducing Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, the first open-weight natively multimodal models with unprecedented context support and our first built using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architect...
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These cuts would be catastrophic for the humanities and for communities around the country - you can contact your reps to oppose these cuts here: p2a.co/DdtlGIT We should be increasing resources for humanities scholarship and programs, not cutting them! 🗃️
URGENT: Save the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
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Rob Townsend@rbtownsend.bsky.social · last yr.Brutal: “The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent.” bit.ly/3EfIPrg
It is hard enough to recruit one qualified researcher. Even if the next administration tries to reinstate all these offices, it would be a tall order to find and recruit all the qualified researchers again, they already have moved on.
Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · last yr.The HHS Friday evening DOGE www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
Discovery of a new class of natural antibiotics with a new mode of action to address antimicrobial resistance, a major unmet need @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome - Nature
A new lasso peptide antibiotic exhibits broad-spectrum activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis, is unaffected by common resistanc...
nature.com
This is catastrophic for pancreatic cancer patients
Cosimo Commisso@cosimocommisso.bsky.social · last yr.
🥁Introducing Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent model with impressive capabilities in advanced reasoning and coding. Now integrating thinking capabilities, 2.5 Pro Experimental is our most performant Gemini model yet. It’s #1 on the LM Arena leaderboard. 🥇
NEW: Trump canceled grants funding cancer and Alzheimer’s research at Columbia University. DOGE then listed the millions of dollars from those terminated grants on its “savings” page. My story for @notusreports.bsky.social www.notus.org/health-scien...
The Trump Administration Cut Cancer and Alzheimer’s Research Funding at Columbia University
His administration terminated a $5 million grant to the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center — and listed the exact dollar amount among DOGE’s “savings.”
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Please pay attention to what is going on with the deportation mess. Individual rights are being trampled so ICE can make quota.
Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · last yr.1/ For many Americans, deporting violent gang members will sound like a good idea, constitutional niceties be damned. They are the perfect group of people for a government test case. joycevance.substack.com/p/deportatio...
🚀 Our latest paper presented at #SIGCSE2025. @snsie.bsky.social, my postdoc, has developed NeuRL, a no-code, web-based platform for real-time exploring of neural networks and reinforcement learning (RL). 🔗 neu-rl.netlify.app 📜 paper: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... Here's a brief overview 🧵👇
I regret to announce that the meme Turing Test has been passed LLMs produce funnier memes than the average human, as judged by humans. Humans working with AI get no boost (a finding that is coming up often in AI-creativity work) The best human memers still beat AI, however. arxiv.org/abs/2501.11433
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
My latest post is now out. I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook. This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must! christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
christinapagel.substack.com
I just shared a new article, "The State of Reasoning Models", where I am exploring 12 new research articles on improving the reasoning capabilities of LLMs (all published after the release of DeepSeek R1): magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-l... Happy reading!
The State of LLM Reasoning Models
Part 1: Inference-Time Compute Scaling Methods
magazine.sebastianraschka.com
This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...
Here's the handout for my "Cutting-edge web scraping techniques" workshop at #NICAR2025 this morning github.com/simonw/nicar... Plus some extra notes on the custom software I built to support the workshop: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/c...
Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR
Here's the handout for a workshop I presented this morning at [NICAR 2025](https://www.ire.org/training/conferences/nicar-2025/) on web scraping, focusing on lesser know tips and tricks that became po...
simonwillison.net
Open science can be more than just publishing datasets. It also includes how studies are designed and executed. Find some #OpenScience inspiration in @royalsociety.org Open Science article: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Provide proactive reproducible analysis transparency with every publication | Royal Society Open Science
The high incidence of irreproducible research has led to urgent appeals for transparency and equitable practices in open science. For the scientific disciplines that rely on computationally intensive ...
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Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the A.M. Turing Award for developing the theoretical foundations of reinforcement learning, a key method behind many major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. 🧵
From what I can tell, the 18F group within the federal government was one of the most effective teams at bringing modern software practices and modernizing many government agencies' approach to technology. Laying off people in this group seems antithetical to improving government efficiency.
John Skiles Skinner@skiles.blue · last yr.I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org