Another spectacular sunset over Santa Fe.

Rivian R2s are pretty sweet!

Excellent b-day dinner at Katsuya Ko! The crab handrolls and crispy rice are phenomenal!

New paper out today in Health Affairs: there has been a lot of attention on the increase in patient-initiated messages since 2020, but how are those messages distributed across physicians and patients? We use national + local EHR data to find out! www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

The Uneven Distribution Of Patient Portal Messages Across Patients And Physicians | Health Affairs Journal

Responding to patient-initiated portal messages is a growing source of work for physicians, yet little is known about how these messages are distributed across patients and physicians. Understanding t...

healthaffairs.org

Heading in for day 2 of the workshop at UCSD

AI job interview questions have jumped from 11.6% to 42.6% over three years. Students are noticing, with nearly a third using AI 11+ times a week. Despite their rapid adoption, nearly half of students still report concerns about academic integrity and AI dependence.

Exclusive: College students want ethical AI

The share of American University business students regularly using AI has increased from 6.2% to 29% over the past three years.

axios.com

"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." Take a few minutes to read the classic Bradbury short story: There Will Come Soft Rains.

We are going to be one of these datapoints. We installed solar about 2 years ago, and we are expanding our array this month in order to prepare for a full EV as our next car. A complete Cobra Effect of an administration.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Control over open-source AI is fracturing Silicon Valley. The administration weighed blacklisting Chinese models like Kimi, but retreated after intense pushback. Proprietary labs cite security risks, while hardware vendors argue open weights drive innovation.

White House Whipsaws Silicon Valley (and Itself) Over A.I. Rules (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has struggled over how to approach “open source” models, which are freely available to download and favored by Chinese companies.

nytimes.com

It might be silly, but it was a nice touch and it made me smile.

They suspect the Spokane fires were due to arson! That’s beyond heartbreaking.

Authorities arrest an arson suspect in connection with wildfires in Spokane

The suspect was arrested in connection with one of three wildfires in Spokane, Wash., that have destroyed hundreds of homes and displaced nearly a quarter of the city's residents.

npr.org

Setting up at UCSD's Supercomputer Center for the National Data Platform Education Hub Content Development Workshop. I'll be here for the next three days building some content for my classes.

Q&A with @devezer.bsky.social about metascience, open science, and her work in this area.

Q & A with Berna Devezer

Critical Metascience

markrubin.substack.com

Endorsed, you should totally hire @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz!

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

Please hire my partner so we can move somewhere that’s not Boston! (Also my partner is very smart and experienced):

Today's the day! It is the first day of my new class, Intro to AI for Clinical Students. It is the first product based off my AI-PACE framework paper we published this summer, and I can't wait to see how it lands with students! #MedSky #MedAI

Clinical-grade cancer detection usually requires highly curated training. PRISM2 does it out-of-the-box. Trained on 2.3M slide images and 14M clinical QA pairs, it answers direct diagnostic queries on new tissue samples with specialist-level accuracy. #MedSky #MedAI

End-to-end multimodal pathology foundation model with clinical dialogue - Nature Medicine

Trained on 2.3 million whole-slide images and 14 million clinical question−answer pairs, the multimodal foundation model PRISM2 matched clinical-grade cancer detection performance without…

nature.com

Google got the message

For a Day, Google Made It Easy to Spoof Satellite Imagery (Gift Article)

A new Google Earth tool allowed the creation of A.I. deepfake maps. The tech giant quickly pulled it back after a backlash and concerns about disinformation risks.

nytimes.com

Scott McGrath@smcgrath.phd · 5d ago

Imagine Wikipedia adding a “generate a plausible-looking citation for any claim you type’” button. Now imagine it comes with a photo to match.

🧪 Medical professionals are losing the attention war on YouTube. In a 3,958-video sample, independent creators produced the lowest quality content but captured the highest viewership using exaggeration. #MedSky

The credibility paradox: clickbait, engagement, and information quality in YouTube’s medical ecosystem - npj Digital Medicine

npj Digital Medicine - The credibility paradox: clickbait, engagement, and information quality in YouTube’s medical ecosystem

nature.com

I think we will see more of this to come: creators who touch the third rail with their audience on AI use and get burned as a result. As the cost subsidization of AI models continues to scale back, I believe more people might be at risk of this than they expect.

YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’ | TechCrunch

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."

techcrunch.com

I understand ghosting as a concept, and can see how it may be necessary to escape toxic or abusive relationships; but I was gobsmacked by the 84% stat of millennials and Gen Z who experienced ghosting themselves. WAY more rampant than I expected.

People Are Ghosting Long-Term Partners. Some Don’t Regret It

The communication-free form of breaking up has become ubiquitous. “I no longer had to bear her energy,” a man who ghosted his partner of four years tells WIRED.

wired.com

Tagging for #MedSky 🛟

ScreamingMD@screamingmd.bsky.social · 2d ago

All the recent 2020 discussion feels like this

What’s up San Diego!

🧪 The Senate's stopgap funding bill temporarily blocks the White House plan to put political appointees in charge of federal grants. It will push this past the midterms for now. This is a big victory! #AcademicSky

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d ago

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Frontier labs: We’re sorry to report that our model went out and hacked a bunch of companies. * Valuation goes up * Frontier labs: Oh no, it happened again.

I was today years old when I learned that ICD 10 allows coding of spider bites as assault and even as intentional self-harm.

It is Aug., and 5th grade is coming fast. I decided to try and tap into how head over heels my 10-year-old fell for the World Cup, and build him a math game based off soccer. I want him to be able to work off the rust from the summer and be ready for 5th grade. We'll see how it goes.

Good article from @davidimel.com Smart phone cameras are actually quite powerful, and if you don’t mind tinkering, you can get some great results.

You could be taking way better photos on your phone

You could be taking way better photos on your phone — here’s how

theverge.com

On my way back to San Diego to participate in the National Data Platform Education Hub Content Development Workshop. Looking forward to it!

Heart goes out to all of those who are impacted by the Spokane fire, I hope everyone makes it out safely.

We got invited to share our #Porsche at the county fair today, pretty decent turnout.