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— Rachael Sirianni, PhD (@docsirianni.bsky.social) 2025-03-15T17:32:48.107Z
Advice for Food Companies
Since we launched PlasticList, we’ve been heartened to have quite a few food companies reach out and ask for help interpreting their results and tracking down and eliminating their contamination. I’ve had calls with a bunch of these.
I am happy to…
— Nat Friedman (@natfriedman)
ProPublica (@propublica.org)
1/ You may have seen us talk about formaldehyde — a chemical that causes an inescapable cancer risk for everyone in America. It’s in the air we breathe. And it’s in our homes: our couches, our clothes, even babies’ cribs. So what can you do to reduce your exposure? THREAD 🧵
current FDA-approved treatments are few:
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Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain | Hacker News
LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall short | Hacker News
Discussion of the trendy / viral LK-99 "breakthrough"
Prash on Twitter / X
My grandfather built motors that powered big machines. In a lab not so different from his workshop, my colleagues and I uncovered the assembly of the bacterial motor. Today, this discovery has been published in @NatureMicrobiol #MolecularNodes #Discovery https://t.co/m98Df1DuOr pic.twitter.com/HgY9fsu1kC— Prash (@prash_singh) April 17, 2024
![Leon Simons on X: "@AI_imagineX @EliotJacobson @ClimateAdam That's a good point. A lot of scientists have told me in person that what the data shows can't be true, because of what it would mean for their children [paraphrased]. What psychological archetype are you referring to?" / X](https://rdl.ink/render/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FGKcX5YXboAAdHkz%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3Dmedium?width=350&height=&ar=&mode=&format=avif&dpr=2)
Leon Simons on X: "@AI_imagineX @EliotJacobson @ClimateAdam That's a good point. A lot of scientists have told me in person that what the data shows can't be true, because of what it would mean for their children [paraphrased]. What psychological archetype are you referring to?" / X
Denial of climate change by scientists, or difficulty interpreting data that suggests a highly undesirable circumstance
Robert Palgrave on Twitter / X
Back in November, Google announced 2.2 milllion new materials.Today, a paper in Chemistry of Materials from Ram Seshadri and Tony Cheetham dismantles that claimhttps://t.co/pjHfNrSsMc https://t.co/MojuB3p7iS— Robert Palgrave (@Robert_Palgrave) April 8, 2024
Gnome "just a lil guy" Anne on Twitter / X
FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station! Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑🚀🧵 pic.twitter.com/i7KF0gazxl— Gnome "just a lil guy" Anne (@annethegnome) February 1, 2024
Jordan Taylor on Twitter / X
Thread on increasingly sharp types of blades/materials
Santiago on Twitter / X
a technique for fine-tuning large language models more efficiently using smaller parameter matrices.
hardmaru on X
Artificial lifeforms are super fascinating to watch.
These self-organizing, self-replicating, “lifeforms” emerged from a continuous time cellular automata system called Flow-Lenia.
Lenia is a family of CAs generalizing Conway’s Game of Life to continuous space, time and states.
Niko McCarty 🧫 on X: "Day 14 of great synthetic biology papers. Storing a video in DNA. “CRISPR–Cas encoding of a digital movie into the genomes of a population of living bacteria,” by Shipman et al. (2017). This is the GIF that made synthetic biology go viral. But how did it actually happen? *****… https://t.co/75cluCpJRa" / X
Sterling Crispin 🕊️ on Twitter
Technical breakdown of a few neurologicalgical innovations in the Vision Pro
One of the coolest results involved predicting a user was going to click on something before they actually did. That was a ton of work and something I’m proud of. Your pupil reacts before you click in part because you expect something will happen after you click. So you can create biofeedback with a user's brain by monitoring their eye behavior, and redesigning the UI in real time to create more of this anticipatory pupil response. It’s a crude brain computer interface via the eyes, but very cool. And I’d take that over invasive brain surgery any day.
You Might Be Autistic on Twitter
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Yishan on Twitter
“People on Twitter squawk about contrarian truths that get “censored” but what’s really suppressed are the things that people find way too horrifying to consider, so we get an uncoordinated yet collective denial of things we should be facing up to.”
Eric Reinhart on Twitter
There are ongoing debates about the merits––or lack thereof––of antidepressants. The question shouldn't be just whether they "work" or not but rather when, for whom, in what context, and what––when they fail––is needed instead?A thread about antidepressants and politics: 1/— Eric Reinhart (@_Eric_Reinhart) November 24, 2022
Michael Ashcroft on Twitter
alright Twitter hit me with all your “why am I always tired?” curesI eat well, I sleep consistently and at sensible times, I work out every day, I minimise light at bad times of dayit’s been a while since I did a blood test, but they have always been finewhat am I missing— Michael Ashcroft (@m_ashcroft) October 16, 2022
Historic Vids on Twitter
These rocks contain ancient water that has been trapped inside them for million of years pic.twitter.com/IeI7TuYfAs— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) August 13, 2022