1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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6. The court’s logic is hypocritical: it says the ban applies equally to everyone, even though only trans people seek this care for gender dysphoria. As Sotomayor noted in Skrmetti, that is like banning interracial marriage for everyone and calling it equal treatment.
<sigh>
One reviewer used AI to review our manuscript.
How do we know?
Suggested papers to cite that do not exist. Some titles correct, but everything else is wrong or just fabricated out of whole cloth.
Requested citations for things I’ve said in review papers that were citing other papers.
"While AI assistance may ease initial learning, it appears to undermine the effortful processes needed for robust learning"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success
Hi Mae, if you're thinking about doing a postdoc then I'd be happy to chat! Finishing up your PhD is a crazy time - happy to share my experience and any resources that might be helpful
The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.
Among the things that's going on is Mamdani is being judged against the WILDLY inappropriate practice of Trump, Bondi, Kash, Noem, et al, publicly weighing in on matters that involve criminal charges.
A political leader SHOULD NOT get ahead of investigations. Trump routinely does.
I use Alpha fold-3 for protein structure prediction on occasion. Otherwise, it’s a big ”Nope”.
Professors do not indoctrinate students in class but teach them how to think critically and openly.
In the wake of SB 37, University of Houston has introduced syllabi "checklists" and "certifications" to prevent so-called indoctrination in the classroom. This clearly threatens academic freedom.
this is endless discourse...so I will just reiterate that *Newsom is not ahead in polls* and talking about him as if he's already the nominee helps him. don't do that. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/we-can-bea...
One of the reasons I distrust GenAI is that I've been doing tech support in one form or another for 35+ years, and I've seen every way that tech can be misused, break, or behave outside of expectations; GenAI ticks every 'uh-oh' box for me.
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“So this ‘mechano-antiviral response system’ (MARS) may well be a type of innate immunity that we have been completely overlooking, and there may well be ways to leverage it to our advantage.”
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
Excited to share our new study using engineered immune proteins to quench inflammation in aged brains!!
Congratulations to Paloma Navarro and the entire team!
Fantastic collaboration with Chris Garcia's lab, Tony Wyss-Coray's lab, and Saul Villeda's lab!
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
This is horrifically cruel. “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth, a local official in Chandler said Tuesday.” An excruciating and wholly preventable death. No words are adequate.
I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.
If you, as a social scientist, believe that AI is now a better social scientist than you, then (a) you’re probably right, and (b) sure sounds like a skill issue, y’know?
Map showing observed average mean temperature for December 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026 across the CONUS with temperature rankings from the SRCC.
The big story from this winter is the record heat across the West, which helped to drive a historic snow drought (even despite some areas of heavier precipitation). We'll be covering this and more in our next monthly webinar at @climatecentral.org. Sign up at: www.climatecentral.org/climate-brie...
Separate studies demonstrated 20% increase in additional hours and a 17% drop in actual knowledge as ascertained by a quiz on the code they had just written with AI assistance versus the control group without.
This is eugenics. Genocide. An attack on science, medical ethics, bodily autonomy, and human rights.
Where is the outcry from the biomedical community? Trans people aren't just abstract patients and research participants: We're your friends, family, and co-workers.
Speak up before it's too late
Horrifying and also as predicted. This is genocidal shit. The only hospital in Tennessee that offered this kind of care. www.them.us/story/vander...
Democrats stop making “conceding points” your opening gambit, part infinity
CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes.
Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time.
What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.
In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.
Had the most bizarre scientific encounter (series of them really) at a conference today, Reviewer-2-comes-to-heckle-your-talk level of discourse. Upsetting at first, but makes me think what we are working on is even more important than I had appreciated (and that people are rude, but that's not new)
I won't believe it until it is done. You guys only paying attention after it's too fucking late is why you all need to go.
Is a T-cell Any More Real Than a T-test?
“If I have shown that both are abstractions, both are useful, and both deserve a kind of epistemic respect, then I have accomplished what I set out to do.”
Preprint: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28358/
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