Reporter for Nature, mostly covering biology and medicine.
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A locally tailored, big-push intervention to educate unmarried adolescent girls in 18 communities in northern Nigeria reduced rates of marriage from 86% to just 21%
🧪 #policy #education
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Characteristicaly good piece by @lizziegibney.bsky.social about how seriously (or not) to take AI doomsayers. The point is made here that AI researchers are not necessarily the best people to ask about social implications of the technology. To which I'd add that...
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Thanks @scifri.bsky.social for having me on to talk about federal research budgets. TLDL: Congress voted to reject the president's big science cuts, but the White House is slow to release those approved funds. 🧪
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Ouch.
“Despite the incredible wealth of interesting content at conferences, it can be hard to stay engaged. And by engaged, I mean awake."
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"The results... do not mean that 6-8 hours is the optimum amount of sleep for every person, nor do they prove that achieving that ‘Goldilocks’ range of sleep each day directly improves health or slows ageing."
@heidiledford.bsky.social on sleep study & impt caveats
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My story on the NSB terminations:
Not just an issue for AI:
"Scientists and engineers who build powerful AI systems often understand the tools’ capabilities in extraordinary detail. What they resist — and sometimes cannot see — is that their technical choices are also political choices."
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CRISPR–Cas9 might offer a way to make safer, more effective cancer-fighting immune cells engineered inside the human body
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NASA has just shared the first high-resolution images of the Earth taken by the Artemis II crew, meanwhile, massive budget cuts are once again proposed for US science, including for NASA
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Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
The papal letter goes beyond a religious document and diagnoses a failure in AI governance that the scientific community should heed.
Survey examines how often academics attempt jokes during conference talks — and how these attempts at comedy land.
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A locally tailored, big-push intervention to educate unmarried adolescent girls in 18 communities in northern Nigeria reduced rates of marriage from 86% to just 21%. Interventions that address complex...
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Health outcomes were better in people who slept between about six and eight hours a day.
