Was Ozempic discovered thanks to "silly" research?
By Christina Agapakis
Turns out the promo image is me, but I'm giving a public talk about what we can and can't see in the sky for Matariki Week in Christchurch... Monday July 6, 730 pm -- tickets are free!
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ScienceInsider: ‘Working without them is painful’: WHO’s Ebola chief reflects on U.S. colleagues’ absence
By Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social
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Ethnic cleansing. What Israel is doing in Lebanon is called ethnic cleansing
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Chikwe Ihekweazu, on the ground in Congo, discusses challenges of bringing the outbreak under control
Matariki Events in Christchurch New Zealand: Bring the whole whānau for a taste of this ancient and living Māori artform. Complete with opportunities for audience participation, Ngā Toi o Te Rangi alw...
Israel’s ongoing wave of attacks on Lebanon began on March 2. Despite a ceasefire agreement on April 17, the violence has continued.
Over the past one hundred days, thousands of people have been killed and over a million have been forcibly displaced.
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My mother has been a hypertension patient for 25 years. Yet since the genocide broke out, her medicine gradually ran out until it vanished from the markets altogether, with no clinic, pharmacy, warehouse, or stockpile left untouched by the shortage.
A Palestinian doctor in Gaza says the territory is facing its worst medication shortage since Israel began the genocide.
The Bureau did not investigate. The diplomats voted as they were instructed to do so by the governments they represent --- politics, not law. The only investigation was conducted by OIOS and, as the Panel of Judges repeatedly noted, OIOS did not make findings of fact on the allegations.
My story on America's regressive, new reality is now up @kffhealthnews.org (without a paywall) kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
1/7 Excited to share my last PhD article, just accepted to ICML 2026! In it, we (me, Alexandre Payeur, Guillaume Lajoie) used dynamical systems theory to study "local" learning in linear recurrent neural networks. See link for the paper, and thread for a brief summary. arxiv.org/abs/2606.00243
Truthout
In his book, "The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI," @kevinhartnett.bsky.social tells the story of computer program Lean in an effort to answer a longstanding question: Can computers reveal universal truths? Out today from @quantabooks.org: https://bit.ly/43X5To1
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Roof terrace garden breather while everything burns...may Dublin stay peaceful (the threats erupt a little occasionally. but so far this is a better place to be than the UK). Poppies of a kind I haven't seen before.
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An investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against the embattled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court found he had engaged in “serious misconduct” and “serious breach of duty,” according to documents seen by The Associated Press.
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An investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations against the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has found he engaged in “serious misconduct” and a “breach of duty.”
Biological and neuromorphic recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are subject to spatial and temporal locality constraints on the information that can plausibly be used during learning. A common strategy t...arxiv.org
Measles has been spreading in Utah for nearly a year, straining hospitals, schools, and parents. The state’s outbreak provides a glimpse into a new era in America’s health, in which vaccine-preventabl...
I went to Utah to see what life is like in America's new reality, where vaccine-preventable diseases are common again.
Utah's measles outbreak has lasted 10 months. Pediatricians teared up in interviews. Mothers were stressed.
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The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.
