Geneticist, neuroscientist, behaviorist @Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. www.kumarlab.org
Vivek Kumar
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Today is National Cancer Survivors Day.
Some history in cervical cancer.
Once upon a time, cervical cancer was the #1 cause of death in women.
The pap smear was invented by George Papanicolau in 1941. It is used to identify abnormal cells under a microscope.
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Sanders weighs in on Platner: 'I’m sure he’s not a saint' #TheHill
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Via Sun Journal (Lewiston): Voters still pick Graham Platner over Collins in wake of sexting scandal, his campaign says
An internal memo from the campaign aims to allay concerns from Democrats about possible new disclosures about the 41-year-old political newc…
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The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
Ruben Gallego on Graham Platner:
Bernie Sanders on Graham Platner:
Finally out in Psychological Review (psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...), our update to Signal Detection Theory. We show that contrary to the prevailing Gaussian assumption, evidence distributions in recognition memory are likely minimum extreme Gumbel!
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A guide to 2026 Maine ag fairs
🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET.
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Honey, we fixed Signal Detection Theory (SDT)! In this preprint, Constantin Meyer-Grant, David Kellen, Sam Harding, and I critically evaluate the (unequal-variance) Gaussian SDT model in recognition memory and pursue the Gumbel-min model as a principled alternative: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Signal Detection Theory has long served as a cornerstone of psychological research, particularly in recognition memory. Yet its conventional application hinges almost exclusively on the Gaussian…
