Knowledge based biomedical data science, artificial intelligence for discovery in molecular biomedicine, computational bioethics, theory of mattering. University of Chicago / Big Island HI
Larry Hunter
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This paper was entertaining, and even mildly reassuring. Major effect of GenAI on cybercrime? Not effective new hacking tools or reduced barriers to entry among noobs, but that tech layoffs drive more skilled coders to crime.
arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29545
New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change
“We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...
More evidence of Chinese scientific ascendence: Major institutions are now taking evidence of misconduct far more seriously than even just a few years ago.
The awesome @sarahtaber.bsky.social had a thread about him last year. He’s even worse than you think... bsky.app/profile/sara...
Got to hike Kiholo with a bunch of trail archeologists for #NationalTrailsDay So beautiful, informative, and interesting!
I find it amazing that a Chinese consumer electronics / cell phone company (Xiaomi) has repeatedly taken extremely high performance tech and made practical consumer products out of it. See also www.motortrend.com/reviews/firs...
What a heartbreaking collection of photographs. 💔 😢
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers' government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse s...
Melancholia I (Albrect Dürer, 1514). Isn't she fabulous?!
"His Melancholia is neither a miser nor a mental case, but a thinking being in perplexity. She does not hold on to an object which does not exist, but a problem which cannot be solved."
Struggling with a project this week? She's your muse.
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Medical training faces a new calibration gap as AI enters the clinic.
A trial of 111 medical students showed that fluent, misleading LLM explanations degraded diagnostic accuracy from 21.9% to 9.2%. "Shadow AI" can act as a substitute for reasoning rather than a scaffold.
#MedSky
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· #AcademicSky · #ResearchIntegrity · #ScientificMisconduct ·
“Problems [Geng Hongwei] has identified in nine papers published in Springer Nature journals have triggered numerous official investigations and the dismissal of several high-ranking academics.”
Independent vlogger Geng Hongwei galvanizes often-sluggish institutions to investigate and punish prominent scientists
The number of Black NIH-funded Fellows has plummeted by a staggering 40% from 2024 to 2025; for Hispanic trainees the number has fallen by 33%.
These figures are nothing short of horrifying. The Trump administration is stealing the future of science.
