For thirty years of my career studying this, I considered the #AMOC tipping risk serious but low probability.
Why I've changed my mind. ⬇️
youtu.be/Cg0N9MWw9Vk?...
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Instituteyoutu.be
This afternoon's reflection on AI and the dying internet.
The sweeping new regulations proposed by OMB would subject *every federal research funding decision* to political review. Peer review has never been formally binding, but this proposal would drastically expand the power of political appointees to *override* expert assessments of scientific merit 1/4
Carl T. Bergstrom
Excellent and thought-provoking essay by Ted Chiang. [gift link]
www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Neuroscientists reach divergent conclusions after analysing the same data. Is this surprising?
Would be nice to know how specific the analysis questions and conclusions were, as it isn't obvious there is a serious problem here.
Important advance commented in @nature.com reporting the first successful application of base editing approaches to human embryos. Both impressive and potentially worrysome. Study is not yet peer-reviewed, nor published, but deposited in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Incredibly disturbing story broken by @medpagetoday.com team.
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Yasmin Escobedo Lozoya, PhD
What are your plans for the weekend?
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Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
