Incredibly disturbing story broken by @medpagetoday.com team.
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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?...
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
www.medpagetoday.com
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
This afternoon's reflection on AI and the dying internet.
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 Study is not yet peer-reviewed, nor published, but deposited in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social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...
Carl T. Bergstrom
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
Question about social norms and animals: in countries besides the UK, is it seen as acceptable to let your dog to bound up to a toddler and lick his or her face, or eat her sandwich, and then declare "oh don't worry my dog is very friendly" as the child ingests ass germs and develops cynophobia?
