The Sea Slug Defying Biological Orthodoxy: Symbiosis may be more important to evolution than scientists once thought. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Light-fuelled growth dynamics and structural transition of synthetic protocells nature.com/articles/s4416…

Potential Trade-Offs of Proposed Cuts to the US National Institutes of Health jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Unlocking expanded flagellin perception through rational receptor engineering doi.org/10.1038/s41477…

Estimation of lichen growth rates using archived Google Street View images doi.org/10.1639/0007-2…

Wow...a lot of disturbing news in this article... Management NSF slashes most career executive roles after shedding one-third of staff share.google/E1pNInDL9BgG5o…

Pangenome analysis provides insights into legume evolution and breeding share.google/W9U2rsuxheZqUx…

Investment over the long haul is how they did it and what we are no longer doing in the US... How China’s bold talent recruitment has shaped science share.google/pX4qPYZujTvZHk…

Potato, tomahto... Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineagehttps://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00736-6?utm_medium=homepage

Sam Altman is afraid of OpenAI's GPT-5 creation — "The Manhattan Project feels very fast, like there are no adults in the room" windowscentral.com/artificial-int…

Evidence for common fungal networks among plants formed by a Dark Septate Endophyte in Sorghum bicolor nature.com/articles/s4200…

Absolutely horrible.... Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country. nytimes.com/2025/08/01/bus…

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches nature.com/articles/s4158…

Terrence Tao thread on math institutes and federal funding...worth reading. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114956840…

Model-free estimation of the Cramér–Rao bound for deep learning microscopy in complex media nature.com/articles/s4156…

Haha... Deep-learning-based gene perturbation effect prediction does not yet outperform simple linear baselines nature.com/articles/s4159…

Using ChatGPT or other AI tools? Here’s who can see your chat: Check out this AI privacy cheat sheet. fastcompany.com/91379336/using…

I'm definitely seeing an increase in suspicious manuscripts in reviews of/editorial work of scientific papers, including overreliance on AI tools... The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

SCIMaP Visualizes the True Cost of Science Funding Cuts the-scientist.com/scimap-visuali…

Cool... Tumour-resident oncolytic bacteria trigger potent anticancer effects through selective intratumoural thrombosis and necrosis nature.com/articles/s4155…