Happy to announce I'll be starting as assistant professor in Wageningen University & Research from next AY! Many thanks @ThomasReydon for the past 2 years in Hannover & looking forward to this new chapter, with great colleagues Rachel A. Ankeny (she/her) @BerniceBovenker & Vincent Blok

The beauty of wildlife - a thread 🧵 1. Dick Van Duijn captured the exact moment a squirrel stopped to smell a flower

For those who spend too much time at their computers training LLM on the entire Internet for months using thousands of GPUs, here is how real intelligence trains for robustness just 3 weeks after birth, on a budget of ounce of milk per day.

Thank you. The sudden decrease in variance in brain microplastic concentration is indeed quite strange.

Fish farming is supposed to give overexploited oceans a break. But a new study finds that it may be taking way more fish out of oceans to feed farmed fish than previously thought. New story of mine up on Vox today, replete with new charts: vox.com/future-perfect…

Two papers. On the left, a non-randomized, non-crossover study showing that a one-off sauna exposure significantly decreased arterial stiffness, with implications on cardiovascular health. On the right, a randomized, crossover (more robust) study, showing no benefits on