What appears to be a major breakthrough leading to future treatment of Alzheimers disease by the lab of my Harvard Medical School colleague Bruce Yankner, whose NIH funding has been stopped like all others at the school. Take note Jay Bhattacharya The Boston Globe

Early-stage cancer classified with 100% sensitivity, using cell-free RNA. Read how researchers detected cancer early using Oxford Nanopore sequencing as a non-invasive tool, with the potential to inform cancer care more rapidly and accurately than before. nanoporetech.com/resource-centr…

This is the best thing I’ve ever seen a mascot do

We’re growing Arcadia Science and are always on the lookout for talent, particularly to run new pilot projects that can develop into larger efforts that will contribute to our broader goals. This requires at least some fluency with both computational and wet lab work to iterate

When the “Strategic Initiative” announcement slowly morphs into “we are now going to pay for an OpenAI license.”

Young male college grads are now jobless at the same rate as non-grads, per FT:

We often talk about pangenome reference but what does "reference" mean? If it means the whole graph, what is a variant? My collaborators Pouria and Luke give a clean answer: the reference is a spanning tree including GRCh38 and variants are leftover edges. See preprint for more.

estimated drop in new international enrollment to american universities this fall: -30/40% (!) contributing to a 15 percent drop in overall enrollment - nafsa: association of international educators

Wow!!!! New study —LLMs as mirage — provides stunning and thorough confirmation of the core thesis of my 1998 Cognitive Psychology paper (and 2001 book) re the problems of neural networks generalizing outside the distribution. And helps explain why GPT-5 was both late and

What city slogan goes the hardest and why, for some reason, is it Trenton’s

Breaking down how a massive U.S. funding cut could impact future mRNA vaccines | my comments with ⁦CBC⁩ ⁦CBC News⁩ Canada cbc.ca/news/health/mr…

Excited to announce my transition/promotion to Senior Fellow in Disease and Humanity ⁦Baker Institute⁩ ⁦Rice University⁩ bakerinstitute.org/expert/peter-j…

“As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.” —UC President James B. Milliken

So…if one out of three F32 reference letter writer disappears & fails to upload by due date, what is your recourse on that last day? Can you just find someone else to submit a letter even if they’re not on your cover letter? Feeling quite desperate and would love know options!

Was the first sentence here (from Altman’s blog in January) simply a lie? A bluff? It is now obvious that OpenAI does not in fact know how to build AGI, and did not know then. Henceforth, people should view statements like these with considerable skepticism.

'Factually incorrect': Vaccine experts criticize RFK Jr. decision to cut mRNA vaccine funding | my comments with ⁦Corin Hoggard⁩ @fox9 Minneapolis MN fox9.com/news/factually…

Breaking down how a massive U.S. funding cut could impact future mRNA vaccines | my comments with ⁦Radio-Canada Info⁩ ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/21…

I’ll make up a list… Proposed spacecraft could carry up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri livescience.com/space/space-ex…

GPT-5 in three words: late, overhyped & underwhelming.

Those numbers won’t work for the college’s assessment of student outcomes. Go find me some better numbers or you are fired. And don’t tell me the numbers we have are the best available evidence. Are you trying to make the college look bad?