This is Nature's list of top "research" universities. Only two US institutions make the list. While we are busy gutting our best universities, China is building the future. Link in reply

Easy. Biden (as you ironically note) and Obama had similar rhetoric and neither bombed Iran 🤷‍♂️

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In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail). science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Anshul Kundaje Sasha Gusev Here's our magazine article (w/ Todd Lencz): aeon.co/essays/embryo-… It's not paywalled, language as accessible as possible, very balanced based on the latest research as of writing.

Most people think “indirect costs” for government-funded scientific research have grown out of control (some universities charge >60% rates). In response, the Trump admin tried to cap them at 15%. But this whole debate rests on a false premise: While ***negotiated indirect

Perfect Dunning-Kruger effect example. From someone with almost zero experience publishing academic papers and navigating peer review as an author or reviewer.

I wrote about gene-gene interactions (epistasis) and the implications for heritability, trait definitions, natural selection, and therapeutic interventions. Biology is clearly full of causal interactions, so why don't we see them in the data? A 🧵:

Chris Meloni Depends on the disease. Rubella will impact in maybe 17 to 25 years. And thats going to be ugly.

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Murray and most of race twitter has apparently been fooled by this completely fabricated analysis purporting to show African ancestry is associated with IQ. People lie on twitter all the time, but this is both more revealing and more disturbing than usual. A 🧵

I'm belaboring the point is because it is endemic of the broader quantitative racism project: find data that fits the narrative, fake it if necessary, and when someone finally points out the errors, the time for argument is past and we move on to a new spectacular claim.

Hi Scite. The Zotero plugin, github.com/scitedotai/sci…, hasn't received an update in a year and doesn't work with the current Zotero version. Any chance it could get some TLC? thx!

Eric Turkheimer has a good piece about a bet he made with Charles Murray regarding the genetic understanding of IQ (or, really, the lack of it). Murray being so wrong in his prediction should make us question his world model, but it's also worth commenting on his response.

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Due to the shutdown, NIH cancelled >370 study sections, impacting >24,000 applications Rescheduled meetings will only discuss 30-35% of applications, have simplified summary statements (no narrative paragraph), and a new category - "competitive but ND" grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n…

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Dr. Prasad send an email to CBER suggesting changes to the approval for respiratory vaccines based, apparently, on the conclusion of an unpublished investigation into VAERS report by unknown people. A few thoughts beyond what was already reported, based on the full email: 1/n