@aryazandvakili
MD PhD. Physician-Scientist. Infectious Diseases Specialist. In the lab, I use molecular biology and bioinformatics to study cytomegalovirus In the community, I advocate for Medicare-for-All and Chair the Iowa Chapter of PNHP.org
Stryker is a huge, international company, >50,000 employees. The group "Handala" claims to have stolen "50 terabytes of data before wiping tens of thousands of systems and servers across the company's network."
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
"Hiltons is - and always has been - a welcoming place to [fascist assholes]".
Not booking with them until they agree to never book ICE
I’ll add that it appears real until you use the database links to view the article. The whole thing falls apart and it’s clear that the article doesn’t exist. This happens because AI generated citations cite fake article in real journals, leading to the fleeting impression of credibility here
In this situation, there is no article. just a made-up citation info for a non-existent article in a real journal. But if you go to look up the article itself in the journal, you can't find it.
I get sent to the journal website, not to a specific issue or volume. Since the fake citation is of an issue the library has access to, the library platform assumes that the library has access to the article.
Will do!
It does create an air of legitimacy when it appears on the library website. I'm sure whatever platform my university library uses for their catalog is also used by other university libraries.
I'm going to send a message to the library about this in case they aren't aware.
To be clear, the library isn't using AI to generate a fake article. Rather fake citation info is being transferred in a link URL to generate a temporary catalog page on the library site via standard API tools (not AI).
I was confused since I see this page on my uni's library when linked from Google Scholar, but could not get to it by searching the libraries article catalog. I realized that the link URL from Google Scholar contains the citation info - so library page is generated programmatically from the info
Here is what I see on my University library page when linked from Google scholar
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
When a travelling doctor questioned why a patient had been receiving dangerous cancer treatments for 11 years, he set off a chain of events that would divide a city and implicate a beloved oncologist in a string of suspicious deaths.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI | Science | AAAS - fascinating report by @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...
The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health.
Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.
Me studying for ID boards: rats can give you Hanta, Lassa, Lepto, LCMV, Rat bite fever, Plague.... and can snatch you up!
I really enjoyed this session. In particular, the presentation regarding broadly neutralizing antibodies for HIV was fascinating
Successful poster presentation at #IDWeek2025! #CMV #Transcription
The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
Are you rich and want to read beautifully crafted puff pieces about other rich people? Well, have I got the magazine for you!
It's not non-citizens bleeding our healthcare system. It's the profit-seeking entities (and the bureaucracy they create) who are leeching the system.
"My opinion is irrelevant" says the man enforcing his opinions on the health infrastructure of an entire nation
This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.
Don't upload anything and just click the "format my paper" button.
None of the 9 campuses the Trump administration has asked to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” have done so, but conservative lawmakers in Iowa are urging the Board of Regents to be the 1st.
“Iowa has a chance to be a leader.”
www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, former Director of NIAID, is Fired by Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy in Retaliation for Filing Whistleblower Complaint with the Office of Special Counsel
bit.ly/4gRA3yx
Can't wait for congressional aides writing vibe policy!