Older people with exceptional memory have a surprisingly high number of young neurons
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Older people with exceptional memory have a surprisingly high number of young neurons
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Nature research paper: Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease
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Statement on 2026 BAFTA Awards When Tourette Syndrome involves racial slurs, it is deeply traumatic for those who hear them and that hurt cannot be minimized. It is also traumatic for those who utter them. Tourette Syndrome is a genetic neurodevelopmental disorder that begins in childhood and is characterized by involuntary movements and sounds called tics. Of the millions of individuals living with Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders, approximately 10% experience coprolalia: the involuntary vocalization of obscene or socially inappropriate words or phrases. Coprolalia occurs in response to the social context of a situation, and individuals often report ticcing “the worst thing at the worst time.” Importantly, these vocal tics are not reflective of the beliefs or values of the person experiencing them. The public discourse surrounding this moment underscores the continued need for greater awareness and understanding of Tourette Syndrome. We encourage the public to approach this moment with empathy and a commitment to learning, understanding, and inclusion. Every day, the Tourette Association of America supports and advocates for individuals and families with Tourette Syndrome in their schools, workplaces, and lives. To learn more please visit tourette.org
From the Tourette Association of America.
“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
NBA star Tyrese Halliburton speaks out
Konukaame 8h Managers who once staffed projects with 10 junior coders now achieve the same productivity with a pair of senior developers and an Al assistant. You don't necessarily have 10 junior coders on a project because they're super productive, but because otherwise in a few years you won't have any new senior developers, and there will be a massive bidding war for the ones that are left. But because no one wants to train or take care of employees any more, pregress in five years is sacrificed in favor of job cuts and "efficiency today. S Reply 2 8816 ganner 8h They're eating the seed corn, not because of famine but gluttony : 12 + 8353
Schrödinger’s cat just got a little bit fatter
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This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
Whether it’s Democrats putting their pronouns in email signatures or Republicans shooting and killing unarmed drivers, both sides have taken actions that the other side finds threatening.
My wish for 2026 is to get more unhinged, to be more shameless about promoting community and fighting back against slop and misinformation. And perfecting cheesecakes.
In September Kennedy published a report that folate deficiency causes autism. Then California decides to add folic acid to food to prevent deficiencies... which is now bad? Either he forgot what his own report said or he's grifting (California = bad). Probably both.
☹️ (it's true)
Think you need deep learning for every bioinformatics problem? Think again. Most of the time, simpler models win. 🧵
Indiana's mid-decade redistricting would break apart communities and weaken the voice of voters. Hoosiers deserve fair maps and transparency that puts people first, not DC insiders.
“I’m tired of being constantly confronted by the consequences of my (in)actions.”
Our new study in @science.org built an LLM-powered browser extension to rerank social media feeds without requiring platform cooperation. In a preregistered 10-day field experiment (N=1,256), we found that algorithmic ranking can both raise and lower levels of affective political polarization.
Two posts from Bluesky. The first one shows a figure from a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports full of totally incoherent AI fabricated gibberish words. The other a comment on a recently published paper by eLife discussing the paper and its peer reviews which were published along with the paper.
Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
You know it's bad when his tangents are more coherent than the script.
“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”
evergreen
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
Image of the Aurora Borealis at night with some trees and a white fence. There's a diffuse green area with streaks of pinkish red above, and a few stars.
Aurora borealis from Indianapolis!
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections
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Strongly agree. The goal isn't to optimize scientific discovery, it's to actively hinder research and punish universities. They only reference "efficiency" or "waste" because cutting research funding is deeply unpopular.
Chicago's "Rat Hole" is less rat, more Scrat CREDIT: Winslow Dumaine via WIKIMEDIA COMMONS | CC BY-SA
Michael Granatosky on debunking the “rat hole”: “I hope this project reminds people that science can start anywhere—even with something as small and funny as a mark in the sidewalk.” That and more from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
🧪 I was going to say that I’m happy to share my latest, but I’d much rather be without the reasons to write it: The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/a... via @statnews.com
The creator of the NumPy and SciPy libraries reflects on their supporting role in the story of Python, now the subject of a documentary
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Carl Sagan.
