🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛

Love 2 have spent the last 10 years of my life training to be a physician scientist! Only 6 more years to go!

this is somehow the most podcast brained thing this admin has done

It’s going to be one of those weeks where decades happen.

MerlinID from Cornell is one of the best apps ever made. Uses your mic to listen to bird songs and tells you what birds are hanging out around you.

CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

this is a deeply, perhaps irredeemably sick country

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Ships in Gulf declare themselves Chinese to dodge attack At least 10 vessels have changed transponder messages in apparent attempt to avoid becoming targets

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Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
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Central Command preparing for Iran war to last until fall: Report Retired Col. Joe Buccino, who once served as the command's communications director, called the war in the Middle East a "heavy lift."

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Forbes estimates the Iran war will cost you and me between 1.25 to 6 annual NIH budgets, depending on how long it lasts. Internally, CENTCOM is anticipating the war to last until at least September.

Event Prediction markets need to be made illegal immediately.

Eisenhower

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

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This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions.

It does not.

It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed.

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Didn’t think this story could have gotten any worse. But I keep forgetting there is no floor when it comes to MAHA. Just a bottomless pit.

Holy fuck! 🧪

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Black Medics, Ahead of Their Time, Gain Belated Recognition

Today, “U.S. Representative Summer Lee, Democrat of Pittsburgh, is introducing a resolution to award Freedom House with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor a person or institution can receive from Congress. The resolution is being co-sponsored by Representative Mike Kelly”

Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:

University of Texas regents OK limits on controversial subjects Opponents warned the policy’s vagueness could push professors to self-censor and leave students less prepared for the workplace.

The University of Texas System’s Board of Regents unanimously approved a rule requiring its universities to ensure students can graduate without studying “unnecessary controversial subjects,” despite warnings it could leave them less prepared for the real world.

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…

“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

White supremacy as the ideological defense of wealth concentration may be the skeleton key that unlocks the most insight into the last 5 centuries of history and the current U.S. and European situations.

This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.

I don’t think most people understand how many terrible diseases EBV is associated with and how common exposure to EBV is in the human population. If that exposure went to zero or even just half we’d have many fewer cancers, MS, autoimmune diseases, splenectomies…