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@mattwridley Great lecture and discussion! 🙂

@EricTopol @RSNA Very concerning. A major concern for medicine and biomedical science

The majority of radiologists and 4 LLMs were unable to differentiate synthetic, deepfake scans from real ones pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ra… @RSNA

@EricTopol @ScienceMagazine @profjamesevans @bratton @blaiseaguera If these agents aren't connected to ground truth we could end up with mass delusion.

"The recent explosion of agentic AI suggests the possibility of something similar at the scale of billions of interacting minds, human and non-human alike." An essay on the Intelligence Explosion @ScienceMagazine by @profjamesevans @bratton @blaiseaguera science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

"Hallucinated citations produced by generative artificial intelligence may constitute research misconduct when citations function as data in scholarly papers," say researchers. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@SimsYStuart @drmichaellevin We didn't post a video for this paper. I believe the video you are referring to is for a paper on mathematics and morphogenesis we are currently working on.

I know. I’m just tasting sour grapes. You videoed the planning meeting for this paper and I got excited. I was anticipating new stuff. And what I read was old stuff well collated and enumerated. Like a textbook. I’m not being critical just giving my impression. Which is either useful or not 😂

New overview papers with @DavidResnik1962 : link.springer.com/article/10.100… link.springer.com/article/10.100… Mind Everywhere: A Framework for Conceptualizing Goal-Directedness in Biology and Other Domains—Parts One and Two

@SimsYStuart @drmichaellevin I think some people from the materialistic camp are put off by Michael's provocative language. So this paper was partly aimed at them.

@SimsYStuart @drmichaellevin You're probably correct about the sterilization part. Michael is a brilliant thinker and gifted writer. One of the goals of this paper was to connect his ideas to the philosophical literature on teleology. So some degree of sterilization was inevitable.

link.springer.com/article/10.100…. Part 2 of new paper with Michael Levin

link.springer.com/article/10.100… new paper with Michael Levin part 1.

We tried to investigate the relationship between COI and research outcomes but couldn't because none of the 331 authors disclosed COIs! Climate researchers need to do a better job with disclosing and managing COIs.

Weinkle, J. et al., 2026: Conflicts of Interest, Funding Support, and Author Affiliation in Peer-Reviewed Research on the Relationship between Climate Change and Geophysical Characteristics of Hurricanes. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., , BAMS-D-24-0260.1, doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D….

@Matt_Pinner 20

I got only 2 point. You?

@BlanchardPhD The reason is to make robots acceptable to humans

I honestly don’t understand the point of making robots in the form of human beings. Why two legs and not four or six? Why two arms? Why are the eyes only in the front instead of covering 360 degrees? Why the vertical orientation that requires more balance? Is this simply to make humans feel a certain way about them?

@ai_ngrosso Slower is not necessarily better. What we need is better science.

The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think. We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science. Read more and sign here: slow-science.com

@conservmillen @MattWalshBlog I speak Spanish. I enjoyed it. However, I had to put on subtitles to understand it.

Doing an entire show at an iconic American event in a language most of the country does not understand is a humiliation ritual

@MattWalshBlog I like the dancing and the Spanish and gags. Could've done without the crotch grabbing.

I didn’t watch the NFL’s halftime show but I’ve seen the clips here. Just an absolute disgrace and a massive middle finger to the fans to have the entire show in Spanish. Football is an American sport. This is our culture. Our pastime. I was expecting a disgusting spectacle, but it looks even worse than I thought.

@jimdtweet @RogerPielkeJr @matthewgburgess @PatrickTBrown31 @mattkahn1966 Your metaphor is wrong. Mitigation is trying lower the sea level so your boat won't flood.

@RogerPielkeJr @matthewgburgess @PatrickTBrown31 @mattkahn1966 Adaptation is like bailing out the boat. Mitigation is like plugging the hole. Adaptation goes on forever without mitigation. Adaptation also includes catastrophic (non-recoverable) changes as new extremes are reached.

We've got a new pre-print just out The Economics of Climate Adaptation Optimism led by @matthewgburgess with @PatrickTBrown31 @mattkahn1966 Check out Matt B. for some excellent threads on the paper More summaries coming soon to S*bsta*ck! osf.io/preprints/soca…

@JessicaWeinkle We don't need to own Greenland to protect our national security.

“I am not critical of the president. I am critical of the bad advice he is getting on Greenland,” ft.com/content/20917a…

@honeymoon250 Roar

Prove me wrong No word starts with 'R' and ends with 'R'

@oelma__ I know

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