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AI Pushing Students to Consider Changing Majors, Data Shows insidehighered.com/news/quick-tak… @insidehighered

When AI Gets It Wrong: A Pedagogical Approach via @facultyfocus facultyfocus.com/articles/teach… #pedagogy #highered #edtech #GenAI #ailiteracy #aiready #aifluency

SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2 ('cicada') monitoring emphasizes no cause for alarm medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-s… @medical_xpress

Microbiologist Reveals The Leftovers Most Likely to Cause Food Poisoning sciencealert.com/microbiologist… @ScienceAlert

Marketers need to pay more attention to how marketing practices normalize the consumption of products that are known to be harmful to public health and social well-being, University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researchers argue. phys.org/news/2026-04-l… @physorg_com

Living Neurobot Blurs Line Between Cells and Machines - IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org/neurobot-livin…

Medetomidine, which is also known as 'rhino tranq,' or 'dex', is ​not approved for human use. It has increasingly been detected in law enforcement drug seizures, Stopping medetomidine after regular use can trigger severe life-threatening drug withdrawal. reuters.com/business/healt…

AI may be making us more productive, but are we learning less? New research suggests AI can weaken deep understanding while creating an illusion of competence. If it’s an “exoskeleton,” what happens to the muscle underneath? open.substack.com/pub/davidpblro… #AIinEducation #EdTech #K12 #CriticalThinking #GenAI #edtech #GenAI #ailiteracy #aiready #aifluency #criticalthinking #cognitiveoffloading @aiedu_org @aerdf

This is how you can reduce your risk of getting dementia weforum.org/agenda/2024/08… via @wef #Alzheimers #dementia #health #wellness

What Do We Teach Now? — @RaySchroeder issues a near‑term warning as OpenAI’s GDPval shows AI models approaching expert performance across 44 professions, and many degree‑level tasks may be replaced within 3–18 months. Essential reading for faculty and program leaders. insidehighered.com/opinion/column… @insidehighered

US Cardiologists Have Just Published New Guidelines For Managing Cholesterol 🫀 sciencealert.com/us-cardiologis… @ScienceAlert

A safer opioid? DFNZ discovery suggests pain relief with minimal addictive properties ‣ medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-s… @medical_xpress

E.l.f. Beauty's chief digital officer, Ekta Chopra, shared the four pillars that guide the beauty brand's approach to AI implementation. buff.ly/x2nLzA5

After operating in secrecy for years, a startup company called R3 Bio…shared details about its work last week—saying it had raised money to create nonsentient monkey “organ sacks” as an alternative to animal testing. In an interview with Wired, R3 listed three investors: [🔗 👇🏼]

Boom! The Future of HR is here. So proud of my collaborator and co-author @tarunjg24 leading the way to build and incorporate AI-enabled people tools for @LatticeHQ which just acquired Mandala, where I’ve served as advisor and Chief Neuroscientist! Well-done, my friend! prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

“In the next decade, the most valuable AI won't be the one that knows everything about the world; it will be the one that knows everything about you. The firms that own the model weights of that intelligence will own the market.” 👇🏼

technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/113… #biotechnology Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones — The ultimate plan to live forever is a brand new body.

Ethical use of AI in academic writing #Ethics #AI #AcademicWriting share.google/C5LQo7wlAOGNOl…

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice via @Stanford news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/0… #edtech #GenAI #ailiteracy #aiready #aifluency #prosocial #sycophancy