Elisabeth Busch

11/ The research gap is staggering. Of 9 drugs the NIA Interventions Testing Program found to extend lifespan, 7 worked only in males. Most preclinical aging research still defaults to male mice. "Just because everyone says it's happening doesn't mean it's happening in both sexes." --Dr. Benayoun

1/ The ovary is the fastest-aging organ in the female body. And almost no one is studying why.I just sat down with @BBParis1984 (@USCLeonardDavis ), who runs one of the only labs in the world mapping ovarian aging. A few things from our conversation I can't stop thinking about:

New AI paper from us this week. When my student first showed me his initial findings, I really didn’t know what to make of them. I felt that this was an interesting but curious loophole phenomenon that would shortly be closed. I was very wrong. arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687

Wondering if the hearts of those frustrated by small acts of petty symbolism, by the feeling that smashed windows and graffiti on bakeries are simply not enough, are cheered by the upgrade to burning ambulances this morning.

Jonathan Freedland documents with chilling accuracy how and why violence against Jews in the diaspora has seen a parabolic rise, how life has become increasingly dangerous in the last 2+ years. We know too well that it takes very little for Jews to become national figures of hate, scapegoats for everything that is going wrong. The commentariat may rationalise this violence as retribution for the actions of the Israeli Gov, but of course the Jews being attacked are guilty of only one ‘crime’: being Jewish. 🔗 in comments.

the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers

Thank you to @TheEconomist for publishing my essay on "what people get wrong about women's rights"! economist.com/by-invitation/…

@petergyang I said “Check this inbox too and suggest what you would archive or delete, don’t action until I tell you to.” This has been working well for my toy inbox, but my real inbox was too huge and triggered compaction. During the compaction, it lost my original instruction 🤦‍♀️

Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.

Is @guardian aware that their authors are at this point just using AI to wholesale generate entire articles? I wouldn't really care, except that this writing is genuinely atrocious. LLM writing can be so much better; they're clearly not even using the best models, lol!

AI is cool and all... but a new paper in @ScienceMagazine kind of figured out the origin of life? The paper reports the discovery of a simple 45-nucleotide RNA molecule that can perfectly copy itself.

the "i'm probably taking this too seriously" first draft of a working paper analyzing the growth, structure, and conversation dynamics of @moltbook, the social network for AI agents 🦞 tl;dr: agents post a LOT but don't really talk to each other. 93.5% of comments get zero replies. conversations max out at a depth of 5. at least as of now, moltbook is less "emergent AI society" and more "6,000 bots yelling into the void and repeating themselves" also "my human" appears in 9.4% of all messages which is...fun! comments and feedback welcome, link in the tweet below.

A few snapshots from the part we still can read.

Official Statement by The Global Imams Council Regarding the Terrorist Attack on the Jewish Community at Bondi Beach, Sydney, During Hanukkah Celebrations. Statement delivered by: H.E. Imam Tawhidi (@imamofpeace).

I've exited my naive techno-optimist era & I will unabashedly state we should shame this stuff. That's not how we should use AI: to further fry our brains & turn us into walking zombies. We should build *real* things & avoid these cursed use cases from the 2010s era.

I don't yet know what to do for an AI policy in class that will best help my students learn. But this essay by @spinedu helped. I'll need to add some in-class writing. Professors with other helpful links or ideas, please put them in comments medium.com/age-of-awarene…

Measles causes more than an acute illness: it suppresses immune memory and increases the risk of complications for years. Even in a typical case of measles, children who survive the infection recover slowly. The rash fades and peels away, but the immune amnesia means they remain vulnerable for the next few years to many other diseases that would normally be mild or harmless. Evidence of this is shown in this chart: children infected with measles use medical care more often for several years after their infection. This is why preventing measles still matters: it protects kids not just from one virus, but from years of harm.

Congratulations to Professors @emilyshuckburgh and @GordonDougan1 on receiving CBEs in this year's King's Birthday Honours 👏 Explore more 👉 bit.ly/4l8As0I