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Fredros Okumu

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Public Health Scientist & Professor of Vector Biology, Ifakara Health Institute, TZ & University of Glasgow, UK; Former Director of Science @ifakarahealth

This Pale Blue Dot Katılım Ağustos 2012
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Liftoff of Starship!
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PATH
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PATH is proud to be an early user of @Google’s Hypothesis Generation tool, which uses AI to help identify immune biomarkers that may signal protection from disease to assess new vaccine candidates. Learn more: bit.ly/4dVVAGt #AIforHealth #AIforScience #GoogleIO
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Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better. This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.
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The success for the north London side follows three consecutive second-place finishes in the Premier League, losing out to Liverpool last year and twice to Manchester City before that. ft.trib.al/NxcEOKw
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RT @Dr_JeanKaseya: Following the recommendations of the Africa CDC Emergency Consultative Group (ECG), I officially declared today the ongo…
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PNASNews@PNASNews·
Opinion: As peer reviewer participation declines, how do we sustain the integrity of #PeerReview? We propose a transparent, universal credit system to recognize reviewers’ essential contributions to science. In PNAS Front Matter: ow.ly/xE7e50Z1auI #AcademicPublishing
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In more than two-thirds of the world’s 195 countries, the average number of children born to each woman has fallen below the 'replacement rate' of 2.1 that keeps populations stable without immigration. ft.trib.al/Rn4qC6l
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Kalipso Chalkidou@kchalkidou·
Countries that were promised trillions in private investment were instead paying trillions in debt service to private creditors, often redirected from public spending on health and education. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/08/de-…
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The Economist
The Economist@TheEconomist·
Prolonged AI use may make it harder to think critically and creatively, recent research suggests. But there are ways to keep the brain fit economist.com/science-and-te…
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Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Abdoulaye Ndiaye@AbdouNdiayeNYU·
Honored, humbled, and grateful!
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#Rwanda : L’économiste sénégalais Abdoulaye Ndiaye, âgé de 37 ans, a remporté ce vendredi 15 mai, la première édition de l’Africa NextGen Economist Prize, lancé par Jeune Afrique et The Africa Report avec la Banque africaine de développement. Remis en marge de l’Africa CEO Forum tenu à Kigali, ce prix distingue une nouvelle génération d’économistes africains engagés dans le renouvellement de la pensée économique du continent. Sélectionné parmi plus de 70 candidats issus de 14 pays, il a été récompensé pour la rigueur, l’originalité et la pertinence de ses travaux face aux défis économiques africains. Professeur à la Stern School of Business de New York University, ses recherches portent sur les finances publiques, l’économie du développement et l’économie politique, avec une forte orientation vers les politiques publiques. Diplômé de l’École polytechnique et docteur de Northwestern University, Abdoulaye Ndiaye incarne une génération d’intellectuels africains tournés vers l’impact concret. «Recevoir ce prix m’émeut profondément. Ma recherche sert autant les citoyens, les investisseurs que les décideurs publics de notre continent», a-t-il déclaré lors de la remise du prix. 5/5A

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The Economist@TheEconomist·
The bias in favour of boys is shrinking in developing countries even as a preference for girls emerges in the rich world economist.com/briefing/2025/…
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World Health Organization (WHO)
The World Health Statistics 2026 show that global health gains are real but under serious threat. Without swift action and stronger health systems, the global health targets for 2030 will be missed. What happens in the next few years determines if global progress is sustained. Read our new report, out now: bit.ly/4u7cojs
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