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Personal and Psychological Dimensions of AI Researchers Confronting AI Catastrophic Risks - Yoshua Bengio ( yoshuabengio.org )

Bird flu researchers turn to Finland’s mink farms, tracking a virus with pandemic potential ( www.statnews.com )

Using AI to find antibodies is fast and produces unimagined molecules ( arstechnica.com )

An editor resigned in protest. Now, Wiley is firing him four months earlier than he planned to leave. ( retractionwatch.com )

Scientists Create Single-Crystal Iron Just Like Earth's Core ( www.geologyin.com )

T cells burn out just a few hours after encountering cancer tumors ( arstechnica.com ) German

Irregular sleep patterns associated with harmful gut bacteria ( www.kcl.ac.uk )

NIH announces long covid treatment studies with hundreds of patients ( wapo.st )

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Beyond the Headlines: Aspartame and Cancer Risk ( www.strongerbyscience.com )

Some long-covid patients have brain struggles for at least two years ( wapo.st )

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Buy now, pay later: Consumer credit researcher warns of overspending risks this Christmas ( phys.org )

NIH researchers vote to form a union for the first time ( www.nature.com )

Dry Ice from Sea Shells ( www.youtube.com )

Scientists Have Discovered Connections Between Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s Disease ( scitechdaily.com )

According to this study, reduction in the activity of the INPP5D gene in microglia (immune regulating cells in the brain) leads to increased neuroinflammation, potentially contributing to the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, paving the way for targeted treatments....

Huge survey finds US$10,000 pay gap for disabled scientists ( www.nature.com )

Eleven strategies for making reproducible research and open science ( doi.org )

Researchers identify 'unicorn' defense mechanism that protects bacteria from antibiotics ( phys.org )

Climate conspiracy theories flourish ahead of COP28 ( phys.org )

UK first to approve CRISPR treatment for diseases: what you need to know ( www.nature.com )

Mummified baboons point to the direction of the fabled land of Punt ( arstechnica.com )

New explanation for infertility: eggs lacking a mysterious ‘lattice’ ( www.nature.com )

Cytoplasmic lattices (bundles of fibres floating in the cytoplasm) in mammalian egg cells seem to be storage sites for many proteins that are essential for the development of the early embryo. The discovery indicates that their absence, which can be determined by genetic testing, would point towards infertility of the eggs....

2023 Guide to Uncontacted Tribes: Advocating for Indigenous land Rights — Ultra Unlimited ( www.ultra-unlimited.com )

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'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Nobel Prize-winning researcher Katalin Karikó ( www.thedp.com )

In the discussion I read elsewhere, people wondered if the way funds are granted would change and advocated for it. I don’t think a system that can say they profit greatly from the status quo will ever care. I also remember how public funding were denied to researchers and then cut without all of it being used.