A farewell letter from Thomas Lin (Thomas Lin), Quanta’s outgoing editor-in-chief: quantamagazine.org/my-fantastic-v…

Harvard longevity scientist sparks furor with claim about reversing aging in dogs
Megan Molteni writes STAT
statnews.com/2024/03/05/dav…
See my critical review of the study here.
pubpeer.com/publications/0…
[Spoiler alert: the supplement does NOT reverse aging in dogs]

Vaccination reduced the risk of #LongCovid by ~40% in the entire population (5.4 million) of Norway
thelancet.com/journals/lanre… and reduced cardiovascular and thrombotic events Nhung Trinh
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Prestigious cancer research institute has retracted 7 studies amid controversy over errors
Evan Bush writes NBC News

nbcnews.com/science/scienc…

Nature now charges $12,290 US to publish a single article open access. Shall we list some things that cost less than that? I'll go first: a 2017 BMW 330i sedan, a 7-day cruise for a family of four, six Louis Vuitton purses. 🤪

Visualization and sonification of the GitHub commit history of the Hugging Face's Transformers repository.

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/04/10/cli…

The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere today is comparable to around 4.3 million years ago, when sea level was about 75 ft higher than today, the average temp was 7 degrees F higher than in pre-industrial times, & large forests occupied areas of the Arctic that are now tundra.

Steve Jobs+Apple => no consultants.
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GO. SEE. TOTALITY. It will change your perspective on the universe.

Jenny P. Berrío and Otto Kalliokoski did a systematic review of preclinical studies of depression and found that nearly 20% of 588 of those studies contained problematic images.
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Sumeet Kulkarni 🐋 reports nature.

Creepy.org Musician Dagmar Turner is woken up midway through brain surgery to play the violin to ensure the parts of her brain responsible for intricate hand movements were not affected during the procedure (2020).

There’s a beautiful essay on my first book in the NY Times Book Review by Margaret Atwood, and a lovely piece by Mark Shanahan in the Boston Globe. Thank you both. I’m overwhelmed.

'Exposure to low concentrations of air pollution has a greater impact on human health than previously appreciated.'
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Science Magazine Torben Sigsgaard

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Hi everyone! I am Elisabeth Bik, PhD, a science integrity consultant and volunteer.
In this thread for #YoungScientistNetworking (invited by Teddy Zartler aka @quantumtessera.bsky.social), I will tell a bit about my somewhat unusual career.
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Steve Jobs+Apple => no consultants.
I did some corporate stuff but trying to change IBM was like trying to change Sweden, also decided to avoid boring people. So did only one-day course for 22 years 930 days 328,000 people getting all my books in rented venues open to anyone