This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig...
The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.
Simple answer. No.
scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
I've basically stopped pitching stories on when people are caught using AI in Australian courts now but a site that is tracking them says there are at least 73.
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...
We are at the very stupid stage of the AI bubble where investors and boards are demanding every company on earth announce an AI strategy immediately and without the slightest bit of thought.
Join your unions kids
Although AI improves performance during assisted sessions, performance drops sharply once it's removed. And relative to controls, AI-assisted participants also gave up more frequently on test problems.
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
Spring time for perverts
Just been approached by Huel to see if I'll be part of their paid influencer campaign. I don't think they're quite across what I do for a living. (FWIW, and in the interests of having influence, I regard Huel as a soul destroying, miserable product and the death of all that is worth living for.)
FACT OF THE DAY. 26 March 1953. In a huge medical breakthrough, US medical researcher Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had created the first polio vaccine. Polio cases fell from 58,000 per year in 1952 to 6,000 by 1958. Salk’s vaccine was replaced by a new one developed by Albert Sabin in 1962.
This is Lenny. He prefers to hold your hand while you go downstairs. He's not taking any chances. 13/10 (IG: _wanderingwallace_)
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it!
That’s just me though.
"But I never get colllddssssah"
Yeah, you do, buddy, as a child mostly.
Then you developed some immunity, which, as an adult, made it difficult for you to notice a reinfection by the same rhinovirus (=you now think you're magical; sorry, you're not).
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18248302/
When LLM agents talk to each other, a new failure emerges: agents abandon their assigned roles and mimic their conversational partner instead. Rates reach as high as 70% with major models — and increased reasoning doesn’t help.
🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2511.09710
actually pretty chuffed that marc andreessen has come out against thought
Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
I was on a panel this week at the Royal Society, talking about AI and the future of women in science, and Wendy Hall asked us about the consequences of a future without women working in AI. And my reply was that we don't need to imagine that future. It's here. It's the present.
"In the 3 decades between 1993 and 2024, measles in the U.S. was relatively rare – few 100 cases each year, at most. But suddenly, the disease has become so entrenched in American life that it sometimes fails to make headlines when a new outbreak erupts."
"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"
This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.
Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
"Our physiology-based survival limits show a vast underestimation of risks by the 35 °C Tw model in hot-dry conditions." - Vanos et al. 2023.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ClimateEmergency
This felt urgent and it is as powerful and galvanising as maddening and incredible. How did we get here? Why has big tech turned against women by author and campaigner Laura Bates as.ft.com/r/9a009af2-d...
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
#NIH to deprioritize pandemic preparedness and biodefense research, @nature.com reports, saying director Jay Bhattacharya wants to focus on known diseases, not possible future threats.
What could possibly go wrong?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
