Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

chemical mapping generated human single-base-pair–resolution nucleosome positioning maps during interphase and metaphase, revealing widespread nucleosome repositioning at gene regulatory regions across the cell cycle ➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

A square graphic on a white background. At the top, there are two distinct, rough, painted-style brushstroke patches side-by-side: one in the blue and yellow of the European Union flag and one in the red, white, and blue of the United Kingdom's Union Jack. Below the flags, bold, dark blue text reads: "THE UK IS COMING BACK TO ERASMUS+." In the bottom right corner, there is a small, rectangular official European Union flag.

The United Kingdom is coming back to Erasmus+.

The European Union and the United Kingdom have enabled the UK's association to Erasmus+ in 2027.

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Vacancy — Assistant Professor in AI for Science (AI4Science) <p><span>Are you passionate about advancing Machine Learning by integrating insights from the natural sciences? Are you eager to bridge the 3rd (<em><span>computational</span></em>) and 4th (<em><span...

We're looking for a new colleague at @amlab.bsky.social: Assistant Professor in AI for Science 🔬🤖

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Ampere-level ammonia synthesis in a tandem plasma–electrolysis system - Nature Synthesis Defect-engineered cobalt rich in twin boundaries and stacking faults drives nitrite-to-ammonia electroreduction at ampere-level current densities, enabling high-throughput plasma–electrolysis air-to-a...

Now online:

News & Views on the Article by Honghui Ou, Guidong Yang & co-workers

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Ampere-level ammonia synthesis in a tandem plasma–electrolysis system by Xin Geng & Feng Zhou

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ME: I need to insert a footnote
MICROSOFT WORD: *spitting blood* fuck you, fuck your mother and fuck your footnote

A flexible and affordable self-driving laboratory for automated reaction optimization - Nature Synthesis A low-cost, modular self-driving laboratory platform (RoboChem-Flex) is designed to democratize autonomous chemical experimentation. This platform combines customizable hardware with Python-based cont...

Now online and open access:

Article by Timothy Noël & co-workers @tnoel82.bsky.social @noelgroupuva.bsky.social

A flexible and affordable self-driving laboratory for automated reaction optimization

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The complete morphology of a single LC-NE neuron.

First off, these cells are gigantic. This one, for example, has >72 cm of axon! To our knowledge, it’s the longest neuron ever fully reconstructed. I leave it to the reader as an exercise to estimate the length of a human LC neuron. 5

Self-driving labs are transforming chemistry; but high cost & complexity limit access to a few well-funded labs.

We wanted to change that.

Our new paper in #NatureSynthesis introduces RoboChem-Flex 🧪🤖

🔗https://nature.com/articles/s44160-026-01053-0

#selfdrivinglab #flowchemistry #optimization

Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job they’re intentionally sabotaging their company’s AI rollout | Fortune Many employees are refusing to use AI tools, with some even admitting to tampering with performance reviews to make AI appear less effective.

A significant share of employees are actively trying to sabotage their company’s AI rollout, according to a new report published from enterprise AI agent firm Writer and research firm Workplace Intelligence. https://bit.ly/4miD91v

Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”

#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

"Despite being weaker at conventional chess, AI tools designed to make moves that the human-like partner could build on consistently beat teams led by Leela, a superhuman chess AI. Being powerful was not enough: compatibility with a partner was more important. " This result reframes what interpretability should mean in the context of AI adoption. Rather than asking whether a human can understand an AI system’s output, we should check whether they can act on it productively. In radiology, for example, that might mean an AI tool suggesting not just a diagnosis, but also highlighting the region of a chest X-ray that prompted the diagnosis, so that the physician can assess whether the system’s focus matches their own analysis. " Yet individual interpretability is only the first step. Chess has a fixed objective: checkmate. The goal never changes. In most professions now adopting AI, the situation is more complex."

Smart take on the (hidden) costs of AI, and what to do about them.

The intro alone: 🧐

www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com

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Register – Essential Code Craft - Test-Driven Development – Zoom Essential Code Craft - Test-Driven Development – Zoom, Multiple dates and times - Our new Essential Code Craft training workshops are aimed at software developers who are self-funding their profession...

The 2 most common surprises when I teach TDD are:

* What my tests are about (what are the "units" in my "unit tests"?)

* Usage-driven design - my "backwards" workflow from outcomes to implementations

Join us on Saturday to see it - and *do* it - yourself

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Bluesky - 6,743,577 mentions of research found

Facebook - 6,694,836 mentions of research found

@bsky.app overtakes Facebook for volume of citations to research.

Worth noting we don't track profiles of people on Facebook, rather several hundred thousand public pages - some of which have millions of followers.

High-efficiency organo-electrocatalysts enable both anodic and cathodic reactions - Nature Synthesis Organo-electrocatalysts that can be used for both inorganic and organic conversions have been reported, ranging from laboratory-scale to large-scale reactions. This work demonstrates the application o...

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Article by Jiarui Yang, Dingsheng Wang, Xiong Wen ‘David’ Lou & co-workers

High-efficiency organo-electrocatalysts enable both anodic and cathodic reactions

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Brain organoids are a transformative technology — but they need regulation The potential benefits of organoids for fundamental research and medicine are huge. Efforts to establish proper boundaries for their use should be supported.

The potential benefits of organoids for fundamental research and medicine are huge. Efforts to establish proper boundaries for their use should be supported

go.nature.com/4t67rqY

We need more coding interfaces that are not IDEs, not CLI agentic tools, and not chatbots. IDEs are for creation and autocompletion makes sense there. CLIs are for generation, chatbots are for understanding. I need creation, generation, and understanding in one session.

Now online:

Review article by Jinha Jang, Yonghan Jo & Chan Beum Park

Biophotoelectrocatalysis in synthesis

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cover of the book "Bayesian Workflow" by Gelman, Vehtari, et al. Coming out later this year, in the summer probably.

I would have preferred to have the "draw the rest of the owl" meme on the cover, but this will do. Seems like it is on schedule, and we'll leave some typos so you know we didn't write it with AI.

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Indeed. "Fall in love with the problem not the solution" can't be repeated often enough. AI might play a role in solving X but the goal should not be "use AI to solve X" in my view.

Catalyst diverts course of industrial process to make valuable hydrocarbons A catalyst with two cobalt components potentially opens the way to sustainable processes for manufacturing light olefins — key ingredients for making plastics and detergents.

A catalyst with two cobalt components potentially opens the way to sustainable processes for manufacturing light olefins — key ingredients for making plastics and detergents

go.nature.com/4v6a7G6

We don't spend enough time thinking about strategic planning around the actual cost of using an LLM. The AI companies are effectively borrowing $1,000 for every $1 of revenue.
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What Motivates Kids to Help Others? A new study suggests even toddlers are motivated by compassion rather than the desire to get credit for good deeds.

Research shows that toddlers not only help but often do so for altruistic reasons (genuine concern) rather than out of self-interest: ow.ly/bSRL8.

Unfortunately, other studies show that this altruism is diminished when we reward or praise kids for helping: is.gd/3K6y98 & tinyurl.com/aeuej29a

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

This is either brilliant or scary:

Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA.

BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!

GitHub - instructkr/claude-code: Claude Code Snapshot for Research. All original source code is the property of Anthropic. Claude Code Snapshot for Research. All original source code is the property of Anthropic. - instructkr/claude-code

Oh wow, Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code and it’s been cloned and made public github.com/instructkr/c...