Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

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 supposedly fun thing i'll never do again

Creating baby geniuses to thwart the AI threat? (Yes, really.) The new wave of Silicon Valley–backed gene-editing startups is straight out of “Brave New World.”

Creating baby geniuses to thwart the AI threat? (Yes, really.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202... - smart people being really stupid about intelligence

They need to stop getting sycophantic feedback from their chatbots that makes them think they actually understand intelligence 🤦🏾‍♀️

This

Dr. Donna Farber presenting now as our third and final speaker: Immune memory to infection and vaccination in human tissues. #HIPC at #AAI2026

For scaling-laws aficionados (I am one), here are the graphs showing power-law behavior for vasculature for embryos (macaque, mouse, turtle).

This means that the vasculature of developing embryos is scale free fractal.

More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

When Trump urged pregnant women not to take Tylenol & RFK Jr falsely linked Tylenol in pregnancy with autism, 2 physicians, Jay Bhattacharya & Marty Makary, stood approvingly by their sides

As the Lancet editor said, these 2 docs are “those one should not forgive”

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A humanoid robot chasing wild boars through Warsaw has become Poland’s latest viral sensation. “Edward Warchocki” has racked up hundreds of millions of views as he patrols streets, chats with locals, and turns heads across the capital.

Un altro paio di interventi di Trump su Papa e Vaticano e potremmo avere l'enciclica "Ma chittesaenculae".

"I'm not payed enough for this shit"

Claude says humans contain theirs own kind of emotions

"Claude says CEOs contain theirs own kind of emotions"

At a recent conference, a Senior Investigator sat next to me at dinner and asked who I was and what stage of my career I’m at 🙄🥳

Happy to see more recognition of this key idea

The brain is not mental : frontiersin.org/journals/integ…

And all cells in the body are key for what we usually call « mental » or « self » processes !

"Always has been" meme with the earth short from Artemis II. The left astronaut says "Wait, It Is ISO 51200"

Three women stand on the left with lots of men in the right. The text below says, “SO LADIES, THANKS FOR BEING THE FIRST TO WITNESS AND REPORT THE RESURRECTION AND WE'LL TAKE IT FROM HERE?”

It’s time for my favorite cartoon of the year.

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

Local gene editing of #fibroblasts in tumors reveals a new cancer-associated fibroblast state. New study from Nicholas F. Kuhn, Matthew F. Krummel @maxkrummel.bsky.social @immunox.bsky.social and colleagues:
rupress.org/jem/article/...

#TumorImmunology #SolidTumors #TME #CAFs

Wonderful

DNA-PK interacts with cyclic dinucleotides and inhibits type I #interferon responses. From Isabelle K. Vila, Yasmine Messaoud-Nacer, Clara Taffoni, Dimitrios Vlachakis, Nadine Laguette @nadinelaguette.bsky.social @igmm-montpel.bsky.social and colleagues:
rupress.org/jem/article/...
#InnateImmunity

We need to read this in Italy. Nobody talks about it: that means it IS important

Data reveal that influenza-specific memory T cells formed under iron-deficient conditions are functionally impaired, most notably within the lung, indicating the critical effect of nutritional iron deficiency on T cell memory development and function: https://ow.ly/3hTR50Yyjch

We need humans capable to adjust AI code

Discovery of potent and selective inhibitors of human #NLRP3 with a novel mechanism of action, from Kevin Wilhelmsen, Rebecca Coll @colllab.bsky.social and colleagues rupress.org/jem/article/...

📘 In our #InnateImmunity collection: rupress.org/jem/collecti...

#KSInnateImmune26

If you do a lot of searching on the internet (as I do), this is a really useful article. Multiple things I didn’t know and will use going forward.

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...