Is the scientific literature a database or a library? - LSE Impact How do two conflicting visions of the scientific literature as either a library or a database shape attitudes shape key issues in scholarly communication?

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Before AI agents act for us, we need to know how AI searches for us - LSE Impact Generative AI agents are pitched as being a new gateway to engaging with the Internet, but the way AI sees the Internet is both "conservative" and "stubborn”.

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AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn’t ready for the new risks this brings to biology Researchers have found that even people with limited experience in biology can use AI to help them create a dangerous pathogen.

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When the war in Iran comes home: Why the US isn’t ready for increasing hybrid threats Iran and more cyber-capable adversaries, like China and Russia, are likely looking to take advantage of the current moment.

"In addition to Iran, much more cyber-capable adversaries, namely China and Russia, are also likely looking to take advantage of the current moment," write Alex Noyes @alexhnoyes.bsky.social and Mike Nelson.

Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in undercover filming — BBC News Footage shows staff in Pakistan injecting without gloves and reusing syringes, but the hospital boss refuses to acknowledge it is genuine.

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Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts. According to Stanford’s 2026 AI Index, AI is sprinting, and we’re struggling to keep up.

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Medical education book club UDLCO CRH: Text from The Strange Death of Medical England by William Hayes-Wood, 2025, 123pp. (£7.99, paperback) and how patient centered, evidence based medical education...

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What Do Employers Mean by “AI Skills,” Anyway? (opinion) A major survey shows students are anxious about career readiness in the face of AI—pointing to the need for more employer guidance.

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Threats to Library Funding End With Settlement by Trump Administration

Threats to Library Funding End With Settlement by Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/a...

Hospitals brace for a new wave of cuts as GOP turns to reconciliation again www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/hosp...

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Maddow is doing a horror story now about another secret concentration camp in Ariazona right now.

Twitter has outsized influence, but it doesn’t drive much traffic for most news orgs, a new report says Twitter generates 1.5 percent of traffic for typical news organizations, according to a new report from the social analytics company Parse.ly that examined data from 200 of its client websites over tw...

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What Do Libraries Look for When Evaluating Relationships with Academic Publishers? - Ithaka S+R Today, we published an issue brief on the topic of the evolving relationship between research libraries and academic publishers. With this research, we wanted to better understand which qualities and ...

What Do Libraries Look for When Evaluating Relationships with Academic Publishers?
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ALA, AFSCME Defend IMLS and Reach Settlement with Federal Government In the same week that the White House dropped its appeal of ‘Rhode Island v. Trump,’ the ALA and AFSCME settled with the federal government in ‘ALA v. Sonderling,’ a case that prevents the dismantling...

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Where Do Americans Get Health Information, and What Do They Trust? | Pew Research Center (PIKSEL via Getty Images) About this research This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on health information and how they view their own health. Why did we do…

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Given these facts, I struggle to understand what it would mean to “de-escalate the rhetoric” around AI. The CEOs are more convinced than ever that powerful intelligence will arrive within the next few years. The public increasingly believes them — and is appalled by the implications. It seems strange to suggest that, amidst accelerating breakthroughs in AI model performance, everyone needs to calm down. If we really might be facing “the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity,” as Altman once wrote, shouldn’t we expect people at some point to (non-violently) freak out?

I wrote about the disturbing rise of AI-related violence and how CEOs' own rhetoric has put the public on edge www.platformer.news/sam-altman-a...

AI Will Be Met With Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It It has started

AI Will Be Met With Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It
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Can you trust a finding? A new project maps which studies replicate Findings from the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program—a collaborative effort involving 865 researchers—have been published in Nature as a collection of three papers ...

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AI maps science papers to predict research trends two to three years ahead The number of scientific papers is growing so rapidly that scientists are no longer able to keep track of all of them, even in their own research area. Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in collaboration with scientific partners, have shown how new research ideas can still be obtained from this wealth of information. Using artificial intelligence (AI), they systematically analyzed materials science publications to identify potential new avenues of research. Their results have been published in Nature Machine Intelligence.

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<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online Library This study examines how three US-based communities who oppose consensus science produce and disseminate scholarly-like artifacts: pro-life activists, Young Earth Creationists, and Anthropogenic Clima....

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Fake Authors, Real Citations: Scientists Discovered a Preprint Plagiarism Network | The Scientist Researchers uncovered a sophisticated citation mill using large language models to rephrase legitimate research on preprint servers, aiming to inflate citation counts.

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Add your name to shut down Dilley, end family detention, and stop the expansion of warehouse detention. action.momsrising.org/sign/end-fam...

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Ya’ll voted for this when you voted for the Republicans. Ya’ll sow what you reap. Go MAGA go, don’t ask blue states to rescue you.

Who wants to send their children to school in Oklahoma, ranked lowest in the country. Tennessee and Ohio are no shining educational meccas, either. But the students know the 10 commandments, which their legislators violate constantly. Pathetic MAGA states

Trump's budget hawk is still trying to slash medical research. Congress is saying no.

Tell Congress: Health Care and Child Care Funding is for Families, Not for War Crimes and Human Rights Abuses via @momsrising.org action.momsrising.org/sign/reconci...

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