Habib Rehman
@habibrehman.bsky.social
MD-PhD Student in the Indiana University School of Medicine and Purdue University Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering MSTP
Amateur photographer
Amateur photographer
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Indiana's mid-decade redistricting would break apart communities and weaken the voice of voters. Hoosiers deserve fair maps and transparency that puts people first, not DC insiders.
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Indiana's mid-decade redistricting would break apart communities and weaken the voice of voters. Hoosiers deserve fair maps and transparency that puts people first, not DC insiders.
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“I’m tired of being constantly confronted by the consequences of my (in)actions.”
December 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“I’m tired of being constantly confronted by the consequences of my (in)actions.”
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Our new study in @science.org built an LLM-powered browser extension to rerank social media feeds without requiring platform cooperation. In a preregistered 10-day field experiment (N=1,256), we found that algorithmic ranking can both raise and lower levels of affective political polarization.
December 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Our new study in @science.org built an LLM-powered browser extension to rerank social media feeds without requiring platform cooperation. In a preregistered 10-day field experiment (N=1,256), we found that algorithmic ranking can both raise and lower levels of affective political polarization.
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Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
You know it's bad when his tangents are more coherent than the script.
Trump: "Despite their size, Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys. They could be fat, but they're still MAHA. They've been fattened on a steady diet of grass, beef, to allow the smoothies and all the other things they have been eating for this occasion."
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You know it's bad when his tangents are more coherent than the script.
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“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”
Neural dynamics outside task-coding dimensions drive decision trajectories through transient amplification
Most behaviors involve neural dynamics in high-dimensional activity spaces. A common approach is to extract dimensions that capture task-related variability, such as those separating stimuli or choice...
www.biorxiv.org
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”
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For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
Aurora borealis from Indianapolis!
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Aurora borealis from Indianapolis!
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections
go.nature.com/4nLbCoC
go.nature.com/4nLbCoC
Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria
Nature - Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.
go.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections
go.nature.com/4nLbCoC
go.nature.com/4nLbCoC
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Michael Granatosky on debunking the “rat hole”: “I hope this project reminds people that science can start anywhere—even with something as small and funny as a mark in the sidewalk.” That and more from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Michael Granatosky on debunking the “rat hole”: “I hope this project reminds people that science can start anywhere—even with something as small and funny as a mark in the sidewalk.” That and more from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
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🧪 I was going to say that I’m happy to share my latest, but I’d much rather be without the reasons to write it: The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/a... via @statnews.com
The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism
“The current political establishment and their supporters have consistently pathologized difference,” particularly when it comes to autism, a professor of medicine writes.
www.statnews.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
🧪 I was going to say that I’m happy to share my latest, but I’d much rather be without the reasons to write it: The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/a... via @statnews.com
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The creator of the NumPy and SciPy libraries reflects on their supporting role in the story of Python, now the subject of a documentary
go.nature.com/4gHDSGF
go.nature.com/4gHDSGF
Python, the movie! The programming language’s origin story comes to the silver screen
The creator of the NumPy and SciPy libraries reflects on their supporting role in the story of Python, now the subject of a documentary.
go.nature.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The creator of the NumPy and SciPy libraries reflects on their supporting role in the story of Python, now the subject of a documentary
go.nature.com/4gHDSGF
go.nature.com/4gHDSGF
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A random bit of history (for modern analogies). Lysenko set back genetics in USSR by ~50 years. Hundreds of geneticists imprisoned or died. Cybernetics was also named "reactionary pseudoscience", and about to undergo similar fate, but got lucky that this started close to the end of the Stalin era.
September 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
A random bit of history (for modern analogies). Lysenko set back genetics in USSR by ~50 years. Hundreds of geneticists imprisoned or died. Cybernetics was also named "reactionary pseudoscience", and about to undergo similar fate, but got lucky that this started close to the end of the Stalin era.
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Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
September 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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Longdust, a new tool to identify highly repetitive STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions (LCRs). Similar to SDUST but for long regions.
github.com/lh3/longdust
github.com/lh3/longdust
GitHub - lh3/longdust: Identify long STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions in a genome
Identify long STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions in a genome - lh3/longdust
github.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Longdust, a new tool to identify highly repetitive STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions (LCRs). Similar to SDUST but for long regions.
github.com/lh3/longdust
github.com/lh3/longdust
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No Donald, Chicago is not your war zone
September 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
No Donald, Chicago is not your war zone
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“It isn't reform. It's sabotage."
That's what former CDC director Susan Monarez says about President Trump's Health Secretary.
RFK Jr. is ignoring science—and our children will suffer for it.
That's what former CDC director Susan Monarez says about President Trump's Health Secretary.
RFK Jr. is ignoring science—and our children will suffer for it.
September 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“It isn't reform. It's sabotage."
That's what former CDC director Susan Monarez says about President Trump's Health Secretary.
RFK Jr. is ignoring science—and our children will suffer for it.
That's what former CDC director Susan Monarez says about President Trump's Health Secretary.
RFK Jr. is ignoring science—and our children will suffer for it.
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A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
go.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
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RFK Jr. and Trump tell us they want to Make America Healthy Again.
Great slogan. I agree. Unfortunately, they are doing the exact opposite.
Vaccines work. They are safe. They save lives.
No more conspiracy theories. Kennedy must resign.
Great slogan. I agree. Unfortunately, they are doing the exact opposite.
Vaccines work. They are safe. They save lives.
No more conspiracy theories. Kennedy must resign.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes.
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
The health secretary is endangering the lives of American people now and into the future.
nyti.ms
September 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
RFK Jr. and Trump tell us they want to Make America Healthy Again.
Great slogan. I agree. Unfortunately, they are doing the exact opposite.
Vaccines work. They are safe. They save lives.
No more conspiracy theories. Kennedy must resign.
Great slogan. I agree. Unfortunately, they are doing the exact opposite.
Vaccines work. They are safe. They save lives.
No more conspiracy theories. Kennedy must resign.
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Not to worry. Many countries survive without shipments from these countries. For instance, North Korea.
August 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Not to worry. Many countries survive without shipments from these countries. For instance, North Korea.