I moved from on iPSCs and organoids in ~2012 to systems neuro and then deep learning (~’16/17). I vividly remember when interviewing for faculty positions someone asking me “is deep learning really the way to go/why give up my successful start in iPSCs”…

~10 years on ... yes, for me, yes!

The AHA has released a statement condemning the evisceration of the National Endowment for the Humanities. “This frontal attack on the nation’s public culture is unpatriotic, anti-American, and unjustified.” 🗃️

Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance

The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

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A growing number of researchers in Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and Canada who receive US funding have been asked to declare their institution’s links to China and whether their projects comply with US government ideology.

https://go.nature.com/4in5Oja

Trump administration terminates a US-funded initiative that documents alleged Russian war crimes, including a sensitive database detailing the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

We thought maybe the IMLS would be overlooked but because it’s so critical for libraries we went ahead and archived all of the data we could find with the help of @everylibrary.bsky.social But of course IMLS and now #libraries are now under attack. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Today's news about the US Administration's unlawful Executive Order to dispense with IMLS, inspired me to write this short guide. 
The Infrastructure for Library Resistance in the USA: A Modest Guide
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Gonna nerd: "This is not a moment, it's a movement." The article shows the widespread care & concern about our nation's public data. Much will be lost unless we preserve the data AND speak about its importance. This isn't an issue for academia. It is for all of us.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Wiley releases AI guidelines for authors
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Advice aims to help researchers address ethical, practical, and technical questions regarding AI use

We ❤️ all the libraries that have been supporting data rescue and their patrons. Our focus is the preservation of access for all. www.datarescueproject.org/libraries-su...

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Springer Nature launches new AI tool
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Developed with the community, tool is aimed at helping streamline integrity and ethics checks
@springernature.bsky.social

Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #9,544,369!