Our latest podcast episode features Prof. Yves Desjardins (plant scientist 🌿) giving an overview of what polyphenols are & how they create niches for certain bacteria in the gut.
Listen now:
isappscience.org/episode-54-i...

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it”

— Karl Popper.

Chinese start-up DeepSeek has released R1 - a 'reasoning model' that's as good as OpenAI's o1 but 1/30th of the price. Incorporating other AI techniques into LLMs is boosting their ability to tackle complex tasks, which could someday prove a huge boon to research 🤖🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Énorme

Failure of students to complete a PhD program (timely or otherwise) is not just a matter of personal failing; there are also environmental and institutional factors are involved (which have changed over time).
#AcademicSky 🧪
doi.org/10.1080/0307...

Read about Garamond, the typeface that had a complicated history before appearing in the 20th century as the book typeface par excellence and being repeatedly reinterpreted.
➽ typofonderie.com/gazette/gara...

By Michel Wlassikoff, the eminent French historian of graphic and type history. en/fr

Gut microbiota regulates stress responsivity via the circadian system - our latest paper just out - well done Gabriel Tofani & all
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

🔬 Excited to share the final version of my postdoctoral #research at @ThePedraLab, now published with
@natureportfolio.bsky.social in NatureComms!

🕷️ Explore the secrets of #ticks' #hemocytes at single-cell resolution during feeding and infection 🦠

👉 Link: rdcu.be/dADQR

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

-- Margaret Mead, who died #OTD 1978