This week's @Nature cover highlights a report of A.I. mediated distortion When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants https://t.co/qTSHdxF8Ia

In August, we reported the VA lost more than 600 doctors and nearly 2,000 nurses this year, with the number of doctors still in the agency dropping each month since Trump took office. If you recently left the VA, here's how to share your story with us:

New CSET work taking an empirical look (based on 250 papers) at the kinds of AI research that are enabled by open-weight models: ⬇️

NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being “decimated,” as one person described. “They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding,” said another. “I’m not sure how these programs exist moving forward.”

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

Friday night massacre. The CDC just lost dozens of its top scientists and its entire D.C. office. This isn’t streamlining the government - it’s dismantling our ability to detect and respond to outbreaks before they spread. You can’t cut your way to safety.

On Wednesday, Brian Kilmeade went on national television and called for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. "Just kill 'em," he said. There hasn't been one word about it in The New York Times or The Washington Post or USA Today.

Iceland is the world’s biggest consumer of SSRIs. They’ve had fewer than 10 gun homicides since 2020; in the US, there have been over 95,000 in that time. It’s the guns.

The #1 cause of death in children isn’t mold, parasites, leaky gut, gluten, or food dyes. It’s firearms. So why are we patting ourselves on the back because food companies are voluntarily pulling dyes, while the leading killer of kids goes unaddressed? Every day, parents hold

Uh oh

Scientist here. Mitochondria do not present challenges to faces, movements, or social connections. Maybe those kids just don’t like you because you’re staring at them like a creep who wants to give them measles.

Medicine and public health have added three decades to the human lifespan. Vaccination alone produced 40% of the reduction in child deaths. And now a disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of this work, including CDC.

Why publish one story about A.I. gone wrong when you can publish two? Here's my other story today with @NYTimesCramer on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man. The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''. https://t.co/FhA7ewLN5J

Only 50% & 47% of women w/ #breastcancer & #ovariancancer, respectively, had #germline #genetictesting & utilization was slightly lower in 2021 vs 2019 & 2020, despite @ASBrS & @NCCN recs for #universal #germlinetesting ...failure to test is predominantly due to physicians’

"[A]n April 2025 IEA report found that globally, data center electricity use has gone up 12% every year since 2017, which is 'more than four times faster than the rate of total electricity consumption": https://t.co/POl9rVGAA6 #ethics #internet #AI #sustainability #research

Thinking of switching to a commercial Automated Insulin Delivery system for my #type1diabetes after 7 years of open source #DIYAPS so figured I would take stock of some of the helpful features I will miss. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

"Half of all consumer spending is coming from the top 10 percent, and these price-insensitive customers are absorbing higher inflation. Low-income consumers, by contrast, are taking on more credit card debt, the Boston Federal Reserve reports, because they cannot keep up with

See the man circled here? That's E.J. Antoni, Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee, walking through a crowd of Capitol rioters. #ICYMI, we've got an archive of 500+ Parler videos taken during Jan. 6. Watch Antoni starting at ~1:41 in this clip: https://t.co/MbwvYPOiJ1

Since we passed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried over and over to repeal it. And over and over, they’ve failed — in part because millions of people now depend on the ACA for quality, affordable health care. Now Republicans are trying something different: quietly