what's exciting about the modern world is how many people talk about basic human interactions like they've just been invented and can only be accomplished through the intervention of the latest technological fascination and haven't been happening since the dawn of civilization

New: U.S. Tightens Rules on Risky Virus Research nytimes.com/2024/05/07/sci…

'What I wish I had known then: Honeybees do not need saving.'

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is in custody on espionage charges, makes a heart-shaped gesture behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants as he attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva

'this lock-in effect is responsible for about 1.3 million fewer home sales in America during the run-up in rates from the spring of 2022 through the end of 2023' nytimes.com/2024/04/15/ups…

“By one estimate, WuXi has been involved in developing one-fourth of the drugs used in the United States.” nytimes.com/2024/04/15/hea…

'Even fairly anodyne letters to media organizations could cost clients nearly six figures' (!!!) Will never look at one of those letters the same way again... juicy new story on defamation lawyers, by David Enrich nytimes.com/2024/04/10/bus…

This idea is of increasing risks from reinfections is a COMPLETE MISUNDERSTANDING.

That paper DOES NOT show a reinfection is more dangerous than earlier infection.

That paper —and much research— shows reinfections are statistically much less riskier than earlier ones. See next.

NEW —now 4 studies by Columbia cancer researchers have been retracted for copied data. Story by ⁦Benjamin Mueller⁩: nytimes.com/2024/03/20/sci…

Hey authors, peer-reviewers, editors, & production teams, you might want to be sure ChatGPT text is removed from your scientific publications.... HT Randy Olson #research #scitwitter #chatgpt

I hadn't even looked in the bloody window!

are you this old?

Josette Molland’s Testimony: Scenes of Life in Nazi Camps nytimes.com/2024/03/06/wor…

SCOOP for WIRED — these appear to be the first publicly-reported arrests of their kind:

Two boys, aged 13 and 14, were arrested in Florida after allegedly making fake, AI-generated nude images of their classmates
wired.com/story/florida-…

A work meeting???? Who are these 1-in-4 women and… do they work

Ayo Edebiri just gave the best answer any celebrity has ever given to a reporter

Ingrid from Upload perfectly recaps Chelsea and Jimmy from Love is Blind

NEW from ⁦Sarah Kliff⁩ — major embryo shipping company said on Friday that it was pausing its business in Alabama nytimes.com/2024/02/23/hea…

the google news tab keeps disappearing bc google is testing disappearing it, Sarah Scire confirms

niemanlab.org/2024/02/why-is…

The politics of America’s housing issues in one chart:

• People and politicians in blue states say they care deeply about the housing crisis and homelessness but keep blocking housing so both get worse

• Red states simply permit loads of new homes and have no housing crisis