Ekaterina Beliakova

Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI The Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair?

New from me @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social + Justin-Casimir Braun:

Amsterdam believed that it could build a #predictiveAI for welfare fraud that would ALSO be fair, unbiased, & a positive case study for #ResponsibleAI. It didn't work.

Our deep dive why: www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...

Smell studies often use unnaturally high odor concentrations, analysis reveals It’s time to fashion olfactory neuroscience stimuli based on odor concentrations in the wild, say study investigators Elizabeth Hong and Matt Wachowiak.

Olfactory neuroscientists have known for a while that their stimuli stink. A new analysis illuminates the extent of the problem.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/olfaction/sm...

This is what organizing over 1,200 events in a few weeks looks like.

This is what democracy looks like.

Join the more than half a million of us who will be taking to the streets tomorrow to stand up against Trump’s unprecedented power grab: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Neurochemical markers of uncertainty processing in humans How individuals process and respond to uncertainty has important implications for cognition and mental health. Here we use computational phenotyping to examine individualised 'uncertainty fingerprints...

New preprint alert! How do we process uncertainty, and how do neurometabolites shape this?🧠Here we combine computational modeling + 7T MRS to answer these questions: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With Peter Thestrup Waade, Chris Mathys, Frederike Petzchner, @beckyneuro.bsky.social & others! 🧵(1/4)

This.

Abigail André on LinkedIn: #federalworkers #federalcuts #fundingfreeze #maps | 234 comments Federal Cuts Tracker Map will be live next week. It is an interactive visualization of impacts felt across the country as the result of federal firings… | 234 comments on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/posts/abigai...

The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Medicine is now online. Check out the table of contents arevie.ws/4hfaPd1

Is Clinical Research Inclusive Or Extractive? <p>Pulling from the concept of &quot;inclusive&quot; and &quot;extractive&quot; discussed in recent coverage of research conducted by Nobel Prize in Economics winners, Eduardo F. Motti discusses the g...

www.clinicalleader.com/doc/is-clini...

Special Year on Large Language Models and Transformers, Part 2 This is the second part in a special year-long program on large language models and transformers that spans the 2024–2025 academic year. This program's overarching goal is to try to understand the ong...

Will be in San Francisco beginning february for the @IVADO_Qc workshop on large language models and #transformers at Berkley’s
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.

simons.berkeley.edu/programs/spe...

Please DM if you want to chat.

Commission Issues ‘Radical Overhaul’ of Obesity Diagnosis A Lancet Commission has provided new definitions for “clinical” and “preclinical” obesity, with the former being labelled the disease and the latter a condition of health risk.

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

The Discovery of a Fat-Filled Cell Reveals Why Noses Are Springy A newly identified cartilage cell generates fat vacuoles and makes the surrounding tissues pliable. This helps keep the ear and nose tips bouncy.

www.the-scientist.com/the-discover...

Evaluating how brains generalize Data from macaque monkeys reveals flaws in deep neural networks

seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/01...

#Elemental #TravelWithYourNose
#Reflections #Transience #Ambience #Fragrance
#CraftOfNarrative #DesignYourSenses #SensorialQuest #Archetypes
#BeautyWithinAndWithout #Reinterpret

The earliest forms of life discovery - thrombolite-building microorganisms, the world's earliest living fossil.
#Thrombolites #YalgorupNationalPark #Pindjarup #Microbio #LivingFossil
#WesternAustralia
#FragrantLandscapes #FloatingWorld2025
#FluxFlowFufluns #OlfactoryChronotope

#WesternAustralia
#TravelWithYourNose
#CraftOfNarrative #SensorialQuest

NIH Researchers Discover Novel Class of Anti-Malaria Antibodies New antibodies that bind to a previously untargeted portion of the malaria parasite could lead to new monoclonal antibody treatments and vaccines for malaria.

www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/...

Oct '24

#URochesterResearch identifies a brain-based biomarker of resilience to pain persistence

Dr. Paul Geha, et al, found properties of a major white matter bundle in the brain can predict long-term outcome of an acute bout of low-back pain

@elife.bsky.social
➡️ doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

10/12

For the New Year, the FDA Is Changing What Foods Can Be Called ‘Healthy’ Whole grains and fruits are in, and added sugar is out. That’s going to change what’s on a lot of cereal boxes and other things

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Siqi Chen et sa fille Mira

Cours du memecoin MIRA sur Solana

Un memecoin qui fait battre les cœurs ❤️: comment la petite Mira, atteinte d'une tumeur cérébrale rare, a mobilisé toute la communauté crypto et fait grimper un token à 80M$ de capitalisation en quelques heures 🚀

On t’explique cette histoire qui nous a touché 👇

Here's a heartwarming holiday crypto story (no, seriously) Memecoins are best known for scamming people out of their money, but this one may actually be doing some good.

sfstandard.com/2024/12/27/s...
#craniopharyngioma

When AI Chatbots Diagnose Better Than Physicians This Medical News article is an interview with Stanford University’s Jonathan Chen, MD, PhD, and Ethan Goh, MBBS, MS, about their research on AI tools to enhance clinical decision-making.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#FermentationStation #HoppyAnniversary #NzH109 #BractBrewersProgramme
#TravelWithYourNose #CaliforniaCraft
#Elemental #CraftOfNarrative #DesignYourSenses #SensorialQuest #Archetypes #Introspective
#BeautyWithinAndWithout
#FragrantLandscapes #FloatingWorld2024
#FluxFlowFufluns #OlfactoryChronotope

Happy Hoppy Holidays,
Happy Anniversaries & fineries
Happy Hoppy discoveries - in peaceful respite,
Getting geared up for the upcoming year-long fights,
Intimate & at large.
@OutOfTheBarrelLosGatos
@NorthParkBeerCo
@NZHopsLtd
@Official_Bract_Brewers
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Dawid Hanak on LinkedIn: #research #publishing #science #scientist #chemicalengineering #professor… | 103 comments This is the beginning of the end for open access publishers like MDPI and Frontiers… …Finland has just downgraded 271 open access journals from MDPI and… | 103 comments on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/posts/dawidh...

“A Shot in the Arm” is a must-watch exposé on vaccine denial and RFK Jr.’s deadly role in the Samoan measles outbreak.

Now streaming FREE on PBS.org and the PBS App. This documentary includes damning evidence and footage of RFK Jr.

Call your senators—urge them to watch and take action!

The Urgent Need for Reform in California's Home Insurance Market There have been clear signs for many years that serious problems were brewing in the home insurance industry. In some cases, the consequences for failing to promptly address this crisis have had signi...

www.spur.org/events/2025-...
Digital Discourse
12:30 to 1:30 p.m. | Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Digital Discourse
12:30 to 1:30 p.m. | Tuesday, January 21, 2025

California's Transportation Agenda in a Second Trump Presidency California is bracing for the impacts of a second Trump presidency. The state's economic, climate, and affordability goals have driven the state's aspirations to expand the state's transit network. Th...

www.spur.org/events/2025-...