Paul Steimle

Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding

WTFFFF!

Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

Classes start in a couple of weeks at UNCG. It's always nice to receive emails like this from students, even when they misspell my name...

One-fifth of computer science papers may include AI content A surge in AI-generated text has been detected in papers across many disciplines since the release of ChatGPT

One-fifth of computer science papers may include AI content | Science | AAAS

"could...create a “vicious cycle” in the future, in which new LLMs are trained on content generated by other LLMs."

www.science.org/content/arti...

Cats to the rescue!!!

arxiv.org/abs/2503.017...

UNC Board of Governors Demands New DEI Compliance Committees The campus-level committees will scrutinize whether schools have complied with policies targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

And so it continues...

UNC Board of Governors Demands New DEI Compliance Committees www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

A recent post by Musk on his AI system called Grok.

“…rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge…”

That’s what Orwell described in 1984 as “rectification “.

We’re doomed

www.facebook.com/share/r/1ARp...

A mental-health crisis plagues PhDs — these evidence-led initiatives offer help Communities of researchers worldwide are taking on the toxic research cultures that drive poor psychological health among academics.

Thanks, Captain Obvious…

A mental-health crisis plagues PhDs — these evidence-led initiatives offer help www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why I teach my students about scientific failure “It’s a lesson I wish I’d learned before starting grad school,” this professor writes

Why I teach my students about scientific failure | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals Publishing highly cited papers helps postdoctoral researchers to land a faculty job.

Not good, but understandable...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Behind the Curtain: Reality is now up for grabs Whole realities — the supposed culprits for the LA inferno, a new MAGA map of the world, a child-abuse scandal in Britain — now sweep the internet overnight.

Fact-checking suddenly looks quaint, inadequate and practically irrelevant.

Whole realities — the supposed culprits for the LA inferno, a new MAGA map of the world, a child sex-abuse scandal in Britain — now sweep the internet overnight.

We no longer need fact-checkers. We need reality-checkers.

Wildflower by Billie Eilish

Zuckerberg conceded there would be more ‘bad stuff’ on his sites. Here’s the latest. The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. It is likely to please President-elect Trump and his conservative allies.

Unbelievable...

Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

AI: A transformative opportunity in cell biology | Molecular Biology of the Cell The success of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in predicting protein structure and more recently, protein interactions, demonstrates the power and potential of machine learning and AI for adva...

With the automation of lab techniques, human participation in the scientific process will be unnecessarily. It's getting harder and harder for me to encourage students to pursue careers in the cell and molecular sciences (but I still do).

www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

What the?

Looks familiar

Henderson is holding a bat while warming up during Game 3 of the 1989 World Series at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. A headline reads: "1958-2024: Rickey Henderson, Baseball’s ‘Man of Steal,’ Dies at 65." Photo by NewsBase/Associated Press.

Breaking News: Rickey Henderson, baseball’s all-time leader in stolen bases and one of the sport’s most charismatic players, has died at 65. nyti.ms/3ZPAvFz

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AI writing is improving, but it still can’t match human creativity Computer program finds that ChatGPT and its ilk remix words well, yet their output remains derivative

For now...

www.science.org/content/arti...

1st, this is a preprint so let's see how it fairs in peer review. 2nd, I thought Santa was real... #wtf

Children’s Belief in Santa Claus and Moral Behavior: A two-wave longitudinal study of children’s prosocial behavior during Christmas. osf.io/preprints/os...

Shoddy commentaries—a quick and dirty route to higher impact numbers—are on the rise AI-generated content floods literature with poor-quality publications, casts doubt on metrics, Science and Retraction Watch investigation finds

And so it begins...

A bar chart that illustrates the percentage of registered voters who find the UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing "acceptable" or "somewhat acceptable" by age group. The highest acceptance is among 18-29 years at 40.9%, while only 8.1% of those aged 50-59 agree, indicating a significant age-related disparity in opinions.

U.S. voters between the ages of 18 and 29 were more likely than their elders to accept the recent killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City.

41% of young voters found the killer's actions acceptable. trib.al/XsVDJTZ

Alabama Woman Receives Nation’s Third Pig Kidney Transplant The patient, Towana Looney, was in better health than previous recipients, and her case could signal progress toward solving the organ-supply shortage.

A 53-year-old Alabama woman with kidney failure who waited eight years for an organ transplant has received a kidney harvested from a genetically modified pig, NYU Langone Health surgeons announced on Tuesday.

Thanks, Captain Obvious...