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Top researcher quits NIH, citing censorship under RFK Jr. | CNN Dr. Kevin Hall joins The Lead

He wasn’t just censored. They altered his responses to NYT questions on his publication
Egregious.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...

Isn't it wonderful that AI is auto-generating my commit messages? Took away all the guilt of not including enough details!

We're very excited to introduce TAPNext: a model that sets a new state-of-art for Tracking Any Point in videos, by formulating the task as Next Token Prediction. For more, see: tap-next.github.io

Google just open sourced a Python Agent Development Kit @ github.com/google/adk-p...
Native Streaming and #MCP support out of the box 👀
github.com/google/adk-s...

2 important papers @nature.com today indicate the potential for A.I. to improve diagnostic accuracy and overall clinical performance for patient management and interactions
nature.com/articles/s41...

The Llama 4 herd: The beginning of a new era of natively multimodal AI innovation We’re introducing Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, the first open-weight natively multimodal models with unprecedented context support and our first built using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architect...

Meta just dropped Llama 4 on a weekend! Two new open weight models (Scout and Maverick) and a preview of a model called Behemoth - Scout has a 10 million token context

Best information right now appears to be this blog post: ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

This doesn't look good, folks
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Very cool design!

These cuts would be catastrophic for the humanities and for communities around the country - you can contact your reps to oppose these cuts here: p2a.co/DdtlGIT We should be increasing resources for humanities scholarship and programs, not cutting them! 🗃️

It is hard enough to recruit one qualified researcher. Even if the next administration tries to reinstate all these offices, it would be a tall order to find and recruit all the qualified researchers again, they already have moved on.

A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome - Nature A new lasso peptide antibiotic exhibits broad-spectrum activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis, is unaffected by common resistanc...

Discovery of a new class of natural antibiotics with a new mode of action to address antimicrobial resistance, a major unmet need
@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is catastrophic for pancreatic cancer patients

🥁Introducing Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent model with impressive capabilities in advanced reasoning and coding.

Now integrating thinking capabilities, 2.5 Pro Experimental is our most performant Gemini model yet. It’s #1 on the LM Arena leaderboard. 🥇

The Trump Administration Cut Cancer and Alzheimer’s Research Funding at Columbia University His administration terminated a $5 million grant to the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center — and listed the exact dollar amount among DOGE’s “savings.”

NEW: Trump canceled grants funding cancer and Alzheimer’s research at Columbia University.

DOGE then listed the millions of dollars from those terminated grants on its “savings” page.

My story for @notusreports.bsky.social
www.notus.org/health-scien...

Please pay attention to what is going on with the deportation mess. Individual rights are being trampled so ICE can make quota.

Our goal with NeuRL is to make AI education accessible to everyone. We’re expanding it into a comprehensive AI education platform and exploring integrations with other institutions. Get in touch!

It is a custom neural network and RL library in OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) to enable GPU-accelerated training—making real-time agent updates possible without deep learning libraries.

NeuRL solves this by:
✅ Running entirely in the browser, with no installations required
✅ Providing real-time visualization of neural networks and agent behaviors
✅ Supporting multiple RL algorithms and interactive tuning

Why did we create NeuRL?
Traditional AI education often relies on code-heavy tools and high-performance computing resources. This excludes many students from experimenting with RL concepts interactively.

NeuRL is a free and accessible tool that enables students to interactively explore RL and neural networks using 3D WebGL environments—no coding required.

🚀 Our latest paper presented at #SIGCSE2025. @snsie.bsky.social, my postdoc, has developed NeuRL, a no-code, web-based platform for real-time exploring of neural networks and reinforcement learning (RL).

🔗 neu-rl.netlify.app
📜 paper: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Here's a brief overview 🧵👇

I regret to announce that the meme Turing Test has been passed

LLMs produce funnier memes than the average human, as judged by humans. Humans working with AI get no boost (a finding that is coming up often in AI-creativity work) The best human memers still beat AI, however. arxiv.org/abs/2501.11433

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

A relentless attack on universities proceeds

Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come

My latest post is now out.

I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.

This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!

christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...

The reckless termination of grants at NIH continues
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The State of LLM Reasoning Models Part 1: Inference-Time Compute Scaling Methods

I just shared a new article, "The State of Reasoning Models", where I am exploring 12 new research articles on improving the reasoning capabilities of LLMs (all published after the release of DeepSeek R1): magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-l...

Happy reading!

Marco Rubio # @marcorubio •46m We will be revoking the visas and / or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported

This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...

The signature killed me, LOL