Simon Delagrave, PhD

No lies. He has been transformative…in the more shitty inhumane way.
What does Canada gain by speaking the unvarnished truth in this situation? Nothing.

A draft White House memo suggests that furloughed federal employees need not be paid for time they didn’t work during the government shutdown, an administration official told CNN. https://cnn.it/4gZtBpu

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/d...

Discovery and protein language model-guided design of hyperactive transposases - Nature Biotechnology Phylogenetic mining and protein language models uncover improved PiggyBac transposase sequences.

Discovery and protein language model-guided design of hyperactive transposases - @marcguellc.bsky.social @upf.edu @icreacommunity.bsky.social @crg.eu go.nature.com/4gXLGEw

Black graphic with a quote in red and white text: "This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs… This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law.” -Judge Karin Immergut, in her decision blocking President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon

A foundational principle of this country is that the military shouldn’t police our communities — and a federal judge agrees.

Photo grid of books publishing from the MIT Press on October 7th. Books featured: "Advancing Peace," "Carbon Removal," "Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes," "Strange Attractor," "Flash Teams," and "Governing Babel."

New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚👇

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

Trump is preparing to invade Venezuela. But US media is afraid to talk about it. He has put three US destroyers, an amphibious assault ship, a guided-missile cruiser, a nuclear-powered attack submarine and a squadron of F35s under Venezuela’s nose. That includes 6,500 uniformed personnel.

Man of steel, and aluminium: Carney talks trade with Trump Also on the daily podcast: shopping addiction is again on the rise and why John Singer Sargent is back in vogue

As Mark Carney heads to Washington for trade talks, Hal Hodson tells “The Intelligence” about the Canadian prime minister’s radical plans in a Trumpian world. Listen now

Mark Carney Is a Very Demanding Boss - Macleans.ca His elbows-up enthusiasm won him the election. Now he’s governing like a Bay Street exec.

Mark Carney is smart, skilled and unreasonably accomplished. He’s also aggressive, impatient and famously short-tempered. To survive in Ottawa, he needs to learn to play with others. https://macleans.ca/politics/mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada/

A pin on a desk, it has a codfish silhouette holding a library card, with the words "having fun isn't hard when you've got a library cod"

The Newfoundland and Labrador public libraries continue to make the absolute best free pins that you can just have if you go to borrow a book

Many of the deals are circular and have given an immediate share price boost to the start-up’s partners. For example, Nvidia plans to invest $100bn in OpenAI over the next decade, providing OpenAI with cash to buy Nvidia’s chips.

OpenAI’s computing deals top $1tn Partners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman’s huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence

So, the trillion-dollar question: is OpenAI building the future — or overreaching on hype?

Read the full story for free on FT Edit 👉 on.ft.com/4nDvdrh

Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.

It is time to recognize research software as a valuable scientific contribution in itself, beyond a tool — and to support it

go.nature.com/438X8qS

Massachusetts Counter to Trump Science Cuts Stalls in Statehouse Business leaders, investors and academics have cheered Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s efforts to counter the Trump administration’s research funding cuts with state money — so much so that a recent meeting on the initiative required overflow seating.

Business leaders, investors and academics have cheered Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s efforts to counter the Trump administration’s research funding cuts with state money — so much so that a recent meeting on the initiative required overflow seating.

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Mark Carney’s radical vision for handling Trumpian America Liberalise at home and lead a new free-trade revolution

The rising cost of living is now Canadians’ dominant concern, while dealing with the threat posed by Donald Trump has been slowly slipping down their list of priorities. That may soon begin testing Mark Carney’s approach to politics

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/s...

Was amused when I found this on Netflix. Watching feels like a calming return to sanity.

Yum!

New conspiracies over Trump’s health swirl after CNN text interview The president famously does not use email and is not known to frequently use text messages

For the London tabloids, Trump's mental illness is a major, front-page issue. For the US media, it's something that urgently needs to be swept under the rug. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Ancient DNA from horses slaughtered by Neanderthals sheds light on equine evolution 200,000-year-old genes are oldest ever recovered from open-air site

“It’s really a tour de force to get such high-quality data out of something so degraded and old.” https://scim.ag/3Ku8SxQ

WIRED Roundup: The New Fake World of OpenAI’s Social Video App On this episode of "Uncanny Valley," we break down some of the week's best stories, covering everything from Peter Thiel's obsession with the Antichrist to the launch of OpenAI’s new Sora 2 video app.

On this episode of "Uncanny Valley," we break down some of the week's best stories, covering everything from Peter Thiel's obsession with the Antichrist to the launch of OpenAI’s new Sora 2 video app. www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Skunk Hour Apostolic Kayfabe The theologies of Charlie Kirk and Peter Thiel, the purpose of college, WWE & nihilism, and a misremembered poem about skunks

Highly recommend this essay by @jsundman.bsky.social
One of his best.

open.substack.com/pub/johnsund...

Picture of a stylized picture of Boston as seen from Cambridge, with the words "Boston's next 250 years: from Revolution to Resilience. Tue Oct 14 at 6PM, MIT Tang Center, E51-345. What will the next 250 years of Boston's history look like? Join Long Now Boston for an evening of fascinating, deep conversation around the future of housing, transportation, climate change sustainability and more, and help us create a better future. How can we be better ancestors to Bostonians of 2275? Panelists: James Gray — Senior Principal, Stantec; Hyun-A Park — President, Spy Pond Partners; Chris Osgood — Director, Office of Climate Resilience, City of Boston; Nadia Dixson — Archivist, City of Somerville; John Sundman, Novelist & Essayist.

Join me at MIT on October 14 for 'long now' discussion on what Boston/Cambridge might look like 250 years in the future. When I was invited to be on this panel I said, "I dunno. My crystal ball gets pretty murky 2 months from now." But the organizers said that was OK, so I said, "Count me in!"

DAILY BEAST: “White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller called out after a fire tore through a South Carolina judge’s house… Goodstein had reportedly been receiving death threats for a few weeks…” www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-mill...

If you listen to Donald Trump and other politicians, it would seem that the flow of migrants illegally crossing Europe’s borders is an unstoppable tide. We explain why the latest data show the opposite econ.st/48cBd5F

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Image with a quote from Bill Gates that reads: "It's an exciting time—the people who begin a career in clean technology today will have an enormous impact on human welfare."

It’s a foregone conclusion that the world will not meet the climate goals laid out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. But Bill Gates doesn't think this is any reason to be pessimistic.

Here, he argues that our best weapon against climate change is ingenuity: www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.