Joseph Lo PhD

FYI for others dealing with scanning thousands of pictures, there are many online companies that do this for a very reasonable fee. Of course it's a little nerve-racking to send you precious pictures away to a stranger, but I've had it done several times and it's worked beautifully.

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

I assure you, none of them are mine.

The Droids Are in the Escape Pod | TWiT.TV Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including

New Podcast Episode:
This Week in Tech: The Droids Are in the Escape Pod
You Can't Copyright Eleanor
with @leolaporte.me, @sam.abuelsamid.com, @cathygellis.bsky.social, @larrymagid.bsky.social

Nice little meteor just blew up north of Tucson AZ. Bright skies under a near full moon. 🔭

Image from article in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence

Special report on #cybersecurity threats and mitigation strategies for #LLMs in health care https://doi.org/10.1148/ryai.240739 @alitejanimd.bsky.social #ASNR25 #NeuroRad #radiology

We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology.

www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

on this date eight years ago, Tom Holland wowed Zendaya on Lip Sync Battle with his cultural critique of impervious surface stormwater runoff.

US ability to defeat China in Taiwan threatened, top Indo-Pacific commander warns Admiral Samuel Paparo says Beijing is outpacing Washington in weapons systems production

US ability to defeat China in Taiwan threatened, top Indo-Pacific commander warns

https://www.ft.com/content/a78d7737-874f-47f9-9c50-9c6dd6c2bd44

FAZ screenshot with sandwich

I want you to know that it is World Fish Sandwich Day.

Image from article in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence

Large collection of lung cancer screening low-dose CT scans for lung nodule classification with annotations performed semiautomatically https://doi.org/10.1148/ryai.240248 #AACR25 #AACR2025 #cancer #OncoRad #oncology

For the first time in history, we can proudly show you a DOUBLE German bollarding. This has NEVER been seen before so congratulations to us.
#WorldBollardAssociation

Semi-automated workflow allowed annotation at scale: deep learning detection for followed by human verification. Great work by my med student Avivah Wang and grad student Fakrul Islam Tushar. Thanks to colleagues Kyle Lafata, Tina Tailor, Mike Harowicz of Duke Radiology, and support from NIH.

💥Introducing Duke Lung Cancer Screening (DLCS): first major dataset containing modern low-dose CT exams with annotations of actionable nodules.🧪🩻

Pre-proof just released by Radiology AI!
1613 CT volumes with 2487 nodules now available on Zenodo.

The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature. 2. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events. 3. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels. 4. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market. 5. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

today on will it pretzel: char siu bao

A photo of the Southwick manufacturing plant before it closed. The photo shows a bunch of people at various sewing stations. This was located in Massachusetts.

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

🧪🌋⚒️ Wait for it ... ( #USGS #kilauea #eruption time lapse):
Only 9 of 31 hours of this episode (15) were high fountains, mostly from southern of 2 active vents.

Volcanoes can be episodic on min. to yr. timescales. Since 23-Dec-24, we have seen 16 roughly day-long bursts w/ little action between.

Japanese cherry blossoms, close-up shows five white petals covered in morning dew

Beautiful! But those may be cherries? 🇯🇵 plums and cherries are so similar that iOS Photos mislabels mine.

I have white and pink cherries next to each other. Unlike plums, cherries have notched petals and many flowers bunched together.🌸

Image from article in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence

Performance of Lung Cancer Prediction Models for Screening-detected, Incidental, and Biopsied Pulmonary Nodules https://doi.org/10.1148/ryai.230506 #ChestRad #MachineLearning #AI

French sorrel plants beginning to grow seed pods, picture taken indoors against a kitchen tile background.

French sorrel in our garden is going to seed already! Normally happens in late summer or early fall.

JetBlue + the Moon:
That’s an Airbus A321-231 over the 321 (area code for the Space Coast) Thursday.

JetBlue flight B61033 (reg N959JB) was climbing out of Orlando (MCO) & heading to San Juan (SJU) @ 16,192 ft & 380 kts.

(📷:me, flight data by @flightradar24.com

#avgeek #photography

A sea otter pup lying on top of its mother, who is floating on her back.

A sea otter pup lying on top of its mother, who is floating on her back.

A sea otter pup lying on top of its mother, who is floating on her back.

A few more sea otter photos. I watched this mother and pup pair for about a half hour at Morro Bay last month. She was pretty busy grooming the pup, and he was busy just touching his face and being adorable. 🐬🦑

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company

IG 3sixteen

The notice says "Funding Opportunities: None"

I'm on a listserv to receive weekly funding opportunities from the #NIH, which is usually long and descriptive. This is what it says now. I've NEVER seen it like this before. #SaveOurScience

Now do we have your attention?

“The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”

Coaxing USAMO Proofs From o3-mini-high Decent USAMO performance may be closer than headline results suggest

This is an interesting deep dive into the paper finding that LLMs wasn't able to solve any problems in the current Math Olympiad, suggesting that the o3-mini-high is closer to the answers than the headlines have suggested (though it still doesn't get them right). lemmata.substack.com/p/coaxing-us...

RIP Val Kilmer🙏…Iceman forever 💔

Whoa: The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft got a spectacular view of Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) as it passed close to the Sun. Look at that enormous, splintered tail!

This comet won't be seen again for another 600,000 years. 🧪🔭

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

That is so interesting. Can you say more about how imprints are made? Do the organic parts dissolve away, leaving a void that is exposed when the rock is cracked open?