Habib Rehman

It's not procrastination i'm thinking

Insect X-Men: Helmets help these odd bugs sense electric fields Ability may help treehoppers distinguish friend from foe

About 3200 insect species around the world have evolved a structure on their back called a helmet.

But the appendage isn’t just for show: It allows for the detection of electric fields—perhaps helping them distinguish friend from foe. scim.ag/46xid0Y

Release the files.

Beyond benchmarking: an expert-guided consensus approach to spatially aware clustering Spatial omics technologies have revolutionized the study of tissue architecture and cellular heterogeneity by integrating molecular profiles with spatial localization. In spatially resolved transcript...

Did you ever notice discrepancies in benchmarking of bioinformatics tools? We did too! Setting out to benchmark spatial clustering methods, we encountered major reproducibility issues in previous benchmarks and questionable "ground truths".
More in our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just for reference: the authors basically turned published NEJM cases (i.e. complex and meant for specialists) into choose-your-own-adventure games, and then tested their AI against primary care docs. Also, these are PUBLISHED cases, which could be in the LLMs training data. Great benchmark guys...

Zohran Mamdani's socialist promises: No reviewer requests for additional experiments.

#AcademicChatter

"Both sides are gathering evidence to support their case, yet neither can fully rule out the possibility put forward by the other." Is the lab leak evidence in the room with us right now?

Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani Andrew Cuomo’s concession came as the race’s outcome will be decided by a ranked choice count after neither Democrat got a clear majority in the vote.

BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.

apnews.com/article/andr...

Your comments aren't really defamation. They're normal comments with a few modifications that make them phenotypically similar to defamation.

a close up of a man 's face with tears running down his cheeks ALT: a close up of a man 's face with tears running down his cheeks

HALIBURTON

The president can only take war action without Congressional approval if the US is directly under attack from a foreign country, to protect and rescue Americans abroad, safely remove troops, or for peacekeeping missions or humanitarian aid.

Scene from arrested development but edited to say "It's one entire corpus of human knowledge, Michael. What could it cost, 10 gigabytes?"

He's probably referring to whoever was president from 2017-2020, I forget who that was though

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

A deer stares into the camera, calmly munching on a plant, as a red-winged blackbird jumps and flaps on its head.

May you always have the inner peace of this deer in the face of a Red-winged Blackbird's (Agelaius phoeniceus) warning display.

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#ObservationOfTheDay

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

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Did Johnathan Swift write this...

JD edited to be Humpty Dumpty from Shrek, sent to me by my friend

Bonus: my contribution to all the JD Vance edits

Finally he claims experts have no license to question the fairness and wisdom of legislation (citing a case about satellite TVs) when the whole reason for expert testimony is to weigh in on the fairness and wisdom of legislation. 5/5

In the same vein, it doesn't make sense to ban a procedure even if it is experimental or based on "questionable evidence" (gender-affirming care isn't). We wouldn't legally ban, for example, a new cancer treatment on this basis. Again, this is a matter between patient and doctor, not the State. 4/n

Secondly, if medical consent of minors is the problem, then the appropriate solution is to require parental consent, not ban all care outright. This legislation seems to conflate cases where parents and doctors disagree on care for a minor, rather than when all parties consent. 3/n

AMA to states: Stop interfering in health care of transgender children AMA to governors: forgoing gender-affirming care can have tragic health consequences, both mental and physical.

and others (links: www.ama-assn.org/press-center... , www.endocrine.org/advocacy/pri... , publications.aap.org/aapnews/news... , www.aamc.org/news/press-r... ). To claim there isn't consensus is to be ignorant of current best practices. 2/n

I know the general policy here is to block/ignore, but there are a couple points made here that are at best misleading and at worse maliciously wrong. Firstly, there is medical consensus on how to treat gender dysphoria: it's gender affirming care, per the AMA, AAP, Endocrine Society, AAMC... 1/n

Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a rancid bigot.

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism

“'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.'

*More of this, please*"

‘My duty is to call it out’: Judge accuses Trump administration of discrimination against minorities The Reagan-appointed judge ordered the NIH to restore funds for research related to racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people.

NEW: Judge Young, a 1985 Reagan appointee, delivered an extended rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown research grants it seems related to DEI or gender ideology.

w/ Danny Nguyen

www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

We are ecstatic to introduce a new project (together with
@nataging.nature.com) aimed at greater inclusivity in our peer review process! Read all about it here in our latest Editorial!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Image of a killdeer standing on grass against a terracotta-colored background

Saw a killdeer on the side of the road so naturally I had to grab my camera

Reshare to scare the data bros and popularism acolytes

Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.

This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Support NIH Staff Now!

I wanted to show support for these brave public servants and to allow others, including the scientific community, to join me. In partnership with @standupforscience.bsky.social‬, we have a way for you to do that... www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...