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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Apr 18

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

Top researcher quits NIH, citing censorship under RFK Jr. | CNN

Dr. Kevin Hall joins The Lead

www.cnn.com

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Parisa Rashidi @parisarashidi.bsky.social · Apr 16

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

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carldoersch.bsky.social @carldoersch.bsky.social · Apr 9

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

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Stephan Janssen @stephanjanssen.be · Apr 9

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...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Apr 9

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...

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Apr 5

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...

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...

ai.meta.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 27

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

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.

www.nature.com

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Parisa Rashidi @parisarashidi.bsky.social · Apr 2

Very cool design!

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · Apr 2

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! 🗃️

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Parisa Rashidi @parisarashidi.bsky.social · Mar 29

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.

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 28

The HHS Friday evening DOGE www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say

Much of the federal government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates have been run through the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy.

www.cbsnews.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 26

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...

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...

www.nature.com

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Mar 26

This is catastrophic for pancreatic cancer patients

Cosimo Commisso @cosimocommisso.bsky.social · Mar 26

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · Mar 25

🥁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. 🥇

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Mark @markalfred.bsky.social · Mar 18

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...

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.”

www.notus.org

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Joel Montfort @montfort.me · Mar 18

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

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Mar 18

1/ For many Americans, deporting violent gang members will sound like a good idea, constitutional niceties be damned. They are the perfect group of people for a government test case. joycevance.substack.com/p/deportatio...

Deportations: It's not where it starts, it's where it ends.

Just ahead of the hearing scheduled for 5 p.m.

joycevance.substack.com

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Parisa Rashidi @parisarashidi.bsky.social · Mar 17

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!

Parisa Rashidi @parisarashidi.bsky.social · Mar 17

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.

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Parisa Rashidi @parisarashidi.bsky.social · Mar 17

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

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Parisa Rashidi @parisarashidi.bsky.social · Mar 17

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.

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Parisa Rashidi @parisarashidi.bsky.social · Mar 17

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

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Parisa Rashidi @parisarashidi.bsky.social · Mar 17

🚀 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 🧵👇

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Mar 17

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

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · Mar 15

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

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 11

A relentless attack on universities proceeds

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