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A decision made by an epidemiologist assigned to edit a hard core molecular biology paper.

donald trump is giving a speech at a political debate and says nobody cares .

ALT: donald trump is giving a speech at a political debate and says nobody cares .

media.tenor.com

December 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM

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We live in a dystopia. Many reviewers, especially those unrelated to the work presented in the manuscripts, just reject papers by simply checking them with artificial intelligence, which returns irrelevant garbage comments they are unable to verify.

December 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM

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Nature’s 10
Ten people who helped shape science in 2025

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Nature’s 10: Ten people who shaped science in 2025

A fired public-health official, a mosquito breeder and a baby with a smile seen around the world. These are just a few of the remarkable people chosen for Nature’s 10.

www.nature.com

December 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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December 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM

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December 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM

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December 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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Σήμερα περισσότερο από οτιδήποτε οφείλουμε ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ στην αισιοδοξία και το χαμόγελο του κατά συρροή και για λόγους εκδίκησης μόνιμα υπόπτου Νίκου Ρωμανού.

December 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM

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From doing science to saving science.

December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM

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Μπάτε σκύλοι αλέστε. Αυτή είναι η θεσμική επάρκεια του επιτελικού κράτους που προσκυνάνε σαν τοτέμ οι κουλόβλαχοι.

December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM

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December 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM

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Beautiful!

Ένα παράδειγμα Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy μιας μορφής εξατομικευμένης ανοσοθεραπείας για τον καρκίνο που χρησιμοποιεί τα ίδια τα ανοσοκύτταρα ενός ασθενούς για να επιτεθεί στον όγκο του.

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

December 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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Η καλύτερη άμυνα είναι πάντα η αντεπίθεση δια της διαστροφής της πραγματικότητας. Είτε αφορά μεμονωμένα άτομα είτε ολόκληρες κυβερνήσεις. Από αναθέσεις για προγράμματα μέχρι υποκλοπές και οπεκεπεδες.

December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM

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Παρατήστε τα όλα. Δεν σωζόμαστε με τίποτα.

December 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM

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Κάντε υπομονή κι ο ουρανός θα γίνει πιο γαλανός..

December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM

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Η Δρ. Γιώτα Ποϊράζη, Διευθύντρια Ερευνών στο Ινστιτούτο Μοριακής Βιολογίας και Βιοτεχνολογίας του ΙΤΕ, μιλάει με την Ανθή Στρατάκη για την πολυπλοκότητα του εγκεφάλου και μας εξηγεί γιατί ο πρόοδος στις νευροεπιστήμες μοιάζει ήδη με επιστημονική φαντασία. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si_w...

Podcast "επικοινωνITE", Επεισόδιο 4 «Εγκέφαλος: Το πιο έξυπνο σύστημα στο σύμπαν»

YouTube video by FORTH

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November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM

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Σαν σήμερα στις 24 Νοεμβρίου 1859 κυκλοφορεί η πρώτη έκδοση του βιβλίου "Η καταγωγή των ειδών" του Κάρολου Δαρβίνου.

November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM

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Two papers published at ~the same time and I think should be read together:

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

Identity Politics www.econometricsociety.org/publications...

Abstract
We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and causal effects of attending Ivy-Plus colleges (Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Duke, and Chicago). Children from families in the top 1% are more than twice as likely to attend an Ivy-Plus college as those from middle-class families with comparable SAT/ACT scores. Two-thirds of this gap is due to higher admissions rates for students with comparable test scores from high-income families; the remaining third is due to differences in rates of application and matriculation. In contrast, children from high-income families have no admissions advantage at flagship public colleges. The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by three factors: (1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment. Using a new research design that isolates idiosyncratic variation in admissions decisions for waitlisted applicants, we show that attending an Ivy-Plus college instead of the average flagship public college increases students- chances of reaching the top 1% of the earnings distribution by 50%, nearly doubles their chances of attending an elite graduate school, and almost triples their chances of working at a prestigious firm. The three factors that give children from high-income families an admissions advantage are uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes, whereas academic credentials such as SAT/ACT scores are highly predictive of post-college success.

Presidential Address: Identity Politics

We offer a theory of changing dimensions of political polarization based on endogenous social identity. We formalize voter identity as in Bonomi, Gennaioli, and Tabellini (2021), but add parties that compete on policy and spread stereotypes to persuade voters. Parties are historically connected to different social groups, whose members are more receptive to the party messages. An endogenous switch from class to cultural identity accounts for three major changes: (i) growing cultural conflict between voters and parties; (ii) dampening of redistributive conflict, despite rising inequality; (iii) a realignment of lower class voters from the left to the right. The incentive of parties to spread stereotypes is a key driver of identity‐based polarization. Using survey data and congressional speeches, we show that—consistent with our model—there is evidence of (i) and (ii) in the voting realignment induced by the “China Shock” (Autor, Dorn, Hanson, and Majlesi (2020)).

November 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM

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November 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM

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After the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...