This is early but encouraging evidence that mRNA flu vaccines may offer a real step forward especially against notoriously slippery A strains like H3N2. We’re not talking about a universal flu vaccine yet, but the platform gives us tools we simply didn’t have before.
The paper is worth read.

This is notable: traditional flu vaccines generate modest T-cell immunity. The more robust cellular responses seen here could matter for durability and breadth of protection, especially in drift-heavy years.

“Summers will also immediately go on leave from his role as the director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has led the center, which focuses on studying policy issues in the public and private sector, since 2011.”

“The students best prepared to evaluate AI output could very well be the ones not with specialized AI training but with deep domain knowledge in the disciplines. This, of course, is exactly the kind of knowledge and skills that colleges have been trying to nurture for centuries."

“It may be that certain practices w/AI in the disciplines eventually prove very useful… We also might discover that making AI spit stuff out is the easy part, & the really hard part is distinguishing between good & bad output, between hallucination and the miraculous appearance of a useful new idea”

“As the bus rumbled along, more people hopped on… Abby Kloha, a 21-year-old who is majoring in translation and Spanish at the University of Iowa, said that instead of stressing out behind the wheel, she was able to spend her bus ride studying Japanese vocabulary. “It kind of feels like a time saver”