www.nature.com/articles/s41... shows some separation between liraglutide and placebo at 52 weeks for ADAC Exec and whole-brain and regional grey matter volume
Liraglutide in mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease: a phase 2b clinical trial | Nature Medicine
Results from the phase ELAD 2 trial reveal that liraglutide is safe and well tolerated in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease but does not significantly slow brain metabolism decline.
www.nature.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
www.nature.com/articles/s41... shows some separation between liraglutide and placebo at 52 weeks for ADAC Exec and whole-brain and regional grey matter volume
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important on LLMs for academics:
1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems
2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism
3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills
4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution
5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI
6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense
1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems
2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism
3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills
4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution
5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI
6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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#Oops: The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.
▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings…"
▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings…"
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
#Oops: The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.
▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings…"
▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings…"
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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
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Why is every piece of news out of the USA especially but also just in general further evidence we're right? 🥲
“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Why is every piece of news out of the USA especially but also just in general further evidence we're right? 🥲
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With all the recent intense rainfall, many parts of the woods are gloriously full of water.
The forests, bogs, + other wild habitats we've removed once retained colossal amounts of water, preventing flooding downstream.
Between that and climate breakdown, we're creating a perfect storm for floods.
The forests, bogs, + other wild habitats we've removed once retained colossal amounts of water, preventing flooding downstream.
Between that and climate breakdown, we're creating a perfect storm for floods.
November 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
With all the recent intense rainfall, many parts of the woods are gloriously full of water.
The forests, bogs, + other wild habitats we've removed once retained colossal amounts of water, preventing flooding downstream.
Between that and climate breakdown, we're creating a perfect storm for floods.
The forests, bogs, + other wild habitats we've removed once retained colossal amounts of water, preventing flooding downstream.
Between that and climate breakdown, we're creating a perfect storm for floods.
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This was a great read. No idea how to get on top of this, perhaps pulling random people away from keyboards? Who knows!
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.
techtrenches.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This was a great read. No idea how to get on top of this, perhaps pulling random people away from keyboards? Who knows!
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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New Dutch advert:
September 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
New Dutch advert:
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And, if anyone was wondering about the "science leaving Twitter for Bluesky" trend... the first 24h of this paper on altmetric:
September 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
And, if anyone was wondering about the "science leaving Twitter for Bluesky" trend... the first 24h of this paper on altmetric:
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This would be a very welcome sign of tangible EU-UK cooperation.
UK and EU reportedly negotiating British return to Erasmus programme
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
UK students get chance to study in Europe from January 2027 under new Erasmus deal
The EU is pushing for a rapid agreement for Britain to rejoin the student exchange scheme
inews.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This would be a very welcome sign of tangible EU-UK cooperation.
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I enjoy making images of trees. Especially in fog 😊
November 17, 2024 at 8:06 AM
I enjoy making images of trees. Especially in fog 😊
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If you want some Friday night comedy, just go compare the reactions to this on BlueSky vs LinkedIn.
NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
September 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If you want some Friday night comedy, just go compare the reactions to this on BlueSky vs LinkedIn.
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September 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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I do not usually go for close portraits but when the light is right and the bird is close enough you take the shot. Sometimes simple works best
#birds #wildlife #nature #birdphotography #shorebirds
#birds #wildlife #nature #birdphotography #shorebirds
September 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I do not usually go for close portraits but when the light is right and the bird is close enough you take the shot. Sometimes simple works best
#birds #wildlife #nature #birdphotography #shorebirds
#birds #wildlife #nature #birdphotography #shorebirds
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Don't you hate it if some piece of food sticks around your mouth and you didn't notice in public
September 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Don't you hate it if some piece of food sticks around your mouth and you didn't notice in public
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Finally quality sperm whale content! Where is this from?
Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ??
🦑 🌊 🌿
🦑 🌊 🌿
September 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Finally quality sperm whale content! Where is this from?
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Six months planning a dream puffin trip… and the island was lost in fog. What felt like failure became one of my favorite wildlife shots. 🐦🌊
📖 Read the story → blog.shawnthomas.art...
#birds #wildlife #photography #puffins #nature
📖 Read the story → blog.shawnthomas.art...
#birds #wildlife #photography #puffins #nature
Puffin Photography in the Fog - Machias Seal Island
Six months of planning led me to a fog‑shrouded island and a day that didn’t go as planned. This is the story of finding beauty in the unexpected — and the shots I almost left behind.
blog.shawnthomas.art
August 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Six months planning a dream puffin trip… and the island was lost in fog. What felt like failure became one of my favorite wildlife shots. 🐦🌊
📖 Read the story → blog.shawnthomas.art...
#birds #wildlife #photography #puffins #nature
📖 Read the story → blog.shawnthomas.art...
#birds #wildlife #photography #puffins #nature
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This is literally the “man behind the curtain” metaphor 🤦♂️
So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.
If true, then fucking yikes.
If true, then fucking yikes.
August 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This is literally the “man behind the curtain” metaphor 🤦♂️
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blue whales are going eerily silent and scientists say it's a warning sign. their songs have significantly dropped as the ocean warms and their food disappears. with krill collapsing, they spend more time searching and less time singing. the ocean is collapsing, and so are its giants.
Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign
A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?
www.nationalgeographic.com
August 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
blue whales are going eerily silent and scientists say it's a warning sign. their songs have significantly dropped as the ocean warms and their food disappears. with krill collapsing, they spend more time searching and less time singing. the ocean is collapsing, and so are its giants.