When kids ask what we did to protect them from Covid, and Long Covid, we can tell them we did what anyone with the largest collection of available scientific/medical resources in history would do, we banned them from social media and let the virus spread freely. #BeCuzWeCare

I don't think that every problem is caused by Covid. I think many problems are made worse by Covid.

A strong Times editorial argues Todd Blanche shouldn't be confirmed as AG. But the Times never mentions Blanche's managing the Epstein coverup, culminating in his meeting Maxwell and rewarding her for silence about Trump. Our elites are out of touch. nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opini…

On constructing an elliptic function from its zeroes and poles tpfto.wordpress.com/2019/04/…

In the early 2010s, Jennifer Doudna co-developed CRISPR, which fundamentally altered the world of gene editing as we know it. While it offers vast potential, it also comes with significant ethical pitfalls. Tune in to “The Joy of Why": podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

Ten years ago some friends of mine went on a jolly to Russia courtesy of the Russian Orthodox Church. They said it was about building relations between the two denominations, but it was actually about Russia gaining influence. This is what Russia really wants to do to churches:

🎉 #Preprint alert! Excited to share this new study from our postdoc Carsten Hain on centromeres! biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… This work presents HORoSCOPE, a computational framework that infers centromere architecture and size directly from short-read sequencing data. (1/3)

The most striking message? ➡️ A severe post-COVID illness lasting a few weeks may leave measurable consequences across multiple organ systems for years. ➡️ These findings challenge the notion that children uniformly “bounce back” after MIS-C and underscore the need for long-term cardiovascular, neurological, renal, and mental health follow-up. 2/2 publications.aap.org/pediatr…

A sobering new finding about MIS-C: ➡️ Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) may not be the transient illness many hoped it was. ➡️ In one of the longest follow-up studies to date (up to 4.5 years), children with MIS-C had dramatically higher risks of persistent health problems compared with other children after COVID-19—including 14-fold higher cardiovascular risk, 9-fold higher gastrointestinal risk, 9-fold higher hypertension risk, and increased respiratory and neurological disorders. 1/ H/T: @CatchTheBaby

If The New York Times got its hands on leaked audio recordings from the Situation Room, then we have a massive national security crisis on our hands. That very likely means our enemies know everything that’s been said in that room, at least since Trump took over. This should be a massive scandal.

I have experienced death threats, rape threats, stalking-like behaviour and had my content manipulated into extreme pornographic material using AI. These experiences have shown me just how urgently stronger protections are needed online. But while I believe tougher regulation is necessary I do worry that an outright ban on social media for young people is unlikely to be effective in practice. I can’t help but feel government would achieve more by working closely with technology companies to make their platforms safer and ensure better enforcement against abuse. I say this with no agenda other than a genuine desire to prevent other girls and young women from experiencing what I have

Bahar Shadmehri. Seventeen. Just seventeen. Her name meant Spring. A season of renewal. Of blooming. Of first love, quiet laughter, and dreams whispered beneath open skies. She walked into the streets of Neyshabur without hatred. Without weapons. Only with the stubborn courage to demand a life without the chains of Islam. That alone was enough to seal her fate. On the night of January 9, 2026, as gunfire tore through the darkness and she ran for her life, a sniper’s bullet entered the back of her head. One shot. Deliberate. Merciless. Her blood spread across the cold pavement as her dream was cut off mid-breath. She never finished her chant. She never saw the dawn she believed in. A child who should have fallen in love for the first time. Who should have laughed with her friends until tears came. Who should have written poetry about springs yet to come. Instead, she was murdered for daring to imagine a world free from the cage of Islam. Free from forced veils. Free from suffocation disguised as an Islamic revolution. The Islamic terror regime executed her in public view for dreaming of freedom. Now she lies still. Her eyes, once bright with hope, will never open to the morning she fought for.

Very few have the courage to talk about potential side effects from COVID vaccines? Well, given almost 10,000 peer reviewed scientific publications in PubMed when searching for "COVID-19 vaccine safety", it is obviously a topic of great discussion and study in the biomedical research community, and in fact likely has more studies regarding safety than any other vaccine in history. So not sure what you think is the basis for your narrative claim that "very few" have the "courage" to talk about it. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?ter…

Persistent and transient senescent cells contribute to brain-barrier development cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…

Another excellent study showing that senescent cells play important physiological roles. Both persistent and transient senescent cells support brain-barrier formation and homeostasis in mice. Maybe these cells are not "senescent" after all?

"AI can help scientists publish less" (by Gianfranco Bertone): arxiv.org/abs/2606.13829

@TeamYouTube my channel is k-theory8604. It has been removed because it was hijacked and scammers streamed stuff from my channel. I need recovery my account, and I do not have access to my gmail.

My gmail appears to have been hacked, and they changed the recovery emails and numbers already. This account is tied to that email so if I start posting some crazy stuff or you get weird messages, it isn't me. This also means I cant access my YT channel

As a parent of two researchers, I’ve watched AI transform scientific work in just a few years. One of my sons recently wrote a SIAM News article asking a question I hadn’t considered: Can scientific discovery itself be automated? 1/4

The article draws a distinction between solving puzzles within an existing scientific framework and creating an entirely new framework. I’m genuinely curious what scientists, engineers, and AI researchers think about that distinction. 2/4