Links for you. Science:

Bite-sized Threats of Ticks
Variant type 2 poliovirus isolated from sewage samples in Gaza
Maui wildfires scorched a 150-year-old banyan tree. Now, it’s healing.
Inside the maths that drives AI. Loss functions measure algorithmic errors in artificial-intelligence models, but there’s more than one way to do that. Here’s why the right function is so important.
Post-AGBT: Element AVITI Sequencing Updates
Bengt Samuelsson, Biochemist and Nobel Laureate, Is Dead at 90
The vault guy: Leonard Rome’s lab discovered an odd, abundant component of cells in the 1980s—and he’s still trying to figure out what it does

Other:

Texas’ voter suspense list tops 2.1 million. Here’s what to do if you’re on it. Voters have until October to correct their status. (you can check here to see if you’re on the list)
GOP nominee to run North Carolina schools advocated pro-Trump military coup in January 6 video
New York City subway riders are breathing in hazardous air, study finds
There Are Over 100,000 Cases of Hepatitis B in Gaza, Report Says
Moderates Should Learn To Stop Worrying And Be Walznuts
Do We Need a Labor Party?
Biden Should Declassify “Jaw-Dropping” Trump-Egypt Bribe Intelligence
Remaking the Coalition: Put labor at the heart of the Democratic Party and watch what happens.
Donald Trump’s Project 2025 Coverup Is Failing
A Former Student Recalls Tim Walz’s Kindness
The more he tries to dominate, the more Trump ‘decomposes’
‘Corporate Greed Is Out of Control’: Warren Slams Kroger’s AI Pricing Scheme
Our Buildings Were Built for a Different World. The climate crisis demands that we retrofit them—which won’t happen at scale until architects start seeing themselves as political actors.
The Harris campaign figures out how to wound Trump’s ego
National Abortion Rights Groups Have the Wrong Priorities for Our Movement
As A Paramedic, I Treated Women Who Had Illegal Abortions. Here’s A Dangerous Truth JD Vance Isn’t Going To Like.
There was never a Plan B
They’re friends. They’re Satanists. They have a plan to save American democracy.
The coming Republican freakout
Northeastern completely reinvented itself. Here’s what that could mean for higher ed as a whole.
Has the New Right Already Peaked? With X and JD Vance, the New Right is having a political moment—yet it already appears to be passing.
I didn’t vote for Tim Walz originally. Now I’m completely Walz-pilled.
Michael Sherwin Failed to Brief Merrick Garland on Trump’s Suspected Egyptian Payment
Iran Targeting 2024 US Election
JD Vance’s Dog Whistles About Cat Ladies. And why he keeps lying about Kamala Harris and the child tax credit.
Arizona school voucher program causes budget meltdown