Links for you. Science:
Benchmarking of shotgun sequencing depth reveals the potential and limitations of shallow metagenomics and strain-level analysis
AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance
Swedish study reveals COVID-19 may increase glandular fever risk (paper here)
After pulling vaccine study, Bhattacharya criticizes long-running CDC publication
Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds. Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes.
Fraud and the false optimism of AI for science
Don’t believe headlines saying that vaccine skepticism is widespread
Other:
The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump’s presidency
The “Messy” Plaintiffs Behind So Many Anti-Abortion Lawsuits
US EEOC Chair violated ethics rules halting LGBTQ cases, complaint alleges
DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator
The Incredible Shrinking MAGA
North Carolina Student Fights Accusation of AI Use. Wake County Public Schools faces controversy after three different AI-detection tools indicated a student’s assignment was partially generated by AI, while the student, an avid reader and writer, resents the accusation.
The Era of Citizens United Could Be Nearing Its End
IRS lacks transparent plans to leverage tech in the face of staffing cuts, GAO and employees say
The Short and Ridiculous Trial of a Protester Arrested in an Inflatable Penis Costume
Kash Patel Just Invited SPLC To Demonstrate Their Importance (and His Negligence)
OUR POOR, SUFFERING, ENDANGERED BILLIONAIRES
Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
Donald Trump Lost In 2020. An Alarming Number Of His Nominees Won’t Say So.
Trump’s changes to Reflecting Pool worry preservationists, locals
Why Do the Democrats Keep Expanding the Institutions They Claim to Oppose?
Guerrilla art is flourishing in Trump’s Washington
Why the Supreme Court Justices Are Suddenly Casting Shade on Each Other
After a GOP loss in Virginia, a push to make D.C. square again
‘Zionism Led to Genocide. It Must Disappear’: Omer Bartov’s New Book Explores Where, Exactly, Israel Went Wrong
The tricks teachers are trying to fix students’ shortening attention spans
Peter Thiel has a new tool for intimidating reporters
When Israel and Aram Went to War, How Did the Biblical Shepherds Feel About It?
Pete Hegseth Adds New Weapon To American Warfighter Loadout: Influenza
Happy White House Correspondents’ Dinner Day
‘The Rockford Files’ Remains One Of Television’s Greatest Hangs
Notes on Access Journalism
Kash Patel’s futile quest for validation
Tony Dokoupil Is Still Eating Shit, Even If No One’s Watching
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Punks
Grievance Poisoning in the First Degree
mikethemadbiologist
The article on the poll about vaccine skepticism contains this clause: “I believe this poll was conducted and reported in good faith”. I suggest that he is overly optimistic.