Neuroscience & Psychology
Brain research, cognition, behaviour and mental processes
The mathematical sciences in an AI-enabled world
The Academy for the Mathematical Sciences, which is based in the UK, has released a report “The mathematical sciences in an AI-enabled world“. To quote from the release: The paper examines how recent ...
Weekend reads: Mega-journal on hold at PubMed; 1,400 retractions in one day; ‘I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper’
If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more t...
Report of the Summit on Math Research in the Age of AI
[This is a guest post by the organizers of the Summit on Math Research in the Age of AI: Dan Freed (Harvard), Larry Guth (MIT), Bryna Kra (Northwestern), Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins), and Mohammed Abou...
On the diameter and distribution of Sidon sets
Daniel Carter, Kevin O’Bryant, and I have uploaded to the arXiv our paper On the diameter and distribution of Sidon sets. This is a paper stemming from an interaction on my blog last year, regarding t...
Metabolic Psychiatry
SharesNIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, despite his many faults, did recommend a very accomplished and appropriate scientist to the post at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Vikaas Sohal. H...
247A, Notes 3: Singular integral operators
— 1. The Hilbert transform — In this set of notes we begin the theory of singular integral operators – operators which are almost integral operators, except that their kernel just barely fails to be i...
The quasi-Riemann hypothesis
Just a short note that Maksym Radziwill will be giving a hybrid talk on the quasi-Riemann hypothesis at Courant tomorrow. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens ...
‘They cast no reflection, yet they are a mirror’
Monsters take many forms in our Halloween book recommendations — from vampires to demonic cats to ancient sea reptiles
Hannah and the Janes
New A.R.T. rock opera looks backward to era before Roe v. Wade, finds resonance with today’s post-Roe world
Retracted: Study of ivermectin and mebendazole for cancer removed by publisher
SharesA tale of the life cycle of a research publication that met an abrupt, but just, end.Good research should aspire to answer a question. The question might be: Does a novel therapeutic regimen sho...
Time to leave?
‘Case for Quitting’ author Lindsay Crouse on why you’re wrong when you answer ‘persevere’
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Blew Off Literal Death From COVID. Why Should Anyone Care About His New “Vaccine Injury” Clinic?
SharesIn October 2020, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was asked by “journalist” David Zweig about COVID’s risk to teachers. In his reply, Dr. Bhattacharya imagined a 40-year-old. He blew off all of COVID’s non-...
What Paul Farmer and Joan Kleinman taught Arthur Kleinman about wisdom
Physician and anthropologist says it all comes down caregiving in new collection written with colleagues, rooted in their course ‘Quests for Wisdom’
Who should take GLP-1s?
Experts dig into what we’ve overlooked in rush to embrace ‘magical’ weight-loss drugs
SBM And The Battle For Information
SharesPart of the reason for forming SBM in the first place is because my colleagues and I perceived that we were engaged partly in a long struggle for control over information—specifically the qualit...
Stupidity
Shares“Against stupidity we are defenseless.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer I miss serendipity. The Al Gore rhythms (that is how it is spelled, right?) feed me much the same crap I saw before. Once you click on...
Making music is magic. Understanding it is even better.
Why Sophia Zervas traded a career in the arts for academia
Why cancer patients choose “integrative oncology” and what they get: Perception vs. reality
SharesA couple of weeks ago, I used the publication in The New York Times of an article describing how the journalist’s father had become ensnared by Envita, an “integrative oncology” clinic after he ...
Weekend reads: Computer science conferences impose caps; Lancet strikes to continue; Is this the ‘mathocalypse’?
If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more t...
Navigating Uncertainty: Architectural Innovation Amidst Change
Harvard's new exhibit explores the intersection of architecture and adaptability, emphasizing designs that anticipate a dynamic world.