And another thing: https://x.com/bbirdbphd/status/1907981426911326446?s=46&t=aszJUP2VacQdLvHmGgxDeg
This isn’t elitist to say, it is just a fact #academia #research #PhD #autism #falseaccusations #bh4
https://youtu.be/xCJKqaQpiMk (same video just on YouTube, if someone doesn’t have Twitter)
"A group of scientists and health groups sued the National Institutes of Health on Wednesday, arguing that an 'ideological purge' of research funding is illegal and threatens medical cures...The suit aims to restore the money and end the terminations, arguing they violate NIH’s usual science-based review process, specific orders from Congress to tackle health equity and disparities, and federal regulations."
https://apnews.com/article/nih-funding-trump-dei-research-094ed2abe5ba529cdb74f7e0b429c4f3
Diverging views of democracy fuel support for authoritarian politicians, study shows
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-diverging-views-democracy-fuel-authoritarian.html
After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.
#Culture #Poltics #Science #Research #Project2025 #Trump #TrumpRegime #Trans #TransRights
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01029-8
Call your member of #Congress re: devastating cuts to #HHS. You need to enter your location to be directed to your reps. This script is a shade mild for my taste, and doesn't put enough emphasis on cuts to specific #health and #research programs, but you can add and improvise. https://5calls.org/issue/hhs-health-human-services-cuts/
"From ADS to SciX: What I wish I knew about ADS/SciX during my Ph.D."
Great blog post about some very useful features of the ADS/SciX search engine such as non-traditional resource discovery.
https://scixplorer.org/scixblog/what-i-wish-i-knew-about-ads-scix-during-my-phd
"Trump admin's attacks on chronic disease research abandons long COVID and ME/CFS patients... Again"
"…an all-out assault on programs designed to help long COVID patients or research the condition."
"People with long COVID are also at an increased risk of developing ME/CFS. As one patient with ME/CFS and long COVID told Salon in 2023, the symptoms made her feel like she was in a 'living dead state' "
This is interesting.
A detailed map of what is under the ice in Antarctica.
#Science #Research #Antarctica #Ice
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/antarctica-without-ice-map
On the subject of thorough research.
The Far Side by Gary Larson
#comicbook #thefarside #garylarson #Farsidecomics #farside #research #linguistics
These sea stars were nearly wiped out — but B.C. researchers say fiords provided refuge
B.C. researchers have found that the fiords of the Central Coast may be providing refuge for the critically endangered sunflower sea star, a discovery that could have implications for wider ecosystems at risk due to warming seas.
#research #wildlife #environment #BC #CentralCoast #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-researchers-sunflower-sea-stars-1.7500536?cmp=rss
Two nurses who are members of @defendpublichealth.bsky.social write about the devastating impact of cuts to medical #research at #NIH https://www.portlandtribune.com/opinion/local-columnist-nih-cuts-ohsu-cost-lives/article_2abc3aba-9837-47b9-8e6a-4a98cd453e02.html
The Trump and Musk administration is not only ending U.S. scientific and medical research, but also making the country the last place organizations would want to ask international participants to gather for conferences or workshops.
#Science #Healthcare #Research #Fascism #ICE #Detention
Just thinking about this https://disabled.social/@3TomatoesShort/114262361868934043 and wishing that the research community would turn more often to the population at large for research directions or at least topology.
I've lost track of how many times I've seen articles that reflected stories told to me years before from non-scientists. When medically related, co-occurring with a pattern of struggle to find HCWs who would believe.
New #Paper published in Quantum: Learning in Quantum Common-Interest Games and the Separability Problem
New #Paper published in Quantum: Quantum Merlin-Arthur proof systems for synthesizing quantum states
Delighted to see this.
Researchers Challenge NIH’s Politically Driven Grant Cancellations | American Civil Liberties Union
New #Paper published in Quantum: Quantum Edge Detection
Interesting links of the week:
Strategy:
* https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2025-Unclassified-Report.pdf - US intelligence community's annual threat assessment
* https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67b5f85732b2aab18314bbe4/National_Risk_Register_2025.pdf - HMG risk register 2025
Threats:
* https://github.com/sophoslabs/Active_Adversary_Report/blob/main/It%20Takes%20Two%20--%202025%20Sophos%20Active%20Adversary%20Report.pdf - Sophos annual report
* https://community.cisco.com/t5/security-blogs/ai-model-context-protocol-mcp-and-security/ba-p/5274394 - threat modelling MCP
Detection:
* https://xvnpw.github.io/posts/scaling-threat-modeling-with-ai/ - threat modelling with AI
* https://jeffreyappel.nl/ai-workload-threat-protection-in-microsoft-defender-for-cloud/ - AI protection from Microsoft
Bugs:
* https://www.qualys.com/2025/three-bypasses-of-Ubuntu-unprivileged-user-namespace-restrictions.txt - in your namespace, setting uid=0
* https://evanconnelly.github.io/post/hacking-call-records/ - hacking call records
Exploitation:
* https://fenrisk.com/assets/media/Don't%20let%20Jia%20Tan%20have%20all%20the%20fun_%20hacking%20into%20Fedora%20and%20OpenSUSE.pdf - hacking distro infrastructure
* https://lavender-bicycle-a5a.notion.site/9fe36ff7c47e457292d68e3ccb58dcbe - mining for router bugs
* https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_006.pdf - new @PagedOut
* https://troopers.de/downloads/troopers24/TR24_10_years_of_Windows_Privilege_Escalation_with_Potatoes_CYZBJ3.pdf - 10 years of potato bugs
* https://cybercx.co.nz/blog/harnessing-the-power-of-named-pipes/ - abusing named pipes on Windos
Hard hacks:
* https://git.thecreativenothing.org/tom/SDRPrimer - activists guide to SDR
* https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/ - intro to Meshtastic
Hardening:
* https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/principles-for-secure-paws - HMG guidance on PAWs
Cryptography:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsnHMvuxy5Q - making Signal PQC
Development:
* https://web.stanford.edu/~mossr/pdf/alg4ai.pdf - AI algorithms
New #Paper published in Quantum: Which features of quantum physics are not fundamentally quantum but are due to indeterminism?
What do Rembrandt’s Night Watch and cutting-edge research have in common?
At SURF Research Day 2025, discover how researchers are using AI, data analysis, and advanced imaging to unlock the secrets of Rembrandt’s masterpiece.
We’re proud to announce our first keynote speaker: Katrien Keune from the Rijksmuseum.
On 20 May, she will share how groundbreaking technology and multidisciplinary collaboration are transforming art research as we know it.
