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Shiv

@ShivkumarVs

Fresh Postdoc in #HNL @NAChristakis | @Yale Graduate Alumni.

Joined May 2020
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In this new FLOS clip, I discuss the “don’t swim with sharks” strategy: the case for avoiding crowded fields where others have a head start. Usually it’s wise. But this instinct can cost you a revolution. The real lesson is about being open: when a popular idea comes your way, ask what it points to. youtube.com/watch?v=Jaep3xPV…
Trying to Catch the AI Boat

Trying to Catch the AI Boat

In this video, we explore the “don’t swim with sharks” strategy: th...

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We're launching the Life Sciences Verification Program in partnership with US government so life sciences professionals can use Mythos 5.1 with safeguards designed for R&D. We have enrolled our first participants and plan to expand this program to the broader life sciences community as quickly as we can.
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Claude Fable 5.1 is available everywhere today. Claude Mythos 5.1, our model for cyberdefenders and life scientists, is available through trusted access programs. Read more: anthropic.com/claude-fable-a…
Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

Our most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Their research capabilities also offer an early glimpse of how AI models will contribute to scientific progress.

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This talk from @NAChristakis really resonated with me. War often compresses innovation cycles. Yet, here is a striking example of how ideas from network science translate into high-stakes, real-world applications. Highly recommend this channel: youtube.com/watch?v=XbqF5ekP…
Learning in a Time of War

Learning in a Time of War

In this video, we reflect on a trip to the Kyiv School of Economics...

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The bacteria in your gut depend on where you are in the social network. And the microbes within us treat our social networks as the extended environment in which they thrive. They can spread from person to person. New #HNL work out today in @Nature. 1/
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Leveraging a rare alignment of two spacecraft, researchers show that Alfvén waves—a common type of electromagnetic plasma wave—drive the acceleration and heating of the solar wind. The findings provide insights into a decades-old mystery in solar physics. scim.ag/8hK
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Environmental, socioeconomic, and health factors associated with gut microbiome species and strains in isolated Honduras villages dlvr.it/T99Tcm
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Deeply sequenced microbiome data from non-industrialized settings are uncommon. In new #HNL work, we use metagenomic data from 1,871 people in 19 isolated Honduras villages to report associations between bacterial species and human phenotypes and factors. cell.com/cell-reports/pdfExt…
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Michael 英泉 Eisen (@mbeisen) profile pictureMichael 英泉 Eisen
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Science needs dis tracks
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Nature research paper: Synaptic wiring motifs in posterior parietal cortex support decision-making go.nature.com/42UCYj9
Synaptic wiring motifs in posterior parietal cortex support decision-making

Synaptic wiring motifs in posterior parietal cortex support decision-making

Nature - Excitatory pyramidal neurons preferentially target inhibitory interneurons with the same selectivity and, in turn, inhibitory interneurons preferentially target pyramidal neurons with...

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I agree IIT has many shortcomings, but I don’t follow the rationale behind this letter. It seems to say that: Not the leading theory + not testable in the short term = pseudoscience. Is string theory also pseudoscience? Or maybe I’m missing something? psyarxiv.com/zsr78
The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness as Pseudoscience

The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness as Pseudoscience

The media, including news articles in both Nature and Science, have recently celebrated the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) as a ‘leading’ and empirically tested theory of consciousness. We are...

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I have just been to the most devastating talk in my life. Exercise has no effect on daily energy expenditure - the most and least active populations burn the same number of calories. WTF. @HermanPontzer
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A month’s supply of insulin is now capped at $35 for anyone on Medicare.
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Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord has enabled 9 people who were paralysed to walk again — and we’re beginning to understand the biological mechanisms involved. go.nature.com/3fWnCXw
Neurons that promote recovery from paralysis identified

Neurons that promote recovery from paralysis identified

Nature - The biological mechanisms that underpin rehabilitation after paralysis.

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The government should not tell women what to do with their bodies or how to plan their families.
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My PhD work got published today! elifesciences.org/articles/6…
Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with...

Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with...

The bioBakery 3 platform enables improved, integrated, and strain-level analysis of microbial communities from large-scale meta-omic data.

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Eat more fish: when switching to seafood helps — and when it doesn’t nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Eat more fish: when switching to seafood helps — and when it doesn’t

Nature - Survey identifies several species that are more nutritious and better for the planet than beef, pork or chicken.

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On the interior structure and dynamics of.... protons.
Martin Bauer (@martinmbauer) profile pictureMartin Bauer
@martinmbauer26 May 2022
Protons are not fundamental particles, but dynamical systems made of quarks and gluons. What a proton looks like depends on 2 quantities: the momentum at which you probe (Q^2) and the fraction of the proton momentum carried by each quark or gluon inside the proton (x) 1/6
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These kinds of mass shootings rarely happen elsewhere in the world. Why are we willing to live with this carnage? Why do we keep letting this happen? Where in God’s name is our backbone to have the courage to deal with it? It’s time to turn this pain into action.
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Since South African scientists announced that they had identified an unsettling new variant of #SARSCoV2, many are wondering where and how the #OmicronVariant evolved—and what lessons its emergence holds for avoiding future dangerous variants. fcld.ly/g13qzuo
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New #HNL research with @ShivkumarVs and @NAChristakis: Characterizing super-spreaders using population-level weighted social networks in rural communities royalsocietypublishing.org/d…

Characterizing super-spreaders using population-level weighted social networks in rural communities

Abstract. Sociocentric network maps of entire populations, when combined with data on the nature of constituent dyadic relationships, offer the dual promis

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