https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02980-w
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Julia Hirschberg thought that she had reason to celebrate. In July, she had been elected to become a member of the European Academy of Engineering (EAE), an organization billed on its website as the “premier institution representing the highest professional distinction in engineering” with 35 Nobel laureates among its more than 400 elected members.
The accolade arrived just days after another unexpected honour: election to the Austrian Academy of Engineering. And in 2025, she had been elected to the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI).
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And that’s when things started to get weird. When Hirschberg checked the EAE’s website, her name was already prominently displayed atop the leadership masthead. But she had never agreed to take the post; she also had never been asked for references, nor had she attended a single meeting. “}}
Posts Tagged ‘fromnpc’
Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers | Nature
October 24, 2026Cognitive resilience helps to predict Alzheimer’s dementia | Nature
October 16, 2026https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02897-4
QT:{{” The trait could explain why symptoms vary in severity between people with similar brain pathology. “}}
Perhaps useful for PD & HD too…
Disparate privacy risks from medical AI | Nature
August 8, 2026https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10688-0
model privacy leakage & MIAs
Knolle, M. A., Menten, M. J., Jungmann, F., Meissen, F., Glocker, B., Rueckert, D., & Kaissis, G. (2026). Disparate privacy risks from medical AI. Nature, 656(8126), 192–198.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10688-0
Is the peptide craze backed by science? The promise behind the hype | Nature
August 3, 2026https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01816-x
Interesting to interrelate to transcribed pseudogenes – e.g. BPC-157 peptide
Willyard, C. (2026). Is the peptide craze backed by science? The promise behind the hype. Nature, 654(8118), 312–314.
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01816-x
Robot can beat elite players at table tennis
June 7, 2026https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01045-2
wonder if this uses a world model ?
How effective is the personalized off-label use of targeted cancer treatment?
May 31, 2026https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00911-3
NEWS AND VIEWS
15 April 2026
How effective is the personalized off-label use of targeted cancer treatment If general cancer treatment fails, a tumour-type-specific therapy might be tried for other cancers with genetic changes in the targeted pathway. How well does this work?
By Funda Meric-Bernstam
Does a cell’s gene expression always reflect its function?
December 22, 2025https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00088-1
Özel, M. N., & Desplan, C. (2025). Does a cell’s gene expression always reflect its function? Nature, 638(8052), 899–900.
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00088-1
AI learns from nature to design super-adhesive gels that work underwater
December 22, 2025https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02252-z
Russo, L. (2025). AI learns from nature to design super-adhesive gels that work underwater. Nature, 644(8075), 47–48.
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02252-z
Rare genetic variants confer a high risk of ADHD and implicate neuronal biology | Nature
November 23, 2025https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09702-8
Demontis, D., Duan, J., Hsu, Y. H., Pintacuda, G., Grove, J., Nielsen, T. T., Thirstrup, J., Martorana, M., Botts, T., Satterstrom, F. K., Bybjerg-Grauholm, J., Tsai, J. H. Y., Glerup, S., Hoogman, M., Buitelaar, J., Klein, M., Ziegler, G. C., Jacob, C., Grimm, O., . . . Børglum, A. D. (2025). Rare genetic variants confer a high risk of ADHD and implicate neuronal biology. Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09702-8
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Common genetic variants associated with the disorder have been identified12,13, but the role of rare variants in ADHD is mostly unknown. Here, by analysing rare coding variants in exome-sequencing data from 8,895 individuals with ADHD and 53,780 control individuals, we identify three genes (MAP1A, ANO8 and ANK2; P < 3.07 × 10−6; odds ratios 5.55–15.13) that are implicated in ADHD.
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