Larry Hunter

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Medical research saves lives. I met with scientists at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center this week to thank them for their work and to discuss the importance of restoring federal health research funding.

Attending #EMNLP2026 or following along from home? Tired of Whova and Underline? Use infrastructure made by researchers instead! Lea recommends talks/posters for you; organizes your own presentations; shows you who is attending; includes a live feed of posts; and more! lea.ac/conferences/...

This becomes increasingly clear as one gets older....

Hey @whstancil.bsky.social what do you think of this as an explanation for the vibecession? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is 🎯🧪 From a pancreatic cancer researcher in my circle Lately, we have been seeing so many miracles in cancer treatment. We celebrate. That is because we had a great infrastructure that operated efficiently. I don’t want to live in a time when these wins are far off in the rear view mirror.

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

Hey @doctorow.pluralistic.net please write about Opinionrot www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"Opinionrot emerges when communication systems increasingly optimize for persuasion, attention capture, and prediction rather than collective reasoning." Such an interesting analysis and useful framing. Worth the effort to decode the disciplinary writing. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:

We computer scientists need to study more developmental biology and ecology. The problem with the machine view is not the materialism—it’s the belief in clean boundaries. That you can pull a “component” out of its web of dynamic interactions

To be an American right now is to feel an intense sense of shame, for abandoning our allies and sucking up to dictators. Trump and Musk are not just betraying Ukraine, they're betraying the very idea of freedom. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

*A set of Yandex anecdotes after the bombing of its data centers *For instance: have they been pumping tax-free, non-sanctioned money directly from Moldova to Dubai, well, why wouldn't they www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-st...

Fascinating article on Polynesian genomics that, as an aside, documents ongoing clinical genetic discrimination against Native Hawaiians. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

True even as a writer of scientific journal articles. I've been working on a particularly difficult one for more than a year, trying to communicate a complex idea to a diverse audience from many disciplines. I've been revising, rewording, reordering, refining every aspect until it absolutely sings.

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

This is a wild story about what it takes to opt out of Epic's desire to monetize your health records.

'Vibe-coded alternatives for Adobe products are surprisingly good' www.xda-developers.com/tried-replac...

I'm hiring a postdoc to start in summer/fall 2027! My lab uses computational social & cognitive science methods to explore how tech shapes knowledge & power: www.crockettlab.org You can submit an application here: apply.interfolio.com/195297. Review of apps starts Nov 20. Please share!

www.openevidence.com buying its way in... They both give money to and are published in JAMA. The CoI disclosure is something in this article, but somehow the JAMA $$ doesn't get mentioned. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

It's long been said that crypto is only useful for crime... That's selling it short -- crypto has made possible entirely new kinds of crime. ~$100M payoff for a hardware supply chain attack.

🔥 OUT TODAY in NATURE MENTAL HEALTH, an unusual paper by our international commission recommends science-backed programmes to help the mental health of over a billion people worldwide: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Now we get to see if my institution can handle itself better than Cornell did... 🤞 chicagomaroon.com/53960/news/s...

#ResistanceRoots Kimberly Teehee was born on this day in 1968 in Chicago. She is an attorney and activist who was elected by the Cherokee Nation to serve as its first Delegate-designate to the U.S. House of Representatives. Seven years after her election, the House still has not seated her. /1

Sri Lankan spinach and coconut dal with tomato tarka.

Indigenous fire 🔥 www.newyorker.com/science/elem...

Hate that so many of our tech overlord billionaires are childless young men. So callous.

We are hiring! University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Linguistics is looking for a sociolinguist (Assistant Professor rank) specializing in variation and language contact. More info here: go.hawaii.edu/D7R

These people have re-engineered Word, and the whole Adobe family of products… they claim it’s a “clean room” rebuild so that could make it legal?? (Though it will obviously be litigated to hell…)

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Flock of wild turkeys near the summit of Pu'u Wa'awa'a today

Cory spells out the world’s worst and most pressing problem quite clearly here.

$100M to stand up five graduate programs in SI (sic)? 😢 simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...

Opus 5.5 is smarter than me, but it’s ok, because I have better taste - a good sense of what people in my community want. What a microcosm for the future of work. It will look like the present and past of work. Like David Graeber says, “all work is care work.”

Well, now we know what we’re going to get instead of individual investigator initiated research. Hope it’s worth it…

So... AI stole Photoshop and now it's open source? Is that how this works? github.com/storytold/ph...

Amen!

Here's the ad for the Genome Sciences faculty positions ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...

Some marginalia from my full reading of the Pope's Encyclical on AI this morning: - AI does not love - AI does not intrinsically value truth or justice - AI does not experience hunger - AI does not experience communion with the natural world or any sort of higher power

Some of this is a little glib, but I don't disagree with a word of it.

The complete version of @phaueis.eurosky.social and my BBS target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is now available. It includes 32 commentaries and our response. Please share #philsci #philsky #cogsci

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. — Kurt Vonnegut

Sad that this outdated and naive idea is so prevalent. Contemporary neuroscience demonstrates that the entire body is involved. It's not just your brain, or even just your neurons. Your muscles, gut, immune system, and other body systems all contribute to constructing your conscious experience.