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Questions swirl over who's running the CDC (Maya Goldman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/cdc-director-leadership-vacancy-rfk
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p77#a250605p77

FDA debuts agency-wide AI tool meant to help scientific reviewers and others streamline their work and, soon, to identify high-priority targets for inspections (Maya Goldman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/fda-launches-ai-tool

FDA launches agency-wide AI tool
FDA said it's using the technology to review clinical protocols and speed up scientific evaluations.

Nosey: Open-source hardware for acoustic nasalance
Maya Dewhurst, Jack Collins, Justin J. H. Lo, Roy Alderton, Sam Kirkham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23339

Nosey: Open-source hardware for acoustic nasalance
We introduce Nosey (Nasalance Open Source Estimation sYstem), a low-cost, customizable, 3D-printed system for recording acoustic nasalance data that we have made available as open-source hardware (http://github.com/phoneticslab/nosey). We first outline the motivations and design principles behind our hardware nasalance system, and then present a comparison between Nosey and a commercial nasalance device. Nosey shows consistently higher nasalance scores than the commercial device, but the magnit…

Journalist Sues LA County, Ex-LA County Sheriff For Criminally Investigating Her https://thedissenter.org/journalist-sues-la-county-ex-la-county-sheriff-for-criminally-investigating-her/