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The Institute of Museum and Library Services
is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.
But this year, it has unusually specific criteria.
In cover letters accompanying the applications, the institute said it
“particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
These would include those that foster an appreciation for the country “through uplifting and positive narratives,”
the agency writes,
cit…

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

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Despite worries by some that vendor reports on AI cyber threats are merely hype to sell new defensive tools, most cyber defenders and threat intel experts say CISOs who dismiss AI in the attack chain do so at their own risk.
Check out my latest CSO piece.
Many thanks to Marcus Hutchins, Steve Stone of SentinelOne, Billy Leonard of Google Threat Intelligence Group, the folks at Anthropic, Rob T. Lee of SANS Institute, Morgan Adamski of PwC, Joe Levy and Alexandra Rose of Sophos, …

Ignoring AI in the threat chain could be a costly mistake, experts warn
While some researchers dismiss reports of AI-driven cyberattacks as merely marketing messages, threat intel experts counter that CISOs ignore mounting evidence of AI use in the threat chain at their own peril.

🌾 Innovations in spatial imaging could unlock higher wheat yields
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Innovations in spatial imaging could unlock higher wheat yields
Researchers at the John Innes Center and the Earlham Institute are pioneering powerful single-cell visualization techniques that could unlock higher yields of global wheat.

Bengals DE Trey Hendrickson likely to undergo season-ending core muscle surgery https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-de-trey-hendrickson-likely-to-undergo-season-ending-surgery

Vaonis Hyperia: smartes Teleskop für Forschung und Astrofotografie
Das Teleskop Vaonis Hyperia wendet sich allein preislich an Institute wie Sternwarten. Es vereint große Optik mit 17 Linsen und schnellen Antrieb.

By combining retinal imaging, genetics, and big data,
physician-researchers from Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
have found that they can estimate how likely a person is to develop eye and systemic diseases in the future.
⭐️They found significant associations between the thinning of different retinal layers and increased risk of developing ocular, cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, and neuropsy…

💉 New group of potential diabetes drugs with fewer side effects can reprogram insulin-resistant cells to be healthier
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-group-potential-diabetes-drugs-side.html

New group of potential diabetes drugs with fewer side effects can reprogram insulin-resistant cells to be healthier
Using a blend of computer modeling, structural and cell-based studies, scientists at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute have designed a group of potential diabetes drugs that reprogram insulin-resistant cells into a healthier state while limiting side effect risks of older medications.

Donald Trump has taken over the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C.,
and put his name on it,
even as the legal battle over who owns the building is ongoing.
Independent journalist Marisa Kabas posted about the visible signage on the building Wednesday showing “DONALD J. TRUMP” in block letters tacked to the building.
Kabas reports that Trump plans to use the building to host the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic…

Trump Plasters His Own Name on U.S. Institute of Peace Headquarters
This is not Donald Trump’s building, but he’s certainly acting like it is.