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The Trump administration is moving to
dismantle the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado,
taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

CSUN Researchers Call for Public’s Help in Documenting Joshua Trees’ Surprise Out-of-Season Bloom
https://newsroom.csun.edu/2025/12/16/csun-researchers-call-for-publics-help-in-documenting-joshua-trees-sur…

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size:
https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison
"In a joint study with the UK AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, we found that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a "

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Linyi Yang, Yixuan Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12194 https://

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Current deep-research agents run in a ''fire-and-forget'' mode: once started, they give users no way to fix errors or add expert knowledge during execution. We present ResearStudio, the first open-source framework that places real-time human control at its core. The system follows a Collaborative Workshop design. A hierarchical Planner-Executor writes every step to a live ''plan-as-document,'' a fast communication layer streams each action, file change, and tool call to a web interface. At any …

"By examining several widely used AI models designed for cancer detection, the researchers found that performance varied depending on patients’ self-reported gender, race, and age. They also identified multiple reasons why these disparities occur."
What AI Learned From Cancer Slides Shocked Researchers
https://scitechdaily.com/what-ai-learned-from-cancer-slides-shocked-researchers/

Josh Allen back in the NFL MVP race, plus Week 15 risers and fallers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6891914/2025/12/15/josh-allen-nfl-mvp-week-15-risers-fallers-scoop-city/

Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites: #SatelliteCommunication: https://www.heise.de/en/news/US-Researchers-Intercept-Unencrypted-Satellite-Communication-10767672.html - US researchers have investigated satellite data traffic using commercial equipment; much of it, including security-relevant data, was unencrypted.

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science https://research-reviewer.blogspot.com/2025/10/publish-or-perish-research.html

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science
An in-depth reflection on how the ‘publish or perish’ culture, precarious work, and academic metrics have turned research into a paper factory — an...

Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice
— the oldest on Earth
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/16/all-science-no-fiction-northwest-researchers-6-million-year-old-ice/

Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice — the oldest on Earth
To find the oldest ice on the planet researchers had to go somewhere that’s been cold for a long time — where the ice builds up in layers instead of melting away.

Two weeks into the government shutdown
with no resolution in sight,
higher ed associations and researchers say
the inability of scientists to contact federal agency workers
or get new grants approved
is causing harm
https://www.

Researchers, Colleges Face Federal Shutdown Impacts
Two weeks into the government shutdown with no resolution in sight, higher ed associations and researchers say the inability of scientists to contact federal agency workers or get new grants approved is causing harm.