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1 month ago | 
socialsciencespace.com | C. Brandon Ogbunu |Joe Sweeney |Philip Cohen |Agnel Philip
March 14, 2025 26 Scientific institutions are in full scramble. No amount of diplomacy or charity can interpret the modern moment as anything other than an attempt at destroying the foundations of the modern scientific machine.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
undark.org | C. Brandon Ogbunu
For scientists, submitting a manuscript to a journal for peer review and waiting for good news of its acceptance is a defining experience.
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Dec 21, 2024 | 
wired.com | C. Brandon Ogbunu
The birth of ChatGPT brought a collection of anxieties regarding how large language models allow users to quickly subvert processes that once required human time, effort, passion, and understanding. And further, the tech sector’s often stormy relationship with regulation and ethical oversight have left many fearful for a future where artificial intelligence replaces humans at work and stymies human creativity.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Carl T Bergstrom |C. Brandon Ogbunu
Imagine a dystopian not-too-distant future, in which we each inhabit our own AI-driven digital filter bubble, crafted for us alone and designed to serve corporate interests. This future resembles 1998’s The Truman Show where the eponymous protagonist, played by Jim Carrey, has unknowingly lived his entire life within a reality TV show where his every experience is choreographed by a production studio. One subset of AI, large language models, won’t turn our lives into reality TV shows—no such luck.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
asbmb.org | C. Brandon Ogbunu
While Gregor Mendel’s principles of genetic inheritance remain a staple of life sciences education in the United States, the 2024 store shelves are now lined with popular science books that tell us that our old pictures of the biological world ain’t what they used to be. Modern biology has threatened to turn much of what we’ve learned about biology on its head. All of a sudden, we are losing faith that the gene is the sole dictator of traits and fates.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
undark.org | C. Brandon Ogbunu
While Nobel Prize announcements have always been newsworthy celebrations of discovery, recent years’ events have been successful in a much more important task: fostering important global discussions around the process of science. This is especially true for the 2024 prizes, which have highlighted the increased relevance of technology and magnified existing questions about where — and how — discovery happens. SELECTIVE PRESSURE: Exploring the collisions of science, culture, and belief.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 01233-8?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email&sz=64)
cell.com | C. Brandon Ogbunu
Main textBrandon Ogbunu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His primary research takes place at the intersection between computational biology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology. In addition, he operates a parallel research program that examines connections between science and culture. What turned you on to biology in the first place?
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Elizabeth T Chin |Yiran Liu |C. Brandon Ogbunu |Sanjay Basu
Policy Points A large population of incarcerated people may be eligible for prerelease and transition services under the new Medicaid Reentry Section 1115 Demonstration Opportunity. We estimated the largest relative population increases in Medicaid coverage from the opportunity may be expected in smaller and more rural states.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
undark.org | C. Brandon Ogbunu
In 2021, U.S. Sen.Ted Cruz compared critical race theory — an academic subfield that examines the role of racism in American institutions, laws, and policies — to the Ku Klux Klan, the most notorious homegrown terrorist organization in U.S. history. In doing so, he opened a playbook that resembles one put into practice by Florida Gov.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
socialsciencespace.com | Joe Sweeney |C. Brandon Ogbunu |Ayo Sekai |Vladímir Moskovkin
September 25, 2024 96 In this month’s issue of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge explores rising levels of abuse directed towards women in politics, spotlighting research on the harmful effects of online hate.
