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In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.

It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.

The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
December 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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New @jama.com
Another new report (natural experiment) shows the link of a vaccine vs shingles to less dementia
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
this is the 3rd natural experiment to show the effect
Herpes Zoster Vaccination and Dementia Occurrence
This study investigates whether herpes zoster vaccination affects the probability of receiving a new diagnosis of dementia.
jamanetwork.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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CAR Awards:

🏅 Gold Medal - Dr. Michael Patlas

🖋 Distinguished Career Award - Dr. Vincent Oliva

🔎 Investigator Award - Dr. Satheesh Krishna
April 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Our paper on A.I. agents for healthcare just published @rajpurkar.bsky.social Michael Moritz
free access rdcu.be/efW1n
Coordinated AI agents for advancing healthcare
Nature Biomedical Engineering - Decentralized yet coordinated networks of specialized artificial intelligence agents, multi-agent systems for healthcare (MASH), that excel in performing tasks in an...
rdcu.be
April 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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On the holy grail of biology
"The A.I. virtual cell (AIVC) has the potential to revolutionize the scientific process, leading to future breakthroughs in biomedical research, personalized medicine, drug discovery, cell engineering,& programmable biology”
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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These A.I. models are rapidly changing life science.
A brief, open-access review of the remarkable progress in @science.org this week
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Learning the language of life with AI
In 2021, a year before ChatGPT took the world by storm amid the excitement about generative artificial intelligence (AI), AlphaFold 2 cracked the 50-year-old protein-folding problem, predicting three-...
www.science.org
February 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Our op-ed @nytopinion.nytimes.com today addresses the surprising results of recent medical studies that showed A.I. alone outperformed physicians using A.I. W/@rajpurkar.bsky.social
Here is a summary Table, an overview, and a gift link to the op-ed
erictopol.substack.com/p/when-docto...
When Doctors With A.I. Are Outperformed by A.I. Alone
Interpreting Some Surprising Results
erictopol.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has secured an option for 11 million vaccines in the event of a global bird flu pandemic. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/ny...
Fugleinfluensa: Norge har sikret seg vaksineavtale
FHI trapper opp beredskapen mot fugleinfluensa, og har sikret opsjon på 11 millioner vaksiner hvis det blir en pandemi. Onsdag ble landets kommuneleger oppdatert om risikovurderingen.
www.vg.no
January 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Covid and heart sequelae
gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/w...
November 24, 2024 at 2:40 PM