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The great disconnect: when the world advances and education remains on the platform
Imagine a surgeon from 1975 waking up in a contemporary operating theatre. Confronted with touchscreens, surgical robots, and real-time MRI imaging, their expertise would instantly seem anachronistic. In contrast, were a teacher from the same era ...
Post · January 05, 2026
Group's first paper now out in Organic Letters
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The first paper from the group is now out in Organic Letters. We describe a new method for the formation of valuable P–S compounds using isothioureas as convenient sulfur donors. This method has become a go-to approach in our group ...
Post · January 05, 2026
Understanding response to immunotherapies requires more than describing individual cells
Cell- and immunotherapies have transformed the treatment landscape for many hematological diseases. In some patients, these treatments induce durable responses that were previously difficult to achieve. In others, the same therapeutic approach res...
Post · January 05, 2026
Of Possums and Persimmons
This past week, I went to the grocery store and found some persimmons (kudos Kroger). They weren’t far from ripe - key, because if not they have tremendous astringency. When I was a younger man and trapsing through the Appalachian forests, you’d f...
Post · January 04, 2026
🎉 Super excited to share that my second first-author paper has been accepted in Smart Agricultural Technology! 🐄 💡
Random cross-validation (CV) splits data into training and testing sets and is widely used to evaluate model performance. However, when the dataset includes multiple records from the same animal, random partitioning will likely create dependencies...
Post · January 04, 2026
Psychologia w Krzemie: Jak sztuczna inteligencja naśladuje ludzki umysł?
Czy zastanawialiście się kiedyś, dlaczego rozmowa z najnowszymi wersjami sztucznej inteligencji wydaje się coraz bardziej "ludzka"? To nie przypadek. Rozwój AI przestał być jedynie wyścigiem mocy obliczeniowej i inżynierii oprogramowania. Stał się...
Post · January 04, 2026
On Emotions in Technical Writing
Technical and scientific writing is often seen as cold and distant when compared to fiction, for example. However, it seems to me that technical writing, even in academic publishing, has a shorter emotional range with which to engage the reader, n...
Post · January 03, 2026