Invisible String

We talk about ANOTHER big travel month, federal fights over science funding, preprints, and the intersection of AI and scientific discoveries News Links: Inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH New lawsuit accuses Trump administration of blocking NIH grants as form of censorship Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control Preprints: De novo Rubisco design with protein language models Optimizing the connectivity of protein conformations to untangle ensemble refinement Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?