One of the most underrated channels on youtube these days is one called Phy The Neutrophil. If you like microbiology at all, these videos are something special.

hah this reminds me, I tried out a new 3D animated visual style on main and got a few comments basically saying "jeez this is so bad I'd honestly have preferred the AI slop" but stated a bit nicer and also got about 2x as many just accusing me of using AI anyway

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students. A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet. Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle. The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable. The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust. Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates. The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output. The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.

i'm not joking my supervisor ASKED me to draw "the worm i always draw on my cells" because i didn't last week and all of them fucking died for NO REASON😭😭😭😭

in 3 hours i'll be going live to brainstorm about how edutainers can escape the sea of slop! a lot of content out there is pretty depressing about the state of content creation in the era of AI, but I think we can out-evolve this force!

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