🎉 2,918 abstracts have been accepted to #ABRCMS2026!
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Bolaji Thomas, PhD retweeted
RIT named a top 100 national university for the fourth year in a row! @usnews cited RIT as among the best universities for innovation, experiential learning through co-ops and internships, and value. Learn more about RIT's renowned programs and rankings: brnw.ch/21x5SrO
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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.
@thomaslabRIT @HudsonLabRIT alumna Marissa Schroeter was @RIThealthsci @RITtigers today, with amazing science on the role of serotonin receptor in regulating alveolar macrophages. Also spoke to current Parasitology class. Thank you Marissa 👏👏👏
@thomaslabRIT and @HudsonLabRIT alumna is back @RITtigers @RIThealthsci @RITscience for an exciting seminar. All are invited
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Panic is finding out the person you need to add to your NIH grant in the next 48 hours doesn't have an eRA Commons account, myNCBI bibliography, ORCiD profile, or SciENcv.
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⏰ Abstracts and Travel Awards Due 9/11
Presenting at #ABRCMS2026 is more than sharing your research, it's an opportunity to grow as a scientist. Receive valuable feedback and build confidence for what's next!
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Bolaji Thomas, PhD retweeted
Universities now push faculty to commercialize discoveries and spin off companies. To what extent does this promote fraud? We need to reflect on this
Bolaji Thomas, PhD retweeted
INSANE Nature paper
Dendritic cell erythropoietin receptor is tolerogenic...remove it and #cancer goes away
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
Former and current members @thomaslabRIT @ImmunologyAAI in Boston. Thank you for your friendship, the science and staying in touch 👍👍
@thomaslabRIT @HudsonLabRIT we mentored Marissa @rittigers, now she is a podium presenter @ImmunologyAAI, 👏👏👏
To have @thomaslabrit research student now a graduate student speak on a panel I chaired @ImmunologyAAI, what an experience. Let’s go Marissa👏👍
Very proud @thomaslabRIT with lab alumni Marissa and Nhyira at AAI 2026.
Bolaji Thomas, PhD retweeted
AAI is proud to announce its 2026 election results, in which voting members of the association selected the officers and committee leaders who will guide the organization in the years ahead.
Hailing from some of the nation’s foremost academic and research institutions, the newly elected leaders will continue AAI’s commitments to the public understanding of immunology, robust opportunities for the immunology community, a well-funded research enterprise, and a modernized organizational structure.
Learn more: ow.ly/aUSO50Ywt9J
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🗓️ May 5, 2026 — #ABRCMS Day of Giving
Protect Progress. Stand up for STEM.
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