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Tracy Merlin

@tracymerlin.bsky.social
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Professor of Health Technology Assessment, Adelaide University. Background in clinical epidemiology and public health. Research and teach evidence-based health policy and practice

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify" How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering everyone with open-source investigation skills, argue @eliothiggins.bsky.social & @drnataliemartin.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...
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How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills
“If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify,” argue Bellingcat’s founder Eliot Higgins and Dr Natalie Martin in this piece.
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Nature @nature.com · 07/02/2025
The company’s AlphaGeometry2 now reaches level of gold-medal students in the International Mathematical Olympiad go.nature.com/4jSPnfJ
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DeepMind AI crushes tough maths problems on par with top human solvers
The company’s AlphaGeometry2 is now competitive reaches level of gold-medal students in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Good resistance news: An 'Achilles heel' discovered in antibiotic resistant bacteria. Scientists in Canada found the critical vulnerability: bacteria need zinc. Deprive them of the nutrient & their stability is disrupted making them susceptible to antibiotics again www.genengnews.com/topics/infec...
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New Achilles Heel Exposed in Antibiotic Resistance
Carbapenems are last-resort antibiotics for treating bacterial infections. A study shows how zinc plays a role in drug-resistant bacteria.
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