Invisible String

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