Elissa Welle, PhD
- Another day, another data center story, this time in 🌒 space 🚀 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
- Why can't we just upgrade old data centers instead of building new ones? The latest AI tech is getting too damn heavy www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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- Cheating just got a lot easier with AI agents -- and tech companies don't seem to care, often just blaming the students they’ve empowered with a seemingly unstoppable cheating machine. Teachers and students are stuck with the repercussions: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
- Two pieces of news re: teens and AI chatbots. Character.AI is gradually limiting, and then banning, teens from its AI chatbots www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... And two senators proposed an industry-wide ban of under-18s accessing AI companions www.theverge.com/news/808589/...
- Take a close look at Facebook' latest blog post and you'll notice that the company is rolling out a feature that let's Meta's AI train on your ~~unpublished photos in your camera roll~~ www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
- New Yorker renters may have caught a break with this new law banning rent-fixing algos www.theverge.com/news/801205/...
- If you've been following the Clippers drama (Pablo Torre, Aspiration, Steve Ballmer, Kawhi Leonard) read Justine Calma's latest. It's the context you need on LA's climate woes interwoven with the personal anecdotes from someone who grew up near Leonard's hometown www.theverge.com/science/7860...
- The only human-made element behind Xania Monet’s act appear to be the lyrics. So, what happens when an AI-generated artist gets a record deal? A copyright mess. My latest for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
- great story from my new colleague (i'm the new one to the @theverge.com) @haydenfield.bsky.social about columbia university's latest attempt to smooth over student tensions using AI software www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
- I didn't appreciate the fact that polyester in clothing is the same plastic as water bottles until I started reporting on textile recycling for @businessoffashion.com.web.brid.gy. Read about the technology to make new clothes from old clothes here: www.businessoffashion.com/articles/sus...
- NYC $20 meal map you didn't know you needed 🙏@hellgatenyc.com hellgatenyc.com/20-dinner-map/
- DEI cuts are not just for federal funding. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the country’s largest private funder of biomedical research, pulled the plug on a $505,000 STEM DEI grant at CUNY's Queens College www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/18/f... reported by @haidee.bsky.social for @thecity.nyc
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- Here's the scoop on poop - that is, insect poop. Bugs could connect the ends of the food system by eating waste and creating fertilizer. But the industry will take time to hatch, experts say. ambrook.com/research/stu...
- Nassau County's police and sheriff’s departments signed agreements w/ ICE. Deputized police officers now can question residents’ citizenship status and make arrests without a judicial warrant www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/... by @rebeccaclewis.bsky.social for @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
- Trump's tariffs are getting very different reactions from major agricultural trade organizations — depending on what’s being farmed. It's complicated but @jessehirsch.bsky.social and I break it down over here at Ambrook Research ambrook.com/research/leg...
- This writer filing a draft is earning extra ag points from me: "Hi Jesse, thanks for letting me repaint the barn on this one."
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- My second story for Hell Gate — ICE made an arrest in Schenectady without a warrant or order from a judge. Two state lawmakers are asking why courts are not being protected
- On January 27, ICE agents arrested someone in Schenectady Civil Court—without a judicial warrant or order. That was supposed to be banned by 2020's Protect Our Courts Act. Now, the two elected officials behind the law are demanding some answers. hellgatenyc.com/ice-arrest-s...
- The FDA is working to make food labels healthy again. Salmon is in, white bread is out. But it’s not clear if farmers will feel the shift. My latest for Ambrook Research edited by @jessehirsch.bsky.social ambrook.com/research/leg...
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- Companies have a couple years before it’s mandatory so plenty of time for things to play out
- New for @hellgatenyc.com: A statewide memo tells court officers to step aside if ICE attempts to make illegal arrests in courthouses. Give it a read here hellgatenyc.com/ny-courts-me...
- (This memo has not been reported before!)
- My latest data story looks at medical debt sent to collections, which one way to put numbers on the notoriously difficult to quantify problem.
- Would you want a wind turbine planted on your farm? More than 90 percent of land-based wind turbines operate on private farmland. But when a wind company comes calling, the response an be hard to predict. My latest for Ambrook Research, edited by @jessehirsch.bsky.social ambrook.com/research/far...
- My latest NYC by Number looks at the data behind ICE's attempts to get people under NYPD & DOC's custody, just as the city prepares for more deportations under Trump's presidency (gothamist.com/news/how-is-...)
- I've started a data project called NYC by Number 🖌️🎨 in which I paint a picture of my dear city using publicly available data. I started with the number of rent stabilized units added and removed each year. Turns out, we're losing lots each year.
- NYC is losing thousands of rent stabilized units each year. City Council changed the zoning laws to build more housing earlier this month. But, as Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said, zoning isn't the only way to address NYC's housing needs. Cue rent stabilization. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WKqDM/1/
- “Science is and has always been social and political, in theory and in practice” Essay by @sabs.bsky.social worth the read defector.com/do-not-accep...
- Can blasting carving wood with plasma create an alternative to precious darkwoods? Read my latest on a superblack wood discovery for Ambrook Research edited by @jessehirsch.bsky.social
- A fluke lab discovery has led to the creation of the world's first "superblack" wood. Researchers are hoping it can upend our need to import endangered darkwoods — a thriving underground market. ambrook.com/research/tec...
- I've spent the last four months digging into the "inside out" hypothesis of the origin of amyloid plaques of Alzheimer’s disease🧠New research backs an old theory that plaques form within neurons, not outside them @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/alzheimers-d...
- Faulty connections between the subthalamic nucleus & cortex characterize disparate brain disorders --- and figure into an ongoing debate about how best to identify dysfunctional circuitry using diffusion tractography. My latest for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/connectivity...
- Similar to when I lived above a club in college (no wonder the rent was cheap), neurons in the rat olfactory bulb feel the pulse within the brain, @callimcflurry.bsky.social flurry reports for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/electrophysi...
- Life expectancy lags for autistic people in United Kingdom by 6 years -- a smaller gap than the 16 years previously reported. Still, that's a big gap! Read @ginarivers90.bsky.social 's story for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/lif...
- New to the neuroscience toolbox: a marker of decreased neural activity, offering scientists a tool to study inhibition for the first time. Read my story for @thetransmitter.bsky.social here and tell me where you'd want to tag inhibition in the brain www.thetransmitter.org/methods/what...
- Now THIS was a great show!
