Wednesday assorted links

1. “Authors who were perceived as female responded at similar rates regardless of the pronouns in the requester’s email. Authors who were perceived as male were less likely to respond to emails from requesters with they/them pronouns than all other conditions. This work finds that people who use they/them pronouns experience bias in real-world situations due solely to their gender pronouns.”  Link here.

2. U.S. murder rates are plummeting.

3. Sam Hammond’s 95 theses on AI, not my views but interesting.

4. Do sperm whale songs have an alphabet of sorts? (NYT)

5. Preference falsification at Dartmouth?

6. “AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life’s molecules.”

7. More on Luka.