The stagnation in global malaria mortality reduction has forced a re-evaluation of the tools and strategies currently deployed in high-burden countries. While biological challenges such as insecticide resistance and parasite mutations are well-documented, a critical bottleneck remains the capacity of the human workforce to implement technical strategies with precision.

The comprehensive policy review by Halima Mwenesi and colleagues “Rethinking human resources and capacity building needs for malaria control and elimination in Africa” argues that the stagnation in global malaria progress is fundamentally a human resources crisis rather than solely a biological or technical failure.

The study by Ayodele Jegede and colleagues “Evaluation of a capacity building intervention on malaria treatment for under-fives in rural health facilities in Niger State, Nigeria” provides a rigorous evaluation of a standard “cascade training” intervention.

With my collaborators, I am increasingly performing qualitative research. I find qualitative research projects a useful way to improve my understanding of behaviors that I want to explore with other methods in the future. For example, some years ago I performed qualitative interviews with researchers who believed their own research had no value whatsoever.

When I first started writing this post, I started writing up why scientific communication is important, but because I started explaining what needs improving, and what are underlying causes why change is not happening, it got dark pretty quickly. So, I deleted that essay again. Instead, let’s just enjoy the awesome and long list of solutions we have for scientific discourse.

Chapter 3 of the National Academies report on AIxBio: Biosecurity implications for what AI can and can't do in biology today.

When people ask where the Appalachian Mountains are, they are really asking where one of North America’s oldest backbones runs beneath maps and highways and river valleys. The Appalachians are not a single peak or a single park. They are a long, folded highland system that shadows the eastern side of the continent from the Canadian Atlantic almost to the Gulf of Mexico. Geographers usually begin the story in the northeast.

Steven Zaillian’s Ripley (2024), available on Netflix, arrives with the familiar signals of prestige adaptation: a canonical literary source (Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley), European locations, meticulous production design, and a controlled tonal palette. Yet one of its most distinctive features is not narrative content but tempo.

Timing does often seem to be everything, particularly when there is a very limited foreknowledge of events.

What do television shows look like in our mind’s eye? Let me start with a personal experience. Two shows that I enjoyed immensely – Sex Education and The Mandalorian – seemed, to me at least, to have reached satisfying conclusions in their third and second seasons, respectively. But not in the same way.

In early 2025 a Reddit meme emerged featuring the producer/influencer Rick Rubin, eyes closed, seemingly lost in something deep, truthy and intuitive in his headphones, with the neologism “LettingTheVibes BeYourGuide” as its caption.[1] This briefly became an image metonym for vibe coding – the act of using LLMs to help the… The post Vibe coding the future appeared first on carrier-bag.net.