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you know, as folks go to the fall meeting season and cycle, that'll be Congress and Resurgence or NASS and then AANS and spine section in the spring of next year.

understand that Dr. Adler has had the seminal role in at least three of the exhibit hall booths, right? One with Zap, one with the Cyberknife, and another with Nature Publications.

I mean, really, like your contributions, I'm waiting for the next shoe to drop for you.

What's the

And I think,

you know, particularly going back to academic dissemination of content and things like this, I think we're going to have in the next five years, we're going to have like a prestige level for having, we're going to have AI curated stuff and it'll be very cheap and very efficient, but there's going to be a prestige towards human curated stuff because say, for example, Nature Publishing Group, which is the most prestigious Nature journal, It's expensive to publish there.

It's hard to get in because they have very

well-educated people looking at, is this the most impactful stuff? And it's that human curation.

My co-host is Bruno Manette, and this is a podcast about taste and the creative side of AI.

Today's guest is Yulia Dzerzhetskou, a physicist who spent more than a decade as an editor at the Nature Journals.

Her current work draws on the history and philosophy of science to understand scientific judgment, tested knowledge, and how AI influences the production of scientific knowledge.

are very happy julia for you joining thank you for taking the time we first want to start with what about you what are you doing and also your experience as an editor you have been a long time with nature and worked in several capacities so maybe can you briefly describe your journey from what you have been doing in the past to what you are doing now

I had the usual academic trajectory where you go to PhD and then you do a couple of postdocs.

At which stage I wanted to see the broader picture.

And for that, I joined Nature Physics as an associate editor, and I stayed with the Nature Journals for over a decade as an editor for Nature Physics, selecting the papers that were published in the journal, and then as a launch editor of Nature Reviews Physics, where I created a publication, launched it, and drove it for decades.

a few years.

Controlling for noise is not as glamorous as optimizing nutrition timing or sleep stage distribution, but the evidence is suggesting it belongs in the same conversation.

The second study is a systematic review and meta-analysis published in Hypertension Research, a Nature Publishing Group journal, in September 2026.

The senior author is Kazuo Mikario, one of the leading figures in ambulatory blood pressure research, and the first author is Yuya Akagi.

The full author list is very long.

And a better understanding of this can lead to new treatments.

Joshua Gray is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Uniformed Services University and one of the authors of a new study in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.

The views expressed are those of Dr.

Gray and don't represent the Department of War.

For the study, he and his colleagues drew on data from biobanks that originally included more than a million individuals.

The samples were then modified to minimize overlap between the data sets, and the team ended up with about 860,000 individuals in the problematic alcohol use analysis and about 620,000 in the anxiety analysis.

So we start with these summary statistics, which are... from studies where you look across the entire genome and you see what are the genetic variants that are more common in people with alcohol use disorder, problematic alcohol use and anxiety disorder.

Yeah, absolutely.