https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire basically ground zero for the English ballad tradition. also used to contain Liverpool, which is of course where lots of sailing songs come from or mention.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.13724 PROTON, a graph transformer model trained on neuroscience datasets and literature, produces in silico screens, ranking proteins by association with a disease or its biomarker (Parkinson's and alpha-synuclein in one case) and finding they recapitulated experimental screens. also predicts drug hits in organoid models of bipolar and drug repurposing candidates for Alzheimer's.
i'd have expected something like this to be able to produce these results; not a huge update for me, mostly useful as a marker for what people are doing in this space.