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👋 Hallo, liebe Communitiess!
Wir laden gemeinsam mit @… (Landesinitiative Forschungsdatenmanagement Niedersachsen) ganz ❤️ lich zur folgenden Veranstaltung ein:
📍 "Advancing RDM: Von Informationssystemen zur Argumentationsunterstützung"
🗣️ Referent: Prof. Dr. Ralf Möller (Institut für Humanities-Centered Artificial Intelligence (CHAI)…

"Comparison Between Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and Library of Congress Classification (LCC)"
https://www.librarianshipstudies.com/2026/01/comparison-between-dewey-decimal.html

“A lot of what we think of as privacy protection isn’t so much like something that’s written in the law,”
says Karen Levy, a professor of information science at Cornell University.
“It just has to do with how hard or how expensive it is to learn stuff about people.”
When mobile phones became widespread, gathering data about people got much cheaper,
-- but making use of that data remained difficult.
Powerful LLMs could change that.
Worries over how LLMs …

How LLMs could supercharge mass surveillance in the US
The technology could make commercially available bulk datasets even more of a privacy concern.

Collective Electronic Polarization Drives Charge Asymmetry at Oil-Water Interfaces
Gabriele Amante, Klaudia Mrazikova, Gabriele Centi, Sylvie Roke, Ali Hassanali, Giuseppe Cassone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24142 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24142 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.24142
arXiv:2603.24142v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Why kinetically stable oil droplets in water spontaneously acquire a negative charge remains one of the most vigorously debated questions in interfacial science. Here, we combine neural-network based deep potential molecular dynamics with a data-driven and information theory approach to probe the real-space electron density at an extended decane-water interface. While decane-water clusters show nearly symmetric forward and backward charge transfer (CT) and thus negligible net CT, the extended interface displays a systematic electronic asymmetry, yielding a net CT from water to the hydrocarbon phase producing an average surface charge density of $\sim0.006~e^{-}\,\mathrm{nm}^{-2}$ on the oil phase. This imbalance is accompanied by much larger intra-phase self-polarization, particularly within the hydrocarbon phase, demonstrating that collective many-body polarization dominates the interfacial electronic response. Structural analysis reveals an asymmetry between forward C--H$\cdots$O and backward O--H$\cdots$C motifs, providing a microscopic origin for a net CT from one phase to the other. Curiously, both the water O--H and decane C--H covalent bonds incur subtle contractions which originate from a response to the charge-separation layers at the interface. These features are fully consistent with the weak improper hydrogen-bonds forming at the oil-water interface that results in blue-shifts of the C-H modes.
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Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM AM Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 cryptography protocol (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-quantum-leap-for-the-turing-award/

A Quantum Leap for the Turing Award
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they've been awarded the highest honor in computer science.

"#Gamification in #Libraries: A Bibliometric Study"
https://doi.org/10.18785/slis.1301.12

🙊 Spider monkeys found to share ‘insider knowledge’ to help locate best food
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/25/spider-monkeys-found-to-share-insider-knowledge-to-help-locate-best-food

Spider monkeys found to share ‘insider knowledge’ to help locate best food
Researchers observed the primates switching social groups and passing information on where to find the ripest fruit

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Got a survey from the Royal Society:
of course, they forgot Mastodon in their list of "where do you get information about new articles". I added it in the "other" box!
"what would make me recommend Royal Society journals to my colleagues?" Obviously, cutting all ties with Elon Musk, the nazi destroyer of science and our planet!
(Yes, they still have him as a fellow and this is their latest defense:

Royal Society president reignites Elon Musk row by defending lack of action
Society should only eject fellows for fraud or other defects in their research, says Paul Nurse

"The State of Library and Information Science Research on Artificial Intelligence: A Literature Review"
https://doi.org/10.1086/739803 [closed access 🙄]

Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop AI models for scientific research, is in talks to raise $175M at a $1B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex-anthropic-r…

Ex-Anthropic Researchers Are Raising Capital For New Startup at $1 Billion Valuation
Former Anthropic researchers are in talks to raise $175 million at a $1 billion valuation for a new startup that aims to conduct AI-driven research and development for scientific fields such as biology and materials science, according to people who have spoken to them. Andreesseen Horowitz and ...

Amazing Stories vol. 24, no. 10 (October 1950), by ed. Howard Browne
Entire issue from here: https://zirk.us/@SFFMagazineCovers/116196673150408723

"Spider monkeys found to share ‘insider knowledge’ to help locate best food"
#SpiderMonkey #Animals

New Computer Science Building in the Snow with a Crane Working Between Phillips and Gates
#photo #photography #cornell

Interesting for a sense of how much research is missing from 'global' platforms, based on where and what language it was published in. Focuses on Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Germany. LSE Impact blog post: https://

By linking national scholarly infrastructures we can better understand the impact of global research - LSE Impact
Global scholarly information systems provide poor coverage for social science and humanities research taking place outside of the anglophone world and in languages other than English. Paul Donner, Stephan Stahlschmidt, Serhii Nazarovets, Igor Cojocaru, Irina Cojocaru, Marina Razmadze and Shushanik Sargsyan highlight a range of national initiatives taking place aimed at improving scholarly data for

a conversation with claude

There's still time to register for the next #DefendResearch webinar! On April 8th, #DefendResearch team member and Declaration co-author Sara Rouhi will be in conversation with information studies researcher Dr. George Cooper, who will share key findings from his 6-year project o…

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- A High Motional Frequency Ion Trapping Regime for Quantum Information Science
A. J. Rasmusson

"Are we ready to replace human-narrated audiobooks with AI-narrated ones? A case study of the municipal library of Prague" @ Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006261430947