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Here are the three primary kinds of community-based events we’ll be sponsoring during 31 Days of Action:

Open/community lab meetings over Zoom or live-streamed lab tours/demos

Teach-ins at local community centers, churches, parks, basically anywhere that’s not a college campus

Stand Up For Science tabling and demos that include “Ask a Scientist” booths,
pond water under a microscope,
strawberry DNA extraction,
egg drop competitions, …

SUFS 31 Days of Action Guidebook
🧬 WHAT IS STAND UP FOR SCIENCE? Stand Up for Science (SUFS) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization born from the rallies held in cities throughout the United States and around the world on March 7th, 2025. We believe that science is a public good that benefits everyone, and we’re leading...

Last month, GÉANT hosted the European e-Infrastructures Assembly, bringing together directors and senior representatives of EGI Foundation, EUDAT, @…, and PRACE.
Nine months in, it was a great moment to reflect on our collaboration so far, and where we go next to better support European Research & Education community.
Thanks to all involved for …

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If lepers were socially excluded and removed from the community of the visible church, their existence still made God manifest, as they showed both his anger and his bounty: ‘Dearly beloved’, says a ritual from a church in Vienne in the south of France, ‘it has pleased God to afflict you with this disease, and the Lord is gracious for bringing punishment upon you for the evil that you have done in this world.’ The leper was then dragged out of the church by the priest and his acolytes gressu retrogrado but he was assured that he was God’s witness: ‘however removed from the church and the company of the saints, you are never separated from the grace of God’. Brueghel’s lepers watch from afar, but forever, as Christ climbs Mount Calvary accompanied by a whole people. Hieratic witnesses of evil, their salvation is assured by their exclusion: in a strange reversal quite opposed to merit and prayers, they are saved by the hand that is not offered. The sinner who abandons the leper to his fate thereby opens the door to his salvation. ‘Thus be patient in your sickness, for the Lord does not underestimate your ills, nor separate you from his company. If you have patience, so shall you be saved, like the leper who died outside the door of the rich man, and was carried straight up to Heaven.’ Abandonment is his salvation, and exclusion offers an unusual form of communion.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness, transl. Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa)

Understanding and Meeting Practitioner Needs When Measuring Representational Harms Caused by LLM-Based Systems
Emma Harvey, Emily Sheng, Su Lin Blodgett, Alexandra Chouldechova, Jean Garcia-Gathright, Alexandra Olteanu, Hanna Wallach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04482

Understanding and Meeting Practitioner Needs When Measuring Representational Harms Caused by LLM-Based Systems
The NLP research community has made publicly available numerous instruments for measuring representational harms caused by large language model (LLM)-based systems. These instruments have taken the form of datasets, metrics, tools, and more. In this paper, we examine the extent to which such instruments meet the needs of practitioners tasked with evaluating LLM-based systems. Via semi-structured interviews with 12 such practitioners, we find that practitioners are often unable to use publicly a…

#today attended TTK Energy Group meeting with some interesting run-on discussion about a community energy project. Now I am on my #research model stuff for the rest of the day...

“TNC is where it all comes to life.”

In this video message, our CEO Lise Fuhr shares excitement ahead of her very first TNC, and why this global gathering matters so much to our Research & Education community.

Watch her personal welcome message below, as we all get ready for next week’s #TNC25 in Brighton 🇬🇧

And if you’re not coming in person, don’t forget to g…

Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/21/uk-trees-burned-green-drax-power-station

Learning Steerable Imitation Controllers from Unstructured Animal Motions
Dongho Kang, Jin Cheng, Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Taerim Yoon, Sungjoon Choi, Stelian Coros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00677

Learning Steerable Imitation Controllers from Unstructured Animal Motions
This paper presents a control framework for legged robots that leverages unstructured real-world animal motion data to generate animal-like and user-steerable behaviors. Our framework learns to follow velocity commands while reproducing the diverse gait patterns in the original dataset. To begin with, animal motion data is transformed into a robot-compatible database using constrained inverse kinematics and model predictive control, bridging the morphological and physical gap between the animal…

The U.S. military B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the coordinated strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House
-- but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.
The White House confirmed to Military.com that those involved in the mission, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, were invited to the White House's July 4 celebration.
It follows comments mad…

Pilots Who Conducted Iran Strikes Invited to White House on July 4, Raising Security Concerns
The B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House, but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.

Trump said Monday that
he would impose additional sanctions on Russia
before a previously announced 50-day deadline
if Russia does not reach a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine.
Trump said the new deadline
would be in 10 to 12 days.
He made his comments during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Trump’s golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland.

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