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"‘Labour are the conservers’: Shadow secretary pledges to reverse nature degradation in UK"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

‘Labour are the conservers’: Shadow secretary pledges to reverse nature degradation in UK
Labour’s shadow environment secretary has stated that the Party would deliver on the UK’s commitment to protect at least 30% of the land and sea by 2030, in the same week that investors published new benchmarking tools to assess corporate approaches to nature and biodiversity.

For all AI sceptics:
ECG-AI alert in 16,000 hospitalized patients
31% reduction of mortality (absolute 7 per 100 patients) in pre-specified high-risk group
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02961-4

AI-enabled electrocardiography alert intervention and all-cause mortality: a pragmatic randomized clinical trial - Nature Medicine
In a randomized clinical trial, alerts based on the detection of abnormalities in electrocardiograms using a deep learning algorithm reduced all-cause mortality at 90 days in patients admitted to hospital emergency or internal medicine departments.

The Dimorphos ejecta plume properties revealed by LICIACube / Physical properties of asteroid Dimorphos as derived from the DART impact / Characterization of the DART Impact Ejecta Plume on #Dimorphos from #LICIACube Observations: #DART’s asteroid smashup reveal complex debris: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/analyzing-images-from-a-close-flyby-of-darts-asteroid-impact/ - a CubeSat trailed the DART asteroid impactor, capturing images of debris set loose.

Driven By Nature
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Driven By Nature | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Driven By Nature Hosts: Yanti Winoto-Lewin and Carla Bruinsma Category: Science Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, Nature First Episode: 2023 We interview people who are working to…

🐣 Ultrafast electronic relaxation pathways of the molecular photoswitch quadricyclane
#energy

Ultrafast electronic relaxation pathways of the molecular photoswitch quadricyclane - Nature Chemistry
Light-induced ultrafast switching between the molecular isomers norbornadiene and quadricyclane can reversibly store and release a substantial amount of chemical energy. Two competing pathways have now been identified by which electronically excited quadricyclane molecules relax to the electronic ground state, facilitating interconversion between the two isomers on different timescales.

De regering van het VK zal nooit kunnen accepteren dat de natuur rechten heeft!
Wat denken wij van het standpunt van de Nederlandse regering?Eb van dat van de volgende Nederlandse regering?#klimaatregelen

It's a very big elephant. And it’s not just energy. Generative AI systems need enormous amounts of fresh water…
#butitissomuchFUN

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret
First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.

There is no evidence that using social media is driving an epidemic of mental illness and blaming it can distract from effectively responding to the real causes (Candice L. Odgers/Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.

Excited to share our new research findings for #Lexicography and #LanguageLearning! Our study in HSScomms shows that CEFR levels predict user interest in dictionary entries, even in the presence of previously known predictors.
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"‘Labour are the conservers’: Shadow secretary pledges to reverse nature degradation in UK"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

‘Labour are the conservers’: Shadow secretary pledges to reverse nature degradation in UK
Labour’s shadow environment secretary has stated that the Party would deliver on the UK’s commitment to protect at least 30% of the land and sea by 2030, in the same week that investors published new benchmarking tools to assess corporate approaches to nature and biodiversity.

«Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be [probably are already in] in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.» | Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.

This after-second-year male Orchard Oriole seems to be tuning up for the Olympics.
From this morning, in Riley County KS
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Birds

Good morning friends!
Happy 1st of May. Time for a new #calendar sheet. Now we see the Falls of Dochart, #Scotland for a month on our walls.
Enjoy your day!
#FallsOfDochart

As long as the heterosexuals pretend things are crimes against nature, nature is gonna do a whole lot of those crimes.
#whales

TIL: UK hat eine wilde Wallaby Population
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/wallabies-in-uk

Standard walk from the central tourist area of Kyōto to the World Heritage temple Kiyomizudera. Everywhere is verdant after much rain since March or earlier, and this was a clear day in late April. See details in the captions.
#travel #nature

Comparing this year's #inaturalist city nature challenge with that of 2017. Incredible increases in participation and observations. This is only the second and a half day of observations of the challenge and already there are 14,100 observations whereas in 2017 at the end they were less than 4,000.

The goals for the share of Dutch nature with #nitrogen deposition below the critical level (green dots) and the forecasted effect of current measures (dashed line). We're not doing enough for #biodiversity.

Stikstof- en natuurpakket kabinet zet weinig zoden aan de dijk
Het halen van de stikstofdoelen in 2030 ligt ver buiten bereik. Het uitkopen van boeren en maatregelen om de natuur te herstellen helpt naar verwachting maar mondjesmaat om de stikstofuitstoot in de buurt van kwetsbare natuurgebieden te verminderen. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van drie onafhankelijke instanties.

Hover Flies (various species), Nov, 2023-Jan 2024. Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. #laarboretum #naturephotography #nature

nouvel outil de formation développé par l'équipe de #PrescriNature.
Au Québec soutien : Collège des médecins du Québec, l'Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec, la FMOQ - Fédération des médecins omnipraticiens du Québec, l'Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec, l'Ordre professionnel de la physiothérapie du Québec (OPPQ), la Fédération des kinésiologues du Québec et l'Or…

«Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be [probably are already in] in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.» | Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.

"New EU nature law will fail without farmers, scientists warn"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Farming

Nature is kicking my ass today.
Does anyone have a clean room that I can live in for 3-5 months please?

Bad news for aeropress owners. Polypropylene releases microplastics, particularly when heated: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-00171-y

Microplastic release from the degradation of polypropylene feeding bottles during infant formula preparation - Nature Food
Polypropylene-based food containers are utilized widely, but their potential to degrade and produce microplastics is poorly understood. Here, microplastics released from formula preparation procedures in polypropylene feeding bottles are quantified, demonstrating the potential for global infant exposure to microplastics.

Throwing some things out here that might be naive. Oh well. Why don't some democratically minded billionaires fight rightwing billionaires? Is it because billionaires by their very nature are all anti-democratic? I heard of one once that wasn't, but one hardly stands a chance against many with the same economic power among them. Why though would many others cede power and money to one, two, or a few? A coalition could quickly end preeminant power of a billionaire. They should.
…

Nightside clouds and disequilibrium chemistry on the hot Jupiter WASP-43b / Two-Dimensional Eclipse Mapping of the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b with JWST MIRI/LRS: #exoplanet WASP-43b - high temperatures and extreme wind speeds influence the chemistry inside the planet’s atmosphere: https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2024-07-jwst-wasp43b and https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-117 and https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-maps-weather-on-planet-280-light-years-away/

Just found Video and resulting #photo and thought it might be worth sharing with you.
#nature #naturephotography

The Nature of X-Rays from Young Stellar Objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster -- A Chandra HETGS Legacy Project
Norbert S. Schulz, David P. Huenemoerder, David A. Principe, Marc Gagne, Hans Moritz G\"unther, Joel Kastner, Joy Nichols, Andrew Pollock, Thomas Preibisch, Paola Testa, Fabio Reale, Fabio Favata, Claude R. Canizares
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The Nature of X-Rays from Young Stellar Objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster -- A Chandra HETGS Legacy Project
The Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is the closest site of very young ($\sim$ 1 Myrs) massive star formation. The ONC hosts more than 1600 young and X-ray bright stars with masses ranging from $\sim$ 0.1 to 35 $M_\odot$. The Chandra HETGS Orion Legacy Project observed the ONC with the Chandra high energy transmission grating spectrometer (HETGS) for $2.1\,$Ms. We describe the spectral extraction and cleaning processes necessary to separate overlapping spectra. We obtained 36 high resolution spectra …

"Special thanks to my family, my friends, my teachers, and all elements of nature, especially water."

Great passage from the Preface to Chirimuuta's book:
> 'To present my argument in a neat and tidy package that masks ... my own efforts to grapple with the complexity of the subject matter, to conform to the intellectual/aesthetic standard conditioned by a multigenerational conceit that nature is simple and truths clearly expressible ... would, I submit, be self-undermining... science, as we know it, is founded on an essentially theological belief in the rational intelligibil…

Is there a specific math term for numbers in the open interval (-1, 0)? 🤔 🤓
PS: There isn't anything deep about the interval, nature of numbers, etc. The numbers are just values of proper fractions. Exclude irrational numbers if you like but it doesn't matter unless it makes a difference for terminology, in that case please include that detail. 🙏🏽
I'm NOT a mathematician but have reasons to pose this question.

The nature of compact radio-loud AGN: a systematic look at the LOFAR AGN population
J. Chilufya, M. J. Hardcastle, J. C. S. Pierce, J. H. Croston, B. Mingo, X. Zheng, R. D. Baldi, H. J. A. R\"ottgering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19424

The nature of compact radio-loud AGN: a systematic look at the LOFAR AGN population
We investigate the nature of low-luminosity radio-loud active galactic nuclei (RLAGN) selected from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) first data release (DR1). Using optical, mid-infrared, and radio data, we have conservatively selected 55 radiative AGN candidates from DR1 within the redshift range $0.03$$1-3$ kpc, 42 are compact at the li…

EU nature restoration laws face collapse as member states withdraw support | European Union | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/eu-nature-restoration-laws-in-balance-as-member-states-with…

Worth a read
From: @…
https://bird.makeup/users/jonhaidt/statuses/1774571680511508601

Jonathan Haidt
A review in Nature, by @candice_odgers, asserts that I have mistaken correlation for causation and that “there is no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children’s brains or driving an epidemic of mental illness.” Both of these assertions are untrue. https://t.co/NNEKAA1UcH @zachmrausch and I have been collecting the published studies on both sides since 2019, organizing them, and making them available for public viewing and commenting, in multiple Google docs available here…

It's encouraging to see even a snippet of good news in the morning: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/25/rewilding-climate-change-biodiversity-isabella-tree-nature-planet-farming…

It's encouraging to see even a snippet of good news in the morning: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/25/rewilding-climate-change-biodiversity-isabella-tree-nature-planet-farming…

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06083-8

Safe and just Earth system boundaries - Nature
We find that justice considerations constrain the integrated Earth system boundaries more than safety considerations for climate and atmospheric aerosol loading, and our assessment provides a foundation for safeguarding the global commons for all people.

The whole XZ backdoor discovery is something else, woof. A completely fluke discovery, it could have been much worse. And who is to say there aren't backdoors of similar nature introduced or in the works. Software security is sssssssooooo daaaaaamn haaaard. And attacker by nature has all the advantages. They just need to find a weak gap out of million of gaps that exist out there... sigh

Woman single-handedly ends global warming by rewilding 3500 acres in Sussex. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/25/rewilding-climate-change-biodiversity-isabella-tree-nature-planet-farming…

Sounds good but you won't do that with a "growth first" approach.
Labour says UK nature under threat and pledges to halt decline | Green politics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

VoroTO: Multiscale Topology Optimization of Voronoi Structures using Surrogate Neural Networks
Rahul Kumar Padhy, Krishnan Suresh, Aaditya Chandrasekhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18300

VoroTO: Multiscale Topology Optimization of Voronoi Structures using Surrogate Neural Networks
Cellular structures found in nature exhibit remarkable properties such as high strength, high energy absorption, excellent thermal/acoustic insulation, and fluid transfusion. Many of these structures are Voronoi-like; therefore researchers have proposed Voronoi multi-scale designs for a wide variety of engineering applications. However, designing such structures can be computationally prohibitive due to the multi-scale nature of the underlying analysis and optimization. In this work, we propose…

Researchers are concerned about the secrecy around the #Neuralink brain chip device’s safety and performance.
The company is “only sharing the bits that they want us to know about”, says Sameer Sheth, a neurosurgeon specializing in implanted neurotechnology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. “There’s a lot of concern in the community about that.”

Neuralink brain chip: advance sparks safety and secrecy concerns
Elon Musk announced this week that his company’s brain implant has allowed a person to move a computer mouse with their mind.

Seit dem späten Pleistozän sind mindestens 12% aller #Vogelarten ausgestorben, hauptsächlich durch menschliche Einflüsse wie #Jagd, #Landnutzung und invasive Arten. Besonders betroffen ist der

Undiscovered bird extinctions obscure the true magnitude of human-driven extinction waves - Nature Communications
The true number of human-driven bird extinctions is likely larger than we think. Here, the authors combine recorded extinctions with estimates from the fossil record to suggest that ~1400 bird species have gone extinct since the Late Pleistocene.

It is hard these days to articulate the nature of the right-wing threat in the US, because simply stating facts makes you sound like you’re making it up. But you’re not.
From @…: https://<…

(This is interesting because one interpretation of #Rongorongo is that the glyphs are celestial navigation instructions.) The invention of writing on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - New radiocarbon dates on the Rongorongo script: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53063-7 -> Rapa Nui’s Rongorongo Tablets in Rome Radiocarbon Dated: https://www.archaeology.org/news/12151-240212-rongorongo-tablet-glyph

That's quite a statement. From a study about climate-neutral aviation. (Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39749-y )

How to make climate-neutral aviation fly - Nature Communications
Europe’s aviation must reduce more than just flight CO2 emissions to achieve net-zero. Synthetic fuels and carbon capture and storage could help but decreasing air traffic is crucial due to non-CO2 climate impacts and resource constraints.

The ‘Mother Tree’ idea is everywhere — but how much of it is real?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00893-0

Altered grid-like coding in early blind people https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47747-x Early blind people have a square grid map instead of a hexagonal grid map for navigation in their entorhinal cortex;

Altered grid-like coding in early blind people - Nature Communications
The contribution of visual experience to the formation of cognitive maps in humans is not well understood. Here, the authors show using fMRI and an imagined navigation paradigm, that sighted people display hexagonal grid-like neural coding, while blind people show neural representations consistent with a square grid.

The Cantril Ladder elicits thoughts about power and wealth
#publicopinion

The Cantril Ladder elicits thoughts about power and wealth - Scientific Reports
The Cantril Ladder is among the most widely administered subjective well-being measures; every year, it is collected in 140+ countries in the Gallup World Poll and reported in the World Happiness Report. The measure asks respondents to evaluate their lives on a ladder from worst (bottom) to best (top). Prior work found Cantril Ladder scores sensitive to social comparison and to reflect one’s relative position in the income distribution. To understand this, we explored how respondents interp…

Nice piece, it's a difficult balance for scientists we are supposed to write impersonally, but does language we employ blunt message?
https://spore.social/@rewildingmag/112007046787772384
@…

Researchers have a lot to learn about how tiny turbulent motions mix ocean layers of different densities, salinities, and chemical makeups in shallow bays and other waterbodies. “This study shows that it definitely happens and can be of importance"
Anchovy Sex Is a Force of Nature | Hakai Magazine
https://<…

Anchovy Sex Is a Force of Nature | Hakai Magazine
It’s not the size of the fish that counts, it’s the motion of the ocean.

Spring is my favorite time of year, when my garden comes alive with spring ephemerals. A great article by Dana Milbank.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/26/ephemeral-flowers-spring-aging-nature/

This tiny flower teaches us all we need to know about growing old
What I have been watching for years was spring as humans made it. This year, I’m experiencing spring as God made it.

“The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.

Neues E-Schiff "MS Adler Nature" in Hamburg vorgestellt
Seit Mittwoch und noch bis Freitag liegt an den Hamburger Landungsbrücken die neue rein elektrische Fahrgastfähre "MS Adler Nature" der zwei Reedereien Prüsse und Adler-Schiffe.
https://www.

Neues E-Schiff "MS Adler Nature" in Hamburg vorgestellt
Seit Mittwoch und noch bis Freitag liegt an den Hamburger Landungsbrücken die neue rein elektrische Fahrgastfähre "MS Adler Nature" der zwei Reedereien Prüsse und Adler-Schiffe.

Interesting article from Kate Crawford for #nature on energy use by #GenAI: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret
First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.

How Carl Linnaeus Set Out to Label All of Life
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/21/the-man-who-organized-nature-the-life-of-linnaeus-gunnar-broberg-book-review

Prototype-based Interpretable Breast Cancer Prediction Models: Analysis and Challenges
Shreyasi Pathak, J\"org Schl\"otterer, Jeroen Veltman, Jeroen Geerdink, Maurice van Keulen, Christin Seifert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20260

Prototype-based Interpretable Breast Cancer Prediction Models: Analysis and Challenges
Deep learning models have achieved high performance in medical applications, however, their adoption in clinical practice is hindered due to their black-box nature. Self-explainable models, like prototype-based models, can be especially beneficial as they are interpretable by design. However, if the learnt prototypes are of low quality then the prototype-based models are as good as black-box. Having high quality prototypes is a pre-requisite for a truly interpretable model. In this work, we pro…

Rainy Day in New York City!
When it rains in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, the people disappear, and nature comes back to life!
Photos by our @…
#Photography #NewYork

TimeXer: Empowering Transformers for Time Series Forecasting with Exogenous Variables
Yuxuan Wang, Haixu Wu, Jiaxiang Dong, Yong Liu, Yunzhong Qiu, Haoran Zhang, Jianmin Wang, Mingsheng Long
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19072

TimeXer: Empowering Transformers for Time Series Forecasting with Exogenous Variables
Recent studies have demonstrated remarkable performance in time series forecasting. However, due to the partially-observed nature of real-world applications, solely focusing on the target of interest, so-called endogenous variables, is usually insufficient to guarantee accurate forecasting. Notably, a system is often recorded into multiple variables, where the exogenous series can provide valuable external information for endogenous variables. Thus, unlike prior well-established multivariate or…

I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille.
Female Northern Cardinal in the backyard today, near Manhattan KS
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Birds

Ĉar la klimato de la Tero varmiĝas, la glacio ĉe la polusoj fandiĝas, kio vice transdonas mason de akvo al la ekvatoro, kaj do la rotacio de la Tero malrapidiĝas; fakte sufiĉe ke ni eble devos perdi sekundon iam. Ni scias kiel toleri supersekundojn - ni faris tion antaŭe kelkfoje - sed ni neniam devis faligi sekundon.
https://www.…

Throwing some things out here that might be naive. Oh well. Why don't some democratically minded billionaires fight rightwing billionaires? Is it because billionaires by their very nature are all anti-democratic? I heard of one once that wasn't, but one hardly stands a chance against many with the same economic power among them. Why though would many others cede power and money to one, two, or a few? A coalition could quickly end preeminant power of a billionaire. They should.
…

"Nature destruction will cause bigger economic slump in UK than 2008 crisis, experts warn"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

AI & beer 😃 (no LLMs involved)
#ai #beer

Predicting and improving complex beer flavor through machine learning - Nature Communications
Perception and appreciation of food flavour depends on many factors, posing a challenge for effective prediction. Here, the authors combine extensive chemical and sensory analyses of 250 commercial Belgian beers to train machine learning models that enable flavour and consumer appreciation prediction.

The Cantril Ladder elicits thoughts about power and wealth
#publicopinion

The Cantril Ladder elicits thoughts about power and wealth - Scientific Reports
The Cantril Ladder is among the most widely administered subjective well-being measures; every year, it is collected in 140+ countries in the Gallup World Poll and reported in the World Happiness Report. The measure asks respondents to evaluate their lives on a ladder from worst (bottom) to best (top). Prior work found Cantril Ladder scores sensitive to social comparison and to reflect one’s relative position in the income distribution. To understand this, we explored how respondents interp…

"Nature destruction will cause bigger economic slump in UK than 2008 crisis, experts warn"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

An environmental analysis of public #UAP sightings and #sky view potential: #UFOs: https://www.newswise.com/articles/the-west-is-best-to-spot-ufos - researchers identified environmental factors that explain why reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena are more common in certain regions of the country.

(Not sure what the appropriate comment is - but this is a good thing)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/27/yorkshire-estate-known-as-worlds-first-nature-r…

(Not sure what the appropriate comment is - but this is a good thing)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/27/yorkshire-estate-known-as-worlds-first-nature-r…

It is hard these days to articulate the nature of the right-wing threat in the US, because simply stating facts makes you sound like you’re making it up. But you’re not.
From @…: https://<…

Bird of the Day — Bald Eagle, Kansas 2024
Video was slightly too large to post here, so here's a link
#Nature

via @…
Nature Inspired Methods for Optimization using the Julia programming language
#rabbitholewarning
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/niobook/

Our Nature commentary on the need for explicit AI energy and emissions scenarios, out this past Monday. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01137-x

Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?
As artificial intelligence transforms the global economy, researchers need to explore scenarios to assess how it can help, rather than harm, the climate.

We show here that a significant increase in SARS-CoV-2 aerostability results from a moderate increase in the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (e.g. 800 ppm),
an effect that is more marked than that observed for changes in relative humidity.
We model the likelihood of COVID-19 transmission on the ambient concentration of CO2,
concluding that even this moderate increase in CO2 concentration results in a significant increase in overall risk.
These observations …

Ambient carbon dioxide concentration correlates with SARS-CoV-2 aerostability and infection risk - Nature Communications
Carbon dioxide concentration has previously been used as a proxy for overall ventilation efficiency to indirectly estimate the risk of indoor SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Here, authors investigate whether the concentration of carbon dioxide also has a direct mechanistic role in improving transmission efficiency.

Hi friends! I'm just back from a beautiful #hike in the #karwendel. My wife chose a trail to a hut that isn't open yet. So there weren't a lot of people on the trail. It was as windy as the last days. But we had a great time again. My legs are a bit sore from yesterday but well enough fo…

H2RSVLM: Towards Helpful and Honest Remote Sensing Large Vision Language Model
Chao Pang, Jiang Wu, Jiayu Li, Yi Liu, Jiaxing Sun, Weijia Li, Xingxing Weng, Shuai Wang, Litong Feng, Gui-Song Xia, Conghui He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20213

H2RSVLM: Towards Helpful and Honest Remote Sensing Large Vision Language Model
The generic large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is rapidly developing, but still perform poorly in Remote Sensing (RS) domain, which is due to the unique and specialized nature of RS imagery and the comparatively limited spatial perception of current VLMs. Existing Remote Sensing specific Vision Language Models (RSVLMs) still have considerable potential for improvement, primarily owing to the lack of large-scale, high-quality RS vision-language datasets. We constructed HqDC-1.4M, the large scal…

Visual modulation of auditory evoked potentials in the cat https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-57075-1

Visual modulation of auditory evoked potentials in the cat - Scientific Reports
Visual modulation of the auditory system is not only a neural substrate for multisensory processing, but also serves as a backup input underlying cross-modal plasticity in deaf individuals. Event-related potential (ERP) studies in humans have provided evidence of a multiple-stage audiovisual interactions, ranging from tens to hundreds of milliseconds after the presentation of stimuli. However, it is still unknown if the temporal course of visual modulation in the auditory ERPs can be characteri…

Precision nutrition to reset virus-induced human metabolic reprogramming and dysregulation (HMRD) in long-COVID - npj Science of Food
“SARS‐CoV‐2, the etiological agent of COVID-19, is devoid of any metabolic capacity; therefore, it is critical for the viral pathogen to hijack host cellular metabolic machinery for its replication and propagation. “

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10255 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Privacy-Preserving Training-as-a-Service for On-Device Intelligence: Concept, Architectural Scheme, and Open Problems
On-device intelligence (ODI) enables artificial intelligence (AI) applications to run on end devices, providing real-time and customized AI services without relying on remote servers. However, training models for on-device deployment face significant challenges due to the decentralized and privacy-sensitive nature of users' data, along with end-side constraints related to network connectivity, computation efficiency, etc. Existing training paradigms, such as cloud-based training, federated lear…

Bird of the Day — Bald Eagle, Kansas 2024
Video was slightly too large to post here, so here's a link
#Nature

via @…
Nature Inspired Methods for Optimization using the Julia programming language
#rabbitholewarning
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/niobook/

Hi friends! I'm just back from a beautiful #hike in the #karwendel. My wife chose a trail to a hut that isn't open yet. So there weren't a lot of people on the trail. It was as windy as the last days. But we had a great time again. My legs are a bit sore from yesterday but well enough fo…

🗼 3D-printed “metamaterial” is stronger than anything in nature
#materials

3D-printed “metamaterial” is stronger than anything in nature
Australian scientists used an advanced 3D printing technique to create a super strong, super lightweight new “metamaterial.”

Clouds dissipate quickly during #SolarEclipses as the land surface cools: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01213-0 -> Clouds disappear quickly during solar eclipse: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2024/citg/clouds-disappear-quickly-during-solar-eclipse -> Eclipse Cloud Study Has Worrying Implications For Attempts At Climate Engineering: https://www.iflscience.com/eclipse-cloud-study-has-worrying-implications-for-attempts-at-climate-engineering-73131 - attempts to engineer the planet's climate could have the opposite effect to the one intended.

Motion Inversion for Video Customization
Luozhou Wang, Guibao Shen, Yixun Liang, Xin Tao, Pengfei Wan, Di Zhang, Yijun Li, Yingcong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20193

Motion Inversion for Video Customization
In this research, we present a novel approach to motion customization in video generation, addressing the widespread gap in the thorough exploration of motion representation within video generative models. Recognizing the unique challenges posed by video's spatiotemporal nature, our method introduces Motion Embeddings, a set of explicit, temporally coherent one-dimensional embeddings derived from a given video. These embeddings are designed to integrate seamlessly with the temporal transformer …

"Colombia vows to put nature at the heart of global environmental negotiations"
#Colombia #Environment #Conservation

Super-Earth LHS3844b is Tidally Locked: #planet confirmed to have a permanent dark side: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00414-z - convincing evidence of 1:1 tidal locking has been absent until a new analysis of the exoplanet LHS 3855b.

🎈 Understanding climate warming impacts on carbon release from the tundra
#climate <…

Understanding climate warming impacts on carbon release from the tundra
The warming climate shifts the dynamics of tundra environments and makes them release trapped carbon, according to a new study published in Nature. These changes could transform tundras from carbon sinks into carbon sources, exacerbating the effects of climate change.

I posted this one recently already but I had to think about it when I read the #FotoVorschlag
"A wie..." Alpen?
So please excuse me for posting again.
The photo was taken when Sahara dust was blown over the alps. That caused the orange sky.
#nature

"EU nature restoration laws face collapse as member states withdraw support"
#Europe #EuropeanUnion #Environment

🎈 Understanding climate warming impacts on carbon release from the tundra
#climate <…

Understanding climate warming impacts on carbon release from the tundra
The warming climate shifts the dynamics of tundra environments and makes them release trapped carbon, according to a new study published in Nature. These changes could transform tundras from carbon sinks into carbon sources, exacerbating the effects of climate change.

I posted this one recently already but I had to think about it when I read the #FotoVorschlag
"A wie..." Alpen?
So please excuse me for posting again.
The photo was taken when Sahara dust was blown over the alps. That caused the orange sky.
#nature

"Australia must lead the world on nature restoration through ambitious interpretation of international law"
#Australia #Nature #Environment

Australia must lead the world on nature restoration through ambitious interpretation of international law
Australia committed to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030 when we signed the global biodiversity framework. But what does that really mean? It’s open to interpretation. So let’s be ambitious.

💧 The Waning Reign of the Wetland Architect We Barely Know (Hint: Not a Beaver)
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-magnificent-lives-and-quiet-loss-of-muskrats/

The Waning Reign of the Wetland Architect We Barely Know (Hint: Not a Beaver) | Hakai Magazine
Little-appreciated, semiaquatic, and cute-as-hell, muskrats can survive almost anywhere. So where are they?

Physical properties of asteroid #Dimorphos as derived from the #DART impact: #asteroid didn’t just leave a dent – it reshaped the space rock: https://theconversation.com/a-nasa-mission-that-collided-with-an-asteroid-didnt-just-leave-a-dent-it-reshaped-the-space-rock-224318

Hey friends! Here's the summit-view of the hike that I described in the last posts.
I'm so glad that I took this #photo as I had almost forgotten about the whole #hiking trip. Now I'm eager again to go out and have such a view up to the

Late-April Solitude: A Solo Alpine Journey
In the quiet majesty of a late-April solo hike, the mountain landscape revealed a subtle beauty in transition. The snow-covered peaks, the muted hues of transitioning grass, and the dance of light and shadow became a testament to the unfiltered allure of nature awakening from its winter slumber.

"WWF urges policymakers to restore nature at scale this decade"
#WWF #Environment #Nature

WWF urges policymakers to restore nature at scale this decade
WWF has launched its 2024 manifesto, calling to halt species decline and restore nature by 2030, as the UK's natural environment remains at risk of irreversible decline due to the lack urgent political action.

"World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts"
#Nature #Environment