Tootfinder

Gesundheitswesen: Fintech-Unternehmer über Sicherheit, Skepsis bei EU-ID & mehr
Das Start-up Nelly legt sich als zusätzliche Software-Schicht um das Praxisverwaltungssystem und will unter anderem Aufnahme und Abrechnung erleichtern.

🎶 TweetyBERT parses canary songs to better understand how brains learn language
#birds

TweetyBERT parses canary songs to better understand how brains learn language
A new machine learning model, TweetyBERT, automatically segments and classifies canary vocalizations with expert-level accuracy, offering a scalable platform for neuroscience, providing insights into the neural basis of how the brain learns and produces language, and offering potential applications for understanding animal vocalization more broadly. The study by University of Oregon researchers appears in the journal Patterns.

Sunscreen produces persistent free radicals when exposed to light, study finds #environment

Sunscreen produces persistent free radicals when exposed to light, study finds
Research from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences explores how common sunscreen ingredients behave under light exposure. Led by associate professor Eric Vejerano, the team tested seven commercially available sunscreens (including four mineral-based formulas) and found that every sample produced persistent free radicals (PFRs) when exposed to artificial light. The study, published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, provides new insight into sunscreen photochemistry and ma…

#Antifa Das #Kontext-Projekt "Recherche gegen Rechts" beleuchtet rechtsextreme Netzwerke im Südwesten. Dazu gibt die Redaktion eine Broschüre heraus, die ab sofort erhältlich ist. Am 1. März stellen beteiligte Autor:innen die neue Publikation im Stuttgarter Café Merlin vor.

Recherche gegen Rechts – Broschüre zum Projekt: Unter die Lupe genommen
Die Kontext-Redaktion gibt zum Projekt "Recherche gegen Rechts" eine Broschüre mit den Ergebnissen heraus. Am 1. März wird sie im Merlin präsentiert.

Talks kick off Monday between U.S. and Mexican trade officials.
The North American economies could agree to renew the
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,
or USMCA as it is for another 16 years
— a prospect that appears unlikely.
Or they could keep working on ways to improve it;
Under a convoluted renewal process, they have until 2036 to reach an agreement
Much of this bustling cross-border commerce is duty-free, thanks to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that Do…

Tricky negotiations begin Monday to renew a trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada — The Associated Press
Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico – U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup.

Bürokratieabbau ist kein Problem. Umweltschutzauflagen sind kein Problem - sie lassen sich planen, vorbereiten und sauber in Projekte eintakten.
Politik mit difuser Haltung und Entscheidungsschwächen sind ein schwer planbarer Grund für Projektverzug und eine Herausforderung für #Planungsbeschleunigung
Übrigens nicht nur in Berlin mit der CDU, wie hier von

Reformstau Mobilitätswende: Magnetschwebephantasien zum Schutz von Parkplätzen - Recht energisch
Unter Verwal­tungs­ju­risten ist es ein beliebtes Thema, sich über die Blockade von Infra­struk­tur­pro­jekten durch seltene Tier- und Pflan­zen­arten lustig zu […]

Didn’t think the end of western civilization would happen because a career criminal doesn’t understand Mercator projection but here we are

1/n Ours is a Federal system in which there are distinct, but partially overlapping, sovereignties, each supreme in its sphere.
It has long been held that "police powers" are the realm of the state's supreme role. Indeed we see this when the Federal government could not even prosecute murders of protesters during the '60s//70's and had to resort to prosecutions based on Federal power (under 14th amendment) to enforce civil rights.
Here we have a gang of goo…

The English in this article is so poor, there are several paragraphs I had to read several times to get any sense out of them. AI or the four(!) reporters named? Interesting topic, but nothing much added in this piece.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/politic…

Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome
The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting spies, diplomats and troops that are colloquially known as Havana Syndrome, according to four sources briefed on the matter.

SNF (Switzerland) restrictions proposed: only 1 concurrent research grant per PI (plus maybe one coop), only 1 proposal per year.
🔥 Hot take (since I'm not at all operating like this currently): I actually think this might be a good idea? It would curb some of the biggest "research mills", where one PI has a huge pyramid scheme underneath them, and might encourage more careful grant proposals, slower science. And might even put more emphasis back into the basic research funding (instead of the grant lotteries)?
(Maybe naive, I know, and I have no idea how this would be implemented)
#academicChatter #researchGrants
https://www.snf.ch/de/7qymWfJMG1z9XR2S/news/einschraenkungen-in-der-projektfoerderung