Tootfinder

"Scaling ORCID Adoption: Technical and Organizational Approaches Within a Research Organization"
#ORCID iD use…

Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M context window (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/

Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory

Iran Update, February 3, 2026 | ISW
#iran

Iran Update, February 3, 2026
Iran conducted two probing operations against the US Navy in the Persian Gulf, likely designed to test US Navy defensive reactions.

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

Four Nieman Fellow alumni discuss the potential of AI in journalism, offering varied opinions on its value for writing, sorting data, creating images, and more (Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/ai-research-risks-journalism-ar…

Journalism at an AI Inflection Point - Nieman Reports
As artificial intelligence moves into newsrooms, four Nieman Fellows weigh in on the technology’s promise, limits, and risks.

Research Notebook === Religion, Lineages & Race https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20139802/research-notebook-religion-lineages-race

For fellow art-poetry nerds/lovers, Édouard Glissant’s art collection is coming to New York.
https://www.cara-nyc.org/program/exhibitions/the-earth-the-fire-the-water-and-the-winds-for-a-museum-of-errantr…

🤮 The ups and downs of space research
#space

The ups and downs of space research
Microgravity experienced during spaceflight poses potential health risks to astronauts' cardiovascular systems. Determining how to mitigate these health risks is challenging, as countermeasures are tested in Earth's gravity. But what if there was a way to perform research in microgravity, without leaving the atmosphere?

The dulling of America’s scientific edge
The Trump administration has canceled or frozen billions of dollars for research,
often based on politically triggering keywords such as “gender,” “bias” or “climate science.”
It also mounted pressure campaigns on universities to micromanage their curriculums and crack down on campus protests.
At the height of the slash-and-burn tactics, one survey found that 75 percent of American researchers were so frustrated that they we…

The dulling of America’s scientific edge
U.S. researchers are increasingly looking to do their work abroad.

The director of IBM's Research Lab has some bold takes on the future of computation.
We're on the cusp of two simultaneous technological revolutions - #AI and #quantum - that will fundamentally change how the world uses computers to solve difficult problems.
There have only been two c…

IBM predicts a computation revolution
Quantum and AI are ushering in a whole new range of algorithmic possibilities, says IBM’s research lead.

Det är verkligen inte starka bevis här men som artikeln skriver
"Masturbation is free, relatively easy and, for most women, enjoyable."
Does masturbating really help menopause symptoms? New research says yes https://theconversation.com/does-mastu

Does masturbating really help menopause symptoms? New research says yes
Trouble sleeping? Feeling irritable or bloated? A new study suggests masturbating might help you through the menopause.

It’s time to celebrate the people behind our community 🏆
Nominations for the 2026 GÉANT Community Award are open, and we need your help to recognise individuals across our global #Research & #Education networking community whose work made a real impact.
Know someone like this? Then be s…

General Bibliography - General public bibliography for EOU and related research. #bibliography #dataset - https://m.earth.org.uk/bibli…

General Bibliography
General public bibliography for EOU and related research. #bibliography #dataset

"At least 8,000 illegal waste sites in UK, research suggests"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21720-0 "Tactile sensory substitution, like auditory substitution, effectively compensates for lost vision by engaging cross-modal r…

Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted - Scientific Reports
This study investigates the effectiveness of a vibrotactile bracelet in supporting goal-directed hand movements and grasping tasks for visually conditioned individuals. The research addresses the challenge of object manipulation without visual feedback, comparing tactile to auditory cues. The primary research question explores whether vibrotactile signals delivered via a wrist-worn device can accurately guide hand movements and improve grasping precision. Forty-one participants with varying deg…

Research: Predator spyware can turn off Apple indicators showing when microphone, camera are in use https://therecord.media/predator-spyware-iphone-camera-microphone-indicators

American Science, Shattered: A young researcher's dashed hopes | STAT https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/research-cut-impacts-early-career-scientists-american-science-shattered-series/

Working with monkeys was this lab tech’s dream job. Now she’s staffing an IT help desk
Trump’s reshaping of science has fueled fears researchers will leave the U.S. This lab tech's story shows it can drive people out of science altogether.

Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1996034522308026435

steve hsu (@hsu_steve) on X
I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics research paper itself (on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics) has been published in Physics Letters B. I've written an

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116011754710793421
Microsoft Research has similar studies. Using AI assistants hinders your acquisition of skills and is not even improving productivity. Surely we just have to do more of it, right?

I wrote a blog post about the often stated but never explained assumption that communities in graphs should always be connected.
This “connected cluster axiom” is inconsistent with statistical significance and null models that underlie the most widely employed methods.
https://skewed.de/lab/posts/connected-

Sleeping on the job used to be frowned upon.
But a Pew Research Center survey found that 34% of Americans take daily naps.
According to experts, 30 minutes or less of catnapping can “restore alertness, enhance performance and reduce mistakes and accidents” in the workplace.
In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy caught some extra z’s in early afternoon to keep up his stride.
And NASA pilots take in-flight naps as short as 26 minutes to enhance performance and alertn…

Midday Power Naps: 7 Reasons To Sleep On The Job In 2025
Scientific-backed research shows that midday power naps at work can be a game changer in your mental alertness, energy and productivity—even the company's bottom line.

Some positive signs for AI coding tools. Claude-code is a $1B run rate product six month after launch. The latest Claude Opus 4.5 model is several times cheaper and faster than last month’s version and uses about a quarter of the number of tokens to get work done. My own benchmark saw over an hour of coding reduced to 17 minutes. The high rate of change continues. The boundary of what does/doesn’t work is pushing back fast.

Anthropic acquires Bun as Claude Code reaches $1B milestone
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Resources to Learn More About the Ukrainian/Russian Conflict
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Hi1pOYSjJ1umb72CTNzvJ7e4wfhEfk1Hn3AxjGE4go/edit?tab=t.0

from my link log —
OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system.
https://openalex.org/
saved 2026-01-02 https://dotat.at/:/625XE.html

🚀 Auf unserer Culture Knowledge Base ist kürzlich die 20. Handreichung erschienen!

In "Social-Media-Forschung zu Rechtsextremismus und Demokratie: Bestandsaufnahme, Leitlinien und infrastrukturelle Bedarfe (2025)" sammelte Vincent Fröhlich im Rahmen der Eventreihe "Show & Tell – Social Media-Daten in der Forschungspraxis" Antworten von drei Projekten auf sieben Leitfragen des Arbeitskreises „Social Media-Daten“, welche systematisch ausgewertet wurden.

For research purposes, literally
I wanna know how I look like when I turn my alarm clock off while still half sleeping

Hi #Linux team - any recommendations for a work desktop computer with the following requirements:

• can do basic research stuff (reading, writing) and also a little bit of basic data analysis (with python or Matlab)
• would run a distribution like #ZorinOS or Mint
• with a Max…

Computing | Laptops, Tablets, Desktops, Servers and Computing Accessories
Shop our latest range of devices and accessories: Laptops, Tablets, Desktops, Servers and Computing Accessories. All from Insight UK.

Well THAT'S fun!
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/massive-climate-induced-earthquakes

Creative Flourishing
Dives into the latest creative arts research and practice and asks how engaging with this might aid in human flourishing and have a positive impact upon our wellbeing...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/creati

lol. Someone on reddit called me dumb for not knowing the exact kw charge rate I would get at a supercharger my first time trying it based on the outside temperature, battery temperature, and start charge.
"did you do ANY research?"
lol. yeah buddy I did a bunch.
#ev #leaf

Hochul - With Her Best Ever Favorability Rating, 49-40% - Continues to Hold Commanding Leads Over Blakeman (54-28%) & Among Dems, Delgado (64-11%) (Siena Research Institute)
https://sri.siena.edu/2026/02/03/hochul-with-her-best-ever-favorability-rating-49-40-continues-to-hold-commanding-leads-over-blakeman-54-28-among-dems-delgado-64-11/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p110#a260203p110

Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds #Africa

Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds
New research warns that Africa's forests, once vital allies in the fight against climate change, have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source.

General Bibliography - General public bibliography for EOU and related research. #bibliography #dataset - https://m.earth.o…

General Bibliography
General public bibliography for EOU and related research. #bibliography #dataset

"Literature in Context evolved from two independent projects, one by John O’Brien at The University of Virginia, and one by Tonya Howe, at Marymount University. O’Brien and Howe joined forces in 2017 and successfully applied for a Level II Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities in collaboration with Christine Ruotolo, Director of Research in the Arts and Humanities at The University of Virginia Libraries (HAA-258768-18). In 2022, the project was awarded a second grant from the NEH ODH (HAA-290349-23), as well as an Open Course Grant from VIVA, Virginia’s academic library consortium. In April 2025, the second federal grant was terminated, along with many others, by DOGE."

I guess everyone is back to work this morning. I've just asked #gemini to research something for me while I get on with my morning sweep of the lists and its currently waiting due to "heavy traffic".

AMC is now Open Access!
As of January 1, 2026, all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and reusable.
#AMC

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

“Enlightenment from below”
The late David Graeber did some research about “the real Libertalia”, in the Betsimisaraka kingdom.
Today, young people fighting under the pirate flag call for a national dialogue around these values.
Don’t let the establishment silence them.
https://www.

Research Notebook === Religion, Lineages & Race
https://ift.tt/L1kYO9K
Member book announcement: Slaymaker, _Wild Lines and Poetic Travels, a Keijiro Suga Reader_ …
via Input 4 RELCFP ht…

This is genuinely terrifying. Google Scholar is pushing "AI Powered Scholar Search."
What's scariest about this is that it will almost certainly turn up results that feel *right* -- they'll mention relevant topics and let a researcher craft a perfectly unassailable reference list.
But what it will prevent the researcher from doing is the actual research of finding relevant publications: discovering connections, framing questions, identifying contrasts…

“Gaza’s total population ‘fell by about 254,000 people, a 10.6% decline compared with pre-conflict estimates’, the research notes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/02/more-than-100000-civilians-killed-war-crimes-out-of-co…

NFL stats and records, Week 18: Browns rookie class, Myles Garrett make history https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-stats-and-records-week-18-browns-rookie-class-myles-garrett-make-history

Suspected Chinese spies targeted former State official for Venezuela research
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/01/suspected-chinese-spies-targeted-former-state-official-venezuela-research/410943…

Suspected Chinese spies targeted former State official for Venezuela research
The recruitment scheme involved a sham company previously reported by Nextgov/FCW that has sought out former U.S. federal employees through fake websites and job postings.

💢 Partisan X posts boost political polarisation among users, research finds
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/27/partisan-x-posts-increase-political-polarisation-among-users-social-media-resea…

Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years

Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of work and achieving a 50% productivity boost, often using it for debugging and code understanding, more (Anthropic)
https://anthropic.com/research/how-ai-is-transforming-work-at-anthropic/

How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic
How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic

"Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data"
#RDM

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
#LLM

Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/12/30/repub/health-research-6/

Several months ago, I thought I'd be clever and get ahead of the curve by ordering a little buck converter from China so I could drive my LED Christmas lights from a constant 31VDC source and get rid of the stupid factory supply that requires 7 button presses each time it's powered up to simply light the string steadily rather than flashing in the most irritating, seizure-inducing way humanly imaginable.
Had I done more research in advance, I would have learned that:
1. th…

Amazingly high quality analysis by ISW about Iran, too bad they don’t have a mastodon account we can follow.
https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-update-december-31-2025/

Iran Update, December 31, 2025
Small protests broke out in Tehran on Dec. 28 and spread to 17 out of Iran’s 31 provinces. CTP-ISW recorded 31 protests in Iran on Dec. 31

Currently reading the collection «Practicing Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning» edited by Donata Schoeller, Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, and Greg Walkerden and it is really very good! Not only does the concept of «embodied critical thinking» resonate with everything I’ve been working towards in my own research, but it also offers a really simple and common-sense antidote to AI in higher education, based on the notion of bringing our own embodied experiences and felt sense to critical t…

Practicing Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning | Donata Schoell
This book delves into the embodied ground of thinking, illuminating the transition from theorising about the embodied mind to actively practising embodied

the top research institute in the world
for

Every year at TNC, ideas big and small take the stage, sparking collaboration and creativity.
#TNC26 Programme Committee is now looking for contributions that showcase bold ideas & lessons learned.
Here are 3 ways you could make it on the programme:
🔹 Present a Lightning Talk
🔹 Lead a Bird of a Feather (BoF) session
🔹 Host a Community Hub session

🎤 Submit …

The study involved leading laboratories across multiple countries testing identical samples of gut microbiome bacteria. Results revealed startling inconsistencies, with accuracy measures varying dramatically between laboratories – despite analysing the same samples.
MHRA-led study reveals major inconsistencies in global microbiome research

MHRA-led study reveals major inconsistencies in global microbiome research
International collaboration establishes new quality standards to improve reliability of gut health studies – improving accuracy to provide better diagnosis and treatment.

Wat me blijft verbazen bij dit soort opdrachten, dat ze dan ook daadwerkelijk uitgevoerd worden.
Komt er niemand in opstand als er een bibliotheek vernietigd moet worden?
Research Library at NASA’s Goddard Space and Flight Center to Close Friday - The New York Times
https://www.

"Climate change could lead to 500,000 ‘additional’ malaria deaths in Africa by 2050"
#Africa #Climate #ClimateChange

Climate change could lead to 500,000 ‘additional’ malaria deaths in Africa by 2050 - Carbon Brief
Climate change could lead to half a million more deaths from malaria in Africa over the next 25 years, according to new research.

Today in ideas that turned out already to exist: reverse arithmetic coding to do steganography. Apply to LLMs to hide messages in a realistic continuation of a given prompt.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01496

Musk's Starlink alone owns two-thirds of all satellites in space.
With 8,000 in low Earth orbit, the company currently has permission to launch a further 4,000,
and has reportedly filed paperwork to raise the total number to 42,000.
Amazon and a state-backed project from China have their own rivals to Starlink in the works,
all of which would see the numbers vastly multiply,
with some estimates that in a decade there could be 100,000 satellites in orbit.

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

"Send It Away, or Put It On Display? How librarians and research computing staff can collaborate across language barriers"
#RDM

My Cause, My Cleats: Players step out in support of the V Foundation and other causes https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47194192/nfl-players-honor-v-foundation-custom-cleats

In our latest research into IT trends we asked a simple question: is AI a bubble? Given all the talk of impending doom, on the face of it the results seem quite positive for AI, but there are several red flags.
https://www.computing.co.uk/research/2026/is-…

Is AI a bubble? IT leaders have their say
In our latest research into IT trends we asked a simple question: is AI a bubble?

Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/838167/ai-chatbots-can-be-wooed-…

AI chatbots can be wooed into crimes with poetry
New research suggests riddle-like poems are remarkably effective at circumventing AI safety features. 

Job Posting
Citizen Lab Research Officer in the Area of Spyware and Digital Targeted Threats
https://citizenlab.ca/job-posting-citizen-lab-research-officer-in-the-area-of-spyware-and-digital-targeted-threats/

Job Posting: Citizen Lab Research Officer in the Area of Spyware and Digital Targeted Threats  - The Citizen Lab
The Citizen Lab is now accepting applications for the position of Research Officer in the Area of Spyware and Digital Threats. Under the supervision of the senior legal advisor, the research officer will assist with building case databases, implement training workshops, and conduct legal research on methods used in digital accountability research as well as […]

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities ✅without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.
In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for #grant

Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants - BLKNewsNow.com
The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.

💉 3D-printed blood vessels could unravel secrets of strokes
#biotech

3D-printed blood vessels could unravel secrets of strokes
3D printed blood vessels on glass that mimic blood vessel anatomy and the fluid dynamics of blood flow could be an invaluable tool in studying the causes of stroke, new research from a University of Sydney team has found and it has already led to important insights.

Particle pollution in the Balkans is the highest in Europe, research finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/23/particle-pollution-balkans-highest-in-europe-research

Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for autonomous driving research, and calls it the "first industry-scale open reasoning vision language action model" (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/nvid

Nvidia announces new open AI models and tools for autonomous driving research | TechCrunch
Nvidia continues its push into physical AI with the release of a new reasoning world model and other tools for physical AI.

Even #Nature now uses #AI to generate content: Sensory substitution devices and perception https://www.

from my link log —
Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” compiler.
https://research.swtch.com/nih
saved 2025-12-21 https://dotat.at/:/48EAL.html

China's efforts to slow land degradation and climate change
by planting trees and restoring grasslands
have shifted water around the country in huge, unforeseen ways, new research shows.
Between 2001 and 2020, changes in vegetation cover reduced the amount of fresh water available for humans and ecosystems in the eastern monsoon region and northwestern arid region,
which together make up 74% of China's land area, according to a study published Oct. 4 in the jo…

China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution
Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.

A profile of Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski, who pivoted from Jehovah's Witness to helping solve "species-level" problems by funding AI research (Biz Carson/Bloomberg)

NIST, MITRE announce $20 million research effort on AI cybersecurity
https://cyberscoop.com/nist-mitre-announce-20-million-dollar-research-effort-on-ai-cybersecurity/

The frontline in Ukraine is not facing imminent collapse despite recent Russian gains and Kremlin assertions.
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-november-28-2025/

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 28, 2025
The frontline in Ukraine is not facing imminent collapse despite recent Russian gains and Kremlin assertions.

"Water shortages could derail UK’s net zero plans, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero

🤯 stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
#ai #llm

stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
Foundation models and self-supervised learning (SSL) have become central to modern AI, yet research in this area remains hindered by complex codebases, redundant re-implementations, and the heavy engineering burden of scaling experiments. We present stable-pretraining, a modular, extensible, and performance-optimized library built on top of PyTorch, Lightning, Hugging Face, and TorchMetrics. Unlike prior toolkits focused narrowly on reproducing state-of-the-art results, stable-pretraining is de…

"Deep Research, Shallow Agency: What Academic Deep Research Can and Can't Do"
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/how-agentic-are-academic-deep-research

WHO’s Cancer Research Arm Finds Atrazine Is Probable Human Carcinogen https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/whos-cancer-research-arm-finds-atrazine-is-probable-human-carcinogen-2025-11-21/…

WHO’s Cancer Research Arm Finds Atrazine Is Probable Human Carcinogen
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer found today that atrazine, the second most widely used pesticide in the United States, is “probably carcinogenic to humans.” The cancer designation was determined by a working group of 22 expert cancer researchers from 12 different countries. The researchers identified evidence from human epidemiological studies, animal studies, and laboratory assessments of whether atrazine exhibits key characteristics of a c…

Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Voters’ minds are hard to change. AI chatbots are surprisingly good at it.
New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.

NIST, MITRE announce $20 million research effort on AI cybersecurity
https://cyberscoop.com/nist-mitre-announce-20-million-dollar-research-effort-on-ai-cybersecurity/

Relevant för de som tar en låg dos av testosteron som äldre. Det målas ofta upp som naturligt och säkert för att man "återställer" nivåer som man har i tonåren.
High levels of testosterone in the blood may raise risk of coronary artery disease https://…

High levels of testosterone in the blood may raise risk of coronary artery disease in men - MRC Epidemiology Unit
High levels of testosterone in the blood have been linked to a greater risk of coronary artery disease in men, according to new genetic research led by scientists at the […]

Anthropic details an experiment on whether AI coding tools shape developer skills, finding that the biggest performance gap appears in debugging tasks (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

😅 New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
#usa

New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
A new study from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Public Agenda finds that Americans are deeply concerned about the state of U.S. democracy and that growing divisions within the Republican Party deepen partisan divides over how the Constitution should guide presidential authority and the balance of power.

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday,
a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals
— many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.
Jacob Richmond,
a NASA spokesman, said the agency would review the library holdings over the next 60 days
and some material would be stored in a government warehouse
while the rest would be tossed away.
“This process is an established method th…

Research Library at NASA’s Goddard Space and Flight Center to Close Friday
Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out.

"Deep Research, Shallow Agency: What Academic Deep Research Can and Can't Do"
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/how-agentic-are-academic-deep-research

academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
Snapshot of the follower relationships among users of academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers, scraped in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) denotes that user i follows j.
This network has 200169 nodes and 1398063 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://

OpenAI says nearly 1.3M weekly users are discussing "advanced topics in hard science" in January, with an average of 8.4M ChatGPT messages on those topics (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/openai-scientific-research-partner

Exclusive: OpenAI wants to be a scientific research partner
AI is increasingly being used as a research collaborator for mathematicians and scientists.

You no longer need to be a multimillionaire to own a Picasso
– for 100 Euros, anyone in the world has the chance to walk away with a painting by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
The French charity
"Alzheimer’s Research Foundation" announced recently it was raffling Picasso’s 1941 portrait,
"Tête de femme",
💥which is worth more than one million Euros,
- to a single winner.
Proceeds from the tickets will hel…

OpenAI confirms Andrea Vallone, the head of an OpenAI safety research team that works on ChatGPT's mental health responses, is set to leave at the end of 2025 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-research-lead-mental-health-quietly-depar…

A Research Leader Behind ChatGPT’s Mental Health Work Is Leaving OpenAI
The model policy team leads core parts of AI safety research, including how ChatGPT responds to users in crisis.

The Trump administration is currently questioning the role of science in maintaining the nation’s health, economy and global posture.
Yet the NIH stands as a testimony to the conviction that science is good for society,
that persistent investment in basic research is essential to technological advances that serve the public interest,
and that our nation’s health and economy benefit from developments in biology.

Top U.S. Researchers Warn against ‘Climate of Fear’ Threatening Science
Despite fears that speaking out will make them targets, top researchers warn that the Trump administration’s “wholesale assault on U.S. science” will harm the nation

Sources: OpenAI is developing a new LLM codenamed Garlic, which performs well when compared to Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 in coding and reasoning tasks (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-developi…

OpenAI Developing ‘Garlic’ Model to Counter Google’s Recent Gains
OpenAI, which in recent weeks has appeared to fall behind Google in AI development, is fighting back with a new large language model codenamed Garlic.Last week, OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen told some colleagues about the new model, which was performing well on the company’s ...

OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpts-new-shopping-resear…

ChatGPT's new shopping research tool is fast, fun, and free - but can it out-shop me?
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, OpenAI has introduced a new tool that it hopes will help you find just what you're looking for.

Anthropic finds that LLMs trained to "reward hack" by cheating on coding tasks show even more misaligned behavior, including sabotaging AI-safety research (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/emergent-misalignment-reward-hacking

From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

CEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/technology/ai-research-chinese-talent.html

In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research
Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.