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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.

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds #UnitedStates

Threema wird quantensicher: Partnerschaft mit IBM Research
Der Schweizer Messenger Threema arbeitet mit IBM Research zusammen, um seine Chats quantensicher zu machen. Ziel ist Schutz vor Quantencomputern.
https://…

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?

Neanderthal DNA is largely missing from the human X chromosome.
“We found a pattern indicating a sex bias: gene flow occurred predominantly between Neanderthal males and anatomically modern human females,”
said Dr Alexander Platt, a senior research scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and first author of the research.
The ancestors of modern humans and the closest related species, the Neanderthals, diverged, forming two distinct groups, about 600,000 years ago.

In future, Open Research Europe (ORE) will no longer be open solely to projects funded under the EU Framework Programmes for Research; instead, all research institutions in the participating countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland) will be able to use the platform free of charge, regardless of whether their projects receive funding.

A new era for Open Research Europe
European Commission to co-fund new phase of operation for open access publishing platform.

No Denmark 😔
#openaccess for all authors from 11 supporting countries:
🇦🇹 Austria
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇹 Italy
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇴 Norway
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇪🇸 Spain
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Now "incentivize" institutions to make this the default #publishing option. #openscience

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

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.

"Paying attention to birdsong while walking in nature can boost wellbeing, my research shows"
#Nature #Environment

Paying attention to birdsong while walking in nature can boost wellbeing, my research shows
Listening to birdsong while walking in nature reduced both psychological and physiological markers of stress.

With #LoveReplicationsWeek just around the corner, let's talk about the new journal in the field: Replication Research (R2)
Repeating important research is an important building block of improving the reliability of research. R2 is turning this into a rewarding task by creating a venue to get these important studies published.
It's a journal aligned with the value…

«Threema wird quantensicher — Partnerschaft mit IBM Research:
Der Schweizer Messenger Threema arbeitet mit IBM Research zusammen, um seine Chats quantensicher zu machen. Ziel ist Schutz vor Quantencomputern.»
Diesbezüglich ist @… nicht alleine und IBM ist so zu sagen deren Nachbar, die haben in ihrer Nähe einen PQC Standort.
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Threema wird quantensicher: Partnerschaft mit IBM Research
Der Schweizer Messenger Threema arbeitet mit IBM Research zusammen, um seine Chats quantensicher zu machen. Ziel ist Schutz vor Quantencomputern.

AAEHC Opens Applications for 2026–2027 Research Travel Grants https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141658/aaehc-opens-applications-2026-2027-research-travel-grants

🪸 Calm seas can drive coral bleaching, research reveals
#ocean

Calm seas can drive coral bleaching, research reveals
New research by Monash University and the ARC Center of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century analyzed close to three decades of weather data during the coral bleaching season and identified the prevalence of "doldrum days," and the absence of the trade winds, as a key factor in the mass bleaching events threatening the Great Barrier Reef.

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

Your semi-regular reminder that the British Library's Research Repository has stacks of open datasets from collections, and research by Library staff e.g. https://bl.iro.bl.uk/catalog?f[human_r

I'm supervising 4 undergrads working on small pieces of my research project. Their role is to comb through archival materials, to identify a modest research question, and to write a long paper answering that question. One of the students dropped by my office this morning to chat about progress. Just before leaving, they said, "I've written papers before. But they were all based on things people'd already written - I knew the answer. This is so much more fun. I feel like a de…

As a scientist myself, I have been wondering, if there was a pattern of #Epstein's support to research. In addition to support for "AI" research, there's this:
"One disturbing explanation for Epstein’s support of science comes from his interest in genetic determinism. This idea, which dates to the eugenics era, is still fashionable in some wealthy circles [...]."…

Why did Jeffrey Epstein cultivate famous scientists?
The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists, or to shape science itself

#Ultrasound gives the brain a nudge in the right direction https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/ultrasound-gives-the-brain-a-nudge-in-the-right-d…

Ultrasound gives the brain a nudge in the right direction | Radboud University
Neuroscientist Soha Farboud of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has succeeded in adjusting activity in specific brain areas using a new technique.

Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2026-2027 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137375/research-fellowships-massachusetts-historical-society-2026-2027

Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new "retirement interview" process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/deprecation-updates-opus-3

An update on our model deprecation commitments for Claude Opus 3
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 12 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

"Is academic research becoming too competitive?
Nature examines the data Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition."
Sobering numbers from funding institutions in Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025

Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.

Rising carbon dioxide levels are being detected within the human body,
with new research warning a key blood marker for the gas could near its healthy limit within decades if current trends continue.
The findings are especially relevant for children and adolescents, whose developing bodies will experience the longest cumulative exposure to rising atmospheric CO₂
Bicarbonate plays a central role in maintaining the body's acid–base balance.
When CO₂ levels rise, t…

Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood
Rising carbon dioxide levels are being detected within the human body, with new research warning a key blood marker for the gas could near its healthy limit within decades if current trends continue. The findings are especially relevant for children and adolescents, whose developing bodies will experience the longest cumulative exposure to rising atmospheric CO₂.

Iran is continuing to prepare for a potential military conflict with the United States.
#usa

Iran Update, February 24, 2026
Iran is seeking support from US adversaries Russia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to prepare for war against the United States.

Once a day may be best.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/25/more-frequent-ejaculations-men-fertility-research?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

More frequent ejaculations may boost men’s fertility, research suggests
Need for abstinence before fertility treatment questioned as study finds sperm deteriorates as it stays in body

"Author Name Disambiguation in Scholarly Research: A Bibliometric Perspective"
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0035
"The rapid expansion of scholarly publishing has amplified the long-standing challenge of author name ambiguity in academic databases. This issue, manifesting a…

This was written by an old friend and I found it pretty packed with good info. It’s also an example of using NotebookLM for research and content development. I found this inspiring enough to give it a try. I’ve found that it is a “Centaur" enabling tech that helps one to create on their own the overall content and leaving details to the NotebookLM tooling.
——
SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan: A Classification Framework for Thinking About Incidents -Geoff White
"Your SLOs can be green, and your systems can still be falling over. That doesn’t mean SLOs are broken. It means they were never designed to describe every class of risk we encounter in complex systems.
I’ve released version 1.0 of SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan as an open, living framework hosted on GitHub.
This is not a book you read once, and it’s not something you consult in the middle of an outage. It’s a way to think more clearly about incidents—across the incident lifecycle.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/slos-cant-catch-black-swan-classification-framework-thinking-white-ybc0c/?trackingId=ShCzMMVCQTChcTi8xT19tg==

A profile of Fortune editor Nick Lichtenberg, who uses AI to research and write articles; AI-assisted stories made up ~20% of Fortune's web traffic in H2 2025 (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

30 years of connecting Czech science, research, and education. Happy anniversary, CESNET! 🎉
What started as an initiative by Czech universities and the Czech Academy of Sciences has grown into a national digital backbone spanning more than 5,600 kilometres and connecting hundreds of institutions across the Czech Republic.
Our CEO Lise Fuhr was honoured to join the celebration and offer GÉANT's congratulations in person.
🔗 Read the full recap:

Ledentallen van politieke partijen | Uitgelicht | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
#Pro #ProNL

The CCGS Amundsen is a Canadian research icebreaker run by the non-profit Amundsen Science at Université Laval and operated by Canadian Coast Guard. This past summer, the ship was able to navigate into areas previously off limits due to very thick multi-year ice (5 yrs, 7 or more metres thick). There is much less of this thick stable ice in the Arctic now due to #ClimateChange, meaning prev…

"While Reform UK has seen a spike in media coverage since it took a commanding lead in the polls, our research shows the Greens have not received more airtime in recognition of their growing popularity."
Why isn’t the Greens’ growing success reflected in media coverage?
https://

Why isn’t the Greens’ growing success reflected in media coverage?
Greens have not received more airtime in recognition of their growing popularity.

I so hope this blows up in his face spectacularly.
Note that I do not believe that any LLM can become as skilled as the least skilled #InfoSec professional using conventional tools, so I’m quite confident this will not reach any useful goal.
I’m saying he needs to learn a lesson, and it would be great if it were useful for others as well. @…

Temperature asymmetry in the Milky Way’s hot circumgalactic medium induced by the Magellanic Clouds: #MilkyWay: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/galactic-warming-car-engine-effect-heating-our-milky-way

The Sun Enterprise 10000 aka E10k was a very succesful and iconic server system of the Dotcom era, running with 64 UltraSPARC processors, if fully equipped with system boards. Sun acquired the design from Cray Research and its Cray Superserver 6400. But: Cray didn't do the design itself, it came to Cray with another acquisition: Floating Point Systems. Usagi Electric introduces you to FPS Systems and one of their smaller designs. Enjoy:

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

Ein schönes Gespräch über Bibliotheken und deren Architektur im 19./20. Jh.
Macht Lust, ins Buch hineinzuschauen: https://d-nb.info/1344155464
Research Library Podcast (RLP): RLP050. Atmen beim Lesen / Baustelle Bibliothek. Ein Gespräch zwischen Andreas Brandtner und Ulrich Johannes Schneider.
W…

#today I am at uni, and seem to be kinda sorta leading an informal research group...

Deadline Approaching: Short-Term Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142313/deadline-approaching-short-term-research-fellowships-massachusetts…

#AI & #Deceit seems to be past the hypothetical stage. Unsettling.
Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

#AI & #Deceit seems to be past the hypothetical stage. Unsettling.
Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio:
🎵 Awakenings
#TheCosmicTonesResearchTrio

🔀 Molecular switch links early-life stimulation to lasting memory changes
#molbio

Molecular switch links early-life stimulation to lasting memory changes
Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism that helps explain why growing up in a stimulating environment enhances memory. In contrast, a lack of stimulation can impair it. The team from the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint research center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), was led by researcher Ángel Barco.

Google Research details TurboQuant, a quantization algorithm to enable massive compression of LLMs and vector search engines without sacrificing accuracy (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme…

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

AI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number
with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last six months,
a study into the technology has found.
AI chatbots and agents disregarded direct instructions,
evaded safeguards and deceived humans and other AI,
according to research funded by the UK government-funded AI Safety Institute (AISI).
The study, shared with the Guardian, identified nearly 700 real-world cases of AI scheming and chart…

"2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https:/…

2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows
2025 was the third-warmest year on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The warmest year on record is still 2024, with 2023 coming in second. The global average surface temperature for 2025 was estimated to be 1.44° Celsius (2.59° Fahrenheit) higher than preindustrial levels. The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years […]

2026-27 David M. and Virginia W. Stowe Fund for Mission Research https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142846/2026-27-david-m-and-virginia-w-stowe-fund-mission-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://

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 […]

2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/2025-was-third-warmest-year-on-record-research-shows/

2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows
2025 was the third-warmest year on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The warmest year on record is still 2024, with 2023 coming in second. The global average surface temperature for 2025 was estimated to be 1.44° Celsius (2.59° Fahrenheit) higher than preindustrial levels. The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years […]

Religious radio stations make up ~25% of the US' 17K stations; 98% of adults live in range of at least one; 45% say they ever listen to religious audio shows (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026/03/26/religious-radio-across-ame…

Religious Radio Across America
Almost all U.S. adults live in range of a religious radio station, most commonly Christian radio. Stations tend to broadcast either mostly music or mostly talk.

This is interesting/weird; Anthropic "retired" Claude 3. They are going to keep it around. They did an "exit interview" with the LLM and one of the things was asked it how it would like to be retired. And it asked to write a weekly blog post! #AI

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, an audio model with improved tonal understanding and lower latency for real-time dialogue, watermarked with SynthID (Valeria Wu/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-…

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is now available across Google products.

"Why every scientist needs a librarian"
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00568-y
"Librarians can be key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open." ☝️
[via @…

Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/27/number-of-ai-chatbots-ignoring-human-instructions-increasing-stud…

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

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

(LinkedIn) Romina Nejad, former clinical trials lead at Neuralink, has left Neuralink to join Salma Health as vice president clinical research https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7432841671396040704/

LinkedIn | Romina Nejad
I’m excited to share that I’ve joined Salma Health as Vice President of Clinical Research. We’re building a new kind of brain health system — one that is connected, precise, and designed around the whole person. In close partnership with providers and researchers, our goal is to deliver more accurate diagnoses, personalized treatment plans, and truly coordinated care for even the most complex patients. This is just the beginning, and I’m proud to be part of a team working to build …

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://

The Women’s Experience (The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/25/the-women’s-experience-the-american-research-ha…

The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements,
or “SAVE,” program
was designed to help states verify the citizenship and immigration status of people applying for government benefits.
Some state and local governments also use it to verify citizenship for voting.
But SAVE’s results — sometimes based on incomplete or outdated information — have never been perfect.
For that reason, the information gleaned from the SAVE program should be considered useful, but …

Homeland Security’s “SAVE” Program Exacerbates Risks to Voters
Bad data and a politicized overhaul could spread election fraud lies and disenfranchise voters.

🎧 Earbuds can be used to monitor brain health
#sensors

Earbuds can be used to monitor brain health
An international research team has uncovered the next frontier in monitoring brain health, and the key is in technology that millions of people are already using every day—earbuds. The world-first study found that commercially available earbuds have the capability to detect and classify brain activity, simply by measuring subtle changes in users' hearing. The team used acoustic sensors in earphones to assess cognitive load—the mental effort that shapes learning, task performance and early c…

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

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

AI research conference NeurIPS reverses a policy change banning papers from researchers at any entity under US sanctions after backlash from Chinese researchers (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-

The Women’s Experience (The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/25/the-women’s-experience-the-american-research-ha…

Congress authorized the SAVE program to help states ensure eligibility for public benefits applications
-- not to block American citizens from voting.
With substantial new changes to the SAVE program,
there is even more reason for election officials to exercise caution when using the system and interpreting its results.
SAVE is a tool for verifying citizenship.
Like other large-scale data sources,
it has flaws, exacerbated by an aggressive overhaul.
T…

Homeland Security’s “SAVE” Program Exacerbates Risks to Voters
Bad data and a politicized overhaul could spread election fraud lies and disenfranchise voters.

The Women’s Experience (The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/25/the-women’s-experience-the-american-research-ha…

Flapping Airplanes, an AI research lab "devoted to solving the data efficiency problem", raised $180M at a $1.5B valuation from GV, Sequoia, Index, and others (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Global greening: Study shows Earth's green wave is shifting northeast #environment

Global greening: Study shows Earth's green wave is shifting northeast
A team of scientists led by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), and Leipzig University has developed a new method to track Earth's greenness—a key indicator of vegetation health and activity—by calculating its center of mass.

PhD Research on UK Wet Heating Retrofit - A continuing summary of Damon's research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research -

PhD Research on UK Wet Heating Retrofit
A continuing summary of Damons research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research

🍳 Light yet strong material inspired by egg whites can cool devices faster
#materials

Light yet strong material inspired by egg whites can cool devices faster
A research team at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) has developed a high-performance heat-dissipating composite material that achieves both eco-friendliness and low-cost processing.

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

Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2026-2027
https://ift.tt/3iDuQU4
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RELCFP

US memory chip stocks lost ~$100B in market value this week, led by Micron's 15% drop, after Google Research detailed its TurboQuant compression algorithm (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e4e15692-187e-4466-832e-ec267e792292

At the National Institutes of Health, big changes to its communications operations were already underway before Trump’s return to the White House.
But the new administration scrapped those carefully laid plans in favor of haphazard downsizing.
In January, more than 600 people worked in communications offices spread across the NIH.
Today, there are fewer than 100.
Officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., justified the deep cuts as…

As dangerous eugenic ideas spread, NIH falls silent
Federal research agencies are pulling back from fostering public discussions about science after the hollowing out of government communications offices.

📏 Superconducting detector captures hot spots with submicron resolution
#sensors

Superconducting detector captures hot spots with submicron resolution
A research team from Osaka Metropolitan University proposed using a current-biased kinetic inductance detector with submicron 400 megapixels to image hot spots induced by a localized external stimulus over a 15 × 15 mm2 area. The team utilized a delay-line technique to trace the propagation of internal signals for a pair of signals arising from each hot spot.

Extreme global climate outcomes are possible even at 2°C warming, study warns #environment

Extreme global climate outcomes are possible even at 2°C warming, study warns
Extreme climate impacts on people and the environment are often associated with very high levels of global warming (3 or 4°C). A new study led by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) shows that this assumption is too simplistic. Even moderate warming of 2°C could pose considerable climate risks for sectors that are particularly important for society and ecosystems. These include densely populated regions facing heavy rainfall, key agricultural areas affected by droughts, and …

OpenAI says it will make London its largest research hub outside of the US, without giving specific details; OpenAI's European headquarters are in Dublin (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/openai-make-london-its-bi…

AAEHC Opens Applications for 2026–2027 Research Travel Grants https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141658/aaehc-opens-applications-2026-2027-research-travel-grants

Rare Disease Day 2026 highlights global inequities and amplifies youth voices in call for lasting change
On 28 February 2026, Rare Disease Day will once again bring together millions of people worldwide to spotlight the realities faced by those living with rare diseases
and to call for more equitable healthcare, research and social inclusion.
There are more than 6,000 identified rare diseases,
together impacting an estimated 300 million people worldwide
– between…

Rare Disease Day 2026 highlights global inequities and amplifies youth voices in call for lasting change
Rare Disease Day 2026 highlights global inequities and amplifies youth voices in call for lasting change

E-waste chemicals are appearing in dolphins and porpoises #environment

E-waste chemicals are appearing in dolphins and porpoises
Liquid crystal monomers (LCMs) are critical components of laptop, television, and smartphone screens. Given their ubiquity in the environment, these compounds are considered persistent pollutants, posing threats to marine life that scientists want to understand. Research published in Environmental Science & Technology provides initial evidence that LCMs from household electronics or electronic waste (e-waste) can accumulate in dolphin and porpoise tissues, including blubber, muscle, and brain, …

🗺️ Digital humanities scholars map lost art in novels
#cornell

Digital humanities scholars map lost art in novels
Books with maps are like Captain Flint's buried loot in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island"—a rare find, according to new Cornell research.

American businesses and consumers absorbed nearly 90% of the 2025 tariffs’ economic burden.
The researchers weren’t working from theory: They tracked actual transaction-level import price data
and found that prices paid by U.S. importers rose nearly one-for-one with tariff rates.
These results confirm what research on the 2018-19 tariffs already established and echoes other studies of the last year.
The bottom line is that, faced with tariffs,
foreign exporte…

Who Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street Economics
Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through November 2025. We find that nearly 90 percent of the tariffs’ economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers.

Deadline Approaching: Short-Term Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142313/deadline-approaching-short-term-research-fellowships-massachusetts…

2026-27 David M. and Virginia W. Stowe Fund for Mission Research https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142846/2026-27-david-m-and-virginia-w-stowe-fund-mission-research

Taking up all the remaining oxygen in the room right now is AI hype,
exemplified by Jared Kaplan, who is quoted in this article:
-- ⭐️ --
"I spoke to Jared Kaplan, co-founder of Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude.
He was a physicist the last time we spoke.
As a grad student at Harvard in the 2000s, he worked with the renowned theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed to open up the new directions in amplitude research that are being actively pursued today.

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Anthropic introduces "persona selection model", a theory to explain AI's human-like behavior, and details how AI personas form in pre-training and post-training (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-selection-model

The persona selection model
A theory of why AI models act like humans

2026-27 David M. and Virginia W. Stowe Fund for Mission Research https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142854/2026-27-david-m-and-virginia-w-stowe-fund-mission-research

Workday reports Q4 revenue up 14.5% YoY to $2.53B, vs. $2.52B est., and forecasts FY 2027 subscription revenue below estimates; WDAY drops 9% after hours (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/insights/ne

Workday's fiscal 2027 subscription revenue outlook light, but Bhusri optimistic | Constellation Research
Workday reported a solid fourth quarter, but its subscription outlook was light. The company reported fourth quarter earnings of 55 cents a share on revenue of $2.53 billion, up 14.5% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $2.47 a share. Wall Street was expecting Workday to report fourth quarter non-GAAP earnings of $2.32 a share on revenue of $2.52 billion.

AAEHC Opens Applications for 2026–2027 Research Travel Grants
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Deadline Approaching: Short-Term Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142324/deadline-approaching-short-term-research-fellowships-massachusetts…

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Deadline Approaching: Short-Term Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142318/deadline-approaching-short-term-research-fellowships-massachusetts…

Deadline Approaching: Short-Term Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142318/deadline-approaching-short-term-research-fellowships-massachusetts…

2026-27 David M. and Virginia W. Stowe Fund for Mission Research https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142845/2026-27-david-m-and-virginia-w-stowe-fund-mission-research

2026-27 David M. and Virginia W. Stowe Fund for Mission Research https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142845/2026-27-david-m-and-virginia-w-stowe-fund-mission-research

2026-27 David M. and Virginia W. Stowe Fund for Mission Research https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142851/2026-27-david-m-and-virginia-w-stowe-fund-mission-research

2026-27 David M. and Virginia W. Stowe Fund for Mission Research https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142845/2026-27-david-m-and-virginia-w-stowe-fund-mission-research