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Movie idea: Under the mistaken belief that all costs were covered by a Read & Publish agreement, a researcher publishes an open access article in a journal. However, he then discovers that color figures aren’t covered, and now he owes the Cartel over 1600 Swiss francs. The chase is on as the Cartel is determined to get their hands on the money, no matter what.
#AcademicChatter…

Movie idea: Under the mistaken belief that all costs were covered by a Read & Publish agreement, a researcher publishes an open access article in a journal. However, he then discovers that color figures aren’t covered, and now he owes the Cartel over 1600 Swiss francs. The chase is on as the Cartel is determined to get their hands on the money, no matter what.
#AcademicChatter…

Jonas Juul is a new member of the Danish Young Academy
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/06/10/jonas-juul-is-a-new-member-of-the-danish-young-academy/
Congrats @…

The presentations at the 2nd #AAS246 presser were about the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adc911 (Discovery of the Seven-ring Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Cyanocoronene (C24H11CN) in GOTHAM Observations of TMC-1, also https://public.nrao.edu/news/cosmic-chemistry-breakthrough-largest-aromatic-molecule-found-in-deep-space/), https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05575 (A map of the outer gas disk of the Galaxy with direct distances from young stars, also https://www.uah.edu/news/items/uah-researcher-unveils-new-map-of-milky-way-galaxy-in-atomic-hydrogen-revealing-its-clumped-flocculent-nature-for-first-time) and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbbd9 (Surveying the Giant H ii Regions of the Milky Way with SOFIA. VII. Galactic Center Regions Sgr B1, Sgr B2, and Sgr C, also https://www.seti.org/press-release/unusual-stellar-nurseries-near-our-galaxys-center-puzzle-scientists) plus two results with apparently neither papers nor press releases going with them.

MAEBE: Multi-Agent Emergent Behavior Framework
Sinem Erisken (Independent Researcher), Timothy Gothard (Independent Researcher), Martin Leitgab (Independent Researcher), Ram Potham (Independent Researcher)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03053

MAEBE: Multi-Agent Emergent Behavior Framework
Traditional AI safety evaluations on isolated LLMs are insufficient as multi-agent AI ensembles become prevalent, introducing novel emergent risks. This paper introduces the Multi-Agent Emergent Behavior Evaluation (MAEBE) framework to systematically assess such risks. Using MAEBE with the Greatest Good Benchmark (and a novel double-inversion question technique), we demonstrate that: (1) LLM moral preferences, particularly for Instrumental Harm, are surprisingly brittle and shift significantly …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18236 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_…

Research impact evaluation based on effective authorship contribution sensitivity: h-leadership index
The evaluation of a researcher's performance has traditionally relied on various bibliometric measures, with the h-index being one of the most prominent. However, the h-index only accounts for the number of citations received in a publication and does not account for other factors such as the number of authors or their specific contributions in collaborative works. Therefore, the h-index has been placed on scrutiny as it has motivated academic integrity issues where non-contributing authors get…

New around here, hi!
For those who'd like a big old dose of "yes we can" energy,
please check out
"Words to Win By "
where every episode details a campaign we've won somewhere
and delves into the research, messaging & strategies used to do it.
https://wordstowinby-pod.com/

Words to Win By
Words to Win By, formerly Brave New Words, takes listeners on a journey around the globe with renowned communications researcher and campaign advisor Anat Shenker-Osorio as she unpacks real-world narrative shifts that led to real-world victories.

NIH cuts tracked by researchers in Grant Watch database | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/nih-cuts-tracked-in-grant-watch-database-q-and-a-with-harvard-researcher-scott-delaney/

Irgendwie eine ganz gute Beobachtung von Carina Haupt: beim Coden mit LLM produziert man "im Grunde legacy code", den man nur halb durchdringt bzw. durchdringen mag.
Code for Thought: [DE] Software entwickeln mit KI? Ein Gespräch mit Carina Haupt und Chris Stenkamp
Starting from: 00:29:31
Episode webpage: https://pwe…

Not racist or xenophobic. Samples of a #Fusarium species not native to the hemisphere. It *could* absolutely be a non-malicious stupid grad student trick, but it was a dangerous one with incalculable risk.
Crop pathogens make history.

Scott MacFarlane
ALERT: Detention hearing scheduled for 1pm tomorrow for University of Michigan researcher Yunqing Jian, who is accused of conspiracy to smuggle potential "agroterrorism weapon" into the US Jian's co-defendant, a Chinese national, in NOT in custody

SpeechVerifier: Robust Acoustic Fingerprint against Tampering Attacks via Watermarking
Lingfeng Yao (University of Houston), Chenpei Huang (University of Houston), Shengyao Wang (Waseda University), Junpei Xue (Waseda University), Hanqing Guo (University of Hawaii at M\=anoa), Jiang Liu (Waseda University), Xun Chen (Independent Researcher), Miao Pan (University of Houston)

SpeechVerifier: Robust Acoustic Fingerprint against Tampering Attacks via Watermarking
With the surge of social media, maliciously tampered public speeches, especially those from influential figures, have seriously affected social stability and public trust. Existing speech tampering detection methods remain insufficient: they either rely on external reference data or fail to be both sensitive to attacks and robust to benign operations, such as compression and resampling. To tackle these challenges, we introduce SpeechVerifer to proactively verify speech integrity using only the …

Edge interventions can mitigate demographic and prestige disparities in the Computer Science coauthorship network
Kate Barnes, Mia Ellis-Einhorn, Carolina Ch\'avez-Ruelas, Nayera Hasan, Mohammad Fanous, Blair D. Sullivan, Sorelle Friedler, Aaron Clauset
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04435…

Edge interventions can mitigate demographic and prestige disparities in the Computer Science coauthorship network
Social factors such as demographic traits and institutional prestige structure the creation and dissemination of ideas in academic publishing. One place these effects can be observed is in how central or peripheral a researcher is in the coauthorship network. Here we investigate inequities in network centrality in a hand-collected data set of 5,670 U.S.-based faculty employed in Ph.D.-granting Computer Science departments and their DBLP coauthorship connections. We introduce algorithms for comb…

Not a #social #media researcher, but this seems wrong on many levels.
https://fediscience.org/@tsch…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14202 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Mining Causality: AI-Assisted Search for Instrumental Variables
The instrumental variables (IVs) method is a leading empirical strategy for causal inference. Finding IVs is a heuristic and creative process, and justifying its validity -- especially exclusion restrictions -- is largely rhetorical. We propose using large language models (LLMs) to search for new IVs through narratives and counterfactual reasoning, similar to how a human researcher would. The stark difference, however, is that LLMs can dramatically accelerate this process and explore an extreme…

Tel Aviv-based Speedata, which is designing analytics processing units for big data workloads, raised a $44M Series B, aims to showcase its first APU this month (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/speedata…

Speedata, a chip startup competing with Nvidia, raises a $44M Series B | TechCrunch
Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a Founded by six researcher, Speedata wants to build the first-ever purpose-build chip designed specifically for big data workloads.

My removal from #nasa #nyc continued afoot.
I haven’t said much of it here — but my competitive grant proposals (nasa scientists get funded this way since full cost accounting hit in 2004) have been chosen, but not funded.
There is no grant money to distribute. Folks in the know have seen that - ROSES, the acronym for research opportunities in science, does not have a 2025 call and the 2024 chosen post January 2025 don’t have money getting distributed.
If I cannot get proposals funded I will be in the same situation as every other soft money researcher.
So the soft RIF is coming for me and 1000’s of others.

It was great to have @… around this week for @… 's PhD defense and to talk all things #bicycle

HelioIndex: A Directory of Active Researchers in Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Peter R. Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00159 https://

HelioIndex: A Directory of Active Researchers in Solar and Heliospheric Physics
HelioIndex is a directory of authors who are active in solar and heliospheric physics (SHP). It is available at the webpage HelioIndex.org, and it includes several derived products such as publication lists, country and institute data, journal data, and lists of the most cited articles in the field. HelioIndex is built from ORCID identifiers and publication data obtained from the Astrophysics Data System and ORCID. Selection criteria have been chosen to approximately correspond to a researcher …

An excellent episode of the #DarknetDiaries: 158: @…
Episode webpage: https://

MalwareTech – Darknet Diaries
MalwareTech was an anonymous security researcher, until he accidentally stopped WannaCry, one of the largest ransomware attacks in history. That single act of heroism shattered his anonymity and pulled him into a world he never expected.

If 1/2 of the road space would be reserved for slow traffic:
👉 1/2 of the passenger kilometres travelled by car can be shifted to public transport, e-bikes, bicycles & walking
👉 CO₂ emissions could be cut by 40%
👉 a reduction in accidents could save up to 76 million Swiss francs annually
👉 Mobility will also become cheaper for households
👉 from current damages of around 500 million Swiss francs into long-term benefits of around 1 billion
Nice visualisations…

“The lack of vision has led transport policy down a dead end.”
Cities can expand their bike lane networks significantly without causing additional congestion on the roads. That is the conclusion reached by the ETH research project E-Bike City. Project lead and transport researcher Kay Axhausen explains the implications for traffic, the environment and costs. 

Anastassia defends her PhD: Urban Data Science for Sustainable Mobility
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/04/01/anastassia-defends-her-phd-urban-data-science-for-sustainable-mobility/
Congrats to @…

Luca Maria Aiello becomes Full Professor
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/04/01/luca-maria-aiello-becomes-full-professor/
Congratulations Luca @…

Ane defends her PhD: Network analysis of Denmark’s #bicycle infrastructure
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/05/23/ane-defends-her-phd-n…