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The Turing Humanities and Data Science group produced white papers,* collaborations and friendships.
Come celebrate our work at 'Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration' in Oxford/online, 25 Sept 16:00 to 18:30 BST https://

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

Meine SF- und Fantasy-Lektüre: mit Magiesystemen, Arcane, dem akademischen Höllenritt von Katabasis und einem leider enttäuschenden Solarpunk-Zeitreise-Buch.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2025/10/08/science-fiction-und-fantasy…

Science Fiction und Fantasy im September 2025
Im September fand ich weniger Zeit zum Lesen als üblicherweise. Das hat verschiedene Gründe; neben einem Fokus auf Serien - und einem Buch, mit dem ich mich schwer getan habe - habe ich größere Teile meiner Freizeit mit einem Python-Projekt gefüllt. Aber genug der Vorrede: Auf dem Bildschirm gese

Researchers are investigating using synthetic diamonds to help cool AI data center chips; De Beers-owned Element Six has long used diamonds in satellite chips (Amos Zeeberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/science/diamonds-computer-chips-ai.html…

Why Diamonds Are Computer Chips’ New Best Friend
Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential solution, researchers say.

🧺 Woven baskets aren’t just aesthetically pleasing – materials science research finds they’re sturdier and more resilient than stiff containers
https://theconversation.com/woven-bask

Woven baskets aren’t just aesthetically pleasing – materials science research finds they’re sturdier and more resilient than stiff containers
3D woven baskets are geometrically sophisticated, with some incredible properties that engineers can use to design materials and technology.

• Solar and wind capacities can serve as insurance against gas supply shocks.

 
• We analyzed the economic value of increased renewable power capacity.

• Externality-based pricing can offer strategic risk management for power systems.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti

The insurance value of renewable energies
Solar and wind power are energy sources which, by their very nature, give rise to a degree of uncertainty, considering their variability depending on …

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

I can't believe Science In Action is ending! We're going to miss you @… !
A very serious warning encoded in this final episode for everyone to listen to.
How science got here, and where next
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6yg7

“The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” | Whistleblowers Reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency: #NASA Since Early Summer—Threatening Safety, Mission, Science: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/9/new-democratic-staff-report-direct-evidence-trump-administration-has-been-illegally-imposing-president-s-proposed-budget-cuts-at-nasa-since-early-summer-threatening-safety-mission-science -> https://bsky.app/profile/commerce.senate.gov/post/3lzyge7sr422e and https://bsky.app/profile/solarshea.bsky.social/post/3m2mxii7lkc2o

Female 2018 Nobel prize physics winner was deemed not important enough for Wikipedia entry | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/03/donna-strickland-nobel-physics-prize-wikipedia-denied

Social Media ist möglicherweise strukturell kaputt. Auch die „guten“ wie das Fediverse. (Dass ich das auf Social Media teile, ist dann auch irgendwie… merkwürdig.)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-probably-cant-be-fixed/…

Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
“The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.”…

Physics-Informed Machine Learning in Biomedical Science and Engineering
Nazanin Ahmadi, Qianying Cao, Jay D. Humphrey, George Em Karniadakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05433 htt…

Physics-Informed Machine Learning in Biomedical Science and Engineering
Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is emerging as a potentially transformative paradigm for modeling complex biomedical systems by integrating parameterized physical laws with data-driven methods. Here, we review three main classes of PIML frameworks: physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs), and neural operators (NOs), highlighting their growing role in biomedical science and engineering. We begin with PINNs, which embed governing equations…

The people at Nature really have gone full LLM brain rot: «AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?»
You'd think that the people working at a "renowned" science magazine would understand enough science to not prescribe agency to a statistical method, but apparently here we are…
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1
/HT @…

What a time to be alive...
"Protecting Freedom of Science and Preventing Distortion of Scientific Truth
A Statement of Concern from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences"
https://www.pas.va/en/events/2025/statement_of_concern.html

A Statement of Concern from the PAS on Protecting Freedom of Science and Preventing Distortion of Scientific Truth
Erosion of Scientific Freedom and the Crisis of Truth The Pontifical Academy of Sciences’ Council and co-signing members of the Academy issue this ...

AI-Driven Grading and Moderation for Collaborative Projects in Computer Science Education
Songmei Yu, Andrew Zagula
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03998 https://

AI-Driven Grading and Moderation for Collaborative Projects in Computer Science Education
Collaborative group projects are integral to computer science education, as they foster teamwork, problem-solving skills, and industry-relevant competencies. However, assessing individual contributions within group settings has long been a challenge. Traditional assessment strategies, such as the equal distribution of grades or subjective peer assessments, often fall short in terms of fairness, objectivity, and scalability, particularly in large classrooms. This paper introduces a semi-automate…

#GiftLink
Opinion | Seed Oils Are Fine, Really - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/opinion/seed-oils-nutrition-ingredients-science.html?smid=url-share

Friday Links 25-25
Short one today.
Listen to the last episode of Science in Action, or check out the archive.
For a fun, scary game, have a look at The Scope Creep. One for the product managers.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/11/friday-links-25-25.html

Friday Links 25-25
Short one today.  Listen to the last episode of Science in Action, or check out the archive.  For a fun, scary game, have a look at The Scop...

Was für viele wie Science-Fiction klingt, ist längst Realität: Ein bis zwei Starlink-Satelliten stürzen bereits jeden Tag ab, und diese Zahl könnte sich laut dem Astrophysiker Jonathan McDowell bald mehr als verdoppeln.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10726535?…

Object recognition from sparse simulated phosphenes and curved segments https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698925001798 "lower bound estimate on the minimal number of phosphenes needed to recognize objects" in uncluttered views;

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

Mad science.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/0729235/scientists-grow-mini-human-brains-to-power-computers
>Scientists Grow Mini Human Brains To Power Computers

You think the live translation in your iPhone is the shit and super fancy science fiction?
36 years ago:

Report of the 2025 Workshop on Next-Generation Ecosystems for Scientific Computing: Harnessing Community, Software, and AI for Cross-Disciplinary Team Science
L. C. McInnes, D. Arnold, P. Balaprakash, M. Bernhardt, B. Cerny, A. Dubey, R. Giles, D. W. Hood, M. A. Leung, V. Lopez-Marrero, P. Messina, O. B. Newton, C. Oehmen, S. M. Wild, J. Willenbring, L. Woodley, T. Baylis, D. E. Bernholdt, C. Camano, J. Cohoon, C. Ferenbaugh, S. M. Fiore, S. Gesing, D. Gomez-Zara, J. Howison, T. Islam,…

Report of the 2025 Workshop on Next-Generation Ecosystems for Scientific Computing: Harnessing Community, Software, and AI for Cross-Disciplinary Team Science
This report summarizes insights from the 2025 Workshop on Next-Generation Ecosystems for Scientific Computing: Harnessing Community, Software, and AI for Cross-Disciplinary Team Science, which convened more than 40 experts from national laboratories, academia, industry, and community organizations to chart a path toward more powerful, sustainable, and collaborative scientific software ecosystems. To address urgent challenges at the intersection of high-performance computing (HPC), AI, and scien…

Letters to the editor from writers using AI chatbots are flooding scientific journals, likely written by writers seeking to boost their number of citations (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/letters-to-the-editor-ai-chatb…

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published.

"hoverflies, like some romantic go-between, allow plants hundreds of kilometres apart to mate."
🎁opens five times within seven days.
Hoverflies are long-distance travellers
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/10/08/hoverflies-are-long-distance-travellers?giftId=adcfa6b9-bae8-4ae2-a926-9c7b7f88a0a6&utm_campaign=gifted_article

David Baltimore,
Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
He was only 37 when he made a discovery that challenged the existing tenets of biology
and led to an understanding of retroviruses and viruses, including H.I.V.

David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
He was only 37 when he made a discovery that challenged the existing tenets of biology and led to an understanding of retroviruses and viruses, including H.I.V.

"Greenwashing at #Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing"
https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7482

Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/research-roundup-6-cool-science-stories-we-almost-missed-3/

Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
Also: the science of regular vs. gluten-free spaghetti, catching high-speed snake bites in action, etc.

Good discussion of the scientific method and how Jane Goodall helped further improve how we practice #Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FzzLeA6pk

Metrics company, Clarivate, which runs Web of Science, is involved in very dubious awards in Iraq. They corrupt science.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/31/exclusive-clarivate-web-of-science-involved-dubious-awards-iraq/…

Exclusive: Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq
Hayder A. Dhahad, Iraq’s deputy minister for scientific research affairs, speaks at an awards ceremony at the country’s Science Day celebration. Source: Instagram In the string of prestigious…

‘We must change course’: a stark climate warning from the UN chief – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2025/nov/04/we-must-change-course-a-stark-climate-warning-from-the-un-chief-podcast
…

Understanding Support for Cycling Infrastructure Through Moral Foundations Theory
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950105925000397

Science Under Siege: A Talk With Peter Hotez and Michael Mann (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/science-under-siege-a-talk-with-peter
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p21#a250906p21

Binary Neutron Stars from the Moon: Early Warnings and Precision Science for the Artemis Era
Anjali B. Yelikar, Karan Jani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05400 https://

Binary Neutron Stars from the Moon: Early Warnings and Precision Science for the Artemis Era
Binary neutron star mergers are unique probes of matter at extreme density and standard candles of cosmic expansion. The only such event observed in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation, GW170817, revealed the origin of heavy elements, constrained the neutron star equation of state, and provided an independent measurement of the Hubble constant. Current detectors such as LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA capture only the final minutes of inspiral, offering limited advance warning and coa…

"Hello! I am an American syndicalist, and I study political science. If you're interested in international political history, philosophy or a rare dose of contemporary political analysis from a pro-Western perspective, this is the place for you."
—@thejaylino
https://www.youtube.com/@thejaylino

"Massive fungus from India is newly described species"
#India #Mushroom #Fungus

Massive fungus from India is newly described species
From the forests of northeast India’s Arunachal Pradesh state, researchers have described a new-to-science species of fungus with “exceptionally large” fruiting bodies that can hold the weight of a person. The species is named Bridgeoporus kanadii in honor of Indian mycologist Kanad Das for his contributions to Indian macrofungi. The researchers led by Arvind Parihar, […]

Cuckoo eggs match the eggs of their adoptive hosts thanks to (mostly) loci inherited from their mothers, who put them there — impressive multifaceted genomic study #science

Open science hymn.
Imagine no more journals
It's easy if you try.
No more rejections
No "publish or you'll die".
Imagine everybody
Having access to your work.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join me And the world'll be a better one

Generalization and the Rise of System-level Creativity in Science
Hongbo Fang, James Evans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03240 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0324…

Generalization and the Rise of System-level Creativity in Science
Innovation ecosystems require careful policy stewardship to drive sustained advance in human health, welfare, security and prosperity. We develop new measures that reliably decompose the influence of innovations in terms of the degree to which each represents a field-level foundation, an extension of foundational work, or a generalization that synthesizes and modularizes contributions from distant fields to catalyze combinatorial innovation. Using 23 million scientific works, we demonstrate tha…

Six US Surgeons General, Democratic and Republican—including one appointed by Trump is his first term—spoke out with one voice to condemn anti-science HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
#uspol

Toward Robust URL Extraction for Open Science: A Study of arXiv File Formats and Temporal Trends
Rochana R. Obadage, Lamia Salsabil, Sawood Alam, Bipasha Banarjee, William A. Ingram, Edward A. Fox, Jian Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04759

Toward Robust URL Extraction for Open Science: A Study of arXiv File Formats and Temporal Trends
In this work, we study how URL extraction results depend on input format. We compiled a pilot dataset by extracting URLs from 10 arXiv papers and used the same heuristic method to extract URLs from four formats derived from the PDF files or the source LaTeX files. We found that accurate and complete URL extraction from any single format or a combination of multiple formats is challenging, with the best F1-score of 0.71. Using the pilot dataset, we evaluate extraction performance across formats …

The Discovery of a Large Active Wind from the Milky Way's Central #BlackHole: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10615 -> Missing wind from Milky Way’s giant black hole finally found: https://www.science.org/content/article/missing-wind-milky-way-s-giant-black-hole-finally-found - astronomers may have glimpsed a long-predicted wind of gas blowing out from Sagittarius A*.

PhD project in structural #geology at Stockholm University, for areas in the Scandinavian Caledonides and the European Alps ⚒️
https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:862389/

PhD student in Structural geology
The Department of Geological Sciences is part of the Faculty of Science at Stockholm University. The department consists of approximately 80 teachers, researchers, doctoral students, and technical/adm

Trends in porous media laboratory imaging and open science practices
Na Liu, Jakub Wiktor Both, Geir Ersland, Jan Martin Nordbotten, Martin Fern{\o}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05190

Trends in porous media laboratory imaging and open science practices
Understanding processes in porous media is fundamental to a broad spectrum of environmental, energy, and geoscience applications. These processes include multiphase fluid transport, interfacial dynamics, reactive transformations, and interactions with solids or microbial components, all governed by wettability, capillarity, and reactive transport at fluid-fluid and fluid-solid interfaces. Laboratory-based multiscale imaging provides critical insights into these phenomena, enabling direct visual…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Extensional Taylor Expansion
Lison Blondeau-Patissier, Pierre Clairambault, Lionel Vaux Auclair

Not Even Wrong: On the Limits of Prediction as Explanation in Cognitive Science
Mark Orr, Drew Cranford, Ken Ford, Kevin Gluck, Will Hancock, Christian Lebiere, Pete Pirolli, Frank Ritter, Andrea Stocco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03311

Not Even Wrong: On the Limits of Prediction as Explanation in Cognitive Science
We offer a comment on the Centaur (Binz et al., 2025) transformer-based model of human behavior. In particular, Centaur was cast as a path towards unified theories of cognition. We offer a counter claim with supporting argument: Centaur is a path divergent from unified theories of cognition, one that moves towards a unified model of behavior sans cognition.

Die aktuellen Diskussionen um Techno-Solutionism und maschinelle Intelligenz haben eine Geschichte, die mindestens in das 19. zurückreicht. Ein Beispiel ist Samuel Butler namensgebend für die Ausrottung der Maschinen in Frank Herberts „Dune“, dem „Butlerian Jihad“:
> Butler mocks the prevailing Victorian attitude of the time—blind faith in science, reason, progress, and profit—as a "low materialistic point of view" that believes mindlessly adopting and advancing technolog…

On the Origins of Dune's Butlerian Jihad
Some notes on what should go in our own Orange Catholic Bible.

Initial recruitment of occipital cortex activation during mental target performance predicts training gain of mental aiming https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811925005737 motor imagery practice

@… First I've heard of this - very exciting! https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/jeremy-hansen-moon-1.7649455

In 4 months, Canadian Jeremy Hansen will blast off to the moon — where he'll also be a human guinea pig | CBC News
If all goes to plan, next February could see the return of humans to the moon. Four people — NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — will see it as no one has before. And they will also be collecting valuable health data on themselves.

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 3/5

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
DAYNA: Pretty?
TARRANT: Pretty familiar - Servalan.
AVON: Servalan.
TARRANT: Yes. She explained her survival.
DAYNA: And did she excuse it too?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/339 B7B6

"The Clue to Unlocking Parkinson’s May Be All Around Us"
Compelling arguments about chemical exposure being a vector for Parkinsons. Woven throughout is an infuriating thread of obstruction: chemical producers denying science similar to big tobacco, successful lobbying efforts 💰 to secure support from congress, and weakening US health government oversight.

Opinion | The Clue to Unlocking Parkinson’s May Be All Around Us
There is a growing mountain of imperfect but troubling evidence that pesticides and other chemicals may be behind the exploding rates of the disease.

From the BC Green Party
🌱 Take Real Climate Action: BC must meet its 2030 climate goals—stop fossil fuel subsidies and invest in renewables now.
https://click.email.bcgreens.com/?qs=55…

Climate Action Petition
Call on the BC government to meet its 2030 climate targets and stop subsidizing fossil fuels. Join the BC Greens in demanding bold, science-based climate action now.

Some recent news about the butterfly nebulae…. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_investigates_complex_heart_of_a_cosmic_butterfly
@…

Webb investigates complex heart of a cosmic butterfly
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details in the core of the Butterfly Nebula, NGC 6302. From the dense, dusty torus that surrounds the star hidden at the centre of the nebula to its outflowing jets, the Webb observations reveal many new discoveries that paint a never-before-seen portrait of a dynamic and structured planetary nebula.

Got this one from #springer - they're really want to fill their publications with slop. High quality articles with AI writing. No wonder people don't believe in science anymore.
F**king hate #ai #slop

»Wie viel Energie verschlingt ChatGPT?
Das Training von künstlicher Intelligenz benötigt jede Menge Energie. Das ist in Zeiten der Klimaerwärmung ein Problem.«
Und fast keine AI-User nehmen dies wahr, weil die Energieverschwendung nicht direkt in ihrem Zuhause ist. So entfernen wir uns auch von der Energiewende durch den überflüssigen stumpfen KI-Konsum — Marketing durch Verschweigung.
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Wie viel Energie verschlingt ChatGPT?
Das Training von künstlicher Intelligenz benötigt jede Menge Energie. Das ist in Zeiten der Klimaerwärmung ein Problem.

My colleague 🐘 Prof. M. Drouin receiving a science research award from my colleague emeritus R. Pippert
#PurdueFortWayne

Science Lab: Cowboys must extract vanilla from offense vs. Eagles https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-cowboys-must-extract-vanilla-from-offense-vs-eagles

Sources: Periodic Labs, which is building AI for material science, is raising $200M led by a16z, valuing the company at $1B before the investment (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

So to quote post in a reply, you click reply and then you click, under same post, yes in the timeline, the repost button and then quote and it inserts it into the reply post form you have already open?
What???
For the love of science Mastodon, hire proper user interface designers

JWST-TST DREAMS: NIRSpec/PRISM Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e / Secondary Atmosphere Constraints for the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e: #Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-looks-at-earth-sized-habitable-zone-exoplanet-trappist-1-e/

Brain structural plasticity in rats subjected to early binocular enucleation characterized by high resolution anatomical magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772516222000511

Very interesting looking paper: In tech we trust: A history of technophilia in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate mitigation expertise
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629625003615
Hopefully someone wil…

Ich habe mir die verschiedenen Postings und Threads zu Empfehlungen deutschsprachiger progressiver SF und Fantasy mal in meinem Blog gebookmarked - wenn es noch mehr Listen gibt, die ich da erwähnen könnte, nehme ich Ergänzungen gerne auf.
https://blog.till-westermayer.d…

Kurz: Queere, bunte, progessive Science Fiction
Teile der deutschen SF- und Fantasy-Szene bleiben mir fremd. Das mag auch mit Aktionen einer umtriebigen Autor*innen etc. - na gut, es sind vor allem Männer - zu tun haben, die sich bemüssigt fühlen, ein "Wuppertaler Manifest" aufzusetzen um die "Unterwanderung" der deutschsprachigen Science Fiction

Joshua trees make the cover of New Phytologist, for the issue with our paper, led by Karolina Heyduk, showing that they use water-saving CAM photosynthesis — but only sometimes #science

The European Commission outlines its Apply AI Strategy and AI in Science Strategy, aiming to speed up AI adoption in key industries and AI-driven research (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/eu…

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/06/jane-goodall-trump-elon-musk-putin
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p166#a251006p166

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Bridging LLM Planning Agents and Formal Methods: A Case Study in Plan Verification
Keshav Ramani, Vali Tawosi, Salwa Alamir, Daniel Borrajo

🤔 What exactly is “life?” Astrobiologists still have more questions than answers
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/what-exactly-is-life-astrobiologists-still-have-more-questions-than-answers/

What exactly is “life”? Astrobiologists still have more questions than answers
Our narrow, Earth-bound definitions of life could leave us blind to the Universe’s strangest forms on future space missions.

The U.S. Navy failed to alert the public to high levels of airborne radioactive material detected almost a year ago at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco
According to a notice warning community groups in neighborhoods around the defunct base,
the Navy notified the San Francisco Department of Public Health only this month about elevated levels of plutonium-239 found last November.
Community groups and at least one San Francisco supervisor called the 11-month…

Navy Took 11 Months to Alert SF to Airborne Plutonium at Hunters Point Shipyard Site | KQED
San Francisco officials and advocates are demanding answers after the U.S. Navy failed to alert the public to high levels of airborne radioactive material found last November.

Fraud, Al slop and huge profits: is science publishing broken?
https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/science-weekly/id136697669?l=en-GB&i=1000729635497

Fraud, AI slop and huge profits: is science publishing broken?
Podcast Episode · Science Weekly · 02/10/2025 · 18m

dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. 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. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

It is vital that we don't overestimate our understanding of human cognition.
Yes, there is reason to believe we have a better grasp of some things than when AI hype first appeared in the 1950s, but that better understanding is not clear, and almost certainly isn't on the basis of simple computation

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
BLAKE: Where in Zone Nine?
ZEN: The freighter is on course for the only habitable planet in Zone Nine.
BLAKE: Which is?
ZEN: Code-named Horizon.
BLAKE: "Horizon"?
AVON: Code-named by whom?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/34

Science Lab: Cowboys must extract vanilla from offense vs. Eagles https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-cowboys-must-extract-vanilla-from-offense-vs-eagles

Hi Bluesky! 👋 #datascience, broadly defined, like network science, computational social science, geospatial data science.

dblp_coauthor_snap: DBLP authors (2012)
A coauthorship network extracted from the DBLP computer science manuscript database, in 2012. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of computer scientists and their publications.
This network has 425957 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted, Metadata, Projection

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Deciding the Existence of Interpolants and Definitions in First-Order Modal Logic
Agi Kurucz, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyaschev

A community science project finds that
⭐️ modest reminders to find joy in the day
✅ can have benefits that are on par with those of more ambitious well-being interventions
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-small…

How Small, Easy Acts of Joy Improve Happiness and Well-Being
A community science project finds that modest reminders to find joy in the day can have benefits that are on par with those of more ambitious well-being interventions

🚜 One-time nitrogen application boosts ammonia emissions in maize fields
#nitrogen

One-time nitrogen application boosts ammonia emissions in maize fields
Recently, a research team in the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed that one-time nitrogen (N) application, a labor-saving practice favored by many farmers, increases both soil and canopy ammonia (NH3) emissions in maize fields, while reducing grain yield and nitrogen use efficiency.

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
[JENNA looks through the bars at the prisoner, then walks back through the holding cell. BLAKE is asleep on a single bed. Someone is stealing his watch while he sleeps. It is VILA. VILA attempts to steal something from BLAKE'S pocket. BLAKE wakes up and pushes VILA to the floor.]
VILA: Easy! Take it easy! I hate personal violence, especially when I'm the person.

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Analog and Symbolic Computation through the Koopman Framework
Francesco Caravelli, Jean-Charles Delvenne

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By “accusing powerful people of doing things in secret for their own benefit, against the common good,”
RFK Jr is trafficking in conspiracy theories,
according to Joseph E. Uscinski, a political scientist at the University of Miami who studies the phenomenon.
Having a top government official contradicting science is
“a serious, serious problem,”
Professor Uscinkski said,
“because the hope is that,
in a free society,
you develop expertise and me…

RFK Jr., Rejecting Vaccine Data, Fuels Distrust of Public Health Agencies
By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is pursuing transparency.

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
PELLA: [Having entered unnoticed] Yes, Avon, why?
AVON: I didn't.
PELLA: Your finger was on the trigger. YOU killed him.
AVON: I didn't, Pella. But YOU did, didn't you?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/392 B7B4

Network topological reorganization mechanisms of primary visual cortex under multimodal stimulation (in mice) https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1678035/full

Frontiers | Network topological reorganization mechanisms of primary visual cortex under multimodal stimulation
IntroductionThe functional connectivity topology of the primary visual cortex (V1) shapes sensory processing and cross-modal integration, yet how different s...

💢 How do drivers react to partisan bumper stickers? Understanding polarization in apolitical settings
#science

Frontiers | How do drivers react to partisan bumper stickers? Understanding polarization in apolitical settings
IntroductionThe impact of political polarization is no longer confined to the voting booth, and partisan identity can shape behavior even in seemingly apolit...

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
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- Ordinal Exponentiation in Homotopy Type Theory
Tom de Jong, Nicolai Kraus, Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg, Chuangjie Xu

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Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: The way we're using power, it'll be sooner.
CALLY: What will happen to the ship?
AVON: The forces inside that will not merely destroy us, they will annihilate us.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/310 B7B3

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
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- Subvarieties of pointed Abelian l-groups
Filip Jankovec
https://

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: You WILL leave it.
GLYND: Why not, it's already served its purpose in uniting us for the common cause. [Blake hands the box to Avon]
BLAKE: Acclaim it for that.
https://

As he approaches his final summit as the UN chief,
António Guterres reflects on
humanity’s progress in attempting to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels,
why Indigenous voices must be listened to
and how he remains positive in the face of the climate crisis.
https://…

‘We must change course’: a stark climate warning from the UN chief
Podcast Episode · Science Weekly · 11/04/2025 · 16m

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
GAN: There. [Avalon takes the phial out of the tunic and holds it up, dropping the tunic]
JENNA: [Entering from the corridor] Gan, that's not Avalon. [Avalon drops the phial and it lands on her tunic. She struggles with Jenna and Gan, but is obviously stronger than they are. Blake and Vila arrive and the four of them overpower her.]

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
TARRANT: [OOV] Tarrant to Scorpio. We're ready for teleport.
VILA: About time.
AVON: Stand by for teleport. Slave where are those cruisers now?
SLAVE: Sector Twelve, Master. You outmanoeuvred them with consumate skill.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/490

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.

Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
AVON: But I shouldn't imagine it's much use to you now. You'll just have to confess and pay up.
TARRANT: [Into comm.] We're ready, Vila.
KEILLER: Avon, what about me?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/406 B7B4