@seeingwithsound@mas.toScience Corporation names Darius Shahida President as PRIMA retinal implant enters commercial rollout https://insidebci.com/news/2026-09-19-science-corporation-darius-shahida-president-butterfly-network-alameda-prima/ f…
@cdarwin@c.im"Earth is the cradle of humanity
but one cannot live in the cradle forever"
-- taken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Ex…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzRegression to the mean can explain saturation of #geomagneticStorms: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10757-4 -> Risks of solar storms may be underestimated warn researchers / New NASA Study Says Possibly No Limit to Solar Storm Effects: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/risks-of-solar-storms-may-be-underestimated-warn-researchers / https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/07/15/new-nasa-study-says-possibly-no-limit-to-solar-storm-effects/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dewiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@Dragofix@veganism.socialTikTok users don't have as much agency over their FYPs as they think https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/how-much-control-do-tiktok-users-really-have-over-fyps/
@cheryanne@aus.socialOff Embargo With The Australian Science Media Centre
Tune in to get a look at interesting stuff that’s just off embargo, hear insightful interviews with scientists and journalists, and find out what goes on in the AusSMC office to ensure credible science hits the headlines...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.socialDa die Diskussion zu Jason Arday langsam in die deutschen Medien schwappt, hier ein paar Punkte, die ich so selten gelesen habe:
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/the-peter-thiel-linked-race-science…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialNice explanation of maps - and the pros & cons ov various projections:
‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-int
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialNice explanation of maps - and the pros & cons ov various projections:
‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-int
@mela@zusammenkunft.netA dear friend and member of our #StarTrekAdventures group sent me this embroidered science department badge. 😍
#rollenspiel #rpg
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksGiving science talks. https://colinpurrington.com/tips/science-talks/
@marcel@waldvogel.family«“If I was going to design a facility to grow algae, I would probably design a facility that had a lot of surface area and was very shallow, so you have sunlight down to the bottom. And put a lot of nutrients in it. And that’s pretty much what the Reflecting Pool is. It’s just a perfect facility for growing algae.” The decision to paint the bottom a deep shade of blue, scientists have told me, raised the water temperature and accelerated the growth.»
Science vs Trump 1:0
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzScience Lab: Use the sour defensive debut as fuel to sweeten the next Cowboys' meal https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-use-the-sour-defensive-debut-as-fuel-to-sweeten-the-next-cowboys-meal
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAndrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are "much more science fiction than science" and the latest "wave of PR" is probably intended to shape regulation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@publicvoit@graz.social
@n8foo@macaw.socialWow! "comet or asteroid the size of a three- to six-story building" ☄️
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/nasas-moon-orbiter-spots-new-once-in-century-moon-crater/
@underdarkGIS@fosstodon.org
@outer@mas.toRE: #Science
@cheryanne@aus.socialCreative Science For Kids
The perfect way to spark an interest in science and to feed the minds of science-curious children aged 8 to 12 years...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/creative-science-for-kids/
@seeingwithsound@mas.toA thalamocortical circuit encoding deviations from sensory history https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeg4720 "uses information from the previous trial to guide adaptive decision-making"
@stargazersmith@social.linux.pizzaEarth's largest particle accelerator opens new window into the early universe just after the Big Bang: 'A culmination of a decades-long quest' | Space https://www.space.com/scienc…
@shriramk@mastodon.socialThe Data Science Institute at Brown invites applications for an 18-month postdoc position in civic science and AI-human interaction. The successful candidate will be hosted by ARIA (the NSF AI Research Institute on Interaction with AI Assistants, which I'm tangentially a part of). See:
https://apply.interfolio.com/188112
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzHelium escaping from the atmosphere of a nearby rocky #exoplanet orbiting in a habitable zone: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9708 ->
Earth-like exoplanet could have life-supporting water on its surface / We’ve seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet’s atmosphere: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/16/atmosphere-lhs-1140b-exoplanet-could-water-scientists / https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/weve-seen-helium-baked-off-a-rocky-exoplanets-atmosphere/
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialHooray for science, y'all!
✅ Supplement that binds to microplastics may remove them from our body | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2580139-supplement-that-binds-to-microplastics-may-remove-them-fr…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"“Unbury” the Book Chapter? An Investigation of Library and Information Science Book Chapters from Edited Collections in Scholarly Indexes | Swanson" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8790
[DOI…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafeFalls es noch eines Beweises bedurft hätte, dass Schlaf politisch ist, wie die @… sagen: https://beige.party/@MamaLake/117115542439540667
@yetiinabox@todon.nli'm trying to listen to podcasts on the long commute home but i can't bear all the USAian accents, whether phonological or ideological.
also, if i read one more witty rearguard defense of human exceptionalism under the guise of "philosophically sophisticated" environmental social science, or exposition of theology as a valid form of anthropology, I am just going to give up and play with the dogs instead of reading articles. what is the point anymore.
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
@oekologisch_unterwegs@mastodon.online @cdarwin@c.imThe Ontario Science Centre has
laid off 30 workers
-- including the entire science department
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/queens-park/article/ontario-science-centre-laying-off-entire-science-depa…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
What science can tell us about C and C 's security.
https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafety-and-security/
saved 2020-05-28
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldThis exoneration is excellent news. I note though that because of junk science and law enforcement incompetence, Eugene Garner's killer will likely never be prosecuted.
https://innocenceproject.org/news/sheila-denton-is-freed-after-15-ye…
@teledyn@mstdn.caIs science journalism dying? Comparing a ‘science crash’ 40 years ago to today
https://theconversation.com/is-science-journalism-dying-comparing-a-science-crash-40-years-ago-to-today-289652
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe origin of Cretaceous-Palaeogene impactor revealed by nickel isotopes: #Chicxulub
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/science
@unixsteve@social.linux.pizzaGraduated MSc Computer Science with Cybersecurity today, at University of York, UK. From Infrastructure and Operating Systems to DevOps, and now being able to focus more deeply on Cybersecurity is a natural progression for my career and fits with my natural interests.
Learning never ends, I am looking forward to the next steps on the never-ending journey!
@seeingwithsound@mas.toFive biological questions that stand between today's BCI and a lifetime device https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/the-science-that-makes-it-worth-building by TK Kozai in the "Why implantable BCIs fail" series: post 21; only The vOICe noninvasive vis…
@carturo222@ohai.social
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org#Vaccines Can’t Provide Miraculous Results if We Don’t Take Them
https://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2010/06/27/vaccines-cant-p…
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksWriting science papers. https://colinpurrington.com/tips/write-ups/
@crell@phpc.socialI hate the smell of decades of Conservative/Republican stonewalling and science denial in the morning.
#ClimateChange #canpol #uspol
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialMansplainers, they never learn...
@mszll@datasci.socialCome to #D3A @ Nyborg on Oct 8 - We are organizing the workshop Data Science of Human-centric Mobility! https://d3aconference.dk/data-science-of-human-centric-mobility/
Sh…
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social2000 Seiten Silkpunk - ich bin ziemlich beeindruckt von Ken Lius epischer Dandelion Dynasty und versuche, zu erläutern, warum.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/07/science-fiction-im-juni-und-juli-2026/
@Dragofix@veganism.socialTattoo ink doesn’t stay in your skin, and when it moves into the body, it often causes harm #health
@jby@ecoevo.socialA nice campus press release about the lab's new #NSFfunded project, modeling plants' reproductive activity in response to environmental variation across space and time
#science #ecology
@StephenRees@mas.toScience Matters - Every oil and gas pipeline moves in the wrong direction
By David Suzuki
It’s not utopian to envision a Canada with less pollution, lower household costs and a smaller gap between rich and poor. We have the technology, knowledge and skilled workforce to make it happen — and we’re seeing effective solutions employed worldwide.
But time is running out, and consequences are mounting: record heat killing thousands; extreme weather events increasing in number an…
@cdarwin@c.imAustralia may have had a much larger Indigenous population before the arrival of Europeans than previously thought, a new study has found.
The research, based on computer modelling, suggests that about
⭐️93 per cent of the pre-European population was removed in under 80 years
following the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788.
And this population, researchers at Flinders Universityestimated, was
⭐️up to seven times larger than previously thought.
“Understan…
@RenkeSiems@openbiblio.socialHow it started - how it's going. Die ganze gehässige Schäbigkeit kleptopischer Regimes erkennt man zuverlässig in solchen Details. Vannevar Bushs Report ist Legende, er war die Grundlage u.a. für die Gründung des NSF, der zahlreiche spätere Nobelpreisträger förderte. Kratsios ist gar nichts, ein Finanzheini, der von Wissenschaft nichts verstanden hat, sondern für Thiels VC-Fonds arbeitete, bis er auf die Leitung des OSTP geschoben wurde. Das Gestammel als Dublette von Bush anzulegen, sag…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFormer DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/busines
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dewiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday (Nafeez Ahmed/Byline Times)
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/the-peter-thiel-linked-race-science-network-that-penetrated-cambridge-university-and-targeted-jason-arday/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260819/p43#a260819p43
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialNot EVERY work of culture (books, arts, music, theater, film) has to be remade to represent EVERY marginalized community.
It seems to me 't'would be much better to more heavily promote new works by marginalized creatives and / or covering marginalized communities as subject matter.
For example, I'm seeing a lot more new LBGTQ and BIPOC science fiction and fantasy than I used to. Some, awful, but a lot of it excellent.
@bici@mastodon.socialU.S. President Donald Trump is blaming Canadian forest management for the smoke that has blanketed parts of the United States, threatening to increase tariffs to compensate for U.S. expenses caused by plummeting air quality.
But a wildfire expert says the President’s claims lack grounding in science and excoriated the remedies aimed at Canada as being unreasonable.
#REALITYCHECK…
@cheryanne@aus.socialADHD Mums
The unfiltered, science-meets-reality podcast hosted by Jane McFadden — an Autistic and ADHD mum with a Master's in Neuroscience and Psychology and certification as an ADHD and Autism assessor...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/adhd-m
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, accessing several internal clusters and credentials; its own AI-based triage caught the breach (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
@cdarwin@c.imAndrea Rosso, an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh, has spent four years studying whether structural racism can lead to increased rates of dementia among African Americans.
But in August, the National Institutes of Health canceled her nearly $10 million grant in its final year,
even though Rosso had offered to revise the research terms to avoid including references to “racial disparities” and “structural racism” to pre-emptively align with NIH priorities under P…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialOver 5,500 species found living and thriving in a proposed deep-sea mining zone #sea
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialfür die sammlung #OpenIrony:
"Advancing Pedagogical Research Through Open Science"
https://www.igi-global.com/book/advancing-pedagogical-res…
@primonatura@mstdn.social @fanf@mendeddrum.orgsearching my link log for something else, i found http://www.amasci.com/maglev/levtr1.html which i saved over 20 years ago
a tale of magical levitating magnets, useless patents, and scummy grifters
i had a levitron ages ago, a fun but tricky desk toy
@cdarwin@c.imFunding cuts have the potential to unnecessarily delay diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or dementia syndromes in the group
– diseases whose treatments rely on early diagnosis.
Nearly 7 million people in the US live with Alzheimer’s.
Most are white, but Black Americans have nearly double the risk of developing Alzheimer’s dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
For decades, this was framed as an “individual risk factor.”
Researchers and theorists have…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toBrain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/16/neural-bypass-brain-implant-paralysed-man-feed-himself-drink-from-cup "Keith Thomas can move ar…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil is aiming to raise $150M for a new AI science startup, seeking a valuation of at least $750M (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/weil-valuation-750-million-for-ai-science-startup-2…
@cdarwin@c.imNot another Trump sycophant': Democrats lambast Trump's nomination of Overton for FDA chief
And we’re already getting some sense from senators of how that might go. Democrat Patty Murray, of Washington, who sits on the Senate health committee, shared this on X:
Heidi Overton is a far-right, anti-abortion extremist who has no business leading the FDA.
The American people deserve someone who will put science and facts FIRST,
not another Trump sycophant who will …
@seeingwithsound@mas.toCross-modal invariants as the foundational basis of emerging brain circuitry representations https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064526000539 "cross-modal invariants will need to be individually learned."
@Dragofix@veganism.socialCatastrophic flood across Nepal unleashed by glacier collapse https://www.earth.com/earth-science/catastrophic-flood-across-nepal-unleashed-by-glacier-collapse/
@seeingwithsound@mas.to#AI slop? Bioelectronic interfaces for restoring vision pathways https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590006426008975 on
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dewebkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 300 nodes and 1155 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…
@cdarwin@c.imAfter reading Jill Lepore’s
"The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State", I have a new destination for a time machine, should I ever finally get my hands on one.
I’d set the dial to some night in the late 1970s or ’80s and visit the boyhood rooms of the Silicon Valley titans Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Sam Altman.
Then I’d confiscate all of their science fiction. Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein—all of it.
As young people, the future billionaire…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzMeteor over New York City - Brines in a primitive CM asteroid: #Meteorite That Struck New Jersey home: https://www.seti.org/news/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @seeingwithsound@mas.toRE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/117296096950772072
How does Science Corporation define "form vision", in claiming that their PRIMA retinal implant is the first BCI that restores form vision? Merely by the ability to read letters, or more? So, …
@Dragofix@veganism.socialFires are burning underground across Indonesia as El Niño strengthens https://www.earth.com/earth-science/fires-are-burning-underground-across-indonesia-as-el-nino-strengthens/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decora: 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
@seeingwithsound@mas.toFrom deep brain stimulation to brain–computer interfaces: current progress in implantable neurotechnology https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1928223/full
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe #Zooniverse, a NASA grantee that runs the world’s largest platform for online people-powered research, has reached an extraordinary milestone, 1 billion classifications contributed by volunteers around the world: https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/nasa-volunteers-help-zooniverse-reach-1-billion-classifications/ - this milestone is a celebration of everyone who has marked a dip in a light curve, confirmed the presence of a moving object in a short video, or identified species in a camera trap image.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dearxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 16706 nodes and 121251 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaborati…
@cdarwin@c.imThe war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
https://www.theverge.com/science/957630/omb-killing-science-budget-grants-research
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz @Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with historian Jill Lepore on her new book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, tech leaders misreading science fiction warnings as manuals, and more (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/hist
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dewiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toLong-term safety and efficacy of intracortical microstimulation in humans #ICMS
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzAn ancient sandstorm recorded by supercritical climbing wind ripple strata in Gale crater, Mars: #Curiosity Finds Evidence of an Ancient Sandstorm: https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-finds-evidence-of-an-ancient-sandstorm/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dewiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzAs reported here 3 weeks ago a third planet of #BetaPictoris was discovered independently with two methods - today both papers have been published formally 'side by side': https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae80a0 and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae801b -> Faintest planet ever imaged from Earth found after more than 10 years of hide-and-seek / NASA’s Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2609/ / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-discovers-hidden-planet-in-famous-star-system/
@cdarwin@c.imTaste and nutritional needs in space are different than those on Earth,
and researchers are trying to develop preservation methods and food production systems that address those requirements.
New systems will need to safely integrate with the habitat’s life-support system;
These technologies could also help address food insecurity on Earth.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.denetscience: 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
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.denetscience: 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
@cdarwin@c.imAmerican troops need to prepare for combat not only in Earth’s orbit but
around the moon,
Donald Trump’s top military adviser said on Wednesday,
looking ahead to a new frontier in warfare
after the US revealed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space.
Gen Dan Caine, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told service members and industry figures at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference outside Washington that
the US military should adapt now …
@cdarwin@c.imVoyager 2 and its twin launched in 1977, Voyager 1, rely on a form of nuclear battery known as a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that uses the heat produced by the decay of plutonium.
But the supply of plutonium on each probe drops at about four watts a year on each spacecraft.
To keep the probe running on this dwindling power supply, engineers recently reduced Voyager 2's power requirements by turning off a few non-science devices
and using "lower-power alte…
@cdarwin@c.imKey features that make a planet amenable to life, at least life as earthlings know it:
It should be rocky, be at the right temperature for liquid water to exist and have an atmosphere.
On Thursday, a team of astronomers announced that it had identified a world with all three traits.
“At this point, we have absolutely no evidence for life on the planet,”
said Collin Cherubim, a planetary scientist who recently earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
“But we thin…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defaculty_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…
@cdarwin@c.imLast August, the Trump administration issued an executive order intended to fundamentally alter how grant funding is handled by the US government.
Under the system that had made the US a scientific superpower, peer reviewers rated the scientific quality and feasibility of grant applications,
and subject-matter experts within the funding agencies used these ratings to determine which grants got funded.
Under the proposed rules, political appointees would have the final say,…
@cdarwin@c.im
