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Science statt Fiction: Wie Mars-Fotos mit Mythen aufräumten
Mit der Vorstellung von Marsmännchen war es spätestens 1965 vorbei. Damals sendete die US-Sonde Mariner 4 erstmals Bilder vom Roten Planeten.
https://w…

The US NSF and Nvidia partner to fund the Open Multimodal Infrastructure to Accelerate Science project, led by Ai2; NSF is contributing $75M and Nvidia $77M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/14/nsf-nvidi…

NSF and Nvidia partner develop fully open AI models to lead US science innovation - SiliconANGLE
NSF and Nvidia partner develop fully open AI models to lead US science innovation - SiliconANGLE

"How a New Data Platform Sheds Light on #OpenScience #Funding" @ Katina Magazine:

"This convening is not an isolated event. It’s the first step in scaling a movement that reimagines how values-driven open science organisations can grow together, share resources, and strengthen the ecosystem we collectively serve. By working together, we can ensure that the future of open science is not only innovative, but also equitable, sustainable, and resilient."
https://www.carpentries.org/blog/2025/09/convening-to-reclaim-and-sustain-open-science-communities/
Great to see this forward looking collaborative work being done by @… @… @… @… and OLS

#LB Eu acho que realmente preciso ler Terry Pratchett rs.
https://frikiverse.zone/@terrybot/115036206410170877

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

"“Day science is the executive part. You have the idea and to test it, you do controlled experiments,” says Yanai. “Night science is the world of creativity, the world of ideas"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01913-3

Cool, Neuralink might soon be able to read passwords from your brain - what could possibly go wrong? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/science/brain-neuroscience-computers-speech.html NYT: For some patients, the 'inner voice' may soon be audi…

For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible
In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying.

🍐 When scientists share their failures, the public trusts them more
#science

When scientists share their failures, the public trusts them more
In an age where trust in science often feels like it's teetering on a fault line, new research from the University of Michigan offers a simple but powerful insight: When scientists share their struggles—especially their failures—they may actually earn more public trust.

Ah. So, they're musicians and dancers... 😉
#science

Sonic Swarms: How Tiny Robots Use Sound to Think and Move Like One - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

"Margaret Boden, a British philosopher and cognitive scientist who used the language of computers to explore the nature of thought and creativity, leading her to prescient insights about the possibilities and limitations of artificial intelligence, died on July 18."
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.

In his op ed in the WaPo,
Jay Bhattacharya has shown that he should not be taken seriously. He’s DEFINITELY not a real scientist.
If people don’t like science should we ignore the potential it has?
That’s not how it works.
Science doesn’t care about your feelings.
https://

IP over ice blocks
Wissenschaftler entdecken eine Möglichkeit, wie man mittels Luftbläschen im Eis Nachrichten kodieren und übertragen kann.
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(25)00221-8

Globalisierung, 7. Jh. https://www.science.org/content/article/youths-buried-anglo-saxon-cemeteries-carried-west-african-dna

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to challenges in transport policy research: Towards ANSWERing questions regarding life, mobility, and everything
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856425002782
Looks interesting, and cool paper title! 🤓

from my link log —
Analyzing the memory ordering models of the Apple M1.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383762124000390
saved 2025-09-09

Q&A with researcher Petter Törnberg on his pre-print study showing how social media's structural architecture creates problematic outcomes like echo chambers (Jennifer Ouellette/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-medi…

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

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
https://ift.tt/pbAHvF4
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction and Horror Editor: Gregory Stevenson, York University The genres of Science-Fiction and Horror ha…

GW231123 - a Binary Black Hole Merger with Total Mass 190-265 M_Sun: #BlackHole binary detected through gravitational waves: https://ligo.org/science-summaries/gw231123/ -> event: https://ligo.org/detections/gw231123 / conference slides: https://scicomm.xyz/@LIGO/114852330415127843 / Gravitational waves from massive black holes challenge current astrophysical models: https://ligo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Press-release-for-GW231123-discovery-paper-final.pdf

NIH leader fired amid probe of contract used in attempt to hire spouse, officials say (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/07/15/nih-leader-fired-amid-contract-probe/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p139#a250715p139

University of Edinburgh School of Political Science graduates stage mass walk out at graduation ceremony to protest university’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AlJazeera/s/G9teVzIYZJ

Smarter Staub: Wie millimetergroße Computer unsere Welt unbemerkt vermessen
"Smarter Staub" ist keine Science-Fiction mehr: Winzige Sensoren könnten in Zukunft unsere Umwelt unbemerkt überwachen.

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
AVON: But not without a gun.
DORIAN: That's right, Soolin.
[Soolin examines her gun.]
SOOLIN: You're right. I did underestimate you, my dear.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/484 B7B4

"The Open Science Cookbook" #OpenScience
[why on earth is ALA unable to publish the open access version properly with…

The (R)evolution of Scientific Workflows in the Agentic AI Era: Towards Autonomous Science
Woong Shin, Renan Souza, Daniel Rosendo, Fr\'ed\'eric Suter, Feiyi Wang, Prasanna Balaprakash, Rafael Ferreira da Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09915

The (R)evolution of Scientific Workflows in the Agentic AI Era: Towards Autonomous Science
Modern scientific discovery increasingly requires coordinating distributed facilities and heterogeneous resources, forcing researchers to act as manual workflow coordinators rather than scientists. Advances in AI leading to AI agents show exciting new opportunities that can accelerate scientific discovery by providing intelligence as a component in the ecosystem. However, it is unclear how this new capability would materialize and integrate in the real world. To address this, we propose a conce…

Wyoming crowd boos Rep. Hageman retort that protections against greenhouse gases based on ‘false science’
https://wyofile.com/wyoming-crowd-boos-hageman-retort-that-protections-against-greenhouse-gases-based-on-false-sci…

Wyoming crowd boos Hageman retort that protections against greenhouse gases based on ‘false science’
U.S. Rep. Hageman's comment didn't go over well in Pinedale, where residents struggled for years to clean up health-threatening pollution from oil and gas drilling.

If you think you're doing science, ask yourself: are you bored shitless? If not, it's not science. It's something else.

We have a slate of jobs opening up - apologies, only have a LinkedIn link for now: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delyno-dutoit_city-of-cape-town-jobs-linkedin-activity-7361684604451221504-hJb1
Will update and do a lon…

New positions in the City of Cape Town Data Analytics Hub! | Delyno du Toit
New positions in the City of Cape Town Data Analytics Hub! The Hub is the next chapter for our highly successful Data Science team, expanding its mission to be the nerve center for data-driven strategy and innovation across our entire organization. What if your next data product could help manage a City's water supply or your models make public transport more efficient? We are looking for curious and talented individuals to join us. We have several open positions: -) Head: Data Science -) H…

The State of Computational Science in Fission and Fusion Energy
Andrea Morales Coto, Aditi Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08061 https://

The State of Computational Science in Fission and Fusion Energy
The tools used to engineer something are just as important as the thing that is actually being engineered. In fact, in many cases, the tools can indeed determine what is engineerable. In fusion and fission1 energy engineering, software has become the dominant tool for design. For that reason, in 2024, for the first time ever, we asked 103 computational scientists developing the codes used in fusion and fission energy about the problems they are attempting to solve with their codes, the tools av…

RAD@home citizen science discovery of two spiral galaxies where the 30-220 kpc radio lobes are possibly shaped by ram pressure stripping
Prakash Apoorva, Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, P. K. Navaneeth, Dhruv Nayak, Arundhati Purohit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09518

RAD@home citizen science discovery of two spiral galaxies where the 30-220 kpc radio lobes are possibly shaped by ram pressure stripping
We report the RAD@home citizen science discovery of two rare spiral-host radio galaxies (NGC 3898 and WISEA J221656.57-132042434.1 or RAD-"Thumbs up" galaxy), both exhibiting asymmetric radio lobes extending over 30 to 220 kiloparsec scales. We present a multi-wavelength image analysis of these two sources using radio, optical, and ultraviolet data. Both host galaxies are young, star-forming systems with asymmetric or distorted stellar disks. These disks show similarities to those in galaxies u…

Let's workshopping some new science:
https://youtube.com/shorts/z4CMTkEnwPI?si=u2hzbluIQrR8qqFp

Generative AI in Science: Applications, Challenges, and Emerging Questions
Ryan Harries, Cornelia Lawson, Philip Shapira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08310 h…

Generative AI in Science: Applications, Challenges, and Emerging Questions
This paper examines the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) on scientific practices, conducting a qualitative review of selected literature to explore its applications, benefits, and challenges. The review draws on the OpenAlex publication database, using a Boolean search approach to identify scientific literature related to GenAI (including large language models and ChatGPT). Thirty-nine highly cited papers and commentaries are reviewed and qualitatively coded. Results are cat…

(Footnote: code that only has to run once is a different beast from code that has to work in a production environement. I’ve noticed a mismatch between data science / research types using LLMs to jump start one-off code and developers writing code for unknown end users / prod env. Serious pitfalls in both cases, but different pitfalls. Understanding that mismatch may help some of these conversation be less unreasonable!)
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I saw a shooting star 🌠 last night.
There may be even more today, keep your eyes open! 🤩
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/aug/12/stargazers-prepare-for-meteor-shower-of-the-year-as-the-perseids-peak

Connecting the blind to groundbreaking #BCI vision restoration technology through Science Corporation's patient registry for retinal diseases https://science.xyz/news/science-patient-registry-a…

Connecting the Blind to Groundbreaking BCI Vision Restoration Technology Through Science Corporation’s Patient Registry for Retinal Diseases | Science Corporation
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CE/new
[1/1]:
- Toward Open Earth Science as Fast and Accessible as Natural Language
Marquita Ellis, Iksha Gurung, Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian, Rahul Ramachandran

Potential science with GW250114 -- the loudest binary black hole merger detected to date
Aleyna Aky\"uz, Alex Correia, Jada Garofalo, Keisi Kacanja, Labani Roy, Kanchan Soni, Hung Tan, Vikas Jadhav Y, Alexander H. Nitz, Collin D. Capano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08789

Potential science with GW250114 -- the loudest binary black hole merger detected to date
On January 14, 2025 the LIGO interferometers detected a gravitational wave from the merger of two black holes, GW250114. Using publicly available information, we estimate that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of GW250114 was $\sim 80$. This would make it three to four times louder than any other gravitational wave detected to date. GW250114 therefore offers a unique opportunity to make precise measurements of its source parameters and to test general relativity. In anticipation of its public dat…

Klimatforskare flyr till Marseille när Trump minskar anslagen #USA #science #climatechange

Klimatforskare flyr till Marseille när Trump skär i anslagen
Drastiskt neddragna forskningsanslag får hundratals klimatforskare, biologer och samhällsvetare i USA att söka sig till universitet i…

Science Lab: Was Kenny Clark the Cowboys' missing link? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-was-kenny-clark-the-cowboys-missing-link

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
https://ift.tt/lQjfWnF
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction and Horror Editor: Gregory Stevenson, York University The genres of Science-Fiction and Horror ha…

Kaleidoscope, a podcasting startup that focuses on adventure stories and other forms of narrative podcasting, raised a $5M Series A (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/13/2025/kaleidoscope-looks-to-be-the-national-ge…

Kaleidoscope looks to be the National Geographic of podcasting
The co-founders said they’ve seen a hunger among advertisers to be in front of quality content about science and tech.

Major wine regions could disappear from global warming, Europe to be hit especially hard - Science Feedback
https://science.feedback.org/major-wine-regions-could-disappear-from-global-warming-europe-to-be-hit-especially-hard/

Marc-Uwe Kling für SF-Preis nominiert
Deutscher Science-Fiction-Preis 2025: Marc-Uwe Kling ist mit Roman "Views" als "Bester deutschsprachiger Roman" nominiert.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-14.08.2025-marc-uwe-kling.html
F…

"Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures
Nigel Farage and his fellow Reform UK MPs, many of whom deny basic climate science, represent constituencies exposed to the worst effects of extreme heat, studies show. The UK has this week entered its fourth heatwave of 2025, with temperatures expected to rise to 33C on Thursday in what scientists have warned could become the […]

Optimal Inference of the Mean Outcome under Optimal Treatment Regime
Shuoxun Xu (Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China, Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA), Xinzhou Guo (Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China)

Optimal Inference of the Mean Outcome under Optimal Treatment Regime
When an optimal treatment regime (OTR) is considered, we need to evaluate the OTR in a valid and efficient way. The classical inference applied to the mean outcome under OTR, assuming the OTR is the same as the estimated OTR, might be biased when the regularity assumption that OTR is unique is violated. Although several methods have been proposed to allow nonregularity in such inference, its optimality is unclear due to challenges in deriving semiparametric efficiency bounds under potential non…

Terence Tao is often called the “Mozart of Math.”
A child prodigy born in Australia, Tao, 50, is now at the top of his field at the University of California at Los Angeles,
working in the rarefied realms of partial differential equations or harmonic analysis on problems so hard it may take a PhD to understand them.
But for the past few weeks, he’s been preoccupied with more run-of-the-mill pecuniary concerns: fundraising.

Being one of the world’s greatest mathematic…

The world’s greatest mathematician avoided politics. Then Trump cut science funding.
Terence Tao, a renowned mathematician at UCLA, faced funding challenges after the Trump administration froze federal research funds.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- From Thin Concurrent Games to Generalized Species of Structures (Extended Version)
Pierre Clairambault, Federico Olimpieri, Hugo Paquet

Discovery of Jet–Bubble–Disk Interaction - Jet Feedback on a #ProtoplanetaryDisk Via an Expanding Bubble in WSB 52: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/add47e -> Baby Star Sets off Explosion, Gets Caught in Blast: https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2025/20250805-alma.html

There's this fascination with what science is discovering about unexpected ecosystems, coupled with dismay at the changes we are causing without intent, thought, or (unfortunately) care. Until it's too late to stop what we are doing, to our own detriment

There's this fascination with what science is discovering about unexpected ecosystems, coupled with dismay at the changes we are causing without intent, thought, or (unfortunately) care. Until it's too late to stop what we are doing, to our own detriment

An Intelligent Infrastructure as a Foundation for Modern Science
Satrajit S. Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10051 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10051…

An Intelligent Infrastructure as a Foundation for Modern Science
Infrastructure shapes societies and scientific discovery. Traditional scientific infrastructure, often static and fragmented, leads to issues like data silos, lack of interoperability and reproducibility, and unsustainable short-lived solutions. Our current technical inability and social reticence to connect and coordinate scientific research and engineering leads to inefficiencies and impedes progress. With AI technologies changing how we interact with the world around us, there is an opportun…

NZ has a vast sea territory but lags behind other nations in protecting the ocean #NewZealand

NZ has a vast sea territory but lags behind other nations in protecting the ocean
For the past fortnight, the city of Nice in France has been the global epicenter of ocean science and politics.

Radial Pulsations in Polaris: A Secondary Science Application of Cherenkov Telescopes via Intensity Interferometry
Km Nitu Rai, Prasenjit Saha, Subrata Sarangi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09742

Radial Pulsations in Polaris: A Secondary Science Application of Cherenkov Telescopes via Intensity Interferometry
Ground-based Cherenkov telescopes, although typically inoperative during moonlit nights for gamma-ray observations, offer a valuable opportunity for secondary scientific applications through Intensity Interferometry (II). Recent developments and observations suggest that implementing II instrumentation on existing Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) or the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) can significantly advance optical stellar measurements. Motivated by the resurgence of II effor…

Here's my Boles Bells article about aging:
https://bolesbells.com/blog/2025/9/10/three-overlooked-secrets-to-aging-better-than-average-the-science-of-growing-stronger-with-age

Three Overlooked Secrets to Aging Better Than Average: The Science of Growing Stronger With Age — David Boles Bells
What strikes me most is how these patterns all share a common thread of deliberate discomfort: cognitive, physical, and social. The average person's relationship with discomfort fundamentally shifts somewhere between ages twenty five and thirty five, from seeing it as growth to viewing it as somethi

Feedback stabilization of a nanoparticle at the intensity minimum of an optical double-well potential
Vojt\v{e}ch Mlyn\'a\v{r} (Automation and Control Institute, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria), Salamb\^o Dago (University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria), Jakob Rieser (University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria), Mario A. Ciampini (University of Vienna, Facult…

Feedback stabilization of a nanoparticle at the intensity minimum of an optical double-well potential
In this work, we develop and analyze adaptive feedback control strategies to stabilize and confine a nanoparticle at the unstable intensity minimum of an optical double-well potential. The resulting stochastic optimal control problem for a noise-driven mechanical particle in a nonlinear optical potential must account for unavoidable experimental imperfections such as measurement nonlinearities and slow drifts of the optical setup. To address these issues, we simplify the model in the vicinity o…

"The Australian government argued ...it shouldn’t be bound by the best available science as a legal standard. " 🤔
https://theconversation.com/federal-court-rules-australia…

Federal Court rules Australian government doesn’t have a duty of care to protect Torres Strait Islanders from climate change
Two Traditional Owners from the Torres Strait Islands who took the Australian government to court over climate-related harms have lost their case.

#EroticMusings 16: Is there a setting or genre you’d like to create in, but haven’t? What’s holding you back?
That would be my idea "kinky science-fiction detective novels". Honestly, the issues the idea has (what is a crime in an utopian world, why would anyone commit it and how do I avoid writing copaganda) would be actually solvable.
But there is so much still to w…

cs_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

KV Cache Compression for Inference Efficiency in LLMs: A Review
Yanyu Liu (Shandong University of Science and Technology), Jingying Fu (Shandong University of Science and Technology), Sixiang Liu (Shandong University of Science and Technology), Yitian Zou (Shandong University of Science and Technology), You Fu (Shandong University of Science and Technology), Jiehan Zhou (Shandong University of Science and Technology), Shouhua Zhang (University of Oulu)

KV Cache Compression for Inference Efficiency in LLMs: A Review
Withtherapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), the context length for inference has been continuously increasing, leading to an exponential growth in the demand for Key-Value (KV) caching. This has resulted in a significant memory bottleneck, limiting the inference efficiency and scalability of the models. Therefore, optimizing the KV cache during inference is crucial for enhancing performance and efficiency. This review systematically examines current KV cache optimization technique…

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

Für die Samstagsnachmittagscrew nochmal der Link auf meine SF-/F-Lektüre aus dem Juni 2025 ... das eine oder andere wäre vielleicht auch als Urlaubslektüre geeignet.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2025/07/08/science-fic…

Science Fiction und Fantasy im Juni (und z.T. Juli) 2025
Eigentlich hatte ich mir vorgenommen, mir noch weitere Texte für den Hugo anzugucken und einen etwas differenzierteren Stimmzettel abzugeben. Heruntergeladen habe ich das Hugo-Voting-Paket schon mal, und bis zur finalen Abstimmung am 23. Juli ist eigentlich auch noch etwas Zeit. We will see. Bei der

from my link log —
Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
https://algassert.com/post/2500
saved 2025-09-01 https://dot…

According to the latest annual Nature Index, which tracks research institutions by their contributions to leading science journals,
the single remaining U.S. institution among the top 10 is Harvard,
in second place, far behind the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
A decade ago, C.A.S. was the only Chinese institution to figure in the top 10.
Now eight of the 10 leaders are in China.
If this does not constitute a Sputnik moment, it is hard to imagine what would.

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
As China threatens to overtake U.S. leadership in science and technology, America has responded by sabotaging its own engines of progress.

Mechanism of Alzheimer's disease treatment by sound and light stimulation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211383525001704 "The combination of sound and light stimulation can serve as new approaches for treating neurodegenerative diseases.…

RFK Jr. is super mad he can't make other countries sabotage science
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/12/2338020/-RFK-Jr-is-super-mad-he-can-t-make-other-countries-sabotage-science?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- State Algebra for Propositional Logic
Dmitry Lesnik, Tobias Sch\"afer
https…

Kennedy's case against mRNA vaccines collapses under his own evidence (Jake Scott/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/13/rfk-jr-mrna-vaccine-research-science-papers-justification-misreading/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p88#a250813p88

Construction workers are putting in the landscaping for the new Computer Science building across the street from my office
#photo #photography #building

Unifying equivalences across unsupervised learning, network science, and imaging/network neuroscience
Mika Rubinov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10045 https://

Unifying equivalences across unsupervised learning, network science, and imaging/network neuroscience
Modern scientific fields face the challenge of integrating a wealth of data, analyses, and results. We recently showed that a neglect of this integration can lead to circular analyses and redundant explanations. Here, we help advance scientific integration by describing equivalences that unify diverse analyses of datasets and networks. We describe equivalences across analyses of clustering and dimensionality reduction, network centrality and dynamics, and popular models in imaging and network n…

Mark Norell,
Who Studied Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds,
Dies at 68
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/science/earth/mark-norell-dead.html

Mark Norell, Who Studied Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds, Dies at 68
His expeditions, including many to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, yielded rare discoveries and led to exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History.

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

“Mind-Reading” Tech Decodes Inner Speech With Up to 74% Accuracy
[1/2]
#news

"Mind-Reading" Tech Decodes Inner Speech With Up to 74% Accuracy - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
KOMMISSAR: [O.O.V.] Your companions are still alive.
CALLY: I feel it. You killed him. You killed him because he would not obey you.
KOMMISSAR: What is she talking about?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/416 B7B3

from my link log —
Phil Rogaway on radical computer science.
https://csrc.nist.gov/Presentations/2023/radical-cs
saved 2025-01-14

Volcanic emission of reduced sulfur species shaped the climate of early Mars: #Mars Climate, Making It More Hospitable To Life: https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/09/volcanic-emissions-of-reactive-sulfur-gases-may-have-shaped-early-mars-climate-making-it-more-hospitable-to-life/

Carly Anne York: Taking “Silly Science” Seriously @ "Clear Vivid": https://clear-vivid-with-alan-alda.simplecast.com/episodes/carly-anne-york-taking-silly-science-seriously
– funny, a bit sad, and not …

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…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Verifying Quantized Graph Neural Networks is PSPACE-complete
Marco S\"alzer, Fran\c{c}ois Schwarzentruber, Nicolas Troquard

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third,
An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
shows the impact of the administration’s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs.
https://…

Klingt nach Science-Fiction, ist aber bald Realität: Das australische Unternehmen Electro Optic Systems (EOS) hat ein 100-kW-Hochenergielaser-System entwickelt, das gezielt gegen Drohnenschwärme eingesetzt werden kann. 🚀
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10516272…

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
CALLY: I think so, too.
AVON: They would have called in.
JENNA: Avon's right.
AVON: [Looks over at Jenna] I usually am.
JENNA: Blake says wait so we wait.
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Internal Heat Flux and Energy Imbalance of #Uranus: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL115660 -> Discovery is Unlocking Planetary Mysteries to Advance Space Exploration and Earth Science: https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2025/july/07142025-uranus-internal-heat-study.php

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Revisiting the Fast Fourier Transform in Rocq
Laurent Th\'ery (STAMP)
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Visual objects refine head direction coding (in mice) #neuroscience

cs_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

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
[Mori and a trooper enter flight deck, holding guns on Avon.]
MORI: Wrong. If they did that they would destroy the ship, and we don't want that, do we Avon. That battle command is coming in to corner you and if you don't let him I'm gonna kill you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/427…

Citizen Science im Bus: Amateure entdecken explodierenden Stern fast in Echtzeit
Im Rahmen des Projekts Kilonova Science kann jeder und jede zwischendurch mal eben nach explodierenden Sternen suchen. Nun gibt es eine erste große Entdeckung.

Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.
“It remains unclear under which circumstances, if any, a placebo-controlled clinical trial design is ethically justifiable when an efficacious or partially efficacious vaccine already exists,”
experts wrote in a 2013 World Health Organization report.
That means that even if a previou…

RFK Jr. wants all new vaccines tested against a placebo. Doctors say that isn’t good science
Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Why Cannot Large Language Models Ever Make True Correct Reasoning?
Jingde Cheng
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Transcranial focused ultrasound for identifying the neural substrate of conscious perception https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08517 Indeed I see long-term potential for phased-array tFUS as a visual prosthesis for the late-blind. The company Nudge is developing a phased-array tFUS helmet.

Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Identifying the Neural Substrate of Conscious Perception
Identifying what aspects of brain activity are responsible for conscious perception remains one of the most challenging problems in science. While progress has been made through psychophysical studies employing EEG and fMRI, research would greatly benefit from improved methods for stimulating the brain in healthy human subjects. Traditional techniques for neural stimulation through the skull, including electrical or magnetic stimulation, suffer from coarse spatial resolution and have limited ab…

Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.
“It remains unclear under which circumstances, if any, a placebo-controlled clinical trial design is ethically justifiable when an efficacious or partially efficacious vaccine already exists,”
experts wrote in a 2013 World Health Organization report.
That means that even if a previou…

RFK Jr. wants all new vaccines tested against a placebo. Doctors say that isn’t good science
Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
RENOR: Sorry, professor. [to Cally] Hello! This place is full of pretty girls.
KAYN: Prepare for immediate surgery, please.
RENOR: Right.
JENNA: I'll get out of your way.
KAYN: Won't need you either, Cally.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/456

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Tractable and Intractable Entailment Problems in Separation Logic with Inductively Defined Predic...
Mnacho Echenim, Nicolas Peltier

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
SERVALAN: Yes, of course. But why so formal, Rai? What can be so important that we can't discuss it in a more relaxed way? Oh, Rai, come here. [She beckons him to join her on a couch. Stroking his shoulder] Rai, I thought we were old friends.
[Servalan continues stroking his shoulder.]

Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and visual processing: ipRGCs beyond non-image-forming functions https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1635101/full What does this mean for retinal impl…

Frontiers | Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and visual processing: ipRGCs beyond non-image-forming functions
Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are relatively newly discovered photoreceptors other than rods and cones. For the last decade, p...

Inside science labs trying to survive in the Trump era
Anastasia Khvorova is perched at the edge of a massive scientific opportunity.
Her laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School deploys cutting-edge RNA biology with one aim:
to cure diseases — the ones that rob people of their memories or endanger pregnant women.

Lately, she sees peril all around her.

In the hallway, she bumps into one world-class chemist, then another, whose salaries…

Inside science labs trying to survive in the Trump era
Anastasia Khvorova’s lab at U-Mass. Chan Medical School shows how quickly the administration is dismantling an 80-year partnership that made the U.S. a scientific superpower.

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: I wish to make a statement.
ARBITER: There can be no more said regarding this case. The matter has been assessed and judgment made.
BLAKE: But the evidence is false. These charges are lies.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/215 B7B4

Time-frequency feature calculation of multi-stage audiovisual neural processing via electroencephalogram microstates https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1643554/full OK, so what does this mean for visua…

Frontiers | Time-frequency feature calculation of multi-stage audiovisual neural processing via electroencephalogram microstates
IntroductionAudiovisual (AV) perception is a fundamental modality for environmental cognition and social communication, involving complex, non-linear multise...

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
JENNA: He's not my type.
VILA: You can't afford to be choosy now!
JENNA: Why else would I be talking to you?
VILA: Thanks!
JENNA: Pleasure.
JENNA: [To Avon] What've you got there?