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🎭 Climate deniers' online strategy: Using scientific aesthetics to appear credible
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-climate-deniers-online-strategy-scientific.html

Climate deniers' online strategy: Using scientific aesthetics to appear credible
Climate deniers use scientific aesthetics to reinforce and legitimize their message. At the same time, their main opponents, the climate activists, are portrayed as emotional and irrational. This has been demonstrated by researchers from the Universities of Gothenburg and Amsterdam, who have studied how climate deniers communicate online. The results are published in Environmental Politics.

What the White House is calling the
"Genesis Mission" is to speed research and scientific discovery
by analyzing massive science, engineering, energy and health care data sets in the federal government, university and private sector
with supercomputing technology.
It's an AI initiative the White House hopes will result in quicker breakthroughs in areas of research including disease therapies. 
Michael Krastios, science adviser to the president, t…

Trump signs executive order launching "Genesis" mission to expedite scientific discovery using AI
A White House official called Genesis "the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program."

Interesting 15 min. read from Scientific American:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-quiet-demise-of-breakthrough-starshot-a-billionaires-interstellar
The article reads like a suspense story. The pr…

KI-Regulierung: Verband für Digitale Gesundheitsversorgung fordert Sonderweg
Um KI-Anwendungen in der Medizin schneller und sicherer auf den Markt zu bringen, hat der Branchenverband SVDGV eine eigene "Sandbox".

A Simple Data Augmentation Strategy for Text-in-Image Scientific VQA
Belal Shoer, Yova Kementchedjhieva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20119 https://arxiv.org/…

A Simple Data Augmentation Strategy for Text-in-Image Scientific VQA
Scientific visual question answering poses significant challenges for vision-language models due to the complexity of scientific figures and their multimodal context. Traditional approaches treat the figure and accompanying text (e.g., questions and answer options) as separate inputs. EXAMS-V introduced a new paradigm by embedding both visual and textual content into a single image. However, even state-of-the-art proprietary models perform poorly on this setup in zero-shot settings, underscorin…

Hierarchical Bayesian Operator-induced Symbolic Regression Trees for Structural Learning of Scientific Expressions
Somjit Roy, Pritam Dey, Debdeep Pati, Bani K. Mallick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19710

Hierarchical Bayesian Operator-induced Symbolic Regression Trees for Structural Learning of Scientific Expressions
The advent of Scientific Machine Learning has heralded a transformative era in scientific discovery, driving progress across diverse domains. Central to this progress is uncovering scientific laws from experimental data through symbolic regression. However, existing approaches are dominated by heuristic algorithms or data-hungry black-box methods, which often demand low-noise settings and lack principled uncertainty quantification. Motivated by interpretable Statistical Artificial Intelligence,…

The SymTFT for $N$-ality defects: Part I
Justin Kaidi, Xiaoyi Shi, Soichiro Shimamori, Zhengdi Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19429 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

The SymTFT for $N$-ality defects: Part I
In order to obtain the SymTFT for a theory with an $N$-ality extension of a discrete, Abelian group $G$, one begins by considering a bulk $G$-gauge theory, and then gauges an appropriate $\mathbb{Z}_N$ symmetry. This procedure involves three choices: the choice of a suitable bulk $\mathbb{Z}_N$ symmetry, of a fractionalization class, and of a discrete torsion. The first choice is, somewhat surprisingly, the most involved, and in this paper we discuss it in detail. In particular, we show that th…

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Sandy Baron:
🎵 Swingin' Santa
#SandyBaron
https://moochinaboutltd.bandcamp.com/track/swingin-santa

A scientifically important fMRI study of a deceased salmon won an IgNobel Prize a while back. It’s still important.
Bennett et al. "Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction" Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results, 2010

IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon study