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Comment Israël a traqué et assassiné les scientifiques du programme nucléaire iranien
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/07/07/comment-israel-a-traque-et-a…

Comment Israël a traqué et assassiné les scientifiques du programme nucléaire iranien
Les attaques israéliennes de juin ont tué 16 chercheurs de premier plan. Impliqués dans l’élaboration d’une bombe atomique par l’Iran, ils étaient, pour certains, sous la loupe des renseignements israéliens depuis vingt ans. Avec leur disparition, l’Etat hébreu pense avoir porté le coup le plus décisif au programme nucléaire militaire de Téhéran.

'The American system is being destroyed': academics on leaving US for 'scientific asylum' in France (Ashifa Kassam/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/05/academics-leaving-us-scientific-asylum-france-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p12#a250706p12

Steven Pinker has recently appeared on a podcast, which serves as a platform for scientific racism. Not the first time he's shown associations to scientific racism.
To be honest, after I learnt to take the "it's actually all getting better" narratives with a grain of salt, I decided not to buy into the Pinker hype. So, I'm not disappointed.

CoreWeave says it agreed to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific in a ~$9B all-stock deal, set to close in Q4 2025, to expand its AI data center capacity (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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Listen to Synth Music from Whatsisname? Here's why.
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Beyond Brainstorming: What Drives High-Quality Scientific Ideas? Lessons from Multi-Agent Collaboration
Nuo Chen, Yicheng Tong, Jiaying Wu, Minh Duc Duong, Qian Wang, Qingyun Zou, Bryan Hooi, Bingsheng He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04575

Beyond Brainstorming: What Drives High-Quality Scientific Ideas? Lessons from Multi-Agent Collaboration
While AI agents show potential in scientific ideation, most existing frameworks rely on single-agent refinement, limiting creativity due to bounded knowledge and perspective. Inspired by real-world research dynamics, this paper investigates whether structured multi-agent discussions can surpass solitary ideation. We propose a cooperative multi-agent framework for generating research proposals and systematically compare configurations including group size, leaderled versus leaderless structures,…

arxiv_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 40421 nodes and 175692 edges.
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Balancing Innovation and Oversight: Regulatory Sandboxes as a Tool for AI Governance
https://fpf.org/blog/balancing-innovation-and-oversight-regulatory-sandboxes-as-a-tool-for-ai-governance/
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scikit-package -- software packaging standards and roadmap for sharing reproducible scientific software
S. Lee, C. Myers, A. Yang, T. Zhang, S. J. L. Billinge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03328

scikit-package -- software packaging standards and roadmap for sharing reproducible scientific software
Scientific advancement relies on the ability to share and reproduce results. When data analysis or calculations are carried out using software written by scientists there are special challenges around code versions, quality and code sharing. scikit-package provides a roadmap to facilitate code reuse and sharing with minimal effort through tutorials coupled with automated and centralized reusable workflows. The goal of the project is to provide pedagogical and practical tools for scientists who …

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