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Russian Scientist Released After Four Months in Federal Custody (Ellen Barry/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/science/russian-scientist-harvard-release.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p68#a250612p68

Russian Scientist Released After Four Months in Federal Custody - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/science/russian-scientist-harvard-release.html

"For her part, Ms. Petrova is seeing the United States from a new and unsettling vantage point. “I feel like something is happening generally in America,” she said, in an interview over a video link. “Something bad is happening. I don’t think everybody understands.”"
#GiftArticle #USPolitics #UnAmerican
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/science/russian-scientist-ice-detained-harvard.html?unlocked_article_code=1._E4.cPsK.7-ImYTH7vDbB&smid=url-share

#generativeAI experiment : for the page of software package, I am trying to generate a woman computer vision scientist in a superman costume...
I tried different ways to force the generated images to depict a woman, but with no success : I only get the same male scientist!

Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦠🦐
I've always been impressed by this video from New Scientist about #copepods, the planet's most abundant multicellular organism, with interviews from several UK uni…

I'm not an atomic scientist but I thought I knew all the element names well enough to recognize them [0], so today's news about #Samarium (h/t/ @…) is extra weirdly ominous because I *don't* recognize the name
it's oddly made-up-soundin…

Joanna Bryson, blathering (@j2bryson@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Excellent — let’s hope this is all China has to do to make war obviously stupid. #Samarium

Are you a #DataEngineer interested in getting into #CivicTech, but want to still keep a toe-hold in acdaemia?
Our frequent collaborators at #JPAL Africa have a post for a data engineer that will emb…

China’s quantum satellite can be hacked, Singapore-based scientist warns
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3312399/chinas-quantum-satellite-can-be-hacked-sing…

China’s quantum satellite can be hacked, Singapore-based scientist warns
Hackers could intercept coded messages sent by lasers on China’s quantum communication network, research suggests.

Huge respect for Andrea Sella. He's returned his Faraday prize to the Royal Society as protest against the Society's inaction over #ElonMusk. He joins Dorothy Bishop and Andrew Miller who resigned from the society.
https:/…

Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk
Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire

Martin Davis: An Overview of his Work in Logic, Computer Science, and Philosophy
Liesbeth De Mol, Yuri V. Matiyasevich, Eugenio G. Omodeo, Alberto Policriti, Wilfried Sieg, Elaine J. Weyuker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08588

Martin Davis: An Overview of his Work in Logic, Computer Science, and Philosophy
In his autobiographic essay written in 1999, ``From logic to computer science and back'', Martin David Davis (3/8/1928--1/1/2023) indicated that he viewed himself as a logician \emph{and} a computer scientist. He expanded the essay in 2016 and expressed a new perspective through a changed title, ``My life as a logician''. He points out that logic was the unifying theme underlying his scientific career. Our paper attempts to provide a consistent vision that illuminates Davis' successive contribu…

#JPMorgan hat die frühere #NOAA-Chefwissenschaftlerin Sarah Kapnick zur globalen Leiterin für #Klima-Beratung ernannt.
Mit wissenschaftlicher Expertise und Erfahrung in der Wirtschaft erklärt sie

JPMorgan hired NOAA's chief scientist to advise clients on navigating climate change
Last year, JPMorgan hired Sarah Kapnick as the bank's chief climate scientist. She's now advising clients on how climate change will impact their investments.

Top Ocean Experts Sound the Alarm Over Growing Marine Crisis Due To Climate Change https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04062025/one-ocean-science-congress…

Top Ocean Experts Sound the Alarm Over Growing Marine Crisis Due To Climate Change - Inside Climate News
On the opening day of a global science conference, French fishery scientist Clea Abello presented research showing that marine protected areas could protect commercially valuable fisheries.

Are you a #DataEngineer interested in getting into #CivicTech, but want to still keep a toe-hold in acdaemia?
Our frequent collaborators at #JPAL Africa have a post for a data engineer that will emb…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Scientist:
🎵 King Tubby's Answer
#Scientist
https://dubscientist.bandcamp.com/track/king-tubbys-answer

"Top Ocean Experts Sound the Alarm Over Growing Marine Crisis Due To Climate Change"
#Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange

Top Ocean Experts Sound the Alarm Over Growing Marine Crisis Due To Climate Change - Inside Climate News
On the opening day of a global science conference, French fishery scientist Clea Abello presented research showing that marine protected areas could protect commercially valuable fisheries.

The latest example of AI-hallucinated citations in court cases comes from... an Anthropic employee:
https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/05/13/anthropics-own-data-scientist-submits-de…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15998 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

Exploring Flow-Lenia Universes with a Curiosity-driven AI Scientist: Discovering Diverse Ecosystem Dynamics
We present a method for the automated discovery of system-level dynamics in Flow-Lenia$-$a continuous cellular automaton (CA) with mass conservation and parameter localization$-$using a curiosity-driven AI scientist. This method aims to uncover processes leading to self-organization of evolutionary and ecosystemic dynamics in CAs. We build on previous work which uses diversity search algorithms in Lenia to find self-organized individual patterns, and extend it to large environments that support…

I'm afraid this is true. I already struggle to raise enough money to keep the very talented young scientists I have working with me (from many different countries already), finding funding for more will be difficult, and why should US scientists essentially queue jump just because of their nationality ? I know that sounds harsh, I have very good US colleagues, but I have to be fair to all, regardless of where they come from. OTOH, if you are a US scientist and you are interested in exploring possibilities in Denmark, give me a shout and we'll see what we can do.
https://mastodon.world/@davidho/114620044303457868
davidho@mastodon.world - Unless you’re a Nobel laureate, the brain drain will be away from science and not to other countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/trump-federal-spending-grants-scientists-leaving.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME8.sh9q.qy7jX0S1ZrBa&smid=url-share

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” says a #NIH Intramural #Scientist. Depressing report in #Science

Last night I dreamed that the great computer scientist, Niklaus Wirth, had died by suicide because he was convinced his intellect was failing, because a simple financial calculation was failing, because he'd caught an exception and just returned zero instead of handling it, because he'd written sketch code and meant to come back and deal with it later but had not done so.
Which is almost certainly all arrant nonsense, but what a BIZARRE thing to dream about.

"Trofim Lysenko était un scientifique soviétique dont le déni dogmatique de la science a conduit Š une famine de masse lorsque ses idées ont été appliquées Š l'agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ressemble beaucoup Š Lysenko dans son déni de la science. Ses résultats seront-ils aussi désastreux ?"
#lysenkisme

@… https://mastodon.social/@weatherwest/114598978598267903

This is incredibly exciting!
Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist https://behavioralscientist.org/is-it-all-a-fluke-lessons-from-playing-god-…

Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist
It’s easy to believe that small, chance moments don’t make a material difference on our lives and societies. But a long-running evolution experiment suggests that life’s course may come down to the random details.

More spot on insight from Heather Cox Richardson.
If you don’t want to read the whole thing, read last line. 
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-27-2025?r=n66c…

May 27, 2025
Political scientist Adam Bonica noted last Friday that Trump and the administration suffered a 96% loss rate in federal courts in the month of May.

Quanta Magazine authors Janna Levin and Steven Strogatz strike up a conversation with Ellie Pavlick (Research Scientist at Google Deep Mind) about the differences and similarities between the way people understand language, what NLP algorithms do, and the fact that such conversations more often than not shed light into more than Linguistics' computational side.
"Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?"

Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans? | Quanta Magazine
AI may sound like a human, but that doesn’t mean that AI learns like a human. In this episode, Ellie Pavlick explains why understanding how LLMs can process language could unlock deeper insights into both AI and the human mind.

Computer scientist Greg Nelson and I presented "Following AI's Footsteps from School to Society" at the 2025 UMaine Faculty Institute https://mycampus.maine.edu/web/uc-faculty-portal/faculty-institute-2025 including the IMPACT RISK framew…

Way back in 2022, as the world tried to readjust back to "normal" following COVID - I helped to co-organise a bootcamp with sponsorhop from the @… IASC, @… and a generous dollop of help from @… and @… colleagues.
We gathered 10 senior scientist mentors and 22 students in an old torpedo research station (now used by Roskilde University) for 10 days. It was an extremely intense period but the 4th paper produced by this talented group has just come out.
I consider facilitating #EarlyCareerScientists to work on important science problems an extremely rewarding part of my job, and I'm looking forward to the next one already as part of our PISCO project.
In the mean time, go and read this extremely cool work, collecting together a huge number of radiosonde observations going back to the 1950s over the Arctic Ocean and using them to assess how well CMIP6 models represent lower atmosphere.
#CMIP6 #ClimateModels #Arctic #ArcticClimate #SeaIce
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JD041412

This is incredibly exciting!
Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist https://behavioralscientist.org/is-it-all-a-fluke-lessons-from-playing-god-…

Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist
It’s easy to believe that small, chance moments don’t make a material difference on our lives and societies. But a long-running evolution experiment suggests that life’s course may come down to the random details.

"Trofim Lysenko était un scientifique soviétique dont le déni dogmatique de la science a conduit Š une famine de masse lorsque ses idées ont été appliquées Š l'agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ressemble beaucoup Š Lysenko dans son déni de la science. Ses résultats seront-ils aussi désastreux ?"
#lysenkisme

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03663 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_…

Fast Geographic Routing in Fixed-Growth Graphs
In the 1960s, the social scientist Stanley Milgram performed his famous "small-world" experiments where he found that people in the US who are far apart geographically are nevertheless connected by remarkably short chains of acquaintances. Since then, there has been considerable work to design networks that accurately model the phenomenon that Milgram observed. One well-known approach was Barab{á}si and Albert's preferential attachment model, which has small diameter yet lacks an algorithm tha…

Personal history of a great young scientist's journey to discovery: I posted earlier about the science. Here you feel the struggle, the thrill, the emotional commitment.
@uurquiza.bsky.social
#AcademicChatter #PlantSci #PhD

it’s mistakes all the way down
https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/114354109265748030

Unter #BookAScientist #Linguistics