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Fixing the traffic jam in the science of technology safety.
https://citizensandtech.org/2025/04/fixing-science-tech-safety/
saved 2025-05-15

Fixing the Traffic Jam in the Science of Technology Safety
Why does it take so long for science to spot harmful technology products and support the search for safer alternatives? And how can we speed it up?

Damn! I wanted X-ray vision! 😉
Seeing infrared: scientists create contact lenses that grant ‘super-vision’;
Breakthrough could lead to range of wearables that extend range of vision and help people with colour blindness
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/m

Inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, whose 3.2-gigapixel camera will produce 60PB of space image data over 10 years, to be analyzed using ML and deep learning (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/science…

How Vera Rubin Telescope Scientists Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of Imagery
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.

“I did not set out to design a geodesic dome. I set out to discover the principles operative in Universe. For all I knew, this could have led to a pair of flying slippers.”
— #BuckminsterFuller #DesignScience
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/design-science/design-science-primer/

Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines
Doctors and advocates worry the move is a first step toward ending federal guidance for HIV treatment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/06/21/hiv-aids-rfk-guidelines-n…

Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines
The National Institutes of Health will phase out its support of the clinical practice guidelines that advise doctors how to diagnose and treat HIV.

Des chimpanzés ont été observés en train de partager des fruits contenant de l'alcool - pas dans des quantités suffisantes pour s'enivrer, mais un peu comme l'effet d'une bière.
#science #éthologie

Are groundbreaking science discoveries becoming harder to find?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01548-4
Interesting article featuring our @…

Are groundbreaking science discoveries becoming harder to find?
Researchers are arguing over whether ‘disruptive’ or ‘novel’ science is waning – and how to remedy the problem.

Getting the travelbug after reading this:
"It turns out you’re never too old to go Interrailing around Europe | Phil Mongredien"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/22/interrailing-europe-sons-family…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Vaughan Williams, Wolf and Schubert
Baritone Konstantin Krimmel and pianist Marcelo Amaral perform Vaughan Williams's Songs of Travel, four songs from Wolf's 'Goethe Lieder', and songs by Schubert.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dprf

Can creativity and science-related work go together?
In this post I share four take-aways I had about creativity in relation to our work
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​1: Innovation requires creativity.
​2: Creativity is in the little acts.
​3: Constraints can spark creativity.
​4: Experiment with saying “no” to rules.
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Creativity in our work ✨