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Researchers detail Centaur, a modified version of Llama trained on 10M responses from 160 psychological experiments, in an attempt to mimic human cognition (Carl Zimmer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/science

Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All
To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do.

What is anarcho-syndicalism? - libertarian reformism, vanguardism or revolutionary unionism?
"This controversial article was a reflection of how the author saw things at the time. It was published in Black Flag in 1997. It's fair to say that his views have changed since then and events have moved on."

A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the agency jeopardizing the future of US industries and economic growth, according to a Guardian investigation.
The gold standard peer-reviewed process used by the NSF to support cutting-edge, high-impact science is being undermined by the chaotic cuts to staff, programs a…

Dozens of Scientists Find Errors in a New Energy Department Climate Report - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1941215/dozens-of-scientists-find-errors-in-a-new-energy-department-climate-report

Modelling Program Spaces in Program Synthesis with Constraints
Tilman Hinnerichs, Bart Swinkels, Jaap de Jong, Reuben Gardos Reid, Tudor Magirescu, Neil Yorke-Smith, Sebastijan Dumancic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00005

Modelling Program Spaces in Program Synthesis with Constraints
A core challenge in program synthesis is taming the large space of possible programs. Since program synthesis is essentially a combinatorial search, the community has sought to leverage powerful combinatorial constraint solvers. Here, constraints are used to express the program semantics, but not as a potentially potent tool to remove unwanted programs. Recent inductive logic programming approaches introduce constraints on the program's syntax to be synthesized. These syntactic constraints allo…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Beastie Boys:
🎵 The Sounds of Science
#BeastieBoys
https://frankiepaige.bandcamp.com/album/the-intergalactic-sounds-of-science-full-album

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

Here are the three primary kinds of community-based events we’ll be sponsoring during 31 Days of Action:

Open/community lab meetings over Zoom or live-streamed lab tours/demos

Teach-ins at local community centers, churches, parks, basically anywhere that’s not a college campus

Stand Up For Science tabling and demos that include “Ask a Scientist” booths,
pond water under a microscope,
strawberry DNA extraction,
egg drop competitions, …

SUFS 31 Days of Action Guidebook
🧬 WHAT IS STAND UP FOR SCIENCE? Stand Up for Science (SUFS) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization born from the rallies held in cities throughout the United States and around the world on March 7th, 2025. We believe that science is a public good that benefits everyone, and we’re leading...

Wishing you all a wonderful #Thursday evening!
Here is a list of my current website picks on anarchism, syndicalism, and anarcho-syndicalism:
https://nsf-iaa.org

The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place.
Since 2008, the "Svalbard Global Seed Vault" — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops.
⭐️ But, the island is warming six to seven times faster than the rest of the planet, making even winters freakishly hot -- at least by Arctic standards.
Indeed, in 2017, an access tunnel to the…

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."