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@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-07-22 01:48:15

I’m fine with robots doing pig surgery. mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot In experimental surgery on pig organs, the robot performed well. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/experimental-surgery-performed-by-ai-driven-surgical-robot/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-22 09:01:15

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)
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.

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2025-07-22 14:09:37

Shout-out an Münsteraner Studierende: Das Münster Center for Open Science (MüCOS) sucht studentische Hilfskräfte!
Bei Interesse beim @… melden!
uni-muenster.de/MueCOS/

Ausschreibungs-Plakat mit folgendem Text: OFFENE UND NACHVOLLZIEHBARE FORSCHUNG SHK gesucht für Mitarbeit im MÜNSTER CENTER FOR OPEN SCIENCE 09.12.2024 STUDENTISCHE HILFSKRAFT (B.Sc./M.Sc. Psychologie – ca. 6h/Woche – mind. 12 Monate – ab sofort) Das Münster Center for Open Science (MüCOS) unterstützt Forschende der Universität Münster bei transparenter und verlässlicher Forschung mit Tätigkeiten in den Bereichen Vernetzung, Beratung, Informationen, und Weiterbildungen sowie eigener metawisse…
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-08-22 17:00:42

"Belize project seeks out heat-resilient corals to protect its reefs"
#Belize #CoralReef #Environment

Belize project seeks out heat-resilient corals to protect its reefs
HOPKINS, Belize — Heaters, pumps and computerized meters rigged to an everyday picnic icebox may seem like a high school science project. But this heat stress tank may hold the key to finding the most heat-resilient corals in Belize’s waters. As climate change and other human-caused stressors continue to push these rainforests of the sea […]

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-22 12:42:46

🥠 How candidates evoke identity and issues on TikTok
#media #socialmedia

Two annular pie charts. On the left: policy issues discussed by Kamala Harris who spoke about Birth Control 49% of the time, on the right Donald Trump who spoke about immigration 47% of the time, these don't add up to 100% because they could have spoken about more than one thing in a video.

How candidates evoke identity and issues on TikTok
Social media platforms are increasingly central to campaign communication, with both paid (advertising) and earned (organic) posts used for fundraising, mobilization, and persuasion. TikTok, and other short-form video platforms, with its short-video format and content-driven algorithms, demand unique content. We examine the final six months before the 2024 US Presidential Election to understand how major campaigns used TikTok. We frame our analysis around two political science theories. The fir…

@matematico314@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-21 15:12:46

#LB É curioso como algumas dessas pesquisas vencedoras do IgNobel, apesar de hilšrias, são bastante relevantes. Como essa das vacas pintadas como zebras.
mastodon.social/@mattotcha/115

Matt Willemsen (@mattotcha@mastodon.social)
Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/meet-the-2025-ig-nobel-prize-winners/

@geant@mstdn.social
2025-08-21 12:13:52

Join us for an infoshare on the @… and its API!
As one of the world’s largest research knowledge graphs, it interlinks hundreds of millions of metadata records from over 100K trusted data sources & serves as the authoritative source for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Stefania Amodeo from @…

GEANT Infoshare "The OpenAIRE Graph and its API – An introduction" on 26 September 2025
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-08-22 05:47:52

#Trump's war on science continues thru #SCOTUS & the next pandemic's going royally fuck America & #MAGA who can't afford the protections they'll need.
But they'll figure out …

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-09-21 14:26:25

The slow drip of science discovery & health, #microplastic version:
1) oh, look what we found: lots of small plastic particles are showing up.
(Collective yawning)
2) oh, this is interesting - they cover the full range of sizes from the visible to sub-micron scale.
(Collective yawning, continued)
3)Oh look, they are everywhere, and the really small ones show up ev…

Mr and Mrs Trellis (@thenorfolkcoast@ecoevo.social)
Micro- and nanoplastics (MPs) are environmental and health concerns . Concerning to read of their detection in bone marrow and human tissue... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00198-025-07580-4

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-09-21 14:26:25

The slow drip of science discovery & health, #microplastic version:
1) oh, look what we found: lots of small plastic particles are showing up.
(Collective yawning)
2) oh, this is interesting - they cover the full range of sizes from the visible to sub-micron scale.
(Collective yawning, continued)
3)Oh look, they are everywhere, and the really small ones show up ev…

Mr and Mrs Trellis (@thenorfolkcoast@ecoevo.social)
Micro- and nanoplastics (MPs) are environmental and health concerns . Concerning to read of their detection in bone marrow and human tissue... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00198-025-07580-4

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-07-22 00:33:32

The US Environmental Protection Agency's retreat from science endangers the health of people and the planet phys.org/news/2025-07-environm

The US Environmental Protection Agency's retreat from science endangers the health of people and the planet
Pollution causes more illness and early death than any other environmental threat, accounting for one in six deaths worldwide. For decades, the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) has driven many of the biggest advances for safeguarding human health and ecosystems from chemicals. Now, this scientific research office is being closed down by the US government

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-09-21 14:00:04

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History). 206 nodes, 4988 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/faculty_hiring#computer_science

faculty_hiring — Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-22 15:40:36
Content warning:

The dystopia writes itself.
"The agreement signed by the firm and the science department could give OpenAI access to government data and see its software used in education, defence, security, and the justice system."
I'm certain someone made a lot of money with that deal.
bbc.co.uk/n…

OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services
The US tech firm behind ChatGPT say it will work with the UK government to 'deliver prosperity for all'.

@carbonwoman@norden.social
2025-06-22 06:37:53

Gestern war #ShowYourStripes Tag. Inzwischen wissen bestimmt auch viele, dass die berühmte Version von @… von der University of Reading stammt.
Was vermutlich kaum jemand weiß: sie gehen zurück auf die Häkelarbeit, die e…

#climatechangecrochet – The global warming blanket.
Q. What do you get when you cross crochet and climate science? A. A lot of attention on Twitter. At the weekend I like to crochet. Last weekend I finished my latest project and posted the picture o…

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-22 17:12:02

Engineers transform dental floss into needle-free vaccine | Science | AAAS
science.org/content/article/en

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-09-22 01:04:37

I hadn't had a drink in ages and don't particularly feel like changing this. But otherwise this could be an amazing self-research project for my Spanish learning!
«The 2025 #IgNobel Peace Prize went to researchers who proved a popular myth: a small dose of #alcohol can improve foreign language pronunciation!»
mstdn.science/@serhii/11524176

@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2025-07-20 21:05:51

Good news 😏 One less racist, sexist, anti-science nutjob on the planet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Fe

Edwin Feulner - Wikipedia

@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social
2025-07-20 15:18:03

Richtig coole Bilder:
Beaker Street Science Photography prize – in pictures
theguardian.com/science/galler

Beaker Street Science Photography prize – in pictures
Finalists for 2025 will be exhibited at Hobart’s Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery from 6 to 31 August as part of the Beaker Street festival and will include the first-ever image of a wild eastern quoll glowing under UV light

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-07-21 01:11:08

recent-ish reading/rereading. #books @…

pile of books Das Energi by Paul Williams The Two of Them by Joanna Russ Destinies: The Science Fiction Magazine Playing Changes by Nate Chinen Prankster Memoirs by John Babbs The CAN book by Pascal Bussy & Andy Hall The Bride of Entropy by Robert Hunter Harry Smith: American Magus Music Universe, Music Mind by Robert Street The Last Great Dream by Dennis McNally San Francisco Nights by Scalutti & Seay We Jazz #13 The Original of Laura by Vladimir nabokov Saga #7-#9
@lysander07@sigmoid.social
2025-07-21 13:52:24

You are an expert in ontologies and kn owledge graphs? You have an interest (or even better expertise) in materials science engineering? Then you should apply! Open PostDoc/Senior Researcher position at FIZ Karlsruhe ISE Research Team in the Knowledge Graph department. More info at fiz-k…

Open Position for PostDoc/Senior Researcher at FIZ Karlsruhe with research focus on ontology engineering and knowledge graphs connected with applications to materials science engineering. The job ad is printed on top on a collage consisting out of God father (from The creation of Adam by Michelangelo) with various knowledge graph examples (taking the position of Adam).
@isonno@mastodon.social
2025-09-21 19:17:02

So, @… -
This old cartoon came across another platform and I realized it's probably canon in your line of work.

PhD Comics cartoon depicting the "The Science News Cycle"
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2025-07-20 15:43:05

If you're not against the Trump administration and its full-blown destruction of science and democracy.. Then you are for it. So sad to see that this is apparently the path chosen by #DartmouthCollege, so easily contributing to the "divide and conquer" Trump strategy.

How Dartmouth Became the Ivy League’s Switzerland
Rob Wolfe writes about the policy of “institutional restraint” pursued by Sian Beilock, the president of Dartmouth College, in her dealings with student protests and Donald Trump’s Administration.

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-07-22 06:10:43

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
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Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction and Horror Editor: Gregory Stevenson, York University The genres of Science-Fiction and Horror ha…

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-08-20 12:07:44

The great thing about working at home is that I don’t need any form of timer to remind me to take breaks. Neville does the job so much better. Not pomodoro — dogadoro ftw!
#MastoDog

Neville, the charcoal grey labradoodle, seated up. His left paw is on the knee of yours truly (the only part of me visible) while his right paw is on the arm rest of the chair. He is looking up, wondering why the hand that was, until just now, petting him is doing so no more. Behind him are book cases filled with science fiction.
@mpsgoettingen@academiccloud.social
2025-07-18 09:35:17

#PhDCongratulations! 🥳🥳🥳Jonathan Nölke of the #IMPRS “Solar System School” has successfully defended his PhD thesis “Dark features in the solar corona and the underlying magnetic field studied with Solar Orbiter” ☀️🛰️🔭 at
@…

Jonathan Nölke examining his PhD hat
Jonathan Nölke with his PhD hat
Jonathan Nölke during his PhD defense, showing a slide with his most important results
Group picture of Jonathan Nölke and the members of the examination board

IMPRS PhD Theses
Dissertation theses on Solar system science topics by MPI Solar System Research and University of Göttingen in physics astrophysics geophysics. PhD theses IMPRS for Solar System Science at the University of Goettingen. Astrophysics PhD theses in stellar and solar physics, helioseismology, planetary sciences.

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2025-07-21 19:52:23

#Pocast "The Future is Open Science" (FOS) Folge 53: "Das Leopoldina-Papier zu Diamond Open Access: Neue Wege zur Finanzierung des wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesens" u.a. mit @…:

FOS 53 Das Leopoldina-Papier zu Diamond Open Access - The Future is Open Science
Das Leopoldina-Papier zu Diamond Open AccessUntertitel: Neue Wege zur Finanzierung des wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesens.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-21 09:30:19

🧊 Novel cement lets buildings cool themselves
#materials

Novel cement lets buildings cool themselves
When temperatures get too hot to handle, most of us crank up the air conditioning to keep cool. It does the job, but it's expensive and uses a significant amount of energy. But now an innovation by scientists, primarily from Southeast University in China, could help us cut our reliance on AC. They've developed a new type of cement that allows buildings to stay cool on their own. Their research is published in the journal Science Advances.

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-07-19 09:23:06

#DH2025 thanks @flochiff.bsky.social for sharing this link as I wanted to follow up on Pandore! 'Pandore: automating text-processing workflows for humanities researchers' from Sorbonne Université and ObTIC - Observatoire des textes, des idées et des corpus

Pandore: automating text-processing workflows for humanities researchers
Pandore is a toolkit designed for researchers, teachers, and students in the humanities and social sciences, in particular those without advanced technical coding skills. It enables users to efficiently manage their data through intuitive graphical interfaces, allowing them to collect, prepare, convert, and analyze their data, extract relevant insights, and create interpretive visualizations. Building on extensive feedback from the previous beta version, several improvements have been impleme…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-08-21 11:00:03

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 8361 nodes and 15751 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration…

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005). 8361 nodes, 15751 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/arxiv_collab#hep-th-1999

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.

@johnleonard@mastodon.social
2025-08-19 12:43:32

China is set to introduce a new visa category aimed at attracting young foreign science and technology professionals, in a bid to strengthen its innovation capacity and global talent strategy.
computing.co.uk/news/2025/chin

China introduces new K visa to attract young science and tech talent
China is set to introduce a new visa category aimed at attracting young foreign science and technology professionals, in a bid to strengthen its innovation ...

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-09-22 02:16:44

Astronomers Discover Previously Unknown Quasi-Moon Near Earth - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org/story/25/

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-19 22:51:59

im a simple machine and ur sid the science kid

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-09-20 06:31:56

"Les États-Unis sont-ils encore une démocratie ?
Je dirais que les États-Unis sont aujourd'hui un système "autoritaire compétitif". Il s'agit d'un jargon de science politique qui désigne les pays qui ont les apparences de la démocratie, mais où des règles du jeu équitables ne s'appliquent plus."
#USA

Brian Klaas: “The United States is now a competitive authoritarian system” - EUROPP
Is the United States still a democracy? It is either a democracy in crisis, or one that has tipped over the edge into competitive authoritarianism.

@awinkler@openbiblio.social
2025-09-19 10:57:44
Content warning:

nettes Bild aus einer eher epistemologischen skeptischen Betrachtung von #openscience 🤗 🌵
"Openness is a saguaro cactus: a beautiful ecological keystone that we should love, celebrate, and occasionally water, but should not embrace in a full-on bearhug."
(Santana, C. (2024). The Value of Openness in Open Science. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1–15

The Value of Openness in Open Science | Canadian Journal of Philosophy | Cambridge Core
The Value of Openness in Open Science

@veit@mastodon.social
2025-07-19 07:16:14

Karl Popper in The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 1959: ‘Non-reproducible single occurrences are of no significance to science.’
XKCD in Replication Crisis, 2025: ‘Replication Crisis Solved’
#Science

Replication Crisis

@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
2025-09-20 04:33:09

@… another bug report (i know i know i'm sorry :P)
desmog.com seems to have been bridged fine up until sometime this month, and now it's suddenl…

DeSmog
Award winning website researching and exposing campaigns attacking climate change science.

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-19 19:04:41

Man, TheJayLino has turned into my favorite social commentary channel on YouTube!
thejaylino.substack.com
youtube.com/@thejaylino

Joshua Lino | Substack
Joshua Lino is an essayist, polemicist, YouTuber, political activist, student of political science and an advocate for syndicalism, humanism, idealism and anticommunism. Click to read Joshua Lino, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-09-17 05:15:12

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Neuer NPM-Großangriff: Selbst-vermehrende Malware infiziert Dutzende Pakete

Neuer npm-Großangriff: Selbst-vermehrende Malware infiziert Dutzende Pakete
Womöglich stecken hinter der Attacke dieselben Angreifer wie beim letzten Mal. Ihr Schadcode trägt den Namen eines prominenten Science-Fiction-Monsters in sich.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-21 07:41:39

😞 Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate
#science

Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate
A quick reference

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-09-21 18:00:04

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 334 nodes and 32988 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998). 334 nodes, 32988 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/webkb#webkb_texas_cocite

webkb — WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-09-22 17:40:31

What ‘causes’ autism? Here’s what decades of research has found | The Independent
independent.co.uk/news/health/

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-07-19 20:49:35

Prediction: a year from now, US computer science departments will find their enrollment at 50% of what they have been the past few years. I'm willing to bet a peppercorn on it for someone who really wants to hold me to it. (-:

@lysander07@sigmoid.social
2025-07-21 13:52:24

You are an expert in ontologies and knowledge graphs? You have an interest (or even better expertise) in materials science engineering? Then you should apply! Open PostDoc/Senior Researcher position at FIZ Karlsruhe ISE Research Team in the Knowledge Graph department. More info at fiz-ka…

@thijs_lucas@norden.social
2025-07-17 06:27:16

Beim #ScienceDay2025 @…
"Echtzeit-Radfahrertracking mit adaptiver Lichtsteuerung
An der Werftstraße in Kiel erfassen Kameras Radfahrer und verarbeiten die Daten über Edge-Computing mit Raspberry Pis und einem NVIDIA Jetson. Ein LED…

Science Day 2025

@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-19 02:32:47

From fantasy to science, all in one stream! Join me as I explore Middle-earth in LOTRO while 3D printing the legendary Tiangong-1 Space Station. The only thing better than an epic quest is a real-life space build. #LOTRO #3DPrinting

Twitch
Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-08-20 07:21:38

At least one billionaire is continuing to embrace science & contribute to societal gains in vaccines.

Even if it's outside of the US.

Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rddei

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2025-07-20 07:25:35

"Populism, platforms, and the challenges of science communication"
elephantinthelab.org/populism-
"Teresa Völker interviewed Jeanette Hofmann about the rol…

Populism, platforms, and the challenges of science communication – Elephant in the Lab
Teresa Völker interviewed Jeanette Hofmann about the role of science communication in fragmented publics, the impact of social media on democratic discourse, and why scientists shouldn’t retreat from…

@askesis@qoto.org
2025-08-20 13:46:30

"Medicina mental e medicina orgânica no jovem Foucault: considerações em torno de René Leriche" agora nos Arquivos HAL
#filosofia

Medicina mental e medicina orgânica no jovem Foucault: considerações em torno de René Leriche
O presente trabalho trata, sob os novos arquivos de Michel Foucault, da relação entre doença mental e doença orgânica no “jovem Foucault”, mais especificamente em seu primeiro livro, Maladie Mentale et Personnalité (republicado em 1962, com modificações, sob o título Maladie Mentale et Psychologie). O trabalho reconstrói e avalia a argumentação de Foucault à luz dos novos arquivos depositados desde 2013 na Biblioteca Nacional da França (BNF), mais especificamente à luz das fi…

@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-17 08:27:05

I just love how easy it is to code interviews and meeting notes in obsidian.md using just three community plugins #science #methods #coding

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-08-22 04:00:04

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History). 145 nodes, 4538 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/faculty_hiring#history

faculty_hiring — Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions

@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2025-08-20 19:33:08

Neuroscience News:
Songs Don’t Just Move Us, They Shape Memories
#neuroscience …

Songs Don’t Just Move Us, They Shape Memories - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-19 00:50:48

Inside xAI's chaotic summer: Musk reorganized xAI on the fly, researchers left over concerns it abandoned science in favor of attention-grabbing products, more (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t…

Elon Musk Has Focused on xAI Since Leaving Washington
Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to match the runaway success of OpenAI. The result was chaos.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-22 20:20:23

Five ways professional athletes are redefining the limits of age in sport
theconversation.com/five-ways-

Five ways professional athletes are redefining the limits of age in sport
Novak Djokovic, 38, Jess Fishlock, 38, Ronaldo, 39. Elite athletes are staying at the top longer than ever. Here’s how science is redefining peak performance.

@geant@mstdn.social
2025-08-19 11:57:13

Connecting in Berlin with @… 🇩🇪
GÉANT team gained valuable insight into DFN’s 40 years of enabling science for 2.5M users, and met designated co-CEO Alina Hain ahead of her start in October.
Followed by discussions on DFN’s role as an #NREN & its vision for GÉAN…

GÉANT CEO, CFO and Head of Partner Relations & Insights visit GÉANT NREN member in Germany - DFN Verein
@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-08-20 09:34:30

Rapidly intensifying Hurricane Erin becomes historic storm due to strengthening arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Hurricane Erin sets early season intensification record, becomes Category 5 storm
The good news is that, for now, Erin appears unlikely to directly strike land.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-08-21 23:00:06

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022). 3284 nodes, 5247 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/faculty_hiring_us#field_computer_science

faculty_hiring_us — Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for all of academia. Edge properties include the total count of hires, …

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-18 11:00:52

"Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates"
#FossilFuels #Emissions #Climate

Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates
A new satellite-based method developed by Chinese researchers improves the accuracy of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission estimates from coal-fired power plants, according to a study published in Environmental Science & Technology.

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2025-07-17 18:44:47

"Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk he consider resigning science fellowship"
theguardian.com/science/2025/j
... but when he ignored that they just…

Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk he consider resigning science fellowship
Exclusive: Fellows called on academy to act over Tesla owner’s role in Trump administration’s attacks on research

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-07-17 15:45:23

#DH2025, we're delighted to share a Turing's Humanities and Data Science event in Oxford and online on 25th Sept with a panel asking: 'How far can data science and the humanities help to answer each other’s questions?'
Express your interest here:

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-09-21 02:00:04

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011). 10972 nodes, 415912 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_infectious

sp_infectious — Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the anonymous IDs of the persons in contact, and the interval…

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-08-21 06:10:30

100 Years of Wonder
ift.tt/XzGcAgV
updated: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:45amfull name / name of organization: Science Fiction…
via Input 4 RELCFP if…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-18 02:56:14

Survey: 50% of US adults are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life; 53% say AI will harm people's ability to think creatively (Pew Research Center)
pewresearch.org/science/2025/0

How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society
Americans are worried about using AI more in daily life, seeing harm to human creativity and relationships. But they’re open to AI use in weather forecasting, medicine and other data-heavy tasks.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-07-14 05:25:00

Science statt Fiction: Wie Mars-Fotos mit Mythen aufräumten
Mit der Vorstellung von Marsmännchen war es spätestens 1965 vorbei. Damals sendete die US-Sonde Mariner 4 erstmals Bilder vom Roten Planeten.

Science statt Fiction: Wie Mars-Fotos mit Mythen aufräumten
Mit der Vorstellung von Marsmännchen war es spätestens 1965 vorbei. Damals sendete die US-Sonde Mariner 4 erstmals Bilder vom Roten Planeten.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-07-22 07:00:04

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

cora: CORA citations (1998). 23166 nodes, 91500 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/cora

cora — CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-07-17 01:14:39

I am super-pleased to be serving on the PC of the excellent and much-needed "Undone Science in CS" 2026: "to provide an opportunity to pause and reflect on the epistemological and ethical aspects of computer science". For much more information, please see:
undonecs.org/2026/…

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-09-19 01:39:09

Random…
HBO has been running ads for “Task” quite heavily this week on Discovery channels (e.g.Science Channel) at a rate of once or twice per ad break. Which is bad enough, but that’s just the framework into which they assort at least 3 *slightly* different 15-second edits. It’s very annoying.
Of course, I grew up in a time when ads were all 30 seconds and they wouldn’t dream of running the same one twice in a break, which is now routine. So I guess this is an

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-20 02:32:26

🏛️ Is Roman concrete more sustainable? It’s complicated.
#concrete

Making Roman concrete produces as much CO2 as modern concrete
Roman concrete produces as much, if not more, CO2 as modern concrete, fewer air pollutants.

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-17 18:20:38

I’m planting this seed in the shared soil, where knowledge grows free, let the fediverse spread its roots far and wide, not for ownership or profit, but for all who need its shade.

Animated opening sequence featuring the classic phrase 'Once Upon a Time...' appearing on screen, followed by a montage of colorful, whimsical images illustrating key concepts of human history, science, and the natural world, setting a storytelling tone for the educational exploration ahead.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-07-22 06:00:04

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

cora: CORA citations (1998). 23166 nodes, 91500 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/cora

cora — CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-20 01:47:30

23andMe's Data Sold to Nonprofit Run by Its Co-Founder - 'And I Still Don't Trust It' - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org/story/25/

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-09-19 07:00:08

"L'attirance humaine pour les boissons alcoolisées pourrait être, dans une large mesure, héritée de nos ancêtres primates. et d'une certaine manière, c'est quelque chose que nous partageons avec nos plus proches parents vivants : selon une nouvelle étude [...] les chimpanzés consomment quotidiennement des doses élevées d'alcool par rapport Š leur poids corporel, par l'intermédiaire des fruits qui font partie de leur régime alimentaire habituel"

Chimpanzees drink the equivalent of two or three beers a day, study says
New research supports the drunken monkey hypothesis, which links the human attraction to alcoholic beverages to the habits of our primate ancestors

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-08-22 10:00:41

"MPs Slam Trump Advisor for Interfering in UK Climate Debate"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

MPs Slam Trump Advisor for Interfering in UK Climate Debate
Members of Parliament have rebuked a Donald Trump advisor for spreading misleading claims about the UK’s climate policies. Professor Steve Koonin, a former chief scientist at oil giant BP who has long claimed climate science is “unsettled”, appeared on GB News on Friday to declare that the UK public is being “deliberately ill-informed” about the […]

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2025-09-18 15:59:01

Anyone (academic / researcher) had recent experience with submitting to #ScienceAdvances (science.org/journal/sciadv)? Good or bad?
We submitted there about 3 months ago and hear…

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-20 04:55:50

Healthy Babies Born in Britain After Scientists Used DNA From Three People to Avoid Genetic Disease - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org/story/25/

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-07-18 14:12:16

Shared on Bluesky from a different #DH2025 'Nwulite Obodo Open Data License — Made for sharing African datasets equitably' datasciencelawlab.africa/nwuli

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-19 23:09:30

🎎 AI can create game characters with realistic personalities
#games

AI can create game characters with realistic personalities
When Jake Klinkert was growing up, his father suggested that since he loved video games, he should make them. Klinkert took those words to heart and went on to earn a Master of Interactive Technology in Digital Game Development from SMU Guildhall. Now a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at SMU's Lyle School of Engineering, he is testing large language models (like ChatGPT) to create non-playable characters (NPCs) that act and respond more like real people.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-08-14 09:55:53

Q&A with researcher Petter Törnberg on his pre-print study showing how social media's structural architecture creates problematic outcomes like echo chambers (Jennifer Ouellette/Ars Technica)
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
“The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.”…

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-08-13 07:04:41

Klingt nach Science-Fiction, ist aber bald Realität: Das australische Unternehmen Electro Optic Systems (EOS) hat ein 100-kW-Hochenergielaser-System entwickelt, das gezielt gegen Drohnenschwärme eingesetzt werden kann. 🚀
Zum Artikel: heise.de/-10516272…

Im Bild steht: "Australische 100-kW-Laserwaffe wehrt 20 Drohnen pro Minute ab" dadrunter steht: "Ein NATO-Mitgliedsstaat hat das erste 100-kW-Hochenergielaser-System aus Australien für 71,4 Millionen Euro bestellt, das bis zu 20 Drohnen pro Minute abwehren kann."
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-19 01:24:31

New Computer Science Building seen from the end of the plaza near the bridge with Gates Hall
#photo #photography #buildings

A building that would be L-shaped except the angle is more than 90 degrees, maybe more like 135 degrees, and there's a plaza of mostly gree grass with a few trees except for some concrete sidewalks and a concrete round area.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2025-07-18 11:44:59

"Reflections on CoLIS 2025" [International Conference on Concepts of Library and Information Science] libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/datab

Reflections on CoLIS 2025 | Edinburgh Research Data Blog
The end of May and start of June is always a busy time for conferences and this year has been no exception. Luckily, at the start of June, I was able to attend the International Conference on Concepts of Library and Information Science (CoLIS). CoLIS is a series of international conferences aiming to provide a broad…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-08-17 08:05:34

Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, whose books helped shape the philosophical conversation about human intelligence and AI, passed away on July 18 at age 88 (Michael S. Rosenwald/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/08/14/science…

Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-09-15 13:22:00

Smarter Staub: Wie millimetergroße Computer unsere Welt unbemerkt vermessen
"Smarter Staub" ist keine Science-Fiction mehr: Winzige Sensoren könnten in Zukunft unsere Umwelt unbemerkt überwachen.

Smarter Staub: Wie millimetergroße Computer unsere Welt unbemerkt vermessen
"Smarter Staub" ist keine Science-Fiction mehr: Winzige Sensoren könnten in Zukunft unsere Umwelt unbemerkt überwachen.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-08-16 11:00:51

"Climate change-driven heat extremes are driving ‘staggering’ decline in tropical birds, study warns"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Birds

Extreme heat is driving a ‘staggering’ decline in tropical birds
Using climate attribution science, researchers have linked rising heat to declining bird populations around the world.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-19 19:05:54

🌽 Closely sown corn plants communicate to defend themselves
english.elpais.com/science-tec

Closely sown corn plants communicate to defend themselves
By releasing an alcohol into the air that causes neighbors’ roots to exude pesticides, they can even protect subsequent generations of crops

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-07-19 15:00:04

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships. 61 nodes, 620 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/cs_department

cs_department — Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-08-15 12:00:16

"Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures
Nigel Farage and his fellow Reform UK MPs, many of whom deny basic climate science, represent constituencies exposed to the worst effects of extreme heat, studies show. The UK has this week entered its fourth heatwave of 2025, with temperatures expected to rise to 33C on Thursday in what scientists have warned could become the […]

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-08-14 12:46:12

The US NSF and Nvidia partner to fund the Open Multimodal Infrastructure to Accelerate Science project, led by Ai2; NSF is contributing $75M and Nvidia $77M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
siliconangle.com/2025/08/14/ns

NSF and Nvidia partner develop fully open AI models to lead US science innovation - SiliconANGLE
NSF and Nvidia partner develop fully open AI models to lead US science innovation - SiliconANGLE

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-19 20:32:39

♨️ A geothermal network in Colorado could help a rural town diversify its economy
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

A geothermal network in Colorado could help a rural town diversify its economy
Town pitches companies to take advantage of “reliable, cost-effective heating and cooling.”…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-18 02:31:49

If the painted alliums in Minn's Garden behind the Plant Science Building aren't famous, they should be -- hopefully tomorrow I'll have some shots for you that I took in parts of Monkey Run you have to wade to reach
#photo #photography

Two soft-focused flower clusters right of center are red and white and have a background of green, white and yellow speckles.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-07-19 00:00:04

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 348 nodes and 33250 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998). 348 nodes, 33250 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/webkb#webkb_wisconsin_cocite

webkb — WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-19 15:31:01

🌞 Hydrogen from solar heat: Novel oxide material discovered for carbon-free hydrogen production
techxplore.com/news/2025-08-hy

Hydrogen from solar heat: Novel oxide material discovered for carbon-free hydrogen production
A research team from POSTECH and Seoul National University (SNU) has discovered a novel oxide material that can produce large quantities of clean hydrogen using only heat, without carbon emissions. The discovery, enabled by a new high-throughput computational screening method, was recently published in Advanced Science.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-18 02:30:44

💐 Using pollen to make paper, sponges, and more
#pollen …

Using pollen to make paper, sponges, and more
Reengineered, pollen could become a range of eco-friendly objects.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-08-17 11:00:03

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

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006). 1589 nodes, 2742 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/netscience

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.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-08-18 12:00:05

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 16726 nodes and 47594 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboratio…

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005). 16726 nodes, 47594 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/arxiv_collab#cond-mat-1999

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.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-18 15:19:35

🦾 Meet the teens behind RedSnapper: a smart Arduino-powered prosthetic arm
blog.arduino.cc/2025/08/21/mee

Meet the teens behind RedSnapper: a smart Arduino-powered prosthetic arm | Arduino Blog
An affordable, AI-assisted, wearable robotic arm? That’s not science fiction – it’s RedSnapper, an open-source prosthesis built by PAC Tech, a team of high school students from Istituto Maria Immacolata in Gorgonzola, Italy. Powered entirely by Arduino boards, their project won the national “Robot Arm Makers” title at the 2025 RomeCup – and we think […]

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-09-18 18:00:05

dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014). 12590 nodes, 49759 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/dblp_cite

dblp_cite — DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-18 16:14:07

📏 Optical frequency comb integration transforms absolute distance measurement precision
phys.org/news/2025-07-optical-

Optical frequency comb integration transforms absolute distance measurement precision
The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully developed a length measurement system that achieves a level of precision approaching the theoretical limit allowed by quantum physics.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-18 18:12:24

⏱️ Researchers discover how the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07

Researchers discover how the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing
Researchers at the University of Southern California have made a significant breakthrough in understanding how the human brain forms, stores and recalls visual memories. A new study, published in Advanced Science, harnesses human patient brain recordings and a powerful machine learning model to shed new light on the brain's internal code that sorts memories of objects into categories—think of it as the brain's filing cabinet of imagery.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-16 02:30:30

Construction workers are putting in the landscaping for the new Computer Science building across the street from my office
#photo #photography #building

A baby excavator is working together with men on foot in front of a bunch of trees ready to plant in front of a steel and glass building where you can still see dirt with lots of track marks in front of it.