2026-01-16 21:34:38
"Where Science Meets Storytelling: Twelve Years of the Science Blogs Web Archive" an der Library of Congress:
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/12/where-science-meets-storytelling-twelve-years-of-the-scienc…
"Where Science Meets Storytelling: Twelve Years of the Science Blogs Web Archive" an der Library of Congress:
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/12/where-science-meets-storytelling-twelve-years-of-the-scienc…
Interessant om door de projecten heen te browsen die funding hebben ontvangen.
https://www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-projects-strengthen-dutch-open-science-infrastructure
There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027
#RoteListe: Für #Raubfliegen-Arten feucht-kühler Lebensräume wird es schwerer
Fast die Hälfte aller Raubfliegenarten Deutschlands, nämlich 40 von 83 in Deutschland etablierten Arten, sind bestandsgefährdet oder bereits ausgestorben. Das zeigt die neue Rote Liste der Raubfliegen, die das Bundesamt …
This is genuinely the boogie man I'm afraid of.
☑️ Strange changes found in blood of long Covid patients | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/long-covid-patient-blood-change-b2866428.html#Echobox=17…
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…
🌡️ Taking the moon's temperature with beeswax
#moon
There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr
Les chimpanzés sont presque aussi rationnels que nous, selon une série d'expériences menées par l'anthropologue évolutionniste Jan Engelmann.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/the-evolution-of-rationality-h…
#OpenScience Š la française: « Remise des prix science ouverte : édition 2025
» mit Preisen für Projekte rund um #Forschungsdaten, für #Forschungssoftware und für Diss…
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Since 2011, millions of tons of a brown algae called Sargassum has washed onto beaches in the Caribbean. The rotting seaweed releases toxic hydrogen sulfide, smelling of rotten eggs, impacting tourism and shore access. It was initially thought Saharan iron dust was the cause, but new #science
Why are these people so obsessed with eating bugs? "Oh but millions of people around the world eat bugs" yeah millions of people around the world do all kinds of fucked up shit and I'm not planning to do any of that shit either. Gross. Fuck outta here. I'll have the vegan option. https://www.…
Thinking about attending Berlin Buzzwords? Don't miss out! #bbuzz provides many resources and perks, especially for newcomers in data science, AI, and search.
Find out why and register for June 7-9: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/join-bbuzz-rhd/
Want to break into climate work but don't know where to start? Terra.do's Learning for Action fellowship might be your answer.
This 12-week program goes deep on real-world climate solutions—beyond just clean energy. You'll learn the science, explore diverse solutions, and connect with a global community, all while working full-time (6-10 hrs/week).
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aus der reihe "warum erscheint dieses buch nicht open access?!" heute: "Information Science: History, Ideas, Applications" von Michael Seadle: https://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/information-science/?k=9781783306947
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…
Today was the last day of ESA's JUICE Science Working Team Meeting at #mpsgoettingen in Göttingen – with lots of talks, discussions, and planning for the months and years ahead. Thanks to everyone for being here and making the meeting a success!
#ESA
Did an "AI" (LLM) write that report? @… https://flipboard.com/@npr/science-uk3a4d92z/-/a-2dzVqOFxTxGIIGWtXjFa7Q:a:319544…
A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/scien…
The people who shut down US Antarctic research want to “make Star Trek real”, suggesting the thinnest possible reading of a show about future humanity that prioritises science and diplomacy.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/0
The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science https://research-reviewer.blogspot.com/2025/10/publish-or-perish-research.html
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…
"Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds"
#FossilFuels #Oceans #Pollution
Birds nesting in Hawaiian forests steal building material from each other's nests, usually taking from nests they encounter while hunting for prey
#science
es gibt zwei neue folgen vom #podcast "The Future is Open Science": "FOS 54 Paper Mills und Fake Journals" https://podcast.zbw.eu/fos/2025/12/23/fos-…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kathrinpassig/115554872054837228
Kathrin schreibt die beste Science Fiction.
The Arctic’s ‘last ice area’ is showing signs of weakness #Arctic
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 433 nodes and 1941 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…
I have a rough plan for a location already. I hope it isn't too crowded.
"Catalonia proposes 27 safe sites to host over 85,000 people for 2026 total solar eclipse"
https://www.catalannews.com/society-scienc
"The Drain of Scientific Publishing"
#scientific
8 vezes em que cientistas morreram por seus experimentos
@… https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/115541933159141939
Talking #water in Hsinchu: the biggest reservoir and cleanest stream here in the mid-north of #Taiwan is connected with the Science Park. It serves the #semiconductor industry. A bit is for agricu…
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
From the article: "In this century, the émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry and medicine now stands at 40 percent." https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/115701386822807521
The Coach Mark Carroll Podcast
Mark is an expert in exercise science, program design and nutrition for the performance and aesthetic transformation of men and women worldwide...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/coach-mark-carroll/…
#CFP: The 2026 AAR-EIR and RSGS Conference at McGill University Beyond Science and Religion
https://ift.tt/AjxEXkV
CALL FOR PAPERS
via Input 4 RELCFP
My lord, to be able to write science this well. This is like the opening of an econ or law paper.
From Donald Hoffman's "The Interface Theory of Perception",
https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/interface.pdf
When people say they need hope about climate change, what are they really asking for?
New piece breaks down why hope collapses so easily and what stronger feelings can replace it.
Not prediction. Participation.
Read it here: [link]
https://www.b…
Open space on the first floor of the new Computing and Information Science Building
#photo #photography #cornell
There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the
changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts.
Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's
science. Three: Be aware that you live in a malevolent Universe controlled
by Murphy's Law, sometimes offset by Brewster's Factor; that's engineering.
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…
Cyclability in London: Associations between the quality of the local cycling environment, cycling participation, and perceptions of the cycling environment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692325004004
Next week I will participate with the @… @… @… Horizon funded research projects in a policy briefing in Brussels, with MEP Group on Climate Change, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development @eupolarcluster.bsky.social
Remote participation possible if you're interested in what we have to say about Polar Science for Global Action and Strengthening Climate Preparedness through EU Leadership
https://polarres.eu/polarresevents/polar-science-for-global-action/
Science Weekly: The brain’s 5 eras, the vaccine that protects against dementia, altruistic ants
Episode webpage: https://www.theguardian.com/science/series/science
Media file:
My uncle — in his late 60s — just explained to my parents that Deep Space 9 is an "old science fiction show"
And I am *myself* crumbling into dust
The BBC Chose Transphobia over Science
#Transphobia
BRB, rewriting all my graph algorithms https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-method-is-the-fastest-way-to-find-the-best-routes-20250806/
Ich habe (in den Andromeda Nachrichten des SFCD) mal versucht, meinem Unbehagen bezüglich persönlicher AI-Assistent*innen auf den Grund zu gehen - und bin auch mit Hilfe literarischer Beispiele bei den Themen Vertrauen und Versklavung angekommen.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2025/
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…
"The other study from Science looked at why those chatbots were so persuasive to begin with. It concluded that the more persuasive a chatbot was, the least factually accurate it was."
Nothing to worry about. Ignore the Cambridge Analytica history. Don't worry about GROK. #NothingToWorryAbout
New studies show that AI can influence voters more than campaign ads…
"The other study from Science looked at why those chatbots were so persuasive to begin with. It concluded that the more persuasive a chatbot was, the least factually accurate it was."
Nothing to worry about. Ignore the Cambridge Analytica history. Don't worry about GROK. #NothingToWorryAbout
New studies show that AI can influence voters more than campaign ads…
"For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?" @ Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/for-researchers-in-the-humanities-is-open-really-fair "The open …
Das #bpkFotoarchiv der @… erprobt seit 2024 #KI-gestützte Erschließungsmethoden, um seine mehr als 12 Millionen Bildmotive besser zugänglich und nutzbar zu machen.
Ste…
Metrics company, Clarivate, which runs Web of Science, is involved in very dubious awards in Iraq. They corrupt science.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/31/exclusive-clarivate-web-of-science-involved-dubious-awards-iraq/…
Fossil science owes a debt to indigenous knowledge: Lesotho missionary's notes tell the story
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-fossil-science-owes-debt-indigenous.html#goog_rewarded
Letters to the editor from writers using AI chatbots are flooding scientific journals, likely written by writers seeking to boost their number of citations (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/letters-to-the-editor-ai-chatb…
Just finished "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Can't believe I didn't read this one earlier, and this strengthens my resolve to finish off the rest of her stuff I have yet to read sooner. I think it benefits somewhat from having read it after "Four Ways to Forgiveness" which gives more of the Hainish context. Certainly none of the blurbs I had read about it did it any measure of justice, which is one reason I hadn't prioritized it. More than being about colonization, it's about a solution to the paradox of tolerance, and both the price and imperfections of that solution. As usual with Le Guin's science fiction, it's a rich companion to anarchist thought.
I think the typical objection to seeing it as an answer to the warlord question would be that it serendipitously positions the indigenous population with more power and a less ruthless opponent than in the imagined scenario, and it uses the League of Worlds as a sort of deus ex machina to foreclose further retribution. Ultimately that's why I think it's more about the paradox of tolerance than anything else, but I also think in regards to the warlord problem that we are too quick to underestimate just how numerous and enthusiastic the opponents of a warlord might be, and to overestimate the strength of technological weapons wielded by frail (and psychologically unarmored) humans.
In any case, Le Guin gives this book's alien humans yet another fascinatingly credible capability, and getting to see the introduction of ansible technology with all its implications is pretty cool too. Maybe not
🚀 Wow! Seit Montag ist die #Hochschulrektorenkonferenz #NeuHier im #Fediverse!
👉 @…
Herzlich willkommen 👋, es freut uns sehr!
Mit gutem Beispiel voran für unabhängige und souveräne #Wissenschaftskommunikation!
➡️ Weitersagen!
#WissKomm #SciComm #Science #Wissenschaft #Bildung #FediLZ #Universität #education #Hochschule #FediCampus #DigitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignty #SocialMedia #SaveSocial #WissXit #Musk
SCU Buzz | The Southern Cross University Podcast
Southern Cross University is a multi-campus university on Australia's east coast, with campuses in southeast Queensland adjacent to the Gold Coast Airport, in New South Wales at Lismore and in Coffs Harbour, where the University's National Marine Science Centre is also located...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory:
wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
Researchers track massive ice loss from Berry Glacier in West Antarctica #Antarctica
Google DeepMind plans to open its "first automated science laboratory" in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b20f382b-ef05-4ea1-8933-df907d30cc2c<…
Lord Whitehead: ➡️ Stick to the Science, Inform the Public, Take Action. #climate
😰 Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/harrison-ford-donald-trump-climate-crisis
Haven't seen this on Mastodon yet - the #royalsociety #musk saga continues: …
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
If you want to spend time on AI you can best spend it on lectures like this. No hype, just science, but in this case also very practical.
#AI
Thought I had a good sabbatical plan for the spring, but it's been upended by a one-time opportunity: I've ended up on the committee creating India's new national 11th and 12th grade curriculum/textbook in computer science. So much for the best laid schemes, but also exciting!
CueLess
The Animal Behaviour Podcast. With a cumulative 60 years of professional animal training experience, Deane, Ryan and Steve can't help but get nerdy on the science of learning when they get together...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/cueles
Check out my latest article - "The Psychological Architecture of Hope in a Warming World"
https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-psychological-architecture-of?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social
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…
The oceans just keep getting hotter #ocean
Joshua trees make the cover of New Phytologist, for the issue with our paper, led by Karolina Heyduk, showing that they use water-saving CAM photosynthesis — but only sometimes #science
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative restructures to focus on AI and science, led by Biohub research centers, and acquires AI startup Evolutionary Scale's team (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/technology/zuckerberg-chan-initiative-biohub.…
BLUETTI just dropped something big at CES 2026: a road trip charger that runs on your alternator and solar, plus power stations made from bio-circular plastics that slash CO2 emissions.
The Charger 2 solves slow-charging headaches with universal compatibility and bi-directional power. Meanwhile, their new Elite series brings sustainable materials to high-density energy storage.
🐭 High-speed imaging tracks live brain cell activity in awake mice
#brain
Cuckoo eggs match the eggs of their adoptive hosts thanks to (mostly) loci inherited from their mothers, who put them there — impressive multifaceted genomic study #science
Lux Capital raised $1.5B for its ninth fund, the largest in its history, to back companies focusing on fields like breakthrough science and national security (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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 300 nodes and 1155 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…
🌟 Astrocytes are superstars in the game of long-term memory
#memory
⚡ Letting EVs take a load off the grid could result in 'negative emissions' while saving drivers money
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-evs-grid-result-negative-emissions.html
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
🧺 Woven baskets aren’t just aesthetically pleasing – materials science research finds they’re sturdier and more resilient than stiff containers
https://theconversation.com/woven-bask
dblp_coauthor_snap: DBLP authors (2012)
A coauthorship network extracted from the DBLP computer science manuscript database, in 2012. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of computer scientists and their publications.
This network has 425957 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted, Metadata, Projection
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)
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…