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Survey: 41% of US teens aged 13 to 17 support a ban on middle and high school students from using phones in class while 51% oppose it; 73% oppose a full-day ban (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

About 4 in 10 teens support cellphone bans in classrooms; fewer back all-day restrictions
About one-in-five teens support banning cellphones during the entire school day, including at lunch and between classes.

🙂 Teens prepared for puberty report fewer mental health issues
#teens…

Teens prepared for puberty report fewer mental health issues
New research suggests that teens who feel better-prepared to take on the challenges of puberty are more resilient and have a stronger sense of mental well-being.

We always talk about things that get worse with #Aging - but what about the things that get better? For example I feel that people become more confident and able to make faster decisions, especially about what they like or want to do. Can you think of anything else that improves with aging?
Trying to get ideas for a research fellowship proposal :)

"Climate conference's webpages emit 10 times more carbon than average sites, study says"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Climate conference's webpages emit 10 times more carbon than average sites, study says
Websites produced for COP conferences emit up to 10 times more carbon than average internet pages, new research published in the journal PLOS Climate suggests.

Beefy release of my Choria Configuration Management system, includes some things I've wanted for years like deeper resource monitoring.
Also a nice new docs site
Change log and release here https://github.com/choria-io/ccm/releases/tag/v0.0.2

While I think it's good that more mainstream publications do more on the #fediverse the Search Engine/Hard Fork episode on the #forkiverse is a bit ... well it could have done with a bit more research. And "oh look how yanky it all is but we didn't read the manual to run this ser…

@… I tried KDE at one point after seeing all the comments about how wonderful it is, but I wasn't very happy with it. It's resource intensive, for one thing, and I didn't think it was a better interface than Mint, Mate, or XFCE.

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…

At the Cybathlon, May the Best Brain-Computer Interface Win
Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise.

Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/1

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time.