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According to xitter the cops have backed off for now. According to the Lost Coast Outpost the campus closure isn't holding.
"6:15 p.m.: A crowd continues to hold space on the UC Quad, dining together, listening to music, and adding to the collection of chalk art. Another group of protesters has opted to take the message to the streets of Arcata."
https://twitter.com/readytoescalate/status/1784325986458202210
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/apr/27/cal-poly-humboldt-issues-hard-closure-campus-law-e/

An Undergraduate Consortium for Addressing the Leaky Pipeline to Computing Research
James Boerkoel, Mehmet Ergezer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17215 https:/…

An Undergraduate Consortium for Addressing the Leaky Pipeline to Computing Research
Despite an increasing number of successful interventions designed to broaden participation in computing research, there is still significant attrition among historically marginalized groups in the computing research pipeline. This experience report describes a first-of-its-kind Undergraduate Consortium (UC) that addresses this challenge by empowering students with a culmination of their undergraduate research in a conference setting. The UC, conducted at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intell…

If you didn’t know this festival happened in 1977, you could be excused for thinking it’s for an upcoming event based on the design aesthetics.
https://sfba.social/@sinkwithcalifornia/111665055603213339

sink with california (@sinkwithcalifornia@sfba.social)
Attached: 1 image The Eleventh Annual UC Berkeley Jazz Festival - UC Berkeley - Berkeley - 1977 #UCBerkeleyJazzFestival #jazz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Jazz_Festival

Evidence of Sulfate-Rich Fluid Alteration in Jezero Crater Floor, Mars: #Mars continues on anniversary of rover mission: https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2024/02/search-for-life-on-mars-continues-on-third-anniversary-of-rover-mission.html - UC geosciences students, professor help uncover natural history of red planet.

Come è cambiata la Russia di Putin a due anni dall’invasione dell’Ucraina, di Giovanni Savino
#Russia

Come è cambiata la Russia di Putin a due anni dall'invasione dell'Ucraina - Valigia Blu
Due anni dopo l’annuncio dell’avvio dell’operazione speciale militare, nome ufficiale dato dal Cremlino alla guerra contro l’Ucraina, le sensazioni sembrano contrastare quelle del primo anniversario, quando si riteneva pressoché certa la vittoria ucraina e si dava per scontato la riconquista non solo del Donbas ma anche della Crimea, annessa dalla Russia nel 2014. A distanza di dodici mesi, a queste previsioni se ne sono sostituite altre, dal tono identico ma di segno opposto, sul trio…

📉 UC Berkeley seized People's Park. The cost is in the millions and set to rocket higher
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-28/cost-uc-berkeley-peoples-park-seizure-millions-rising

Cost of UC Berkeley seizure of People's Park is millions and rising
The multimillion-dollar cost for UC Berkeley of walling off People's Park will grow with bills from outside agencies and continued security to keep people out.

Come è cambiata la Russia di Putin a due anni dall’invasione dell’Ucraina, di Giovanni Savino
#Russia

Come è cambiata la Russia di Putin a due anni dall'invasione dell'Ucraina - Valigia Blu
Due anni dopo l’annuncio dell’avvio dell’operazione speciale militare, nome ufficiale dato dal Cremlino alla guerra contro l’Ucraina, le sensazioni sembrano contrastare quelle del primo anniversario, quando si riteneva pressoché certa la vittoria ucraina e si dava per scontato la riconquista non solo del Donbas ma anche della Crimea, annessa dalla Russia nel 2014. A distanza di dodici mesi, a queste previsioni se ne sono sostituite altre, dal tono identico ma di segno opposto, sul trio…

Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦐🦠
Forams are a shelled amoeboid #zooplankton, ecologically important to the worlds #oceans

Marine plankton behavior could predict future marine extinctions, study finds
Marine communities migrated to Antarctica during the Earth's warmest period in 66 million years long before a mass-extinction event.

Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.
Live-attenuated virus vaccine defective in RNAi suppression induces rapid protection in neonatal and adult mice lacking mature B and T cells | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

OK, I was totally joking when I made my "using ChatGPT to write reviews" meme but now Stanford/UC researchers found evidence it's already happening. Here are the adjectives more likely to be generated by LLMs than humans.
Of course there's also giveaways like "In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model."