Qué juramento hipocrštico ni qué niño muerto https://elpais.com/sociedad/2025-12-03/la-empresa-gestora-del-hospital-publico-de-torrejon-ordena-rechazar-pacientes-para-ganar-…
Day 10: Stacey Mason
Another academic, but this time one of my compatriots; we overlapped at UC Santa Cruz as advisees of Michael Mates, and even collaborated on a Twitch stream called ScholarsPlay for a bit, although we never coauthored any papers. We did chat about our research, and I had many good discussions with her about agency in interactive fiction, a topic we both published on. Her paper "On Games and Links: Extending the Vocabulary of Agency and Immersion in Interactive Narratives" (#20AuthorsNoMen
Interesting graph from @….
There was a •fascinating• 99pi about the push to create an official Category 6 — and the surprisingly compelling arguments against doing that (more fully developed in the story audio than in the web text summary):
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/category-6/
One thing that’s a clear point of consensus in that debate is that the existing Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale isn’t up to the task of describing what we face now. https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/115481161250561175
SOHO’s 30-year legacy of observing the Sun: #SOHO celebrates thirty years: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/SOHO/Sun-watcher_SOHO_celebrates_thirty_years and https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-esa-sun-observatory-marks-30-years/
💡 Was lässt sich wie verbessern? Was denkt ihr?
[1] Kontext:
➡️ https://mastodon.social/@mainz_de/115628583057729789
➡️ https://chaos.social/@LangerJan/115646173044722476
➡️ https://climatejustice.social/@PaulaToThePeople/115637691195185767
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Organic geochemical evidence for life in Archean rocks identified by pyrolysis–GC–MS and supervised machine learning: #life in ancient rocks: https://gizmodo.com/ai-uncovers-evidence-of-life-in-3-3-billion-year-old-rocks-2000687539 / https://www.reuters.com/science/new-method-spots-signs-earths-primordial-life-ancient-rocks-2025-11-18/ - a machine-learning-enhanced approach to chemical analysis is drastically expanding the chemical record of life on Earth, and it could help us find evidence of life on other planets too.
Observation of undepleted phosphine in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf: #phosphine in a #BrownDwarf suggests it may be too soon to use the molecule as a sign of #AlienLife: https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry/astrochemistry/Phosphine-found-brown-dwarfs-atmosphere/103/web/2025/10 / Phosphine, Evidence, and an Exercise in Scientific Restraint: https://www.seti.org/news/wolf-1130c-phosphine-evidence-and-an-exercise-in-scientific-restraint/