UK AI Security Institute report: AI models are rapidly improving at potentially dangerous biological and chemical tasks, and show fast jumps in self-replication (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/aisi-ai-s
Why we sleep: insights from current research https://www.ru.nl/en/donders-institute/news/why-we-sleep-insights-from-current-research
The One-Year Jewish Studies Program at Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134939/one-year-jewish-studies-program-paideia-european-institute-jewish
OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/15/former-…
Former NIH scientist sues Trump administration, claims illegal firing over research cuts | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-nih-national-institutes-of-health-washington-national-institute-of-allergy-and-infectious-diseases-b2885886.html
Long-term Monitoring of Scintillation in the #Pulsar J0332 5434: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ae485916-3549-4300-b44f-b009b2be98f4 -> SETI Institute Tracks ‘Twinkling’ Pulsar Signals to Sharpen Cosmic Clocks and Hunt for Alien Signals: https://thedebrief.org/seti-institute-tracks-twinkling-pulsar-signals-to-sharpen-cosmic-clocks-and-hunt-for-alien-signals/
reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
What might it feel like to be a glass squid ...
to reach a state where your body’s density perfectly matches your surroundings?
#ArgentinianDeepSeeps
https://bsky.app/profile/schmidtocean.
New Issue of Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20135656/new-issue-pacific-world-journal-institute-buddhist-studies
The One-Year Jewish Studies Program at Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden
https://ift.tt/HxLXogs
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP ht…