akacaycepollard.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

The Google owner, Alphabet, updated its ethical guidelines on AI, dropping its promise not to use AI for purposes such as developing weapons and surveillance tools. The guidelines no longer refer to not pursuing technologies that could “cause or are likely to cause overall harm”. bit.ly/41khc7U

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Imagine being able to unravel the secrets of life as quickly as running a computer program. Researchers at the Arc Institute and Stanford University, in collaboration with NVIDIA released this week #Evo2, the biggest-ever artificial-intelligence (AI) model for biology. my summary: bit.ly/4k7j2Sh

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Ven. 21.02 ore 17:00 aula Amaldi (Edif. Marconi, Dip. Fisica Sapienza Univ. Roma) discuteremo di "scienza e genere" con Edwige Pezzulli, astrofisica, divulgatrice, autrice di Oltre Marie: prospettive di genere nella scienza. A seguire, aperitivo. Evento pubblico aperto a tutt@. #sherocksscience2025

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

when you can't deny the evidence, destroy the evidence read the letter from a researcher within the federal system, published anonymously on #BMJ #digitalgenocide www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Physics Department at Sapienza University in Rome in celebration of the International Day of Girls and Women in Science, group photo followed by networking aperitif (yesterday) #Sisterhood #Science #Physics #Sapienza #InstituteForComplexSystems #CNR

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Fantastic talk this morning by Roberto di Leonardo on programming bacterial dynamics with light at the conference celebrating twenty years of the Institute for Complex Systems in Rome

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

#AI US invests 500 billion in AI infrastructure openai.com/index/announ...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw bit.ly/4hrbeJ7

submitted 37 days ago • 266 comments

#day1 #AI among other revocated orders of action there is Executive Order 14110 of October 30, 2023 for Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

"The world did the same in the 1920s, eager to move on from the devastation of the 1918 influenza pandemic" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

New paper out with great friends and colleagues and the one and only @manlius.bsky.social today on @naturecities.bsky.social rdcu.be/d6Bf5

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

It's time to establish an Italian Society of Computational Social Sciences. Ivano Bison illustrates why we need it and the next steps to create it #CS2Italy

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Now in Trento #CS2Italy

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Super intersting start of day2 at #CS22025 with @alexmesoudi.com talking about #CulturalEvolution

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Narayan Sabhahit from @nunetsi.bsky.social introduces a formal definition of network typicality by derandomisation (work with Krioukov lab and @scarpino.bsky.social) #netscix2025

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

CS2Italy in Trento is off to a great start with @mtizzoni.bsky.social @alexvespi.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social and a a packed room of computational social scientists! cs2italy.org Università di Trento, @isi.it , CNR ISIC, FBK

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

#cs22025 great opening talk by @alexvespi.bsky.social 🤩

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

CS2Italy starting now

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

CS2Italy, the first Italian conference on Computational Social Science, is starting in a week in Trento! It will consist of one day of tutorials and two days of exciting contributions, including four stellar invited speakers. Check out the final program at cs2italy.org!

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

SpiRobs: Logarithmic Spiral-shaped Robots for Versatile Grasping Across Scales "They are actuated by cables, which allows for fast and life-like movements. Besides, a single robot can handle a wide variety of objects (in terms of size, shape, and weight)." Open Access www.cell.com/device/pdf/S...

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

#numbers 2025 is a perfect square. Didn't occur since 1936 and won’t until 2116. Adding 1 to each digit gives a perfect square- 25 is the only smaller integer with this property It is sum of cubes of the first 9 integers and the square of their sum 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³=(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)²

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

On language, social interaction, and abstract concepts. I have to thank a lot of people ... for collaborations, discussions, insights. cambridge.org/core/books/f...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

“Trump can admire the USA’s rise in life expectancy for all Americans 4 years from now, or he can watch the USA sink further behind in untimely deaths and unwieldy health costs” Read our latest Editorial—"roadmap to better health in the USA": bit.ly/41l0F5i

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

The really important conversations we need to have about AI.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Single mutation in H5N1 bird flu virus may make it more infectious to humans www.statnews.com/2024/12/05/h...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Constant, countless tiny deaths of cells throughout the body are essential to our body’s healthy upkeep. Tune in to “The Joy of Why” with co-host Steven Strogatz: listen.quantamagazine.org/jow-323-s Or read the transcript: www.quantamagazine.org/how-is-cell-...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 🛟 An unidentified illness in Congo's Kwango province has killed 143 people, mainly women and children. Symptoms include fever, headache, cough, and anemia. Authorities and WHO are investigating, urging precautions to prevent further spread. https://buff.ly/3ZByY7k #EpiSky #MedSky #IDSky #WHO

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

AI models will likely be trained on AI-generated content; yet new research shows this creates a destructive cycle called model collapse where each generation loses ability to capture rare events and human diversity, eventually converging on a narrow, limited view of reality 🧪 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

submitted 85 days ago • 6 comments