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Quoted from my colleague Pierpaolo Vivo 📌 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕📌 I have the great pleasure to announce the first Lake Como Summer School on "𝑳𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚: 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝑻𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝑺𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆" 🧪

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#DarwinDay "The structure of evolutionary theory combines enough stability for coherence w/ enough change to keep any keen mind in a perpetual mode of search & challenge." -Stephen Jay Gould Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution: Problems For Philosophers Today🧪 www.thecollector.com/charles-darw...

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OK people this is not a drill. Methane is now leaking at a huge rate in Antarctica. CH4 is the most potent greenhouse gas, and the seam of frozen methane, which is leaking, contains equivalent of 24 GT of CO2 That's around 10% of the remaining 1.5C budget english.elpais.com/climate/2025...

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A sneak peek of our's Biomass satellite in the cleanroom at Airbus in Toulouse! 🌍 The satellite will soon leave for Europe's spaceport🚀 Biomass is the first satellite to measure the implications of deforestation and forest degradation on our climate. esa.int/Applications...

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This isn’t the time we sought, but maybe a good time to get beyond the dysfunctional for-profit publishing model, which eats up a lot of the limited resources. 🧪

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Expert-level knowledge is mandatory for a healthy society, and there is no substitute. To tackle the very real problems society faces, we require expert-level knowledge. Choosing to remain ignorant harms the world. How glorifying ignorance leads to science illiteracy🧪 bigthink.com/starts-with-...

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The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/

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For all applicants, some helpful advice: if you're applying to a job and provide a GitHub profile, you'd better make sure there's something on there. Claiming coding experience but having zero contributions on GitHub is a great way to raise questions.

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A good time to remember Science, the Endless Frontier: A Report to the President on a Program for Postwar Scientific Research By Vannevar Bush

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Horrifying as this is…this does make me wonder…social systems are not simple engineering. Pushing all the buttons does not necessarily lead to the desired outcomes.

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Sabotage. Criminal sabotage. "[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

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For our junior colleagues in the US looking for opportunities, Europe is a great place to do science 🧪 We have a #postdoc call open right now! #complexity csh.ac.at/education/po...

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Just for context, for academics to get ahold of US financial data on firms (let alone individuals) it requires months of discussions and fine-tuning of research plans with differential privacy methods in place to prevent identification of individual firms…

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TL;DR Methane release from permafrost as predicted.

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This is really tough to hear (as a postdoc myself).

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Interesting raising of parallels with ideological science (really, an oxymoron) Lysenkoism and what is happening today. Also interesting that this happening in a similar domain of knowledge. Probably not cooncidence? 🧪

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Much needed discussion on the publication model doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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The pleasure of checking a book out from the library

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NM night sky in Santa Fe

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The NIH pays off beyond our dreams. In a special edition of Change, Technically, @analog-ashley.bsky.social and I get into the facts of the #NIH : what it does, how it works, and the consequences of disrupting its essential work. Listen here: www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

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Austria recycles about 45% household waste. I come to the US and the hotel room…has no recycling bin…

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Food for thought re climate shocks🧪 "many human societies, such as the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Norsemen of medieval Greenland, declined during prolonged spells of adverse climate when productivity decreased and the available resources could no longer support them (Diamond 2005)...

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Mulling over this one..."Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood" Makes one wonder about the link between exposure and behavior. A major nature vs. env. experiment? www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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‘We designate something as an organism, not because it is n steps up on the ladder of life, but because it is a consolidated unit of design, the focal point where lines of adaptation converge…🧪

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