<p>"A study of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities. The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.</p><p>Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4% of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.</p><p>Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools, says Robert Wachter, a physician at the University of California, San Francisco, who is the author of a book on how AI tools are transforming health care. The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.</p><p>Co-author Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, says that more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. “There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nature.com/articles/d41586</span><span class="invisible">-026-01947-1</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/deskilling/" rel="tag">#Deskilling</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a></p>
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<p>What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 14 June 2026 <a href="https://medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-14-june-2026-78cf0be34087" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-14-june-2026-78cf0be34087"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-be</span><span class="invisible">en-reading-and-watching-week-ending-14-june-2026-78cf0be34087</span></a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/cybersecurity/" rel="tag">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/softwareengineering/" rel="tag">#SoftwareEngineering</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a></p>
<p>NEW: For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas.</p><p>Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas.</p><p>One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.<br><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/why-ca</span><span class="invisible">rbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/academia/" rel="tag">#Academia</a></p>
<p>🏆The European Physical Society is happy to announce that the 2026 EPS QEOD Prize for Research In Laser Science And Applications is attributed to: </p><p>• Dr. Carlo Callegari<br>• Dr. Kevin Prince <br>• Prof. Giuseppe Sansone </p><p>👏Congratulations to all the winners!<br><a href="https://www.europhoton.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.europhoton.org/</a><br><a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a> <a href="/tags/physik/" rel="tag">#physik</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#research</a> <a href="/tags/laser/" rel="tag">#laser</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/awards/" rel="tag">#awards</a></p>
<p>NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/wedges-climate-research-bp-fossil-fuel-princeton?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/wedges-climate-research-bp-fossil-fuel-princeton?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/wed</span><span class="invisible">ges-climate-research-bp-fossil-fuel-princeton?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/fossilfuels/" rel="tag">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/academia/" rel="tag">#Academia</a> <a href="/tags/princeton/" rel="tag">#Princeton</a></p>
<p>2005年，在庆祝创刊125周年之际， <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> 公布了125个最具挑战性的科学问题。这些问题包括： <a href="/tags/宇宙/" rel="tag">#宇宙</a> 是什么？ <a href="/tags/意识/" rel="tag">#意识</a> 是什么？ <a href="/tags/黑洞/" rel="tag">#黑洞</a> 是什么？ <a href="/tags/重力/" rel="tag">#重力</a> 是什么？ <a href="/tags/时间/" rel="tag">#时间</a> 是什么？以及…… <a href="/tags/玻璃/" rel="tag">#玻璃</a> 是什么？<br><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.309.5731.78b#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20nature%20of%20the%20glassy%20state%3F" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.309.5731.78b#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20nature%20of%20the%20glassy%20state%3F"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sc</span><span class="invisible">ience.309.5731.78b#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20nature%20of%20the%20glassy%20state%3F</span></a></p>
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<p>RE: <a href="https://disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/116744843684193974" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/116744843684193974"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/11</span><span class="invisible">6744843684193974</span></a></p><p>🚨 Reminder for USA folks 🚨 </p><p>Have you submitted a public comment on the new OMB rule? The deadline is Saturday, July 13.</p><p>This new rule could impact any research study, not just ME/CFS research!</p><p>Solve ME has instructions and a template to make writing a public comment easier, link in quoted post.</p><p>There's also a tool to help you call & email Congress.</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/standupforscience/" rel="tag">#StandUpforScience</a> <a href="/tags/omb/" rel="tag">#OMB</a> <a href="/tags/resist/" rel="tag">#Resist</a></p>
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<p>Follow <a href="/tags/standupforscience/" rel="tag">#StandUpForScience</a> everywhere to fight for <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a>, protect <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a>, and defend <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a>. <a href="https://linktr.ee/standupforscience_bluesky" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="linktr.ee/standupforscience_bluesky"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">linktr.ee/standupforscience_bl</span><span class="invisible">uesky</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/socials/" rel="tag">#Socials</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/savescience/" rel="tag">#SaveScience</a></p>
<p>Too many corporate media companies and some conferences</p><p>by twisted doodles</p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a></p>
<p>What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 12 April 2026 <a href="https://medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-12-april-2026-b2497d4bc433" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-12-april-2026-b2497d4bc433"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-be</span><span class="invisible">en-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-12-april-2026-b2497d4bc433</span></a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/leadership/" rel="tag">#leadership</a> <a href="/tags/lean/" rel="tag">#lean</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/engineering/" rel="tag">#engineering</a> <a href="/tags/softwareengineering/" rel="tag">#SoftwareEngineering</a></p>
<p>"RFK Jr.'s "Re-Parenting" Brain Worm Strikes Again" <a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/rfk-jr-really-thinks-he-can-re-parent" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/rfk-jr-really-thinks-he-can-re-parent"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/rfk-jr-really</span><span class="invisible">-thinks-he-can-re-parent</span></a> I unloaded on RFK Jr's dipshittery and racism...I'm quite sure you'll like it. Check it out! </p><p>A TASTE: "There are bad ideas, worse ones seemingly produced by that monster truck filled with congealed-month-old-cheese-whiz <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> calls an IQ, and then there’s RFK Jr. Here he goes again, he’s talking, so he’s saying something racist or stupid or ignorant or conspiratorial—usually all four!</p><p>I mean, JFC, has anyone not reached a point where they’d like to duct tape the guy’s mouth shut to just not hear the noise anymore? And, no, I’m not talking about the voice caused by inherited spasmodic dysphonia. I mean the idiocy exiting Jr.’s pie-hole"</p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#iran</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/publichealh/" rel="tag">#publichealh</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#maga</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#israel</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/middleeast/" rel="tag">#middleeast</a></p>
<p>I derive the correlation of the two-channel optical Bell test (the Aspect experiment) without quantum mechanics and assuming action by direct contact.</p><p>Therefore Bell and Clauser have made mathematical errors. The entire subfield of physics and engineering based on their work should be withdrawn.</p><p>“Quantum computers” are in true theory polynomial-time devices at best. The theory is wrong that says they are fast.</p><p><a href="http://bell-multivectors.crudfactory.com" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bell-multivectors.crudfactory.com"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">bell-multivectors.crudfactory.</span><span class="invisible">com</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a> <a href="/tags/quantumcomputing/" rel="tag">#quantumComputing</a></p>
<p>Chinese Medical AI Revolution: Beijing Deploys While the...</p><p>China deploys medical AI at scale while Western regulators debate. Beijing hospitals operationalize AI triage, cancer prediction, and microbiome medicine as FDA and EU maintain regulatory paralysis.</p><p><a href="https://theboard.world/articles/science/chinese-medical-ai-revolution-beijing-hospitals-race-ahead" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theboard.world/articles/science/chinese-medical-ai-revolution-beijing-hospitals-race-ahead"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theboard.world/articles/scienc</span><span class="invisible">e/chinese-medical-ai-revolution-beijing-hospitals-race-ahead</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a></p>
<p>PRESS RELEASE: <a href="https://www.seti.org/news/seti-institute-launches-discovery-and-futures-lab-to-explore-the-human-dimensions-of-life-beyond-earth/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.seti.org/news/seti-institute-launches-discovery-and-futures-lab-to-explore-the-human-dimensions-of-life-beyond-earth/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.seti.org/news/seti-institu</span><span class="invisible">te-launches-discovery-and-futures-lab-to-explore-the-human-dimensions-of-life-beyond-earth/</span></a></p><p>The SETI Institute announced the launch of the Discovery and Futures Lab, a new interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to understanding the global scientific, philosophical, and societal dimensions of discovering life beyond Earth.</p><p>The Discovery and Futures Lab’s mission is to anticipate and explore humanity’s responses to the discovery of life beyond Earth by connecting science with other kinds of research. </p><p><a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/lifebeyondearth/" rel="tag">#lifebeyondearth</a></p>
<p>Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth<br>---</p><p>The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/mor</span><span class="invisible">e-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/parenting/" rel="tag">#Parenting</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a></p>
<p>***PLEASE SPREAD IF YOU CAN***</p><p>my Physics & Astro department in Bologna (Italy) just opened a call <br>for 2 contracts for 1 year (24kE) for young researchers from <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a>:</p><p><a href="https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/incarichi-di-ricerca?id_bando=162" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/incarichi-di-ricerca?id_bando=162"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/incaric</span><span class="invisible">hi-di-ricerca?id_bando=162</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ricercatm.unibo.it/incarichiricerca_segretari/_bandi/2008/ProceduraSelettiva162[227]TutorColloquio_eng.htm" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ricercatm.unibo.it/incarichiricerca_segretari/_bandi/2008/ProceduraSelettiva162[227]TutorColloquio_eng.htm"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ricercatm.unibo.it/incarichiri</span><span class="invisible">cerca_segretari/_bandi/2008/ProceduraSelettiva162[227]TutorColloquio_eng.htm</span></a></p><p>Deadline: 15/06/2026</p><p>Eligibility: young scholars in Physics/Geo/Astro citizens of Palestine, refugees from Palestine, refugees residing in Palestine, or holders of a permanent residence permit or international protection in Palestine </p><p><a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/astrophysics/" rel="tag">#astrophysics</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/newspecies/" rel="tag">#NewSpecies</a>!<br>New mantis shrimp from <a href="/tags/australia/" rel="tag">#australia</a> just hit us:</p><p>Gonodactylus roycaldwelli</p><p>Treatment: <a href="https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD9B1B-4576-FE2B-FF6B-FC8CFBC1BDEF" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD9B1B-4576-FE2B-FF6B-FC8CFBC1BDEF"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD9B1</span><span class="invisible">B-4576-FE2B-FF6B-FC8CFBC1BDEF</span></a><br>Publication: <a href="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.3" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.3"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5845.</span><span class="invisible">3.3</span></a><br><a href="/tags/zootaxa/" rel="tag">#Zootaxa</a> <a href="/tags/gonodactylusroycaldwelli/" rel="tag">#GonodactylusRoycaldwelli</a></p><p><a href="/tags/fairdata/" rel="tag">#FAIRdata</a><br><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/oa/" rel="tag">#OA</a> <a href="/tags/openaccess/" rel="tag">#openaccess</a> <a href="/tags/biology/" rel="tag">#biology</a> <a href="/tags/taxonomy/" rel="tag">#taxonomy</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#ecology</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/wildlife/" rel="tag">#wildlife</a> <a href="/tags/conservation/" rel="tag">#conservation</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/fauna/" rel="tag">#fauna</a> <a href="/tags/invertebrates/" rel="tag">#invertebrates</a> <a href="/tags/arthropods/" rel="tag">#arthropods</a> <a href="/tags/crustacea/" rel="tag">#crustacea</a> <a href="/tags/crab/" rel="tag">#crab</a> <a href="/tags/mantisshrimp/" rel="tag">#mantisshrimp</a></p>
<p>This story is amazing.</p><p>Giant octopuses of the Cretaceous were up to 19 meters (60 feet) long. </p><p>They were the apex ocean predators of their day, eating up plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.</p><p>And they were apparently quite intelligent. </p><p>Sorry we missed you!</p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sc</span><span class="invisible">ience.aea6285</span></a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>Absolutely nuts. <br><a href="/tags/nsf/" rel="tag">#NSF</a><br><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a></p><p>Trump fires NSF's oversight board | Science | AAAS<br><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.science.org/content/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board</span></a></p>
<p>NASA & Katalyst Space are attempting to rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a powerful gamma-ray telescope that's on a death-spiral toward Earth. </p><p>A booster spacecraft, called Link, is now on its way. It will attempt to grab Swift & lift it to safety. If successful, the same technique could be applied to the Hubble telescope. </p><p><a href="https://spacenews.com/pegasus-launches-swift-reboost-mission/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="spacenews.com/pegasus-launches-swift-reboost-mission/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spacenews.com/pegasus-launches</span><span class="invisible">-swift-reboost-mission/</span></a> <a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>
<p>“The latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> and American innovation.” That is exactly right :( <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-04-26/trump-purges-national-science-board-scientists-warn-of-ai-shift" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-04-26/trump-purges-national-science-board-scientists-warn-of-ai-shift"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.latimes.com/world-nation/s</span><span class="invisible">tory/2026-04-26/trump-purges-national-science-board-scientists-warn-of-ai-shift</span></a></p>
<p>35.1 C in Stratford, Ontario, Canada 1830h UTC.</p><p>From when I visited this place regularly decades ago as a student, I recall zero 3-4 day stretches of such weather.</p><p>Meanwhile, our PM coddles an-oil-industry-intoxicated Alberta toward adding a million barrels a day to our contribution.</p><p>To an atmosphere so thin, it looks like a lightly drawn pencil-line from space -- our last shield against death by radiation.</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/alberta-bc-oil-pipeline-9.7253528" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/alberta-bc-oil-pipeline-9.7253528"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british</span><span class="invisible">-columbia/alberta-bc-oil-pipeline-9.7253528</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/wx/" rel="tag">#wx</a> <a href="/tags/weather/" rel="tag">#weather</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>
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<p>The proliferation of AI tools in science risks introducing a phase of scientific enquiry in which we produce more but understand less.<br></p>From <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07146-0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07146-0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nature.com/articles/s41586</span><span class="invisible">-024-07146-0</span></a><br><br>There are good points in this article, but the framing of the risk above is broken, to my way of thinking. In adopting the economic metaphor of production, it's taking for granted that there is a scientific process that leads to products, and that we can quantify how many of these products are produced. "We produce more".<br><br>I would argue that if we do not understand whatever is coming out of this process, then they are not products in any reasonable sense of that word. In fact I'd say this of any putative commodity: if a factory spits out a widget nobody knows how to use, then the factory has not produced a commodity, it has made an object. Commodities are commodious, adapted to a use or purpose, and human beings are the entities that have uses and purposes.<br><br>So, if we create machines that make knowledge-objects resembling the products of science that fewer and fewer people understand, we are not engaging in "scientific enquiry" or "knowledge production". In this view the phrase quoted above ought to be re-cast as "The proliferation of AI tools in science risks science". What exactly is enquiry for if not understanding more?<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a><br>
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<p>Vera Rubin Was a Pioneering Female Astronomer. Her Federal Bio Now Doesn’t Mention Efforts to Diversify Science.<br>—</p><p>The edits to the webpage offer a glimpse into how far the Trump administration will go in refusing to acknowledge today’s inequalities as it purges federal initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/vera-rubin-astronomer-dei-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/vera-rubin-astronomer-dei-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ver</span><span class="invisible">a-rubin-astronomer-dei-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/dei/" rel="tag">#DEI</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#Space</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
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