New mRNA vaccine research has basically been shelved by this administration.
We know that vaccines basically eliminate cervical cancers.
The prospect of expanding this to additional cancers is incredible. Particularly the most lethal ones like pancreatic.
Jo, men hva er det et argument for? Flytrafikken er på fem millioner årlige passasjerer Oslo til Bergen, Trondheim og Stavanger. Da har vi ikke nevnt eksisterende buss, bil- og togpassasjerer enda. Bare fly i dag tilsvarer 17 stappfulle tog hver eneste dag, hele året.
Or "These jobs have historically had very low salaries for the qualifications required because they have been dominated by women workers. That makes them less attractive."
I don’t know when this happened, but my 🦋 timeline has become a lot more international recently. Was scrolling for just a few seconds just now and there are posts in English, Norwegian, German, Slowakian, Japanese, Farsi, Dutch, Turkish, Hungarian, French, Polish, Danish,… I love it! 🥰
Kommt von „AutomoBIL“ (statt „AUTOmobil“. 😊
Und Verbrenner-Autos heißen auf norwegisch fossil-bil („bil“ für Auto). Ich glaube allein der Name hat einen großen Anteil daran, dass in Norwegen schon seit 10 Jahren keiner mehr Verbrenner kauft. Weil: warum will man ein „Uralt-Auto“, wenn man ein modernes el-bil/ E-Auto haben kann?
Fun fact: every five months, the world builds as much solar power generation as all the nuclear power that has ever been built. And still some people dream of a ”nuclear renaissance”. That train has left the station long ago…
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
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I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
Two maps of Europe showing the outcome of emission control of SO2, NOx, and NH3 between 1990 and 2010 presented as maps on exceedance of critical loads of acidity. The acid rain and acidification problems were for all intents and purposes solved. From Maas and Grennfelt (2016), Via Grennfelt, P., Engleryd, A., Forsius, M. et al. Acid rain and air pollution: 50 years of progress in environmental science and policy. Ambio 49, 849–864 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01244-4
Us 40+ year youngs may also recall the 80s talk about acid rain.
SO2 pollution was so severe that in places, sulphuric acid literally rained from the sky.
Killing plants and forests. Even stripping paint from cars.
But scientists sounded alarm, activists acted, and politicians regulated.
Behold:
Today NeurIPS is announcing our official satellite event in Paris.
After responding to the call from Ellis following the success of EurIPS in December, we are pleased to reach a new milestone by joining forces with the NeurIPS organizing committee for the 2026 edition.
Great news!
They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨
London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.
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It's honestly blackpilled me a little how the last couple of years have revealed that so many people are just fundamentally averse to reading and writing and thinking as worthwhile human activities.
My own subjective experience of X's default "For You" feed is that it feels like a procession feed of viral videos scraped from other sources and intercut with posts designed to provoke a certain kind of anger. Here's a cool clip from an old film! Here's why the "multi-faith prayer rooms" in airports are an Islamic conspiracy! Here's an amazing cheeseburger in Japan! Here's why wind turbines are evil! Here's an amazing way to slice a cucumber! Here's a black person committing a crime! Here's someone turning a shipping container into a swimming pool! Here's why young women in offices don't have real jobs! X is not the internet. It is an attention prison, seemingly designed to change people's minds, and which is apparently quite successful in doing so: a recent study of
Pretty good description of the Twitter ‘For You’ feed from @willdunn.bsky.social
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Scientists/science writers I found in Grammarly's 'expert review' system: David Spiegelhalter, Ivan Oransky, Mary Roach, Rebecca Skloot, Ed Yong, Melinda Wenner Moyer, Deborah Blum, Tom Knight, Michael E Mann, Corinne Le Quere. [pic: results of 5 trials w/ free burner acct]. No doubt many more.
Jeg betrakter norske Sydenreisendes prislidelser på #dagsrevyen (flyreiser, drivstoff), mens jeg selv planlegger påskereise til Sicilia med bruk av interrail pass (15% avslag tilbud frem til og med 31. mars).
Ikke brenn opp kloden. Ta toget.
1) Queen! 2) The focus on code as a thing with a purpose that is reviewed and understood by people who assess it in a broader and often very nuanced context is vital here. We’ve all written basic coding bots for things that didn’t matter (and it didn’t need 1B parameters). Making them good is hard.
And life expectancy does not even reflect loss of health and of active, productive life years. This comparison is probably even more dramatic for healthy life years or QALYs. I have not yet met many healthy, fit 80-year-old U.S. Americans (but 80-year old Norwegians overtake me in the ski tracks 😅).
The time to register for this is now!
It's a great opportunity for biological / biomedical researchers who want to get better in analysing their own data.
Garbage in garbage out
U.S. News rankings the top 50 hospitals are driven overwhelmingly by reputation scores, which have almost no correlation with objective quality metrics. Newsweek’s global list weights "peer recommendations" at 55% and does not directly include outcome measures.
What's missing? The public. Decisions about whether AI can surveil American citizens or autonomously deploy lethal force are being settled in a contract dispute. No Congress. No democratic deliberation. No accountability. We've outsourced questions about the use of force to a corporate negotiation.
The proverbial Nazi bar on a crowded evening. Lots of random people milling about, waiting for tables or watching the goings on. The tables are occupied by men wearing Nazi armbands with the stylized X of X-Twitter replacing the swastika. They each have a beer in front of them. A woman at the bar is speaking to a man: "Wow! This place is busy. So everyone here is a Nazi?" She asks. He replies, "No. Us journalists come here to cover this important topic. The Nazis get the good seats... and service." A man nearby, overhearing the conversation, adds "And they get paid to be here."
Also, it should not *be* a radical thing to take a train from Berlin to Lisboa. It should be the normal thing to do. And the necessary thing, if we ever want to get to a carbon-neutral society.
"We regulate most of the products we buy, from automobiles to airplanes to appliances. Existing and emerging A.I. models entail far more risk and scope of potential harm than these products."
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Important take on Anthropic vs Pentagon: Military use of AI (any use of AI) should be governed by law & regulations, just like any other products. In the U.S. it is Congress who needs to come up with the appropriate legislation; this is not something that a company gets to decide or the government.