The universe doesn't run away from you and you can realise it in hours on a regular laptop. Every couple of weeks I add a small update at the end of the article.

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Liashkov, M. (2025). Two Principles Redefining Physics and Time: Empirical Arguments and Immediate Benefits. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Image of the "His Master's Voice" webpage on BookBub. The description reads "With 'deadly wit' (The New York Times), this science fiction take explores the limits of human understanding when scientist try to decipher a message from space. A 'thorough, intellectual take on a classic hard sci-fi trope' (Publishers weekly starred review) with over 1,500 five-star ratings on Goodreads."

Nineteen years after his death, the universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanisław Lem. Get a great deal on the ebook edition of his classic sci-fi tale, "His Master's Voice," over at BookBub: www.bookbub.com/books/his-ma... #scifi

VERY RARE Upward Positive Lightning Flash (Upward Negative Leaders) YouTube video by The Lightning Hunter

Excellent capture of rare upward positive lightning in which a negative CG return stroke triggers upward propagating negative leaders from a nearby tower. It is called upward positive lightning because positive charge is effectively lowered to ground. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rogb...

Little star trail action from the Sawtooths 4/25. Pretty night. #idaho #photography #sawtooths #snra #startrails #astrophotography #longexposure

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

LOL.

Savage (but accurate I guess)

Also, another well written 'Big Story' from @wired.com 👏

No, you were fooled, this is not the path to AGI but just soft power 2.0.

There Is No AI Revolution Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...

Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn.
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

New coronavirus discovered in Chinese bats sparks alarm The virus binds to humans in a similar way to the virus that causes COVID-19.

Welcome to Covid-25. Great time to fire public health experts!🙄
“This new one (HKU5-CoV-2) uses the ACE2 receptor to infect organisms—SARS-CoV-2 also uses the ACE2 receptor for infection.
HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging to the merbecovirusgroup, which also includes the virus that causes MERS.”

A History of Cryptography From the Spartans to the FBI Computer scientist Panos Louridas traces the evolution of secret communication, from ancient Greece to the quantum era.

Computer scientist Panos Louridas traces the evolution of secret communication, from ancient Greece to the quantum era.

New randomized, controlled trial by the World Bank of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. Six weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions.

And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind.

Developing Artificial Intelligence methods for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics (AI for Collective Intelligence – Pandemic Resilience) at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Developing Artificial Intelligence methods for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics (AI for Collective Intelligence – Pandemic Resilience) at University of Bristol, listed on...

1/ 📣 Two funded PhDs available as part of UKRI Research Hub in AI for Collective Intelligence (ai4ci.ac.uk) #PhDSky

🧪 Interdisciplinary work between infectious disease epidemiology & AI (Pandemic Resilience research theme) #IDSky #IDEpi

🏫 Based at University of Bristol & supervised by Leon Danon

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

🧪 A Nature survey of nearly 6,000 readers found that 70% now use Bluesky, drawn by its supportive, science-friendly environment.

Many see it as kinder, safer, and less toxic than X, despite fewer users. 🩺💻 #AcademicSky #EduSky

Learn to reuse this FAIR data management self-paced tutorial to facilitate self-learning or workshops online, in-person or in a hybrid format. Co-developed for the LMU-MPG Open Science Summer School 2024 amongst other self-paced tutorials. Overview here: github.com/lmu-osc

"Ready to test?...

“jumping straight to the hypothesis test, psychologists too often neglect the groundwork that is necessary to ensure a sound link between test & tested theory”

The same goes for the social sciences" @GerardoMunck

#evaluation too

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On the path toward brain-scale simulations - Nature Computational Science Today’s high-performance computing systems are nearing an ability to simulate the human brain at scale. This presents a new challenge: going forward, will the bigger challenge be the brain’s size or i...

We have a News and Views in Nature Computational Science with a back of envelope estimate on how expensive whole brain neural simulations can be. 🧠🧪

Long story short... very very expensive

This maybe ends up behind a pay wall (sorry ...), but check it out!

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience

NOW OUT in Scientific Reports! the latest from @mehdiorouji.bsky.social, me, and many others!

Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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How Multitasking Drains Your Brain Renowned neurologist Richard Cytowic exposes the dangers of multitasking in the digital age.

How Multitasking Drains Your Brain

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#Neurology #Neuroscience #Psychology