Privacy on the Map: How States Are Fighting Location Surveillance Your location data isn't just a pin on a map—it's a powerful tool that reveals far more than most people realize. It can expose where you work, where you pray, who you spend time with, and, sometimes ...

Your location data isn’t just a pin on a map. It can reveal where you work, worship, protest, or seek healthcare—and it’s being harvested, sold, and weaponized. Lawmakers must act now to protect our privacy.

Nested hierarchies in job skills underscores importance of basic education In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing deeper into their profession. A recent paper in Nature Human Behavior mapped the dependency relationships between wo...

“Basic educational skills are the cognitive equivalent of early organisms, creating the conditions in the mental ecosystem for higher-order reasoning to emerge (...)” @sfiscience.bsky.social
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Science under threat | Royal Society The Royal Society will use its voice and the expertise of our Fellows to resist the various challenges to science.

Science under threat
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Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.

A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe. Read more: www.404media.co/archivists-r...

Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articles A first-of-its-kind analysis by Nature reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots.

These universities have the most retracted scientific articles
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When Education Evolved (Or Didn't) Artificial Intelligence and Institutional Choice

"(...)These new educators don't compete with AI; they dance with it, leveraging its capabilities while nurturing the uniquely human elements of learning."
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La contralgoritmia es la nueva contracultura La contracultura, ese término que en los albores del Siglo XXI invocaba espíritus incendiarios y noches de insomnio, parece haber sido devorada con la gula in

"La contralgoritmia exige una reconfiguración profunda de nuestras prioridades culturales. (...) Requiere educar a las audiencias para que valoren el contenido que trasciende la lógica del clic." www.jotdown.es/2025/01/la-c...

Does OpenAI's Deep Research signal the end of human-only scholarship? Having got my hands on Sam Altman's latest AI offering yesterday, I'm beginning to wonder when research and scholarship that isn't augmented by AI will be seen as an anachronism

Does OpenAI's Deep Research signal the end of human-only scholarship?
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A manifesto for the simple scribe – my 25 commandments for journalists | Tim Radford Former Guardian science editor, letters editor, arts editor and literary editor Tim Radford has condensed his journalistic experience into a handy set of rules for aspiring hacks

Former @theGuardian.com science editor, letters editor, arts editor and literary editor Tim Radford has condensed his journalistic experience into a handy set of rules for aspiring hacks
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Los científicos que se organizan ante el segundo mandato de Trump: “Somos la resistencia” Dana Willbanks y su equipo diseñaron las herramientas para amortiguar el impacto sobre la ciencia de la primera legislatura de Trump y ahora se preparan para los ataques que vendrán a partir de enero

Movimientos para preservar el conocimiento frente a la nueva ola anticientífica.
@aberron.bsky.social entrevista a Dana Willbanks
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What happens when the internet disappears? Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?

What happens when the internet disappears?
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People who are good at reading have different brains Reading can change the brain.

📚🧠 People who are good at reading have different brains

This fascinating @uk.theconversation.com article explores how good readers’ brains are unique, and outlines how reading really does help to grow our brains!

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#Neuroscience #Reading #SciComm 🧪

Beyond Detection: The Fundamental Challenge of Assessment in the AI Era Any task completed outside direct observation can now be artificially generated with increasing sophistication.

“The AI revolution has exposed a fundamental weakness in our assessment practices: any task completed outside direct observation can now be artificially generated with increasing sophistication.”

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“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow