If journals start accepting AI manuscripts, I will be boycotting them for my own paper submissions. Ironically, the universities are developing stricter guidance on student use of AI, but what is the point?
We are doomed. AI 'scientists'coming to a journal near you.....https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10265-5 #science #ai
Almost everyone I know wants very little to do with it, thinks it needs serious and strong regulation and is justifiably worried about their job. Forcing it onto society will backfire horrifically. Many people simply will not and cannot work in tech.
"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV
It's profound to think that the people of this time and place (modern day Germany I think) had been living in glacial conditions for so many thousands of years, with limited ability to disperse, they would have had tens of thousands of years of culture and folk history that knew only ice and snow.
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
I wonder if they had to do this as a condition of getting the cash? Of course that would be illegal for various reasons.
But we were told this nightmare scenario was a confection of 'project fear'
I often consider the strong likelihood that she has the power to rapidly bring down Trump with what she must know. Risky to her, but she will have access to good protection. Instead, she watches from pole position, weakly implying loyalty. She is culpable.
In up to her neck. And making it more obvious with every dumb move like this.
As long as the trees were regularly inspected I doubt the council is liable. Trees drop branches, it's a fact of life, but no-one fault.
Nope. Was just thinking yesterday I usually see one pretty much as soon as I've seen the last of the winter starlings we get up here (N Devon/Cornwall border), but that was over a week ago.
I am hearing anecdotal evidence that pheasants like to nibble on lichens a lot too - anyone come across this?
Just when I thought the days of retro posters advertising tantalising free-for-all events were long past...this really cheers me up.
Just love a 'new' old word.
The far right always meet with a reality clash eventually. Every. Single. Time. And leave a trail of human and environmental carnage in their wake. Every. Single. Time.
My guess is 'not gammon'.
I think the word is `insipid`.
Busted flushes the lot of them.
She complains science has 'a lot of rules' which are 'suffocating' in the recent somewhat fawning Guardian article on her work. Science is too slow, she feels, if it takes 50 years to work something out. So let's just make it up instead!
Conspiracy twaddle in which the writers misrepresent the science, hysterically. This is misinformation on steroids.
Me too x
Their totally inaccurate description of Forest Research as a 'quango' (it is not, being directly accountable to the Forestry Commission which is a non ministerial department) is telling. As is the one-sided nature if this piece which makes zero mention of widely acknowledged recreational impacts.
I've worked with many people managing publicly owned/accessible woods. Their annual budgets - in the 10s or 100s of thousands - often can't cover the cost of management + access impact mitigation. Who will pay for the access management and mitigation in other woods? Vital to effective conservation.
High footfall can create a huge negative impact and happens when places have med-high residential populations. The considerable loss of ground flora from walkers is prevalent in many accessible woods - inc those with fancy walkways. Free for all rights to any wood is not the answer in many places.
Echoes of the G's repeat disingenuous attacks on Corbyn here. Along with the increasingly shoddy science reporting (many examples of articles centered on shaky or inconclusive science without proper scrutiny of claims), it's enough to almost give up on >25 yrs of reading it. Sad.
The Public Safety Information Film vibes in this photo...
This makes me wonder whatever happened to Remilk? Wasn't it lab produced milk? It was invented, then seemed to disappear. It would have been a huge game changer, but what happened to it?
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social, this is the most unsuitable and sensitive site for development, would you really have been gifted this reserve from the Cadbury family if they could have seen this?
Closing down the safe and authorised routes now? Helping no-one but Farage as they legitimise Reform lies. What a sorry shower.