Our database of the Supreme Court justices’ financial connections now includes Samuel Alito’s deferred 2023 filing and eight previously missing disclosures from Clarence Thomas dating back to the 1990s.
Texas institutions could lose over $310 million in #research funding under the #NIH's new reduction of money for “indirect cost”. California faces cuts of more than $800 million. A pharmaceutical sciences professor breaks down the impact on both red and blue states: theconversation.com/much-24956… #IndirectCosts #infrastructure
It costs money to maintain the various facilities, utilities and personnel that allow scientists to conduct research in the first place. Without federal support, institutions are left scrambling.
A UK facility starts sucking CO2 out of seawater to help the climate.
Stripping carbon dioxide out of the ocean could be much more efficient than capturing it from the air. Researchers are hoping to show its potential at a pilot plant in Weymouth.
Dr. Joseph Takahashi studies biological clocks in our bodies that control our 24-hour schedules. Genes in nearly all of our cells turns on/off each day to regulate things like sleep, blood sugar, body temperature, and liver metabolism.
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quoting @arstechnica: "New NIH policy will slash support money to research universities Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on."
(This is looking pretty bad.. Hope it can be challenged somehow? Like, shouldn't these decisions be made by the congress or something?)
New NIH policy will slash support money to research universities Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on. arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
“Ms. Zondi’s trial is one of dozens that have been abruptly frozen, leaving people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear.”
Alarming.” “Devastating.” “Disastrous.” “Uncertainty, fear and panic.” “Completely miserable.”
Not exactly the words you want to hear when the nation’s scientists are asked to describe the state of biomedical #research in the U.S. buff.ly/40OuNWe (Aliasger K. Salem, University of Iowa)
#UsPol #Musk #Research Here's a detailed report of how Musk is dismantling the US public research and medical centres ... #NIH, #CDC, #NSF etc. Chilling and horrible for the future of research in the US, which will of course impact the entire world..
The move would give #Trump #loyalists more #influence over aspects of the agency that were traditionally led by #nonpartisan #experts who have served across Republican & Democratic admins.
A publicly accessible database belonging to DeepSeek allowed full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data. The exposure includes over a million lines of log streams with highly sensitive information.
Biden brought science out of the lab and into the community, focusing on real-world solutions. A science professor reflects on his legacy of elevating science in government, reshaping research and empowering communities. buff.ly/40Dzfac (Arthur Daemmric, Arizona State University #science #technology #NSF #funding #research
Ich erkenne an und habe Verständnis dafür, dass es ein schwieriger Prozess sein kann, sich von routinierten Handlungen zu lösen. Dennoch verliert auch demokratiegefährdende digitale Infrastruktur nur an Bedeutung und Einfluss, wenn sie nicht mehr genutzt wird. Das erkennt Herr Wiarda zwar an, aber er handelt m.E. nicht danach. Für mich wäre diese Diskrepanz nur schwer auszuhalten.
Ich finde es auch schade, dass in dem Beitrag nicht explizit auf offene soziale Medien wie das Fediverse eingegangen wird und stattdessen Bluesky als "zahlenmäßig ernstzunehmende Alternative" dargestellt wird. Bluesky mag jetzt als Alternative erscheinen, unterliegt aber aufgrund ihrer Governance auch dem Risiko, eine ähnliche Entwicklung wie Twitter/X zu nehmen.
Universitäten, Fachhochschulen, außeruniversitäre Einrichtungen, Stiftungen, Institutionen der Forschungsförderung etc. haben nicht einfach nur X verlassen, sie erkennen zunehmend, wenn auch langsam, den Wert offener sozialer Kommunikationsplattformen an. Wenn ich Wis
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Ich erkenne an und habe Verständnis dafür, dass es ein schwieriger Prozess sein kann, sich von routinierten Handlungen zu lösen. Dennoch verliert auch demokratiegefährdende digitale Infrastruktur nur an Bedeutung und Einfluss, wenn sie nicht mehr genutzt wird. Das erkennt Herr Wiarda zwar an, aber er handelt m.E. nicht danach. Für mich wäre diese Diskrepanz nur schwer auszuhalten.
Ich finde es auch schade, dass in dem Beitrag nicht explizit auf offene soziale Medien wie das Fediverse eingegangen wird und stattdessen Bluesky als "zahlenmäßig ernstzunehmende Alternative" dargestellt wird. Bluesky mag jetzt als Alternative erscheinen, unterliegt aber aufgrund ihrer Governance auch dem Risiko, eine ähnliche Entwicklung wie Twitter/X zu nehmen.
Universitäten, Fachhochschulen, außeruniversitäre Einrichtungen, Stiftungen, Institutionen der Forschungsförderung etc. haben nicht einfach nur X verlassen, sie erkennen zunehmend, wenn auch langsam, den Wert offener sozialer Kommunikationsplattformen an. Wenn ich Wissenschaftsblogger wäre, würde ich ein Teil davon sein wollen. @DeutscherBildungsserver
Jan Martin Wiarda über den Ausstieg der Wissenschaftscommunity von X - und darüber, warum er sich noch nicht verabschieden will. https://www.jmwiarda.de/2025/01/14/langer-abschied-jetzt-ganz-schnell/
#socialmedia #wissenschaft
Out of the many things that I love about my job, one of them is that I get to have deep discussions with experts from not just #academia as we work towards building communities of practice. Today, in our Expert Dialogues session for the Digitization project, I learnt so much about human-centered design and design-thinking, something they never taught me when I was a computer science engineering undergrad.
One of the consortium members shared that they'd built this really beautiful app for a rural community in #India, spent a few crore INR in the process, and then no one ended up using it! 😬 I'm glad they are a member of this consortium and were willing to share this so that we don't make the same mistakes! Also learnt that while community members may answer positively to all your survey questions, that doesn't mean they'll actually use
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Out of the many things that I love about my job, one of them is that I get to have deep discussions with experts from not just #academia as we work towards building communities of practice. Today, in our Expert Dialogues session for the Digitization project, I learnt so much about human-centered design and design-thinking, something they never taught me when I was a computer science engineering undergrad.
One of the consortium members shared that they'd built this really beautiful app for a rural community in #India, spent a few crore INR in the process, and then no one ended up using it! 😬 I'm glad they are a member of this consortium and were willing to share this so that we don't make the same mistakes! Also learnt that while community members may answer positively to all your survey questions, that doesn't mean they'll actually use whatever digital solution you build - you need to embed yourself within the community and engage in dialogues to get to the crux of the problems they face.
Two of our PhD Fellows are working in the Himalayan region and during the meeting were facing bandwidth issues. Something we definitely need to keep in mind - if we want to design a solution for communities with limited internet connectivity.
Host Institute: University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU)
Host Academic Supervisor: Tabassum Ishrath Fathima, Assistant Professor, and M.
I'm glad they're realizing that twitter is dead but yeah, I wish they (and many others journals / websites) stopped forgetting #Mastodon all the time. We exist! We are having fun! No, we (probably) don't have an advertising department that asks everybody to write articles about us but it doesn't mean we should be forgotten!
Thanks for sharing the poll, I've answered it saying that I'm not using either Bluesky or X but am using Masto and I wish they had included it.
