Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Joined Nov 2022
💻 **Energy costs of communicating with AI**
"_Our results reveal strong correlations between LLM size, reasoning behavior, token generation, and emissions. While larger and reasoning-enabled models achieve higher accuracy, up to 84.9%, they also incur substantially higher emissions, driven largely by increased token output._"
Dauner M and Socher G (2025) Energy costs of communicating with AI. Front. Commun. 10:1572947. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1572947.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Research #Article #Energy #Science #Academics @ai @science
'Your rectum isn't designed for coffee': A very serious doctor probes TikTok's new enema trend | BBC Science Focus Magazine https://www.sciencefocu...
💻 **AI Perceived More Negatively than Climate Science or Science in General**
"_They found that people perceived AI scientists more negatively than climate scientists or scientists in general, and that this negativity is driven by concern about AI scientists’ prudence – specifically, the perception that AI science is causing unintended consequences._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Science #Climate @ai @science
☀️ **Sun’s south pole revealed for first time, in images from Solar Orbiter spacecraft**
**Nearly 40% of the world’s glaciers are already doomed, scientists say**
"_Researchers estimate glaciers will eventually lose 39% of their mass relative to 2020, a trend that is already irreversible no matter what comes next and will likely contribute a 113-millimeter increase to global sea level rise._"
🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/02/climate/worlds-glaciers-future-study-intl-scli.
#Climate #ClimateChange #Envirnoment #Glaciers #Science #Research @climatechange @science
**Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts**
“_We found that learning constrained to the language domain captures human-level conceptual representation in non-sensorimotor dimensions such as valence and emotional arousal but yields impoverished representation of sensorimotor knowledge._”
Xu, Q., Peng, Y., Nastase, S.A. et al. Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02203-8.
#OpenAcces #OA #Article #DOI #Language #Linguistics #Science #Technology #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Psycholofy #Academia #Academics @ai @psychology
🔬 **Scientists Warns That AI Images May Cause Havoc in Medical Research**
“_The authors argue that the growing sophistication of AI image-generation tools makes it harder to detect fraudulent data through traditional means._”
#Science #Research #Fake #Images #Data #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @science @ai
**Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa**
“_For the first time, we also demonstrate the persistence of North African ancestry in a Christian cemetery until the seventeenth century, in addition to evidence of slave trafficking from North Africa._”
Oteo-Garcia, G., Silva, M., Foody, M.G.B. et al. Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa. Genome Biol 26, 108 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03570-1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Biology #Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genetics #Genomes #History #Medieval #Iberia #Academia #Academics @science @archaeodons
**Scientists stunned to find Earth’s core leaking gold and other precious metals**
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/earth-core-gold-leaking-precious-metals-b2756421.html.
**Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research**
“_Our results indicate a strong bias in many widely used LLMs towards overgeneralizing scientific conclusions, posing a significant risk of large-scale misinterpretations of research findings._”
Peters Uwe and Chin-Yee Benjamin. 2025 Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research. R. Soc. Open Sci.12: 241776. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241776.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Science #Bias @ai @science
📖 **Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World: Vernacular Texts and Traditions**
“_The chapters in this interdisciplinary collection draw together new research from historians, literary scholars, and linguists working on Norse, English, and Celtic material in order to bring fresh insights into the multilingual and cross-cultural nature of medical learning in northern Europe during the Middle Ages, c. 700–1600._”
🔗 https://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484%2FM.KSS-EB.5.141319
#OpenAccess #OA #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Science #HistSci #Medicine #Medieval #Medievodons @bookstodon @medievodons
**High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide**
“_Here we show how GHG emissions from consumption and investments attributable to the wealthiest population groups have disproportionately influenced present-day climate change._”
Schöngart, S., Nicholls, Z., Hoffmann, R. et al. High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02325-x.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Science #Academia #Academic @climatechange @science
**Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities**
_"By design, engineering has long been entangled with the humanities"_
🔗 https://spectrum.ieee.org/engineering-and-humanities.
#Engineering #Humanities #History #Technology #Tech #HistSci #Science @science
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**But what is Quantum Computing? (Grover's Algorithm)**
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"_Qubits, state vectors, and Grover's algorithm for search._"
#Video length: thirty-six minutes and fifty-three minutes.
**Bursting your bubble: Chewing gum releases microplastics into your saliva, UCLA research shows**
“_The research suggests that regular gum chewers could potentially be ingesting tens of thousands of microplastic particles a year, although the health effect is not known._”
#UCLA #Research #News #Microplastics #ChewingGum #Science @science
☀️ 🛰️ **Solar Orbiter’s widest high-res view of the Sun**
_“The image you see here combines a whopping 200 individual images into the widest high-resolution view of the Sun yet.”_
🔗 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/04/Solar_Orbiter_s_widest_high-res_view_of_the_Sun.
🧬 **Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange**
"_Individuals with North African ancestry lived next to and intermingled with a majority of people of mainly Sicilian-Aegean ancestry in all sampled Punic sites, including Carthage. Moreover, genetic networks across the Mediterranean suggest that shared demographic processes—such as trade, intermarriage, and population mixing—played a critical role in shaping these communities._"
#Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Genomics #Science #History #Phoenicia #Culture @science
📏 **150 years ago, the Metre Convention determined how we measure the world — a radical initiative for the time**
**Codex Vigilanus Primeros Numeros Arabigos**
“_The first Arabic/Hindu (Ghobar type) numerals in a Western manuscript, AD 976. From Codex Vigilanus._”
#Image attribution: The original uploader was Srnec at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Vigilanus_Primeros_Numeros_Arabigos.jpg.
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math @science
🇨🇳 **Chinese star catalog is the world’s oldest, astronomers claim**
“_Novel computer analysis of records ascribed to legendary Chinese astrologer dates them to nearly 2400 years ago_”
🔗 https://www.science.org/content/article/china-lays-claim-world-s-oldest-surviving-star-catalog.
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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