Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

Most of the #exoplanets we've discovered orbit red dwarf #stars.

This is because about 75% of the stars in the Milky Way are red dwarfs, so you would expect red dwarf planets to be the most abundant.

This also means that most #habitable worlds are going to orbit these small, cool stars, and that has some significant consequences for our search for #life.

But even detecting the atmospheres of such planets may be extremely difficult in practice.

#astronomy #astrobiology
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-exoplanets-atmospheres.html

This broke my heart. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9py388z17o

A top NIH official manipulated hundreds of Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s studies for decades!
#science #biology #neuroscience #medicine #metascience
https://www.science.org/content/article/research-misconduct-finding-neuroscientist-eliezer-masliah-papers-under-suspicion

Parrot of mystery! Yet we cannot look away, as a nation we are tormented by our unrequited love for this unhelpful bird. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/sep/27/once-thought-to-be-extinct-the-mysterious-night-parrot-is-back-in-the-news-is-it-saved

Very much looking forward to reading this preprint by @GaelVaroquaux, @Mer__edith and Sacha Luccioni!

[2409.14160] Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

#machineLearning

'This and other research pushed him to conclude that “every cell is a special snowflake”. And that conclusion significantly complicated his research into how some cancer cells develop resistance to drugs. For Buenrostro, now at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it meant that “all of these snowflake cells can actually be important”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03073-2

#Gaza #Palestine

An Israeli airstrike struck a home in Jabalia town of northern Gaza, killing four members of a Palestinian family, including a couple and their two disabled children.

The Palestinian Civil Defense confirmed the deaths in a statement, saying, “An Israeli airstrike on the Batsh family home in Jabalia resulted in the deaths of four Palestinians.”

The airstrike destroyed the house, caused extensive damage to neighboring homes and properties.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-airstrike-in-northern-gaza-kills-couple-their-2-disabled-children/3342990

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Upcoming events - 11th Higher education, training and career exhibition EduTraC Oman 2024

https://globaltribune.net/events/edutrac-oman-2024

#asia #oman #education #career #exhibition #humanresources #training #universities

My team at Mozilla is hiring an engineer with Linux & Android low-level experience. This is a fully remote job.

We deal with all sorts of down-to-the-metal topics: IPC, sandboxing, libc & kernel interactions, memory management, signal handling, linkers, compilers etc... But also Linux/Android-specific graphics stacks and UIs.

And no, you won't have to deal with AI, I promise.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/6271288/

#GetFediHired #FediHire #Hiring #JobOpportunity

Surprising no one, the recent wave of anti-protest laws is a coordinated effort by monied interests to weaken democracy.

Not surprising, but still…it’s wild how naked this stuff is. The petrochem industry is just straight-up drafting bills for legislators to protect their wealth by suppressing dissent. Not indirectly, not obliquely, not in a POSIWID kind of way — just “let’s email each other about how best to strangle democracy.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby

If Alex Jones had a dollar for every brain cell he had left, he’d still be a bankrupt broke bitch

Satellites are causing disturbances in telescope pictures https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03146-2

Any idea what this fossilised mystery object might be?
#FossilFriday

http://paoloviscardi.com/2024/09/27/friday-mystery-object-496/