Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

Amid U.S. sanctions, Singapore is emerging as a favorite destination for Chinese artificial intelligence startups seeking to go global. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/07/01/tech/china-ai-startups-singapore/ #business #tech #china #singapore #ai #tech #startups #bytedance #tiktok

Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf can slip 16" in 10 minutes. The whole shelf. The size of France. The largest ice shelf in Antarctica. Moving as a single unit.
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/ross-ice-shelf-antarctica-slips-daily-study/

In addition to the annual call for SNSF_Agora (submission deadline 17 September 2024), you can submit projects with a budget of up to CHF 50,000 at any time.

https://sohub.io/otnt

Recommended by Nelle Varoquaux for @PCI_MathCompBio based on published reviews by Ivan Junier and 1 anonymous reviewer #OpenScience https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.mcb.100198

The National Information Standards Organization @NISOInfo guidelines on the effective communication of retractions, removals, and expressions of concern (CREC) are out. https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/crec
#Retractions #ExpressionsOfConcern #NISO #CREC #PublicationEthics #JournalPublication

Examining the Effects of Temperature on the Evolution of Bacterial tRNA Pools https://buff.ly/4chIqjI #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/24/texas-abortion-law-jama-pediatrics-study-increased-infant-deaths/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

Musk burning Trust & Safety to the ground has lowered the bar for every other platform to the point where all FB has to do is not actively court Nazis and it will be seen by advertisers as a safer place to do business. FB has seemingly taken this as a challenge and has started to let the platform hollow itself out: "I believe we're in a time of experimentation where platforms are willing to gamble and roll the dice and say, ‘How little content moderation can we get away with?"

Facebook is in its 'fuck around find out' era. A colossal, decaying platform emboldened by Musk telling advertisers to go fuck themselves. Experts it used to consult with on hard issues say they haven't heard from the company in years

https://www.404media.co/has-facebook-stopped-trying/

This "Journal Club" article on the #EvoDevo #hourglass pattern is a bit surprising
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-024-00717-x
Yes Domazet-Lošo & Tautz 2010 was instrumental in putting the question on the forefront of the field, but (1) it was together with Kalinka et al 2010 (https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09634), (2) the Domazet-Lošo & Tautz paper bioinformatics was weird, with notably use of raw expression measures rather than log-transformed expression, and the results were not suported by proper analysis.

"Bamboo in Rain; Bamboo in Wind" dazzles with its serene ink compositions and mysterious origins. Could these 16th-century paintings reflect a fusion of Japanese and Korean styles? Dive into this mesmerizing blend of artistry. #ArtHistory #ClevelandArt #EastAsianArt #InkPainting
https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.71

John Ioannis and a band of Great Barrington Declaration advocates attack a 2002 Delphi consensus statement on COVID-19 as "stacked." Besides their dubious arguments, one can't help but note the lack of ideological diversity in their author list. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/panel-stacking-john-ioannidis-versus-a-delphi-consensus-statement-on-covid-19/

"In a meta-analysis of nutritional impacts of deworming, we find that in areas where the WHO recommends mass drug administration (>20% prevalence), multiple-dose deworming leads to statistically significant, positive increases in child weight, mid-upper arm circumference, and height. We then conduct a cost effectiveness analysis and find that MDA is many times more cost-effective than widely implemented school-feeding programs."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2308733121#sec-2

On promotional language AKA hype & grant writing:
"A recent study showed that from 1985 to 2020, the use of promotional language steeply rose in accepted NIH grants (25). In 1985, there were approximately 6,000 promotional words per million words in funded NIH proposals. By 2020, that number had more than doubled to 13,000 promotional words per million words."
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2320066121

'A scene from “The Tales of Hoffmann,” a Powell-Pressburger collaboration.
Credit: Rialto Pictures/Studiocanal'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/movies/powell-pressburger-moma.html

“Everything for Germany” was the slogan once engraved on the knives of Nazi storm troopers. By reviving such phrases, Mr. Höcke’s opponents say, he has sought to make fascist ideas more acceptable in a society where such expressions are not only taboo, but illegal'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/world/europe/germany-extremism-hocke-afd-nazi.html