The EU's common market is based on four freedoms: free movement of goods, services, labour and capital. We're still lacking the free movement of knowledge.
The next mandate should bring some news on the “Fifth Freedom”.
In this regard, this webinar by Knowledge Rights 21:
«Scientific Innovation and Growth—What should the EU do in its 2024-29 mandate to support research?»
"You know, SOMEONE should do a study on how people [behavior or interaction that has already been intensely scrutinized in dozens of studies with thousands of subjects for decades].
"My theory is [simplistic interpretation that was debunked in the 1960s]!
"Therefore we should all try to [personal or social intervention that was unsuccessfully implemented from 1947 to 1977 until it was finally shown to be useless and/or harmful]!"
After atoms, it's now the turn of molecules to form a Bose–Einstein condensate.
"Physicists have succeeded in cooling down molecules so much that hundreds of them lock in step, making a single gigantic quantum state. These systems could be used to explore exotic physics, such as by creating solid materials that can flow without resistance, or could form the basis of a new kind of quantum computer."
With #LLM applications more abundant, have researchers been using them to assist their writing? We know they have when writing peer reviews [1], but how about doing so in writing their published papers?
Liang et al comes back to answer this question in [3]. They applied the same corpus-based methodology proposed in [2] on 950k papers published between 2020 to 2024, and the answer is a resounding YES, esp. in CS (up to 17.5%) (screenshot 1).
Photo is a bettong that has been caught by researchers. The good news is their population has maybe tripled over the last few years in Australia's largest nature preserve that is free of introduced predators - it has 45km (28mi) of 1.8m (just under 6') tall fencing to keep it that way. Just 3 years ago they were reintroduced to...
#Wetlands are very effective at reducing water pollution. #Research shows that restoring wetlands in 5% of land can slash nitrogen pollution by up to half.
Coastal wetlands have unique superpowers to help tackle the biggest threats to the #GreatBarrierReef like #ClimateChange and water pollution.
Two new studies published in the journal of Science this week offer a deeper insight into the spread of misinformation on social media, offering evidence that it not only changes minds, but that a small group of committed “supersharers” — predominately older Republican women — were responsible for the vast majority of the “fake news” in the period looked at.
The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion University, Cambridge and Northeastern, were independently conducted but complement each other well. @TechCrunch has more.
I am going down the rabbit hole with research for my new story. What I was originally planning to have as cosmic horror is becoming more and more eco-horror based on the history of New Brunswick. There’s so much going on here: expropriation for Base Gagetown and Mactaquac, huge amounts of DDT sprayed everywhere, rampant deforestation, and heavy testing of Agent Orange (and all the other rainbow herbicides). Who needs Cthulhu when there’s corporate/military/industrial poisoning on a grand scale? And that’s not even getting into the fracking. #Writing#Research#NewBrunswick#CanadianHistory
Abandoned farmlands could play a role in fighting climate change. A new study shows exactly where they are.
Farmland could be used to grow crops like switchgrass or sorghum, which can trap carbon in the soil and serve as feedstocks for biofuels and replacements for petrochemicals. #ClimateChange#Research#Science
Early career researchers want Open Science, Farnham et al (2024) :
"Open #Science is encouraged by the European Union and many other political and scientific institutions. However, scientific practice is proving slow to change. We propose, as early career researchers, that it is our task to change scientific #research into open scientific research and commit to #OpenScience principles."
What's up with rivers in Alaska's Brooks Range? They are turning orange, likely because nearby permafrost is thawing and causing all sorts of downstream effects...
A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we’re unfortunately right on schedule.
A remarkable new study by a director at one of the largest accounting firms in the world has found that a famous, decades-old warning from MIT about the risk of industrial civilization collapsing appears to be accurate based on new empirical data
"#MEAction’s narrative activity study with Mayo Clinic opens today! We’re looking for people with ME/CFS or Long COVID with PEM to share their experiences.
The survey will be open from 5/24/2024 to 6/23/2024."
Long survey (estimate says 20-90 minutes?) but you can do it in sections and come back.
"AI has not created a situation where we need new principles. The established principles remain the crucial ones. But we do need to think through the changing situations anew, in order to figure out how to respond well to a rapidly changing landscape." Says Hallvard Fossheim from @UiB
A bettong bewildered by bagging
Photo is a bettong that has been caught by researchers. The good news is their population has maybe tripled over the last few years in Australia's largest nature preserve that is free of introduced predators - it has 45km (28mi) of 1.8m (just under 6') tall fencing to keep it that way. Just 3 years ago they were reintroduced to...