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Guinnessy

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Manager, American Institute of Physics. All views are my own and not that of my employer

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Guinnessy, to running
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“I’m definitely not as good a as I would be if I were not , and I’m not as good a runner as if I were full-time. But you only get one life, and I don’t want to throw away either of those activities.”
Physicist Jenny Hoffman, who last year smashed the women’s world record of running across the United States, says that her sport is not only a personal challenge but also a necessary escape. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00369-1?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=bd298a4aca-briefing-dy-20240213&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-bd298a4aca-50179668

Guinnessy, to science
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Three physics societies, IOP, APS and my employer, AIP, have formed a coalition to commit to "purpose-led publishing." They commit to investing 100% of funds back into science, publishing only content that adds to scientific knowledge, and putting research integrity ahead of profit.

https://publishing.aip.org/about/news/aip-publishing-the-american-physical-society-and-iop-publishing-create-new-purpose-led-publishing-coalition/

Guinnessy, to ai
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The -generated book problem is so bad that Amazon KDP now limits you to uploading only 3 per day. https://aibusiness.com/responsible-ai/the-ai-generated-books-phenomenon-is-getting-worse#close-modal

Guinnessy, to random
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The number of cases of reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. A remarkable achievement.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c19132k8ke0o?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=1dc11435fc-briefing-dy-20240124&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-1dc11435fc-50179668

Guinnessy, to random
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Scientists Victor Maus and Tim Werner reviewed satellite images of almost 120,000 square kilometres and found that more than half of the mines they spotted were illegal or not permitted. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04090-3?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=59ea478e31-briefing-dy-20240108&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-59ea478e31-50179668

Guinnessy, to climate
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“the most important thing that happened this year was the heat. By far. It was hotter than it has been in at least 125,000 years on this planet. Every month since May was the hottest ever recorded. Ocean temperatures set a new all-time mark, over 100 degrees. Canada burned, filling the air above our cities with smoke.”

“And yet you really wouldn’t know it from reading the wrap-ups of the year’s news now appearing on one website after another…” https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-odd-silence

glennf, (edited ) to random
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Harvard's president will be ousted for all the below reasons:
• an organized right-wing bad-faith effort to find any thing that sticks
• mainstream media can't identify bad-faith
• she’s a Black woman in a key role and vulnerable because of pressure by wealthy white male alumni already angry about her reaching the highest position at Harvard
• a lack of citation rigor in a tiny percentage of her work that nevertheless violates policies, not having been found and corrected contemporaneously

Guinnessy,
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@glennf I'm expecting it to be listed on the NYTimes, "look what we achieved in 2024" lists to show the value of your subscription at the end of the year, without any irony.

Guinnessy, to random
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“A clock accurate to a second over the age of the cosmos would allow tests of whether physical laws and constants have varied over the universe’s history,” says physicist Patrick Gill. https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/?src=longreads&utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=3fb1c5122a-briefing-dy-20231222&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-3fb1c5122a-50179668

Guinnessy, to ArtificialIntelligence
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Many researchers are feeling the pressure to jump on the bandwagon of (LLMs), says cognitive scientist Abeba Birhane — and many are not considering whether technology is an appropriate ‘solution’ to complex, multifaceted challenges. Too right. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03798-6?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=ce9ecde073-briefing-dy-20231201&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-ce9ecde073-50179668

Guinnessy, to random
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Henry Kissinger, who famously sabotaged the 1967 Vietnam peace talks in order to become Nixon’s national security advisor, has died. It’s rare when you can pinpoint a number of deaths to a political appointee but the 1975 peace deal was exactly the same as the 67 guidelines, and more than a million people died because of his decision, including 60% of all US casualties.

Guinnessy, to USpolitics
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I used to joke that there should be an investment fund that mimicked what stocks politicians were buying & selling because I didn't believe they could be that statistically lucky (or consistent). Someone has done exactly that, and it's showing a 20% gain when everyone else is flat or at a loss. https://www.threads.net/@quiverquantitative/post/CzcB-Gsgqow

Guinnessy, to history
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I remember taking part in the BBC Doomsday survey so it's a tad sad that William the Conqueror's version lasted 1000+ years and the BBC's couldn't get past 20 years before becoming unreadable. Its why when I asked our library why they did paper transcripts they said the paper would last 100+ years but they were unsure about the digital record. https://timharford.com/2023/11/cautionary-tales-laser-versus-parchment-doomsday-for-the-disc/

Guinnessy, to random
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Michele Veldsman and four other scientists share how they made the transition and what life is like on the other side. “Most importantly, sit down and really think about your values and passions, and reflect on how your career fits those things.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03484-7?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=3a61cb3609-briefing-dy-20231109&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-3a61cb3609-50179668

Teri_Kanefield, to random

The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin just said (on Threads) that last night's results show that 90% of political reporting is garbage.

That's because 90% of "coverage" is speculation and opinion. An email from the NYT "The Tilt" assured me that it was a good night for Democrats but that doesn't mean anything for 2024.

Rubbish.

Elections tell us how voters feel. Polls do not and pundits do not.

Guinnessy,
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@Teri_Kanefield Someone yesterday said if there was good news for the democrats, somehow the NYTimes would play it as a bad night for Biden. They don't disappoint.

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Guinnessy, to Astronomy
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Just a reminder that JWST and HST aren't the only telescopes that produce dazzling images.

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_s_first_images_the_dazzling_edge_of_darkness

taylorlorenz, to random
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Excellent story on how HBO execs used an army of secret fake accounts on Twitter to harass TV critics who gave poor reviews to their shows

It shows why people shouldn't just write off anonymous comments online as just "trolls" — some of them are coordinated campaigns by extremely powerful people with an axe to grind.
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/hbo-casey-bloys-secret-twitter-trolls-tv-critics-leaked-texts-lawsuit-the-idol-1234867722/

Guinnessy,
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@taylorlorenz you’ve got to hand it to the CEO though, destroyed Discovery’s philosophy, switch to cheap crap (and closed their Silver Spring HQ which was an incubator for documentaries in the region because he didn’t want to leave NY), which damaged the brand, and now he’s successfully doing it to Warner & HBO now he’s the top dog. I canceled our subscription when they merged HBO Max with discovery and filled it with reality shows. Couldn’t see the point of keeping it.

georgetakei, to random

I can’t believe I have to say this, but MAGA Mike Johnson should listen to Mitch McConnell. McConnell believes, correctly, that aid to our allies is intertwined, and that we must provide Ukraine aid at the same time as Israel. We cannot allow Russia to win, or it will bring ruination and war far beyond Ukraine. Support Ukraine now. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Guinnessy,
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@georgetakei I wonder how quickly McConnell will cave to Johnson though? I mean his reputation is that of wanting to hold onto power at all costs, no matter the damage done to the country (see last 20 years but particularly the impeachment votes in 2021)

Guinnessy, to Geology
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Well this is fun! A #meteorite that slammed into #Mars in September 2021 has rewritten what we know about the planet’s interior. Analyzing the seismic vibrations caused by the impact has led to the discovery of a small active layer of molten rock that envelops Mars’s liquid-metal core. #geology #planetaryscience https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03271-4

Guinnessy, to random
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"The findings revealed that Sci-hub indexes the majority of scientific publications (over 75% of non-OA publications in 2020), which has had a negative impact on the papers’ citation advantage." Ironic that the complaint is that it makes it too hard for OA to compete. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/10/25/sci-hub-presents-a-paradox-for-open-access-publishing/

Guinnessy,
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@odr_k4tana Scihub's goal (or claim) is to make information free. So is Open Access's. Except someone always have to pay the bills. I think it's too early to say whether OA is viable in the long term, as a lot of it depends on whether scientists will pay to publish.

Guinnessy,
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@odr_k4tana society publishers already plough their profits back into the community. And there’s a lot of cost that is assumed free that isn’t free. Editors, software to run these systems, portico etc. A publisher is running a system designed to keep articles available for a century or more. Take a look at the UK. Mandated to GoldOA yet most use Green. Who is paying the cost? Note. I’m not saying you couldn’t make it work, just that it’s not as simple as commonly portrayed.

Guinnessy, to random
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A lunar rock collected by astronauts suggests that the formed 40 million years earlier than thought. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/10/23/moon-older-than-thought-apollo-crystals/

Guinnessy, to climate
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"A 600-plus-page report from the National Academies of Science includes 80 recommendations for how the U.S. can achieve its target of by 2050." https://grist.org/energy/us-scientists-lay-out-a-sweeping-roadmap-for-decarbonization/

Guinnessy, to random
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"Although the official number of deaths caused by is now 7M, our single best estimate is that the actual toll is 27.1M people. We find that there is a 95% chance that the true value lies between 17.9M and 32.9M additional deaths." https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates

Guinnessy, to physics
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This has a number of key critical interests to me: , , and (do not get me started on the temperature of water most US restaurants use of making tea).

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-einstein-tea-leaf-paradox-nanofluids.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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