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Today we're Celebrating Openness together with the @oscgroningen. This year’s theme: Impact of #OpenScience.
Taichi Ochi @doughnutspasian of the OSCG kicks off, followed by Ellen Carbo of #ZonMw with a keynote from a funder's perspective on "Open(ing) the #Science". Ellen: good science is anchored in society.
New on #astroph: fascinating "exascale" (meaning you need a BIG computer) simulations of the launching of magnetised jets in the intracluster medium, by P. Grete and collab.
"Gretchen Goldman, president of @ucsusa, put it simply: 'I think science is under attack in the United States.'"
"But she encouraged her colleagues to not give up hope. 'I think we should hold the line and take it day by day,' she told @CBCNews.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/trump-american-scientists-international-engagements-1.7461238
The advances in astronomy during my lifetime have been spectacular.
Left: Image of galaxy pair Arp 107 taken the year I was born, using the Palomar 200" (the world's most powerful telescope at the time).
Right: Image of Arp 107 taken last year by JWST.
https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/Arp27.html
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-132
#science #astronomy #nature
Exciting news from #Egypt: Archaeologists confirm that a tomb they found in 2022 was built for King #Thutmose II. It's the first tomb of a pharaoh to be discovered since the intact resting place of #Tutankhamun was found in 1922. https://cosmiclog.com/2025/02/19/archaeologists-unearth-a-pharaohs-lost-tomb-in-egypt/ #Science #Archaeology
Living Complexity: Practical applications of Human Complexity in software and digital products development https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity
This book describes 15 practical applications of Human Complexity in the context of software and digital products development. And suggests a new strategy for introducing Complexity thinking to your team and your organisation.
Find the book 📖 on Leanpub!
#books #ebooks #complexity #science #software #digitaltransformation
Getting closer: Firefly's commercial Blue Ghost mission has sent back new footage from 120 kilometers above the lunar surface. These images come from the Moon's far side.
Touchdown still scheduled for 2 March.
https://fireflyspace.com/news/blue-ghost-mission-1-live-updates/ #space #science #tech
#PPOD: This image shows the light from three planets orbiting a star 120 light-years away. The planets' star, called HR8799, is located at the spot marked with an "X." This picture was taken using a small, 1.5-meter portion of the Palomar Observatory's Hale Telescope, north of San Diego, California. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Palomar Observatory
“The U.S. is the best place in the world to be a scientist right now & these actions will change that.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-takes-a-giant-wrecking-ball-to-u-s-research/ #science #uspol
👑 Wir heben einen Schatz für die #Forschung: Bisher wird das menschliche Gewebe, das bei OPs und medizinischen Engriffen anfällt, meist wissenschaftlich ungenutzt entsorgt. Mit dem Aufbau einer Primary Tissue Pipeline wird die #CharitéBerlin Forschenden den Zugang zu dem besonders wertvollen lebenden Gewebe nun erleichtern. Das soll die Qualität der Forschung verbessern – und geht so nur an einer Universitätsmedizin ✌️.
Sag mal, ITAS - Nimmt uns KI die Arbeit weg? 🤖👀💼
Künstliche Intelligenz ist in der Arbeitswelt angekommen und wird zunehmend in unsere Arbeitsprozesse integriert. Werden dadurch Arbeitsplätze vernichtet? Wer entscheidet eigentlich, ob ein Arbeitsplatz wegfällt oder nicht? Das möchte Forscherin Bettina-Johanna Krings mit Dir diskutieren.
📆 Mittwoch, 5. März 2025, 12 bis 14 Uhr
📍 TRIANGEL, Kaiserstraße 93, Karlsruhe
⭐️ Eintritt frei und barrierefreier Zugang
💬 Wir starten um 12 Uhr mit einem Impulsvortrag, Du kannst aber jederzeit zur Diskussion stoßen oder gehen.
Wir freuen uns auf Dich!
“Sag mal, ITAS” ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe des ITAS, in der Forschende ihren Arbeitsplatz in Karl9 - Wissenschaftslokal für Technik und Gesellschaft und TRIANGEL Transfer | Kultur | Raum verlegen und Deine Fragen zu ihren Forschungsthemen beantworten, wenn Du welche hast. Ansonsten darfst Du auch einfach vorbei kommen und Dir etwas zum Thema und unsere Forschungsarbeit erzählen lassen. 🤗
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Sag mal, ITAS - Nimmt uns KI die Arbeit weg? 🤖👀💼
Künstliche Intelligenz ist in der Arbeitswelt angekommen und wird zunehmend in unsere Arbeitsprozesse integriert. Werden dadurch Arbeitsplätze vernichtet? Wer entscheidet eigentlich, ob ein Arbeitsplatz wegfällt oder nicht? Das möchte Forscherin Bettina-Johanna Krings mit Dir diskutieren.
📆 Mittwoch, 5. März 2025, 12 bis 14 Uhr
📍 TRIANGEL, Kaiserstraße 93, Karlsruhe
⭐️ Eintritt frei und barrierefreier Zugang
💬 Wir starten um 12 Uhr mit einem Impulsvortrag, Du kannst aber jederzeit zur Diskussion stoßen oder gehen.
Wir freuen uns auf Dich!
“Sag mal, ITAS” ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe des ITAS, in der Forschende ihren Arbeitsplatz in Karl9 - Wissenschaftslokal für Technik und Gesellschaft und TRIANGEL Transfer | Kultur | Raum verlegen und Deine Fragen zu ihren Forschungsthemen beantworten, wenn Du welche hast. Ansonsten darfst Du auch einfach vorbei kommen und Dir etwas zum Thema und unsere Forschungsarbeit erzählen lassen. 🤗
Mehr zu Sag mal, ITAS erfährst Du unter
➡️itas.kit.edu/veranstaltungen_sagmalitas.php
#wissenschaft #ki #ai #arbeit #gerechtigkeit #science #technikfolgenabschätzung #technik #forschung #dialog #karlsruhe #sagmalitas @KIT_Karlsruhe
update: Thanks for sharing and commenting. I got some good POV via DM & publicly!
While I asked for one thing (the necessity of patient databases in rare disease research / clinical trials) many commenters focussed on the data security aspect: I was taken aback that without prompting most medical researchers mentioned they would not register their own information in a US-run database as the one I asked about. Something really broke there.
How bad is it? No one really knows. And no one in power cares.
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Our brains are full of plastic.
Scientists still don’t know what this plastic is doing to us. And because research takes time, while scientists try to answer the question we just keep inhaling, eating, and drinking tiny pieces of plastic.
Why? Regulatory action has never really stopped the U.S. plastics industry from cranking out more plastic, even as clean air and water advocates try to fight the industry’s pollution problems. And now back in office is a President beholden to fossil fuel interests, a leader who uses his new powers to demand the use of plastic straws and an administration that is hell-bent on crippling EPA’s mission to keep us safe rather than empowering it.
Meanwhile, we do not know what all this plastic is doing to us. And no one currently in charge seems …
How bad is it? No one really knows. And no one in power cares.
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Our brains are full of plastic.
Scientists still don’t know what this plastic is doing to us. And because research takes time, while scientists try to answer the question we just keep inhaling, eating, and drinking tiny pieces of plastic.
Why? Regulatory action has never really stopped the U.S. plastics industry from cranking out more plastic, even as clean air and water advocates try to fight the industry’s pollution problems. And now back in office is a President beholden to fossil fuel interests, a leader who uses his new powers to demand the use of plastic straws and an administration that is hell-bent on crippling EPA’s mission to keep us safe rather than empowering it.
Meanwhile, we do not know what all this plastic is doing to us. And no one currently in charge seems to care.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-arent-we-losing-our-minds-over-the-plastic-in-our-brains/
This is the DiTraRe Leibniz Science Campus on "Digital Transformation of Research" tooting.
Research results are increasingly being shaped by digitalization processes. At the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Digital Transformation of Research", we are investigating the effects and potential of the increasing digitalization of scientific work in four interdisciplinary research clusters.
#Introduction #AI #AIethics #AIact #AIresearch #generativeAI #lm #research #science #humanities @fiz_karlsruhe fizise
Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/trump-nih-funding-scientists #Trumpadministration #Medicalresearch #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Science #USnews #Health
