Farewell to US status as a science nation — Llewellyn King https://www.byteseu.com/1155830/ #Commentary #Opinion #Science
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PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/press-release/meteorites-geologic-map-asteroid-belt
Where do meteorites of different types come from? Astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid belt.
“This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue,” said Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center. “We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt.”
Stand Up for Science: Join with us in supporting the #EPA staff
Read their Declaration which directly addresses the new Administrator Lee Zeldin with their FIVE CONCERNS and invites him to “change course by re-committing to his oath to protect the health of the American people and our environment.”
#LeeZeldin #resistance #science
https://www.standupforscience.net/epa-declaration
I always gush about @ZLabe and his account, because for one thing it makes the data he works with more accessible (via #ActivityPub), but secondly because the #infographics he stares are very informative - and consistent.
Are there any other #science, #edutainment and #infographic accounts on the #fediverse that has similar consistent and qualify of posts? Think content that is fairly easily digestible during a scroll.
We're looking for the accounts that #TeachTheFediverse.
Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/national-science-foundation-trump-cuts #Researchanddevelopment #Trumpadministration #Climatecrisis #Environment #USpolitics #Science #USnews #Race
EPA to launch program that lets people adopt its lab animals amid Trump cuts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/epa-lab-animals-trump-cuts #Trumpadministration #Environment #USpolitics #Animals #Science #USnews
Under #Biden US national labs found themselves hamstrung by micromanagement, demands from the administration that resources be diverted away from #science while regulators repeatedly shut down programs much to the chagrin of our International partners.
It's been a breath of fresh air that the new administration has allowed us to actually get back to work. I don't even care if they know what they are doing, at least they are no longer interfering. Science is getting back on track now.
Regardless of everything else that #Trump might be getting into, and maybe it's just because he's just that incompetent, at least the US is getting back on track with its scientific endeavors. Our experiments are getting back up to speed after years of crippling bureaucracy, and we can start making progress again.
There's a lot to complain about with Trump, but I am very glad to see that the expectations for science are living up to what I'd hoped.
Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered https://phys.org/news/2025-07-hymn-babylon-millennium.html #science
This is beyond…
#LeMonde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to #US after a #search of his #phone & #computer revealed messages critical of #Trump's #science cuts, "which [says #CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated.
#law #geopolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #Nazis #ViewpointDiscrimination
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html
Massive study detects AI fingerprints in millions of scientific papers https://phys.org/news/2025-07-massive-ai-fingerprints-millions-scientific.html #science
8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater
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Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.
https://www.propublica.org/article/groundwater-fresh-water-depletion-research-science-advances-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Science #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Water #NASA #Data
Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.
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The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/national-institutes-health-nih-canceled-grants-research
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
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The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
#News #CDC #RFKJr #Health #Measles #Medicine #PublicHealth #Vaccines #Science
Do you love cats? Do you enjoy science and statistics? Willing to help cats a few hours a week by doing good science, from home?
Consider joining our team of volunteer scientists!
#statistics #science #cats #PhD
Boosts are greatly appreciated!
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The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.
#News #Climate #NOAA #Research #Science #Data #Weather #Trump
PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/press-release/pinball-world-asteroids-mudball-meteorite-avoided-collisions
In the Pinball World of Asteroids, a Mudball Meteorite Avoided Collisions
In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published online in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, an international team of researchers describe the circumstances of the fall and show that mudball meteorites are not necessarily weak.
This New Book Reveals the Daredevil Lives of Four Italian Women Who Stood Up to Hitler and Mussolini https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/new-book-reveals-daredevil-lives-four-italian-women-who-stood-up-hitler-mussolini-180986245/ #science
If mathematics is functional vision in a cosmos of energy and momentum, what abstract practice is it that allows us to perceive and process the deeper messages woven into what we see through proof & calculation?
The infinities, the limits, the bumpy smoothness, the funhouse symmetries (maybe real?), the utterly confounding illogical puzzles…
NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire
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A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000.
https://www.propublica.org/article/noaa-contracts-seattle-lab?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles
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In 2013, ProPublica reporter David Epstein was contacted by a woman with a wild story and a batch of photos she believed were clues to the mystery of her condition. Turns out, she was right.
https://www.propublica.org/article/remembering-jill-viles-diy-geneticist-muscular-dystrophy-david-espstein?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Journalism #Genetics #Science #Research #Health #Disability
Most #LLMs over-generalized scientific results beyond the original articles
...even when explicitly prompted for accuracy!
The #AI was 5x worse than humans, on average!
Newer models were the worst.🤦♂️
🔓 Accepted in #RoyalSociety Open #Science: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.00025
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(3) Action guiding generalizations. ...result claims ... often underlie recommendations ... (e.g. ‘CBT should be recommended for OCD patients’) [that involve] broader generalization than that found in the summarized text because researchers may have deliberately avoided such recommendations due to insufficient evidence to support them.
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(2) Present tense generalizations. ... When past tense result claims from an original text are turned into present tense in the summary, a broader generalization is conveyed than the author(s) of the original text may have intended.
(3) Action guiding generalizations. ...result claims ... often underlie recommendations ... (e.g. ‘CBT should be recommended for OCD patients’) [that involve] broader generalization than that found in the summarized text because researchers may have deliberately avoided such recommendations due to insufficient evidence to support them.
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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
#News #Trump #DOGE #Data #Climate #Health #Environment #Immigration #Science #Education
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