@everton137

150k? Seriously? Even if none of them were bots, he has a more than tenfold larger audience whenever he is on any news channel on TV.
If X has around 200M users, 150k is what? 0.075% of the users? And that's the unrealistic assumption his busers aren't just fed nazi propaganda by […]

Philip Ball on the dangers of #ai:

"We can push back against their grandiosity, their evasions and fantasies, and demand that their products be safety-tested, regulated and evaluated as we do with more prosaic technologies like drugs and cars. That would be the most effective, and ultimately […]

Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social placing some #AI doom scenarios in a realistic frame of reference:

"Like much else right now in the domains of wealth and influence, the Tescreal world is so crazy that you feel tainted with lunacy just writing about it."

ttps://www.prospectmagazine.co […]

@tschfflr

Offensichtlich hat sich seit 2015 nicht viel geändert:

https://www.faz.net/faz/verbesserung-der-arbeitsbedingungen-an-unis-13354907.html

auf Englisch, ohne Paywall:
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2015/01/booming-university-administrations/

Deep insights on #evolution , #development and #neuroscience from the larvae of marine invertebrates as models of potential Urbilaterian origins: reafference as the ancestral behavioral organizational principle.

Here is my presentation on “Neuronal coordination of cilia in marine zooplankton in moving and sensing”
at the University of Regensburg (07 October 2026).

https://jekelylab.codeberg.page/Regensburg_2026_cilia_coordination.html#/title-slide

Thanks a lot to […]

[Original post on biologists.social]

@koen_hufkens

Well, people have the choice to pay the money for their car or, literally, burn more money instead.
Put this way, most should get it, shouldn't they?

In this piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk I argue that it is time we stopped letting the AI/tech industry dictate the narrative, and I attempt to dismantle the self-serving terminology and myths it has created.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

Der EU "Kids Act" würde in der jetzigen Fassung das #fediverse und #mastodon vor echte Herausforderungen stellen:

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Altersverifikation-im-Fediverse-Wie-der-KIDS-Act-Mastodon-herausfordert-11474098.html

Here it is! Introducing Z-Profile – a simple website builder for researchers: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/10/07/introducing-zprofile-a-simple-website.html

No code, no new software – all you need is @zotero & somewhere to host your site. Please share! #histodons

Read @briannosek 's post, especially Part 2 and it becomes clear why scholarly infrastructure must be decentralized, meaning that each institution provides a local node, with local resources and support.

https://www.cos.io/blog/osf-changes-a-note-to-users

Scholarship is too big for a single […]

Do check out Rupert’s website. It’s amazing. And so is he. thelonekayaker.wordpress.com

Slides of the talk
Social Media for Peace
held at the FONAS annual meeting can bei downloaded here
👉 https://tubcloud.tu-berlin.de/s/Y7KAo8KRqBLcJYc

@fonas
#socialmedia #fediverse #peace #politics #science #research

Mark you calendars: #zurich Wednesday, October 21, 3.30pm, keynote presentation:

"Replacing Academic Journals"

Open Access Week | Lib4RI
https://www.lib4ri.ch/open-access-week

#openaccess #openscience

Join us in #zurich on October 21, at 3.30pm if you want to learn more on how to replace academic journals and with what:

2026 Events — International #OpenAccessWeek […]

@gedankenstuecke

"it’s hardly ever been a scarier time to be a young woman, attending university with male students"

As the alarmed father of a young woman who likely will attend university soon, I'd be more than just tangentially interested if there is any data to support this notion that […]

@mrundkvist

I guess what you're trying to say is that, particularly at our age, it can get non-trivial to have young and attractive couples as friends? 🤣