Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Paris mayor quitting Elon Musk's 'global sewer' platform X before 2024 Olympics https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/anne-hidalgo-paris-mayor-quitting-x-olympics-1.7040900?cmp=rss

Would you like a tool to help people understand #OpenScience quickly and easily?

Come hear my talk Wed, Nov 29, 2pm CET:

"What is Open Science for?"

Details: https://osi-luebeck.de/what-is-open-science-for/

Email open.science@uni-luebeck.de for a link.

Meet your colleagues and discuss a new preprint over lunch during Cell Bio 2023 🥳

We’re pleased to announce preprint launch parties organized by ASAPbio during Cell Bio 2023 (Boston, MA, USA)! These lunch events are not formally affiliated with ASCB/EMBO, but will be held Monday and Tuesday, Dec 4 and 5, at a conference room at street level about a 10’ walk from the conference center.

To learn more and RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2qZ3jBUPDsCNy5yHjux44u0J67okwhYAwQBgHtSVQgv1jjQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Important new A.I. report for breast cancer leading to the potential of sparing chemotherapy for many. The 1st comprehensive analysis of both cancerous and non-cancerous tissue in hundreds of thousands of patient tissues ->HiPS score

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02643-7

🇫🇷 The French welfare agency uses an algorithm to detect potential fraudsters. Every month, it ranks the households of 32 million people, including 13 million children, with a "risk score".

For the first time, @LaQuadrature obtained its source code and could run it.

The criteria that increase the risk score are
- being poor,
- living in a poor neighborhood,
- being a single mother,
- being unemployed,
- having a disability.

https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/11/27/notation-des-allocataires-lindecence-des-pratiques-de-la-caf-desormais-indeniable/

Sums it up nicely

Human rights activist and Scientist Rebellion co-founder Mike Lynch-White was imprisoned ten months ago for peacefully disrupting a factory providing weapons to Israel. In his own words, "the world has watched a genocide in slow motion."

Mike was arrested at the UK border in February and was sentenced to 23 months in prison in May for criminal damage after climbing onto the roof of Runcorn-based factory APPH. He received a longer sentence due to previous climate-related actions.

We’re looking for Workshops and Special Events for the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montréal! Workshops and special events are a great way to build community around a theme, concept, or approach, so consider hosting if you have an idea! More information here:

https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/workshops-and-special-events.html

Listen to Univision anchor Jorge Ramos. He charged that his network gave too friendly an interview with Trump, and in so doing it “put in doubt the independence of our news department.” Ramos added that Univision cannot “offer Trump an open microphone to broadcast his falsehoods and conspiracy theories." Let it be a warning to all news media.

“Orchids have interested me as much as almost anything in my life,” Darwin wrote. In their forms, he saw a vast landscape of the forces of selective evolution, a dance they played with their environment and their pollinators. “My little darlings,” as he sometimes referred to orchids, became his model for further exploring the forces he so broadly described in The Origin of Species. Just three years after the publication of that shattering work, he had produced his tome puzzling over the multitudinous, striking habits of orchids: On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, and On the Good Effects of Intercrossing.'

https://nautil.us/why-is-everything-an-orchid-424338/?ref=thebrowser.com

'Instead, the social media giant “routinely continued to collect” children’s personal information, like their locations and email addresses, without parental permission, in violation of a federal children’s privacy law, according to the court filing.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/technology/instagram-meta-children-privacy.html

'What went wrong? It isn’t that the past 25 years of consciousness studies haven’t been productive. The field has been incredibly rich, with discoveries and applications that seem one step from science fiction. The problem is that, even with all these discoveries, we still haven’t identified any neural correlates of consciousness. That’s why Koch lost the bet.'

https://aeon.co/essays/are-we-ready-to-study-consciousness-in-crabs-and-the-like

It's difficult to explain how great the original Netflix DVD service was - how much better than instantly streaming Vin Diesel it was to be able to get in a day or two anything from the Criterion Collection, for example.

https://www.thesmartset.com/the-long-goodbye/?ref=thebrowser.com

#^Battling implicit bias


Training is a cheap solution to a hard problem. It is the systems that allow for biased behaviour that need to change
- by Jeffrey To

Read at Aeon