Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

More than 26,000 forced to flee as Tenerife wildfire rages.

The huge blaze, which originally broke out late Tuesday in a mountainous northeastern area of the island, is the 'most complex fire' to hit Spain's Atlantic Canary Islands in more than 40 years, the authorities say.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/climate/article/2023/08/19/more-than-26-000-forced-to-flee-as-tenerife-wildfire-rages_6099218_96.html

#Spain #CanaryIslands #Tenerife #Wildfires

I'm sorting out some of my old film stuff from childhood... Here's an original, U-rated UK cinema quad poster for Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979). A strange time in cinema history when episodes of American TV shows (in this case, 3 episodes) were re-edited into feature-length films and released in UK cinemas, often during the school holidays.
#BattlestarGalactica #cinema #Movieposters #graphicdesign #illustration

Three years in the making - our big review/opinion piece on the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) from the cognitive science perspective.

Thread below! 1/

#AI #cogneuro #NLP #LLMs #languageandthought

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627

Longer write-up on the #NeurIPS2021 consistency experiment now up on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03262

Some takeaways:

- There was noise in 2014; there's noise now. Conference growth hasn't changed this much.

- Spotlights/orals are especially noisy. Being more selective would make decisions more arbitrary.

- The amount of noise in which papers get flagged for ethics review is also striking.

'Although infection and these translocated effector proteins are restricted to intestinal epithelial cells (IEC), type I dendritic cells (cDC1) were required to generate CD8+ T cell responses to these model antigens.'

#Preprint #Immunology #HostPathogen #MucosalImmunology

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.16.553566v1

"These rankings are not, to borrow a phrase, merely academic matters. Funding agencies, including many governments, use them to decide where to award grants. Citations are the currency of academic success, but their value also attracts more money and resources to institutions and academics."

https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1887

'WVU, West Virginia’s flagship land-grant university, which is located in the small city of Morgantown on the state’s northern border with Pennsylvania, is rushing to eliminate 9 percent of its majors (32 programs in total), all foreign language programs, and 16 percent of full-time faculty members (169 in total) in response to a $45 million budget deficit for the fiscal year 2024.'

https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/west-virginia-university-cuts-programs.html

Those were the days, my friends

"Early in the 1970s and 1980s, prosperous times for modern immunology, the peanut agglutinin lectin (PNA), recognizing carbohydrate sequence Gal-β(1-3)-GalNAc, was shown to differentially bind immature and mature thymocytes in mice"
#immunology #GlycoImmunology

https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906(23)00112-6

This is more than 'ignored'

"The hospital's top manager demanded the doctors write an apology to Letby and told them to stop making allegations against her"

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66120934

Prints, ceramics, pop-ups, sets, masks et al, check out Madalena's page.
#Art #ArtGallery #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com

New study: "We find that scientists are overwhelmingly (95%) failing to publish their #code and that there has been no significant improvement over time, but we also find evidence that code sharing can considerably improve citations, particularly when combined with #OpenAccess publication."
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3222221/v1

#Citations #Impact #OACA #OpenSource #Reproducibility

Exec. fellowships for careers in service-providing research infrastructure

European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

You are invited to apply for one of the 30+ three-year Fellowships:
Executive fellowships for careers in service-providing research infrastructures

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/jo...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/european-molecular-biology-laboratory-embl-27778-exec-fellowships-for-careers-in-service-providing-research-infrastructure/?feed_id=55869

Nice read. Buried lede: Mastodon is the overwhelming choice for an alternative. Now we need to improve the reach.
Vidal Valero, Myriam. “Thousands of Scientists Are Cutting Back on Twitter, Seeding Angst and Uncertainty.” Nature, vol. 620, no. 7974, Aug. 2023, pp. 482–84. www.nature.com, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02554-0