Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

NYS Report: Risks of facial recognition technology in schools likely outweigh the benefits:

Media coverage at https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/facial-recognition-state-education-department-office-of-information-technology-services-schools-x8dcl8dm

But they don't seem to link to the actual report. You can find the report at https://its.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2023/08/biometrics-report-final-2023.pdf

#biometrics #facialrecognition #scanning #surveillance #security #risk #EdTech

@douglevin @funnymonkey

'The researcher Amelia Hesketh’s Ph.D. work found that organisms struggled to reestablish themselves in hot temperatures, even when the death of other organisms opened up precious real estate. That could result in less biodiversity in the long term.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/08/heat-wave-pacific-northwest-shellfish-recovery/675126/

Uma quadrilhazinha de merda, com um capitao, um tenente coronel, e um general:

"Para o ajudar, pediu ao pai general, ex-colega de turma de Bolsonaro, para fotografar as joias e vendê-las em Miami. No reflexo de uma das fotos, aparece, incriminatória, a cara do dito general."

https://www.dn.pt/opiniao/as-fraquezas-armadas-do-brasil-16905740.html

'Most problems surrounding the description of the submolecular world come from frustrated attempts to reconcile conflicting pictures of waves and particles, leaving us with inconsistent chimeras such as particle-like nuclei surrounded by wave-like electrons. This image doesn’t capture quantum theory’s predictions. To compensate, our conceptual reconstruction of matter at the submolecular level should consistently describe how nuclei and electrons behave when not observed – like the proverbial sound of a tree falling in the forest without anyone around.'

https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-empty-atom-picture-misunderstands-quantum-theory

'It is somewhat surprising that despite the widespread use of the seminal works by Berg and Purcell (1) and De Lisi (17), there has been put so little emphasis on the understanding of the biophysics of the molecular interactions of the two central actors in the humoral immune response, BCRs, and Abs, with their cognate Ags.'
#immunology

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220669120#sec-4

If you are at CCNeuro, join us and learn about updates on our spatially-embedded RNNs:

- Implementation in Spiking Networks by Andrew Ham (Poster 3B)
- Investigation of structure with entropy measure by Connie Sheeran (Poster 1A)

All key findings summarised:
https://www.jachterberg.com/seRNN

#ccn23 #ccn #neuroscience #AI #neuromorphic #ML #research

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France #OTD in 1789.

The Declaration was initially drafted by the Marquis de Lafayette, but the majority of the final draft came from the Abbé Sieyès. Influenced by the doctrine of natural right, human rights are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place. It became the basis for a nation of free individuals protected equally by the law. via @wikipedia

#constitution

A growing number of countries are considering introducing laws to make ecocide a crime.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophy #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/26/growing-number-of-countries-consider-making-ecocide-crime

#Click #electrochemistry for the rapid modification of virus, bacterial and cell surfaces by Gouin Sebastien et al on #Nature #Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40534-0.epdf?sharing_token=OsorvNCu4Dj2W8fEWjiX5NRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OkDjrrak_6vx-dAvbDcyZ3cXUi4a566YU_F8_4kqBUHQX1uGPIOvWqTjE2TLhmzCkk6pVMClBhNeLzBGxFusztvHgkCMpFZYPjkQH3T83mMMDsc01RfBwxbc7Ft61LbWw%3D

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neurophysiology

University of Missouri

3 Postdoctoral fellows to investigate autonomic regulation in cardiovascular function in both health and disease

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-missouri-27778-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-neurophysiology/?feed_id=56728

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Columbia #UnitedS...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-missouri-27778-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-neurophysiology/?feed_id=56728

"The levels of R-loops were found to be increased up to 50-fold in cells that maintain high-risk HPV genomes and were readily detected in squamous cell cervical carcinomas in vivo but not in normal cells."
#Virology #HPV

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2305907120

🔮The future of academic publishing 🔮

It was great to be invited to contribute to this feature piece for Nature Human Behaviour!

"Preprints can improve publishing" can be read on Page 2, along with many other fascinating perspectives!

Open Access🔓: rdcu.be/dgL20

Global COVID monitoring is crashing as BA.2.86 variant raises alarm

"This is on the shoulders of governments right now."

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/global-covid-monitoring-is-crashing-as-ba-2-86-variant-raises-alarm/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

' Some of these hunters, writes Flores, may have genuinely believed that these animal populations were inexhaustible, but plenty understood the likely consequences of their actions. Decades after the slaughter, a hunter named Frank Meyer reflected on the origins of “buffalo fever”: “Maybe we were just a greedy lot who wanted to get ours and to hell with posterity, the buffalo, and anyone else…. I think maybe that is the way it was.”

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/08/17/the-nature-trade-wild-new-world-market-in-birds/