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🇳🇱 Netherlands recruited 29 top scientist leaving U.S. under Trump
「 The fund the Netherlands established to recruit leading scientists mainly attracted American researchers leaving the United States under the Trump administration. Of the 34 top scientists recruited last year, 29 came from the United States, the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science reported 」
https://nltimes.nl/2026/07/07/netherlands-recruited-29-top-scientist-leaving-us-trump
New #Paper published in Quantum: Towards Unconditional Uncloneable Encryption
New #Paper published in Quantum: Resourcefulness of non-classical continuous-variable quantum gates
The #Trump admin, which has systematically rolled back #firearms #regulations since returning to office, has also gutted federal #GunViolence prevention efforts, slashing #funding for programs & #research & even SUPPRESSING #taxpayer-funded reports aimed at reducing #gun injuries & deaths.
#law #guns #idiocracy #MassShootings #SchoolShootings #PublicHealth
Scientists in Singapore and Japan have developed a tiny 3D-printed scuba suit for cyborg cockroaches. Why, you ask? Their intent is noble. @Gizmodo has the details:
Two More Studies Show that Australia’s Age Verification Laws Have Failed
Research in one analysis show that 7 in 10 teens still have accounts on Facebook. Another shows 60% are still on social media.
https://www.freezenet.ca/two-more-studies-show-that-australias-age-verification-laws-have-failed/
#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Australia #fail #research #SocialMedia #study
NEW: How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral
"I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users."
#News #Google #AI #Journalism #Media #Technology #Tech #Research #LLM #artificialintelligence
Cool opportunity for musicians: $100,000 grants for developing music-based therapies for brain diseases. The Foundation for the NIH is teaming up with Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead & Renee Fleming, a soprano.
New #Paper published in Quantum: Measuring Rényi entropy with an Echo Protocol
This is good news!
The scientists behind the new independent organization Climate.us are the same experts Trump fired because they were researching and reporting on climate change.
Formerly NOAA’s http://Climate.gov, they didn’t disappear. They rebuilt.
Now they’re independent and preserving climate data, outside of political interference, with public support and a team of volunteer scientists.
Mainstream Media Tries Blaming Social Media for Exposing Youth to Violence
As the mainstream media scrambles to justify age verification laws, one outlet is arguing that young people are exposed to violence.
https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-tries-blaming-social-media-for-exposing-youth-to-violence/
#Censorship #News #broadcasting #CTV #journalism #research #SocialMedia #study
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 👨🚀🤰 A #space gynecologist examines why human #pregnancy in space remains largely theoretical.
High #radiation and #microgravity pose serious risks to both parent and fetus, while female #biology is historically underrepresented in space #research. With more #Artemis missions approaching, scientists urgently need more #data before #births beyond #Earth can be considered safe.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/birth-pregnancy-in-space/
#science #humanbody #astronaut #medicine #reproduction #cosmos
NEW: For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas.
Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas.
One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.
https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Oil #Gas #Environment #Research #Science #Academia
If you're an academic, and possibly even in the UK, a paid position as editor for the Dancecult Journal is opening as Production Editor.
Dancecult is the only active academic journal for the study of Electronic Dance Music and culture, operating from Huddersfield University, West Yorkshire, UK.
I am not affiliated with the publication, only a reader, but it's a good one. The position is accepting submissions until 29th June.
https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/announcement/view/102
A Japanese immunologist has spent 20 years proving that the chemicals that trees release into the air help arm your immune system in ways never before imagined.
#Health #Nature #Trees #Research
https://www.unature.org/en/blog/from-the-field/in-conversation-with-dr-qing-li
We're hosting a webinar on 7 July for #research funders, covering how connecting funding data to research outputs can support open science compliance, impact tracking, and strategic decision-making.
With our colleague Rocio Gaudioso Pedraza.
📅 7 July - 15:00 UTC
https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/2917815553060/WN_77T1XVABT_-1IIsggp5-MQ
RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116778104602302611
The results are in: Using AI tools to help you in your job makes your cognitive decisions worse when they’re not around.
SlightlyCyberpunk boostedIs AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good
L: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601286
posted on 2026.06.19 at 14:00:48 (c=0, p=5)
New #Paper published in Quantum: Measurement incompatibility and quantum steering via linear programming
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It supports citations, Zotero integration, LaTeX exports, full-text search, and Zettelkasten-style knowledge management while working entirely with local files.
A powerful privacy-friendly alternative to cloud-based writing tools.
More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=zettlr
#OpenSource #Markdown #Writing #Research #Privacy #Zettelkasten #NoteTaking
New #Paper published in Quantum: Qubit operations using a modular optical system engineered with PyOpticL: a code-to-CAD optical layout tool
New #Paper published in Quantum: Simulating magic state cultivation with few Clifford terms
New #Paper published in Quantum: Lie algebraic invariants in quantum linear optics
[for your address book]
https://soc.octade.net/cryptography/
A Fediverse group for sharing and discussing #ciphers, #codes #cryptography and #encryption and related applications and #research.
#crypto #cypher #cypherpunks #confidentiality #privacy #groups #fedigroups #fediverse
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A Fediverse group for sharing your papers and preprints.
https://soc.octade.net/papers/
#Papers #Writing #Preprints #Authors #Research #Reading #groups #fedigroups #fediverse