Estimating affective polarization on a social network, by Marilena Hohmann and Michele Coscia, published in PLOS ONE.| NEtwoRks, Data, and Society (NERDS)
This week we lost a figure known as “the dean of American avant-garde film.” Ken Jacobs was renowned for his ability to turn the humblest materia prima of cinema, including 16mm projectors and dusty reels of found footage, into optical sorcery. In so doing, he also turned time-honored assumptions about media preservation on their head.| Still Water Lab
OneFlorida+ citizen scientist Shirley Bloodworth participated in a conference on cancer and aging hosted by the UF Health Cancer Center (UFHCC) earlier this year, offering her perspectives following presentations by a panel of national experts from the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute. Bloodworth also contributed to a journal article that summarized…| onefl.net
Today I’m visiting fellow author Jacqui Murray to introduce you to disabled war veteran Emmett Couture. Jacqui is a long-time blogging buddy who is a very accomplished researcher and author of prehistoric fiction. I hope you can take a few minutes and pop over to Jacqui’s place to meet Emmett! (I have closed comments here.)| Elizabeth Gauffreau
Today I’m visiting fellow Story Empire author D.L. Finn to introduce you to the oldest resident at the Sheldon Poor Farm, Florence Kimball, known as Flossie. I hope you can take a few minutes and pop over to Denise’s place to meet Flossie! (I have closed comments here.)| Elizabeth Gauffreau
Today I’m visiting fellow Story Empire author Nicholas Rossis to introduce you to the Vermont accent that the farmers in The Weight of Snow and Regret and most of the poor farm residents would have had (to a greater or lesser extent). I hope you can take a few minutes and give it a listen! … Continue reading The Weight of Snow and Regret Blog Tour: The Vermont Accent| Elizabeth Gauffreau
Today I’m visiting fellow author Miriam Hurdle. Miriam writes books straight from the heart in a variety of genres (poetry, memoir, picture books). She is also a painter and an extraordinary gardener. I have closed comments here; I hope to see you at Miriam’s place! And while you’re there, please check out her work!| Elizabeth Gauffreau
Today I’m over at fellow Story Empire writer Craig Boyack’s place to introduce the first in a series of characters inspired by photographs of Vermonters in the 1930s and 1940s on the Library of Congress website. (As someone who writes historical fiction, I am forever indebted to the Library of Congress.) I have closed comments … Continue reading The Weight of Snow and Regret Blog Tour: Character Spotlight on Hobo Philo Roy #NewRelease| Elizabeth Gauffreau
Today I’m over at John Howell’s place today to discuss the historical context for the Sheldon Poor Farm. John is a wonderful support for indie authors, and he writes one of my favorite blogs, with the shenanigans of his two rescue French bulldogs, Twiggy and Tempeste, being the highlight of my Thursdays. He is also … Continue reading The Weight of Snow and Regret Blog Tour: Historical Context #NewRelease| Elizabeth Gauffreau
LUCI is proud to announce that the LUCI Declaration for the Future of Urban Lighting is now available in German! This new version will help spread the word among German cities and the German-speaking urban lighting community in general. L’article LUCI Declaration: now available in German! est apparu en premier sur LUCI Association.| LUCI Association
First revealed at the LUCI Cities & Lighting Summit in London, at the end of April, our most recent publication – the Urban Lighting for Health and Wellbeing: New Guidelines – is now available for download!| LUCI Association
Agroecology as the EU’s path to food justice and resilience. The post Invest in change appeared first on www.caritas.eu.| www.caritas.eu
A joint report by Caritas Europa and Eurodiaconia The post Shaping the future of social and health care in Europe appeared first on www.caritas.eu.| www.caritas.eu
Check out the latest happenings of the Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation by viewing their recent White Bear Press newspaper insert. The post Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation Newspaper Insert – September 2025 appeared first on CommunityGiving.| CommunityGiving
I am deeply honoured and delighted to have some of my haiku included in The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Registry: … and in The Living Haiku Anthology: With warm-hearted thanks to Marta Cho…| Tranature
Clinical decision-making, customer support, technical management: uses of AI in healthcare are growing rapidly. But a large-scale shift requires massive resource input. Electricity consumption in data centers, for example, has increased by 116 trillion million kilowatts since 2016. A new paper co-authored by SCET faculty Shomit Ghose analyzes the question: what trade-offs can health system… The post SCET Faculty Shomit Ghose publishes decision framework for sustainable Gen AI in healthcar...| UC Berkeley Sutardja Center
S04E16 : Les réactions des éditeurs (Transcription : Symphonie) Les liens vers l’épisode S04E16 : Script : Télécharger / Audio : Youtube ; Elbakin Liste des Episodes transcrits (Épisode toujours enregistré en confinement.)Soumettre un travail à une maison d’édition est une étape nécessaire pour la publication mais qui suscite des craintes, ou se trouve même entourée de certaines idées reçues : cette quinzaine, … Lire la suite de Vous lisez Procrastination : S04E16...| L'Imaginaerum de Symphonie
Check out the latest happenings of the ROCORI Area Community Foundation by viewing our newspaper insert. The post ROCORI Area Community Foundation Newspaper insert – July 2025 appeared first on CommunityGiving.| CommunityGiving
We have a new exciting publication out! 🎸 Is it getting harder to make a hit? Evidence from 65 years of US music chart history, by Marta Ewa Lech, Sune […]| NEtwoRks, Data, and Society (NERDS)
Uncovering large inconsistencies between machine learning derived gridded settlement datasets, by Vedran Sekara, Andrea Martini, Manuel Garcia-Herranz & Do-Hyung Kim, published in EPJ Data Science| NEtwoRks, Data, and Society (NERDS)
by Robert Busch A new article from our project was recently published in the journal PLOS One. The article discusses the natural potential for...| Pergamon Micro-Region
by Robert Busch| Pergamon Micro-Region
OQC's dual-rail dimon technology enables hardware-efficient quantum error correction and forms the basis of OQC's roadmap to 2035. The post Error-detected coherence metrology of a dual-rail encoded fixed-frequency multimode superconducting qubit first appeared on OQC.| OQC
bees humfrom toadflaxto foxgloveslowly the garden she tendsgrows wild at the edges © Xenia Tran Laurels #4 We are deeply honoured and delighted that the above tanka was published in Laurels #4 in August 2025. Warm-hearted thanks to Jackie Chou for selecting my poem and to the team at Laurels for putting this beautiful edition … Continue reading "Tanka: Bees Hum"| Tranature
My tiny poem ‘the silences’ has just been published over on Whispers & Echoes. Here’s the link, in case you are interested: https://whispersandechoesmag.home.blog/2025/08/11/the-silences-britta-benson/ Thanks for stopping by!| Odds & Ends – Poetry Blog
A new study in Nature’s Scientific Reports shows that citizen scientists can reliably count endangered Galápagos marine iguanas from drone images, offering a fast and cost-effective tool for …| Daily Zooniverse
Protein design is expanding from building single molecules to generating entire systems from scratch with parts that work together in ways nature never explored.| Institute for Protein Design – Designing tomorrow
The University of Alberta’s Secwépemc History Field School publishes a weekly newsletter highlighting student learning, community engagement, and fieldwork experiences. Browse current issues below. For more information, please contact: Dr. […] The post Secwépemc History Field School Weekly Newsletter appeared first on Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc.| Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc
With growing dissatisfaction about the state of the internet, I spent a few months in 2025 digging into things like the fediverse (Mastodon etc.), self-hosting, and other ways of reclaiming the internet from companies like Google. On my travels, I came across the term POSSE, which stands for Publish (on your) Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere. Here's how it applies to my writing.| Leon Furze
ICCL Enforce investigation finds Hikvision surveillance equipment procured and installed across Irish bodies. The Irish State pays for China's surveillance in Ireland.| Irish Council for Civil Liberties
A recent research study has evaluated the use of biplane ultrasound imaging for intravenous (IV) catheter placement, examining whether this enhanced approach offers advantages over traditional single-plane methods. Research conducted by Department of Anesthesiology colleagues Ge Qu, M.D., Amanda Frantz, M.D., Cynthia Garvan, Ph.D., Nikolaus Gravenstein, M.D., and Joshua Sappenfield, M.D., found that the use…| Department of Anesthesiology » College of Medicine » University o...
I’m happy to have contributed a new essay to the “No Future Lexicon” series commissioned over at Public Books, “a magazine of ideas, art, and scholarship,” with Matthe…| Ekostories by Isaac Yuen
The publication emphasizes the importance of integrating Just Transition principles into long-term climate policy planning.| Ecoaction
Le Collectif Info Santé met à disposition une série de documents visant à accompagner les familles confrontées aux obligations vaccinales lors de| Reinfo - Les Collectifs
Cover photo subject (via Talk). Congratulations are due to the research team behind Angling for Data on Michigan Fishes, who have a new publication out in Nature: Community science helps digitize 7…| Daily Zooniverse
As the UK Government sets out to reform the local government sector again, this is a clear guide to the mess that English councils currently find themselves in. It focuses on how the government is intervening in failing authorities. In our guide you will find a breakdown of how councils are supposed to function, how they got into this crisis, how the government is currently intervening, and tips for getting more involved yourself.| Research for Action
Custom proteins made with AI bind disordered proteins and peptides with atomic precision.| Institute for Protein Design – Designing tomorrow
Next-gen challenges for mobile game rendering| Tobias Alexander Franke
BikeNodePlanner: A data-driven decision support tool for bicycle node network planning, by A. Vybornova, A.R. Vierø, K.K. Hansen, and M. Szell, published in Environment and Planning B| NEtwoRks, Data, and Society (NERDS)
In this blog post, Maria Antonopoulou, a Research Skills Advisor in the Research Skills Team in Libraries and Learning Resources, introduces ORCID, highlighting how creating and maintaining a profi…| UoB PGR Development
Measurement Lab publishes the Internet Quality Barometer Framework | www.measurementlab.net
The Volyn Oblast of Ukraine is actively implementing a just transition in its coal communities.| Ecoaction
The Roadmap proposes solutions to address challenges along with specific steps for each sector.| Ecoaction
Extracting Participation in Collective Action from Social Media, by Arianna Pera and Luca Maria Aiello, published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.| NEtwoRks, Data, and Society (NERDS)
Warning: Undefined array key "modern_footnotes_include_footnote_list_at_end_of_rss_content" in /home/iccl/domains/iccl.ie/public_html/wp-content/plugins/modern-footnotes/modern-footnotes.php on line 692 Warning: Undefined array key "modern_footnotes_include_footnote_list_at_end_of_rss_content" in /home/iccl/domains/iccl.ie/public_html/wp-content/plugins/modern-footnotes/modern-footnotes.php on line 692 Warning: Undefined array key "modern_footnotes_include_footnote_list_at_end_of_rss_content"...| Irish Council for Civil Liberties
I'm delighted to announce that my new short story, "Last" (with a nifty illustration by Marco Megrati), has just appeared at Seat14C.com, an online science fiction anthology and writing competition presented by XPRIZE. XPRIZE, as you may know, is a non-profit organization that designs and manages public science competitions intended to encourage technological development that could benefit all of humanity. (No small goal, there.)...| William Shunn
Annual Report of the G2H2 activities in the year 2024| G2H2
We are happy to share that our Annual Report 2024 has been published on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/15672537 The OPERAS Annual Report provides a detailed record of the activities of OPERAS AISBL and OPERAS as a...| OPERAS
In light of a recent motion of the Dutch parliament [1], keeping with the trend of internet centralisation and considering the general state of the world [2], we are bringing the full DNS chain to a doormat close to you*. (Re-)introducing [3] The Phone Book of the Internet. Whenever …| NLnet Labs
Her tricky smile and timeless allure have inspired academic study & artistic emulation for more than five once and for all centuries In a 1982 essay, Halley wrote that the idealist square becomes the prison| Sanctuary of Truth Museum
Composed sometime between the 1430s and 1450s, Donatello’s bronze David represents a series. Provocatively jutting hip as he trium phantly steps his foot on the Philistine conqueror’s head| Sanctuary of Truth Museum
Just a shepherd boy when he fought Goliath, David’s disadvantage is out of demonstrated here by his prepubescent physique naked except. Just a shepherd boy when he fought Goliath, David’s disadvantage is out of demonstrated here by his prepubescent physique naked except| Sanctuary of Truth Museum
Provocatively jutting hip as he trium phantly steps his foot on the Philistine conqueror’s head. Provocatively jutting hip as he trium phantly steps his foot on the Philistine conqueror’s head| Sanctuary of Truth Museum
Shown for the first time in the United States, this comprehensive collection of ukiyo-e paintings brings.| Sanctuary of Truth Museum
Briefing paper giving an overview of Argentina’s legal framework around investigation and prosecution of international crimes and its practical application.| TRIAL International
AccessAva is robot (sometimes called a chatbot or Artificial intelligence). It can give you information and guidance about Health and Social Care at any time and it is FREE to use! The post AccessAva appeared first on Social Care Future.| Social Care Future
Social Care Future, In Control and Think Local Act Personal teamed up to research how to make events more inclusive, drawing on the insights and experiences of almost 40 older and disabled people and carers who speak at events, and 16 organisations that host, commission or organise events in England’s health and care sector. The post New resources for organising inclusive and insightful events appeared first on Social Care Future.| Social Care Future
Watch and read highlights from our 5th birthday celebrations in Manchester in October 2023, download presentations and find links to organisations and resources shared The post Building a bridge to the future – the #SocialCareFuture gathering 2023 appeared first on Social Care Future.| Social Care Future
This work is the culmination of research and development involving and supported by members of the #socialcarefuture movement. The post How to Build Public Support to Transform Social Care appeared first on Social Care Future.| Social Care Future
Read about our research into how campaigning organisations and networks talk about social care in their campaign materials; how the print media has talked about social care and how the public thinks about social care. The post Talking About a Brighter Social Care Future appeared first on Social Care Future.| Social Care Future
The ‘Whose Social Care is it Anyway?’ report shows the findings from the #socialcarefuture inquiry which was led by people who draw on social care to lead their lives or […] The post From Permanent Lockdown to an Equal Life appeared first on Social Care Future.| Social Care Future
What does it take to truly “change the weather”? Learning what works from other social movements around the world, we’ve published our new plan to take #SocialCareFuture to the next […] The post A Movement for Gloriously Ordinary Lives appeared first on Social Care Future.| Social Care Future
A new deep-learning model developed by scientists at the IPD and MIT is redefining what’s possible in enzyme design. The post Introducing RFdiffusion2 first appeared on Institute for Protein Design.| Institute for Protein Design
UJAR 2025 (Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review), highlighting UJ developments in 2024, was published on 8 April.| TRIAL International
This is the fourth edition of ‘Architecture of the Games Magazine’. This edition focuses on the XXIV Olympic Winter Games – Beijing 2022. We take a look to the Games from the perspective of the designer: We explain the Beijing 2022 Masterplan and give a complete overview of all the venues. This magazine is available … Continue reading "Architecture of the Games Magazine #4 – Februari 2022"| Architecture of the Games
En octobre 1685, au terme de plusieurs années d’étranglement, Louis XIV décide non seulement d’interdire la religion protestante dans son royaume, mais également d’empêcher ses fidèles de quitter le pays, les obligeant à se convertir au catholicisme. Un ouvrage de Pierre-Benoît Roumagnou publié aux PUF.| Musée protestant
ProteinMPNN revolutionized protein sequence design. LigandMPNN opens the door to programming protein–ligand interfaces of all kinds.| Institute for Protein Design - Shaping tomorrow
Traditional and Neural Order-Independent Transparency| Tobias Alexander Franke
On the first anniversary of Utter, Earth’s publication, I had the pleasure of chatting with writer and interviewer Constance Malloy over at The Burning Hearth. Here’s an excerpt from one of our many conversation threads: “…I think our present preoccupation should be one of defiant endurance. To hold fast. To defy the narratives imposed upon us, and insist on narratives of our own forging, ones where care and kinship and connection with the planet and with each other remain uncompromis...| Ekostories by Isaac Yuen
Article by Flavia Elena Malusardi as part of the open-access special issue Beirut’s Intellectual Worlds (1950s–1980s) in the journal Symbolic Goods, edited by Aya Khalil and Candice Raymond This paper explores cultural politics as a site of identity making in...| LAWHA Lebanon's Art World at Home and Abroad
AWARE: Archives of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions has just published an entry on Nadia Saikali, written by Nadia von Maltzahn. The biography was produced by AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions in partnership with The Beirut Museum...| LAWHA Lebanon's Art World at Home and Abroad
AWARE: Archives of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions has just published an entry on Cici Tommaseo Sursock, written by Flavia Elene Malusardi. The biography was produced by AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions in partnership with The Beirut...| LAWHA Lebanon's Art World at Home and Abroad
Last year, a dedicated group of digital stewardship professionals formed the Climate Watch Working Group. Our mission is to raise awareness of the threats that climate change presents to preserving cultural heritage materials, especially those in digital form. We are excited to announce the publication of our Climate Watch Substack. Global warming and climate change Read More| DLF
Monique Bellan’s new article on Smart History “What is this exhibition? It is not serious.” [1] With these words, a Lebanese art critic, Nazih Khater, expressed the confusion that many visitors felt during the opening of Farid Haddad’s exhibition “Hearts and Monuments”...| LAWHA Lebanon's Art World at Home and Abroad
Revisiting the notion of teacher professionalism: A working paper As the professional body for teachers, it is crucial to explore what we mean by professionalism and how it can be best supported. This report aims to redefine what we mean by teacher professionalism and advocate for a more aspirational vision for our profession. We will […] The post Professionalism report appeared first on My College.| My College
A couple of months back, I finished writing my brand new-old fantasy book. A fresh, third attempt at an old idea. Why, you may ask. Well, the old one just wasn’t good enough. Despite its verbosity, almost three quarters of a million words, it was clunky, ponderous, perhaps even boring. And reading, I was quite surprised, and delighted, by how much my writing style has changed over the years, and decades. This got me wondering. How many words does it take for one to find their “true” voice?| The Lost Words
"What philosophy journal article, published less than ten years ago, has the most citations in philosophy journals?" . That's the question taken up by Brian Weatherson (Michigan) in a piece posted at his site. He adds: That’s a pretty good operationalisation of the question, what current philosophy work are philosophers talking about the most. It| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
One of the most common questions I am asked, and that I hear being discussed in doctoral and ECR support groups, is whether to write with supervisors and former supervisors. Or most often, I read o…| patter
New AI-generated proteins that protect animals in the lab promise safer, more accessible antivenoms. The post Neutralizing deadly snake toxins first appeared on Institute for Protein Design.| Institute for Protein Design
New protein assemblies with hundreds of subunits dwarf common viral capsids. The post Building bigger nanocages with less symmetry first appeared on Institute for Protein Design.| Institute for Protein Design
Generative AI based on RFdiffusion designs cyclic peptides with atomic accuracy. The post Introducing RFpeptides first appeared on Institute for Protein Design.| Institute for Protein Design
What does Europe look like when it comes to rights and inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities and their families? The post Inclusion indicators 2023: Union of equality? Here’s the reality appeared first on Inclusion Europe.| Inclusion Europe
We believe everyone has the right to enjoy life. We believe everyone must have their rights respected. This is what we want to say. Listen to us. The post Make it real! Manifesto from Hear our Voices! self-advocacy conference appeared first on Inclusion Europe.| Inclusion Europe
Tax the Rich: Implementing a State Tax on Investment Gains Introduction The concentration of wealth in the hands of the elite few impacts every facet of our lives. It is directly connected to expanding wealth disparities and the rising cost of living, the existential climate crisis and the rampant expansion of authoritarianism, and it […]| State Innovation Exchange
A State Legislator's Guide to Direct Pay: Building Jobs & Sustainable Public Energy Executive Summary The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes Direct Pay tax credits that have the potential to bring nearly unlimited funding for clean energy projects into the communities that need them most. Direct Pay tax credits will radically expand publicly owned energy, support […]| State Innovation Exchange
States Leading on Leave: A Playbook on Winning Paid Family and Medical Leave Download Playbook PDF Introduction No one should have to worry about losing their job for putting their family first during some of the most important moments in life. From the first moments of a child’s life to the last moments in the […]| State Innovation Exchange
Each year, state and local governments collectively receive and spend billions in federal funds, which accounted for 40.5% of all state spending in 2021, to provide important services to the public. Federal law and regulation establish some restrictions on the use of federal grants to varying degrees, but state lawmakers have considerable power to leverage […]| State Innovation Exchange
No one should be forced to choose between providing care for their loved ones and keeping the paying job that they need to survive. Prohibiting employment discrimination against family caregivers promotes economic security, health, and equity by ensuring employees can meet all of their obligations.| State Innovation Exchange
Effective enforcement is crucial to ensuring that workers—particularly women, immigrants, and BIPOC workers—benefit from legislation that is intended to raise labor standards. Lawmakers must ensure that state labor agencies have the tools and resources that they need to successfully enforce worker protection laws.| State Innovation Exchange
Authors: Tobias Alexander Franke and Royal O'Brien Most listeners know that Huawei isn’t just a mobile phone company. But many might not realize that it runs a global network of research institutes that are working on optimizing engine development. Tobias Alexander Franke, principal game engine architect at Huawei, talks with Royal about why the company prefers working with open source 3D engines over commercial 3D engines. Highlighting the benefits of different perspectives, he believes op...| Tobias Alexander Franke
Authors: Tobias Alexander Franke and Sandra O'Connell I have been interviewed by the Irish Times on the topic of the Metaverse, what it is, why one would be interested in it, the big problem it is supposed to solve and how it will affect our lives. In this interview, I give a sober analysis of the Metaverse, and my goal is to cut out the hype. Links: Irish Times Article Wayback Machine Archive| Tobias Alexander Franke
Authors: Tobias Alexander Franke Cloud-based gaming services have seen varying success in practice. Where-as multiplayer games feature a wide variety of aspects which are hosted remotely, most games today run exclusively on one device and require the customer to adapt to new hardware requirements in regular cycles, usually tied to the current console generation. Streaming-based gaming services have in contrast failed so far, underestimating technological challenges as well as selling to the w...| Tobias Alexander Franke
Authors: Tobias Alexander Franke Implementing global illumination for games at scale (on mobile devices and up to high end PCs) is a hard problem. O3DE currently uses DDGI as a solution to provide both baked and real-time global illumination. However several key issues need to be addressed before this system is ready for production. In this talk I want to address those issues: Scalability and streaming Authoring with small or thin objects Probe aliasing Volume overlaps and blending Baking lar...| Tobias Alexander Franke
Authors: Veselin Efremov et al. and Tobias Alexander Franke The Heretic is a short film created by Unity’s Demo team. After debuting its first part at GDC 2019, the completed short is now available to watch in its entirety. The Unity Demo team’s mission is to push the boundaries of what is visually possible with Unity. With The Heretic, the team used every aspect of Unity’s High Definition Rendering Pipeline, created advanced effects with the VFX Graph, and undertook the challenge of cr...| Tobias Alexander Franke
It’s the first day of 2023 here at Binomica Labs – hopefully everyone’s had a wonderful and safe New Year’s eve, and congratulations for making it through yet another interesting year. We wrapped up 2022 soft launching a call for submission to our publication, Willowlands – you can read the full announcement here: I received… Continue reading Ringing in 2023 at Binomica Labs| Small Thoughtful Science
We’re two days away from wrapping up an interesting, and perhaps a little tumultuous year 2022. And what a year it has been. | Small Thoughtful Science
Failing Our Youngest: On the Biases, Pitfalls, and Risks in a Decision Support Algorithm Used for Child Protection, by T.M. Hansen, R. Sinatra, and V. Sekara, published at FAccT’24| NEtwoRks, Data, and Society (NERDS)
In recent years, state legislatures have been the focus of a national operation to repeal laws that protect young people’s health, safety, and educational rights. The campaign to drag labor protections back in time to the 19th century is part of a sweeping, multi-issue effort to further concentrate corporate power, undermine worker rights, and dismantle government regulation, all while cementing wealth inequality by stratifying access to public education and tearing down anti-poverty programs.| State Innovation Exchange
Hi everyone, I thought I’d give you an update on how things are going in the tortured poets department. Stepping away from Substack -was it a good idea? You may remember I took the decision last mo…| Kathryn Anna Marshall
