The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of LLMs

https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

#HackerNews #assistant #axis #LLMs #AI #research #character #stability #Anthropic

Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry

https://www.science.org/content/article/nearly-third-social-media-research-has-undisclosed-ties-industry-preprint-claims

#HackerNews #socialmedia #research #industry #ties #transparency #ethics

Patterns of change along the northern California coast including Redwood National and State Parks. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023JF007135 and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #sun #winter Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #california #redwood #colors #landscapephotography #driftwood #coast #ocean #research #sediment #morphodynamic #tide

The unreasonable effectiveness of pattern matching

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11432

#HackerNews #unreasonableeffectiveness #patternmatching #machinelearning #datascience #arxiv #research

Patterns of change along the northern California coast including Redwood National and State Parks. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023JF007135 and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #sun #winter Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #california #redwood #colors #landscapephotography #driftwood #coast #ocean #research #sediment #morphodynamic #tide

The Microstructure of Wealth Transfer in Prediction Markets

https://www.jbecker.dev/research/prediction-market-microstructure

#HackerNews #Microstructure #Wealth #Transfer #PredictionMarkets #Research

The race to build the Deepseek of Europe is on.

As the relationship between the US and its European allies shows signs of strain, Europe's push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260119-the-race-to-build-the-deepseek-of-europe-is-on?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Europe #DigitalSovereignty #AI #LargeLanguageModels #Deepseek #Business #MagicsTechnologies #SOOFI #OpenSource #Science #Research #Tech

Open Science NL awards over 35 million in grants to 45 projects that strengthen the infrastructure for open science in the Netherlands.

The projects make scientific data, software and publications more accessible and contribute to more public, transparent and inclusive research. We are contributing to 6 projects.

Read more: https://www.surf.nl/en/news/open-science-in-the-netherlands-receives-a-major-boost-thanks-to-funding-for-45-projects?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-01-social&utm_kwd=open-science-in-the-netherlands-receives-a-major-boost-thanks-to-funding-for-45-projects&utm_source=mastodon&utm_content=onderzoek

#research #openscience

Open Science NL awards over 35 million in grants to 45 projects that strengthen the infrastructure for open science in the Netherlands.

The projects make scientific data, software and publications more accessible and contribute to more public, transparent and inclusive research. We are contributing to 6 projects.

Read more: https://www.surf.nl/en/news/open-science-in-the-netherlands-receives-a-major-boost-thanks-to-funding-for-45-projects?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-01-social&utm_kwd=open-science-in-the-netherlands-receives-a-major-boost-thanks-to-funding-for-45-projects&utm_source=mastodon&utm_content=onderzoek

#research #openscience

Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer

https://www.tuned.org.uk/posts/013_the_topological_transformer_training_tauformer

#HackerNews #Starting #from #scratch: #Training #a #30M #Topological #Transformer

topologicaltransformer #training #machinelearning #AI #research #deeplearning

Little bit of #accademic advertisement "between the years".

Everyone looking into doing a PhD in Earth System Sciences or Biogeochemistry in Germany should look at the open positions of my former graduate school in Jena, German. I can highly recommend them. (Don't know every researcher involved, but feel free to contact me for questions about the school itself.)

#research #phd #phdposition #germany #Earth #EarthSystemScience #biogeochemistry

https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/en/imprs/open-projects

Anyone at #UCL or Port Authority #London tell me about this cute science robot boat-car that was pootling around Surrey Docks earlier today?
Enjoyed watching it on my bike ride.
#science #research #Thames #surreyDocks #Rotherhithe #SouthEastLondon

🧠 Researchers Discover Molecular Difference in Autistic Brains

｢ a new study in The American Journal of Psychiatry has found that brains of autistic people have fewer of a specific kind of receptor for glutamate, the most common excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain. The reduced availability of these receptors may be associated with various characteristics linked to autism ｣

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/molecular-difference-in-autistic-brains/

#autism #science #research

🧠 Researchers Discover Molecular Difference in Autistic Brains

｢ a new study in The American Journal of Psychiatry has found that brains of autistic people have fewer of a specific kind of receptor for glutamate, the most common excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain. The reduced availability of these receptors may be associated with various characteristics linked to autism ｣

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/molecular-difference-in-autistic-brains/

#autism #science #research

Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With
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The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sent to national security experts at the agency.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usda-foreign-scientists?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USDA #Science #Research #Academia #USPolitics #Trump

Primecoin and Cunningham Prime Chains

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/01/10/prime-chains/

#HackerNews #Primecoin #CunninghamPrimeChains #Cryptocurrency #Research #MathInnovation

Procurement Before Prestige: How audit rules and public #infrastructure could break #science’s #publishing monopolies.

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/procurement-before-prestige/

An English version of my post in German for the Verfassungsblog:

https://verfassungsblog.de/rechnungshof-statt-redaktionsschluss/

#academicchatter #research

Greenland sharks can live 400+ years — and they aren’t blind after all. New research shows their vision genes and eye tissue stay intact for more than a century, even in the ocean’s dim twilight zone where they live.

Adapted for low light, their eyes may help locate prey — and could even offer clues for preserving human vision over the long term.

by Bobby Bascomb
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/greenland-sharks-retain-functional-vision-despite-extreme-longevity/

#news #arcticanimals #marineanimals #ocean #research #science #sharks