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Tanguy Fardet

@tfardet@scicomm.xyz · yesterday

Quick question for the #AcademicFedi: I was recently reminded that I have a #ResearchGate account that I haven't updated in such a long time that I was still supposed to be doing a postdoc in Germany...
So I try to log in, discover that it's using my old German address, switch to the backup address, log in, update the affiliation, and then think "wait, but why am I keeping this"?

So I ask you: is there any good reason why I should not delete this account?

Opinion or boosts welcome 😉

#academia #research

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · yesterday

Meta Segment Anything Model 3

https://ai.meta.com/sam3/

#HackerNews #Meta #Segment #Anything #Model #3 #AI #Innovation #Technology #Research #MachineLearning

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · yesterday

Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Video Use

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-89350-001.html

#HackerNews #CognitiveHealth #MentalHealth #ShortFormVideo #Research #Study #VideoUse

JabRef

@jabref@foojay.social · yesterday

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Help make JabRef more accessible for researchers speaking other languages.

You can easily translate it via Crowdin using this link:
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A big thanks to the volunteer translator for French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.

#academia #translation #research #JabRef #mutilingual #collaboration #localization
#i18n #l10n

Crossref

@crossref@mastodon.online · yesterday

#Funders: get more from your grant data. Join our webinar to learn how funding info can support #openscience, track compliance, and give a clearer view of your #research portfolio. https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/1617616658193/WN_AjrIMeLESHOdNo3s69bMNw

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: What happens after the grant? Turning funding data into real insight. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join Crossref for a webinar designed for funding organisations curious about how to maximise the impact and visibility of their research funding. Research funders hold extensive data about the research they fund, but this data is often not leveraged to its full potential. In this session, we’ll cover how funding information can help you meet open science commitments and track compliance with your funding policies. We will also cover how connecting your funding information to research outputs through Crossref creates a clearer picture of your organisation’s research portfolio, transforming research information into assets that support strategic decision-making and help monitor compliance with funding policies. Whether you're managing grant reporting, tracking open access and open science policy compliance, or building evidence for your next strategic review, this webinar will equip you with practical solutions to make your metadata work smarter. This session is for research funders who are new to Crossref’s Grant Linking System, those familiar with funding metadata but have not yet engaged with Crossref, and existing members who have not started or are only partially registering their grants. There is no cost to attend, but registration is required.

webinar: what happens after the grant? Turning funding data into real insight. 25 NOV 3 PM UTC.

Tanguy Fardet

@tfardet@scicomm.xyz · yesterday

So I ask you: is there any good reason why I should not delete this account?

Opinion or boosts welcome 😉

#academia #research

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

What nicotine does to your brain

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/09/12/what-nicotine-does-to-your-brain

#HackerNews #nicotine #brain #research #health #science #technology

Crossref

@crossref@mastodon.online · 2 days ago

Working with OJS? Join our session on improving your metadata quality. Learn how to configure the OJS plug-in, deposit metadata correctly, and troubleshoot common challenges. https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/2917633902091/WN_ixm9QC2XQkicUAK3XZLXSA
#metadata #research #funders #librarians #community

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09030

#HackerNews #Solving #LLM #Task #Errors #AI #Research #MachineLearning #Innovation

arXiv.org

Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors

LLMs have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in reasoning, insights, and tool use, but chaining these abilities into extended processes at the scale of those routinely executed by humans, organizations, and societies has remained out of reach. The models have a persistent error rate that prevents scale-up: for instance, recent experiments in the Towers of Hanoi benchmark domain showed that the process inevitably becomes derailed after at most a few hundred steps. Thus, although LLM research is often still benchmarked on tasks with relatively few dependent logical steps, there is increasing attention on the ability (or inability) of LLMs to perform long range tasks. This paper describes MAKER, the first system that successfully solves a task with over one million LLM steps with zero errors, and, in principle, scales far beyond this level. The approach relies on an extreme decomposition of a task into subtasks, each of which can be tackled by focused microagents. The high level of modularity resulting from the decomposition allows error correction to be applied at each step through an efficient multi-agent voting scheme. This combination of extreme decomposition and error correction makes scaling possible. Thus, the results suggest that instead of relying on continual improvement of current LLMs, massively decomposed agentic processes (MDAPs) may provide a way to efficiently solve problems at the level of organizations and societies.

ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 2 days ago

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
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To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #BirdFlu #Pandemic #Health #PublicHealth #Agriculture

ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social replied · 2 days ago

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.

The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak. Here’s how we did.
https://www.propublica.org/article/methodology-bird-flu-outbreak-ohio-indiana?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Data #Research #Science #Health #PublicHealth #BirdFlu

UniversityofGroningenLibrary

@Bibliothecaris@social.edu.nl · 2 days ago

New @universityofgroningen #OpenAccess #publication in the spotlight:

➡️ Exploring concept creep: Youth’s portrayal of #ADHD on #TikTok

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100489

Read our interview with corresponding author Wietske de Vries:

🔗 https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/open-access-publication-in-the-spotlight-exploring-concept-creep-youth-s-portrayal-of-adhd-on-ti

#OpenScience #SocialSciences #Behavior #Algorithms #SocialMedia #Misinformation #MentalHealth #Research #PhD

Exploring concept creep: Youth’s portrayal of ADHD on TikTok

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟‍♂️

@waeiski@vis.social · 3 days ago

Come work with me as a project planner! You get to coordinate cutting-edge #research and #stakeholder interactions on using #VirtualReality in #UrbanPlanning focusing specifically on #mobility and #cycling.

So if you are based in #Helsinki, #Espoo, #Vantaa or anywhere nearby the Finnish capital region and looking for a #job #work #työpaikka, please apply!

https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Project-planner-to-The-Digital-Geography-Lab/1330862557/?feedId=350602

#VR #Research #Tiede #Tutkimus

Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟‍♂️

@waeiski@vis.social · 3 days ago

So if you are based in #Helsinki, #Espoo, #Vantaa or anywhere nearby the Finnish capital region and looking for a #job #work #työpaikka, please apply!

https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Project-planner-to-The-Digital-Geography-Lab/1330862557/?feedId=350602

#VR #Research #Tiede #Tutkimus

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 3 days ago

LeJEPA

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08544

#HackerNews #LeJEPA #LeJEPA2023 #arXiv #Research #Technology #Innovation

Mre. Dartigen [maker mode] and 2 others boosted

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@alice@lgbtqia.space · 3 days ago

Google's image-gen and editing apps *regularly* won't work on my photos if there's *any* hint of skin. Sometimes it will even reject editing simple (fully clothed) selfies of mine because it determines they're too risqué.

I tried this photo numerous times, getting rejected over and over, until it finally accepted it. Same photo. Same edits. Different results.

This reminds me of the research I did years ago on the racial, gender, and economic biases in the three main image-gen models (at the time). I showed statistically that each model associated women with domestic abuse victimhood, men with aggression & violence (specifically frat boys and Black men), racial minorities with poverty, and well-paid professions with white men.

Now we're seeing more sexist bias in *AI tools* that are being put into commonly-used software. This makes me want to run tests on image edit rejection in Google Photos with variously femme and masc-presenting images in different states of undress.

#Puritanical #Corporate #AI #BuiltInBias #Research

Original photo of Alice in a dino onesie, as seen in Google Photos' editor. There's a dialogue box over the middle of the photo saying "Can't complete this edit. Try a different edit."

A photo of Alice in an unzipped, cropped dino onesie. Their camo sports bra is showing. There are clothes and a dresser in the background.

An anime picture of Alice, wearing an unzipped cutoff dino onesie. Their camo sports bra is showing. There's a dresser and clothes in the background. It got almost all of the details right, including the actual camo pattern, the stickers on my phone, and my weird jewelry.

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Morpheus Being

@MorpheusB@aus.social · 3 days ago

#Health #SkinCancer #Agriculture #Research #Science

I wonder if similar research conducted in Australia.

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/skin-cancer-cluster-found-15-pennsylvania-counties-or-near-farmland