I loved our inflatable SPARC (the tokamak we're building now to demonstrate net fusion energy and pave the way for our ARC fusion power plants). This was at an inspiring (for me at least) Commonwealth Fusion Systems all-hands meeting. The inflatable incarnation of SPARC was fun, but our work on the actual SPARC is very real. #FusionEnergy #Science
Ulrike Hahn
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Boffins warn that #AI#papermills are swamping #science with garbage studies
The team from University of Surrey notes an "explosion of formulaic research articles," including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries, based on data cribbed from the #US#NHANES nationwide health database.
The study, published in PLOS Biology, a nonprofit publisher of open-access journals, found that many post-2021 papers used "a superficial and oversimplified approach to analysis."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/ai_junk_science_papers/
Feral Aunt Nessie :v_bi:
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pirategoddess 🏳️🌈
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The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.
maco
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Me: my superpower is I always get free food when I least expect it
Orcas:
Screenshot of the story. Text reads: ‘in each of the instances recorded over two decades, orcas approached a person within a length of the orca's body, and dropped freshly-hunted prey in front of the human, then waited for a response, according to a paper reporting the behavior published Monday in the Journal of Comparative Psychology.
Orcas of every age tried to share their prey, and just about everything was on the menu: sea otter, harbor seal, common murre, gray whale, green turtle, eagle ray, starfish, jellyfish, on and on.‘
Screenshot of a story showing that orcas try to give their food to people
Headline says ‘These orcas have been trying to feed people, new research shows’
bhaugen
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Mitochondria don’t just power your cells, they also help your immune system detect and trap bacteria.
Here’s the cool #science behind how they sense infections and what that might mean for treating #autoimmune disease and boosting immunity:
ProPublica
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The FDA allowed into the United States at least 150 drugs or their ingredients made at banned factories that were found to have mold, foul water, dirty labs or fraudulent testing protocols.
Key takeaways of our investigation:
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drug-safety-foreign-manufacturers-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Tim Chambers
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In some of the most remote places on Earth, tags attached to seals collect data in near real-time to help advance ocean science.
https://theconversation.com/tagging-seals-with-sensors-helps-scientists-track-ocean-currents-and-a-changing-climate-234242
#science #animals
South Florida meteorologist John Morales told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.