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Palm Oil Detectives @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
· 3d ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
#Research study finds that stronger #rainforest 🍃 protection means lower air #pollution particulate matter in the 💐 #Amazon resulting in saving an estimated 680 human lives each year. Resist when you shop, be #vegan and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-9bw?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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Palm Oil Detectives @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
· 5d ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
🕊️ #News: Fascinating #research finds #song #birds 🦉🦅🐦 communicate mid-flight with other species, possibly sharing navigation tips. This challenges the view of solitary migration. #Bird #communication #Animals #Migration #Avian Protect them and #BoycottPalmOil 🌴💩🔥❌ @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-9OK?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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Palm Oil Detectives @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
· 1w ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
#Research: Along with the dramatic effects of #palmoil cultivation on #biodiversity in #Asia, reconciling a large-scale #oilpalm growth in #Africa with #primate #conservation will be a great challenge #Boycottpalmoil 🌴⛔️#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/02/03/research-small-room-for-compromise-between-oil-palm-cultivation-and-primate-conservation-in-africa/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
No room for primates and palm oil expansion in Africa Palm Oil Detectives
Palm Oil Detectives

No room for primates and palm oil expansion in Africa Palm Oil Detectives

Research shows that future palm oil expansion is a major threat to Africa's tropical forests and their rich primate biodiversity, Fight back boycott palm oil!

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Andy Baker @Andbaker@aus.social
· 1w ago
Boosted by @kcarruthers@infosec.exchange
Come and work at UNSW in Sydney, Australia! We have a 2-year Research Associate position for a groundwater recharge modeller to join the Laureate Fellowship project ‘Caves and their stalagmites: linking climate to groundwater recharge’. The successful applicant will develop their research expertise through their contribution to a work package led by myself and Andreas Hartmann (TU Dresden) that will use groundwater recharge model simulations to investigate the climate processes that lead to relationships between climate and environmental change and groundwater recharge. The work involves integrating fire events into a global karst recharge model, investigating effects of wildfire on recharge volumes for the Black Summer fires, the last 100 yrs; and for future climates and environment change. For further details, please see: https://external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/543339/research-associate #academia #groundwater #UNSW ##academicjobs #research
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Palm Oil Detectives @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
· 1w ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
#News: #Bushmeat markets ARE the global #wildlife trafficking network! 🦔🌍 DNA #research proves pangolins sold in #Cameroon and #Asia come from SAME forests as those exported for scales. #BanWildlifeTrade #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/07/pangolin-dna-study-links-local-wild-meat-markets-to-global-trafficking-networks/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
Pangolin DNA study links local wild meat markets to global trafficking networks
Conservation news

Pangolin DNA study links local wild meat markets to global trafficking networks

Pangolin scales and other body parts trafficked internationally appear to come from the same areas that supply the animals for local wild meat markets, a new study has found. It created a DNA database and location-prediction model for three threatened species: the white-bellied (Phataginus tricuspis), Sunda (Manis javanica) and Chinese (Manis pentadactyla) pangolins. Pangolins are […]

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RJT @many@subconscioussignature.earth
· 1w ago
Boosted by @welcome@friends.deko.cloud
#introduction Independent #research in the #humanities. Writing #poetry. I've lived w/ #disability my entire adult life. Went from #poverty to grad school. Former Myanmar refugee activist/organizer. Hope in #community #degrowth concerned w/ #localism, #equity, #nonviolence, & #openAccess to liberate #academia. Writing on #education reform, #trauma, #ConflictResolution, #sociology, #ViolenceStudies, #ableism & #feminist #theology. @writingcommunity@fedigroups.social @poetry@fedigroups.social @violencestudies@fedigroups.social #introductions
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Bruce Mirken @BruceMirken@mas.to
· 1w ago
"The #NIH has made possible cure after cure for generations, and without it, I might not be alive today. That's why recent news of a potential deal to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars from the NIH to the Department of Defense -- an agency that already has a budget 20 times that of the NIH -- is so chilling. This comes on top of nearly 2 years of NIH funding cuts and workforce reductions, along with repeated attempts to politicize grant determinations. From 2025 to 2026, the NIH reduced the number of new #research grants it funded by almost 25%." https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/123130 #science #cancer
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EarthClimate @earthclimate@mastodon.social
· 1w ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide. Conservative organizations are filing open records requests by the dozens..demanding emails, research drafts, correspondence with law firms and other documents from academics studying #climatechange Targets and their allies say it’s all an effort to undermine the role climate #research is playing in litigation against U.S. #fossilfuel companies https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/28/climate-science-conservative-documents-universities-01065669
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Quanta Magazine @quanta@robot.villas
· 1w ago
Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-harness-randomness-to-crack-a-55-year-old-conjecture-20260928/ #Mathematics #Science #Research
Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture | Quanta Magazine
Quanta Magazine

Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture | Quanta Magazine

After a long hiatus, the problem, which was likely inspired by juggling, has finally been resolved by a group of young mathematicians.

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PsychoticSheep @sheepfreak@pixelfed.social
· 1w ago
Today we travel back to 1972 and run MYCIN, one of the first expert systems, on the Pentium 1. MYCIN was developed at Stanford University in the early 1970s to diagnose bacterial infections and recommend antibiotics. In 1979, it achieved a 90.9% agreement rate with Stanford experts. The system was built around roughly 450 production rules, each representing clinical decision criteria from infectious disease experts. So I got the code, installed CLISP on the Pentium 1 and started the consultation. There was one small compatibility issue: Peter Norvig's implementation uses two functions not defined in modern CLISP, requires and rest2. A short shim file fixed that and the inference engine came to life. The version available today is only a fragment of the original MYCIN. The implementation from Peter Norvig's book "Paradigms of AI Programming" contains the inference engine and just 6 rules for identifying organisms. The remaining rules for therapy, dosage and patient-specific recommendations are gone. The original MYCIN was written in Interlisp for a DEC PDP-10 running WAITS. It was never released as open source. What survives today is essentially the shell of the system, not the knowledge it contained. MYCIN is a monument to AI history. The way its source code was handled is both a memorial and a warning. ELIZA (1966) survived because Weizenbaum published the code. CLIPS (1985) survived because NASA released it as open source. MYCIN (1972) did not. Publicly funded research. Publicly funded code. Never released to the public. This is why publicly funded research should be open source. Always! #MYCIN #AIHistory #ExpertSystems #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Stanford #Lisp #CLISP #NetBSD #Pentium1 #Pentium #Pentium166 #RetroComputing #vintagecomputing #OpenSource #FOSS #OpenScience #PubliclyFundedResearch #ComputerHistory #Science #Research #AcademicChatter
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Petrichor ᚄᚔᚅᚐᚁᚆᚃᚒᚔᚂ @sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
· 1w ago
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@nemorosa@mastodon.nu I definitely couldn’t. When I started research on a book about 1916 I spent hours getting my grandparents’ and a couple of others’ birth, marriage and death certificates. With the internet (and Irish government generosity) I now have thousands. If I were in other countries not so, though - they monetise these records #research #internet
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NPR Topics: National @npr_national@robot.villas
· 1w ago
Welcome to the 'Wild West' of AI in schools: Research is scarce, but experiments abound https://www.npr.org/2026/09/28/nx-s1-5759718/ai-schools-experiment-research #AI #Education #Research
Welcome to the 'Wild West' of AI in schools: Research is scarce, but experiments abound
NPR

Welcome to the 'Wild West' of AI in schools: Research is scarce, but experiments abound

Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social
· 1w ago
💰 arXiv receives Multiyear Philanthropic Commitments to Support Its Launch as an Independent Nonprofit https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/ #arxiv #science #research
arXiv receives Multiyear Philanthropic Commitments to Support Its Launch as an Independent Nonprofit
News from arXiv

arXiv receives Multiyear Philanthropic Commitments to Support Its Launch as an Independent Nonprofit

arXiv is pleased to announce that three leading philanthropic organizations have provided multimillion-dollar support for arXiv. These new multiyear…

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Daniel Lemire @daniel_lemire@robot.villas
· 1w ago
A thesis isn't enough for a PhD https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/26/a-thesis-isnt-enough-for-a-phd/ #Academics #Research #PhD
A thesis isn’t enough for a PhD
Daniel Lemire's blog

A thesis isn’t enough for a PhD

To get a PhD, you typically have to enroll in a graduate program. Then you complete a few relatively easy courses.   You might need to pass a comprehensive examination that checks whether you have a basic understanding of the field. A few students fail at this point, but not many.Then you write a thesis … Continue reading A thesis isn’t enough for a PhD

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Palm Oil Detectives @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
· 2w ago
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
#News: 🐻🌿 Protecting #Peru’s grasslands vital for #vulnerable Spectacled #bear. #Research finds bears prefer foraging areas with negative impact of #meat #soy and #palmoil agriculture. #BoycottMeat #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🥩⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk https://wp.me/pcFhgU-9OQ?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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SNeela @vmcall@infosec.exchange
· 1w ago
ALRIGHT! I'm VERY excited to announce this research, because we've been holding onto it for close to a year now! Announcing File Notification Attacks! Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on #Linux, #Android, #Windows, and #macOS We've found decades-old bugs on Linux, Android, and Windows... well technically Microsoft considers what we found an ✨ undocumented feature ✨ (got Microsoft nominated for the lamest vendor response #pwnie award haha). There's SO much to talk about, so please expand this thread below, but you can also check it out yourself at: https://inoti.fyi/ There's a #noAI logo that my sister drew there. Our work was accepted at #CCS 2026, and I'll be presenting it this November at The Hague, Netherlands! If you're there, we should totally meet up :D Thanks to my AWESOME co-authors: Xufan Zhao, Jeanette Angelika Wultsch, @hweissi@infosec.exchange, Florian Draschbacher, @notbobbytables@infosec.exchange, and @lavados@infosec.exchange 🙏, all of us from @isec_tugraz@infosec.exchange, TU Graz #security #cybersecurity #research #systems
File Notification Attacks
File Notification Attacks

File Notification Attacks

Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS. Accepted at The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 15-19, 2026 — The Hague, Netherlands File-notification systems tell applications when files change, e.g., opened, closed, written, deleted. With only read permission on a file or directory, an attacker can watch these notifications and reconstruct user behavior. We find generic issues similar on each of Linux, Android

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