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#Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. med. #Cornelius #Borck: "A picture history of #consciousness"

This great "#power of #images" and the accompanying change in #scientific #discourse were reason enough for us to get to the bottom of this #phenomenon in the #history of #science in a conversation with Professor Borck. Therefore, here is the questionnaire for the interview.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

or: youtu.be/qhY9XNpQQzo

A #US judge extended an order on Friday blocking #Trump's admin from slashing #grant funding for #scientific #research that could devastate the budgets of thousands of universities & research institutions while she considers whether the National Institutes of #Health's new policy is #unlawful.

#law #NIH #DOGE #ElonMusk #PublicHealth #science #medicine #disease
reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-

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@silentexception of course I understand #GenAI and #quantumcomputing are not the same but #Microsoft is trying to sell both in the same manner by making unfounded claims about usefulness, efficiency, etc. and trying to debunk #scientific fact. It is all #marketing and #altenatefacts that are driving the world rught now and that is becoming a #criminal pattern. We need CEOs (and presidents for that matter) to be made liable and face severe penalties for misleading the consumer (ie. civilians) imo

#Pioneering female #Chinese #American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, who worked with Robert #Oppenheimer on the #ManhattanProject, was also the first to confirm #QuantumEntanglement – just 14 years after Albert #Einstein questioned the phenomenon. The largely forgotten achievement was included in a profile of Wu, one of the most influential experimental physicists of the 20th century, published in the December 2024 issue of Physics Today.

Wu is also believed to have been the only Chinese scientist involved in the Manhattan Project, the World War II initiative to develop an #AtomicBomb led by Oppenheimer, who affectionately referred to her as Jiejie, which means elder sister, the article said.

Wu’s experiment – detailed in a paper published in 1950 – was conducted before the #scientific community had fully grasped the significance of quantum entanglement, the article noted.

amp.scmp.com/news/china/scienc

South China Morning Post · Quantum entanglement theory first proved by Chinese woman in 1949Chien-Shiung Wu’s trailblazing but largely forgotten achievement features in a recent profile of the influential physicist.

Nazi's Forbidden Words

#Scientists who receive NSF funding were already put on notice last week to cease any activities that do not comply with the executive orders. ‘In particular, this may include, but is not limited to conferences, trainings, workshops, considerations for staffing and participant selection, and any other grant activity that uses or promotes the use of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility DEIA principles and frameworks or violates federal anti-discrimination laws,’ a message to investigators said “NSF grants that are flagged for ‘further action’ because they don’t comply with the executive orders subject to a range of additional steps, including modification to be in compliance or being terminated in part or whole.

NSF a $9 billion agency funds #scientific research across the globe projects that advance scientific discovery & have intellectual merit, also required to have ‘broader impacts’ on society broadening participation in science among underrepresented groups of people”

doi.orgTowards quantitative reconstruction of past monsoon precipitation based on tetraether membrane lipids in Chinese loessAbstract. Variations in the oxygen isotope composition (δ18O) of cave speleothems and numerous proxy records from loess–paleosol sequences have revealed past variations in East Asian monsoon (EAM) intensity. However, challenges persist in reconstructing precipitation changes quantitatively. Here, we use the positive relationship between the degree of cyclization (DC) of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) in modern surface soils from the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) and mean annual precipitation (MAP) to quantify past monsoon precipitation changes on the CLP. We present a new ∼ 130 000-year-long DC-based MAP record for the Yuanbao section on the western edge of the CLP, which closely tracks the orbital- and millennial-scale variations in available records of both speleothem δ18O and the hydrogen isotope composition of plant waxes (δ2Hwax) from the same section. Combing our new data with existing brGDGT records from other CLP sites reveals a spatial gradient in MAP that is most pronounced during glacials, when the western CLP experiences more arid conditions and receives up to ∼ 250 mm less precipitation than in the southeast, whereas MAP is ∼ 850 mm across the CLP during the Holocene optimum. Furthermore, the DC records show that precipitation amount on the CLP varies at both the precession scale and the obliquity scale, as opposed to the primarily precession-scale variations in speleothem δ18O and δ2Hwax at Yuanbao and the 100 kyr cycle in other loess proxies, such as magnetic susceptibility, which rather indicates the relative intensity of the EAM. At the precession scale, the DC record is in phase with δ2Hwax from the same section and the speleothem δ18O record, which supports the hypothesis that monsoon precipitation is driven by Northern Hemisphere summer insolation.

It is cruel and at the same time incredibly stupid how the (partly facist) tech bro & fossil fuel oligarchy in the #US is now cutting #scientific #research #funding, according to this thread:
mastodon.social/@Lazarou/11394
It shows a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be withdrawn, and how you cannot do #science with human participants without using words from that list. We need #academic #freedom to tackle the problems of today and the future!

MastodonLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (@Lazarou@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image These the words now forbidden in the Free Speech United States of Academic Freedom..... Thread 1/5

An excellent piece by @MarcusduSautoy on the “national miscalculation” by the government following its recent decisions to reduce or cancel important initiatives and programmes for #Maths.

If we continue on this course, the UK is in serious danger of crippling its #scientific community, after which its #economy will rapid follow. We cannot be an economic or AI “powerhouse” without #maths.

💰 ft.com/content/4ed64525-95b4-4

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@podo indeed.

I'm all for the #scientific method. But I was just thinking how this chocolate headline in #TheGuardian gives like an armchair reassuring voice of interesting #science work.. that still has one or two decades to go before it seeps its way into actual practice in #society.

And that seeping follows the influences of #hypercapitalism. In one or two decades #fascism might have long been the only still known newspeak for how fast mad tech disruptions increase overall skynet potential.

What the Hell Is Going on at #NIH?
#Scientists sound the alarm about #Trump unprecedented “Big Brother” research #crackdown. “pause” goes beyond grant reviews - part of larger #blackout on #research at #NIH, across federal govt. Trump admin paused all external comms—”health advisories, weekly #scientific reports, updates to websites, social media posts” at #HHS, which includes the NIH, #FDA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (#CDC). motherjones.com/politics/2025/ #medicine #healthcare

Mother JonesWhat the Hell Is Going on at NIH?Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.