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Paul M. Harris

Hi all! I’m an MSc student at London University researching how people engage with AI-generated summaries for my dissertation.

I’d be very grateful if you could help by taking this short (~5 min), anonymous survey.
It collects no personal data and is purely for academic research.

👉forms.gle/BrK8yahh4Wa8fek17

Boosts greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!

Google DocsScholarly Summarisation Preferences SurveyPlease answer all of the following 9 questions in the sections below as truthfully and accurately as you can. Thank you.
#AcademicMastodon#Science#Research
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Stéphane Tuffier

How much does your research depends on closed source software or cloud services ?

This question is not trivial for us researcher, and we should think more about the implications of our usage of IT products.

Many alternative exits to the GAFAM services, and it might be a good time to try and choose Linux.

#Gafam #OpenSource #Linux #Research

tuffier.eu/posts/2025/07-01-ga

www.tuffier.euLiberty and independence as a researcher – Stéphane Tuffier
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jbz

🍄 Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words’, scientist claims • The Guardian

｢ To investigate, Prof Andrew Adamatzky at the University of the West of England’s unconventional computing laboratory in Bristol analysed the patterns of electrical spikes generated by four species of fungi – enoki, split gill, ghost and caterpillar fungi ｣

theguardian.com/science/2022/a

The Guardian · Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words’, scientist claimsBy Linda Geddes
#mushrooms#science#research
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SnowshadowII :maple:

🐟 🐙 👩‍🔬

As ocean acidification ramps up, experts call for speedy ocean protection

“This doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom in terms of all ocean life … dying,” says Bednarsek. Instead, the passing of the safe threshold for ocean acidification should be viewed as an “early warning” spurring us to act. “This sort of knowledge is absolutely critical. It’s not just … to be alarmist. It’s … so we can do something about this.”

#Ocean #FossilFuels #Climate
#Science #Research

news.mongabay.com/2025/06/as-o

Mongabay Environmental News · As ocean acidification ramps up, experts call for speedy ocean protectionOcean health is moving into a danger zone, with rampant human-caused carbon dioxide emissions having already pushed ocean acidification levels beyond safe limits in large swaths of the marine environment, according to a recent study. The new findings underline the urgent need to ramp up protection of the world’s oceans, while simultaneously slashing CO2 emissions, […]
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Here Is All the #Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With #Harvard
The money the government sends to Harvard is, in effect, not a subsidy to advance the university’s mission. It’s a payment for the role Harvard plays in advancing the #research mission of the #UnitedStates.
This is the science model the #US has developed over 80 years: The government sets the agenda and funds the work; #university #scientists design the studies and find the answers.
nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0

The New York Times · Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With HarvardBy Emily Badger
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petersuber

12/ I'm still tracking news on #Trump admin actions that affect #research, #universities, and #OpenAccess. But on May 7, 2025, I stopped tracking this news in long Mastodon threads and switched to tags instead.
fediscience.org/@petersuber/11

To follow this news on Mastodon, please follow one or both of these tags: #DefendResearch and #TrumpVResearch.

If you post on these topics yourself, please consider using the same tags, to help crowdsource this project.

#Academia #Censorship #Funding #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

FediScience.orgpetersuber (@petersuber@fediscience.org)𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱. I've been tracking the impact of #Trump actions on US research, primarily in this Mastodon thread. But the thread is becoming long and unwieldy, and this problem will only get worse. I'll continue to track this news but I want to stop doing it primarily in threads. Once I depend less on threads, I'll depend more on #tags to help readers find the posts in this collection. I already use #DefendResearch and will to continue to do so. It comes from the Declaration To Defend Research Against US Government Censorship. https://www.defendresearch.org/ But I want to supplement it with a more Trump-specific tag. After mulling over a few possibilities — like TrumpAdminOnResearch and ResearchUnderTrump — I've decided to go with #TrumpVResearch. Thanks to Alice Meadows and Suze Kundu for the suggestion. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/30/trump-v-research-how-we-could-turn-the-threats-into-opportunities/ I won't add this tag retroactively to (many) past posts. But going forward I'll use both #DefendResearch and #TrumpVResearch for posts in this collection. To follow these topics, consider following these tags. I encourage others to use these tags too, in posts on the same topics. It's one way to #crowdsource this tracking project. Here's more on this tracking project and the need to crowdsource it. https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114031943643988590 #USPol #USPolitics
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Rowan Brad Quni

If you've been following QFNO #research you'll already know the answers (to everything!):

42
(doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1571146)

...and...

m = ω
(doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1574974)

...and If you knew both, consider contributing to Autaxys and Autology, an #OpenAccess journal hosted by CERN (Zenodo). Help establish autaxys/autology as a necessary successor to #physics, with an interdisciplinary scope that can truly tackle cosmology:
zenodo.org/communities/autaxys

DM me for community invite or more info.

Zenodo42 Theses on the Nature of a Pattern-Based RealityThe prevailing materialist ontology, which posits the exclusive primacy of physical matter and energy as the foundational constituents of existence, has reached the limits of its explanatory power. It stands confronted by profound mysteries—the origin of its own laws, the fine-tuning of its constants, the non-local specter of quantum mechanics, and the enigmatic nature of consciousness—for which it offers no fundamental explanation, only brute-fact description or recourse to untestable multiverses. It is a philosophy of effects without a coherent cause. In its place, we advance a more fundamental proposition: the essential nature of reality resides not in inert substance, but in information, relation, and the self-organizing, computational process that governs them. We assert that the universe is not a collection of things, but a single, vast, self-generating, and self-observing computational process. The framework of Autaxys is the formal articulation of this truth. It is a generative, first-principles explanation for the emergence of all observed reality, driven by a single, foundational imperative: the principle of Ontological Closure. This document is the declaration of that framework. It is not a tentative hypothesis, but a direct challenge to the old paradigm. It is the assertion that physical materialism is an incomplete and derivative worldview, a shadow on the cave wall, whose phenomena are more fully, elegantly, and fundamentally explained as the expression of a dynamic, computational, and pattern-based reality.
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