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  “If I am fed up, I find ways to move on.” That attitude has taken Carolina Deluca from working in experimental particle physics to starting a business to teaching middle and high school physics. “I am not scared of change,” she says. #academicjobs #careerchange https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/43650?utm_source=Physics%20Today&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=14660653_NQ%20-%209-13%20Sept&utm_content=TWIP&dm_i=1Y69,8Q88D,DYSBZ6,109IQZ,1

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  Pakistan has seen 10% drop in electricity prices, which typically indicate weak demand, and yet GDP has risen 2% in the same timeframe. How and why? It's because Pakistan is now the third-largest importer of Chinese solar panels. 13GW in the first six months of 2024 alone. Pretty astonishing as the country’s entire "official" electricity generating capacity is only 46GW. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-09/pakistan-sees-solar-boom-as-chinese-imports-...

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  Interested in #AI and #ScholarlyPublishing? Are you in the DC area? Then join us for a discussion (and happy hour!) on this topic on Wednesday, October 23, 2024 5:00 - 8:00 pm ET. American Psychiatric Association. Must register to attend. https://customer.sspnet.org/ssp/EventDisplayNPGF.aspx?EventKey=REDC241023

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  Oh dear. "The first thing people saw when they searched Google for the artist Hieronymus Bosch was an AI-generated version of his Garden of Earthly Delights, one of the most famous paintings in art history." #AI https://www.404media.co/google-serves-ai-slop-as-top-result-for-one-of-the-most-famous-paintings-in-history/

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  Community thoughts on the latest lawsuit against publishers. There's a lot of questions regarding contradictory arguments and inaccurate statements. The bit most popularly highlighted being that publishers conspired to keep peer review costs at zero. #ScholarlyPublishing #academia https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/09/18/ask-the-community-thoughts-on-a-class-action-lawsuit-brought-against-scholarly-publishers/

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  Getting on policymakers’ radar and building trust with government officials can be a challenge, but in a world that is facing so many challenges like #climatechange that require scientific advice, science-policy advisers are needed now more than ever. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03040-x?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=6a35fcea6d-nature-briefing-daily-20240919&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-6a35fcea6d-50179668

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  Ken MacLeod's book 'Beyond the Hallowed Sky' along with Scotland building a spaceship disguised as a submarine, as a human replica who freely admits that he has no consciousness or sentience. Something to think about as you read this essay. #AI https://www.noemamag.com/the-danger-of-superhuman-ai-is-not-what-you-think/

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  CERN, Europe’s particle-physics lab, will end its collaboration with the Russian Federation on 30 November because of the invasion of Ukraine. The split means the loss of millions in funding and hundreds of scientists affiliated with Russian institutes. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02982-6?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=51e830af12-nature-briefing-daily-20240920&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-51e830af12-50179668

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  Before you get your hopes up "The ideas were blind evaluated by reviewers, who scored #AI-generated concepts as more exciting, but slightly less feasible, than those from people." Which means the people didn't submit ideas that wouldn't work. #artificialintelligence https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03070-5?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=1ffdbc77b3-nature-briefing-daily-20240923&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-1ffd...

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  “The [AI] market is crazy right now. Seventy per cent of Series A [early-stage start-up] investment is coming from the hyperscalers, and the majority of that goes back to the hyperscalers,” she says, referring to cloud companies Microsoft, Google and Amazon. “It’s like a Potemkin market, it’s not a real market.” #artificialintelligence https://www.ft.com/content/799b4fcf-2cf7-41d2-81b4-10d9ecdd83f6

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  An analysis of 400K researchers papers in Scopus shows that a third of researchers quit science within five years of authoring their first paper and almost half leave within a decade. Women were more likely than men to stop publishing, though this varied between disciplines. #AcademicChatter #Academia https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03222-7?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=d712154d5f-nature-briefing-daily-20241008&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-d7...

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  Which is the least-worst form of #democracy? This year roughly two billion voters will go to the polls, a real life experiment for political scientists to find out. The big question of course, is whether some approaches are more likely to promote democratic resilience? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03258-9?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=d712154d5f-nature-briefing-daily-20241008&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-d712154d5f-50179668

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  James Muldoon questions the safety of AI companions for lonely, vulnerable users — particularly after the founder behind Replika AI admitted she was inspired by an episode of dystopian TV series Black Mirror. Its odd how what were warnings are taken as 'features' https://theconversation.com/sex-machina-in-the-wild-west-world-of-human-ai-relationships-the-lonely-and-vulnerable-are-most-at-risk-239783

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  The Royal Society has unsealed more than 1,600 peer review reports dating from 1949 to 1954, including Dorothy Hodgkin’s review of Watson and Crick’s manuscript of the structure of DNA and warring comments from two reviewers on a 1951 paper by Alan Turing #Academia #ScholarlyPublishing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03287-4?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=2833530517-nature-briefing-daily-20241016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-2833530517-501796...

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  "I’m torn. Both Galadriel and Sauron say the other is a threat to Middle-earth. One has to be wrong, so whom am I to trust? Should I trust the Dark Lord who attempted to topple the White City of Gondor, dominate all life, and attempt to stay in power for eternity? Or do I trust the Elf Queen representing the coalition of Men and Elves who defeated Sauron when he tried to enslave the Free Peoples… but could maybe do more meet-and-greets?" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

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  "Various animal species can make a priori decisions about the passability of openings, based on their own size knowledge. So far no one has tested the ability for self-representation in cats." Inspiration must be from his cat. Where did it crawl into? https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)02024-8

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  "Our findings reveal that Wikipedia relies on open access articles at a higher overall rate (44.1%) compared to their availability in the Web of Science (23.6%) and OpenAlex (22.6%)." They also get scraped more. #ScholarlyPublishing https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-024-05163-4