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Selina La Barbera
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Publishing Director, Journals at EDP Sciences | #OpenScience| #OpenAccess | Mum x2 | Cycling | Scuba #Padi and #Lesmills enthusiast - My own views here
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📣 To all #Astronomers & #Astrophysics: we want to hear from you !

We've launched a 5-min survey to learn about your publishing needs: from #OpenAccess and #PeerReview to #AI.

🗓️ Open until 13 June 2025

📍 Results shared at the #EAS2025 meeting in Cork on 24 June

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A&A Survey on Trends and Challenges in Scientific Publishing
In the fast-changing landscape of scientific publishing, it is very important to us at A&A to understand the needs of the astronomical community, in order to serve it best in delivering the scientific...
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June 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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💡 Happy International Day of Light! 💡
Let’s celebrate the power of light in Science, Technology, and Society!

Explore the latest research in optics and photonics from journals:
📓 Photoniques
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📓 JEOS:RP
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May 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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And here is link to the paper rdcu.be/d7zTK Feedback is very welcome!
January 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Great start of the new year!
A new manuscript just published showing yet again how design principles and strategies from biological perceptive systems enable robust processing on analog #neuromorphic electronic systems, despite their variability!
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Recurrent models of orientation selectivity enable robust early-vision processing in mixed-signal neuromorphic hardware
Nature Communications - The authors present characterisations of highly-structured visual receptive fields of any phase symmetry, implemented in an event-based spiking neuromorphic processor. They...
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January 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Read-in and read-out of data limit the performance of
#optical #computing methods. This work introduces a
#multilayer #optoelectronic framework to implement matrix-vector multiplications and rectified linear functions experimentally. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturecomms.bsky.social
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December 19, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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Researchers report #artificial #fingerprints engraved via self-assembled #block-copolymer templating as nanoscale #PUFs, for #secure #authentication and #identification with high entropy and resilience to extreme temperatures.

Now out 👉@naturecomms.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Artificial fingerprints engraved through block-copolymers as nanoscale physical unclonable functions for authentication and identification - Nature Communications
Physical unclonable functions have been proposed to overcome limitations of current anti-counterfeiting technologies. Here, the authors report the development of nanoscale artificial fingerprints as p...
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December 11, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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‘A truly remarkable breakthrough’: Google’s new quantum chip achieves accuracy milestone

This nature news story describes the new work from Google Quantum AI and Collaborators just published in Nature 👇🏻

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‘A truly remarkable breakthrough’: Google’s new quantum chip achieves accuracy milestone
Error-correction feat shows quantum computers will get more accurate as they grow larger.
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December 10, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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An in situ #backpropagation analogue to train #mechanical #neuralnetworks locally and physically, enabling efficient and exact gradient-based training. The network achieves high accuracy in various #machinelearning tasks. Now out 👉 @naturecomms.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Training all-mechanical neural networks for task learning through in situ backpropagation - Nature Communications
Here, authors introduce an in situ backpropagation analogue to train mechanical neural networks locally and physically, enabling efficient and exact gradient-based training. The network achieves high ...
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December 10, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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Point #defects in #2D #semiconductors boost #neuromorphiccomputing: random telegraph noise in WSe2 transistors improves inference on #noisy #medical #images.

Now out 👉@naturecomms.bsky.social @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A stochastic encoder using point defects in two-dimensional materials - Nature Communications
This study demonstrates how point defects in 2D semiconductors can be harnessed for neuromorphic computing. By using random telegraph noise in WSe2 field-effect transistors, the researchers improve in...
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December 5, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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A #photonic #computing platform using #chaotic #light for probabilistic arithmetic enables #ultrafast, #parallel #processing. The system simultaneously predicts classification and uncertainty.

Now out 👉 @naturecomms.bsky.social @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Probabilistic photonic computing with chaotic light - Nature Communications
A photonic computing platform using chaotic light for probabilistic arithmetic enables ultrafast, parallel processing. The system predicts classification and uncertainty simultaneously. The optical ar...
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December 2, 2024 at 7:58 AM
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2D materials offer promise for #neuromorphic #computing but balancing performance and tunability remains challenging. Tong et al. develop a bare MoS2 array enabling high-speed, low-energy optical computing
Now out 👉 @naturecomms.bsky.social @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Programmable nonlinear optical neuromorphic computing with bare 2D material MoS2 - Nature Communications
Nonlinear optical effects in 2D materials can be used for neuromorphic computing systems. Here, the authors introduced free-space optical computing within a bare MoS2 array. Neural network and digital...
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November 28, 2024 at 8:35 AM
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‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky

For me, it certainly feels good to be here!

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‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky
Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.
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November 22, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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Any researchers in electronics engineering or emerging technologies for unconventional computing here? As a Nature Communications editor, I’ll share published articles to boost visibility and discussion. Looking forward to engaging conversations! #ElectronicsEngineering #NeuromorphicComputing #AI
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Hi Bluesky! 👋

We already know our followers like climate change (we post a lot of this!), astronomy and archeology research.

What other types of research are you interested in seeing from us?
November 23, 2024 at 6:26 AM