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Hernán Aguirre
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Ecuadorian scientist. Professor at Shinshu University, Japan. Co-director LIA-MODO. Works on computational intelligence, evolutionary computation and sustainability.
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A Safe Place for Science 🧪

Aix-Marseille University offers a program for scientists "threatened in their research" in America.

An opportunity to attract talent as Trump cuts funding.

French program for US scientists draws flood of applicants
amp.dw.com/en/french-pr...
April 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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OTD in 1953, J Watson and F Crick published a paper describing the double helical structure of DNA in the journal Nature.

M Wilkins and co-authors, and R Franklin and R Gosling, published separate papers in the same issue with X-ray crystallography analysis.

🧪🌱🐋 #HistSTM #EvoBi
April 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Enough internet. Time to cheer myself up by writing about how dark energy will eventually destroy the universe.
April 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Especially because the USA is not safe for foreigners, they could end up in El Salvador.
April 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Join me for a Skeptical Inquirer Presents live stream event on Thursday, April 3 at 7:00pm (EST) for a discussion on “Science Under Siege”:

skepticalinquirer.org/video/scienc...
March 26, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Whenever I post about climate, skeptical folks inevitable respond with this graph. So I decided to do something radical: actually read the underling scientific paper and ask the authors.

As it turns out, it actually says the opposite of what skeptics claim: www.theclimatebrink....
March 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Another global sea level update with satellite altimetry data now processed by CNES/AVISO through late January 2025. It's accelerating. 🌊

+ Note that this graph was produced by www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/prod...
March 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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In fact it’s from: Aspects of human physical and behavioural evolution during the last 1 million years
Galway-Witham, Cole & Stringer 2019
doi.org/10.1002/jqs....
March 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/nation...
15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human
The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart
www.smithsonianmag.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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#ClimateChange is melting Antarctica, but at what rate? Stanford scholars used #AI and machine learning to reveal that current models predicting the ice sheet's shrinkage and movement are missing key data.
Find out what's needed @stanforddoerr.bsky.social: stanford.io/4bD2NJ2
AI reveals new insights into the flow of Antarctic ice
Stanford researchers have combined machine learning with high-resolution satellite and airplane observations to understand the physics behind large-scale ice movements in Antarctica. The results show ...
stanford.io
March 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I humbly offer for your consideration the foundational, and therefore most important, paper in the history of my scientific field. I specifically wish to draw your attention to the fact that

it is FOUR PARAGRAPHS long

FOUR as in 4

🧵 #ScienceSky 1/n
March 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2024, Yokohama. During the banquet Prof. Hisao Ishibuchi dresses as a samurai. In the background the kanjis for keisan chinou, computational intelligence. We had a good time.
July 3, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Tagawa san presenting our work at WCCI 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
July 3, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Takei kun presenting our work at WCCI 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
July 3, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Rui presenting our work at WCCI 2024.
July 3, 2024 at 12:27 AM
China Town, Yokohama. World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2024.
July 3, 2024 at 12:22 AM