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Alessio
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"In a historic and symbolic step, France has officially endorsed the United Nations' Open Source Principles, becoming the first government to do so, alongside many organizations including the Open Source Initiative, Linux Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation."
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France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN Open Source Principles, Now What? | Camptocamp
In a historic and symbolic step, France has officially endorsed the United Nations' Open Source Principles, becoming the first government to do so, alongside many organizations including the Open Sour...
camptocamp.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Ukraine drone strikes on Russian airbase reveal any country is vulnerable to the same kind of attack
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Ukraine drone strikes on Russian airbase reveal any country is vulnerable to the same kind of attack
The audacious attack exploited holes that exist in everyone’s airspace management.
theconversation.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Roman Space Telescope is safe, for now. www.science.org/content/arti... 🔭🧪 @science.org
Dozens of active and planned NASA spacecraft killed in Trump budget request
Proposal would end nearly all new major science missions
www.science.org
June 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What the hidden rhythms of orangutan calls can tell us about language – new research
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What the hidden rhythms of orangutan calls can tell us about language – new research
Recursion was thought to be a unique feature of human language.
theconversation.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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🧵 🧪 This is my 3rd thread on the incarceration of computational scientist and microscopist Kesenii Petrova, and it’s intended for journalists covering the story. I want to say more about the frogs she’s accused of smuggling. Other biologists please chime in.

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Harvard scientist facing deportation is charged with smuggling
Federal prosecutors allege Kseniia Petrova violated customs law by failing to declare preserved frog embryos in her luggage, in a case that's raised questions over her detention.
www.nbcnews.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Climate miscellanea, May 2025
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/climate-mi...
Climate miscellanea, May 2025
a few things I thought you should see
www.theclimatebrink.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
How the weather got ‘stuck’ over the UK – and produced an unusually dry and warm spring
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How the weather got ‘stuck’ over the UK – and produced an unusually dry and warm spring
‘April showers’ were few and far between in 2025.
theconversation.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Harvard is suing the White House: here’s what Trump hopes to achieve by targeting universities
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Harvard is suing the White House: here’s what Trump hopes to achieve by targeting universities
The Trump administration attack on Harvard is part of a much wider project.
theconversation.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Trump wants Greenland – but here’s what the people of Greenland want
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Trump wants Greenland – but here’s what the people of Greenland want
Greenland has recently drawn global attention, yet much of the coverage centers on US and Danish perspectives rather than what Greenlanders themselves want.
theconversation.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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📦 QwenLM / Qwen2.5-VL
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Qwen2.5-VL is the multimodal large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud.
GitHub - QwenLM/Qwen2.5-VL: Qwen2.5-VL is the multimodal large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud.
Qwen2.5-VL is the multimodal large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud. - QwenLM/Qwen2.5-VL
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January 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Why meteorologists are comparing Storm Éowyn to a bomb
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Why meteorologists are comparing Storm Éowyn to a bomb
Éowyn’s wind speeds are comparable with the most infamous storms of recent years and decades.
theconversation.com
January 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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January 20, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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“We found many things not in the textbooks”

"Pyramidal neurons displayed a curious symmetry, some facing forwards and others backwards. Other images showed tight whorls of axons that looked as if they had become stuck on a roundabout before identifying the right exit and proceeding on their way."
Scientists find 57,000 cells and 150m neural connections in tiny sample of human brain
Harvard researchers teamed up with Google to analyse the makeup of the brain, much of which is not yet understood
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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“…researchers have tended to ignore the electricity that flows through the body and brain.”

Electrophysiologists: “excuse the fuck you?” 😤
December 5, 2023 at 10:49 PM
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The future will be electric. Research grade sodium vanadium phosphate batteries with up to 458 Wh/kg specific energy density hold potential to improve on Li-ion batteries. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.notebookcheck.net/Sodium-ion-b...
Sodium-ion battery vanadium breakthrough brings energy density parity with lithium as it delivers higher continuous voltage
More than a decade of research into cheap sodium-ion batteries that don't need expensive lithium is slowly bearing fruit.
www.notebookcheck.net
January 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM