Diego M. Macall

People have begun losing interest in climate change mitigation, understandably so, are you doing any work on keeping this issue as a priority on political agendas?

I think its worse than that. The world will be more dangerous at least for another generation. People were on the fence in the US, but now its clear that voting doesnt matter, and absolutely nuclear weapons will be sought after by a lot of countries.

This is a multidimensional error...

But then some economist, at an ivy league I might add, will tell you that AI is no big deal...

The Laid-off Scientists and Lawyers Training AI to Steal Their Careers Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.

AI companies are hiring people to produce data for practically any job you can imagine: chefs, management consultants, archivists, private investigators, rental-counter clerks. It is, as one industry veteran put it, the largest harvesting of human expertise ever attempted.

It would be funny if the consequences of what is happening weren't so tragic....

I am no longer surprised by EU actions.

It took 2 geopolitical crises to make the #EU understand that #nuclear has to be part of the energy mix.

However, it will now be years, if not decades to build these plants, and one wonders where they plan to source the uranium or plutonium for them...

The misguided frenzied rhetoric of a few years ago, while well intentioned, has had strategic consequences.

Good to see it is being corrected and nuclear energy is once again being considered strategic.

Ayuso recorta en 246 millones los fondos previstos para Ciencia tras su pacto con los rectores Las universidades han firmado aumentar la partida para pagar los sueldos y los gastos corrientes, mientras pierden fondos para hacer investigación

Across OECD countries, funding to do research is being cut.

In Spain, there is a 25% reduction in money available for universities to do research in the new budget.

#Science #Research #Funding

elpais.com/educacion/20...

Ive tried Libre Office. I understand the Austrian government is using it. Its okay at this point. MS office is still by far better in terms of ease of use, and features available.

But im always open to alternatives and if they are open source, so much the better

Because we are waiting for you to tell us the alternative(s)...

100%.

Unfortunately, there will be consequences across the board from everything going on right now, and they could have been avoided had we acted in a timely and strategic manner.

By the time the problem is upon us, the solutions are costly and unpleasant.

But humans, we like the hard way!

Agreed.

I am amused but no longer surprised at how little attention current world affairs get from most people beyond superficial acknowledgement that they are happening.

Same is true for climate change.

What do people care about? What are people's raison d'être?

Well thats a relief, because temperature will easily surpass a 2C increase

China says it is the world leader in R&D for AI, vows to boost tech self-reliance China declared on ​Thursday that it was now the world leader in research and development for artificial intelligence as well as other key ‌fields such as quantum technology, and vowed to accelerate efforts to achieve greater tech self-reliance.

China says it is the world leader in R&D for AI, vows to boost tech self-reliance reut.rs/4baZsAZ

You're right to feel thr Canadian way

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For the most part, sad for society and the world at large!

The writing is also way different than what we find today.

Also goes to show, objectivity,especially when it comes to sports, is hard to find...

Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.

This is tough, because there are people who need this and benefit from it, but the reason people are doing it is depressing....

I'd love to get people's thoughts on this.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Yet another point genomic techniques and technologies!

Why methane surged in the atmosphere during the early 2020s The atmospheric methane (CH4) growth rate surged after 2019, peaking at 16.2 parts per billion per year (ppb year−1) in 2020 before declining to 8.6 ppb year−1 in 2023. Using multiple atmospheric inve...

A temporary weakening of the atmosphere’s chemical capacity to break down methane, combined with elevated emissions from tropical wetlands, drove the sharp increase in atmospheric methane observed in 2020 to 2021, according to a new study in Science. https://scim.ag/4kmtoOQ

Luckily, I'm a researcher so if you share I'll read and drop a comment! ;)

Research doesn't get much traction unfortunately 😕

Will do!

Interesting, thanks for the video!

Can you explain why the push for the trade routes, as well what minerals are actually up there?

Controversial Danish vaccine research group faces new allegations Researchers say they couldn’t find complete data for 10 trials that together enrolled tens of thousands of children in Guinea-Bissau

A new paper levels fresh allegations of questionable scientific practices by the Bandim Health Project, an embattled group led by researchers in Denmark that has long studied vaccines in West Africa and has recently become influential in U.S. health policy. https://scim.ag/3ZY7NCR

France has a well established record of announcing ambitious projects and not following through.

Why is that? What is gained by talking beautifully, and not following through with anything?