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Happy Holidays from FAIRsharing! We'd like to celebrate the 2025 efforts of our maintainers and #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions, welcome our newest Champions and say "until we see you again" to recent alumni. Find out more on them, our 2025 work and our holiday closure at blog.fairsharing.org?p=1086

Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it.

Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants. Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it. They even partnered with Danish chefs to create three recipes using ant yogurt. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

SRC GD Katarina Bjelke introducing the day's theme

This year's ESS/MAX IV/SciLifeLab Summit takes place at The Loop in Lund near ESS and MAX IV. Topic: #AI for science & Data Processing. I'll be part of a panel on policy later today.

The event will be recorded.

Stephane Requena, chair of INFRAG, implores all users to engage in the User Forum to make sure the advisory groups have access to user input

Estela Suarez, chair of RIAG, explains that the RIAG depends on input from experts - including the users.

Anders Dam Jensen and panel

Anders Dam Jensen: we want a setup where EVERYONE can be represented, in ALL domains, including the emerging domains. It is important that the resulting body represents the whole user domain.

discussion panel, EuroHPC User Days User Forum session

"we cannot build a new infrastructure without connecting with the community"

EMBO is a co-author and founding signatory of @dorassessment.bsky.social.

We are pleased to announce that Sandra Bendiscioli will succeed Bernd Pulverer as EMBO’s representative on the DORA Executive Board. #ResponsibleResearchAssessment #research 🧪

screenshot from presentation summarizing the EuroHPC User Forum

The second day of @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social User Days start with a presentation of the #EuroHPC User Forum. I'm pleasantly surprised to see they have a connection to the two high-level advisory groups *and* the support project - not all user forums get that kind of channel upward.

advice to applicants on acting peer review

Peer review is hard, but the best way to allocate resources, says Luigi del Debbio, chair of the EuroHPC Access Resource Committee. How to make the reviewers' jobs easier:

If you are interested in using #EuroHPC resources - and to see what others do with EuroHPC resources - this is the event to follow. Just now we are getting advice from the peer-review office on Access Application do's and don'ts.

Dolda hälsofällor i köket - Kropp & Själ När köttbullarna ska värmas inför kalaset är de plötsligt täckta av aluminium. Det har skett en kemisk reaktion i kylskåpet.

Idag tog jag på mig en riktigt gammal hatt (populärvetenskapshatten) och pratade praktisk elektrokemi i köket med P1 Kropp & Själ. Med fruktbatteriexperiment!

Känns smått overkligt att det är 14 år sedan jag skrev Matmolekyler med @lisaforare.bsky.social

sverigesradio.se/play/avsnitt...

LMU Open Science Center Summer School 2025 programme and application process

📢 We are pleased to announce our 4th open science summer school! #OSSS25

📌 Sept 15-19, Munich & Zoom
🔥 keynotes and outstanding hands-on workshops
2️⃣ dual-track: open science training and instructor training tracks!

➡️ apply before July 14 or register anytime for the public lectures!

Den bok som väcker intresse är nog en bra/bättre start än det mest korrekta, om det leder till vidare läsning. Den här typen av information åldras ändå ganska snabbt, särskilt om man tar med biologiska/genetiska aspekter....

Ytterst hedrande sällskap att synas i! 😊

ABCD Study omits gender-identity data from latest release The removal counteracts the goals of the longitudinal study by “pretending that some aspects of adolescent brain development don’t exist,” says sex differences researcher Nicola Grissom.

The National Institutes of Health has removed gender identity variables from the ongoing Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, @thetransmitter.bsky.social has learned.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/gender/abcd-...

Exploits of a Mom

Which of course reminds me of an XKCD xkcd.com/327/

Sneaky: hiding instructions to the 'reviewing' AI agent mid-document, in tiny white font. I wonder if a similar approach could be used to game AI-based filtering in recruitment processes?

Announcing the Biomedical Data Translator: Initial Public Release - PubMed The growing availability of biomedical data offers vast potential to improve human health, but the complexity and lack of integration of these datasets often limit their utility. To address this, the ...

"Announcing the Biomedical Data Translator: Initial Public Release" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40635371/

Translator is the knowledge-graph integration system we're developing to support hypothesis generation by scientists. Funded by NCATS.
As I said in the past, best consortium ever. Awesome people.
🧪

Information rate of meaningful communication | PNAS In Shannon’s seminal paper, the entropy of printed English, treated as a stationary stochastic process, was estimated to be roughly 1 bit per chara...

There's a likewise interesting companion paper in PNAS where they use the model to study compression of 'meaningful information' (i.e. stories/narratives):

"Information rate of meaningful communication"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Paper: "Random Tree Model of Meaningful Memory"

journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... [4/N]

Tsodyks: "We discovered that people often summarize relatively large parts of a narrative in single sentences. [In our model] a narrative memory is represented as a tree where nodes closer to the root represent a abstract summary of larger episodes." (edited for brevity) [3/N]

Mathematical model reveals how humans store narrative memories using 'random trees' Humans can remember various types of information, including facts, dates, events and even intricate narratives. Understanding how meaningful stories are stored in people's memory has been a key object...

I particularly like that the authors test their theory on experimental data and the MedicalXpress story does a very good job of explaining the connection between the model and the experimental findings, with many good quotes from Misha Tsodyks. [2/N]

medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07...

Mathematical model reveals how humans store narrative memories using 'random trees' Humans can remember various types of information, including facts, dates, events and even intricate narratives. Understanding how meaningful stories are stored in people's memory has been a key object...

Interesting paper on mathematical modeling of narrative recall in Physical Review Letters, using random trees. Spotted via a very good popular science writeup based on an interview with the senior author (Misha Tsodyks) on MedicalXpress. [1/N]

medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07...

A grassy lake beach in the early evening, with a large crowd of people centered around a barely visible bonfire.

One of the less crowded Valborg bonfires I've been to (yes, really!), in Södra Ängby in the northern part of Stockholm yesterday. My daughter was in the choir singing spring songs.

Interesting TC interview with China Miéville on subcultures going mainstream. He comments that #scifi isn't mainly about the future: "It’s always a reflection. It’s a kind of fever dream, and it’s always about its own sociological context. It’s always an expression of the anxieties of the now."

This was probably the funniest science-themed April fool's joke I saw today.

OpenMethods is looking for volunteers and editors. Further info: openmethods.dariah.eu/open-call-fo... #dh #digitalhumanities

Shedding Light: How NIST’s Light Database Helps Bring You Computer Chips, Welded Steel and More Atomic spectroscopy helps to bring us many things we use every day, but without updated information, it would be harder for scientists and experts to create these things. That’s where a NIST atomic sp...

I just read this neat story about why the #NIST Atomic Spectra Database is useful to a wide range of users, and why the person working on it (Alexander Kramida) really enjoys his job: www.nist.gov/blogs/taking...