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Came upon this absolutely brilliant paper title while working:

"Object Personification in Autism: this paper will be very sad if you don’t read it."

(By Rebekah C White and Anna Remington. Go read it!)

https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:edc2de03-af02-4dd4-8851-e567cb6b255a/download_file?safe_filename=Personification%2Bin%2Bautism_final%2Baccepted.pdf&file_format=application%2Fpdf&type_of_work=Journal+article

#autism #research #papers #personification#AmWorking

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This proposal essentially ends U.S. leadership and dominance in space research and space-based astronomy.

"NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/11/nasa-science-budget-cuts-trump/

#UnitedStates#NASA#Research#Space

• 📆 2018, #ISS became the first facility to produce #BECs ⚛️ in #space 🌌
• In #space, so-called cool flames 🔥 can burn for minutes
#ISS water 💦 purification system deployed across #India 🇮🇳, #Mexico 🇲🇽, #Pakistan🇵🇰
#StemCells regenerative medicine ⚕️ could repair/replace failing organs and cells
• Higher quality protein crystals
#Microbes 🦠 can extract metals from #regolith
• Tissue/organ-on-a-chip effects faster in #microgravity
#3Dprinting
• Organ growth
https://interestingengineering.com/lists/13-science-breakthroughs-experiments-iss

#NASA

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“The case for sending humans into #space gets weaker and weaker every year as #robots 🤖 get cleverer and more sophisticated,. They can do the #science ⚗️ 🔬 and assemble large structures in space and are much, much cheaper 💵 📉 to operate in space. We don’t need humans 👨‍🔬 to do #research in space.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/29/international-space-station-25-years

#SpaceRobot#HumanSpaceflight

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The BBC asked minority groups what they thought of the BBC:

"Participants...viewed journalism as a form of oppression that had the same impact on their lives as the police. Journalism in general, and the BBC in particular, they said, felt like an arm of the state."

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/the-bbc-asked-marginalized-groups-how-it-could-do-better-they-didnt-hold-back/

#journalism#BBC #news #research#MainstreamMedia

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🚨 URGENT REQUEST - PLEASE BOOST 🚨

I'm looking for names and/or connections of any academics, independent researchers, or prominent figures *anywhere*, but *especially* in #Canada who have at least *some* connection to *any* fields related to:

- #Genocide (in general)
- #Trans Genocide
- #Geopolitics as they relate to trans people

I've been asked to lead a significant and urgent project related to the present crisis, and I've dropped all other tasks to support this. I wish I could provide more details publicly, but these details will have to follow.

- Feel free to either post or DM me names/info or to connect

#academia #research #transgender #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia

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European Universities started …
.. leaving X

#Universities in #Amsterdam, #Vienna, #Berlin, #Karlsruhe, #Aachen and other cities in Europe have left microblogging service X during the last week(s).

They justify this step with the systematic lack of moderation on the platform, which has resulted in a flood of hate speech, disinformation and cyberbullying.

Some of them have already started to run channels on Mastodon: @univienna, @tuberlin, @KIT_Karlsruhe, @UniOldenburg @unibremen, @freieuniversitaet, @UniUlm , @HTW_Berlin, @uni_paderborn.

X is not a suitable medium for communication in #research and #education. Help get the other #universities to follow suit and sign the petition
👉 https://openpetition.de/Unis4Mastodon
#unis4mastodon 🌻 👩‍🎓 #eXit

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Does anyone have pointers about good practices around the #ethical use of #fediverse "public" #data for #research and services creation? I am especially interested in server-level aggregate data (i.e., not-author-linkable; e.g. used tags, boosts, etc.), as I understand that one should contact the author to use identifiable data. @iftas @socialcg @Mastodon @dmitri @fediforum @kissane @eloquence @andresmh