David H, PhD
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Dad • Husband • Cognitive Scientist • Research Lead in Tech • Underwater Photographer • Ocean Conservation • Grieving Cosmopolite • PNW Adventures
Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis | Grist share.google/cvyhSSQ4A0hO...
Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis
New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
How Uruguay ditched fossil fuels for renewables - The Washington Post share.google/AcktQCGmjqsm...
He got an entire country running on clean energy. Can he do it again?
Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources.
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Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ | Quanta Magazine share.google/3PLcutCIMRuX...
Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ | Quanta Magazine
In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules.
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Fascinating journalism on how the Wise Use movement aligned to the Heritage Foundation, which became MAGA driving Project 2025. pca.st/podcast/5449...
Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast
A refreshing, irreverent dive into the lives, work, and explorations of today’s leading and diverse ocean voices. Each half-hour episode co-hosted by David Helvarg of Blue Frontier and Vicki Nichols G...
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For my #sciencecommunicator friends out there, here's a really neat workflow for learning the open-source multimedia creation tool @blender.org via #NotebookLM: I used NotebookLM to learn a new graphics tool, and it was shockingly effective share.google/sAnJZx9foTgM...
I used NotebookLM to learn a new graphics tool, and it was shockingly effective
NotebookLM took the guesswork out of this tool
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How to talk to your teen about AI www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...
Why parents need to talk to their teens about AI — and how to start the conversation
Many teens are using artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT for everything from homework to relationship advice. Experts say parents must lead the way in helping them understand the technology.
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Humans have failed the Turing Test on themselves. We have anthropomorphized the stochastic parrots. Glad to see balance in the conversation here: Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia share.google/pEEMXpClg6EX... #AI #LLMs
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
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We still don't fully understand the costs of delaying societal & energy systems transformation, but great research is uncovering new insights: scitechdaily.com/scientists-w... #oceanconservation #marinescience #globalwarming #oceanacidification
Scientists Warn: The Ocean’s Hidden Architects Are Breaking Down
Research shows ocean acidification and warming weaken Mediterranean bryozoans’ skeletons and microbiomes, cutting their survival and threatening the habitats they create.
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Happy to share #ASLO_ECC article on #Neurodivergence 🌊🪨🧪 This article reflects on the strengths and needs of the neurodivergent community within aquatic sciences. Thank you to the #ASLO_Bulletin for their support along this process #ActuallyAutistic @aslo.org @geolatinas.bsky.social #Autism #ADHD
Diving into Diversity: Harnessing Neurodivergent Strengths to Transform Aquatic Sciences
Click on the article title to read more.
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Amusing headline for a fascinating finding: 'Ghost sharks' are lurking off the coast of Washington – and they have teeth growing out of their foreheads | Discover Wildlife share.google/IRtXislTvL1s... #salishsea #evolution #sharks
'Ghost sharks' are lurking off the coast of Washington – and they have teeth growing out of their foreheads | Discover Wildlife
Researchers have discovered that the bizarre-looking spotted ratfish has a row of real teeth between its eyes.
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This summer I visited my old childhood haunts in Laguna Beach, CA. I had forgotten about #Weyland's art gallery downtown and the optimism of his whaling walls, painted decades ago. I felt a curious yearning for some way into that kind of hopeful state again. What are the whaling walls of our era?
