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Philosophy & History of Science, Complex Systems, Knowledge Management. Networks, Harmony, Co-Evolution, Autopoiesis, Neurodiversity♾️AuDhD. Ecology, Digital Revolution ~> Information Paradigm. Theorist, .. wait!- come back, there's more.. 🕺🎶🍞📸🤡

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Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · 4d ago

"Tipping analyses focus on huge climate changes, often globally, over decades. Weather events are fast and local," writes Anders Levermann. "But look at the interplay between the two and it’s clear that the transition between one climate state and another is not smooth but extremely volatile." 🌎🧪

‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized

Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.

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Sang-Ki Lee@sklee621.bsky.social · 6d ago

What if the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) were to stop? Shutting off this critical ocean valve between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean could trigger a permanent El Niño state and reshape global weather patterns. Here’s what models show 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2026/07/31/w...

What Happens to the Planet if the Indonesian Throughflow Stops?

This blog post and the “Deep Dive” podcast, created by NotebookLM, are based on several studies, including “The Role of Indonesian Throughflow in a Global Ocean GCM.” by Hirst and Godfr…

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Angela Potochnik@apotochnik.bsky.social · 7d ago

Recipes for Science is an introduction to scientific methods and reasoning, with historical case studies and case studies across natural and social sciences. Here's a link to the original English (2nd ed.): doi.org/10.4324/9781... #philsci #philsky #scicomm 🧪

Recipes for Science | An Introduction to Scientific Methods and Reason

Scientific literacy is an essential aspect of any undergraduate education. Recipes for Science responds to this need by providing an accessible introduction to

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Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Do you view the scientific literature as a "Book of Truths" or a "Book of Conversations"? "This attitudinal divide, we argue, underlies many tensions in contemporary OS [open science] practice." By Rena Alcalay and @joachim.cidlab.com

A Book of Truths (BoT) perspective and a Book of Conversations (BoC; Davis- Stober et al. 2025). Those holding a BoT attitude see the primary purpose of the academic literature as creating a definitive, reliable repository of established knowledge, a canon that can be assessed and trusted at face value by expert and lay readers alike. By contrast, those adopting a BoC attitude view academic literature primarily as an ongoing exchange of ideas and communication among researchers, valuing provisional findings, preliminary data, and emergent questions as inherently worthwhile contributions to cumulative science, regardless of whether they achieve formal publication or definitive verification. These divergent attitudes imply fundamentally different thresholds for what counts as acceptable epistemic risk in data sharing. Where a BoC attitude treats intermediate, unvetted data as intrinsically valuable, a BoT attitude worries that sharing raw findings risks misleading the scientific community or distorting the epistemic record. What appears to one researcher as reckless exposure to another appears as essential democratisation. This attitudinal divide, we argue, underlies many tensions in contemporary OS practice. In this paper, we examine how OS initiatives are complicated not only by global asymmetries in resource and infrastructure, but also by these fundamental attitudes about what knowledge is for and how much risk is acceptable in service of scientific progress.
Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 3w ago

"Even when epistemic values recognise knowledge as relational and situated, extractivist harms persist. We offer an ameliorated concept of extractivism to include subtler, systemic harms rooted in epistemic disadvantage." By Rena Alcalay and Joachim Vandekerckhove

Shahan Ali Memon@shahanmemon.bsky.social · 2w ago

Second is contextualizing. A citation garden. What if you could see the reference ecosystem spatially? Every reference as a plant: shape shows its function, size shows how load-bearing it is, root depth shows how old the work is. With quick glance at the abstract/summary of each cited paper.

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Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3w ago

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4w ago

Meta’s AI data-center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught infecting the town’s water supply with deadly bacteria. Officials say wastewater from Meta’s AI data-center flooded the town’s pipes with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, and they found the company violated industrial waste regulations.

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rar...

The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges.

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