#Scientists Say Risk of 5 #Climate Tipping Points Means 'Business as Usual Is Now Over'
"Averting this crisis—and doing so equitably—must be the core goal of #COP28 and ongoing global cooperation," one expert said.
Current levels of global heating from the burning of #fossil fuels and the destruction of nature risk triggering five tipping points that could throw Earth's systems further out of balance, with three more at risk of toppling in the next decade.
Michelle Donelan was in Brussels yesterday to formally sign-up to the UK re-entering the EU's #Horizon research programme.
Now, the Govt. is going to spend up to £10k per organisation to help them (re)attract #scientists & prepare bids for the rest of the programme's duration.
So essentially, we've held out for a better deal (which we didn't get), but due to #RishiSunak's dithering, we now have to 'pump prime' appplicants who are out of the habit of applying and/or have lost key staff
So Michelle Donelan was in Brussels today to formally sign-up to the UK re-entering the EU's #Horizon research programme.
Now, the Govt. is going to spend up to £10k per organisation to help them (re)attract #scientists & prepare bids for the rest of the programme's duration.
So essentially, we've held out for a better deal (which we didn't get), but due to #RishiSunak's dithering, we now have to 'pump prime' appplicants who are out of the habit of applying and/or have lost key staff
Academics are expressing anger and sadness at the news prominent Palestinian physicist Sufyan Tayeh was killed, along with members of his family, in an Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp.
Tayeh, the president of the Islamic University of Gaza, held a UNESCO chair and was ranked among the top 2 percent of scientists worldwide by Stanford University in 2021.
What prevents scientists from engaging in #climate#activism? In a new preprint, Dablander et al. investigated the barriers holding #scientists back from participating in protests, incl. #CivilDisobedience. They distinguish intellectual & practical barriers, and give recommendations for overcoming them.
Hey, hey! Episode 3 is up! Check out my conversation with evolutionary biologist Zack Blount, who lets us know why #scientists need to read widely—and tells us what makes for good #horror and a good #bookstore .
'Three recently rediscovered pages from Darwin’s draft of Origin of Species have been published for the first time together with all the other known surviving pages in a new online edition. These documents are added to Darwin Online, a scholarly portal dedicated to Charles Darwin and helmed by Dr John van Wyhe, at the NUS Department of Biological Sciences.'
This is totally neat. A game to #teach how to better spot #FakeNews. I played — had fun and learned!
"#Scientists who worked with us on the development of this #game found that playing Bad News improves people’s ability to spot #manipulation techniques in #SocialMedia posts, increases their #confidence in spotting such techniques, and reduces their willingness to share manipulative content with #people in their #network."
The study suggests that #MentalHealth profiles for #magicians are akin to those of #mathematicians and #scientists. Crasson said precision was an important part of magic. “There’s a lot of precision in how a piece is executed. When you see a top magician performing, in every move, every word, there is meaning and thought.”
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Today any judicial action by the Prosecutor's Office in #México against a group of 31 Mexican crooked #Scientists accused of diverting public money from the public body "National Council for Science and Technology" #Conacyt to the private organization "Scientific and Technological Consultative Forum" #FCCyT has been closed
Some uS$ 28 million that should have been used in research in #Science were embezzled in luxurious villas, high-end cars and feasts