Ist so. Egal wie qualifiziert Zu viele Männer verhalten sich so. Call it out.
„Zusätzlich habe es Einladungen auf Hotelzimmer gegeben, über Berufspolitik sei eher mit den männlichen Kollegen gesprochen worden, nicht mit den Frauen aus der Delegation.“
www.aerzteblatt.de/news/deutsch...
Poppy's new paper finds vaccine outcomes differ according to which phase of the menstrual cycle women are vaccinated in 👇 Vaccination in the first half of the cycle, when immune responses are stronger, is associated w higher probability of reporting side effects & (possibly) longer time to infection
Assoc editor of Frontiers in Systems #Neuro:
> Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out […]
interesting new fellowship for people studying child development, available for early-career folk (10 years since PhD, US$300K over 3 years, worldwide eligibility)
"where are wild animals living and dying?"
BBC report on the ICARUS project tracking animals from space
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260521-tracking-animal-panic-from-space
Just stumbled across this great letter on #IQ by Ruth Mace. The notion that hunter-gatherers who painted in Lascaux Caves or medieval cathedral builders are more stupid than people today is total rubbish! But still the pseudoscience racists will cling to this.
"an important reminder that when using LLMs to analyse datasets, it’s worth checking you’re not getting familiar stereotypes in place of real signals"
https://kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signals-or-artificial-stereotypes
though I would think that this is just an amplification of the biases […]
Es gibt einen neuen Entwurf für das Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz - wird wieder wahrscheinlich niemand wirklich glücklich machen:
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/der-reformentwurf-zum-wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz-ist-da-accg-200879845.html
Aber sowieso "Das Hauptproblem […]
Oft fährt man als Journalist für einen Tag zum Ort des Geschehens und ist dann wieder weg. Ich mache es seit einer Woche anders, um die Zukunft von Landschaften zu erkunden, die für Biodiversität und Klima enorm wichtig sind. Mit dem Fahrrad kann ich mich meinen Zielorten langsam nähern und sehe […]
Teresa Bücker
I am trying my best not to be too pessimistic about the state of academia, but then there are mornings like today when I see that the Deutscher Hochschulverband [the German association of university professors] is offering a further training course entitled "Der Weg zum Forschungsantrag mit […]
Rebecca Sear
The new Icarus satellite is tracking signals hidden in animal behaviour – which could save the lives of cheetahs, rhinos and elephants.
The LEGO Foundation Fellowship is a global initiative supporting researchers working to deepen our understanding of how children thrive. Spanning disciplines from education and psychology to public he...
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
