Professor of Creative Pedagogies | Poet | Game Designer | Slow AI
#SciComm #HigherEd #Poetry #GenAI
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Prof Sam Illingworth
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I've just been published in @nature.com ! 🤯
My short piece argues for a culture of Slow AI, one that values reflection, care, and collective scrutiny over speed.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eLZhH
#SlowAI #Ethics #HigherEducation #GenAI #SciComm 🧪
🌳 Tropical forests now releasing carbon
Long-term data show Australia’s tropical forests have shifted from storing carbon to emitting it, as rising heat and extreme weather increase tree deaths.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ClimateCrisis #SciComm 🧪
🥛 Probiotics reshape the future of food
A new review highlights how adding probiotics to dairy, grains, and plant-based foods can boost gut health and flavour, but stability and regulation remain challenges.
🔗 doi.org/10.3390/food...
#FoodScience #SciComm 🧪
⚖️ Rethinking obesity diagnosis
Using a new definition that includes body shape as well as BMI, obesity rates in 300,000 US adults rose by 60%, revealing hidden health risks missed by BMI alone.
🔗 doi.org/10.1001/jama...
#Obesityh #SciComm 🧪
🌿 How belief can protect nature
A new model suggests that fear of supernatural punishment for harming nature can evolve to curb overuse of resources, helping societies live sustainably.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Sustainability #SciComm 🧪
💬 How populists reshape global narratives
Analysing 4 million tweets on China’s anti-COVID protests, researchers found Western populists reframed the events to claim democracies act like dictatorships.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Politics #SciComm 🧪
🧬 Ancient lead exposure and human evolution
Fossil and lab evidence show early hominids were exposed to lead for over 2 million years, which may have shaped brain genes linked to speech and behaviour.
🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia...
#Lead #Evolution #SciComm 🧪
🪱 How flatworms rebuild themselves
Using spatial transcriptomics, scientists found planarian stem cells rely on signals from nearby gut cells (not fixed niches) to drive powerful regeneration.
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#FlatWorms #SciComm 🧪
🧠 Why some people defend obvious falsehoods
New research finds that some endorse disproven claims as a show of “symbolic strength,” valuing independence over truth, and making fact-checks seem weak.
🔗 doi.org/10.64628/AAI...
#FakeNews #SciComm 🧪
🧠 Midlife is a mental peak, not a decline
A new study finds overall psychological functioning peaks between ages 55–60, when reasoning, emotional balance, and judgement combine at their best.
🔗 doi.org/10.64628/AA....
#Psychology #SciComm 🧪
A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.
This cohort study examines how the application of a new definition of obesity, which uses anthropometric measures and traditional body mass index measures, affects the prevalence of and outcomes assoc...
doi.org
Mann et al. reveal that stem cells in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea reside
in a diverse, broadly distributed stem cell niche and lack stable contacts with neighboring
differentiated cells. Thes...
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Fear of supernatural punishment can harmonize human societies with nature: an evolutionary game-theoretic approach
