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The Secret Power of Scents - Kunstpalast Düsseldorf

Took myself to the playground aka the new exhibition The Secret Power of Scents at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. Smells to bring new life to the collection and its history...and a lot of fun. Was grinning the whole time Thread of highlights!
www.kunstpalast.de/en/event/die...

Chartbook 414: Slouching towards (Red-Green) utopia. Voicing the muted politics of China's renewable energy revolution. It can’t be said too often.

"As far as green electrification is concerned, China can claim an undeniable, almost embarrassingly total claim to world leadership [..], but it is testimony to the relatively underdeveloped quality of China’s soft power, that the message is as muted as it is." adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Wenn man wusste, dass Gäste kamen, die rauchen, kam der Aschenbecher auf den Tisch.

What a generation of geneticists: Franklin, Wilkins, Crick and Watson!

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :

Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn

Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**

Don't believe the wind power haters

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Many thanks to @sgrosjean.bsky.social for her visit yesterday at the Institute of Informatics at HES-SO Valais-Wallis, and to everyone who participated!
Sylvie gave a talk "From Daily Struggles to Digital Support: Co-Designing an AI-Powered Self-Care Technology with People with Parkinson's".

excellent new article on rejection in academic publishing. in @sijournal.bsky.social #sssi #sociology

Regimechange leicht gemacht Zur Zeit des „Empire“ veranstaltete die britische Kolonialregierung in Indien regelmäßig prachtvolle Zeremonien, bei denen die Thronbesteigung eines britischen Monarchen mit großem Prunk und aufwändig...

How Maga is interfering in the UK and why Britain is much less well equipped to deal with this kind of ‘foreign interference’ than other countries in Europe.
My latest analysis for
@blaetter

(#German, but there always is Deepl)

Im Vorort von DDorf, Köln, gibt es einen Zoo 😂

YouTube video by Free Time Movies Kings Of Kallstadt | Free German History Comedy Documentary | Full HD | Crack Up Central

Before you go to bed - youtu.be/EvPyFHTxu6o?...

Super, Aleksandr! Congratulations! Well done!

“I read a bit of information”: Epistemic markers as a resource for enacting patients’ agency As access to online health information grows, patients increasingly arrive at medical consultations informed but uncertain about how to display their …

My new paper on how patients use epistemic markers like “I read” and “I heard” is out. I show that epistemic markers allow patients to assert their agency while acknowledging medical authority
#EMCA
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fab blog post on unpacking the notion of 'collaboration' between humans and robots, including video footage.

It seems to me that without the human intervention, the robot might have violated Asimov's "First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm". Also, what if the push chair would have been robotic as well? #emca #cscw - thanks! great post!

Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration It is now routine to talk about human-AI collaboration and the possibility of AI systems acting as co-workers or partners for us. It’s…

short blog post (with exciting video!) on our #CSCW2025 paper "Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration", summarising our arguments about human-robot 'collaboration' (is it?)

#EMCA #CSCW

(paper with Hannah Pelikan & @marinanc.bsky.social)

medium.com/acm-cscw/ope...

arbeiten Sie 5 Tage die Woche in ihrem Büro? als Akademiker?

*Did you know that a high-tech typesetting machine bankrupted Mark Twain?

*Authors seizing control of their means-of-production, man, that scheme sounds cool but it never works out

www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/20...

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"War is a Virtual Hell" Bruce Sterling @bruces.bsky.social in Wired's inaugural issue in 1993 www.wired.com/1993/01/virt...

Museum studies people: are there any scholarly texts on new forms of museum interpretation -- Specifically label writing?

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration FT (£) on.ft.com/3K9ciGb

what was it like?

The Big Toilet Project Crunching the numbers on single-use nappies and their impacts on child health, school readiness, and the UK's sustainability targets Wednesday, 5 November, 9:00 to 12:30, Jubilee Room, Westminster Boo...

We are presenting our data and analysis on the impact of disposable nappies on child health, school readiness, and pollution to MPs in UK Parliament on 5th Nov. If you want your local MP to attend please do contact them. Details here: senseaboutscience.org/evidence-wee...

Two very important graphs.
Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved.
The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers.
Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Speaking to the #PlanningBill, I say large donations should be on the record before Westminster government makes decisions about major developments. Yes you might call it the Jenrick amendment

bit.ly/fulldebatehere

Leaders should finally tell us the truth about migration: it’s here for good | Gaia Vince It’s time to resist the right’s narrative of immigration as aberration. Nations thrive on it – and they always have done, says author Gaia Vince

Something I wrote a year ago that’s infuriatingly relevant

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Vaccines have saved 154 million lives worldwide since 1974, have driven down infant mortality by 40%… Reducing vaccinations — through access walls or wilful misinformation (RFK Jr’s lunatic theories/claims) — will kill people – adults and children alike.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Mobile eye Tracking provides such interesting data! Good luck with the experiments!

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