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People often write as if 'Fukushima' is in the past. But: Fuel debris removal from Fukushima reactors now seen to be delayed until 2037 at earliest. url:https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/fuel-debris-removal-from-fukushima-reactors-delayed

Geometric modeling of knitted fabrics | PNAS Knitting can turn a one-dimensional yarn into a highly ramified three-dimensional structure. As a method of additive manufacturing, it holds promis...

Geometric modeling of knitted fabrics | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congratulations, Mazviita!
Also, thank you so much for making it Open Access.
(I see people can get the ebook free via the MIT Press website)

Mazviita Chirimuuta wins the 2025 Lakatos Award! The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to announce the 2025 Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta, who receives the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted:…

🏆 We are pleased to announce the 2025 Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta, who receives the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”

Congratulations! 👏

👉More about the award: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/b...

Episode for June 13, 2025 The approval of a coal mine expansion in Western Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands has residents worried. Also, more than 100 mine researchers and engineers at a federal office in Allegheny County are s...

Give this episode of @alleghenyfront.bsky.social a listen! It features our own Megan McDonough, talking about our opposition to Pennsylvania's HB 502, which would make it harder for municipalities to pass ordinances to protect themselves from the fossil fuel industry.

Trump Is Freeing Up Public Lands for Big Oil. It Doesn’t Want Them. The president is seeking to open up national monuments for drilling. But more land isn’t what oil companies need right now.

Almost no one – and apparently, not even fossil fuel corporations – wants Trump to sell off our public lands for oil and gas development 😠

Urgent Action Needed to Stop Energy Industry Takeover – Please make calls today! – Delaware Riverkeeper Network Give   Take Action

URGENT! PA's HB502 would fast track approval of energy generating and energy storage facilities by replacing the role of local gov with a hand-picked State Siting Board. The PA House Energy Committee vote is tomorrow, Wed 10am. Call now to stop this bill!

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25 PA Enviro Orgs Condemn Bill That Would Fast Track Gas Projects HB502 seeks to fast-track fossil fuel projects by overriding local government control and public input; hearings begin Monday

Huge issue in Pennsylvania, a bill limiting public participation masquerading as being environmentally positive. Hardly any press about it, so posting it here.
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/06/09/p...

Your Campus Already Has AI—And That's the Problem If you teach on a college campus, you likely have access to a slew of generative AI tools or features that have been quietly embedded in applications you use each day.

Your Campus Already Has AI—And That's the Problem
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The NRC’s new Mission Impossible: Making Atoms Great Again President Trump has signed executive orders that tranform the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from a nuclear safety agency into a promoter of nuclear power, a Union of Concerned Scientist nuclear expert...

This piece in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by Ed Lyman discusses the White House's new EOs and explains, among other things, why they are counterproductive even acc to the industry's own aims. (As well as the public's).

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It was great! Just replied to your email about it today -- so check your email.

"the California Supreme Court directed that . . . the state bar must scrap its new exam’s 200 multiple-choice questions . . This follows the late April revelation that some of the questions were drafted by nonlawyers with help from artificial intelligence, unbeknownst to the state’s highest court."

California Supreme Court orders return to Multistate Bar Examination, lowers bar pass score The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Why it's important to talk openly and often about the limitations of genAI instead of irresponsibly recommending its use at work, even in work that affects others:
"California Supreme Court orders return to Multistate Bar Examination, lowers bar pass score" www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

Barwise Prize The K. Jon Barwise Prize is for significant and sustained contributions to areas relevant to philosophy and computing by an APA member. The prize serves to credit those within our profession for th…

Going to the 2025 APA meeting in NYC? You're in luck - you can catch lectures by the two most recent winners of the K. Jon Barwise prize: Gabriele Gramelsberger (2023) and Oron Shagrir (2024). Both give talks on January 9th. Bios & talk titles:
philosophyandcomputing.wordpress.com/barwise-prize/?

Well, congratulations! Can't wait to see what you do next.

Thanks for posting. I could not find it on the NRC website. (I looked where I thought the LERs are posted.). How did you find it?

S3 Ep 6 - Kirsten Walsh on 'Rethinking Isaac Newton through his Archive' - The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science Today's guest is Dr Kirsten Walsh, a philosophy lecturer at the University of Exeter.Kirsten’s research primarily focuses on Isaac Newton and his methodology, but she is careful to consider philosophi...

This week's ep features Kirsten Walsh, philosophy lecturer at @uniofexeter.bsky.social, on the topic of 'Rethinking Newton through his Archive'

Kirsten takes us into newly digitised documents & how they can better illuminate Newton's research interests & everyday practices

#hps #histsci #philsci 🧪

So happy for you, Janella! Enjoy these special newborn days.

I love the questions you ask!

Philosophy professor Kristin Andrews thinks a lot about how animals think. We talked to her about why understanding dolphin babysitters, and whether rats hav... Unlocking The Secrets Of Animal Minds | ONsite

This is lovely and wonderful, both in the points Kristin Andrews made, and how the filmmaker illustrated them.

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Open for comments. Anyone may comment. Read this and consider it.

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On the Swamp — Ryan E. Emanuel, Ph.D. Environmental scientist Ryan Emanuel shares stories about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of radical environmental changes. Addressing issues from the loss of wetlands to the arrival ...

My book, On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice, will be available in April 2024! This project has been in the works for a long time, and I'm thrilled that it will be out in the world soon. You can find a brief description at the link below.

#Lumbee
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