M. Gonzalez-Marquez

Two-and-a-half-year-old Roa Mashi died in her family’s tent in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, from severe malnutrition.

She had no illness, only starvation under Israeli siege ended her life.

Yep.

I really do wish they'd use it to target internationally acknowledged sex-offenders, especially those who like to walk on roofs ...

So knickers and bras is a no-no but can fellas go into the ladies shoes department? Handbags? Ooh, what about tights? And is the bit of the shelf in the Co-op with the tampons off limits too? Gosh, it’s all terribly confusing, almost like it’s utter bullshit.

Digital flyer for an online event titled “Calling Swing Districts – Save scientific research funding.” The event is scheduled for Thursday, August 7th at 6:00 PM ET. The flyer announces a phonebanking session targeting South Asian voters in swing districts represented by Republicans. Volunteers will encourage voters to ask their representatives to oppose proposed Trump administration budget cuts to NIH and NSF—38% from NIH and 55% from NSF—with $3.8 billion already withheld. It notes that a link to attend the virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP at Standupforscience.net. The background features an image of the Statue of Liberty and a QR code. The Stand Up for Science logo appears at the bottom. The flyer uses bold red text on a light beige background.

📣 UPCOMING EVENT ALERT -

🗓️ Tomorrow, August 7th
⏰ 6pm ET
📍 Online
☎️ Join the call campaign to save science research funding.
🔗 Scan the QR code or RSVP here ➡️ actionnetwork.org/events/calli...

GOP senator who said trans people put girls at "risk" just helped a relative who raped a 13-year-old - LGBTQ Nation Sen. Adams helped change state law around child rape then helped his relative use the new law to avoid jail.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/gop-...

Absolutely. I'd ask Keanu Reeves for a recommendation on a good one. I hear he has quite the collection :-).

As a physicist I can easily calculate time dilation from relativistic motion (time slows when you're moving fast) or proximity to a massive object (time slows in gravity) but I have yet to find a solution for emotional time dilation (the task takes five minutes to complete but six weeks to start) 🫠

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‘Healthocide’: experts warn of rise in targeting of health services in conflict Principle of medical neutrality threatened as doctors and hospitals deliberately attacked, particularly in Gaza

Joelle and many others have been shouting this since October 2023. US mass media and medical journals refused to allow us to speak truth and instead paroted Israeli propganda to rationalize the systemaric destruction of hospitals and murder of health workers. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Hear, hear!

Wta? Mind you I got an AI summary that insisted people who had been awarded PhDs were more likely to get Alzheimer’s. Perplexed, I looked up the original. It defined PHD as primary headache disorder. The AI took the statistically more likely abbreviation and came up with its idiotic response. Sigh!

They also need to uphold their primary responsibility to the public that funds by creating usable and reliable documentation of the science they've been tasked to do.

Papers contain neither usable nor reliable scientific documentation.

Don't believe me? Read reproducibility projects closely.

They also need to uphold their primary responsibility to the public that funds by creating usable and reliable documentation of the science they've been tasked to do.

Papers contain neither usable nor reliable scientific documentation.

Don't believe me? Read reproducibility projects closely.

The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know them And justices don’t want you to notice.

The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know them www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Thanks. I’ll take a look.

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Einladung mit Porträtfoto der Referentin Dr. Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Visiting Scholar an der RWTH Aachen University, spricht über: „Researchers are human: Implications for Open Science and the Scientific Record“

📢 Weiter geht's mit unserer Kolloquiumsreihe!

🗓 Mittwoch, 20. August 2025
🕑 14:00–15:00 Uhr
🎙Dr. Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, @aerynthrace.bsky.social, Visiting Scholar an der RWTH Aachen University, spricht über:

„Researchers are human: Implications for Open Science and the Scientific Record“

Invitation with portrait photo of the speaker Dr. Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Visiting Scholar at RWTH Aachen University, will speak on: „Researchers are human: Implications for Open Science and the Scientific Record“

📢 Our colloquium series continues!

🗓 Wednesday, August 20, 2025
🕑 2:00–3:00 PM (CET)
🎙Dr. Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, @aerynthrace.bsky.social, Visiting Scholar an der RWTH Aachen University, will speak on:

"Researchers are human: Implications for Open Science and the Scientific Record"

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

"Texas House Democrats abandoned their duty to Texans. By fleeing the state, Texas House Democrats are holding hostage critical legislation to aid flood victims and advance property tax relief. There are consequences for dereliction of duty." TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT ORDERS ARREST OF DEMOCRATS WHO FLED THE STATE UNTIL ALL RETURN TO TEXAS CAPITOL

I wonder if anybody else sees the irony in the “dereliction of duty” bit. I thought the duty was to the Constitution and the people, not the whims and rigging of the POTUS.
Using a disaster to cover your racist redistricting plan to wipe out 5 democratic seats is shameful! Do better!

Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

here: restofworld.org/2025/colombi...: that A.I. can create content but it can't think for you. Hence, part of the solution is what few pay attention to or care to fund: developing and supporting evidence-based didactics for critical thinking in science for scientists.

Sorry it's not sexy :-(.

As to A.I., Can A.I. create a convincing complete record of a scientific process? This means research notes, details on research question and hypothesis development, notes and comments on literature search, etc.? The key is internal consistency.

For me, this question returns to the point made >

This is a key table to understanding public opinion on migration. *When confronted with the real trade offs* people go for protecting the NHS and the economy over reducing migration.

The problem as per the rest of the thread is many don't believe those trade offs exist.

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

La résistance à Netanyahou existe

But nobody wants to hear it because doing away with papers means doing away with the prestige machine built upon them.

I truly hope that it soon becomes clear to the majority that the current system is beyond salvaging, and that deep change is the only way out.

We need a new system to document, evaluate and archive COMPLETE scientific processes, not post-hoc interpretations . Papers, even the best, are still grossly incomplete, & not usable wrt transparency and reproducibility. The current A.I. fiasco is simply another layer on a deeply broken system.

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Disney villain dermot Desmond

Desmond can go back to cos-playing a Disney villain and leave the rest of us to work on improving quality of life for people in our towns and cities