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Interpretable Early Warnings using Machine Learning in an Online Game-experiment arxiv.org/abs/2502.09880

Network of the day: Japanese educational poster about the different materials and resources produced by / deriving from the forest industry.

Europe’s holiday wish? More speed, more options, more time for YOU. While many are winding down, Europe is gearing up: a major high-speed rail plan is set to transform travel by 2040. Here’s what’s coming ↓

Some good points in this article on how inefficient and environmentally harmful it is to produce food from livestock, and on the potential of new tech like precision fermentation. But for me too much emphasis on the need for protein (we're overconsuming) and on expensive/risky nuclear power.

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

Dry soils lose more carbon when warm Warmer temperatures + drier soils = more carbon released from the ground. Soils contain more carbon than the atmosphere and plants combined, but drought can boost microbes that decompose it, releasing CO2 (less carbon stored). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's always something like this and never something like 'use AI to check whether a manager is sexually harassing a subordinate'. (Which, to be clear, is not a great idea either; my point is these tools are mainly seen by management as a way to exert tighter control over labor.)

Three peanuts kind of morning I see. 🪶

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein. 16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

Do humans need meat for good health? Tldr: no! "Replacing animal protein with plant protein can significantly improve personal and planetary health and is of course kinder to the non-human animals with which we share this earth..."

Thread on the newly released X recommendation algorithm. I work on LLM-based social simulations so this is directly relevant for me and I spent some time digging through the code. github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm

Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

If you want to research or even just learn for yourself about "Social Media, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, WhatsApp, or Twitter," then yes, unfortunately, it's almost impossible to do that research externally. This is a big reason why Bluesky's open ecosystem is so exciting to me!

How complex should network models be? 🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior). 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication. I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵

Ah, das ist sehr wichtig: Erstmals verhängt die EU-Kommission eine Geldbuße gegen eine Social-Media-Plattform aus den USA - und zwar wegen Verstößen gegen den Digital Services Act Elon Musks Plattform soll 120 Millionen Euro zahlen - wenn X nicht genügend nachjustiert, drohen weitere Strafen 🧵

Claude can't view full bluesky pages because they rely on javascript to render. So I built a little proxy to prerender pages so claude can see them! Just replace "bsky" with "hbsky" in the URL (The h is for html). Before vs after:

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

The meat industry needed a new weapon. “Ultra-processed food” became the label of choice. Vague, meaningless, effective.

I mean cmon team

Agriculture causes up to a third of GHG emissions, yet 300+ ag lobbyists are pushing unproven ‘solutions’ at COP30. Efficiency alone won’t save us; we need radical food-system change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

KTM Komuter vibes

95% hostile: "Murdoch’s TalkTV and Radio really outdid themselves on COP30 – 84 of 89 segments were hostile... So while some 97% of climate scientists agree it’s a crisis, 95% of Talk coverage insists its not worth fixing. How balanced!" Based on new research from @stopfundingheat.bsky.social

Vegetarisch zu leben ist Klimaschutz.

Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded. We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths. Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵

The remarkable thing about enshittification isn’t that it happens, but that people keep using the products. Ahem…Twitter.

A Spooky Unix story for Halloween. A new programmer accidentally ran “rm -rf *” as root, on one of the main computers at the University of Manchester.
 He stopped halfway, but /bin, /etc, /dev, and /lib were gone.
 What followed was one of the most insane live recoveries in computer history:

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"

Australia's state of Victoria has passed the country's first treaty with Indigenous peoples, a landmark act of recognition long denied to the nation's first inhabitants ➡️ u.afp.com/SegE

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

New research on 42 countries around the world shows that in most cases people generally do not believe the system they live under is fair. With one exception: China. I wrote a summary of this study and its methodology on Substack, which I'm posting in the reply.

DHS is the "gift" that keeps on "giving" and by that I mean a factory for white supremacist messaging. I got mad about the neomedievalism from last week, for @religiondispatches.org : religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...

How did rumors related to the peasant insurrections in revolutionary France (1789) spread? Researchers used epidemiological models to provide a quantitative answer, marking - to my knowledge - the first quantitative history paper that @nature.com has published www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us today at 1:30 PM on the 11th floor of NetSI or over zoom for a talk by Lin Chen, a new postdoctoral researcher in SunLAB. Don’t miss “Inequality and Resilience in Urban Social Dynamics” and the chance to connect with fellow researchers! www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/lin-chen

Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down. www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

2. No, high environmental impact is not a result of *how* you produce animal products. There is no good way of doing it at scale. Either you produce intensively, which means massive pollution and terrible welfare; or extensively, which means massive land use and therefore habitat destruction.

Crow friend 🪶

just sayin‘

🌊 Inevitable global coral reef decline under climate change-induced thermal stresses New study identifies a critical threshold: 7.9% annual bleaching triggers major reef degradation. Even best-case climate scenarios show widespread losses by 2100. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

"German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds. Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Extraordinary scenes unfolding at the global meeting to put a charge on shipping carbon emissions. "The United States is waging war against multilateralism, UN diplomacy and climate diplomacy, at this meeting now, inside the building and outside the building." 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone? Our new preprint, led by @anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837

🔥 The never-ending narrative… This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry. Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.

UK ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows: Lobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’ UK politics live – latest updates Government ministers met representatives from the fossil fuel in...

Bevor ich morgen dann wirklich (versprochen!) mehr zu meinem PhD erzähle, möchte ich heute nochmal ein paar statistische Konzepte, die dafür wichtig sind, zusammenfassen: 📈

The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere increased by a record amount last year, says @wmo-global.bsky.social. The record annual rise comes amid growing signs that forests, peatlands, oceans and other natural "sinks" are failing to absorb as much CO2 as they normally do. wmo.int/publication-...