We have an open position for an exciting PhD Fellowship at @ocbe.bsky.social, on "Reliable Bayesian prediction models with uncertainty quantification for trustworthy personalized treatment decisions"! Application deadline is May 17. Info and application link here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

🎂 Happy 50th Birthday S (and #rstats)!

Prisene går ned nå fordi MDG fikk gjennomslag for det på Stortinget. Frekkhetens nådegave

Wow!

Frekkhetens nådegave. Dette er så frekt at jeg faktisk lurer på om denne er falsk, og provokasjon fra en eller annen. Uansett fikk den til å melde meg inn i MDG, i dette øyeblikk. Går kjapt med Vipps, i disse dager. Følg gjerne opp!

We found increasing incidence of uveal melanoma in Norway, primarily in early-stage choroidal melanoma, with improved 10-year net survival for choroidal melanoma. @Ocbe.bsky.social Det medisinske fakultet Kreftregisteret OUS @qimrb.bsky.social bjo.bmj.com/content/earl...

Endlich! SPD, Grüne und Linke empfehlen heute ihren Mitgliedern, ihre Accounts auf "X" still zu legen. Bleibt die Frage: Wann folgen die anderen demokratischen Parteien? Und was ist mit der Bundesregierung? Musks Plattform ist kein Forum, sondern ein Verstärker für Hass & Hetze. #WirVerlassenX

Norway: close to 100% EV share. Near-zero carbon grid. Heat pumps everywhere. Also Norway: still exporting 2 million barrels of oil a day & gas exports have more than doubled since 2000. This chart shows the contradiction. Newsletter dropping soon 👇 substack.com/@janrosenow

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

"On May 1, Amsterdam became the world’s first capital city to ban ads for fossil fuel products and meat. It’s part of the city’s efforts to discourage consumption of goods linked with high carbon emissions."

This is a nice piece on why the apocalyptic fear narrative is so useful for the tech companies. I tried to get my head around this in recent years ... here is an earlier piece, perhaps also of interest opiniojuris.org/2025/01/30/c...

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Vacancy: Professor in Medical Statistics and Academic Lead for Clinical Trials in Oncology, University of Sheffield jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Professo...

Priceless post from the official White House social media

New mRNA vaccine research has basically been shelved by this administration. We know that vaccines basically eliminate cervical cancers. The prospect of expanding this to additional cancers is incredible. Particularly the most lethal ones like pancreatic.

Jo, men hva er det et argument for? Flytrafikken er på fem millioner årlige passasjerer Oslo til Bergen, Trondheim og Stavanger. Da har vi ikke nevnt eksisterende buss, bil- og togpassasjerer enda. Bare fly i dag tilsvarer 17 stappfulle tog hver eneste dag, hele året.

Or "These jobs have historically had very low salaries for the qualifications required because they have been dominated by women workers. That makes them less attractive."

I don’t know when this happened, but my 🦋 timeline has become a lot more international recently. Was scrolling for just a few seconds just now and there are posts in English, Norwegian, German, Slowakian, Japanese, Farsi, Dutch, Turkish, Hungarian, French, Polish, Danish,… I love it! 🥰

Fun fact: every five months, the world builds as much solar power generation as all the nuclear power that has ever been built. And still some people dream of a ”nuclear renaissance”. That train has left the station long ago…

Brutal.

this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!

Should #ProbML (former AABI) become a full, multi-day conference in 2027? We would appreciate it if you could fill out this quick 2-minute survey (4 short questions) and share your opinions with us! 🔗 forms.gle/tzwVDjtwam8j...

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I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Us 40+ year youngs may also recall the 80s talk about acid rain. SO2 pollution was so severe that in places, sulphuric acid literally rained from the sky. Killing plants and forests. Even stripping paint from cars. But scientists sounded alarm, activists acted, and politicians regulated. Behold:

Today NeurIPS is announcing our official satellite event in Paris. After responding to the call from Ellis following the success of EurIPS in December, we are pleased to reach a new milestone by joining forces with the NeurIPS organizing committee for the 2026 edition.

Great news!

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

How good are you at predicting how well Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini will perform on simple tasks? Here’s a little weekend quiz. We set AI tools some simple tasks and gave them 10 attempts at each one. See if you can predict the results – and then how you compare with others: quiz.wholesum.tech

It's honestly blackpilled me a little how the last couple of years have revealed that so many people are just fundamentally averse to reading and writing and thinking as worthwhile human activities.

Pretty good description of the Twitter ‘For You’ feed from @willdunn.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...

Scientists/science writers I found in Grammarly's 'expert review' system: David Spiegelhalter, Ivan Oransky, Mary Roach, Rebecca Skloot, Ed Yong, Melinda Wenner Moyer, Deborah Blum, Tom Knight, Michael E Mann, Corinne Le Quere. [pic: results of 5 trials w/ free burner acct]. No doubt many more.

Jeg betrakter norske Sydenreisendes prislidelser på #dagsrevyen (flyreiser, drivstoff), mens jeg selv planlegger påskereise til Sicilia med bruk av interrail pass (15% avslag tilbud frem til og med 31. mars). Ikke brenn opp kloden. Ta toget.

1) Queen! 2) The focus on code as a thing with a purpose that is reviewed and understood by people who assess it in a broader and often very nuanced context is vital here. We’ve all written basic coding bots for things that didn’t matter (and it didn’t need 1B parameters). Making them good is hard.

The time to register for this is now! It's a great opportunity for biological / biomedical researchers who want to get better in analysing their own data.

Garbage in garbage out U.S. News rankings the top 50 hospitals are driven overwhelmingly by reputation scores, which have almost no correlation with objective quality metrics. Newsweek’s global list weights "peer recommendations" at 55% and does not directly include outcome measures.

What's missing? The public. Decisions about whether AI can surveil American citizens or autonomously deploy lethal force are being settled in a contract dispute. No Congress. No democratic deliberation. No accountability. We've outsourced questions about the use of force to a corporate negotiation.

Important take on Anthropic vs Pentagon: Military use of AI (any use of AI) should be governed by law & regulations, just like any other products. In the U.S. it is Congress who needs to come up with the appropriate legislation; this is not something that a company gets to decide or the government.

fell for it again award

Towns that question the value of an unsafe, costly, environmentally unsound, poorly governed monorail could be ‘left behind’, says Monorail Salesman

To be clear, no country should have its head in the sand about AI. But ‘embrace’ here, from OpenAI, means one thing - ‘uncritically adopt our tech, become permanently dependent on our power and infrastructure, and pay us handsomely for the privilege’

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Tropical diseases spreading in Europe due to global warming. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

We used to say: “to get rich in a gold rush, sell shovels”, but I haven’t yet heard of a gold rush that took in all the worldwide production of shovels (and, actually, all the worldwide production of steel in order to make those shovels).

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

In a world where the US is turning into an authoritarian banana republic, Russia has wrecked its economy trying and failing to conquer its neighbor, and China is turning into a hyper-nationalistic totalitarian nightmare, it is surprising so many people are thinking that Europe is the failing one.

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.