“Health Secretary Wes Streeting met with and expressed sympathy for members of a parents’ group that promotes conversion therapy and has been found to engage in child abuse against trans children, QueerAF can reveal.”
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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EU hails ‘major’ progress on plan to set up special tribunal to judge Vladimir Putin
'No one from Russia and no one from Russia's leadership is untouchable.'https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/04/eu-hails-major-progress-on-plan-to-set-up-special-tribunal-to-judge-vladimir-putinPosted by 00ezgoBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Dans un récent rapport, la Rapporteuse spéciale sur la situation des droits de l’homme dans les territoires palestiniens occupés depuis 1967, Francesca Albanese, examine les horreurs qui se produisent dans le territoire palestinien occupé: la destruction systématique de Gaza se poursuit et d’autres régions du territoire ne sont pas non plus épargnées. La violence qu’Israël […]
#Politique #3International #Articles #FrancescaAlbanese #Gaza #GénocideÀGaza #Onu #Palestine
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Nara’s littering issue: A life-or-death problem for the deer. Nine dead deer found with plastic waste in their stomachs
Nara's littering issue: A life-or-death problem for the deer. Nine dead deer found with plastic waste in their stomachshttps://www.sankei.com/article/20250205-X7VZQJIHWBN4DBYOLEHPKC6FC4/BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
New albums by Andrew Heath and Harry Towell (Glåsbird’), to celebrate the launch of their brand new Driftworks label.
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Andrew Heath * Glåsbird – Ambientblog
New albums by Andrew Heath and Harry 'Glåsbird' Towell, to celebrate the launch of their brand new Driftworks label.Peter van Cooten (Ambientblog)
These 2 papers provide compelling empirical evidence that competition in #science leads to sloppy work being preferentially published in hi-ranking journals:
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Using the example of structural #biology , the authors report that scientists overestimate the damage of being scooped, leading to corner-cutting and sloppy work in the race to be first. Faster scientists then end up publishing sloppier work in higher-ranking journals.
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I'm not surprised that their finding in structural biology generalizes to other fields.
And given the fact that this work is esentially a confirmation of a suspicion many have had for a very long time, I think it is also time to ask: how much more data and evidence does science need before we conclude it's time to act?
Or is this a question like how many academics are needed to change a lightbulb? 😆
The deeper issue is that of evaluation in academia. At the moment, and for quite some years, many have taken "more" as better, in both number of papers and of citations, plus the additional axis of perceived importance, i.e., the glamour journal aura and their impact factor use as rubber stamping credentials.
This castle of cards falls down quickly when considering that e.g., a large double-digit percent of papers in glamour journals are never cited at all – motivating the article-level metrics –, and that a significant percent ends up retracted – invalidating any claims that more citations means better.
To evaluate scientists from their published papers, evaluators have to read the papers, discuss them among themselves, contextualize them to the needs and future of their institution, and make up their mind. There are no shortcuts.
Exactly.
What I was trying to say is that the data seems by now overwhelming in support of droping this kind of evaluation.
How can we get scientists to do what they always ask of the public in terms of,. e.g. climate crisis: "follow the science"?
I mean, how can we expect anybody to "follow the science" if even we ourselves don't seem to bother with it?
Protests against Trump and Project 2025 are planned in cities across the US (Associated Press)
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Protests against Trump and Project 2025 are planned in cities across the US
A movement to oppose the early actions of President Donald Trump’s administration is taking off online. Protests are planned across the U.S. on Wednesday.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP News)
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Good morning lovely people 💕💕
Happy #humpday to all who celebrate 🥂
Looking forward to meeting a friend for lunch, we haven't seen each other since before COVID!!!
So much to catch up on!!
I know she went on Haj a few years ago so I definitely want to hear all about that!!
Whatever your day brings I hope you have a good one.
Sending love and hugs to you all 🥰🥰🤗🤗
Last night I saw an exciting #YouTube video from #DistroTube that convinced me to try #emacs in the #doom version again. Yes, I was one of those simpletons who thought emacs was "just" an editor like #vim. Shame on me and you can all laugh mockingly.
The video also showed the first steps. I managed to do that with a few pull-ups. #emms plays music, although a long list with thousands of music tracks is not comfortable. And #RSS #feeds work too, even if I'm still struggling with the operation. Conclusion so far: it still needs some getting used to. #Linux #Arch
My mother’s estate includes this original portrait of Julia Putnam (b. 11/21/1830, d. 11/24/1901). She was the daughter of Colonel Abligence Waldo Putnam and his wife the former Catherine Anne Sevier. Julia was the great granddaughter of John Sevier – the first governor of Tennessee – and the great, great granddaughter of Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam.
The portrait was important to my mother because she was also descended from these families, howevermuch she was estranged from her own. Rather than having the portrait become just another object in her estate sale, my brother and I are seeking to rehome the portrait to an individual or organization with some relationship to Julia’s history and/or family.
Please reach out to me if the portrait may be of interest to you or somebody you know.
How Rust is quietly taking over the Python ecosystem
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#programming #python #rustlang
Efficiently Extending Python: PyO3 and Rust in Action
Learn how to combine PyO3 Python and Rust to develop high-performance and flexible applications. Uniting security and performance 🚀Korbinian Habereder (BLUESHOE)
I have a @starlabssystems Starlite MK V and I want Gnome to go into the "Tablet" mode whenever I fold the keyboard to the back (deactivate keyboard and open the on screen keyboard). It seems like there is no intended way how to do that therefore I wrote a small workaround.
Does anyone have a better idea?
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Ça devient suffisamment rare pour être signalé: un pays européen - en l'occurrence, la Belgique - s'est dit prêt à faire passer le droit et la justice avant ses bonnes […]
#Politique #TéléPalestine #VidéosTransit
Besides the AMD crasher, I wondered why the dev version of Showtime, #GNOME's power-efficient video player in incubation, sometimes still refused to launch; turns out it's randomly crashing with a segfault on startup for another reason.
After jumping through hoops to get a backtrace (#Python in #Flatpak makes things somewhat harder to debug), it turns out that #GStreamer is not the culprit. Presumably, it may be a bug in #GTK or somewhere else in the stack. Details here: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubat…
Showtime Nightly randomly segfaults on startup (even with no video) (#158) · Issues · GNOME / Incubator / Showtime · GitLab
Testing the latest nightly flatpak version on my desktop workstation with discrete open source AMD graphics (and another testbench with onboard AMD graphics), I realized one of the...GitLab
Court to Question Police Chief on Feb. 13 in Pres. Yoon's Impeachment Trial
Photo : YONHAP News The Constitutional Court has set February 13 to question Police Commissioner General Cho Ji-ho as a witness during President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment trial, after he failed to appear at the previous hearing on January 23.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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