I don’t usually share my blog posts here, no reason why really, but I think I’ll try it this year. I won’t bombard you - I am aiming for more regularity, one every couple of months.
On my first post for 2026, I talk about why slow is sometimes good https://trudiewalters.com/2026/02/06/sometimes-slow-is-good/
I don’t usually share my blog posts here, no reason why really, but I think I’ll try it this year. I won’t bombard you - I am aiming for more regularity, one every couple of months.
On my first post for 2026, I talk about why slow is sometimes good https://trudiewalters.com/2026/02/06/sometimes-slow-is-good/
Rx Inspector, our free, searchable tool, allows you to look up where your generic prescription drug was made.
From patients and doctors to researchers, it is already reshaping how people make decisions. “This is a godsend,” one professor told us.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-reshaping-decisions-generic-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Research #Data #Science #Medicine #Pharmacy #Journalism #Drugs
📢 We are hiring ! #fediHire
My group is looking for 2️⃣ #research scientists in the field of #satellite 🛰️ remote sensing and data processing, to work in #Norway
One position (Tromsø or Oslo) will mostly be about #climate #SeaIce remote sensing from passive microwave sensors:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/294200/researcher
The other position (Bergen or Oslo) is mostly about #Ocean remote sensing from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) missions:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/294199/researcher-scientific-programmer
Both are 2-year positions, in the context of several projects we have with the #EuropeanSpaceAgency.
Please help and boost 🙌 .
"The state has for years tracked the number of pregnant people in county jails and incidents of restraints — but now, Texas is also collecting information about their prenatal care, mental health indicators, pregnancy outcomes and more. Advocates hope this effort will provide more accountability to a system that incarcerates hundreds of pregnant people each month."
#PublicHealth #incarceration #ReproHealth #pregnancy #MentalHealth #research #texas
"The state has for years tracked the number of pregnant people in county jails and incidents of restraints — but now, Texas is also collecting information about their prenatal care, mental health indicators, pregnancy outcomes and more. Advocates hope this effort will provide more accountability to a system that incarcerates hundreds of pregnant people each month."
#PublicHealth #incarceration #ReproHealth #pregnancy #MentalHealth #research #texas
✍️🧠 Is cursive a relic of the past? New #research suggests otherwise.
Scientists have found that the specific hand movements required for cursive #writing create unique neural pathways that typing simply can't replicate, helping with memory and #learning.
comparison of US and China spending on research is deceptive. Breakthroughs mostly come from outside commercial research. China is boosting this spending, and attracting key talent from the US. The US is dramatically cutting this type of spending. Over ten years or so this will mean that China is generations of technology ahead. Comparing $ spent hides important information #china #research #technology
comparison of US and China spending on research is deceptive. Breakthroughs mostly come from outside commercial research. China is boosting this spending, and attracting key talent from the US. The US is dramatically cutting this type of spending. Over ten years or so this will mean that China is generations of technology ahead. Comparing $ spent hides important information #china #research #technology
💡 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝟭𝟮 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆: 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛á𝗯𝗿ó𝗸 𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 (𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰) 🦅
Researchers at the University of Groningen! Is the power of your PC or laptop not enough to perform simulations or analyses of huge datasets? Meet 𝗛á𝗯𝗿ó𝗸: the computing cluster of the UG with more than 19000 CPU cores can help you in tackling your problem!🦾
During the workshop you will learn how to work with this system. 🚀
Grokipedia: The anti-intellectual online encyclopedia:
"Rather than relying on external datasets like the Dublin and Cornell authors (and thus having to limit their conclusions to only those citations covered by these datasets), the Davis authors were able to classify every citation in their dataset. This was achieved by "develop[ing] and appl[ying] a systematic content coding scheme based on [their own] 'Citation Content Coding Manual' [...] to assign each unique citation to exactly one of eight mutually exclusive categories", such as "Academic & Scholarly", "Government & Official", or "User-Generated (UGC)". This scheme was then automatically applied (by Gemini Flash 2.5, aided by an extensive coding manual and vetted against a manual classification of a small sample) to classify the roughly 50,000 citations in the entire dataset.
Regarding RQ2, the results revealed
a fundamental divergence in the substrate of authority used by each platform. Wikipedia is anchored by a dual foundation of "News & Journalism" and "Academic & Scholarly" sources. Together, these two categories account for approximately 64.7% of the global corpus [...] In Grokipedia, the reliance on "News & Journalism" remains robust, merely being reduced by 20 percent. However, the "Academic" pillar drops significantly, experiencing a 3-fold reduction [...]. Grokipedia substitutes scholarly sources with an increase in citations to Corporate & Commercial, Reference & Tertiary, Government & Official, Opinion & Advocacy, –all increasing by almost 50 percent of their Wikipedia share– and especially NGOs/Think Tanks (whose share increases by 3x), and User-Generated Content (UGC) sources (whose share increases by 4x) [...]"
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2025/December
Grokipedia: The anti-intellectual online encyclopedia:
"Rather than relying on external datasets like the Dublin and Cornell authors (and thus having to limit their conclusions to only those citations covered by these datasets), the Davis authors were able to classify every citation in their dataset. This was achieved by "develop[ing] and appl[ying] a systematic content coding scheme based on [their own] 'Citation Content Coding Manual' [...] to assign each unique citation to exactly one of eight mutually exclusive categories", such as "Academic & Scholarly", "Government & Official", or "User-Generated (UGC)". This scheme was then automatically applied (by Gemini Flash 2.5, aided by an extensive coding manual and vetted against a manual classification of a small sample) to classify the roughly 50,000 citations in the entire dataset.
Regarding RQ2, the results revealed
a fundamental divergence in the substrate of authority used by each platform. Wikipedia is anchored by a dual foundation of "News & Journalism" and "Academic & Scholarly" sources. Together, these two categories account for approximately 64.7% of the global corpus [...] In Grokipedia, the reliance on "News & Journalism" remains robust, merely being reduced by 20 percent. However, the "Academic" pillar drops significantly, experiencing a 3-fold reduction [...]. Grokipedia substitutes scholarly sources with an increase in citations to Corporate & Commercial, Reference & Tertiary, Government & Official, Opinion & Advocacy, –all increasing by almost 50 percent of their Wikipedia share– and especially NGOs/Think Tanks (whose share increases by 3x), and User-Generated Content (UGC) sources (whose share increases by 4x) [...]"
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2025/December
✍️🧠 Is cursive a relic of the past? New #research suggests otherwise.
Scientists have found that the specific hand movements required for cursive #writing create unique neural pathways that typing simply can't replicate, helping with memory and #learning.
New #research contradicts claims of #TikTok #censorship following a U.S.-led investor takeover. The study, analysing viewership metrics of political and non-political content, found a #datacentreoutage, not censorship, caused a drop in views. Researchers caution that subtle changes to content rules or the algorithm could still be occurring. https://www.npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-5701409/tiktok-censorship-report-epstein?eicker.news #tech #media #news
New #research contradicts claims of #TikTok #censorship following a U.S.-led investor takeover. The study, analysing viewership metrics of political and non-political content, found a #datacentreoutage, not censorship, caused a drop in views. Researchers caution that subtle changes to content rules or the algorithm could still be occurring. https://www.npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-5701409/tiktok-censorship-report-epstein?eicker.news #tech #media #news
💡 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝟭𝟮 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆: 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛á𝗯𝗿ó𝗸 𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 (𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰) 🦅
Researchers at the University of Groningen! Is the power of your PC or laptop not enough to perform simulations or analyses of huge datasets? Meet 𝗛á𝗯𝗿ó𝗸: the computing cluster of the UG with more than 19000 CPU cores can help you in tackling your problem!🦾
During the workshop you will learn how to work with this system. 🚀
Redwood National and State Parks this morning. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #sun #winter Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #california #redwood #colors #landscapephotography #driftwood #coast #ocean #research #beach #waves
