FESN Call for applications: fesn.eu/students-point… This call is open until 27 September 2024. Seven students will be elected at the Council Meeting on October 2024. The positions will start in February 2025 for a period of 2 years 🥳.

Since the weight of all major car models is known, we could replace speed limits with a limit on overall kinetic energy, forcing heavy pickups to slow down while kei trucks can weave through traffic with the pedal to the floor.

So true

Apparently a well-used food additive can be applied to (non-human, so far) skin and make it transparent, allowing for the organs within to be visible?? This seems straight out of sci-fi science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

If you've ever wondered why most business software sucks, it's for the same reason as this cartoon. The person responsible for buying the software isn't using it in the way the end users are.

The portals for #EPSLondon25 are now open! Portals will remain open for at least 24 hours, please see the below page for more info and to submit! eps.ac.uk/submit-an-abst…

Poster is up for #BACN24 on "Collaborative imagination synchronizes representations of the future and fosters social connection in the present" Paper is already published! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Congratulations James Read-Tannock for winning British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience best poster award! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Grant applications should work more like papers. Instead of Accept/Reject, it should be Accept/Minor revision/Major revision/Reject.

Two days ago, a lawfirm filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against 6 commercial publishers (incl Elsevier & Wiley) in the federal district court in New York. They allege a 3-part scheme on part of publishers. 🧵 lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/acad…

Some things never change! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated c. 70 AD, the stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. The Roman inscription reads:

Great study on selective exposure to online news. The US is fascinating not just because of its high degree of polarization, but also because liberals, in particular, consume almost no cross-cutting news. 1/ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

surely a ramp would be better

Had this idea right as I woke up

When an engineer graduates in Canada, they are presented with an iron ring in a ceremony called The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer. The ring origin is claimed to relate to the Quebec Bridge collapse of 1907 but that isn't quite true. Let's learn more! 🧵1/8

Using photogrammetry of an old TV's circuitry to generate an aerial view of a post-apocalyptic cityscape through Runway Gen-3 V2V. Did I ever mention I’m obsessed with experimentation?

Apparently this is a real thing?? youtube.com/watch?v=MIEVou…

Utterly obsessed with this UCL researcher who won an Ig Nobel for showing that “Blue Zones” where people supposedly live well past 100 at unusual rates are actually just full of clerical errors and people committing pension fraud ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/…