Researchers and practitioners in responsible AI demand an end to the "decades long, tech-enabled apartheid and occupation of the Palestinian people" which has culminated in "a genocide of the Palestinian people." You can sign the letter here 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1SA…

NOW OPEN: Applications for our 2024-2025 fellowship cohort. BKC is seeking students, scholars, lawyers & technologists for a one-year fellowship engaging the legal, sociological, and political challenges posed by today's internet. Apply by January 22: brk.mn/fellows2425

😶‍🌫️ ¿Eres docente y necesitas acreditarte? ANECA abre un proceso participativo para decidir los criterios de evaluación de méritos y competencias. ¡Participa! #decidiminside by @[email protected]

We haven’t lost the capacity to pay attention. 179 studies, 32 countries: on tests of concentration from 1990 to 2021, children didn’t decline—and adults actually improved. When we want to focus, we can. Our distraction issues are a matter of motivation, not ability.

Hoy es el último día para votar cambios en los criterios de acreditación de la Aneca. Debajo una lista sencilla para votar los principales cambios:

Our paper in The Web Conference on Inequality and Concentration of Power in Online Governance We built and studied a census of the #DAOs ecosystem of 30K blockchain communities, with 200K proposals and 22M votes doi.org/10.1145/358933… (2min video on same link) #web3 #TheWebConf24 1/7

About a third of fossil fuel energy is wasted in production and transportation. A third! Another third is wasted turning fossil fuels into energy. Two thirds! The net energy efficiency of fossil fuels is about *37%*. 28/

ANÁLISIS | Las universidades israelíes y su legitimación del genocidio en Gaza eldiario.es/internacional/… Por @va_rocafort, Alfonso Casani y Samer Hassan @samerp2p.bsky.social 🇵🇸

🚨Extremely important testimonies of Israeli soldiers admitting to unspeakable atrocities in Gaza: Mass graves; tanks crushing Gazans alive; littering the streets with bodies of civilians, women & children for dogs to feast on; & shooting indiscriminately for fun out of boredom🧵

#BREAKING UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution demanding that Israel “brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence” in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and do so within 12 months Voting result In favor: 124 Against: 14 Abstain: 43

The ERC project MicroStars is hiring! If you are interested in stellar astrophysics, data analysis and/or software development (CUDA, python), take a look to the project description! -> drive.google.com/file/d/1FOsXWm…

Agency-wide email that had just gone out. I’m not often one to advocate for open non-compliance of NASA policies. But to all my NASA friends—if you saw something, you saw nothing.