PhD in Art-Science-Action Integration & Challenge-Based Sustainability Education
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Pint, Poster, Paper: Slice-and-Dice Heating Decarb (2026) - From Pint-of-Science public talk to academic paper; derivatives and heat-pump load profiles. #PhD #heating #flexibility - https://www.earth.org.uk/pint-poster-paper-slice-and-dice-decarb.html #EOU
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PhD Research on UK Wet Heating Retrofit - A continuing summary of Damon's research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research - https://m.earth.org.uk/PhD-research.html
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PhD applicant, AI-generated emails:
Para 1 - generic salutation
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PhD (4 years) on experimental characterization of snap fit joints (Belgium)
Ghent UniversityThis PhD will focus on development of experimental characterization techniques for the engagement and long-term performance of snap fit joints.
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/ghent-university-27778-phd-4-years-on-experimental-charact...
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➡️ New PhD studentship on #OpenData in #Edinburgh, competitive in our Eastbio Doctoral cohort. Please boost, and/or highlight to MSc/final year undergraduates.
We've shown that our colleagues in #Biology here are sharing their research data at very high rates. The sharing part is no longer the main challenge.
So this studentship moves on to understand RE-USE of the data, code and models. This is more difficult, but also more motivating to researchers! we've teamed up with Gary Polhill of #JamesHuttonInstitute who specialises in agent-based models, and sharing those.
Join the BioRDM team as we tackle this next step, along with many other #OpenScience groups including some here on the fediverse.
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You cannot sustain a continuous stream of PhD students without having a continuous stream of never-ending and ever-shifting problems, right?
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Python specialists needed | STEM Researchers - MSc/PhD (Must own MacBook)
$50-60/hr for part-time research work, 10-20 hours a week
✅ Narrating literature reviews and data analysis as you go
✅ Python, Jupyter, MATLAB, R or LaTeX in daily use
✅ Own MacBook with macOS 15 or higher required👉 Apply here: https://nearskill.in/jobs/stem-researchers-mscphd-must-own-macbook-9FpJre?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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🌏 IRTF Diversity Travel Grants support early-career academics and PhD students from under-represented groups attending IRTF meetings at IETF-128 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in March 2027.
📅 Apply by November 27, 2026. This earlier deadline gives successful applicants more time to arrange visas.
Thanks to Netflix, Comcast, Akamai, and Google for making these grants possible!
Details: https://www.irtf.org/travelgrants/
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◾🆕️ *Próximo LUNES!!!* 🆕️⚖Los invito a una NUEVA #Conferencia⚖
✒ *“FLECTERE SI NEQUEO SUPEROS, ACHERONTA MOVEBO: la lucha por la supervivencia del consentimiento del titular en el tratamiento de datos."*
💠 *Dra. PhD Johanna C. FALIERO*
💻Videoconferencia
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RE: https://solarsystem.social/@planetary_research_jobs/117467556405001174
Want to work with Jessica Agarwal at @tubraunschweig on small solar system objects, with the possibility to define your own research project, either as a doctoral researcher or as a postdoc? Then check out this job announcement:
#solarsystem #phd #phdposition #postdoc #jobad #fedihire #space #planetaryscience #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #Germany #Braunschweig #TUBraunschweig #IMPRS
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Nerdy friends. My wife is dong something interesting as part of her PhD:
🧠 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: New Research on Masking, Inauthenticity, and Mental Health*
As part of my PhD research at Birkbeck, University of London, I am investigating the links between social masking, inauthenticity, and mental health outcomes. I am actively looking for both autistic and non-autistic participants to take part.
Who can take part? Anyone aged 18 or older.
What is involved? Completing a short set of online questionnaires (approx. 25 minutes of your time).
Benefits: Entry into a prize draw for a £25 Amazon voucher!
This project has been approved by the Birkbeck Ethics Committee (Ref: 2526041).
To take part or find out more: Scan the QR code on the poster or follow this link:
https://lnkd.in/eJv6SjnjThank you for supporting academic research! Feel free to share or tag anyone who might be interested.
#PhDResearch #MentalHealthResearch #Birkbeck #Psychology #ResearchStudy #AutismResearch #Masking #Camouflaging #MaskingResearch
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ॐ श्रीं ह्रीं सरस्वत्यै नमः।
Om Shrīm Hrīm Sarasvatyai Namah
With this mantra, I invoke the Hindu goddess of learning and the arts, Maa Saraswati, and lay my PhD at Her feet.
Thank you to my interviewees, my mentors, my Infosec/geopolitics colleagues on X/LinkedIn/Mastodon and my mates for your generosity and the vital role you have played in this journey of mine.
Thank you to Dr Cary Di Lernia (pictured in Image 2), my divine charioteer since we first met in his undergrad environmental law class in 2017, for making this thesis what it is and for, well, putting up with me. All the laughs, wisdom, encouragement, honest feedback, it got me to that stage in the Great Hall and beyond. Thank you, sir. It all means a ton.
And thank you to Mum and Dad for backing me to do this, as with everything in my life. This is more yours than it is mine. I am much more relieved for youse than for myself, given how much you have invested in getting me to where I am - before, during and after the PhD. You have made me the man I am. This is for you.
(Images courtesy of Dad!)
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🚀 Minimax just dropped the M31 Flash model weights, making it easier than ever to dive into cutting-edge AI.
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Up to 100 USD/hr | Physics and Engineering AI Evaluation Expert
Open to applicants in the United States, part-time and fully remote
✅ Reviewing AI answers for accuracy and logical consistency
✅ Writing rigorous physics questions that test scientific reasoning
✅ A master's or PhD in physics or engineering👉 Apply here: https://nearskill.in/jobs/physics-and-engineering-ai-evaluation-expert-748538?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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🧠 Microsoft just dropped MAI-Base-2, a 2T parameter model that’s 12x more hardware-efficient than its rivals.
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"Leave it to you? Please! Unlike you, I actually have a PhP in medical science" Amelia playfully reached out to take the bandage out of Gura's hand, only to have it snatched away by the shark.
"Isn't it a PhD?" Gura raised her eyebrow in confusion. Ina hid a chuckled behind her hand while Amelia looked like she had to reboot quickly.
🐠 #PHP
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A warm welcome to the new members joining our group! ❄️🛰️
(From left to right in the photo)
🔹 Diren Senger: Works on sea ice age and drift within the ESA SAGE project and has a broad interest in data science applied to environmental sciences.
🔹 Moritz Mund: Geography student joining the group for a two-month internship, with a particular interest in applying GIS methods to Arctic research.
🔹 Caitlyn Peretzke: Master student in Space Sciences and Technologies at University Bremen joining for her master project and thesis in the field of multi-parameter retrieval algorithms for sea ice.
🔹 Jiaxing Gong: Visiting PhD student from Sun Yat-sen University with a background in sea ice remote sensing, now exploring Arctic sea ice extreme events, as well as tracking how ice-associated marine mammals are coping with the changing Arctic.
Thrilled to see what you all discover! Welcome to the team, Diren, Moritz, Caitlyn, and Jiaxing! 👏🧊
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Cornelia Sollfrank: Was kann Kunst beitragen zu digitalen Commons?
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Thursday, November 5 at 07:00 PM GMT+1
Dieser Frage ging das künstlerische Forschungsprojekt Creating Commons nach. Über einen Zeitraum von drei Jahren untersuchte das Team zusammen mit eingeladenen Künstlerinnen und Theoretikerinnen, wie ästhetische Praxis neue Tools entwickelt und zur Verfügung stellt, Infrastrukturen und Archive baut, Räume und Formate für kollaboratives Lernens sowie institutionelle Praxis neu erfindet. Besonderes Augenmerk legte das Projekt auf die Frage, wie diese Praxisformen herkömmliche Grundbegriffe von Ästhetik in Frage stellen beziehungsweise erweitern.
Cornelia Sollfrank (Phd) ist Künstlerin, Forscherin und Autorin und lebt in Berlin. Sie studierte Malerei an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München und Bildende Kunst an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (1987–1994). Sie promovierte an der University of Dundee (Vereinigtes Königreich), wo sie sich mit dem Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Urheberrecht und Kunst befasste. Ihre künstlerische Praxis ist eng mit ihrer wissenschaftlichen Forschung verflochten. Wiederkehrende Themen in ihrer künstlerischen und wissenschaftlichen Arbeit im Bereich der digitalen Kulturen sind künstlerische Infrastrukturen, neue Formen der (politischen) Selbstorganisation, digitale Urheberschaft, die Ästhetik der Commons, kritische Datenpraxis sowie technofeministische Praxis und
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Science with impact – architecture meets marine science 🤝 ✨
// bluprint lab x Science Comes to Town x Waterkant FestivalWith roots in architecture and marine science, Jael Kahlenberg Caso and Mats Heitzmann founded bluprint lab to bring marine life back to harbours and cities. 🐟
Their reef modules are 3D-printed from recycled construction-site clay and plug straight into existing infrastructure. Then they measure how biodiversity returns. #itsamatchLooking for your own perfect match, whether its a person or a topic, maybe even an innovation in science? 👀
Science Comes to Town offers plenty of exciting events over the next few months:Co-Founder Meet&Match
29.10. | 3–7 pm | Kiel City Hall
At the pitches and matchmaking, you can find co-founders or a team to join. No idea of your own needed. // Startup Port Zentrum für Entrepreneurship - ZfE Uni KielScience for Impact Sessions
11.11.2026 | 13.01.2027 | 27.01.2027 (different locations)
How does research actually make it into the world? Visit research institutions and incubators and go behind the scenes to see how science turns into projects, startups or even companies. Its all about exchange, networking and inspiration, whether youre a student, a PhD candidate, a researcher or just curious.
// by opencampus.shhSo what are you waiting for?
// Find more events, lots of inspiration and maybe your #Match 🙌ScienceComesToTown MarineRestoration Startup Entrepreneurship Kiel Brest Split Innovation
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It's also issued warrants for Hamas leader Mohammed Deif.
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The International criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes in Gaza.
It's also issued warrants for Hamas leader Mohammed Deif.
Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen has the developments from The Hague.
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Seminario: RISC-V, optimizaciones y aceleración de código
Aula 1102, Pabellón Cero + Infinito, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, jueves, 22 de octubre, 17:00 GMT-3
Queremos invitamos al segundo encuentro los Seminarios de Computación de Alto Desempeño, Sistemas Distribuidos y Arquitectura.
En esta ocasión vamos a seguir avanzando sobre la relación entre compiladores, arquitectura y desempeño.
El tema va a ser: RISC-V, optimizaciones y aceleración de código
La idea del encuentro es empezar a analizar y aprender cómo las decisiones del compilador se relacionan con una arquitectura concreta.
Los temas van a ser:
- breve repaso de arquitectura de computadores;
- introducción a RISC-V;
- vectorización y extensión RISC-V Vector (RVV 1.0);
- optimizaciones clásicas realizadas por el compilador;
- relación entre código fuente, optimizaciones y códigogenerado.
La segunda parte del encuentro va a ser más práctica: vamos a trabajar directamente compilando ejemplos, inspeccionando el código generado y viendo cómo distintas opciones y transformaciones afectan la ejecución.
La idea, como siempre, no es suponer experiencia previa específica con RISC-V, sino construir una intuición de cómo se conectan:
código -> compilador -> optimizaciones -> ISA -> hardware
A partir de esto, empezar a entender qué significa realmente "optimizar" un programa para una arquitectura.
Fecha: Jueves 22 de octubre
Horario: 17 a 19 hs
Lugar: Aula 1102 (pab 0+inf)
Nos vemos,
Saludos,
LICAR PhD teamhttps://cartelera.inexactas.ar/event/seminario-risc-v-optimizaciones-y-aceleracion-de-codigo
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Economist Robin Hanson did not invent the Great Filter
Humanity seems to have a bright future, i.e., a non-trivial chance of expanding to fill the universe with lasting life. But the fact that space near us seems dead now tells us that any given piece of dead matter faces an astronomically low chance of begating (sic) such a future. There thus exists a great filter between death and expanding lasting life, and humanity faces the ominous question: how far along this filter are we?
Robin Hanson, 1996 or 1998During the Cold War, it was a commonplace that we might make ourselves extinct or end industrial civilization. After all, humans were lighting navigable rivers on fire, producing mountains of waste with no good plans to dispose of it, and putting weapons more terrible than the Sun into hands with the self-control of an ornery chimpanzee. It seemed very plausible that the Third World War might start, some junior officer would drop a nuclear warhead on an armoured division in Bavaria or Thuringia, and a few days later there would be mushroom clouds over every city in the Northern Hemisphere with more than 10,000 people. The main thing to debate was whether some remote parts of the world might survive more or less intact to repopulate the Northern Hemisphere (Brazil, South Africa, and New Zealand were among the more realistic choices). Science fiction fans extended this idea to other hypothetical civilizations and suggested that any species like humans would be in danger of starting devastating wars just as it became capable of reaching space. Let’s look at some examples:
- In 1963, Fred Saberhagen wrote the first story featuring the Berserkers, self-reproducing artificial intelligences programmed to destroy all life. The Berserkers have eliminated all intelligent life in the Milky Way which they have encountered (including their creators) until they encounter humanity. The very next story in the same issue of Worlds of If has a throwaway paragraph about “A galaxywide game, played for planets, using local cultures. And always according to the rules. No new technologies. No new weapons. Use what you have at hand. Play it fair. Because if you do not, neither will we — and together we will eliminate the universe.” (Gary Wright, “Captain of the Kali,” Worlds of If (January 1963), p. 113 archive.org / isfdb). The main debate among worldbuilders at the time was whether the future would be cyclical rises and falls (Asimov’s Foundation, Piper’s Future History) or a choice between galactic expansion and destruction. In Saberhagen’s setting, almost all spacefaring civilizations are annihilated by Berserkers, but not every civilization builds its own Berserkers.
- In 1972, Freeman Dyson gave a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study where he warned that unleashing robotic von Neumann probes or comets laden with trees (!) across the galaxy could end badly. Reporters recorded part of it as follows: “I have a feeling we’re going to discover things that are not so pleasant, particularly since the activities we’re likely to discover first are highly technological activities. We’re more likely to discover first the species in which technology has gone out of control, a technological cancer spreading throughout the galaxy. We should be suitably scared if we discover it, and take our precautions.” (Israel Shenkers, Will Galaxy Reveal a Technological Cancer? A Physicist Wonders, The New York Times 27 Nov 1972 p. 37) Dyson did not say that this was the most likely outcome, but that humans were more likely to notice alien technology which was reproducing out of control than technology which quietly grabbed a few small asteroids or comets and scooped some gas from Saturn. This talk was alluded to by futurists interested in John von Neumann’s robotic probes.1
- Carl Sagan’s Cosmos (1980 TV series with accompanying book) contains a rhapsody imagining aliens receiving radio transmissions from Earth. “There was our region of the galaxy; there was our world. I had found the entry for earth: HUMANITY: THIRD FROM THE SUN. They had heard our television broadcasts and thought them an application for cosmic citizenship. Our technology had been growing enormously (they got that right). Two hundred nation states, about six global powers, the potential to become one planet. Probability of survival over a century — here, also, less than one percent.” Sagan postulated that if a species developed nuclear weapons, it would probably wipe itself out, and imagined alien scientists estimating humanity’s chance of survival based on observing many civilizations.2
With more time I could add many more examples of science fiction which uses aliens to talk about the Cold War and the possibility that humanity or industrialized civilization would annihilate itself, such as Piper’s First Cycle from around 1960 or Murray Leinster’s “Second Landing” from 1954. Most of these do not explicitly say that destruction is the most likely outcome, because they were written for people who understand subtext and can generalize. A science-fiction story is not an academic treatise, but ideas flow back and forth between science fiction and academic futurism.
In 1996 or 19983 a PhD student named Robin Hanson called this the Great Filter. He acknowledged that this idea was not new:
A devastation scenario is implicit in the usual formulation of the Drake equation. For prior evolutionary steps the equation asks for the probability that the system will reach the next step, but at our level of evolution, the equation asks for the expected time until the civilization disappears, and once gone it is assumed to never return.
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I personally think that most of the Great Filter is most likely to be explained by the steps I think we understand the least about: the steps in the biological evolution of life and intelligence. However, many physical scientists focus on explaining the filter via the area they seem to think we understand the least: social science.
Astronomers Sagan and Newman, for example, claim that either we will destroy ourselves with nuclear weapons, or learn to “live with other groups in mutual respect” by losing “our own predispositions to territoriality and aggression. … This adaptation must apply … with very high precision, to … every individual within the civilization”, so that we become the “least likely to engage in aggressive galactic imperialism” [Sagan & Newman].
Similarly, Papagiannis claims that “those that manage to overcome their innate tendencies toward continuous material growth and replace them with non-material goals will be the only ones to survive this crisis,” implying a galaxy “populated by stable highly ethical and spiritual civilizations” [Papagiannis 84]. And Stephenson claims that “for a truly advanced intelligence the drive for quality rather than redundant quantity would be paramount” [Stephenson 82].
The early Internet was scholarly, and it was hard not to know in 1996 that many educated people thought humanity had almost extinguished itself or civilization had almost ended itself. So Robin Hanson naturally cited earlier versions of his idea. However, time passed, and people got distracted from nuclear war by other dangers. Hanson and his friends like Eric Drexler and Toby Ord are still around and promoting themselves, while writers from the 1960s and 1970s are not. And so I meet people online, and read Wikipedia pages, which say things like “The concept originates in Robin Hanson’s argument …”
This is clearly incorrect. The idea that a civilization able to build radios and travel into space would likely destroy itself was common in the 1960s and 1970s, and featured in an extremely popular TV series in 1980. Therefore, the idea existed long before Robin Hanson gave it a catchy name in 1996 or 1998.
I am not as amusing as those old science-fiction writers and futurists, and I would much prefer to be writing about ancient roads and medieval doublets. But someone was wrong on the internet, and dreams of yesterday’s tomorrows seem more important than zombie ideas about ancient Greek cleavers. If you can, please support this site. If not, continue as I point to some other context for Hanson’s ideas.
What we have forgotten and what we have learned
Hanson’s post has some curious ideas, like the idea that a “bright future” for humanity requires filling the universe with life, and perhaps disassembling Jupiter or Sol for spare parts. When he shared it, I think most readers ignored them and went back to arguing about whether Captain Picard could beat Darth Vader or which operating system to use. This was a mistake, just as the magazine article a few years earlier which called some similar ideas the California Ideology. His ideas came from places much older than California, and some of them could first be found in monasteries not think-tanks.
Sagan and Hanson and Hanson’s disciples like to contrast light with darkness. That is theological language out of Zoroastrianism via Jewish and Christian thought. If you tell yourself that all that matters is whether eternity is filled with life and light or death and darkness, you can screw yourself to the sticking point and do terrible things to actually existing human beings today. Elsewhere Hanson envisions a future of countless simulated humans working themselves to exhaustion for a bare minimum subsistence while biological humans live in luxury (The Age of Em, 2016), and in 2023 he was still concerned about fertility decline even though the world population was the highest it had ever been and still growing.4 The same righteousness that comes out of dualistic theology is the righteousness that might let someone launch the A-bombs or unleash the Berserkers. Words have power and these are dangerous visions.
I am a scholar of ancient Iran, not of apocalyptic religions. I don’t want to explore all the places that Hanson’s ‘s ideas come from here. But for now, I will leave you with two questions. If you think that expanding across the universe is the most sacred of all causes, and machines seem better suited to doing that than humans, do you really love life? And what if the interests of life as we know it clash with what would be required to launch that first von Neumann probe? Bertolt Brecht saw what happens when men who love ideas more than people find that the ideas lose their stark beauty when human beings are ordered to carry them out.
Wäre es da / Nicht doch einfacher, der Philosoph / Löste Menschheit auf und / Schäfte etwas neues?
Further Reading
Charlie Stross, We’re sorry we created the Torment Nexus, speech at Next Frontiers Applied Fiction Day, Stuttgart (2023)
And did you notice that I wrote this post as a truth sandwich?
(scheduled 18 October 2026)
- Robert A. Freitas Jr., A Self-Reproducing Interstellar Probe, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 33 (1980), pp. 251-264 ↩︎
- Next time I visit a library I will check the printed version of Cosmos but i am posting this on Sunday between two elections. ↩︎
- Hanson’s own page says 1998 at the top and 1996 at the bottom. Perhaps he posted several versions at different dates, or perhaps he lost track since he was busy with a PhD at the time and soon got a tenure-track job. ↩︎
- Or the fertility of specific people who can “ensure the continuation of something like our dominant world culture.” Hanson is an economist, so shouldn’t he ask whether a declining population would make it more beneficial to have children, as people saw that their neighbours’ children could easily get good jobs and homes? Economics is about costs and benefits and dynamic equilibria. ↩︎
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