#bigscience — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bigscience, aggregated by home.social.
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Includes images of many of the amazing neutrino detectors.
"Because of these and other audacious experiments, the particle that Pauli was sure could never be caught has slowly been revealing its secrets. The recipe for discovery hasn’t changed in seven decades: Think big, go deep, and summon patience."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-physicists-track-and-trap-the-elusive-neutrino-20260624/
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«La poursuite du savoir ne justifie pas tout» : dans les Alpes, un gigaprojet de collisionneur de particules divise les scientifiques — Vert https://vert.eco/energie/la-poursuite-du-savoir-ne-justifie-pas-tout-dans-les-alpes-un-gigaprojet-de-collisionneur-de-particules-divise-les-scientifiques
#bigscience #science #renoncement #research #cern #physics #interstellar #redirection #anthropocene -
The Arkansas Traveler: UA data science students launch sports analytics application Hog Charts. “Brady Brown and Wyatt Thompson, two University of Arkansas sophomore data science majors, created Hog Charts, a sports data analytics application they have developed over several months while sharing predictions on their Instagram, @hogcharts.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/22/the-arkansas-traveler-ua-data-science-students-launch-sports-analytics-application-hog-charts/ -
🔬 The #BigScience Problem – when will the next #paradigmshift happen? ↩️
The biggest questions in #science are far from being answered.
Perhaps, especially in the age of #BigScience, we need #newwaysofthinking again—not just bigger machines.📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/10/26/zoomposium-naumann-bohnet-das-raetselhafte-universum/
📺 https://youtu.be/1ouxs6P3Enc
#Zoomposium #ThomasNaumann #IljaBohnet #OpenQuestionsInPhysics #NaturalSciences #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #CriticismOfScience #Research #Physics #Cosmos #OpenQuestions
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How do we make ITER work? ⚡
Fusion energy could reshape the global energy system — but delivering it requires extraordinary physics, engineering, and international collaboration. ITER sits at that intersection of ambition and precision.
The scale of the challenge is matched by the opportunity. 🌍
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Totalement vertigineux 😱: "La somme des données accumulées sera telle que le Vera-Rubin aura produit, au bout d’une seule année de fonctionnement, plus de données astronomiques que… l’ensemble des observatoires qui l’ont précédé."
Des images de 3,2Gpixel. 1000 images par nuit.
5 Po par an de données brutes. 11 fois plus une fois traitées.
10 millions d'alertes par nuit.
Sur 10 ans.
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2026/02/23/vera-c-rubin-l-observatoire-qui-va-sonder-les-profondeurs-de-l-univers_6667963_1650684.html
#astronomy #researchdata #bigscience #data -
Although George Orwell was in favor of more skeptical/scientific ways of thinking, he was wary of Big Science because it could be exploited by an authoritarian state.
It's too bad we don't have Orwell around today to comment on Big Tech (though luckily we have @pluralistic ).
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ITER didn’t appear overnight 🌍⚡
Its origins lie in decades of research and rare international cooperation.I’ve been exploring how the project began and why it still matters today.
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🌍🔭 A Telescope Across Three Countries? Yes! 🔭🌍
The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) is revolutionizing radio astronomy with a telescope spanning three countries! 🚀🔬
Learn how this ambitious project is unlocking the mysteries of the universe:
🔗 https://www.skao.int/en/about-us/skao#Astronomy #SKAO #SpaceScience #RadioAstronomy #Innovation #BigScience
Image source: SKAO website
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⁉️ 🅓🅘🅓 🅨🅞🅤 🅚🅝🅞🅦?💡
📡 The 𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 is the most sensitive fixed radio telescope in the world! 🌍✨ Unlike the 100m Effelsberg radio telescope, FAST is built into a natural depression.
However, it uses an 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 ⚙️ to adjust its sensitivity and capture signals from different parts of the sky 🌌: The 𝟒,𝟒𝟓𝟎 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬 of its upward-facing dish dynamically deform. FAST can receive signals from an area of about 40° around the zenith. 🔭 Thanks to Earth’s rotation 🌍, it can also observe different celestial objects.
🔎 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣: Imagine you are lying flat on your back and looking straight up – that’s the zenith (90° above the horizon). If you extend your arm forward and make a fist 🤜 , the width of your fist represents about 10° in the sky. If you stack two fists on top of each other 🤜🤛 or spread the fingers of one hand ✋, you get about 20°.
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📢 Estamos selecionando seis centros de pesquisa para a Rede de e-Ciência da RNP, dedicada a instituições de ciência e tecnologia que atuam com “big science” 🌐
🚀 Com velocidade mínima de 100 Gb/s, a Rede de e-Ciência tem capacidade para transmitir grandes volumes de informação e conectar de forma segura infraestruturas de pesquisa que desenvolvam projetos científicos de grande escala, com demandas de colaboração de alto nível entre pesquisadores de várias instituições. Para se ter uma ideia, esta é uma velocidade mil vezes superior à média das conexões residenciais de internet no Brasil.
🏢 São elegíveis para participar do processo seletivo ICTs públicas e privadas brasileiras que já façam parte do Sistema RNP. As interessadas têm até 14/3 para submeter sua candidatura. Acesse o edital e saiba
https://www.rnp.br/rnp-lanca-edital-para-adesao-de-mais-6-centros-de-pesquisa-a-rede-de-e-ciencia/
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Just replace "neuroscience" with "biology" and it's still exactly true:
https://neuromatch.social/@neuralreckoning/113674402614988183
Big science means fewer ideas and less diversity, and in the end: worse science.
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🧮 Soil treated with organic fertilizers stores more carbon, study finds
(…not a surprise because many organic fertilizers are carbon rich and don’t send bacteria on a nitrogen-induced rampage but it’s a case of somebody having an X-ray source having a PR function)
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-soil-fertilizers-carbon.html
#carboncapture #climatechange #agriculture #xray #bigscience
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O Superman - Laurie Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S39NaDPNDtk -
Happy birthday Laurie Anderson!
Let X=X
“And I said: Oh boy. Right again.”
#LaurieAnderson #BigScience #Music
https://songwhip.com/laurie-anderson/let-xx -
Plus que jamais, nous sommes toutes et tous concernés par un projet d’une telle ampleur, et plus largement par cette interrogation abyssale : « Où va la science à l’heure de l’urgence climatique absolue ? »
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/03/21/le-futur-accelerateur-de-particules-geant-du-cern-est-ce-bien-raisonnable_6223213_1650684.html
#ClimateCrisis #renoncement #ethique #bigscience -
Cern aims to build €20bn atom-smasher to unlock secrets of universe https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/05/cern-atom-smasher-unlock-secrets-universe-large-hadron-collider #CERN #bigscience
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State-of-the-art telescope in Chile to offer best view yet of universe https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/05/astronomy-telescope-chile-vera-c-rubin-observatory #BigScience #astronomy
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Den som befinner sig i Lund kan gå och lyssna på det här i eftermiddag klockan 16--18.
Det är ingen som vet om det tänkta projektet kommer att gå i hamn såklart, men det är intressant fysik att höra lite om.
https://www.bigsciencesweden.se/calendar/activities/why-does-matter-exist/
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A paper I was involved in creating is on the cover of #Nature magazine!
Many of the visualizations in the article were taken from the data visualization tool I've been working on for the last year.
Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06812-z
Visualization tool: https://knowledge.brain-map.org/data/LVDBJAW8BI5YSS1QUBG/explore
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Re @fusionforenergy we firmly believe that #diversity is a strength and #inclusion a precondition for a healthy and fulfilling work environment. 💜🇪🇺🌈🫶👥♂️♀️
👉https://bit.ly/43fCKlJ
#DiversityandInclusion #bigscience #fusion #innovation #careerdevelopment https://t.co/oMykvW8BNx🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/fusionforenergy/status/1662021240343654402
