Immigrant. London, innit. Chemist. Opinion editor @Nature, ex-@NatureChemistry. Likes alliterative titles. She/her
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Are there any work-related tasks you want to "protect" from AI?
In a recent Nature article, @AnneNotInTokyo asked readers which tasks they most want to keep away from AI.
The pattern in the answers: people are protecting the tasks everyone assumes should be automated first.
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The Enhanced Games, which permits the use of performance-enhancing drugs, exposes flaws in the sporting world, says April Henning
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Getting Rosalind Franklin’s story right is crucial, because she has become a role model for women going into science
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Japan’s first female Prime Minister is no feminist — can she improve the research environment for women?
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Each year, more than nine million people in the United States do not take their medicines as prescribed owing to cost concerns
Tighter price regulation would deliver fewer new drugs but improve global health, says Beth Woods
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We asked 3,785 PhD students across 107 countries about their experiences. Where do you think the happiest doctoral candidates were?
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Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system, says Dolors Armenteras
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Have quantum mechanics proven Einstein wrong, sent particles back in time, decrypted everything, messed with physicists and philosophers...?
All this and more in this myth-busting piece from @skdh, @maria__violaris, @InackEstelle, Shweta Agrawal, Emily Adlam and Norma Sanchez
There’s nothing intuitive about quantum theory — six physicists debunk some of the most common misconceptions.
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Book review 📚 AI hype, crackling northern lights and more: take it all in with these holiday reads
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The Presidents of Mā’ohi Nui–French Polynesia and the Republic of Palau urge governments worldwide to avoid irreversible environmental damage to the region as well as the needless economic and geopolitical risks
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There’s no mystery to innovation and economic growth; the US must nurture its scientists or find out the hard way, says Michael S. Lubell, former director of public affairs at the American Physical Society.
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Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics
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A federal judge temporarily blocked the freeze late today, but it had already spurred many US universities to advise faculty members against spending federal grant dollars on travel, new research projects, equipment and more.
Read more in @Nature
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Trump will weaken climate action — the rest of the US must not follow suit, says political scientist Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo
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I am so excited to have interviewed sci-fi legend and climate visionary Kim Stanley Robinson.
“I’m married to a chemist, and my social circle is often made up of scientists. I’ve watched them with great pleasure”
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I am so excited to have interviewed sci-fi legend and climate visionary Kim Stanley Robinson.
“I’m married to a chemist, and my social circle is often made up of scientists. I’ve watched them with great pleasure”
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He also talked about the feeling of double alienation that can come from homesickness for more than one place…
ALT Screenshot from the Q&A. Q: Is that one reason why you sent a psychologist to the red planet in your Mars Trilogy? A: I had a lot of fun with Michel, the only French person and the only psychologist in the first group of 100 people to colonize Mars. Naturally, he goes crazy. He also realizes that going to Mars was an error of stupendous proportions and that he is very homesick. But by the time he gets home to Provence, he’s homesick for Mars.
No more spoilers! Find out how he feels about some of the climate catastrophes he made up becoming reality, how he talks to young people about climate dread, his thoughts on AI consciousness…
Link to his interview in @Nature
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As climate change and artificial intelligence (AI) reshape the world, some say that reality is starting to look a lot like science fiction. A book that people often point to is Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (2020), writes @AnneNotInTokyo.
Sci-fi icon Kim Stanley Robinson: ‘there’s so much bad fiction about anthropomorphizing AI’
The influential writer talks about frighteningly accurate predictions, the creative act of reading, AI consciousness — and hope.
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