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death of a benefactor of humanity (Etienne-Emile Baulieu, 1926-2025)
Posted in Kids, pictures, University life with tags abortion pills, abortion rights, Faculté de Médecine de Bicêtre, France, French Academy of Science, Mifepristone, National Academy of Sciences, obituary, Paris, reproductive rights, Roe v. Wade, RU-486 on June 7, 2025 by xi'an
Nature tidbits [Jan 2025]
Posted in Statistics with tags @ScientistTrump, abortion rights, Africa, Anaheim, Belarus, climate denial, climate science, Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, David Spiegelhalter, DNA, E. coli, East Germany, Ethiopia, Germany, hallucinations, Heligoland, Human Rights, impact factor, Instagram, Jimmy Carter, Nature, neuromorphic computing, Protect Abortion, quant, quantum, quantum mechanics, Roe v. Wade, Russian invasion, spreadsheet, The Art of Uncertainty, Ukraine, UNESCO, University of Warwick, Werner Heisenberg on April 13, 2025 by xi'an
– yet another 100th anniversary!, namely the founding paper of Heisenberg’s quantum mechanics paper in Zeitschrift für Physik, written on the Instagrammable island of Heligoland. With celebrations at the UNESCO in Paris, Anaheim (CA), Kumasi (Ghana), and Salvador de Bahia (Brazil)!;
– some bird species decorating their nest with shed snakeskins, to frighten predators;
– climate predictions for Trump 2.0, albeit the only certainty being it will get worse and worse (and only the beginning of a flow of articles on the Trumpian attacks on science and scientists);
– the curious plight of the open access journal elife loosing its impact factor after getting too open for Clarivate and then seeing submission from China falter;
– the first European cities from 6000 years ago being found in Ukraine (and Romania) within the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, with apparently an equalitarian structure with no temple or elite, although the lack of written documents (besides beautiful clay figures whose style evolved over the period);
- an AI tool that interprets spreadsheets (which I would find most useful, given my distaste of said spreadsheets!);
and how to help lab workers facing substance disorders. And break
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– a quick report on a Physics Review Letters paper about simulating elections results to spot whether or not margins of victory were properly distributed, having a distribution (for the scaled margins) mostly depending on voter turnout, with a universal shape! The concept behind this analysis is one of universality borrowed from statistical physics. (The fit does not work for the Ethiopian election of 2010 and the Belarus elections during 2004–2019, no wonder!);
- an awakening that the huge majority of bacteria that have never been studied, or at least figured in a published paper;
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yet again another paper about testing AI for human-level intelligence, plus another one on handling AI hallucinations in LLM;
– another book review of David Spiegelhalter’s Art of Uncertainty, by Yongyi Min, a statistician from the UN Statistics Division;
- the obituary of Jimmy Carter, a nuclear physics engineer who fought (for peace, human rights and) for the eradication of the Guinea worm disease, which could possibly happen anytime soon, with 13 human cases reported in 2024 (provisional) and 14 in 2023 (unless the Agent Orange cut enough funding to impact this as well), following a book review of You must stand up, by Amanda Becker, covering fighting for abortion rights across US regions;
creating a DNA base for identifying children kidnapped during a conflict, as for the 20,000 Ukrainian children forcibly deported to Russia over the past three years;
a substantial survey article on neuromorphic computing (submitted in 2023!), about new forms of computing based on hardware/software co-design;
with more technologies to watch in 2025, and another long article (and the cover) on the strong impact of small-scale fisheries on sustainable development.
abortion bans increased fertility rates and infant deaths (through a Bayesian analysis)
Posted in Books, Kids, Statistics with tags abortion, abortion ban, Bayesian hierarchical causal model, Bayesian hierarchical model, causality, Donald Trump, infant mortality, maternal mortality, my body my choice, panel data, Poisson factor model, posterior predictive check, Protect Abortion, reproductive rights, Roe v. Wade, social disparities, Stand Up To Trump, Supreme Court, Texas, The New York Times, US politics on February 26, 2025 by xi'an
“fertility rates in states with abortion bans were higher than would have been expected in the absence of these policies, with the largest estimated differences among subpopulations experiencing the greatest structural disadvantages and in states with among the worst maternal and child health and well-being outcomes” Bell, Frank & al., JAMA, 13 Feb 2025
“The groups that are most likely to have children as a result of abortion bans are also individuals who are most likely, for a number of different reasons, to have higher rates of infant mortality,” THYT, 13 Feb 2025
“Infant mortality in Texas was 9.4 percent higher after abortion bans were implemented than would have been expected” THYT, 13 Feb 2025
“Evidence suggests that increases in the fertility rate due to abortion bans were especially large among people who experienced structural disadvantage, including racially minoritized individuals, those without a college degree, and individuals using public health insurance3—all groups with higher infant mortality rates.” Gemmil, Frank & al., JAMA, 13 Feb 2025
gaming with abortion rights?!
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags abortion rights, anti-abortion organisations, Constitution, Emmanuel Macron, far-right, IVG, natalism, nationalism, Pétain, Roe v. Wade, Senate, The Guardian on February 11, 2024 by xi'an
plan C
Posted in Kids, Travel with tags abortion pills, abortion rights, documentary, Mifepristone, Misoprostol, plan C, reproductive rights, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, US politics on December 6, 2023 by xi'an
