Day: June 15, 2022

Grant applications and impact statements for research projects are important points for researchers and assessors to consider the future ...

Cross Post: Is Google’s LaMDA conscious? A philosopher’s view

Written by Benjamin Curtis, Nottingham Trent University and Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford Shutterstock LaMDA is Google’s latest ...

Constraint-evading surrogacy: the missing piece in Radical Embodied Cognition’s non-representationalist account of intentionality?

We have seen that the environmental complexity thesis implicitly recognises what amounts to the role of surrogacy in basic ...

The Influence of Online STEM Education Camps on Students’ Self-Efficacy, Computational Thinking, and Task Value

Angeli, C., Voogt, J., Fluck, A., Webb, M., Cox, M., Malyn-Smith, J., & Zagami, J. (2016). A K-6 computational ...

The Ethics of Academia Podcast (Episode 1 with Sven Nyholm)

I have been reflecting on the ethics of academic life for some time. I've written several articles about it ...

The metabolome of Mexican cavefish shows a convergent signature highlighting sugar, antioxidant, and Ageing-Related metabolites

Essential revisions: This work lays out a series of plausible associations between metabolic states in cave populations – based ...

A $100 genome? New DNA sequencers could be a ‘game changer’ for biology, medicine | Science

For DNA sequencing, this “is the year of the big shake-up,” says Michael Snyder, a systems biologist at Stanford ...

A Plea for a More Comparative, Inclusive Approach to Gen Ed Ethnic Studies Requirements

Those who only know the story of Tevye, the pious Jewish milkman, through the “bittersweet,” “life-affirming” 1964 Tony award-winning ...

Professors should initiate connections with students (opinion)