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Tighten US federal oversight of offshore wind development
Some 0.5 million hectares of offshore wind farms are leased along the US east coast, with more to come. A federal permit from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and state agencies is required to install turbines in leased areas and for selling leases. In my view, the effects on ocean life and fisheries of…
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generative AI could harm mental health
Tools that make use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) now feature on social-media platforms. These stand to boost learning through gamification and highlighting personalized content, for example. But they could also compound the negative effects of social media on mental health in susceptible individuals. User guidelines and regulations must factor in these strong negative risks.…
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Global south’s bold carbon dioxide removal projects
Focusing on mitigating carbon emissions over safe and regulated carbon dioxide removal (CDR; see D. T. Ho Nature 616, 9; 2023) risks undermining inclusiveness in the quest for climate-change solutions. Developing countries with low carbon footprints are crucial contributors to CDR. Competing Interests The author declares no competing interests. Continue Reading News Source: www.nature.com
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A mental-health crisis is gripping science — toxic research culture is to blame
There is a mental-health crisis in science — at all career stages and across the world. Graduate students are being harassed and discriminated against, paid meagre wages, bullied, overworked and sometimes sexually assaulted. It doesn’t get much better for early-career researchers struggling to land long-term employment. And established senior researchers face immense pressure to win…
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Allowing financial trading in California’s wholesale electricity market significantly reduces volatility
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Forward markets—over-the-counter marketplaces that set the price of a financial instrument or asset—are used to trade a variety of instruments, including securities and commodities. In a new study, researchers measured the extent to which forward prices and spot prices (the current market price at which a given asset can be bought…
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Developing novel tools for applications of argumentation to behavioral economics
The proposed Integrated Preference Argumentation framework, based on Revealed Preference Theory, consists of algorithms with applications of argumentation to behavioral economics. Credit: Van Nam Huynh from JAIST. Consumer purchasing decisions can be considered as a form of preference-based human reasoning. There are two major schools of thought on preference. While mentalism asserts that preference reflects…
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New research highlights the importance of meta-skills for public sector leadership
Focus of the dissertation. Credit: Public sector leadership meta-skills (2023). Leadership meta-skills should be developed in the public sector, according to Marika Tammeaid’s doctoral dissertation from the University of Vaasa, Finland. These skills would serve as an antidote to harmful bureaucratization and help siloed administrative sectors to succeed in collaborative governance. Essential… Continue Reading News…
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Effective capital markets are needed to protect the climate
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study investigates the role of effective capital markets for climate protection and the energy transition. Banks collect savings and make them available as loans and the greater the difference between savings and loan interest rates, the more it costs to invest. This affects, for example, investments in fossil-free steel…
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Are you prone to feeling guilty? You may be less likely to take a bribe
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Bribery is among the most recognizable forms of corruption, and new research is shedding light on personality traits that could deter this behavior. Guilt-prone people are less likely to accept bribes, particularly when the act would cause obvious harm to other people. The research, published in Social Psychological and Personality Science,…
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How mixing academia and industry opens doors in graduate school and beyond
Patience Chihomvu pitched her postdoctoral project proposal to pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2022.Credit: Andy Dunbar/The Burstproof Bubble Completing a postdoc at a company wasn’t always on the radar for Patience Chihomvu. But in 2021, the biotechnologist and recent PhD graduate was facing an all-too-common issue: how to fund her research. Chihomvu had…