The Commission’s mission to downgrade wolf protection Killing wolves must be made easier. That is the gist of a proposal, filed by the European Commission on 7 March 2025, to amend the appendices of the Habitats Directive. The amendment would remove the strictly protected Annex IV status which wolves currently enjoy in most Member States, … Read more
Since January 20, the news from America has been of an extravagant fervor, each morning presenting the avalanche of the previous day’s follies. The staggering spectacle offered day after day by the White House may be thrusting us a little more each day into a dystopia no one could have imagined arriving so quickly, but … Read more
President Donald Trump has set his sights on a legislative act aimed at kickstarting the U.S. semiconductor industry.The Trump administration said it wants to kill the CHIPS and Science Act, a Biden-era law that earmarked $50 billion in funding to help incentivize chipmakers to establish factories and offices in the U.S.Speaking in an address to … Read more
In the 1990s, Lane, as NSF director, ushered in the requirement that, in addition to intellectual merit, reviewers should consider a grant proposal’s “broader impacts.” In general, he said, the aim was to encourage science that would benefit society. The broader impacts requirement remains today. Among other options, researchers can fulfill it by including a … Read more
For their study, Yudkin et al. compiled a dataset of nearly 370,000 AITA posts, along with over 11 million comments, posted between 2018 and 2021. They used machine learning to analyze the language used to sort all those posts into different categories. They relied on an existing taxonomy identifying six basic areas of moral concern: … Read more
