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Grace Wales Bonner Knows How to Pull Off the 10-Minute Fashion Show. Her New MoMA Exhibition Presented a Different Challenge
Portrait of Grace Wales Bonner by Liz Johnson Artur. Image courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art. Over the last decade, Grace Wales Bonner has established herself as a sort of synthesizer of creative worlds. The designer has earned a coterie of accolades, including an appointment last year as Member of the Order of the British Empire,…
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Optimized SAR imaging algorithm with SSL constraints for the Azimuth direction
Abstract In order to address the low azimuth imaging problem of traditional Range Doppler (RD) algorithm, a high-resolution imaging algorithm with optimal azimuth sampling sequence length (SSL) constraints is hereby proposed. According to this algorithm, efforts are made to design a formula for the calculation of the initial azimuth SSL on the basis of SAR…
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Jeanette Erdmann (1965–2023)
Jeanette Erdmann, professor of human genetics at the University of Lübeck and the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), sadly passed away on 9 July 2023 at the age of 57. We grieve the loss of an extraordinary woman who embraced her scientific profession with unwavering dedication, contributing to groundbreaking work in the field of…
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Planting the milestones of human genetics in Senegal
Implementing human genetics research: an itinerary of a researcher from low-income settings. I remember, after my PharmD graduation, how happy my mother was. She said, “Now that you are done with school, you have to set up your own drugstore, find a good husband and settle down.” However, my destiny was far from supporting this…
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Machine culture
Abstract The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notion of ‘machine culture’, culture mediated or generated by machines. We argue that intelligent machines simultaneously transform the cultural evolutionary processes of variation, transmission…
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Research can help to tackle AI-generated disinformation
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools have made it easy to create realistic disinformation that is hard to detect by humans and may undermine public trust. Some approaches used for assessing the reliability of online information may no longer work in the AI age. We offer suggestions for how research can help to tackle the threats…
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LLMs differ from human cognition because they are not embodied
Large language models (LLMs) are impressive technological creations but they cannot replace all scientific theories of cognition. A science of cognition must focus on humans as embodied, social animals who are embedded in material, cultural and technological contexts. There is the technological question of whether computers can be intelligent, and also the scientific question of…
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We need a decolonized appropriation of AI in Africa
Technocoloniality is when the use of technology in a particular way causes a colonial way of thinking that seeks to exert power, control and domination, often to replicate colonial patterns of oppression. For example, digital technologies — such as the internet and mobile telephones — and the process of colonialism can be understood as historically…
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Looking at frailty and intrinsic capacity through a geroscience lens: the ICFSR & Geroscience Task Force
On 22 March 2023, the Geroscience Translational Research & International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research (ICFSR) Task Force met in Toulouse, France to discuss avenues to foster the development of intrinsic capacity and frailty clinical trials under a geroscience perspective. A synthesis of these discussions and a set of recommendations are presented in this…
