Alexander Weber

@weberam2
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Assistant Professor πŸ” in the Department of Pediatrics at UBC, Vancouver, Canada πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
Interested in multi-model quantitative MRI 🧲 in developing baby brains πŸ‘ΆπŸ§ .
Outdoor enthusiast πŸ§—πŸ‚πŸš΄πŸ»β€β™‚οΈπŸ₯Ύ
weberlab.github.io
@weberam2.bsky.social
By now, you have seen the Earth image by the #Artemis crew at least a hundred times. In this annotated version, several #optics effects are highlighted. It also shows how fragile planet #Earth is, with a super thin #atmosphere protecting us from the harsh vacuum of space.
Let's protect it.

"Contemporary academic job management culture is fundamentally incompatible with quality research and lecturing."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405872622000181

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/text-is-king

Is reading dying? Some interesting thoughts in here

Text is king

read on, queen

Experimental History

" a submission tsunami fueled by generative AI, paper mills, and publication pressure has strained these conferences' review pipelines to the breaking point"

https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

GPTZero's analysis 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations

AI Detection Resources | GPTZero
Paris Marx (@[email protected])

For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display. For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet β€” and why digital sovereignty is imperative. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is-a-u-s-military-base/ #tech #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #digitalsovereignty #politics

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For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display.

For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet β€” and why digital sovereignty is imperative.

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is-a-u-s-military-base/

#tech #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #digitalsovereignty #politics

Every data centre is a U.S. military base - CCPA

Understanding how the United States uses its tech companies to serve empire

CCPA -

As AI systems advance, they will
challenge our fundamental assumptions about research quality, scholarly communication, and the nature of intellectual labor.

https://gwern.net/doc/science/2025-kusumegi.pdf

#science #academia #publishing #llm

40 percent of MRI signals misinterpreted

Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.

Does anyone know how to access the #Altmetric API now? They require an API key, which, when i applied for one they denies me. Very annoying, as I had a python script that pulled the Altmetric data and autopopulated my CV. Now I have to do this manually