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Artificial IntelligenceArsenii AlenichevBasil StücheliDecolonizationFairpicture
Published in Reda Sadki
Author Reda Sadki

The arrival of artificial intelligence in the global development and non-profit sectors has sparked a period of intense ethical reflection around what some are calling ‘poverty porn 2.0’. The challenge is not merely technical but fundamental to non-profit mission.

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Published in CST Online
Author Ben Keightley

A police officer who has become unpopular in his home department is seconded to a small island which is a French Overseas Territory.  He arrives in a suit, which is incongruous to his surroundings and new colleagues, develops a relationship with his new partner, a Frenchwoman, which is by turns adversarial and potentially romantic.

Crystal_structure_miningInteresting Chemistry
Published in Henry Rzepa's Blog

In my story about one of the molecules of the year, cyclo[48]carbon, I noted that the DFT method used in the literature to model the C-C bond length alternation around the ring (OX B3LYP30) had been re-calibrated against a remeasured crystal structure of C18H18 or [18]-annulene (below) in order to reproduce the observed values for […]

SpatialLandscape-ecologySpatial-patternsSpatial-machine-learningMsca-pf
Published in Thinking in spatial patterns

Time flies, and I am now much closer to the end of the PRISM ( PReservation and RecognItion of Spatial patterns using Machine learning ) project than to its beginning. 1 . The project’s primary goal is to develop methods for validating and including spatial patterns in machine learning. In this blog post, I summarize the project’s progress from April 2025 to February 2026 and share related outputs and activities.