Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Red-billed streamertail (Trochilus polytmus): Why Governments Need Science Advice With Angela McLean - Advancing US-UK Scientific Collaboration with Angela Mclean

 

Why Governments Need Science Advice With Angela McLean - Advancing US-UK Scientific Collaboration with Angela Mclean 


Dear Professor McLean, All, 

Greetings from the SF Bay Area's East Bay, and World University and School building on MIT OCW in 7 languages for free-to-students' WUaS degrees in all 200 countries and in their main languages, and in coding for all 7.9 billion people on the planet each a Wikidata PIN # from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and which is also Wiki. WUaS is developing a realistic virtual earth for much of what you talked about. Thanks for your edifying and bridging "Why Governments Need Science Advice With Angela McLean" excellent armchair talk today W August 12, 2026 - https://www.youtube.com/live/KAaRlGeA5k0 .

About 24 minutes in ... and forward - appreciating your AI discussion - and even with a possible reference to realistic virtual earth - different ways to do our science together ... 

Happening now:
Civic Scientist Lecture Series: Why Governments Need Science Advice With Angela McLean #OxfordProfessorAngelaMcLean & #UKchiefScientificAdviser
 @UniofOxford @RiceUniversity -
https://www.youtube.com/live/KAaRlGeA5k0
AND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAaRlGeA5k0
How could a #RealisticVirtualEarthForScientificAdvice a  #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM (and think Google Street View with time slider at the #GCellView, #GMoleculeView #GAtomView even the #GQubitView levels and with little Pegman becoming our #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords in a #RVEforEHR - and see too re a #RealisticVirtualEarth Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article "Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: World University In School, updated March 2, 2024  - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - with its first mention of a Realistic Virtual Earth other than by WUaS) and with Gemini & TensorFlow AI @WorldUnivAndSch in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, help? 

Also regarding Scientific Advice to Governments, particularly in your role in the DoD in Great Britain, please see the PPPS and regarding #GeneralBiologicalIntelligenceAI and the great interview too with Stanford CS professor of Machine Learning, Eric Nguyen, and as WUaS seeks to interoperate this in a #RealisticVirtualEarth, even a #RVEforAgingReversal, a #RVEforExtremeLongevity, a #RVEforGenetics and more. 

All the Best, Friendly NtF Quaker, Yoga (as in 8 limbs of Yoga) and UU regards, More later, Thank you,
Scott






- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS), building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages,   
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516



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Happening now:
Civic Scientist Lecture Series: Why Governments Need Science Advice - #OxfordProfessorAngelaMcLean & #UKchiefScientificAdviser @UniofOxford @RiceUniversity -
https://www.youtube.com/live/KAaRlGeA5k0
How could a #RealisticVirtualEarthForScience #RVEforSTEM @WorldUnivAndSch help?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2087590186591088914

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2087590948717093288

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2087591391216259343

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2087591576524697825

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2087591729700716830

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2087594050442686600

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2087594249965777028


Restweeting -


S&T Policy with K.R.W. Matthews, Ph.D.
@stpolicy
TOMORROW: Dame Angela McLean joins
@BakerInstitute
 for a Civic Scientist Lecture on U.S.-U.K. scientific collaboration, innovation & science diplomacy.

Register: https://bit.ly/4bu612n  #BakerLive #SciencePolicy #ScienceDiplomacy

https://x.com/stpolicy/status/2087238077345398878





PPS

My notes - 



https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestreamcivic-scientist-lecture-series-with-angela-mclean-tickets-1993612412392








AND

krwm@rice.edu


Kirstin R.W. Matthews at Rice Baker Institute at Rice University's Baker Institute

Introduces

Civic Scientist Lecture Series: Why Governments Need Science Advice With Angela McLean

https://www.youtube.com/live/KAaRlGeA5k0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAaRlGeA5k0







PPPS


Eric Nguyen @exnx - I sat down with @mariogabriele  on the Generalist podcast to talk about why DNA is the most complicated and important language ever ...


Eric, 'How best @exnx @GeoChurch @amyneurons to create a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingReversal (think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GdnaView #TextInTheSideBar) https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2082923524902257113 #GBIforAgingReveral in #RealisticVirtualEarthForDNA re https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 @WorldUnivAndSch?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2084702092426698797

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2084702629465342344

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2084703783393828980

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2084703437791654132

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2084704310596907442


https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2084705096332718096 



Retweeting -


Mario Gabriele
@mariogabriele
What happens when AI can write the genetic code for life itself?

Eric Nguyen (@exnx) is the co-founder of
@RadicalNumerics, the lab behind the models that generated the first genome ever created entirely by AI, a bacteriophage that had never existed in nature until it wrote one. He believes DNA should be treated the way language is treated: something a model can read, then write.

With more DNA sitting in public databases than there is text on the entire internet, he sees an almost unmined field, one where the models built to make sense of it remain, by his own admission, no more sophisticated than linear regression.

Thank you to the partners who make this possible
@ahrefs
 Brand Radar: Find your brand in AI results: https://ahrefs.com/generalist
@brexHQ
: The intelligent finance platform: https://brex.com/mario
@Guru_HQ
: The AI source of truth for work:

(3:35) An overview of Radical Numerics
(11:08) Why they started with DNA
(26:24) The limits of language models in biology
(31:15) Eric’s free-range upbringing and path to his PhD program
(41:20) Applying long-context models to DNA and meeting his co-founders
(55:30) How better general LLMs benefit Radical Numerics
(1:02:05) Making biology more concrete
(1:18:09) Final meditations

https://x.com/mariogabriele/status/2084610303673934104






PPPPS


Twitter - Eric Nguyen - Radical Numerics has 16 roles open, from MTS pre/post training, infra & systems, mech interp, to product leads in scientific discovery.


Yoga Sat 8/1/26 -



How best @exnx @GeoChurch @amyneurons to interoperate these 16 #CSroles @ https://x.com/exnx/status/2082490968910246071 in @WorldUnivAndSch dev a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingReversal #ForLongevity, #ForGenetics (#GStreetView #GCellView #GMoleculeView w #GTimeSlider) w #GeneralBiologicalIntelligence?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2082923524902257113

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2082925853336625483

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2082925137687671243

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2082926757112639504

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2082927495595352322

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2082927880410157080

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2082929245316424052


Retweeting -

Google AI
@GoogleAI
Mapping the Brain with Connectomics
https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/2082466336228122711



AND 

How best @exnx @GeoChurch @amyneurons to interoperate these 16 #CSroles @ https://x.com/exnx/status/2082490968910246071 in @WorldUnivAndSch dev a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingReversal #ForLongevity, #ForGenetics (#GStreetView #GCellView #GMoleculeView w #GTimeSlider) w #GeneralBiologicalIntelligence?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2082924192421515667

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2082924916710785444

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2082925659492622814

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2082926549255483735

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2082927344088674801

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2082927726932226431

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2082929034233852326 

Amy Robinson Sterling
@amyneurons
Your history of connectomics list forgot the first actual brain connectome, the whole fruit fly brain! We should make a website with all the known connectomics datasets to date, from all sources!

https://x.com/amyneurons/status/2082749209615192357



ALL Re 

Eric Nguyen

@exnx 

https://x.com/exnx/status/2082490968910246071

Radical Numerics has 16 roles open, from MTS pre/post training, infra & systems, mech interp, to product leads in scientific discovery.

Our team is growing rapidly in SF, and so are the models. We’re pretraining the largest biological AI models ever. Science is the next frontier in AI.

Roles:
https://radicalnumerics.ai/join-us

- MTS Pretraining
- MTS Post-training
- MTS Infra & systems
- MTS Model interpretability
- MTS ML engineer
- MTS Inference
- MTS AI supercomputing
- Product lead - Discovery
- Product lead - Diagnostics
- Computation biology
- Protein design
- MTS Biosecurity
- Head of Data Acquisition
- MTS AI bio
- Applications engineer
- Marketing associate

https://x.com/exnx/status/2082490968910246071




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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS), building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages,   
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org




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Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Bulbophyllum spp: Twitter - #AIprofs are negotiating .new realities of academic research | #MITTechReview * * * [Air-L] CFP: AoIR CDMX Preconference: In Defense of the Commons ~ Did you or any of you see this GREAT Creative Commons' Fireside Chat with its Founders * * * Stanford Medicine - ENT Experts Up Close- Latest Advances in Rhinology and Sinus Surgery, Tue August 11, 2026 * * * What are around five next likely OSK aging reversal gene drug therapies likely to go through clinical trials related to the ER 100 drug for glaucoma conditions, epigenetic reprogramming, but somehow also quite different? What are around five next likely OSK aging reversal gene drug therapies likely to go through clinical trials related to the ER 100 drug for glaucoma conditions, epigenetic reprogramming, but somehow also quite different? https://share.gemini.google/pxEACRi58KBE What are around five next likely OSK aging reversal gene drug therapies likely to go through clinical trials related to the ER 100 drug for glaucoma conditions, epigenetic reprogramming, but somehow also quite different from ER 100. What are the five next possible or likely OSK drugs to enter clinical trials? Turn Biotechnologies' ERA platform uses mRNA and lipid nanoparticles to transiently deliver reprogramming factors for skin and immune rejuvenation without using viral vectors. Rejuvenate Bio injects systemic AAV-based OSK therapies into the bloodstream to reverse widespread age-related diseases like heart failure and whole-body frailty. Retro Biosciences directs AAV-delivered epigenetic reprogramming factors into highly specific peripheral tissues to treat osteoarthritis and age-related hearing loss. Altos Labs engineers customized transcription factors and small-molecule alternatives to standard OSK to treat broad metabolic and neurodegenerative conditions. Ex vivo cellular reprogramming extracts patient cells, resets their epigenome safely in a lab environment, and reinfuses them to cure blood or brain disorders. https://share.gemini.google/pxEACRi58KBE * * * Claudia, Thanks - at MIT - for connecting on LinkedIN Tu 8/11/26 & greetings from World Univ & Sch building on MIT OCW in 7 languages +



Twitter - #AIprofs are negotiating .new realities of academic research | #MITTechReview


#AIprofs are negotiating .new realities of academic research | #MITTechReview https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/10/1141597/ai-professors-are-negotiating-the-new-realities-of-academic-research/ "If .next big #AIbreakthrough comes not from a major company but from.scrappy academic lab" How might #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM @WorldUnivAndSch help https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2087276692759089427

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2087276822358827506


 



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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org






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[Air-L] CFP: AoIR CDMX Preconference: In Defense of the Commons ~ Did you or any of you see this GREAT 

Creative Commons' Fireside Chat with its Founders 


Zach McDowell <zmcdowell@gmail.com>, criticalcommonsresearchnetwork@gmail.com, zjm@uic.edu, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>, president@worlduniversityandschool.org, air-l@lists.aoir.org


Dear Zach, AoIR community, all, 

Thanks so much for organizing this on 'AoIR Preconference: In Defense of the Commons' Oct 14, 2026.

A
Did you or any of you see this GREAT 
Creative Commons' Fireside Chat with its Founders 
with Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Molly Van Houweling, in conversation with moderator Glenn O. Brown 
Founders Fireside Chat | 23 June 2026


A 1
And here's a question I asked in this - 

A Creative Commons’ question for the future: How best to Creative Commons’ license aspects of an emerging #RealisticVirtualEarth and a #RealisticVirtualHarbin as ethnographic & STEM field site (think Google Street View with Time Slider and at the GCellView and GMoleculeView levels, with TensorFlowAI), #TextInTheSidebar which everyone can add to via ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy & in many other ways (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy )? (And see the INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article by Peter Norvig - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 mentioning a realistic virtual earth, the first time I know of other than World Univ & Sch mentioning it).

posted in this 
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Puffin : ... blog post  


B
Free-to-students' World University and School WUaS, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages, and like CC-licensed Wikimedia / Wikipedia in ~348 languages, has been in Wikidata since around 2013, Wikipedia's backend structured knowledge database presumably in ~348 languages too - and for AI and ML databases too. WUaS is also in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program. WUaS also has created the beginings of Creative_Commons_Law wiki subject or school - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_Law (accessible from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) for open wiki-teaching and wiki-learning. 

Is World university and school creative commons licensed 

How best could free CC-focused World University and School WUaS help build out Creative Commons' licensed libraries of data and resources further, and in all 200 countries (and WUaS is planning to develop further ~200 world class universities in each of all 200 countries from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and planning online free-to-students' WUaS Law Schools in these countries and in their official languages too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School#World_University_and_School_Links) and in all 7159 known living languages? And how best could free CC-focused World University and School WUaS build out the Commons for a #RealisticVirtualEarth - think Google Street View with G Time Slider, GMaps, GEarth, Gemini and TensorFlow AI and at the GCellView, GMoleculeView, GAtomView and GQuibtView levels too? World University and School is also growing this #RealisticVirtualEarth for STEM and STEAM field sites, especially for a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs, and for further ethnographic and social science and scientific research, in a conversation between the physical and the digital.


B 1
Here are the beginnings of a #RealisticVirtualHarbin in #GStreetView with time slider (and I've added a couple of pictures to this, but without paying attention to Commons' licensing) - 

at the Harbin Hot Springs' Gatehouse 
~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~


Scott MacLeod's
Naked Harbin Ethnography:                  
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin 
by Scott GK MacLeod
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html
Academic Press at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html



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In my next book, "Society, Information Technology and the Global University," I'll focus on some Creative Commons' questions, and potentially in WUaS helping to build out the Commons' further. (Am also seeking some readers and conversants regarding my upcoming book as I proceed writing the 9th chapter; please let me know if any of you might be interested in this).


D
Although CC-licensed World Univ & Sch plans to build out early in Spanish and English, and to offer free online WUaS degrees from home (and WUaS isn't yet accredited). I can't make the AoIR CDMX - https://aoir.org/aoir2026/ - in Mexico from 10/14/26 due to financial constraints in part.


Thanks so much. Will there be an email subgroup regarding the 'AoIR Preconference: In Defense of the Commons'? Might videos of any presentations be available after the CDMX conference?

All the best, 
Scott
Scott GK MacLeod


Here is the World University and School open Weekly Business Meeting from yesterday, M 8/10/26 using the Agenda from M 8/3/26 - 

Monday, August 10, 2026
Sandia Mountain Wilderness, NM: M 8/10/26 Recording @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSGermany #GeneralBiologicalIntelligenceAI #OSK ? * (was - M 8/10/26 & 8/17/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL)


https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/08/sandia-mountain-wilderness-nm-m-81026.html

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/08/sandia-mountain-wilderness-nm.html




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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org







PS

 Dear Glenn, Larry, Molly, Hal, Eric, Creative Commons, All,  ...




PPS

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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2026, forthcoming) 

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516 


1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - 



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Zach McDowell via Air-L air-l@lists.aoir.org

Mon, Aug 10, 10:13 AM (1 day ago)
to air-l

CFP / Announcement: Pre Conference workshop: October 14, 2026


AoIR Preconference: In Defense of the Commons

Workshop facilitators: Zach McDowell, Fenwick McKelvey, Matt Vetter


As the Internet becomes just a data dump for the next AI model, there is a growing demand to articulate the loss and what's at stake over the Internet's future. We argue the commons is a critical, normative concept that needs to be reasserted. 


Our workshop aims to build capacity in the development of new theory and practice through the The Critical Commons Research Network (CCRN), an international research collective focused on examining the sharing of digital public knowledge through infrastructural, political-economic, policy lenses, and other critical approaches. This network connects researchers, creating opportunities for mentorship and collaboration around the (digital) commons.

The workshop aims to:

  1. Coordinate research on Internet commons and other shared services online, including Wikipedia, the Creative Commons, open AI models, and emerging hardware or peer-to-peer server collectives;

  2. Advance new theories of the commons as a normative concept for internet studies;

  3. Advocate for alternative forms of resistance against new enclosures of the commons through the Critical Commons Network.


A key function of the preconference is to coordinate researchers addressing the loss and threats to current Internet commons.


We aim to gather 20 to 30 researchers working along themes around the commons for a focused workshop articulating a plan for the network and to coordinate global research on commons theory and practice. We invite participants to submit a brief biography, description of their research project, and relevant publications.


The half-day workshop will be organized around three 60-minute thematic discussions developed from participant responses. Selected participants will be invited to give brief lightning talks to animate discussion. We anticipate themes to include:

  • Wikipedia: Fondly known as “the last best place on the Internet,” Wikipedia was founded on the utopian promise of a decentralized, collaborative, and nonproprietary model for creating and sharing “the sum of all human knowledge." Wikipedia remains a shining example of the digital “commons” — repositories of knowledge and information that have become infrastructural layers that support the Internet as we know it. 

  • The future of free, libre, and open source collaboration: Beyond Wikipedia and its sister Wikimedia projects, the digital commons also includes open-source software projects (Debian, Pubpub), shadow libraries that circulate publicly funded research, and interoperable interfaces (such as RSS feeds and APIs). These institutional mechanisms for content, whether knowledge, data, multimedia, or code, eschew exclusive traditional property rights in favor of social governance, harnessing diverse, non-market motivations to create shared public goods.

  • AI Commons: AI drives new forms of extraction and enclosure of the commons through large language models (LLMs) that repurpose volunteer labor and open data in ways that may undermine the sustainability of the projects themselves. Open models, distributed model interfaces, and agentic-human collaborations function as both an alternative and a threat to growing empires of AI. Can open AI actually mitigate these negative externalities for the commons? 

  • Theory and application of “traditional” commons systems (forestry, fisheries, etc) applying towards digital systems.

The discussions will be recorded and collected as a report and included in a forthcoming special issue in communication +1. Whenever possible we will attribute contributions to participants, but participants should expect their contributions to inform these outputs.


We encourage critical engagement with commons and commons theory. The ideal of the commons as an open, equitable, and self-regulating space exists under constant pressure, for many reasons. Internally, these projects are not the "mythical egalitarian space" they are often described as. They are characterized by power asymmetries, systemic biases, and complex bureaucracies that can exclude newcomers and marginalized communities who may wish to negotiate and challenge established norms. 


Half-day for short workshopping to ensure there is time for networking activities. 

Please submit by September 15th (earlier the better):

  1. Your name and affiliation;

  2. A 250 biography and/or description of your research program;

  3. A 250-word interest statement on your idea that you’d like to develop and discuss

Participants will be selected through a peer-review, and announced soon thereafter.


Please send CFP emails to: criticalcommonsresearchnetwork@gmail.com

(for any clarifications you can reply to me)
live long and prosper,

Zach 

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Zachary J. McDowell, PhD
New Book out: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
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Stanford Medicine - ENT Experts Up Close- Latest Advances in Rhinology and Sinus Surgery, Tue August 11, 2026


Dear Dr, Patel, 

Thanks so much for your excellent "ENT Experts Up Close: Latest Advances in Rhinoplasty and Sinus Surgery" presentation here - https://stanford.cloud-cme.com/course/courseoverview?P=5&EID=56919. 

Here is the 

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Question I asked in the Q&A - 

Thanks, Dr Patel, for your excellent ENT talk on sinusitis. Will aging reversal genetic drug therapies in the future, FDA approved, likely reverse sinusitis? Thanks, Scott GK MacLeod (worlduniversityandschool.org/ - World University and School with ~200 planned digital WUaS Medical Schools in all 200 countries in their main languages, - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - and brainstorming, with Toyota Humanoid Robot MD Professors of Surgery in the back of Toyota Teaching Hospital buses  … and in a realistic virtual earth for surgery, and think #GoogleStreetView with G Time Slider with little Pegman becoming our #AvatarAgentEHR #Hashtags on TwitterX and sometimes on #LinkedIN, - and at the #GCellView, & #GMoleculeView levels and TensorFlow and Gemini AI).




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Asked Gemini / AI Mode a related question to the one I asked in registration - 

What might be an emerging OSK drug, or a variety of them, that could actually age reverse what I'm calling my eustation tube dysfunction in my right ear or water wound that started in a Yale swimming program, I posit, in the late 1960s and causes discomfort. I'd like to reverse it with age reversing OSK gene drug therapies if some might emerge even in 10 or 20 years. What are some possible possibilities here?


While OSK (Oct4, Sox2, Klf4) and epigenetic reprogramming are gaining significant traction for central nervous system tissues like the optic nerve, applying these therapies to address long-standing Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) or chronic middle/inner ear liquid retention introduces unique structural and biological hurdles.

The Eustachian tube itself is primarily composed of respiratory-type mucosal epithelium, smooth muscle, cartilage, and underlying connective tissue rather than neural cells. Reversing decades-old physical or inflammatory changes in these tissues via OSK gene therapies will likely take time to emerge.

Several potential avenues, mechanisms, and delivery models could develop over the next 10 to 20 years for ear conditions:

Local OSK/mRNA Transfection via Intratympanic Micro-Injections Instead of system-wide gene therapy, future therapies might deliver transient OSK mRNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles directly into the middle ear space via a minor transtympanic procedure (similar to routine ear tube placement). This localized exposure could reprogram the aged or chronically inflamed mucosal lining of the Eustachian tube without systemic side effects, resetting tissue inflammation, restoring lost cilia function, and improving natural fluid drainage.

Epigenetic Rejuvenation of Mucociliary Clearance Eustachian tube health depends heavily on tiny hair-like structures (cilia) sweeping fluid out into the nasopharynx. Over time or following swimming-related chronic inflammation, damaged or Senescent (aging) epithelial cells lose this sweeping action. Delivering partial reprogramming factors (such as modified OSK protocols or small-molecule OSK mimetic drugs) specifically targeting mucociliary precursor cells could regenerate healthy, fully functional ciliated epithelium.

Targeting Auditory Neuro-Somatic Pathways If chronic fluid retention or past mechanical trauma has led to secondary tissue stiffness, micro-scarring, or localized nerve hypersensitivity around the tensor veli palatini muscle (which mechanically opens the tube), vector-based gene therapies using specialized viral capsids (AAVs) could target the surrounding neuromuscular junction. Epigenetic rejuvenation of these specific neuromuscular tissues could restore the dynamic opening and closing mechanics of the tube during swallowing or yawning.

AAV-Mediated Regeneration of Surrounding Connective Tissue Chronic low-grade fluid accumulation can cause deep structural remodeling in the cartilage matrix supporting the Eustachian tube. Long-term developmental pipelines exploring OSK therapies packaged in specialized biomaterial hydrogels could be placed directly adjacent to the cartilage. Over weeks, controlled expression of OSK factors could reverse cartilage degradation and restore the structural elasticity required for proper pressure equalization.



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Also asked AI Mode - 


sinusitis - Will aging reversal genetic drug therapies in the future, FDA approved, likely reverse sinusitis?

Aging reversal genetic drug therapies will likely not cure chronic sinusitis by themselves. Sinusitis involves physical blockages, structural issues, and chronic inflammation from infections or allergies that gene therapies cannot fix alone.
Why Aging Reversal May Not Work
  • Blocked Passages: Bone shape and swollen tissue block your sinus openings.
  • Bad Bacteria: Germs and fungus live in the mucus and cause infections.
  • Allergy Triggers: Your immune system reacts strongly to pollen and dust.
How Future Tech Might Help
  • Better Healing: Gene drugs could help repair damaged tissue inside the nose.
  • Smart Immunity: Therapies might calm down the overactive immune response.
  • Tissue Repair: New cells could grow healthy lining in your sinuses.




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AND

Can a very low fat diet of primarily fruits, grains, vegetables and legumes reverse sinusitis - and which types of sinusitis potentially?

A very low-fat, plant-based diet rich in fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes cannot "reverse" or cure sinusitis on its own. While whole plant foods provide antioxidants that lower systemic inflammation, sinusitis involves anatomical blockages, infections, or immune-mediated tissue changes that require targeted medical or surgical treatment. [1]
Impact on Types of Sinusitis
  • Acutelung/Infectious Sinusitis: Caused by sudden viral or bacterial infections; diet cannot replace antibiotics or decongestants.
  • Chronic Rhinosinusitis (CRS): Involves long-term mucosal inflammation; a healthy diet may modestly reduce overall inflammatory markers, but it does not fix underlying structural issues like deviated septa. [1]
  • Allergic Sinusitis: Triggered by environmental allergens; anti-inflammatory plant foods can support general immune function, but specific food or environmental triggers must be managed directly.
  • Nasal Polyps/Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease: Some individuals react to high-salicylate foods (which can include certain legumes and fruits), meaning a generic high-legume diet could potentially aggravate symptoms for specific sub-types rather than cure them. [1]



Thanks so much, 

Best regards, 
Scott
Scott GK MacLeod



PS
REgarding where World Univ & Sch Medical Schools will emerge from - 

Here is the World University and School open Weekly Business Meeting from yesterday, M 8/10/26 using the Agenda from M 8/3/26 - 

Monday, August 10, 2026
Sandia Mountain Wilderness, NM: M 8/10/26 Recording @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSGermany #GeneralBiologicalIntelligenceAI #OSK ? * (was - M 8/10/26 & 8/17/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL)

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/08/sandia-mountain-wilderness-nm-m-81026.html

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/08/sandia-mountain-wilderness-nm.html (in daily blog)


PPS
My Notes - 






- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)







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What are around five next likely OSK aging reversal gene drug therapies likely to go through clinical trials related to the ER 100 drug for glaucoma conditions, epigenetic reprogramming, but somehow also quite different?





What are around five next likely OSK aging reversal gene drug therapies likely to go through clinical trials related to the ER 100 drug for glaucoma conditions, epigenetic reprogramming, but somehow also quite different?



What are around five next likely OSK aging reversal gene drug therapies likely to go through clinical trials related to the ER 100 drug for glaucoma conditions, epigenetic reprogramming, but somehow also quite different from ER 100. What are the five next possible or likely OSK drugs to enter clinical trials?


Turn Biotechnologies' ERA platform uses mRNA and lipid nanoparticles to transiently deliver reprogramming factors for skin and immune rejuvenation without using viral vectors.

Rejuvenate Bio injects systemic AAV-based OSK therapies into the bloodstream to reverse widespread age-related diseases like heart failure and whole-body frailty.

Retro Biosciences directs AAV-delivered epigenetic reprogramming factors into highly specific peripheral tissues to treat osteoarthritis and age-related hearing loss.

Altos Labs engineers customized transcription factors and small-molecule alternatives to standard OSK to treat broad metabolic and neurodegenerative conditions.

Ex vivo cellular reprogramming extracts patient cells, resets their epigenome safely in a lab environment, and reinfuses them to cure blood or brain disorders.








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Happy birthday, Gene!

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Aug 11, 2026, 3:30 PM (1 day ago)
to genekoo, Rebecca, Charles, Sid, Gene
Happy birthday, Gene! 


Happy birthday, Gene (Koo)! 


Thanks for being one of the 2 teachers (as TA) in office hours in 'CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion' (https://cyber.harvard.edu/teaching/courses/2006/fall/cyberone) on Harvard's virtual island in Second Life in around 2006 (with Rebecca Nesson above, and where her father Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson, above, was the professor in-world)!

It was in teaching "Society and Information Technology" 'there' about a year later that World University and School began, like MIT OCW in 7 languages With Wikipedia now in ~348 languages, and  now in Wikidata (Wikipedia's back end structured knowledge database). WUaS is planning ~200 online Law Schools in all 200 countries and in their main languages. 

Best regards, Scott 




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And re - 

Essay

MacLeod, Scott Gordon K. 2006. An Empathic Argument for Developing Cuttyhunk Island, and Video to Conserve it: Developing the West End of Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts? Harvard University. blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberonepodcast/2006/11/06/cuttyhunk-island-ma-2/ =


https://web.archive.org/web/20100225125527/blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberonepodcast/2006/11/06/cuttyhunk-island-ma-2/


written for: CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion course. (On Berkman Island in Second Life). Harvard University. Autumn 2006.

blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/


http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm



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Claudia, Thanks - at MIT - for connecting on LinkedIN Tu 8/11/26 & greetings from World Univ & Sch building on MIT OCW in 7 languages +


Claudia, Thanks so much for connecting on https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-forero-sloan-70a5b23/ just now; more about World Univ & Sch, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages +. Here is the World University and School open Weekly Business Meeting from yesterday, M 8/10/26 using the Agenda from M 8/3/26 - 

Monday, August 10, 2026

Sandia Mountain Wilderness, NM: M 8/10/26 Recording @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSGermany #GeneralBiologicalIntelligenceAI #OSK ? * (was - M 8/10/26 & 8/17/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL)

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/08/sandia-mountain-wilderness-nm-m-81026.html 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/08/sandia-mountain-wilderness-nm.html (in daily blog)


Best regards, Scott (#ScottGKMacLeod, President, CEO, Founder and Professor at free-to-students' 1st wing) -http://worlduniversityandschool.org/, & 2nd wing) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html & see too https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch - still in startup mode, not having become financially operational to speak of in ~2 decades).




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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org




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