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Thursday, September 24, 2026

Deinandra increscens: [Air-L] Open Position at UCSB Dept. of Communication * Thanks, Amy (Gonzales, Assistant Professor at UCSB), I may add this to the upcoming free-to-students' startup World University and School, building on CC-4 MIT OCW in 7 languages, and wiki, WUaS Weekly Business Meeting Agenda and News (loosely conducted in the manner of unprogrammed NtF Friends / Quakers) ... and as an UCSB alumnus, in Sociocultural Anthropology with a Master's degree focus on the Internet and virtual UNESCO World Heritage Sites, having taken Communication classes too, and worked as a TA in both departments * Working on writing "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" in the new Academic Press at WUaS (planned in all 7159 known living languages with machine and human translation) but am postponing publication of it until at least 2027. Friendly regards, Scott * * * Harvard ARDD Aging Research and Drug Development conference 10/1/26-10/3/26 in the TreeHouse in Allston, MA

 


The UCSB Department of Communication is recruiting for a tenure-track/tenured open rank faculty position. We seek a scholar who conducts innovative, theoretically grounded, and empirically rigorous research using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method approaches that addresses the social consequences of AI from an organizational communication perspective. All courses are taught in-person on campus. A reasonable estimated full-time rate for this position is $95,000-$435,000 annually. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

Link to Job Advertisement: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03137


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Amy Gonzales, Ph.D. (she/her)
Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Interim Co-Director, Chicano Studies Institute
UC Santa Barbara

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Thanks, Amy (Gonzales, Assistant Professor at UCSB), 

I may add this to the upcoming free-to-students' startup World University and School, building on CC-4 MIT OCW in 7 languages, and wiki, WUaS Weekly Business Meeting Agenda and News (loosely conducted in the manner of unprogrammed NtF Friends / Quakers) ... and as an UCSB alumnus, in Sociocultural Anthropology with a Master's degree focus on the Internet and virtual UNESCO World Heritage Sites, having taken Communication classes too, and worked as a TA in both departments (I think there's a UCSB video of my teaching ... part of an UCSB program for learning to teach). (I was also active in the little Quaker Meeting in Santa Barbara. Do you know UCSB's Stephen Pope for example - also a Cornell alumnI think?) Juan-Vicente Palerm was my main professor at the end of my time at UCSB, before heading to Edinburgh, Scotland potentially to do a PhD ... with my MSc dissertation there about virtual St. Kilda as nascent place.

Thanks for this - 

Profs at the Pub - Amy Gonzales 

Working on writing "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" in the new Academic Press at WUaS (planned in all 7159 known living languages with machine and human translation) but am postponing publication of it until at least 2027.  

Friendly regards, 
Scott



PS
Just TweetedX this, with many implications for reversing the digital divide - 

Excited about #CFOs #QuakerCFOs for the #nonprofit #501c3 @WorldUnivAndSch wing - https://app.candid.org/profile/9121509/world-university-and-school-27-3105368 & https://worlduniversityandschool.org/ emerging (as #ForProfitinCA general stock company wing @WUaSPress http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html waits) re coding for all 7.9B people https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University ~










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- 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)



- 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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World University and School, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, goals for the 

Harvard ARDD Aging Research and Drug Development conference 10/1/26-10/3/26 in the TreeHouse in Allston, MA 





Dear George, All, 

Greetings. Looking forward to meeting you in the Harvard TreeHouse. 

In thinking through some of my and World University and School's goals for the

Harvard ARDD 2026 
Aging Research and Drug Development conference 10/1/26-10/3/26 in Boston 

& re also 



these include 

1
Develop 3 WUaS aging reversal OSK pharmaceutical gene drug therapies initially with research, and then produce and manufacture them & with a realistic virtual earth for OSK, a digital-physical #RVEforGenetics on the digital or in-silico side - and in collaboration with possibly 3 different companies too (initially) ...that would all successfully become FDA approved ...

and then upload them to our body minds via the eRapid Fouling Resistant sensor or similar - 

#eRapidFoulingResistantSensor-https://wyss.harvard.edu/technology/erapid-multiplexed-electrochemical-sensors-for-fast-accurate-portable-diagnostics/ WITH #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords?



(Interoperate with the Flywire Connectome Project re Drosophila fly brain, and newly develop this for aging reversal and longevity and for humans, and with 'citizen science' .... and in a #RVEforFlywireConnectome ?)


AND -

At #HarvardAgingResearch & #HarvardDrugDiscovery conf 10/1-10/3/26
https://agingpharma.org/program2026#virtual-cell-in-time & re  #VirtualAgingCell from #InsilicoMedicine https://youtu.be/vufvnB1R1xM #PetrinaKamya & #FedorGalkin Interoperate e.g. the years 2007, '12 & '24 #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider in https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 @ #GCellViewLevel @ #HarbinGateHouse WITH #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #AvatarAgentEHR from #GPegman?


AND





1 a
to reverse muscle wasting with an OSK drug - system wide for the whole body 

eg for muscle wasting aging reversal (eg for my 91 year old mother)


1 b
to help people become ~25 years old in a 150 year old (or a 1500 year old) bodymind  ... and with a realistic virtual earth too, so digitally create this pharmaceutical in something like a FORKED Google Street View with time slider AND adding the G cell and G molecule view etc levels and even possibly interoperating with Radical Numerics' General Biological Intelligence AI ... and with Insilico Medicine's 'virtual cell in time' potentially and Pharma AI - https://pharma.ai/ ... 


1 c
to reverse my right ear, what I'm calling "eustachian tube dysfunction" - possibly targeting the cells involved with an OSK gene drug therapy ... including for pressure and nerves in the area ..  and such that I could play the Scottish Highland Bagpipes' again, and put my head underwater etc and wouldn't have to sleep only on my right side (since pain occurs if I sleep on my left side)





2
Create a

realistic virtual earth & Harbin for aging reversal with Harbin gate house's 3 dates, & 3 years too to time slide cells And molecules back & with pegman as a avatar agent ehr by FORKING from Google Street View and adding the G Cell G Molecule, and even the G Qubit levels 


2 a
and even with the Google UCSB Quantum Computer and re - 


Super: #QuantumEchoes including running simulations FWD & in reverse #ReversingTheArrowOfTime

Reversing The Arrow Of Time 



2 b i
Could the ink drop become our "avatar agent electronic health records" as digital twins?

2 b ii 
or a digital cell interoperating with Insilico Medicine's virtual cell in time? 




3
Prove aging reversal - at Harvard ARDD 2026 itself 

per Anthonio Regalado's Tweet (scibrazil@gmail.com.- above) a few weeks ago 


Antonio Regalado
@antonioregalado

Age reversal remains unproven. Yet that is the goal of the healthspan XPRIZE pretty much. The purse is $81 million to the team able "restore" the cognitive & physical function of a person by 20 years, after 1 year of treatment. Finalists to be announced this summer
4:48 AM · Jun 9, 2026

https://x.com/antonioregalado/status/2064313678250332350




4
Create 

Courseware for aging reversal and extreme longevity and related research 

1-3 aging reversal genetics and or research courses for WUaS, with parallels to MIT OCW courses and to add here too -



5

Yoga ...

Develop a realistic virtual earth for Yoga (as in 8 limbs of Yoga) and Yoga asana perhaps interoperating with our avatar agent electronic health records or digital twins and for research too 

since 
Scientists discover why exercise reverses muscle aging | ScienceDaily



Incredible: A response to how #AgingReversal of #MuscleWasting works with movement at molecular level from #DukeUniversityNUS :
Scientists discover #WhyExerciseReversesMuscleAging | #ScienceDaily 

Researchers have uncovered a molecular “switch” that helps explain why exercise keeps aging muscles healthy. By reducing levels of a gene called DEAF1, physical activity allows older muscles to clear out damage, repair themselves, and maintain strength.

How to develop with #YogaAsana for 80 & 90 year olds esp in #RealisticVirtualEarthForMolecules etc and so as to live to 150 years of age and even 1500 years of age and well beyond?


Retweeting - 

#WUaSpharma 1st 2 #OSKGeneDrugTherapies w #EpigeneticReprogramming? 1) #AgingReversal of #MuscleWasting & #BoneDensityLoss before eg 70s, 2) #AgingReversalGenetics of #earENT #EustachianTubeDysfunction / sim w #OSKdrugs in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics w #AvatarAgentEHR How?



Scientists discover why exercise reverses muscle aging | ScienceDaily 


Researchers have uncovered a molecular “switch” that helps explain why exercise keeps aging muscles healthy. By reducing levels of a gene called DEAF1, physical activity allows older muscles to clear out damage, repair themselves, and maintain strength.


5 A


As #aKindOfYoga, how @demishassabis to join or align (#YogaWUaS) #eRapidSensor https://wyss.harvard.edu/technology/erapid-multiplexed-electrochemical-sensors-for-fast-accurate-portable-diagnostics/ w #IF1ProteinControlsAgingRate = gene https://x.com/geochurch/status/1993414908600299747 - to our #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords re Pegman in #GStreetView #GCellView w #GTimeSliders to #ReverseAging?

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1998169594750754829?s=20

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1998167467076849702

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/1998169340332671133?s=20

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/1998169186212962672?s=20

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1998168989575635272?s=20

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/1998169416492830929?s=20

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/1998169517445529801?s=20



Retweeting -

Jay Jin
@JayJin_JJ
·
Dec 6
Replying to @Q_YogaMacFlower and @demishassabis

Oh wow, molecular health visualization in Street View?. ðŸ¤¯ That's absolutely wild - imagine zooming from your neighborhood straight into your DNA. This AI + biotech combo is exactly where breakthroughs happen. #HealthTech

https://x.com/JayJin_JJ/status/1997353871052509632?s=20




Expanded - 
Further as #aKindOfYoga, how @demishassabis to join or align (#YogaWUaS) #eRapidSensor https://wyss.harvard.edu/technology/erapid-multiplexed-electrochemical-sensors-for-fast-accurate-portable-diagnostics/ #IF1ProteinControlsAgingRate = gene https://x.com/geochurch/status/1993414908600299747 - to a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMolecules https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-deepmind-isomorphic-alphafold-3-ai-model/ to our #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords re Pegman @ #GMoleculeLevel in #GStreetView w #GTimeSliders to #ReverseAging for #ExtremeLongevity?







Bring in Friends NtFs Quaker geneticists affiliated with the Friends Meeting at Cambridge, all over the world, and in Great Britain as well.


Best regards, thanks, Friendly NtF Quaker Greetings, Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga), Until Thursday, 10/1/26 and the Harvard ARDD in person, 
Scott

- 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


Just blogged about this, dated yesterday - 


Thursday, September 24, 2026
Deinandra increscens:

 * * * Harvard ARDD Aging Research and Drug Development conference 10/1/26-10/3/26 in the TreeHouse in Allston, MA









--

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)



- 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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Thursday, August 27, 2026

Himalayan Blue Poppy (Meconopsis species): #comparativeAIandMLstudies - Excited to develop @WorldUnivAndSch in all 200 countries https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States as world class #freeWUaSuniversities & in their 220 official languages (since India has 22 scheduled languages) for #comparativeAIandMLstudies too & in writing #SocInfoTechAndTheGlobalUniversity ~ * * * How could @WorldUnivAndSch w #ChinaWUaS #TibetWUaS & #NepalWUaS in dev #comparativeAIandMLstudies @ #freeWUaSuniversities & in writing #SocInfoTechAndTheGlobalUniversity study #AIandMLDisasterRelief eg in Xizang's mudslide-hit #GyirongChina https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-08-28/Multiple-forces-mobilize-for-relief-in-mudslide-hit-Gyirong-1PYfsZ6erMA/p.html? #AIbenchmarks? * #AIbenchmarks? Platforms use of AI Foundational Large Language Models that countries create or ... * * * How many foundational large language models have, say the country of Cambodia, the country of Nigeria, the country of Japan created if that's a useful way of thinking about developing large language models that are foundational? * * * What large language models have been built and designed using Wikidata, Wikimedia's back-end structured knowledge database in 348 languages, if any, and in what countries especially?

 


#comparativeAIandMLstudies 


Excited to develop @WorldUnivAndSch in all 200 countries https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States as world class #freeWUaSuniversities & in their 220 official languages (since India has 22 scheduled languages) for #comparativeAIandMLstudies too & in writing #SocInfoTechAndTheGlobalUniversity ~





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How could @WorldUnivAndSch w #ChinaWUaS #TibetWUaS & #NepalWUaS in dev #comparativeAIandMLstudies @ #freeWUaSuniversities & in writing #SocInfoTechAndTheGlobalUniversity
study #AIandMLDisasterRelief eg in Xizang's mudslide-hit #GyirongChina





Multiple forces mobilized for disaster relief, supplies arrive in Xizang's mudslide-hit Gyirong
China
12:08, 28-Aug-2026




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#AIbenchmarks?

Platforms use of AI

Foundational Large Language Models that countries create 

or ... .





--

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)



- 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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How many foundational large language models have, say the country of Cambodia, the country of Nigeria, the country of Japan created if that's a useful way of thinking about developing large language models that are foundational? 

Tracking foundational large language model (LLM) creation by country is an insightful lens, though counting them directly is tricky because "foundational" usually implies training a model from scratch—which requires vast compute, massive capital, and high-resource datasets—versus fine-tuning existing open-weights models (like Llama or Qwen).

  • Japan: ~10 to 20+ foundational models

    Japan is an active developer of native, ground-up LLMs. Institutions like the National Institute of Informatics (LLM-jp), RIKEN, and private tech giants (NTT, CyberAgent, SoftBank, Fujitsu, and Preferred Networks) have trained dozens of proprietary and open-weights foundational models pre-trained heavily on Japanese and English text corpora.

  • Nigeria: 1 primary national model initiative

    Nigeria recently spearheaded the creation of its first major sovereign multilingual LLM—developed in partnership with local AI firms (such as Awarri) and international research groups—pre-trained to cover several low-resource indigenous languages and accented English. Beyond this, most local projects focus on fine-tuning open global architectures rather than training models from scratch.

  • Cambodia: 0 to 1 emerging collaborative model

    Cambodia does not currently have a fully native, independently trained foundational LLM. However, through partnerships like AI Forum Cambodia and AI Singapore, initiatives are underway to build and adapt specialized open-source Khmer LLMs to address regional language gaps.

Is this a useful metric?

Yes and no. Measuring by nation highlights digital sovereignty and linguistic representation, ensuring AI reflects local languages, laws, and cultures rather than relying entirely on foreign baselines. However, because foundational pre-training costs tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, most of the world relies on fine-tuning global open-weights models rather than building new ones from scratch








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What large language models have been built and designed using Wikidata, Wikimedia's back-end structured knowledge database in 348 languages, if any, and in what countries especially?

While Wikidata is not typically used to train full, standalone foundation models from scratch, it serves as a primary source for Knowledge-Graph Augmented LLMs (KG-LLMs), entity-aware translation, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks globally.

  • Key AI Systems & Frameworks Using Wikidata:

    • KIF LLM Store (IBM): Integrates Wikidata to complete knowledge bases and ground LLM outputs with structured real-time facts.

    • Wikidata Embedding Project (Wikimedia Germany): Converts Wikidata's graph into vector embeddings so major AI models can interpret structured entities semantically.

    • Entity-Aware Translation Models: Research models (such as those featured in SemEval) use Wikidata IDs to help LLMs accurately translate culturally specific named entities across language pairs.

    • Cultural Evaluation Frameworks (e.g., MakiEval): Systems designed to benchmark multi-lingual LLM bias and global cultural awareness across 13+ languages using Wikidata as a cross-lingual anchor.

  • Countries Leading Wikidata-LLM Integration:

    • Germany: Home to Wikimedia Deutschland, which actively develops Wikidata vector integrations and embeddings for generative AI.

    • United States: Major research labs (IBM, Meta, academic institutions) leverage Wikidata for factual grounding, SPARQL-driven agent frameworks, and multi-lingual entity resolution.

    • Multinational European Collaborations: European NLP researchers heavily rely on Wikidata’s 348-language structure to reduce English-centric bias in localized AI models





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