Stephane Requena, chair of INFRAG, implores all users to engage in the User Forum to make sure the advisory groups have access to user input

Estela Suarez, chair of RIAG, explains that the RIAG depends on input from experts - including the users.

Anders Dam Jensen: we want a setup where EVERYONE can be represented, in ALL domains, including the emerging domains. It is important that the resulting body represents the whole user domain.

"we cannot build a new infrastructure without connecting with the community"

Peer review is hard, but the best way to allocate resources, says Luigi del Debbio, chair of the EuroHPC Access Resource Committee. How to make the reviewers' jobs easier:

Den bok som väcker intresse är nog en bra/bättre start än det mest korrekta, om det leder till vidare läsning. Den här typen av information åldras ändå ganska snabbt, särskilt om man tar med biologiska/genetiska aspekter....

Ytterst hedrande sällskap att synas i! 😊

Which of course reminds me of an XKCD xkcd.com/327/

There's a likewise interesting companion paper in PNAS where they use the model to study compression of 'meaningful information' (i.e. stories/narratives):

"Information rate of meaningful communication"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Paper: "Random Tree Model of Meaningful Memory"

journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... [4/N]

Tsodyks: "We discovered that people often summarize relatively large parts of a narrative in single sentences. [In our model] a narrative memory is represented as a tree where nodes closer to the root represent a abstract summary of larger episodes." (edited for brevity) [3/N]

I particularly like that the authors test their theory on experimental data and the MedicalXpress story does a very good job of explaining the connection between the model and the experimental findings, with many good quotes from Misha Tsodyks. [2/N]

medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07...