Andrew Kennard @askennard@qoto.org

I am really not convinced at all by the "Papers and patents are becoming less #disruptive over time" paper. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x

The metric used (CD index and CD5) is highly problematic.

If I am not mistaken, 2 examples with Figure 5 (Nobel Prize-winning papers): the #discovery of reverse transcriptase (paper in 1970 baltimore, 1975 Nobel) & mobile element (Paper in 1950 McClintock Nobel 1983) are measured as ......non-disruptive

More criticism of the basic methods of the 'science becoming less disruptive' paper. "Really looks like an analysis of citation behavior to me (with a problematic metric) rather than an analysis of "disruptivity", says Alexis Verger. https://mastodon.social/@AVerger@fediscience.org/109658925389809504

so interesting! the organic chemistry of illicit drugs, by the great Derek Lowe
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/not-such-better-living-through-chemistry

This just in: Dystopian science fiction will no longer be sold or streamed in the San Francisco Bay Area or Silicon Valley due to the high risk of it inspiring new tech startups. #tech #scifi

Crazy idea: Coalition building in the House.

What if a handful of Republican mavericks picked a more moderate Speaker and got the Dems to vote for them?

Too bad Liz Cheney isn't in the House anymore...

@Dtl I'm using a waterproof box and an acrylic half dome sealed with silicone. A 2 port relay powers the dew heater in the dome and a fan in the enclosure, controlled by the PoE powered RPi3B+. The camera is a ZWO ASI178MC. Initially I had planned to use the fan/dew heater when needed, but after a month or so I just left them on continuously. The bearing on the fan failed this year, so the fan was replaced.

Happy new year! Another year means another year-long keogram! Every 15 seconds throughout 2022, my trusty all-sky camera took a picture of the sky above the Netherlands. Combining these 2.1 million images into a year-long keogram reveals this picture, which shows the length of the night change throughout the year (the hourglass shape), when the Moon was visible at night (diagonal bands), and the Sun higher in the sky during summer, as well as lots and lots of clouds passing overhead.

Happy New Year friends! 🎉

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#ThinSectionThursday Perhaps my favourite rock 😍 Sample U5A17 from my PhD fieldwork collected from Unit 5 of the Eastern Layered Intrusion in Rum a long time ago. Blue and green crystals of olivine enclosed in buff-coloured clinopyroxene, and striped plagioclase. Cross-polars illumination. Field of view 2mm across. #Microscopy #IsleOfRum #Geology #Igenous

@SpencrGreenberg In any case, I guess that since we both agree these phenomena indeed have names and an established literature, we both also can agree that what you're doing here is engaging in a bit of novelty hacking.

In your words, hacking novelty is "showing something that is already well-known but giving it a new name that leads people to think it is something new. "

I know I’m supposed to be nice here on mastodon but this CEO of a startup foundry

1) discovering that scientists sometimes oversell their results,

2) trying to coin a name “importance hacking”

3) deciding that no one talks about it, and then

4) pronouncing that is perhaps comparable to the replication crisis in scale….

It’s, how do I say this nicely? It’s importance hacking of the highest order.

Auto-snitch-tagging so the OP can respond if he wants to. @SpencerGreenberg@nerdculture.de

An elevator pitch but the elevator broke down so the person is stuck listening the details of your work for at least twenty minutes

RT @luismbat@birbsite

Who would have thought that adding a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes would actually sound good!😅

@vicgrinberg One very beautiful one that I think is readable by nonexperts but it takes a great deal of time (I would read and savor and have to work through every page because I am not a math whiz, but it was some of the most interesting reading I have ever done) is Art Winfree's "The Geometry of Biological Time" (as recommended by @stevenstrogatz ). Lovely set of ideas about biological dynamics that really changed the way I think about, well, a lot of things from biology to politics