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"Using a May 2022 nationally representative survey of American registered voters (n = 2,096), we examine the multivariate correlates of trust in university research and opinions about climate change."

Alvarez RM, Debnath R, Ebanks D (2023) Why don’t Americans trust university researchers and why it matters for climate change. PLOS Climate 2(9): e0000147. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0 @science

Steffen Ducheyne (2017) Different shades of Newton: Herman Boerhaave on Newton mathematicus, philosophus, and optico-chemicus, Annals of Science, 74:2, 108-125, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2017. @science

"Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition)."

(Eds.). (22 Feb. 2021). Traces of Ink. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi.org/10.1163/9789004444805 @science @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (57)

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Valleriani, M., Vogl, M., el-Hajj, H., & Pham, K. (2022). The Network of Early Modern Printers and Its Impact on the Evolution of Scientific Knowledge: Automatic Detection of Awareness Relationships. Histories, 2(4), 466–503. MDPI AG. Retrieved from dx.doi.org/10.3390/histories20 @earlymodern @histodon @histodons

"Al-Biruni (973-1048) was one of the greatest scientists of all times. He was an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, and studied physics and natural sciences. In this paper, we will discuss some of his experimental methods and some instruments he used."

Carolina Sparavigna, Amelia. (2013). The Science of Al-Biruni. International Journal of Sciences, Volume 2(2013-12), 52–60. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3348540 @histodon @histodons @science @medievodons

"...a team of researchers are taking nature's designs and engineering a new solution for planting crops, fertilising soil or replanting forests." youtu.be/MZC_hXx1_Yc @science @engineering

"Thanks to a complex mathematical algorithm, these plastic shapes follow a very specific route as they roll. In fact, researchers have shown that a shape can be designed to follow almost any path you can think of." youtu.be/2lW9HznqsVY @science

Breathnach CS. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2005;98(1):33-36. doi: doi.org/10.1177/01410768050980 @science

Ayers JW, Goodman AM, Smith DM. : Medical Education and Knowledge Translation on Social Media. JAMA. Published online August 29, 2023. doi: jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?d @science

Segurel L, Guarino-Vignon P, Marchi N, Lafosse S, Laurent R, et al. (2020) Why and when was lactase persistence selected for? Insights from Central Asian herders and ancient DNA. PLOS Biology 18(6): e3000742. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3 @science

"This article offers the following 11 quick tips that researchers can follow to more effectively and precisely discover data that meet their specific needs."

Gregory K, Khalsa SJ, Michener WK, Psomopoulos FE, de Waard A, et al. (2018) Eleven quick tips for finding research data. PLOS Computational Biology 14(4): e1006038. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1 @science @data

"We extracted ancient DNA from a recently exposed fracture surface of a clay brick deriving from the palace of king Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BCE) in Nimrud, Iraq. We detected 34 unique taxonomic groups of plants."

Arbøll, T.P., Rasmussen, S.L., de Jonge, N. et al. Revealing the secrets of a 2900-year-old clay brick, discovering a time capsule of ancient DNA. Sci Rep 13, 13092 (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-381 @science

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