"The fediverse is not only an opportunity for social networking on different terms—it can also be seen as a new beginning for social network research, part of a new relationship between academia and its research subject." https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2023.100914 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #STEM #Research #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse #Twitter #X #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
With last year now officially the hottest on record, climate researchers look ahead with trepidation. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00074-z #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #News #Press @science
"The Tropical Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and southern oceans recorded their highest OHC observed since the 1950s. Associated with the onset of a strong El Niño, the global SST reached its record high in 2023 with an annual mean of ∼0.23°C higher than 2022 and an astounding > 0.3°C above 2022 values for the second half of 2023."
Cheng, L., Abraham, J., Trenberth, K.E. et al. New Record Ocean Temperatures and Related Climate Indicators in 2023. Adv. Atmos. Sci. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-024-3378-5 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Research #Science #STEM #Ocean #GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climate
"While much has been written about the passive voice in scientific writing, similar interest involving humanities writing in general has been more modest. A paucity of diachronic studies also raises the need to understand more about how passive use has changed over time and what such changes imply for the norms in academic writing."
Leong, P. A. (2021) “The passive voice in scholarly writing: A diachronic look at science and history”, Finnish Journal of Linguistics, 34, pp. 77–102. Available at: https://journal.fi/finjol/article/view/103168 (Accessed: 8January2024). #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Linguistics #Academic #Writing #Science #History #PingAlvinLeong #Academia #Academics #Humanities #SocialSciences @linguistics @writing
"This interdisciplinary study at the intersection of biology and mathematics involves numerous real experiments to demonstrate the capability of the proposed method in detecting biologically relevant information and its reliable signals while avoiding false positives. The outcome provides a coherent theoretical framework for analyzing biological networks." https://www.mpg.de/21284358/a-new-mathematical-language-for-biological-networks #STEM #Science #Biology #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Analysis #Genetics #Geometry #Modeling #News #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology
"The data suggest that the Canaanites descended from a mixture of earlier local Neolithic populations and populations related to Chalcolithic Iran and/or the Bronze Age Caucasus. The researchers documented a significant increase in the proportion of Iranian/Caucasus-related ancestry over time, which is supported by three individuals who are descendants of recent arrivals from the Caucasus." https://phys.org/news/2020-05-canaanites-insight-ancient-genomes.html #Ancient #DNA #aDNA #Population #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancestry #Science #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Canaan #Canaanites @science @archaeodons
"The first such migration is predicted to have occurred at the onset of the Neolithic, and accordingly J1e parallels the establishment of rain-fed agriculture and semi-nomadic herders throughout the Fertile Crescent. Subsequently, J1e lineages might have been involved in episodes of the expansion of pastoralists into arid habitats coinciding with the spread of Arabic and other Semitic-speaking populations."
Chiaroni, J., King, R., Myres, N. et al. The emergence of Y-chromosome haplogroup J1e among Arabic-speaking populations. Eur J Hum Genet 18, 348–353 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2009.166 #Journal #Article #Science #STEM #Genetics #Anthropology #Genealogy #Biology #Haplogroup #Neolithic #Arabic #Languages #Pastoralism #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology @anthropology
"The essay shows that while the majority of research projects at SIRB concerned medical genetics in the years 1936−1960, racial science never disappeared. SIRB scientists engaged in theoretical debates on the concept of race and conducted racial surveys of the Swedish population, using anthropometry and later serology as research methods."
Martin Ericsson (2021) What happened to ‘race’ in race biology? The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology, 1936−1960, Scandinavian Journal of History, 46:1, 125-148, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2020.1778520 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #History #Scandinavia #Sweden #Europe #Science #STEM #ScienceMastodon #Biology #HistSci #HistoryOfScience #Academia #Academic @science @biology
For those interested #Professor #RobIliffe has an excellent book on Newton's theological writings entitled 'Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton'.
#IsaacNewton #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #BookRecommendations #Recommendations #Theology #Christianity #Religion #Faith #History #Science #HistSci #HistoryOfScience #EarlyModern @bookstodon @earlymodern
"The ultimate objective of this work is to demonstrate that it is possible to reconsider the emergence of modern science as a process of disintegration of the quadrivium, which was considered a stable scheme for the organization of knowledge."
Valleriani M. (2022) From the Quadrivium to Modern Science. HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, Vol.16 (Issue 1), pp. 121-132. https://doi.org/10.2478/host-2022-0007 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #HistSci #Science #STEM #Medieval #Medievodons @science @medievodons
"Wealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (GDP) as a goal, scale down destructive and unnecessary forms of production to reduce energy and material use, and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being."
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04412-x #Degrowth #Ecology #Economics #Environment #Science #STEM #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Sustainability @science @economics
"In this paper, we presented a proof of concept for an artificial intelligent agent system capable of (semi-)autonomously designing, planning and multistep executing scientific experiments."
Boiko, D.A., MacKnight, R., Kline, B. et al. Autonomous chemical research with large language models. Nature 624, 570–578 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06792-0 #OpenAcces #OA #Research #Article #Science #STEM #Chemistry #ComputerScience #Computer #Engineering #AI #ArtificalIntelligence #LLM #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @engineering
"...we try to illustrate in a concise way the two main “wonders” of Faraday’s life: that the son of a poor blacksmith in the Victorian age was able to become the director the Royal Institution and member of the Royal Society, still keeping a honest and “virtuous” moral conduct, and that Faraday’s approach to many topics, but mainly to electrochemistry and electrodynamics, has paved the way to the modern (atomistic and field-based) view of physics, only relying on experiments and intuition."
Bagnoli, F. and Livi, R. (2018) “Michael Faraday: a virtuous life dedicated to science”, Substantia, 2(1), pp. 121–134. doi: https://doi.org/10.13128/Substantia-45 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Science #HistSci #Biography #Chemistry #Physics #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @chemistry @physics
"A roundup of our most popular and memorable articles" https://www.science.org/content/article/our-favorite-online-news-stories-2023 #Science #STEM #Article @science
"Finally, basing our discussion in part on an examination of the reading marks that Newton left in the surviving copies of Hebrew grammars and lexicons that he owned, we will argue that his interest in Hebrew was not intended to achieve linguistic proficiency but remained limited to particular theological queries of singular concern."
Joalland, M. and Mandelbrote, S. (2016) ‘Isaac Newton learns Hebrew: Samuel Johnson's Nova cubi Hebræi tabella’, Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. Royal Society, 70(1), p. 9-21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0055. #Research #Article #Biography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Science #HistSci #C18th #18thCentury #Astronomy #C17th #17thCentury #Hebrew #Language #Languages #EarlyModern @earlymodern @science @histodon @histodons
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"The Amsterdam-based merchant and mathematics enthusiast Adriaen Verwer (1654/5–1717) was one of the few in the Dutch Republic to respond to the first edition of Newton's Principia (1687). Based on a close study of his published work, his correspondence with the Scottish mathematician and astronomer David Gregory (1659–1708), and his annotations in his own copy of the first edition of the Principia, I shall scrutinize the impact of Newton's ideas on Verwer's thinking."
Ducheyne, S. (2020) ‘Adriaen Verwer (1654/5-1717) and the first edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia in the Dutch Republic’, Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. Royal Society, 74(3), p. 479-505. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2019.0008. #Research #Journal #Article #History #Science #STEM #HistSci #Academia #Academic @science @physics
"We designed the Vibrating Ingestible BioElectronic Stimulator (VIBES) pill, an ingestible device that performs luminal vibratory stimulation to activate mechanoreceptors and stroke mucosal receptors, which induces serotonin release and yields a hormonal metabolic response commensurate with a fed state."
Shriya S. Srinivasan et al., A vibrating ingestible bioelectronic stimulator modulates gastric stretch receptors for illusory satiety. Sci. Adv. 9, eadj3003(2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj3003 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Engineering #Science #STEM #Medicine #Health #Obesity #Academia #Academic @science @engineering
"From insight into our human ancestry and breakthroughs on the moon to a flourishing of AI and terrifying new developments in the climate, it was a year of scientific drama" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/23/the-10-biggest-science-stories-of-2023-chosen-by-scientists #Science #Review #STEM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Astrophysics #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Genetics #ClimateChange @science
"These ancient DNA results reveal a relatively genetically homogeneous population in Peqi’in. We show that the movements of people within the region of the southern Levant were remarkably dynamic, with some populations, such as the one buried at Peqi’in, being formed in part by exogenous influences."
Harney, É., May, H., Shalem, D. et al. Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation. Nat Commun 9, 3336 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05649-9 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #STEM #Article #Biology #Anthropology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #MiddleEast #NearEast #Academia #Academic @science @biology @archaeodons @anthropology
"Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it is stressed that artificial algorithms attempt to mimic only the conscious function of parts of the cerebral cortex, ignoring the fact that, not only every conscious experience is preceded by an unconscious process but also that the passage from the unconscious to consciousness is accompanied by loss of information."
Athanassios S Fokas, Can artificial intelligence reach human thought?, PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 12, December 2023, pgad409, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad409 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Science #STEM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #Computer #Engineering #Neuroscience #Academia #Academic @science @engineering
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