Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
Video of sun’s surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss
"Scientists say the observations of the sun’s complex surface dynamics could help resolve the question of why the sun’s atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface – a longstanding paradox in solar physics."
#Science #News #Video #Sun #Space #ESA #Europe #Astronomy @science @astronomy
Space Day Reading List 2024
"Space has fascinated authors, scientists, storytellers, and children alike. From a brief history of the moon to a collection of diverse stories connected to the stars, our Space Day reading list will deepen your love and appreciation of the cosmos."
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/05/03/space-day-reading-list-2024/
#Read #Reading #ReadingList #STEM #Space #SpaceDay #Science #HistSci #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon @science
What happens when the permafrost thaws? | The Royal Society
"Around 11% of the Earth's land mass is covered by permafrost. But its delicate balance is being threatened by climate change."
#Video length: 8 minutes 14 seconds
#RoyalSociety #Science #Permafrost #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @science @climatechange
"Even though it was hoped that machines might overcome human bias, this assumption often fails due to a problematic or theoretically implausible selection of variables that are fed into the model and because of small size, low representativeness, and presence of bias in the training data [5.]."
Suchotzki, K. and Gamer, M. (2024) 'Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils,' Trends in Cognitive Sciences [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.04.002.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Deception #Lies #Bias #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning #Psychology @science @psychology
#Image attribution: Madhav-Malhotra-003, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artificial_Intelligence_Word_Cloud.png
"While ChatGPT-4 correlates closely with established risk stratification tools regarding mean scores, its inconsistency when presented with identical patient data on separate occasions raises concerns about its reliability."
Heston TF, Lewis LM (2024) ChatGPT provides inconsistent risk-stratification of patients with atraumatic chest pain. PLOS ONE 19(4): e0301854. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301854
#OpenAcess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Heart #CoronaryHeartDisease #Medicine #Health #ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Software #Science @science
Over 33,000 near-Earth asteroids have been detected since 1990
"They discuss the mathematics of gravity, including the work of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, gravitational waves, black holes, and recent developments in the field."
https://zencastr.com/z/rRvdO2Xn
#Maths #Math #Mathematics #Podcast #Gravity #BlackHoles #Science #STEM @science
Emissions of substances that deplete the ozone layer have fallen by more than 99% since 1989
How Cambridge bred eugenics
"The term “eugenics” (from the Greek for ‘well born’) was birthed here in Cambridge by Trinity’s own Francis Galton in 1883. Galton was inspired by his cousin Charles Darwin and adapted the idea of natural selection to presuppose that the survival of the fittest had been distorted by social welfare policies."
https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/27401
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Eugenics #Race #Racism #ScientificRacism #Cambridge #University #Academia @histodon @histodons
"In most work in the history of science, the approach is to show how a particular event or outcome was the result of various social and intellectual influences. Bayesian history of science, on the other hand, focuses on the lines of evidence relevant to the historical development to see if the direction taken by an individual or group of scientists was consistent or inconsistent with the evidence at hand."
Henry Small; Bayesian history of science: The case of Watson and Crick and the structure of DNA. Quantitative Science Studies 2023; 4 (1): 209–228. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00233
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #Science #HistSci #Discovery #DNA #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
Early warning sign of extinction?
"Using a high-resolution global dataset of planktonic foraminifera fossils that’s among the richest biological archives available to science, researchers have found that environmental events leading to mass extinctions are reliably preceded by subtle changes in how a biological community is composed, acting as an early warning signal."
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/04/early-warning-sign-of-extinction/
"We present a set of large pedigrees, reconstructed using ancient DNA, spanning nine generations and comprising around 300 individuals. We uncover a strict patrilineal kinship system, in which patrilocality and female exogamy were the norm and multiple reproductive partnering and levirate unions were common. The absence of consanguinity indicates that this society maintained a detailed memory of ancestry over generations."
Gnecchi-Ruscone, G.A., Rácz, Z., Samu, L. et al. Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07312-4
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #DNA #Genetics #Science #Avars #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @histodon @histodons
On the trail of deepfakes, Drexel researchers identify ‘fingerprints’ of AI-generated video
"The lab’s tools use a sophisticated machine learning program called a constrained neural network. This algorithm can learn, in ways similar to the human brain, what is “normal” and what is “unusual” at the sub-pixel level of images and videos, rather than searching for specific predetermined identifiers of manipulation from the outset."
#News #Deepfake #Video #Science #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Analysis #Algorithms #NeuralNetworks #Engineering #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @engineering
#Image attribution: Madhav-Malhotra-003, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artificial_Intelligence_Word_Cloud.png
Not a #headline one hopes to #read:
Forced to eat bat feces, chimps could spread deadly viruses to humans
"Tobacco farming is driving apes to seek unusual food source, brimming with pathogens"
https://www.doi.org/10.1126/science.zzx18k8
#News #DOI #Plants #Animals #Tobacco #Farming #Virus #Science #Epidemiology @science
"All tested LLMs performed poorly on medical code querying, often generating codes conveying imprecise or fabricated information. LLMs are not appropriate for use on medical coding tasks without additional research."
Soroush, A. et al. (2024) 'Large language models are poor medical coders — benchmarking of medical code querying,' NEJM AI [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1056/aidbp2300040. #Research #DOI #Science #Medicine #Data #Ethics #Statistics #LLM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
Newly sequenced genome reveals coffee’s prehistoric origin story — and its future under climate change
"Their findings, published April 15 in Nature Genetics, suggest that Coffea arabica developed more than 600,000 years ago in the forests of Ethiopia via natural mating between two other coffee species. Arabica’s population waxed and waned throughout Earth’s heating and cooling periods over thousands of years, the study found, before eventually being cultivated in Ethiopia and Yemen, and then spread over the globe."
https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2024/04/albert-arabica-genome.html
#Science #STEM #Research #Study #News #Biology #DNA #Genome #Coffee @science
#Image attribution: MarkSweep, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roasted_coffee_beans.jpg
🇹🇷 Archaeologists find surprisingly well-preserved 8,600-year-old bread in Turkey
"The researchers concluded the bread was fermented after performing scanning electron microscope imaging. The analysis revealed air bubbles in the sample and traces of starch grains. They also found telltale chemicals known to be found in cereals and those that indicate fermentation."
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/world-oldest-bread/
#Science #STEM #News #Press #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Bread #Turkey #Çatalhöyük @science @archaeodons
When the names won’t stick: the case of Galileo’s moons
https://biblonia.com/2024/04/17/when-the-names-wont-stick-the-case-of-galileos-moons/
Why European Colonization Drove the Blue Antelope to Extinction
"The results of the study, which have now been published in "Current Biology", show that the species was probably adapted to a small population size and survived like this for thousands of years. However, this also made them susceptible to sudden impacts like hunting, which increased after European colonization of southern Africa."
#Science #Biology #Research #News #Press #Antelope #Evolution #Extinction #Genome #Analysis #Ancient #DNA #AncientDNA #Europe #Africa #Colonisation #Colonization #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology
ChatGPT hallucinates fake but plausible scientific citations at a staggering rate, study finds
"MacDonald found that a total of 32.3% of the 300 citations generated by ChatGPT were hallucinated. Despite being fabricated, these hallucinated citations were constructed with elements that appeared legitimate — such as real authors who are recognized in their respective fields, properly formatted DOIs, and references to legitimate peer-reviewed journals."
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #LLM #Science #Research #DOI #Fake #Citations #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @ai
#Image attribution: Madhav-Malhotra-003, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artificial_Intelligence_Word_Cloud.png
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
