Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🔴 **The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030**
_“The primary trigger of the rapid transition to the first ice-free day within 3–6 years that we identified was a warm atmosphere in the previous winter and spring, leading to a loss of sea ice mass year-round Fig. 3b).”_
Heuzé, C., Jahn, A. The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030. Nat Commun 15, 10101 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54508-3.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Arctic #Ocean #Climate #Science #Academia #Academics @science
🔴 🌡️ 🌊 **Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening ocean circulation, speeding up warming down south**
_“Our results show the Atlantic overturning circulation is likely to become a third weaker than it was 70 years ago at 2°C of global warming. This would bring big changes to the climate and ecosystems, including faster warming in the southern hemisphere, harsher winters in Europe, and weakening of the northern hemisphere’s tropical monsoons.”_
🔗 https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/11/meltwater-greenland-arctic-weakening-ocean-circulation
#Atlantic #Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Science @science @climatechange @environment
🔴 📖 🎥 **A Complex Rare Book From 1500s**
🔗 https://youtube.com/shorts/rgqoOqEunms
#Video #Shorts #Book #Books #RareBook #RareBooks #Bookstodon #Science #Astronomy @bookstodon
🔴 **‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril**
Holly Else
_“The size of the problem is not clear, but a manuscript posted to the Center for Open Science’s OSF preprint server in September suggests up to one in seven published papers are fabricated or falsified.”_
🔴 **Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing**
_“At the heart of the problem is a lack of money, infrastructure and expertise to archive digital resources. “Digital preservation is expensive and also quite difficult,” says Kathleen Shearer, who is based in Montreal, Canada, and is the executive director of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, a global network of scholarly archives. “It is not just about creating backup copies of things. It is about the active management of content over time in a rapidly evolving technological environment.”_
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03842-z
#DOI #Information #Technology #Tech #Science #Research #Digital #Archives #Publishing #Editorial @science
🔴 **Genetic evidence points to distinct paternal settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland**
_“If Iceland and the Faroe Islands are indeed genetically divergent, as found in the present study, two scenarios may explain their differentiation and Iceland’s relative isolation on the networks: (1) the populations were settled by different regional groups; or, (2) another historically contingent process of evolution between the two groups has resulted in the divergence.”_
Mann AE, Magnussen E and Tillquist CR (2024) Genetic evidence points to distinct paternal settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Front. Genet. 15:1462736. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2024.1462736.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Genetics #FaroeIslands #NorthAtlantic #Academia #Academics @science
🔴 **Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population**
_“We also investigated the debated question on the genetic origin of Armenians and failed to find any significant support for historical suggestions by Herodotus of their Balkan-related ancestry. We checked the degree of continuity of modern Armenians with ancient inhabitants of the eastern Armenian highlands and detected a genetic input into the region from a source linked to Neolithic Levantine Farmers at some point after the Early Bronze Age.”_
Hovhannisyan et al., Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population, The American Journal of Human Genetics (2025), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.10.022
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Demography #Genetics #Genome #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology #History #BronzeAge #Armenia #Academia #Academics @science @anthropology
🔴 🎥 **The Art and Science of Light in the Middle Ages**
_"Scientists in the Middle Ages built on the science hypothesized by ancient philosophers via experimentation and observation. They created a solid foundation of the study of optics (vision and light), and even began to explore the neuroscience of light, or how light affects how we feel through brain processes."_
#Video length: nine minutes and forty-five seconds.
‘An AI Fukushima is inevitable’: scientists discuss technology’s immense potential and dangers
Ian Sample
_A huge challenge for researchers is the black box problem: many AIs can reach decisions but not explain them, making the systems hard to trust. But that may be about to change, Hassabis said, through the equivalent of brain scans for AIs. “I think in the next five years we’ll be out of this era that we’re currently in of black boxes.”_
#News #Science #Technology #Tech #STEM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Computing #Energy @science @ai
🔴 🌡️ Staggering temperature rise predicted for the Middle East and North Africa
"By 2100, the Arabian Peninsula could warm on average by 2.6 degrees Celsius (4.7 degrees Fahrenheit) under low emission scenarios, and by 7.6 degrees Celsius (13.7 degrees Fahrenheit) under high emission scenarios."
🔗 https://news.agu.org/press-release/middle-east-north-africa-warming/
#Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Arabia #MiddleEast #Asia #NorthAfrica #MENA #Africa @science @climatechange
🔴 Leveraging ancient DNA to uncover signals of natural selection in Europe lost due to admixture or drift
"Our findings suggest that selective events in European prehistory, including from the onset of animal domestication, have been obscured by neutral processes like genetic drift and demographic shifts such as admixture."
Pandey, D., Harris, M., Garud, N.R. et al. Leveraging ancient DNA to uncover signals of natural selection in Europe lost due to admixture or drift. Nat Commun 15, 9772 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53852-8.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Biology #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Europe #Academia #Academics @science @biology
🔴 Magnetic North Pole moves closer to Russia in way never seen before by scientists
Jabed Ahmed
"The magnetic pole moved along the northern Canadian shore for centuries, Dr Brown said. It drifted into the Arctic Ocean in the 1990s, and after that, it accelerated and headed towards Siberia."
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/magnetic-north-pole-russia-geology-b2648342.html
#NorthPole #Russia #Arctic #Geology #Science @geology @science
#FF: any suggestions for accounts to follow related to #science or the #humanities on this #FollowFriday?
🔴 🎥 Bredt’s Rule was broken
"What's more fun than proving a 100 year old chemistry principle wrong?"
#Video length: fifty nine seconds.
🔴 🌡️ 🎥 How heatwaves impact our lives
"The thermal load is particularly high in cities. The record summer of 2003 in Paris, for example, led to apocalyptic conditions. According to climate experts, temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius cannot be ruled out for the French capital in the future."
#Video length: forty two minutes and twenty nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/JKEJ9p9YVY8
#Documentry #DWDocumentary #DWDocs #Climate #ClimateChange #Heatwaves #Science @science @climatechange
🔴 We’re cooked on climate: 2024 virtually certain to be the hottest year on record
"The climate numbers are bad"
🔴 🌍 Earth is becoming ‘increasingly uninhabitable,’ scientists warn
"This could be Earth’s hottest year and increasingly warm and humid weather is making more of the planet unlivable, with 600 million people living outside habitable climatic conditions. With each degree of warming in the future, an estimated 10 percent of Earth’s population will join them. Those in the Global South are more exposed than others."
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #GlobalWarming #Science @science @climatechange
🔴 The rise and transformation of Bronze Age pastoralists in the Caucasus
"For two millennia, mobile pastoralism dominated lifeways on the great expanses of steppe extending northwards from the Caucasus mountains. Fuelled by technological innovations such as wheeled transport and dairy pastoralism, as well as emerging horse husbandry, steppe populations from the Caucasus–Steppe interface exerted a large influence on the Eurasian landmass, leaving far-flung genetic and cultural footprints that remain even today. Understanding the dynamic and complex population interactions that shaped the region’s most influential BA groups, such as the Maykop, Yamnaya and Kura–Araxes, is key to reconstructing the population history of both Europe and Asia."
Ghalichi, A., Reinhold, S., Rohrlach, A.B. et al. The rise and transformation of Bronze Age pastoralists in the Caucasus. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08113-5.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Science #Genetics #Archaeogenetics #BronzeAge #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @science
🔴 Is It AI? Peer Reviewers Struggle to Distinguish LLMs From Human Writing
"The study suggests that as LLMs advance, peer reviewers will have a diminishing capability to detect content written by AI. It also revealed the negative bias held by reviewers toward machine-generated content."
#AI #ArtificalIntelligence #Science #Writing #PeerReview @ai @science
🔴 Mortality burden attributed to anthropogenic warming during Europe’s 2022 record-breaking summer
"Our findings highlight that human-induced climate change poses a risk beyond vulnerable populations, extreme temperatures, heatwaves, or Southern regions characterized by high summer temperatures. However, we also find that population groups more susceptible to heat, i.e. women and the elderly, are more adversely affected by anthropogenic warming than the general population."
Beck, T.M., Schumacher, D.L., Achebak, H. et al. Mortality burden attributed to anthropogenic warming during Europe’s 2022 record-breaking summer. npj Clim Atmos Sci 7, 245 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00783-2
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #Europe #Health #PublicHealth #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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