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🔴 **Einstein’s Philosophy of Science**
🔗 https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2004/entries/einstein-philscience/
🔴 **How Much Does the Scientific Ecosystem Change over Time?**
Athene Donald
_"One should remember back then papers were not online. Wading through the Science Citation Index – a very substantial collection of tomes which was the necessary route for me and generations before (and after) to try to track down who had cited which paper/ whose papers had been cited – was hard work in a library, not something one could skim through at one’s desk, and useless papers just take up unnecessary space."_
#Science #Culture #University #Research #Academia #Academics
🔴 **Machine learning is bringing back an infamous pseudoscience used to fuel racism**
Mihai Andrei
_“The pseudoscientific framework of physiognomy laid a foundation for systemic racism, influencing fields like anthropology, criminology, and eugenics. These biases were embedded into societal structures and used to justify slavery, segregation, and colonialism. While physiognomy has been debunked as junk science, its legacy persists — and this is apparent in the new wave of AI physiognomy studies.”_
🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/ai-revives-physiognomy-dangers/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Ethics #Eugenics #MachineLearning #Racism #Technology #Tech #Science #News @ai @science
🔴 **North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period**
_"We infer a high degree of temporal heterogeneity in ancestry, with fluctuating genetic affinities to different present-day Eurasian groups. We also infer high heterogeneity in ancestry within geographically, culturally, and socially defined groups. Despite this, we find that ancestry components which are widespread in Eastern and Central Europe have been present in the Ukraine region since the Bronze Age."_
Lehti Saag et al., North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period. Sci. Adv.11, eadr0695 (2025) .DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr0695
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genomics #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ukraine #BronzeAge #Academia #Academics @science @archaeodons
🔴 **Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture**
_“We reconstructed six-generation pedigrees at both sites including up to 450 closely related individuals, allowing per-generation demographic profiling of the communities. Despite different ancestry, these pedigrees together with large networks of distant relatedness show absence of consanguinity, patrilineal pattern with female exogamy, multiple reproductive partnerships (for example, levirate) and direct correlation of biological connectivity with archaeological markers of social status.”_
Wang, K., Tobias, B., Pany-Kucera, D. et al. Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08418-5.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Biology #Anthropology #Genomics #Science #Ancient #DNA #History #Academia #Academics @science @biology @anthropology
🔴 **Mass deportations don’t keep out ‘bad genes’ − they use scientific racism to justify biased immigration policies**
Shoumita Dasgupta
_“Politicians and tech moguls are employing a combination of racism, willful misunderstanding of genetic science and political power to promote their own social agendas.”_
#Science #Genetics #Racism #Immigration #Migration #Migrants #Eugenics #Xenophobia #Deportations
🔴 ⚗ ‘Still angry’: Chemist finds his name on a study he didn’t write
_“I am acutely aware of how academic malpractice can ruin an academic career so did not want to be associated with this paper.”_
🔗 https://retractionwatch.com/2025/01/13/chemist-martin-mcphillie-journal-biochemical-technology/.
#Science #Chemistry #Research #Academia #Academics #Publication @science @chemistry
🔴 **Far Out Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)**
"Through his descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches Zahn shows readers the workings of the camera obscura and magic lantern"
🔗 https://flashbak.com/johann-zahn-oculus-artificialis-472978/.
#EarlyModern #History #Tech #Technology #Inventor #Images #Science @science @earlymodern
🔴 **Human migration from the Levant and Arabia into Yemen since Last Glacial Maximum**
_“Our results paint a picture of Yemen being in a crossroads, marked by the large-scale baseline genetic diversity that largely evolved many millennia. Yemen witnessed an initial gene flow pattern defined by the more ancient markers from the rest of the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant that started as early as the Epipaleolithic period followed by population isolation and limited expansion. Yemen witnessed additional, but less substantial, flow from southwest Asia, Jordan and Syria through the Nabateans during the active incense trade between the Levant and Yemen, from Arabia during the Islamic Expansion, and a subsequent one from the west and southwest dominated by East Africa.”_
Henschel, A., Saif-Ali, R., Al-Habori, M. et al. Human migration from the Levant and Arabia into Yemen since Last Glacial Maximum. Sci Rep 14, 31704 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-81615-4.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Science #Biology #Genetics #Genomics #Migration #Yemen #Arabia #Levant #Academia #Academics @science @biology
🔴 **Lead Pollution Likely Caused Widespread IQ Declines in Ancient Rome, New Study Finds**
🔗 https://www.dri.edu/lead-pollution-likely-caused-widespread-iq-declinesin-ancient-rome/
#Science #Research #Pollution #Ancient #Rome #Antiquity #IQ #IntelligenceQuotient @science
🔴 **High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe**
_“We reveal evidence of the southward and/or eastward expansion of individuals who probably spoke Germanic languages and who had Scandinavian-related ancestry in the first half of the first millennium ce. We note that ‘Scandinavian-related’ in this context relates to the ancient genomes available, and so it is entirely possible that these processes were driven, for example, from regions in northern-central Europe. This could be consistent with the attraction of the greater wealth, which tended to build up among Rome’s immediate neighbours and may have played a major role in vectors of migration internal to communities in Europe who lived beyond the Roman frontier52.”_
Speidel, L., Silva, M., Booth, T. et al. High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe. Nature 637, 118–126 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08275-2
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genomics #Genetics #Science #History #Medieval #Medievodons #Scandinavia #Europe #Migration #Migrants #Academia #Academics @science @medievodons @archaeodons
🔴 **Trump and Musk are obsessed with genetics – but there’s no science behind their simplistic views**
Jonathan Roberts
_“The ubiquity of rhetoric that conflates DNA and identity risks propping up some insidious ideas. This is the language Musk and Trump thrive on, making exclusionary policies look like rational decisions grounded in science. Because, if genes are everything, why bother with policies aimed at tackling inequality? Why waste time and resources addressing social problems when we’re all just products of our genetic code?”_
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/30/donald-trump-elon-musk-genetics-science-right.
#Science #Biology #Genetics #DonaldTrump #Trump #ElonMusk #Musk #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Opinion #Politics #USPol
🔴 🌋 **Scientists finally solve mystery of giant volcano that almost wiped out the world**
Ryan McDougall
_“Scientists from the University of St Andrews say they have discovered the exact volcano that erupted in 1831, leading to a global cooling of approximately 1C._
_The team discovered it was the Zavaritskii volcano on the remote, uninhabited island of Simushir, which is part of the Kuril Islands – a disputed territory between Russia and Japan.”_
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/simushir-volcano-mystery-1831-study-b2671705.html.
🔴 🌡️ **Impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality**
_“Using climate model simulations of idealized SG and data-driven of temperature-attributable mortality, we estimate that, in a world 2.5 °C warmer than preindustrial, 1 °C of global-average cooling by SG reduces mortality by over 400,000 deaths annually by 2080, with a possible range from −1.2 million to 2.7 million deaths annually.”_
A. Harding, G.A. Vecchi, W. Yang, D.W. Keith, Impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121 (52) e2401801121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401801121 (2024).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Geoscience #Engineering #Climate #ClimateChange #Academia #Academics @science @climatechange
🔴 🇬🇱 🛰️ **Incredible satellite images show Greenland’s massive ice sheet melting**
Julia Musto in New York
_“Altogether, the ice sheet shrank by 563 cubic miles, losing enough mass to fill Africa’s Lake Victoria. The most extreme thinning occurred at the glaciers along its edge, including those known as Jakobshavn Isbræ and Zachariae Isstrøm.”_
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/greenland-map-satellite-melting-ice-b2668161.html
#Images #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Arctic #Greenland @science @climatechange
🔴 **Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin**
_“Our evaluations reveal spatially different histories in Transdanubia even between communities in close geographical proximity, highlighting the importance of dense sampling and analyses. Our findings highlight extensive homogenization and reorganization processes, as well as discontinuities between Hun, Avar, and Hungarian conquest period immigrant groups, alongside the spread and integration of ancestry related to the Hungarian conquerors.”_
Dániel Gerber et al., Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin. Sci. Adv.10, eadq5864(2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq5864.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #Archaeogenomics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #Genomes #Science #CarpathianBasin #Hungary #Europe @anthropology @archaeodons
_“By the numbers: According to the new Copernicus data, November was the 16th out of the past 17 months during which global average surface temperatures exceeded the 1.5°C target relative to pre-industrial temperatures.”_
#Climate #ClimateChnage #Science #Environment @climatechange @science
Global climate records in 2023 and 2024 defy scientific explanation https://www.axios.com/2024/12/16/climate-change-records-surprise-scientists?utm...
🔴 **Scientists Warn of an ‘Unprecedented Risk’ From Synthetic ‘Mirror Life,’ Built With a Reverse Version of Natural Proteins and Sugars**
Eli Wizevich
_“Mirror cells,” as they are known, could one day compose “mirror life,” a type of synthetic organism that, on the molecular level, is the complete reverse of the life forms we know. But the 38 co-authors of the warning article published in the journal Science recommend that research into mirror life be blocked immediately, before it spirals out of control._
🔴 **Publisher reviews national IQ research by British ‘race scientist’ Richard Lynn**
Hannah Devlin and David Pegg
_“There have been repeated calls for publishers to retract Lynn’s papers or flag concerns about their reliability with warning notices. Academics who have evaluated his papers allege that Lynn, who died last year, systematically biased data to produce implausibly low IQ scores for sub-Saharan nations.”_
Are there any benefits from climate change that one can preach about?
Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick Preaches the Benefits of Climate Change https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/who-is-chris-wright-trump-energy-secretar...
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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