Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🔴 **Scientists identify most bitter substance ever known**
“_Bitter bracket mushroom compounds found to be most bitter substances known to man_”
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bitter-most-substance-ever-known-b2729280.html.
🔴 📖 ** Interview: Laurence D. Hurst On The Evolution Of Imperfection**
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/laurence-d-hurst-on-the-evolution-of-imperfection.
#Nonfiction #Essay #Biology #Science #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon @science @biology
🔴 💻 **Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science**
“_Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good._”
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01067-2.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Science @science
🔴 🧬 **Genetic data is an another asset to be exploited – beware who has yours**
John Naughton
“_When 23andMe’s data assets come up for sale the queue of likely buyers is going to be long, with health insurance and pharmaceutical giants at the front, followed by hedge-funds, private equity vultures and advertisers, with marketers bringing up the rear._”
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/05/genetic-data-breach-23andme-bankruptcy
🔴 **Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups**
“_We document an exception to this pattern in the wider Rhine-Meuse area in communities in the wetlands, riverine areas, and coastal areas of the western and central Netherlands, Belgium and western Germany, where we assembled genome-wide data for 109 people 8500-1700 BCE. Here, a distinctive population with high hunter-gatherer ancestry (∼50%) persisted up to three thousand years later than in continental European regions, reflecting limited incorporation of females of Early European Farmer ancestry into local communities._”
Olalde, I. et al. (2025) 'Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups,' bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.24.644985.
#Preprint #Science #Biology #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Europe @archaeodons
🔴 **The Persistence of Tychonism**
“_In conclusion I will suggest that the historical longevity of
Tychonism has been considerably underestimated and also that Tychonists were not generally restrained from public endorsement of heliocentrism by religious pressure. On the contrary, I suggest that the continued acceptance of Tychonism was conditioned by its congruence with scientists’ religious beliefs._”
Barker, P. (2025) ‘The Persistence of Tychonism’, in Philosophical Readings. Zenodo, pp. 11–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15035063.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #HistSci #EarlyModern #Science #Religion #Academia #Academic @science @religion
🔴 **Born On This Day**
Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace was born in Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France on this day in 1749.
“_He proved the stability of the solar system. In analysis Laplace introduced the potential function and Laplace coefficients. He also put the theory of mathematical probability on a sound footing.”
🔗 https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laplace/.
#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #History #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Science #HistSci #Astronomy #Physics @science
🔴 🌍 **Global gridded population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population**
_“We find large discrepancies between the examined datasets, and, without exception, significant negative biases of −53%, −65%, −67%, −68%, and −84% for WorldPop, GWP, GRUMP, LandScan, and GHS-POP, respectively. This implies that rural population is, even in the most accurate dataset, underestimated by half compared to reported figures.”_
Láng-Ritter, J., Keskinen, M. & Tenkanen, H. Global gridded population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population. Nat Commun 16, 2170 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56906-7.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Geography #Science #Data #Population #Environment #Academia #Academics @geography @science
🔴 **A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans**
_“Using cobraa, we present evidence for an extended period of structure in the history of all modern humans, in which two ancestral populations that diverged ~1.5 million years ago came together in an admixture event ~300 thousand years ago, in a ratio of ~80:20%.”_
Cousins, T., Scally, A. & Durbin, R. A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans. Nat Genet (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02117-1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genome #Academia #Academics @science
🔴 **Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein**
_“Michael Faraday’s illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London’s Royal Institution to go online”_
#Science #News #Physics #Chemistry #Einstein #RoyalInstitution #Online @science @physics @chemistry
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**We calculated pi with colliding blocks**
Stand-up Maths
#Video length: twenty-three minutes and thirty-six seconds.
🔴 **Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible**
Adam Rutherford
_“You will never ever see a living woolly mammoth. While this is an obvious truth to most geneticists, zoologists and mammoth experts, the endless promises that you might get to meet an extant version of this very-much extinct elephantid apparently necessitate me typing it.”_
🔴 🧬 **A double-edged helix: The ethical consequences of widespread genetic screening**
_”Nevertheless, as genetic testing becomes more widespread, the storage of genetic data presents significant ethical and security challenges, prompting critical questions: Are current storage methods truly capable of safeguarding such sensitive information?”
🔗 https://oxsci.org/a-double-edged-helix-the-ethical-consequences-of-widespread-genetic-screening/
⚪ **Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos**
🔗 Part one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdOXS_9_P4U.
🔗 Part two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFMaT9oRbs4.
#Video #Cosmos #Universe #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Science #Astronomy @science @astronomy
🔴 **Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire**
_“We provide new compelling evidence on the origins of the Hun-period population, its considerable diversity and its ties to the steppe and the Xiongnu elites.”_
G.A. Gnecchi-Ruscone, Z. Rácz, S. Liccardo, J. Lee, Y. Huang, L. Traverso, R. Radzevičiūtė, Z. Hajnal, A. Szécsényi-Nagy, B. Gyuris, O. Mateovics-László, Z. Bernert, T. Szeniczey, T. Hajdu, B. Mészáros, M. Bálint, B.G. Mende, B. Miller, Z. Samashev, A. Childebayeva, L. Djansugurova, P. Geary, H. Ringbauer, T. Vida, C. Jeong, W. Pohl, J. Krause, & Z. Hofmanová, Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (9) e2418485122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418485122 (2025).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Anthropology #Science #Biology #Ancient #Genomes #DNA #Eurasia #Huns #Xiongnu #MiddleAges #Academia #Academics @science @biology @anthropology
🔴 🔷 **Ultra-hard ‘super diamond’ developed in China, 40% stronger than natural diamonds**
🔗 https://interestingengineering.com/science/ultra-hard-super-diamond-china-breakthrough.
🔴 **Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihood**
_“We then applied that protocol to 348 ancient genomes from Eurasia, describing how skin, eye and hair color evolved over the past 45,000 years. The shift towards lighter pigmentations turned out to be all but linear in time and place, and slower than expected, with half of the individuals showing dark or intermediate skin colors well into the Copper and Iron ages.”_
Perretti, S. et al. (2025) 'Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihood,' bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.29.635495.
#Ancient #DNA #Genomes #Phenotype #Science #Eurasia #CopperAge #IronAge @science
🔴 **The Origin And Extinction Of Humanity**
A palaeontologist answers questions concerning the origin and extinction of humans.
🔗 https://occamstypewriter.org/cromercrox/2025/02/15/the-origin-and-extinction-of-humanity-faq/.
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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