Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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What is AI and why are experts terrified about its future? | 60 Minutes ... https://youtu.be/OTwdrMAq-Fk #YouTube #Video #Science #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics @science
Swali, P., Schulting, R., Gilardet, A. et al. Yersinia pestis genomes reveal plague in Britain 4000 years ago. Nat Commun 14, 2930 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38393-w #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Archaeology #Genomics #Biology #Article #Academia #Research #Britain @archaeodons @science @academicchatter
The 16th and 17th centuries constituted a period of drastic change in the way humanity conceptualized and sought to understand the world. Scholars made massive leaps in fields such as mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, and, perhaps most notably, physics. Arguably, no city contributed more profoundly to that new understanding than Cambridge." https://www.humanprogress.org/centers-of-progress-pt-38-cambridge-physics/ #History #Science #Physics #Cambridge #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (2023) The two ‘strongest pillars of the empiricist wing’: the Vienna Circle, German academia and emigration in the light of correspondence between Philipp Frank and Richard von Mises (1916–1939), Annals of Science, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2023.2203049 #history #science #histodons #histodon #openaccess #oa @histodon @histodons
"After screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%." https://science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common #Science #Medicine #Research #NeuroScience #Academia
"In recent decades, researchers have begun peering beneath book covers using noninvasive techniques to find medieval binding fragments and read what’s written on them." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/science/medieval-books-hidden-manuscripts.html #Books #Medieval #Science #bookstodon @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1661059061494824960
"Kozinsky and his team used the world’s 8th most powerful supercomputer, Perlmutter, to simulate the 44 million atoms involved in the protein shell of HIV." https://www.newscientist.com/article/2373022-watch-44-million-atoms-simulated-using-ai-and-a-supercomputer/ #Video #Simulation #AI #artificalintelligence #Science #Computer #hiv
Source: https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1660295233710465030
Desert Monoliths Reveal World’s Oldest Architectural Plans. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/science/ancient-architecture-desert-kites.html #Science #Jordan #SaudiArabia #Architecture #MiddleEast #History #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1659983410662711298
"Galen was the greatest physician of his era and was also a skilled surgeon and renowned philosopher. He was responsible for numerous advances in the fields of anatomy, physiology and therapeutics and led a truly remarkable life." https://www.medicalexamprep.co.uk/claudius-galen/ #History #Medicine #Philosophy #Science #histodons @histodons @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/MedicalExamPrep/status/1660208813767790595
"Barabási’s groundbreaking work reveals that new connections in our networks tend to form with already well-connected elements. Scale-free networks exist in various complex systems, such as cellular interactions and social networks." https://bigthink.com/the-well/decoding-our-world-graph-theory-networks/ #Video #Maths #Science #Data
Source: https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1659656770086641679
"As with all BCIs, the goal was to associate each word, phrase, or sentence with the particular pattern of brain activity that it evokes." https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-use-ai-decipher-words-and-sentences-brain-scans #Science #Brain #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NeuroScience
Source: https://twitter.com/NewsfromScience/status/1659597290137350145
"Boscovich did important work in geometry, optics, astronomy, geodesy, and even engineering..." https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/roger-joseph-boscovich #History #Science #Maths #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/bhgross144/status/1659548442694234112
"Ethicists warn that without careful regulation, genome editing could lead to a two-tier society, split between those who are edited and those who are not." https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/crispr/ #Science #Technology #CRISPR #Genetics #DNA
Source: https://twitter.com/sciencefocus/status/1659515640120500225
May 1664: Hooke vs. Cassini: Who Discovered Jupiter’s Red Spot? https://aps.org/publications/apsnews/202005/history.cfm #History #Science #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1659182115232022528
"Prehistoric humans in Europe might have been sitting round campfires built to toast snacks as early as 250,000 years ago – 50,000 years earlier than originally thought, researchers have suggested." https://theguardian.com/science/2023/may/18/scientists-find-oldest-known-evidence-of-humans-in-europe-using-fires-to-cook #Science #Anthropology #Europe #Spain #Madrid
Scientist of the day: Barthélemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond. https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/barthelemy-faujas-de-saint-fond-4 #History #Science #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/bhgross144/status/1658877535906562054
"Dr Patricia Fara tells the story of Caroline Herschel, concert soprano turned astronomer, unkindly caricatured in Georgian times as ‘The Female Philosopher, smelling out the Comet’. " https://royalsociety.org/blog/2023/05/first-ladys-comet/ #History #Science #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/RSocPublishing/status/1658382180043702274
Is it the beginning of the end for scientific publishing? – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2023/may/16/is-it-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-scientific-publishing-podcast #Science #Books #Publishing #Podcast #bookstodon @bookstodon
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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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