Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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Joined Nov 2022
"Research on ancient genomes has moved way beyond population mixture into broader questions about how ancient people lived and interacted with their environments." https://johnhawks.net/weblog/the-top-10-discoveries-about-ancient-people-from-dna-in-2022/ #Ancient #DNA #Genetics #Science @science
Source: https://twitter.com/Qafzeh/status/1670847258886291456
"He became the first to report the phenomenon of coupled oscillation in two pendulum clocks (which he invented) in his bedroom while recovering from an illness in 1665." https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201706/history.cfm #History #Science #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1669812115920568320
Nall, J., Taub, L., & Willmoth, F. (Eds.). (2019). The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108633628 #History #Science #Technology #Medicine #histodon #histodons #openaccess #oa #books #bookstodon @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @science
"By pumping water out of the ground, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east in the last thirty years." https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2023/06/16/humans-are-pumping-so-much-water-out-of-the-ground-that-earths-tilt-is-changing/ #Earth #Science @science
Source: https://twitter.com/ForbesScience/status/1669713983366987778
CUMMINGS, V., & FOWLER, C. (2023). Materialising Descent: Lineage Formation and Transformation in Early Neolithic Southern Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2023.2 #Ancient #DNA #History #Archaeology #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Britain #histodon #histodons #archaeodons @histodon @histodons @science @archaeodons
"Much of the modern physical description of electrical forces comes from careful experiments done by the French scientist Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806)." https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201606/physicshistory.cfm #History #Science #Physics #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science @physics
Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1669374285939367937
"A skull fragment and shin bone suggest that early modern humans might have passed through southeast Asia earlier than thought." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01903-3 #Science #Archaeology #Anthropology @archaeodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1669023321092923392
"He wrote and lectured widely, often on the theme that religion and science were not incompatible. He also chased down 600 copies of Copernicus’s landmark book." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/science/space/owen-gingerich-dead.html #Science #Religion @science
Source: https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1668290864077066241
The Making of ChatGPT: From Data to Dialogue.https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2023/the-making-of-chatgpt-from-data-to-dialogue/ #ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Science #Technology
Source: https://twitter.com/SITNBoston/status/1667898108548661248
"One student’s desire to get out of a final exam led to the ubiquitous algorithm that shrinks data without sacrificing information." https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-lossless-data-compression-works-20230531/ #Computer #Science
Source: https://twitter.com/Ri_Science/status/1667903514025029632
"Abu'l-Wafa is best known for the first use of the tan function and compiling tables of sines and tangents at 15' intervals. This work was done as part of an investigation into the orbit of the Moon, written down in Theories of the Moon." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abul-Wafa/ #History #Maths #Science @science
Source: https://twitter.com/StA_Maths_Stats/status/1667473952032030720
"A new study published in Lancet estimates that over 100 million people in India are living with all forms of diabetes. The survey commissioned by the health ministry also found that 136 million people could be living with pre-diabetes." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0ft8kyd #Science #India
Source: https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice/status/1667495390243848193
"On average, El Niño years are warmer globally than La Niña years – El Niño’s opposite. Globally, a strong El Niño can boost temperatures by about 0.7 degrees Fahrenheit (0.4 Celsius). But in North America, there is a lot of local variation." https://theconversation.com/el-nino-is-back-thats-good-news-or-bad-news-depending-on-where-you-live-205974 #Science #Weather #Climate #ElNino
Source: https://twitter.com/ConversationUS/status/1667172371646537733
Simões, L.G., Günther, T., Martínez-Sánchez, R.M. et al. Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant. Nature (2023). https://rdcu.be/decJv #OpenAccess #OA #Biology #History #Archaeology #Science #Anthropology #Genetics #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
"Free and easy to use, the platform — a powerful kind of database that maps relationships — helps users find clear pathways through the collections and uncover links between objects that might otherwise seem unconnected," https://news.yale.edu/2023/06/01/17-million-reasons-love-lux-yales-new-collections-search-tool #library #science #technology #arts
Source: https://twitter.com/BeineckeLibrary/status/1665407567684591619
"Study takes a step toward cell or gene therapy for cystic fibrosis". https://hms.harvard.edu/news/researchers-make-ionocytes-mysterious-lung-cells-dish #Science #Biology #Therapy #Medicine @science
Source: https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1665399271808552961
"I think the magic of our capsule is that it is going to transform how people think about the gut microbiota's relationship to diseases," https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2023/05/15/scientists-get-a-new-view-of-digestion/ #Science #Microbiology #Biology #Technology @science
Source: https://twitter.com/Stanford/status/1665395702736863237
"Such geodynamic models could help highlight diamond-filled areas and the locations of future kimberlite eruptions...." https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a43841348/supercomputers-reveal-earth-diamond-engine/ #Earth #Science #Diamond #Mining
Source: https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1664288400545923073
Scientist of the Day - Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/anaxagoras-of-clazomenae #History #Science #Philosophy #histodon #histodons
@histodon @histodons @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/bhgross144/status/1664267627345379329
Imputed genomes and haplotype-based analyses of the Picts of early #medieval #Scotland reveal fine-scale relatedness between Iron Age, early #medieval and the modern people of the #UK https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010360 #Genetics #Genomics #OpenAccess #OA #Science
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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Joined Nov 2022
