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"We show that most Indians derive ancestry from three ancestral groups related to ancient Iranian farmers, Eurasian Steppe pastoralists and South Asian hunter-gatherers. We uncover a common source of Iranian-related ancestry from early Neolithic cultures of Central Asia into the ancestors of Ancestral South Indians (ASI), Ancestral North Indians (ANI), Austro-asiatic-related and East Asian-related groups in India."

50,000 years of Evolutionary History of India: Insights from ∼2,700 Whole Genome Sequences

Elise Kerdoncuff, Laurits Skov, Nick Patterson, Wei Zhao, Yuk Yee Lueng, Gerard D. Schellenberg, Jennifer A. Smith, Sharmistha Dey, Andrea Ganna, AB Dey, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Jinkook Lee, Priya Moorjani
bioRxiv 2024.02.15.580575; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.15.580 @science @biology

"Science has confirmed that a panel of two dozen geologists has voted down a proposal to end the Holocene—our current span of geologic time, which began 11,700 years ago at the end of the last ice age—and inaugurate a new epoch, the Anthropocene." doi.org/10.1126/science.z3wcw7 @science

"The sample of DOIs included in the study was made up of a random selection of up to 1,000 registered to each member organization. Twenty-eight percent of these works — more than two million articles — did not appear in a major digital archive, despite having an active DOI." doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-006 @science

"With its added translations from Arabic into Hebrew, the astrolabe closely recalls the recommendations prescribed by the Spanish Jewish polymath Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089–1167) in the earliest surviving treatise on the astrolabe in the Hebrew language written in 1146 precisely in Verona."

Gigante, F. (2024). A Medieval Islamic Astrolabe with Hebrew Inscriptions in Verona: The Seventeenth-Century Collection of Ludovico Moscardo. Nuncius 39, 1, 163-192, Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10 [Accessed 04 March 2024] @science @medievodons

"The most famous equation in finance, the Black-Scholes/Merton equation, came from physics. It launched an industry worth trillions of dollars and led to the world’s best investments." youtu.be/A5w-dEgIU1M @economics @science

"In 2023, the development of El Niño is poised to drive a global upsurge in surface air temperatures (SAT), potentially resulting in unprecedented warming worldwide."

Jiang, N., Zhu, C., Hu, ZZ. et al. Enhanced risk of record-breaking regional temperatures during the 2023–24 El Niño. Sci Rep 14, 2521 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-528 @science @climatechange

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 "However, he was a mathematician of some skill, and his textbook The Elements of Mathematical Analysis, Abridged, for the Use of Students is of interest for his view of analysis. Though he was unable to complete a more comprehensive work for publication, many manuscripts survive in St Andrews University Library. Vilant’s book and manuscripts and the reception of his work are here examined."

Craik, A.D.D. (2012) 'A forgotten British analyst: Nicolas Vilant (1737–1807),' Historia Mathematica, 39(2), pp. 174–205. doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2011.10.0. @earlymodern @science

"I argue that Dee was interested in Nunes’ work as early as 1552 (but probably even earlier). I also claim that Dee was aware of Nunes’ programme for the use of mathematics in studying physical phenomena and that this may have influenced his own views on the subject."

De Almeida, B.R.R. (2012) 'On the origins of Dee’s mathematical programme: The John Dee–Pedro Nunes connection,' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 43(3), pp. 460–469. doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2011.1. @earlymodern @science

"With stronger freshwater anomalies, our results indicate an increase in the risk of warm, dry European summers and of heat waves and droughts accordingly."

Oltmanns, M., Holliday, N. P., Screen, J., Moat, B. I., Josey, S. A., Evans, D. G., and Bacon, S.: European summer weather linked to North Atlantic freshwater anomalies in preceding years, Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 109–132, doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-109-2024, 2024. @science @climatechange

"We conducted a large-scale survey of 11,050 researchers and found that researchers on average rated themselves as better than other researchers at following good research practice, and rated researchers in their field as better than researchers in other fields at following good research practice. Given that it is statistically impossible for the majority of a group to be better than the group median, our results suggest that researchers on average have inflated beliefs about their own research ethicality and the research ethicality of their field."

Lindkvist, A.M., Koppel, L. & Tinghög, G. Bounded research ethicality: researchers rate themselves and their field as better than others at following good research practice. Sci Rep 14, 3050 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-534 @psychology @science

"The overall acceleration of pinning-point loss is striking and paints a bleak future for many Antarctic ice shelves. From 2000 to 2022, the vast majority of pinning points in the 3,000-km stretch of coastline in West Antarctica from George VI Ice Shelf to Hull Glacier, along with an 800-km stretch of coastline in Wilkes Land, reduced in area or completely disappeared."

Miles, B.W.J., Bingham, R.G. Progressive unanchoring of Antarctic ice shelves since 1973. Nature 626, 785–791 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-070 @science @climatechange

"We propose to conceptualize science-related populism as a set of ideas which suggests that there is a morally charged antagonism between an (allegedly) virtuous ordinary people and an (allegedly) unvirtuous academic elite, and that this antagonism is due to the elite illegitimately claiming and the people legitimately demanding both science-related decision-making sovereignty and truth-speaking sovereignty."

Mede, N. G., & Schäfer, M. S. (2020). Science-related populism: Conceptualizing populist demands toward science. Public Understanding of Science, 29(5), 473-491. doi.org/10.1177/09636625209242 @science

"Are you bilingual? Or even multilingual? It turns out there are lots of upsides to speaking more than one language." youtu.be/nBGuQHsXllg @science

"A peer-reviewed medical journal has published strange AI-made images, despite them containing imaginary words and letters as well as a very unusual rat." youtu.be/OqjpK70BOZg @science

"The results allow us to reconstruct the seasonal strategies employed by neolithic groups that occupied Campo de Hockey and to establish whether this island site was occupied all year round or seasonally."

García-Escárzaga, A., Cantillo-Duarte, J.J., Milano, S. et al. Marine resource exploitation and human settlement patterns during the Neolithic in SW Europe: stable oxygen isotope analyses (δ18O) on Phorcus lineatus (da Costa, 1778) from Campo de Hockey (San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain). Archaeol Anthropol Sci 16, 38 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-019 @science @archaeodons @anthropology

"We show that the drastic increase in the human population at risk of exposure is partly due to historical changes in population density, but that climate change has also been a critical driver behind the heightened risk of WNV circulation in Europe."

Erazo, D., Grant, L., Ghisbain, G. et al. Contribution of climate change to the spatial expansion of West Nile virus in Europe. Nat Commun 15, 1196 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-452 @science

"Notably, we reveal long IBD sharing between Corded Ware and Yamnaya groups, indicating that the Yamnaya herders of the Pontic-Caspian Steppe and the Steppe-related ancestry in various European Corded Ware groups share substantial co-ancestry within only a few hundred years."

Ringbauer, H., Huang, Y., Akbari, A. et al. Accurate detection of identity-by-descent segments in human ancient DNA. Nat Genet 56, 143–151 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-015 @science @biology

"Our analyses show that although societies that share similar ecologies are more likely to share cultural traits, the Eurasian continent is not significantly more ecologically homogeneous than other continental regions."

Chira, A.M., Gray, R.D. and Botero, C.A. (2024) ‘Geography is not destiny: A quantitative test of Diamond’s axis of orientation hypothesis’, Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6, p. e5. doi: doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.34 @geography @anthropology @biology @science

"I show that differentials in the early documents are introduced by geometric arguments, lacking dynamic meaning; however in hindsight can a dynamic meaning be recognized in them."

Dias, P.M.C., 2023. Isaac Newton’s early documents on circular motion: can the dynamic reasoning in the “Principia” be found in them?. Rev. Bras. Ensino Fís. 45, e20230263.. doi.org/10.1590/1806-9126-RBEF @science @physics

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