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Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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"Coffee drinkers have much lower risk of bowel cancer recurrence, study finds" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/23/coffee-drinkers-much-lower-risk-bowel-cancer-recurrence-study #News #BowelCancer #Coffee #Cancer #Health #MedicalResearch #Medicine #Food #Science #Research @science
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"A record 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023. To find out what’s driving this trend, Ian Sample speaks to Ivan Oransky, whose organisation Retraction Watch has been monitoring the growing numbers of retractions for more than a decade," https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/feb/22/mistakes-fakes-and-a-giant-rat-penis-why-are-so-many-science-papers-being-retracted-podcast #Science #STEM #Research #PeerReview #Publishing #Academia #Academic #Academics #Audio #Podcast #Podcasts @science @podcasts
"Indeed, the rapid development of generative AI technologies may intensify technology’s influence on domains as varied as culture, business, politics, health and education. The risks posed are even more extreme—from increased market concentration to election fraud to even the demise of the human race." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-a-public-service-internet-to-free-us-from-big-techs-grasp/ #Internet #Technology #Tech #STEM #Science #BigTech #Opinion @science
"We compare per capita ratios with an approach based on regression, a widely used statistical procedure that eliminates many of the problems with ratios and allows for straightforward data interpretation."
Kratochvíl Lukáš and Havlíček Jan. 2024 The fallacy of global comparisons based on per capita measures. R. Soc. Open Sci.11: 230832. 230832. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230832 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Science #Health #Disease #Epidemiology #Environment #Statistics #Data @science
"Ethnic groups are real, but are socially and culturally constructed. More often than not, these groups have not had continuity across time historically, linguistically, culturally, and of course biologically. However, people intuitively tend to essentialize these groups, and DNA often serves as the placeholders for this." https://blog.oup.com/2024/03/who-do-you-think-you-are-genetics-and-identity/ #Science #STEM #Genetics #Ethnicity #DNA #Ancestry #Identity @science
"Now a team of researchers have combined RNA sequencing and cutting edge imaging technology to map the heart in more detail than ever before." https://youtu.be/n-txHrQt1YM #Video #Science #STEM #Medicine #Cardiology #Heart #Atlas @science
"The aim is to treat history as a “natural” science, using statistical methods, computational simulations and other tools adapted from evolutionary theory, physics and complexity science to understand why things happened the way that they did." https://theconversation.com/historys-crisis-detectives-how-were-using-maths-and-data-to-reveal-why-societies-collapse-and-clues-about-the-future-218969 #ClimateChange #History #Histodon #Histodons #Society #Science #LongRead #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @science
🇩🇪 "Our results reveal individual households, lasting several generations, that consisted of a high-status core family and unrelated low-status individuals; a social organization accompanied by patrilocality and female exogamy; and the stability of this system over 700 years."
Alissa Mittnik et al., Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe. Science 366, 731-734 (2019). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax6219 #Research #DOI #Archaeogenetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Science #STEM #BronzeAge #Europe #Germany #German #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons
"Our results show that presenting the success rate of previous raters works as an incentive to evaluate information more accurately, but that monetary bonuses provide the strongest increase in accuracy, and that only remuneration is associated with a greater use of external resources (e.g., search engines) that have been shown to meaningfully improve evaluation of new content."
Ronzani, P., Panizza, F., Morisseau, T., Mattavelli, S., & Martini, C. (2024). How different incentives reduce scientific misinformation online. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-131 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Study #DOI #PeerReview #Science #Misinformation #Psychology #SocialMedia #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @psychology
"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: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.15.580575 #Science #STEM #Biology #Genome #Genomics #DNA #Ancient #aDNA #India #Indians #Preprint @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." https://www.doi.org/10.1126/science.z3wcw7b #News #Science #Geology #Anthropocene #DOI #Academia #Academic #Academics @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." https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00616-5 #Research #DOI #InformationTechnology #IT #Science #Publishing #Academia #Academic #Academics @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 https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10095 [Accessed 04 March 2024] #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #Science #HistSci #Astronomy #Judaism #Hebrew #Arabic #Medieval #Medievodons #Astrolabe #Spain #C11th #11thCentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @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." https://youtu.be/A5w-dEgIU1M #Video #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Physics #Science #STEM #Finance #Economics #Investment #Derivatives @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). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52846-2 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Meteorology #Weather #ElNino #Academia #Academic #Academics @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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2011.10.002. #Article #DOI #History #Science #STEM #HistSci #EarlyModern #Scotland #Europe #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Algebra #Academia #Academic #Academics @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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2011.12.004. #Research #Article #DOI #History #Science #STEM #HistSci #EarlyModern #Europe #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Academia #Academic #Academics @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, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-109-2024, 2024. #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Statistics #Data #Weather #Climate #Europe #ClimateChange #Environment #Oceanography #Geoscience #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange
"Was the Earth flatter around the poles or the Equator? In 1735 two expeditions set out to settle a matter of national pride." https://www.historytoday.com/archive/great-debates/measuring-shape-earth #History #Histodon #Histodons #Science #Technology #STEM #HistSci #C18th #18thCentury #EarlyModern #Europe #France #England #Enlightenment @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph 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.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
