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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.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🧬 **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/
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**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/.
🔴 🎙️ **What is ‘mirror life’ and why are scientists sounding the alarm? – podcast**
_"Recently, a group of world-leading scientists called for a halt on research to create ‘mirror life’ microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an ‘unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth."_
#Audio #Podcast #Science #Research #Biology #Microbiology @science @biology
🔴 🇬🇱 **Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection**
_“...we find twice as many high-impact genome-wide associations to metabolic traits in Greenland compared with Europe. We infer that the high-impact variants arose after the population split from Native Americans and thus are Arctic-specific, and show that some of them are common due to not only genetic drift but also selection.”_
Stæger, F.F., Andersen, M.K., Li, Z. et al. Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08516-4.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Biology #Greenland #Academia #Academic @science
🔴 ⚗ **S.P.L. Sørensen, the pH concept and its early history**
_“Introduced as a convenient symbol for ‘hydrogen ion exponent’ by the Danish biochemist S.P.L. Sørensen in 1909, after a decade or two pH won broad acceptance in the fields of physiology, biochemistry, medical research, and industrial chemistry in particular. Apart from detailing how pH and related concepts were initially received, this paper examines the language and nomenclature associated with the pH scale until about 1930.”_
Kragh, H. S.P.L. Sørensen, the pH concept and its early history. Found Chem (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-025-09532-6
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Science #HistSci #Chemistry #Biochemistry #Academia #Academic @science @chemistry @biochemistry
🔴 **Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony**
_“We review recent developments, including the surprising benefits of modeling with more parameters than data, the increasing appreciation of the context-sensitivity of data and misspecification of scientific models, and the development of new modeling tools.”_
M. Dubova, S. Chandramouli, G. Gigerenzer, P. Grünwald, W. Holmes, T. Lombrozo, M. Marelli, S. Musslick, B. Nicenboim, L.N. Ross, R. Shiffrin, M. White, E. Wagenmakers, P. Bürkner, & S.J. Sloman, Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (5) e2401230121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401230121 (2025).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Psychology #Science #Statistics #Modelling #OckhamsRazor #Academia #Academics @psychology @science
🔴 **Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events**
_“In this Review, we link physical climate science with heat mortality risk, including crossings of uncompensable thresholds (beyond which human core body temperature rises uncontrollably) and unsurvivable thresholds (lethal core temperature increase within 6 h).”_
Matthews, T., Raymond, C., Foster, J. et al. Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events. Nat Rev Earth Environ (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00635-w
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Geography #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Health #Academia #Academics @science @geography @climatechange
🔴 **‘Female narcissism is often misdiagnosed’: how science is finding women can have a dark streak too**
Miriam Frankel
_"Researchers have discovered that narcissism can come in two types: grandiose and vulnerable. And Green has shown that while men are more likely to have grandiose narcissism, boasting high self-esteem and extroversion, women more commonly display the vulnerable form, involving introversion, defensiveness and low self-esteem. They may be more brittle and less boastful."_
#Science #Psychology #MentalHealth #Health @psychology @science
🔴 **Einstein’s Philosophy of Science**
🔗 https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2004/entries/einstein-philscience/
🔴 **How Much Does the Scientific Ecosystem Change over Time?**
Athene Donald
_"One should remember back then papers were not online. Wading through the Science Citation Index – a very substantial collection of tomes which was the necessary route for me and generations before (and after) to try to track down who had cited which paper/ whose papers had been cited – was hard work in a library, not something one could skim through at one’s desk, and useless papers just take up unnecessary space."_
#Science #Culture #University #Research #Academia #Academics
🔴 **Machine learning is bringing back an infamous pseudoscience used to fuel racism**
Mihai Andrei
_“The pseudoscientific framework of physiognomy laid a foundation for systemic racism, influencing fields like anthropology, criminology, and eugenics. These biases were embedded into societal structures and used to justify slavery, segregation, and colonialism. While physiognomy has been debunked as junk science, its legacy persists — and this is apparent in the new wave of AI physiognomy studies.”_
🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/ai-revives-physiognomy-dangers/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Ethics #Eugenics #MachineLearning #Racism #Technology #Tech #Science #News @ai @science
🔴 **North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period**
_"We infer a high degree of temporal heterogeneity in ancestry, with fluctuating genetic affinities to different present-day Eurasian groups. We also infer high heterogeneity in ancestry within geographically, culturally, and socially defined groups. Despite this, we find that ancestry components which are widespread in Eastern and Central Europe have been present in the Ukraine region since the Bronze Age."_
Lehti Saag et al., North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period. Sci. Adv.11, eadr0695 (2025) .DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr0695
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genomics #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ukraine #BronzeAge #Academia #Academics @science @archaeodons
🔴 **Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture**
_“We reconstructed six-generation pedigrees at both sites including up to 450 closely related individuals, allowing per-generation demographic profiling of the communities. Despite different ancestry, these pedigrees together with large networks of distant relatedness show absence of consanguinity, patrilineal pattern with female exogamy, multiple reproductive partnerships (for example, levirate) and direct correlation of biological connectivity with archaeological markers of social status.”_
Wang, K., Tobias, B., Pany-Kucera, D. et al. Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08418-5.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Biology #Anthropology #Genomics #Science #Ancient #DNA #History #Academia #Academics @science @biology @anthropology
🔴 **Mass deportations don’t keep out ‘bad genes’ − they use scientific racism to justify biased immigration policies**
Shoumita Dasgupta
_“Politicians and tech moguls are employing a combination of racism, willful misunderstanding of genetic science and political power to promote their own social agendas.”_
#Science #Genetics #Racism #Immigration #Migration #Migrants #Eugenics #Xenophobia #Deportations
🔴 ⚗ ‘Still angry’: Chemist finds his name on a study he didn’t write
_“I am acutely aware of how academic malpractice can ruin an academic career so did not want to be associated with this paper.”_
🔗 https://retractionwatch.com/2025/01/13/chemist-martin-mcphillie-journal-biochemical-technology/.
#Science #Chemistry #Research #Academia #Academics #Publication @science @chemistry
🔴 **Far Out Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)**
"Through his descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches Zahn shows readers the workings of the camera obscura and magic lantern"
🔗 https://flashbak.com/johann-zahn-oculus-artificialis-472978/.
#EarlyModern #History #Tech #Technology #Inventor #Images #Science @science @earlymodern
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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