Gustavo Ogasawara @gojonnes@qoto.org

Happy Birthday Sir Isaac Newton who was born today 381 years ago!

His pioneering book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, consolidated many previous results and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing infinitesimal calculus, though he developed calculus years before Leibniz.

Isaac Newton at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6288

#books #physics

Les #universités et autres #organisme qui quittent #twitter et /ou qui arrivent sur le #fedi

#docParticipatif

https://pad.underworld.fr/p/a4nl_universite_qui_quittent_twitter

Everybody knows that the suit to block Donald Trump from the ballot in Colorado was filed by Dem…

Wait, this just in. It was filed by Republicans.

My annual call!

Please suggest a cool paper/preprint in your field in the last year or so!

For a course I teach, I am collecting papers on: cell/dev bio, microbio, neuro, maths/stats/CS/chem/phys applied to biology.

Students use one paper as the basis for a "research grant application" that they will write. So papers that are cool but also open doors to future study are ideal! Do you know one? It can be your own, I don't mind!

Last year's selection: https://quantixed.org/2023/01/14/papers-for-md9a8-2023-edition/

#ScienceMastodon

Food plants in Brazil: Origin, economic value of pollination and pollinator shortage risk ($)

https://botany.fyi/s4Gmb3?b1

Olivera et al. investigate the origin, pollinator dependence and economic value of 199 food crops cultivated in Brazil to understand to which extent (1) Brazilian agriculture is vulnerable to pollinator shortage, and (2) Brazilian society has already achieved a comprehensive perspective about crop dependence.

#Botany

Sunrise this morning with the light shining on the stone of St Michael's tower, Glastonbury Tor. We had more rain yesterday which has added to the water on the levels that can be seen through the archway.

#animals #cognition #biology #nature #altruism #emotion #qualia #science #farm #goat #pig #cow
https://www.science.org/content/article/not-dumb-creatures-livestock-surprise-scientists-their-complex-emotional-minds

Uma das razões pelas quais é tão difícil vencer a extrema-direita com recurso à argumentação lógica e racional, é esta não se apoiar em factos; o seu alicerce são emoções primárias (medo, raiva, ...). A realidade é uma categoria que está ausente da discussão, porque o que verdadeiramente lhes importa é a percepção da realidade.

https://www.publico.pt/2023/12/07/sociedade/noticia/numero-beneficiarios-rsi-atinge-minimo-historico-2072818

Postdoc in biostatistics or bioinformatics

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

#bioinformatics postdoc opportunity in #NYC working on rare diseases

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/icahn-school-of-medicine-at-mount-sinai-27778-postdoc-in-biostatistics-or-bioinformatics/?feed_id=67067

#genetics #genomics #human_disease #human_g...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/icahn-school-of-medicine-at-mount-sinai-27778-postdoc-in-biostatistics-or-bioinformatics/?feed_id=67067

In remote #Siberia, hunter-gatherers built complex defenses 8000 years ago
https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-oldest-forts-upend-idea-farming-alone-led-complex-societies
#archaeology #science #humans #human #history #agriculture #warfare #Canada #Alaska #Tlingit #competition

Conventional #plantbreeding helped develop #legumes with better #nutrition (beans with high #zinc & iron, high zinc #lentils). Molecular breeding can help overcome limitations (genetic diversity, time) to develop future #biofortified legume crops: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33957-8_5 #beans