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A personalized feed of ongoing science and academic discussions within the scientific community, focusing on individuals rather than organizations, departments and journals. 🧪
Brandon Moore, PhD Sinojapyx giganteus is the oldest known dipluran. These soil-dwelling insect relatives are usually tiny (2-5 mm), but this Jurassic giant was >5 cm long and its fossils suggest internal arthropod mouthparts may have evolved independently up to 3 times! 🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
samuel mehr in 2020 my lab quit Microsoft Word and began writing in R Markdown, an open-source document-publishing system that facilitates a clear, permanent link between statements in text (scientific prose) and the code producing analyses and visualizations supporting those statements (scientific analyses)
Michael Merrifield Last night’s observation was of the nebula Sh2-140, which illustrates two ways to see a molecular cloud: the dust in it hides myriad background stars in the lower half of the image; and a massive young star that formed from it illuminates its edge with ionising light, making the gas there glow. 🔭🧪
Nikolai Slavov An excellent introduction (for beginners) to Graph Neural Networks distill.pub/2021/gnn-int...
Monica H Green Important paper that's going on the 2nd Plague Pandemic bibliography even though it's not about plague: He et al., "Ancient DNA implicates Salmonella Paratyphi C as a candidate pathogen in a thirteenth-century East Asian epidemic." Unfortunate omission: Hymes's historical work on 13thC epidemics!
Sam Thomas Phytomyza germenilicis now published in collaboration with @dan-h-n.bsky.social, Carina van Steenwinkel & Rens Hendrickx. Look out for its distinctive mines on Holly (Ilex) seedlings this winter. @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...
samuel mehr lab managers: choose your participant incentives such that the participants are still using them thirty years later
Klaus Pforr With all this talk about noise maybe it's worth pointing out this newish paper about different sources of total survey error. It's measurement error, not non-response error docs.iza.org/dp18918.pdf
Daniel Bolnick Remarkable weekend at the induction ceremony to the American Academy of arts and sciences, so many fascinating people engaged in amazing work.
Ákos T Kovács Metabolomics in microbiology: interrogating microbial physiology and interactions Mini-review in mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
oZgun Gokce ⏳ 21 days left to submit your #FRM2027 symposium proposal. The keynote line-up is set. Now we need your symposia to complete the programme. Deadline: 1 November. See you in Istanbul. 👉 frm2027.org Please repost. #FRM2027 #SynapseOfContinents #FENS #Neuroscience
Mika Rantanen Still notably marked positive pressure signal over Greenland for late winter (February), and southward shifted Atlantic storm track in the latest C3S seasonal forecasts. It's a super consistent signal given it's multi-model mean, across all modeling systems, meaning hundreds of ensemble members.
Robert (Bob) Kubinec OpenAI, like many for-profits, has little interest in foundational research. What they want is marketing, and that's what their AI math proofs are. OpenAI never bothered to check if the formalization of their AI proofs matched the actual text in the proof. Basic stuff. 🙄 arxiv.org/abs/2610.081...