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https://software.nasa.gov/
#science #space #opensource #openscience
So sad it had to be this way.
#hEDS
And not long after, the first mammals, our ancestors, appeared.
I find it comforting to remember that life on this pale blue dot will be resilient - whether we’re part of it or not. #science #nature #history #SharedPlanet
Wild Adélie penguins have passed the mirror test, suggesting they’re self-aware. 🐧❄️
Written by Richard Pallady.
#penguins #zoology #science
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/penguins-may-have-passed-the-mirror-test/
Penguins May Have Passed the Mirror Test | Hakai Magazine
Wild Adélie penguins respond to their own reflection, suggesting self-awareness.Hakai Magazine
Blue Glaucus or “the blue dragon” is a brightly colored nudibranch that incorporates toxic chemicals & stinging cells from prey into its skin as a defense against predation.
And in my humble opinion, it’s more spectacular than anything ever imagined in Westeros. Image: Sylke Rohrlach #science #nature #SharedPlanet
Sometimes literary works of fiction inspire scientists.
Meet “Ampulex dementor” aka “the dementor wasp.” This species, discovered a few years ago, was named after the mythical dementors in "Harry Potter" that suck souls with abandon.
Why? The dementor wasp injects venom into its prey, turning cockroaches into passive zombies before dragging them off to be devoured. #nature #science #books #SharedPlanet
https://newslit.org/educators/resources/levels-of-scientific-evidence/ #education #science
@sociology @psychology @openscience
Levels of scientific evidence — News Literacy Project
We worked with Dr. Katrine Wallace — an epidemiologist, educator and science literacy influencer — to produce a trio of resources focused on differentiating between different levels of scientific evidence.News Literacy Project
As we lose the chance to look up & peer back in time at once vivid stars, we risk forgetting our place as a single species in the magnificent symphony of life. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/light-pollution #space #science #nature #SharedPlanet
Light Pollution | National Geographic Society
People all over the world are living under the nighttime glow of artificial light, and it is causing big problems for humans, wildlife, and the environment. There is a global movement to reduce light pollution, and everyone can help.education.nationalgeographic.org
The policy ramifications are yet to be understood, but anti-intellectualism has threatened public health, stymied environmental progress, influenced funding priorities & sculpted the rhetoric of local, state & national politics.
New post: The Rise of Anti-intellectualism https://sheril.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-anti-intellectualism #science #politics
Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.
The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science #HistoryRemix
Satyendranath Bose was a brilliant theoretical physicist born this week in 1894 in West Bengal (now India).
In 1924, while on faculty at the University of Dacca, he wrote a short paper to Albert Einstein about indistinguishable particles related to quantum theory.
Einstein immediately recognized Bose’ genius, translated the work into German & made sure it was published. Bose ideas led to Bose-Einstein statistics which continue to be studied in quantum mechanics. #science #history #HistoryRemix
The results didn't look good - for them. Studies revealed a high-sugar diet may increase risks associated with heart attacks, strokes & certain cancers.
But... rather than share emerging findings, the study was curiously halted & the industry successfully shifted blame onto fats.
It took decades to widely link sugary diets to disease. It didn't have to. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/11/21/565766988/what-the-industry-knew-about-sugars-health-effects-but-didnt-tell-us #food #science
What The Industry Knew About Sugar's Health Effects, But Didn't Tell Us
The sugar industry pulled the plug on an animal study it funded in the 1960s. Initial results pointed to a link between sugar consumption and elevated triglycerides, which raises heart disease risk.NPR
Police, Prosecutors Used Junk Science to Decide 911 Callers Were Liars
How police, prosecutors and even the FBI helped spread the junk science of 911 call analysis through the American justice system.ProPublica
I’m also somewhat known porting a C. elegans nervous system model (connectome) to the Arduino Uno, so it could be used in very low cost or resource constrained platforms.
Yes, this is a robot that thinks it’s a worm, lol
Hackaday article:
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/13/nematoduino-a-roundworm-neural-model-on-an-arduino/
#introductions #stem #eduction #robotics #arduino #maker #biology #science
Nematoduino: A Roundworm Neural Model On An Arduino
When it comes to building a neural network to simulate complex behavior, Arduino isn’t exactly the first platform that springs to mind. But when your goal is to model the behavior of an organ…Hackaday
We had a great time this week. We talk about #Centipedes, #Mushrooms, and #Amoebas.
There's also a shout-out to @openscience in this week's show.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nrzsa-1345cdb
#Nature #Strange #Weird #Oddity #Fungus #Science #scicomm #Podcast #Caves #Naturalist
A new study suggests that providing an "accurate alternative" is most effective.
Misleading graphs can omit baselines to exaggerate differences and cherry-pick sections of data to hide greater trends. The other methods tested included providing a warning arrow pointing to the issue or an educational or general text warning next to the graph.
https://doi.org/10.22323/2.21070207
#SciComm #ResearchIntegrity #Misinformation #Science @academicchatter
Debunking strategies for misleading bar charts
Graphs are useful to communicate concisely about complex issues. Although they facilitate intuitive reading of data, trends, and predictions, hasty readers may still come to the wrong conclusions, especially if graphs are misleading due to violated d…JCOM - The Journal of Science Communication
And we did all that with the primitive computing capabilities available back then … 🤦♂️
#science #Tech #astronomy #moon #nasa
And yes, I know you can see the moon during the day sometimes. But it's hard, and that makes navigation hard.
#science
In the 70s I lived on a large commune in the hills near NASA Ames. One of us worked there under Dr Sagan making a stereo map of Mars from Mariner 9 photos
Never one to turn down an audience he brought his slideshow (the bones of Cosmos) up the mountain and gave 150 hippies a tour of the Universe projected on a pair of white sheets!
It was truly awesome ✨ 🚀🪐
#Science #Astronomy #Mars
Interesting #paper on the availability of #statistical #code in European Urology papers. And a checklist to get us all thinking about how good the code we share is.
thanks for finding and posting it first @MarkKelson
🔗 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6705117/
#Science #OpenScience #Reproducibility #Research #OpenAccess
— Voltaire
#voltaire #quote #philosophy #science #research #enlightenment
I bet you’ve heard of Galileo & Hubble, but what about Henrietta Swan Leavitt?
Leavitt changed astronomy. She figured out new ways to measure a star’s distance from Earth & her work helped determine the universe is expanding.
Her boss, Edward Pickering, published her findings UNDER HIS NAME. Later, Shapley used her findings to determine distances around the Milky Way w/o credit.
Leavitt’s work is still used today. Next time you hear about famous men in #science share her story. #HistoryRemix
SRC: https://xkcd.com/2456/
#xkcd #science #publishing #paper #moodBooster
Fav quote: “There are galaxies that we haven’t discovered that are very big, very close by, and have unusual properties, and they are not in our current catalogs even after all these decades of studying the sky.”
#science #journalist #astronomy
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-enduring-mystery-of-the-dragonfly-44-galaxy-20221107/
The Enduring Mystery of the Dragonfly 44 Galaxy | Quanta Magazine
A growing catalog of huge but dim galaxies such as Dragonfly 44 is forcing astronomers to invent new theories of galactic evolution.Quanta Magazine
Fludarabine increases nuclease-free AAV- and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated homologous recombination in mice - Nature Biotechnology
Fludarabine-induced DNA damage pathways enhance the in vivo efficiency of homologous recombination-based gene editing.Nature
Here's the thing: they don't even have to. Every #Mastodon account has an #RSS feed. For example, here's mine:
https://mstdn.social/@rysiek.rss
Every hashtag has an RSS feed as well (as seen from a given instance), for example:
https://mstdn.social/tags/Science.rss
Your audiences can follow you without ever setting up an account on fedi, with any RSS reader.
Neither article is my area of expertise, per se, but I made substantial contributions to both and learned a lot.
It's a great reminder that #science is a team sport. It's better and more productive to work together!
#Agriculture #Agroecology #SciWrit #Academia #Research
Tetiana Yaroshenko talks about #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData and the 20th anniversary of #BudapestOpenAccessInitiative. How it was and where we are going https://budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/ acknowledges the role #OpenSocietyFoundations
played in the OA movement #BOAI20 #OAWeek #Science #News
BOAI20
The Budapest Open Access Initiative:20th Anniversary RecommendationsPrefaceThe Budapest Open Access Initiative celebrated its 20th anniversary on February 14, 2022.To mark thebudapestopenaccessinitiative.org
📄 Mammola et (2022) The global spread of misinformation on spiders. Current Biology 32:R871–R873 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.026
— Prof. Alice Roberts
@theAliceRoberts@twitter.com
#Science #OpenScience #OpenData #OpenSource
