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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
In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded its own research on the effects of sugar on health.
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. npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/… #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
NEW EPISODE!
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.
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#Nature #Strange #Weird #Oddity #Fungus #Science #scicomm #Podcast #Caves #Naturalist
What's the best way to debunk a misleading graph? 📊
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.
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
We (myself included) have taken this for granted for 50 years. But … Damn, we built rockets, spaceships, protective suits, & all the comm/control systems to make it work, … and then sent people to the MOON! And back!
And we did all that with the primitive computing capabilities available back then … 🤦♂️
Of course you had to launch it at night. How else would you be able to see the moon?
And yes, I know you can see the moon during the day sometimes. But it's hard, and that makes navigation hard.
#CarlSagan was a hero of mine
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!
📄 Statistical code for #ClinicalResearch papers in a high-impact specialist #medical journal
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
🔗 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…
#Science #OpenScience #Reproducibility #Research #OpenAccess
"#Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But #certainty is an absurd one."
— 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
I thought that as an intro, I can list my most recent article, published in Quanta Magazine!
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
quantamagazine.org/the-endurin…
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
I see quite a lot of #Science posts expressing concern if The Public will follow their authors' #TwitterMigration over on here.
Here's the thing: they don't even have to. Every #Mastodon account has an #RSS feed. For example, here's mine:
mstdn.social/@rysiek.rss
Every hashtag has an RSS feed as well (as seen from a given instance), for example:
mstdn.social/tags/Science.rss
Your audiences can follow you without ever setting up an account on fedi, with any RSS reader.
Amazingly, I am a part of an article submission today and a resubmission this week.
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 budapestopenaccessinitiative.o… 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 dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.…
“I passionately believe that science - all this wonderful knowledge that humans have come together to create - should be open to everyone.”
— Prof. Alice Roberts
@theAliceRoberts@twitter.com
#Science #OpenScience #OpenData #OpenSource
Don't get me wrong, I have a deep detestation for megacities and skyscrapers BUT I must say that from a purely #science point of view, the idea is interesting 🤔
The idea : #RenewableEnergy is intermittent, so #energy storage and release will be critical in the next few decades. IIASA researchers have put forth a fascinating solution, proposing to turn skyscrapers into giant gravity batteries for remarkably cheap renewable energy storage 🌆⚡
sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
May 2022 GOSH Community Call: Presentations from Creative Innovation Center (C.I.C), and GOSH Council Member Pen on open source enhancements to wildlife camera traps
Image Credit: Gathering for Open Science Hardware The next GOSH community call will be on 16 May from 13:00 - 14:00 UTC! The call will feature a presentation from Creative Innovation Center (C.I.https://openhardware.science/author/brianna/#author (Gathering for Open Science Hardware)
This is a picture of the first moments of a nuclear explosion taken in 1952. The blast radius at this moment is less than 20 meters wide.
There are so many extraordinary things about this photo. First off the fact that they had a camera in the 1950's capable of such insanely high speed frame rates (they created a movie from this) that it was capable of 1,000,000 frames per second. In many ways that is more impressive than the nuclear bomb itself.
Second the fact that you can see, in real time, a nuclear explosion as it happens. Those spikes at the bottom are called the "rope trick effect" which is caused by the support cables inside or holding up the bomb. The light radiation is so intense it vaporizes anything nearby causing things to explode just from the intensity of the light itself (before radiation has any effect at all). So those spikes are literally just the support cables exploding in the extraordinarily bright light from the bomb.
#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science
This article is a good overview of some of the problems with neo-darwinism: panspermia.org/neodarw.htm
Darwin, as mentioned before, might himself have accepted the results that Dr. Hahn discovered and personally presented to him.
Yet, we continue to ignore the most logical interpretation of the evidence to the detriment of scientific progress.
📄 An overview of open standards in scientific publishing in the context of #openscience and #openaccess #publishing
Overview of 102 standards and specifications, organized into ten categories. Essential ones were selected by defining an open standard for scholarly publishing as an uniformly documented, widely accepted and used, openly accessible / extensible specification that is applied to the creation, description, production, and dissemination […] #science
doi.org/10.14293/S2199-1006.1.…
Überblick über offene Standards im wissenschaftlichen Publizieren /Overview of open standards in scientific publishing
Die Publikationsinfrastruktur für Open-Access-Veröffentlichungen stellt sich durch die Vernetzung verschiedener OA-Publikationsworkflows mit verschiedensten beteiligten Systemen aktuell als sehr heterogen dar.ScienceOpen
So this is pretty cool. Two of the whales we saw on our whale watching tour are "new to science" i.e. haven't been reported by anyone anywhere on the planet, until I did 😀
happywhale.com/individual/7492…
happywhale.com/individual/7492…
So if you happen to go whale watching, make sure you photograph the underside of the tail and submit your sightings to happywhale.com
#citizenScience #science #whale
Flawed Data
Apparently ... there are different #coping #strategy to deal with unreliable #data. 😂⏱️ 😭
#science #openscience #opendata #openaccess
Wow very neat! Amazing what we can extract from data sets like this. #astronomy #space #science
Excited to announce paper 3 in our Mapping Stellar Surfaces series, this time on Doppler imaging!Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2110.06271
Github: github.com/rodluger/papar…
Code: github.com/rodluger/starry🧵 (1/10)
New editions of The Nummulosphere Part 3 and Part 4 have been published on Archive.org:
Part 3: archive.org/details/kirkpatric…
Part 4: archive.org/details/kirkpatric…
#nummulosphere #meteorite #science #history #ocean
The Nummulosphere Part 3: The Ocean Floor or Benthoplankton : Randolph Kirkpatrick : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
[pt. 1] An account of the organic origin of so-called igneous rocks and of abyssal red clays.--pt. 2. The genesis of the igneous rocks and of meteorites...Internet Archive
This list of the earliest know use of maths terms is an amazing way to loose time finding old (but super interesting) papers to read thru! Stuff you may likely never come across otherwise!
For someone like myself who loves, but is less than proficient at, maths.... this is a treasure trove of older and more approachable technical papers! And if you are a maths wizard, well I'm sure you can appreciate it for the history and maybe add some obscure older papers to your offline archive! ;)
Link: Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics
#maths #math #mathematics #science #stem #numbers #smartereveryday #history