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I've turned one of my teaching modules in #Paleontology into an #OER. It's only one single lab, but many more are waiting to be OER-ised... therefore I really need your input to avoid future mistakes.
https://github.com/EmiliaJarochowska/Yankovich_cave/

Thanks to the feedback (shoutout to @leouieda and @JMMaok) I knew this:
✅ Must be editable
✅ Must include rubric
✅ Must include an example: I included a possible solution but without an essay, just the code. Now in #Rlanguage but #Python and #JuliaLang will follow.

The most watershed decision was to use #Quarto for everything to make it editable and renderable using Open Source tools and to make it version control-compatible. For people not familiar with #Quarto this may be a barrier?
Not sure what a good alternative would be. #OpenPedagogy


GitHub - EmiliaJarochowska/Yankovich_cave: Reconstruction of Pleistocene climate based on assemblages of mammal microfossils from a cave in Hungary

Reconstruction of Pleistocene climate based on assemblages of mammal microfossils from a cave in Hungary - GitHub - EmiliaJarochowska/Yankovich_cave: Reconstruction of Pleistocene climate based on ...
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#Python #julialang #quarto #oer #paleontology #rlanguage #openpedagogy @Dr Leonardo Uieda @J Miller

Virologist Jean-Michel Claverie has spent over a decade studying "giant” viruses, including those nearly 50,000 years old found deep within Siberian permafrost — layers of frozen soil that are starting to thaw amid climate change. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/10/10/world/science-health/scientist-50000-year-old-viruses/?utm_content=bufferd5eb9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #worldnews #sciencehealth #science #viruses #paleontology #archaeology

Probing the permafrost that could release 50,000-year-old viruses

Discoveries by virologist Jean-Michel Claverie shine a light on a little-known risk of global warming as it thaws ground frozen for millenniums
Liza Tetley,Bhuma Shrivastava (The Japan Times)
#science #archaeology #viruses #paleontology #worldnews #sciencehealth

Quite specific, but a very interesting article about #ants and their early evolution. The authors propose a 3 step scenario based on fossils and their interpretation. Really fascinating !

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.20.480183v1

#insects #nature #ecology #fossil #paleontology #entomology

Evolution and systematics of the Aculeata and kin (Hymenoptera), with emphasis on the ants (Formicoidea: †@@@idae fam. nov., Formicidae)

Fossils provide unique opportunity to understand the tempo and mode of evolution and are essential for modeling the history of lineage diversification.
bioRxiv
#nature #ecology #insects #entomology #paleontology #fossil #ants

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