Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @bibliolater@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm working on a #Mastodon tool today that will search for a hashtag across multiple instances and return a list of related hashtags (hashtags returned in the same search, sorted by rated of occurrence.) That should help y'all who are looking for more discovery methods.

While I'm putting that together, check out MastoGizmos: https://mastogizmos.com/ . It's a collection of a dozen one-page, JavaScript-driven tools for exploring Mastodon and Mastoverse. Free, ad-free, works on your phone.

It's time for a re-introduction! 👋

I'm a professor at EPFL in Switzerland, where I run the digital epidemiology lab. Here on Mastodon, I will share what I find interesting and newsworthy, mostly in #science, #tech, and #health. But really, anything to live an examined life 😉

Politics is a strict NO NO for me on this account. I have another, more local (🇨🇭) account where I do comment on local politics (see bio).

I'm a happy @elk and @ivory user and can highly recommend both.

See you around!

Feeling like a newborn here, trying to locate fellow scientists interested in #octopus #killifish #developmentalBiology #evodevo #neuroscience #sciencefunding

How 10,000 years of #plagues left their mark on our #DNA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/08/16/plague-pandemics-immune-system-evolution/

are we still getting quote toots one day? #Mastodon

The human body's system of blood circulation was discovered by the English physician and anatomist William Harvey (1578-1657) in 1628. #History #Blood #Circulation #Medicine #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2268/william-harveys-discovery-of-blood-circulation/

Pierre de Fermat was born #OTD in 1601.

He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown, and his research into number theory.

He is best known for his Fermat's principle for light propagation and his Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica.

#books #mathematics

Y’all gotta hashtag like it’s 2011 here. There’s no way anyone will find your posts otherwise.

#Feditips #Mastodon

On that story about scientists leaving X and coming here. Please, please lean into the feature of hashtag following and tag your stuff. A lot of us would love to find you and hashtag discovery is the easiest way here.

#scientists #scientist #mastodon #followers #discovery #news

Opportunities and inherent limits of using environmental DNA for population genetics
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/edn3.448

Not every aspect of population genetics can be addressed by eDNA-based data and some inherent limitations may challenge its conclusions.

Excited to see @opencontext in the Fediverse!

Follow them for primary #data and #scicomm in #archaeology #anthropology

https://hcommons.social/@opencontext

cc @anthropology

The “Barracks Emperors” is a term coined by later historians referring to the Roman emperors who were chosen and supported by the army during the period known as the Crisis of the Third Century (also known as the Imperial Crisis, 235-284 CE). https://www.worldhistory.org/Barracks_Emperors/ #History #Aurelian #BarracksEmperors #BattleofAbritus

Ötzi the iceman had receding hairline and dark skin tone, study reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/16/otzi-iceman-receding-hairline-dark-skin-tone-study-reveals?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#Archaeology