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Tracking the acceptance of #neologisms in #German: Psycholinguistic factors and their correspondence with corpus-linguistic findings

https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01977-4

Open access. Code and data here: https://osf.io/uxdcz/

I'll tell you what it's all about below...

#linguistics #experiment #psycholinguistics #language

The first solar flare observations were made #OTD in 1859 by Carrington and Hodgson, preceding one of the largest geomagnetic storms on record.

Both amateur astronomers made their observations independently, and published them simultaneously in MNRAS.
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?db_key=AST&bibcode=1859MNRAS..20...13C&letter=0&classic=YES&defaultprint=YES&whole_paper=YES&page=13&epage=13&send=Send+PDF&filetype=.pdf

Important new study of college #calculus instruction https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9803

@bibliolater Interesting.

In looking at the super blue moon last night it hit us as to how disconnected most of us are from the ancient celestial references. Maybe its the light pollution, maybe its the screen culture that absorbs us, but an elegant 19th century star chart reminds us of how the heavens were valued references for generations prior.
#maps #dataviz #Astronomy #space #map

“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst & uncertainty.”

That survey with only a 5% response rate went viral & got me wondering about other evidence & how the #ScienceTwitter #MastodonMigration was panning out.

So I updated my study tracker & wrote a new post @PLOS : https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/08/20/how-is-science-twitters-mastodon-migration-panning-out/

tl;dr There's been a big recent surge here; the future of #ScienceMastodon looks bright; ScienceX is materially diminished tho the network is still there.

#Science #SciComm

A map of Antarctica and the islands of the southern Antarctic Oceans, from Germany in 1912. It shows Shackleton's expedition to 88° 23' S but seems to pre-date Amundsen's return to Tasmania (and announcement to the world) in March of 1912.

#cartography #1910s

#OTD 29 August 1619 Jean-Baptiste Colbert was born. He became First Minister of State under Louis XIV after Cardinal Mazarin. He consolidated France's position as the premier power of Europe while facilitating the expansion of its colonial empire.