Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @bibliolater@social.cleverlibre.org
Not a bot; a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; married; father; a very very slow reader; barely reaching up to the level of mediocrity; an ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, sciences, books and maps related. Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions. Expect many typing errors.
Addendum: for those wondering, I do not physically resemble a fountain pen.
Joined Nov 2022
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@bibliolater Yes, but only if they are orthographic in the sense of being dimensionally compressed :)
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@bibliolater No, this is a safe space. Spell checkers are to judgmental.
(while this shouldnt need to be said.... this is a joke)
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@bibliolater wouldn't improve it for me. Too many different languages, abbreviations, dialects, and bits of oddments. I feel like I'd always be uncorrecting the spell check.
#Question: does #Mastodon have a spell checker? If not, would a spellchecker improve #Mastodon?
#Fediverse #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Feditips #Mastotips
#Image attribution: Alejandro Escamilla alejandroescamilla, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Man_typing_on_laptop_(Unsplash).jpg
🇩🇰 "While the two major shifts in Danish Mesolithic and Neolithic material culture may have had different drivers and causes, the outcomes were ultimately the same: new people arrived and rapidly took over the territory. With this arrival, the local landscape was modified to fit the lifestyle and culture of the immigrants. This is the hallmark of the Anthropocene, observed here in high resolution in prehistoric Denmark."
Allentoft, M.E., Sikora, M., Fischer, A. et al. 100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark. Nature 625, 329–337 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06862-3 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genomics #Genome #History #Population #Genetics #PopulationGenetics #Neolithic #Denmark #Europe #Ancient #DNA #aDNA #Migration #Immigrants #Geology #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons
"We hypothesize ingroups serve as moral boundaries, that the relative tight constraints morality exerts over ingroup relations loosen in competitive group environments because doing so also serves ingroup interests."
Hull, K., Warren, C., & Smith, K. (2024). Politics makes bastards of us all: Why moral judgment is politically situational. Political Psychology, 00, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12954 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Politics #Political #PoliticalScience #Behaviour #Morality #Society #Social #Ethics #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience @psychology
"Here we use an ice core record from grounded ice at Skytrain Ice Rise to constrain the timing and speed of early Holocene ice sheet retreat."
Grieman, M.M., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Hoffmann, H.M. et al. Abrupt Holocene ice loss due to thinning and ungrounding in the Weddell Sea Embayment. Nat. Geosci. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01375-8 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Geoscience #Science #STEM #Antarctic #Ice #Holocene #Palaeoclimate #Climate #Earth #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
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English scholar, writer & clergyman Robert Burton was born #OTD in 1577. He is best remembered for his publication Anatomy of Melancholy where he describes, among other things, the advances gained in our knowledge of astronomy. This in a long section of the book where he brings the reader up to date with efforts to observe & learn about the heavens, notable the then-recent observations of Galileo Galilei. via Soc. Hist. Astronomy
Robert Burton at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3686
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The slave trade and the origins of matrilineal kinship: "We find that the slave trades are positively associated with the subsequent presence of matrilineal kinship. We also find evidence of a complementarity between polygyny and matrilineal kinship"
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2023.0032
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Material insecurity and religiosity: A causal analysis | "We find that years of formal education and food insecurity do not consistently contribute to individual religiosity cross-culturally"
"Their AI is able to recognize patterns in complex data sets and to formulate them in a physical theory. " https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/announcements/2024/ai-as-a-physicist #Science #STEM #Physics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Research @science @physics @ai
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Shakespeare's Richard II is presented at the Globe #OTD in 1601.
Shakespeare's play appears to have played a minor role in the events surrounding the final downfall of Essex. On 7 February 1601, just before the uprising, supporters of the Earl of Essex, among them Charles and Joscelyn Percy (younger brothers of the Earl of Northumberland), paid for a performance at the Globe Theatre on the eve of their armed rebellion. via @wikipedia
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English novelist and social critic Charles Dickens was born #OTD in 1812. His works include A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest British novelist of the Victorian era. via @wikipedia
Books by Charles Dickens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37
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Poll time!
Now that Bluesky is open to everyone will you be using it?
Feel free to boost so more people see it 😁
#poll #bluesky #fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia
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Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 https://lifehacker.com/tech/the-best-rss-reader-apps-in-2024
1,000 times yes! As an information junky, I can't *imagine* life w/o RSS. I loves my Inoreader!
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Science sleuths are using technology to find fakery and plagiarism in published research | “They want science to be and do better,” Oransky said. “And they are frustrated by how uninterested most people in academia — and certainly in publishing — are in correcting the record.”
"The main objective of this scientific study was to see whether AI could be used in a scientifically appropriate manner to improve the scientific writing process. Indeed, AI reduced the time for writing but had significant inaccuracies. The latter necessitates that AI cannot currently be used alone but could be used with careful oversight by humans to assist in writing scientific review articles."
Kacena, M.A., Plotkin, L.I. & Fehrenbacher, J.C. The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Writing Scientific Review Articles. Curr Osteoporos Rep (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11914-023-00852-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #STEM #AI #Artificialintelligence #Writing #ChatGPT #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @ai @writing
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How did human beings acquire the ability to do #mathematics? New "Devlin's Angle" post for the Math. Assoc. of America https://mathvalues.squarespace.com/masterblog/category/Devlin%27s+Angle
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English playwright, poet and translator Christopher Marlowe was born #OTD in 1564. He was an Elizabethan poet and Shakespeare’s most important predecessor in English drama, who is noted especially for his establishment of dramatic blank verse. His plays include Tamburlaine the Great (1590), Dr. Faustus (1604), The Jew of Malta (1633), and Edward II (1594). via @wikipedia
Books by Christopher Marlowe at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/410
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Spanish "aceite" means "oil" but looks confusingly like it might be cognate with "acid". Spanish was spoken for a thousand years before enyone knew that fats are chemically speaking acids. Turns out it's an Arabic word, "azzayt", and has nothing to do with Latin "acidus".
Not a bot; a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; married; father; a very very slow reader; barely reaching up to the level of mediocrity; an ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, sciences, books and maps related. Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions. Expect many typing errors.
Addendum: for those wondering, I do not physically resemble a fountain pen.
Joined Nov 2022
