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

Hi, I'm Justin!

I'm a statistician who loves working on scientific #data, both academic and industry

I write about #statistics, #education, and #consulting

I've worked in #research in #academia (#biomedical #science, #agronomy, #psychiatry, #epidemiology, #nephrology, #immunology, etc.) and in #biotech and #biopharma

Researchers developed the world's first 3D-printed brain tissue that grows and behaves similarly to natural brain tissue, marking a significant leap forward for neurological and neurodevelopmental disorder research.
https://neurosciencenews.com/3d-printed-brain-tissue-25554/ #biotech #biotechnology #science #biology #microbiology

“Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read.”

If you’re like me and your livelihood consists of either selling textual objects or using textual objects to sell services to a youth-obsessed sector (tech) then this is seriously bad news https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/02/literacy-crisis-reading-comprehension-college.html

I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. -- Isaac Newton

French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes died #OTD in 1650.

He is considered one of the founders of modern philosophy. He was the founder of the system of sciences on the knowing subject facing the world he represents to himself. In physics, he made a contribution to optics and is considered one of the founders of mechanism. In mathematics, he was at the origin of analytic geometry. via @wikipedia

Books by René Descartes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44

#books #literature #science

'By then, Einstein was public enemy No 1 in Germany. In May 1933, a brochure entitled Jews Are Watching You accused Einstein of “lying atrocity propaganda against Adolf Hitler”. Under his picture, it stated: “Not yet hanged.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/10/einstein-on-the-run-how-the-worlds-greatest-scientist-hid-from-nazis-in-a-norfolk-hut

German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen died #OTD in 1923.

Nobel Prize in Physics won for his discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him. In November 8, 1895, he found that, if the discharge tube is enclosed in a sealed, thick black carton to exclude all light, and if he worked in a dark room, a paper plate covered on one side with barium platinocyanide placed in the path of the rays became fluorescent even when it was as far as two metres from the discharge tube.

#physics #science

The painful reality facing #Germany: its days as an #industrial superpower may be coming to an end. #manufacturing output in #Europe ’s biggest economy has been trending downward since 2017, and the decline is accelerating as competitiveness erodes, chart @BNNBloomberg https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/germany-s-days-as-an-industrial-superpower-are-coming-to-an-end-1.2033273

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: unique #Roman flasks in the shape of a pair of sandals. They were used to hold oil or perfume.
Found in a woman's burial in Cologne, dating late 2nd/early 3rd c. AD.

📷Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

#romanarchaeology #archaeology

Back in the 1970s, unit labour costs were the main driver of inflation. But more recently, unit #profits have taken this role. Empirical evidence even points to unit profits becoming a leading indicator of #inflation, chart @BIS_org https://www.bis.org/publ/work1167.htm

🐛 ‘Incredibly rare’ discovery reveals bedbugs came to Britain with the Romans

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/03/incredibly-rare-discovery-reveals-bedbugs-came-to-britain-with-the-romans

#uk #history #insects #bedbugs #rome #research

@bibliolater I guess my practice is just to correct it when I see it. Sometimes that happens before I press the "send" button, which is nice.

Other times it's not until someone responds and I see my typo, which I wince at.

But I also know that what I'm writing here is not important and that I have no reputation to manage or protect, so I try to go easy on myself, which is hard.

Bathymetry of the Baltic Sea.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale