'The methods used in the German study owed a debt to the British ethnologist John Beddoe, whose “index of nigrescence” concluded that Jews were “100 per cent” Negro. Figures such as Beddoe are key to Tudor Parfitt’s latest book Hybrid Hate, which details the strange ways that race theorists developed modern modes of anti-black racism and antisemitism.'
https://www.ft.com/content/03aad35c-2d7e-41a2-8592-4fe44b5ca400
What makes certain individuals more susceptible to #disinformation? 🌐
By looking into personality traits and the inner workings of #socialmedia, @mjoanasa is workings on a tool that will audit parts of the internet to detect disinformation.
👉 https://bit.ly/3PyLUGe
@lip_pt https://t.co/pdhv6JTIrF
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1674674207840686084
Mitochondria are at least 15 °C hotter than their external environment in living cells.
'My father's advice when I left Canada for New York was simple: "Never underestimate the other person's insecurity." This was excellent counsel, and what trouble I would get into came mostly from forgetting it.'
- Adam Gopnik, At the Strangers' Gate.
#Book #Books #bookworm #Bookshelf #reader #bookstodon
Fantastic to see the full list of #OpenScience Fund grantees.
Lots of exciting stuff to look forward to!
https://www.nwo.nl/en/researchprogrammes/open-science-fund-2023-awarded-grants
'Latin America is taking on a pioneering role in this. In Latin America, scientific outputs are considered a public good. Free-to-publish and free-to-read cooperative publishing is supported by non-commercial and publicly funded infrastructure. Ninety-five per cent of Latin American journals are diamond open access: community-driven and collaborative platforms with no article processing charges. Their example shows us that research is a more global and diverse enterprise than is typically acknowledged. By including diverse voices, they contribute substantially to the academic landscape and the accessibility and dissemination of research3. Unfortunately, these journals tend to be excluded by indexing systems, which causes science published outside of the Global North to not receive the attention that it deserves.'
'The most commonly believed falsehoods were that the vaccine was developed too fast and that there was not enough information about whether the vaccine was effective or not. Educational campaigns targeted at misinformation and tailored to suit each country are recommended to build trust in COVID-19 vaccines and reduce hesitancy.'
https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0000713
Twitter is paying high profile far right content creators, including Andrew Tate, thousands of dollars for posting to the app https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/
'My father's advice when I left Canada for New York was simple: "Never underestimate the other person's insecurity." This was excellent counsel, and what trouble I would get into came mostly from forgetting it.'
- Adam Gopnik, At the Strangers' Gate.
#Book #Books #bookworm #Bookshelf #reader #bookstodon
Stoneware by @hunchbacksociety #ceramics #art #artgallery #handmade #stoneware #artmastodon
https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety
'Some of the big technology companies, which have a poor reputation for use of personal data, are also training specialist generative AI models for the healthcare sector. Google is trialling the medical chatbot Med-PaLM 2, which provides expert advice to doctors, at the Mayo Clinic in the US. Google is rightly cautious about releasing this model more widely before its potential flaws are fixed.'
https://www.ft.com/content/d4002272-bed3-4339-ab5f-e657d29291f0
Recent Evolution of a Maternally Acting Sex-Determining Supergene in a Fly with Single-Sex Broods https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad148 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper
This was a great conversation with Pavel Tomancak & @tlemberger for the EMBO Podcast.
Everything from the early days of open science to tips on classic Czech science fiction.
#EMBOPodcast
NYU, ever the ethical beacon, had suspended her for protesting segregation.
“My having gone to Columbia was the greatest blessing that ever happened to me professionally,” she told the National Science and Technology Medals Foundation in 2016. She wasn’t sure she’d have been a National Medal of Science laureate, she said, “if New York University hadn’t decided that I was a bad girl in 1941.”
#OTD 14 July 1789 Parisians stormed La Bastille prison and armory. This jump-started the Revolution as conservative nobles fled France while the French people formed their own civic organizations.
An abandoned children's clothing factory
Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/rosenau-bros-happy-surprise
'Latin America is taking on a pioneering role in this. In Latin America, scientific outputs are considered a public good. Free-to-publish and free-to-read cooperative publishing is supported by non-commercial and publicly funded infrastructure. Ninety-five per cent of Latin American journals are diamond open access: community-driven and collaborative platforms with no article processing charges. Their example shows us that research is a more global and diverse enterprise than is typically acknowledged. By including diverse voices, they contribute substantially to the academic landscape and the accessibility and dissemination of research3. Unfortunately, these journals tend to be excluded by indexing systems, which causes science published outside of the Global North to not receive the attention that it deserves.'
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com