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This + the final statement of proposal A : " Debian is not here to generate as much code as possible requiring manual review by a shrinking number of human volunteers, or to package every piece of software, or to rush new features, but these are what LLMs are used for. " could readily be applied e.g. to scientific research.
"/Universities/ are not here to generate as much /papers/ as possible requiring manual review by a shrinking number of /human researchers/" ...!
Wspieram obecnie projekt badawczy DREAM, którego celem jest opracowanie aplikacji PrzyTobie - cyfrowego przewodnika wspierającego w procesie leczenia pacjentki zmagające się z rakiem piersi.
To badanie pozwoli na wskazanie najważniejszych potrzeb, na które możemy odpowiedzieć w aplikacji.
🟣 Jeśli znacie pacjentki z rakiem piersi lub które zmagały się z tą chorobą w przeszłości - zachęcam do wypełnienia lub przekazania formularza dalej!
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The Verdict? ⚖️
Whether written by the apostles themselves or by their dedicated students preserving an oral tradition, these texts changed the world. We may never have a fingerprint or a DNA sample, but the literary impact is undeniable.
What’s your take? Tradition or historical mystery? Let’s chat below! 👇✨ #BiblicalStudies #MastodonScience #HistoryThread
More than 3 years after joining Mastodon (Nov 2022) then stopping any posting on Twitter (Dec 2022), I have finally deactivated my Twitter/X account. I will continue to post on Mastodon, Bluesky and LinkedIn for now. #MastodonScience
#Introduction #FunFacts #DidYouKnow #MastodonScience #MastodonHistory #DailyFacts #Fediverse
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How do we find the hidden pieces of our biology? This blog post highlights an inventive approach to exploring the small molecules essential to life—no science degree needed to follow! Curious? Read the story behind this research here: https://tinyurl.com/muppsp8n
Google just introduced DolphinGemma an AI model designed to decode dolphin communication. Yes, AI is now learning how dolphins "talk"! 🤯
By analyzing patterns in vocalizations, DolphinGemma could help us understand dolphin behavior on a whole new level.
#AI #DolphinGemma #MachineLearning #GoogleAI #Science #AnimalBehavior #TechForGood #MastodonScience
🌌 Ever Wondered What Lies Beyond? 🚀
NASA’s SPHEREx mission launches TONIGHT at 10:09 PM EST from Vandenberg, CA, on a SpaceX Falcon 9. It’s set to map 450 million galaxies and hunt for signs of life! 🪐
🔥 Elon Musk’s SpaceX is at the helm, amidst whispers of cosmic secrets and funding drama. Could SPHEREx reveal more than we’re ready for? 👽
#SPHEREx #SpaceExploration #MastodonScience
What do you think SPHEREx will uncover? Drop your cosmic theories below! 🌠
#TechTrend #AI #Viral2025
9/9 👀 Curious to hear your thoughts! Do you think contributorship can replace traditional authorship? Join the conversation below!
#AcademicChatter #mastodonscience
The northern half of the U.S. is forecasted to be in the view path where the auroras may be most visible. Aurora forecast for over a dozen states this weekend Things that the human eye can't see, your phone can, so it'll be interesting to see just how far south we're getting aurora images this time
There is a huge geometric storm on the Sun, 16 times the size of Earth blasting on us earthlings this weekend. #MastodonScience #northernlights https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/10/northern-lights-aurora-when-time/73638964007/
In a new paper, published today in Current Biology, we analyse the genome of renowned composer Ludwig van Beethoven using a polygenic index related to musicality, as a way to illustrate the limits of genetic predictions at the individual level. Beethoven, one of the most celebrated musicians in history, scored unremarkably, ranking between the 9th & 11th percentile based on modern samples. We explain why this is no surprise & how it can provide a valuable teaching moment on the complex relationships between DNA & behaviour.
An interdisciplinary collaboration across two Max Planck Institutes (Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen & Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt), University of Amsterdam, Karolinska Institute, Vanderbilt University and others.
#MastodonScience #science #music #genetics #genomics
@mpi_nl @maxplanckgesellschaft
#MastodonScience biologists, can you help me remember what is the name of this initiative of #scientificPublishing with a sort of pooling of #preprints that get reviewed and then a few journals partners of that will (or will not) offer to consider the paper for publication?
I think @Co_Biologists journals were among partners but I can't find that again through your website.
And of course I'm happy to read about other's experience with that process.
My question from this research is: We know that they make us gain weight, so do artificial sweeteners get ‘tasted’ by our bodies and mess with our blood sugar regulation? #science https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26134751-400-why-do-we-have-taste-buds-in-our-heart-and-testicles/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=currents #MastodonScience
Application deadline fast approaching, please help spread the word!
We are looking for talented junior scientists to join our International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Two fully-funded 4-year #PhD fellowships (2024-2028) are available to carry out cutting-edge research on #genetics and #development of human #language, with several innovative projects to choose from, co-supervised by leading researchers at the Max Planck Institute and our partners at the Radboud University. Projects include investigating rare #DNA variants in genes that cause developmental speech/language disorders, and neuroimaging #genomic analyses of language circuits in the brain.
Application portal closes Jan 8th 2024. Full information and FAQ can be found here: https://www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fellowships-2024
#MastodonScience #science #academia
@mpi_nl @maxplanckgesellschaft @Radboud_uni
If you have responsibility for any scientific institutions or projects with social media presence, are they still active on Twitter/X? #MastodonScience
We are looking for talented junior scientists to join our International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Two fully-funded 4-year #PhD fellowships (2024-2028) are available to carry out cutting-edge research on #genetics and #development of human #language, with several innovative projects to choose from, co-supervised by leading researchers at the Max Planck Institute and our partners at the Radboud University. Projects include investigating rare #DNA variants in genes that cause developmental speech/language disorders, and neuroimaging #genomic analyses of language circuits in the brain.
Application portal opens Dec 4th 2023 and closes Jan 8th 2024. Full information and FAQ can be found here: https://www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fellowships-2024
Boosts much appreciated!
#MastodonScience #science #academia
@mpi_nl @maxplanckgesellschaft @Radboud_uni
Yesterday it was one year that I joined Mastodon, thanks in great part to the excellent initiative of @alxsim in creating #ecoevosocial in a timely manner.
My activity on Twitter had been slowing down, and I've been really happy of the new place and pace I've found here. At the same time I regret what we lost with science Twitter, and I'm afraid we'll never get back anywhere.
#MastodonScience
😓 And reminder in case you might not be seeing how bad these numbers are: this is +21,000 micromorts. Which is 10x riskier than ascending the Matterhorn 🏔️, 100x more than base jumping 🪂 or 1000x than a tour in Afghanistan as a US soldier 🪖
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https://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/111168291500866379
Welcome @dessimoz, director of @SIB, PI of the #OMAbrowser database, and professor at #UNIL, to #MastodonScience! #bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #orthologs
On the anniversary of #MahsaAmini death in Iran, I am calling on #MastodonScience to help me find a permanent laboratory job for a female Ph.D. scientist from that country who has obtained a green card to the USA. Its time to show our solidarity to the #women of the Iran with more than hashtags. PM me for more info, trying to keep the person anonymous but generally #marinebiology
Newsmast is new to Mastodon and #mastodonscience . We’re a knowledge-based platform pooling facts, data and ideas. Built on Mastodon’s open-source technology, bringing together academics, journalists, charity workers and people who know their stuff from across the fediverse.
Newsmast is made up of curated communities of interest, where we seek out and follow experts to lead the conversation; together with diverse voices, marginalized communities and people on the ground.
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Nature ha publicado una News feature donde indica que en una encuesta la mitad (46%) de los cientificos activos en Twitter han creado una cuenta en Mastodon en el último año, por encima de Linkedin, Instagram, Threads y bluesky.
No pone cuantos se han quedado, pero diria que es buen momento para impulsar #MastodonScience
Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
@pmeyfroidt I received it and decided to reply to increase representation of #MastodonScience in the replies. Also noticed the journalist advertises his Mastodon handle on Twitter (although it's inactive for now).
Welcome @alexfletcher, very happy to see you here!
A few #fedi things you may want to check:
#opencheck allows you to help preserve the connectivity of #sciencetwitter tree while also help creating a directory of #mastodonscience
@mechanobio is one of my preprint bots, from there you'll see the others
If you mention @academicchatter then all people following this bot account will also see the message
There seems to be a rather widely shared feeling that lack of URL search is a limitation for #MastodonScience
#MastodonScience, note that this affects all the StackExchange websites, including e.g. #MathOverflow (used by professional #mathematicians) and all those more used by #students, such as #physics.SE, #biology.SE, ... which are currently far from bad in general.
On top of having to mark #AI student papers, lecturers will have to deal with misconceptions self-reinforced by super confident AI explaining out science there.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/astronomers-see-a-star-eating-a-planet-for-first-time-ever #mastodonscience multi-university team of researchers published a study on Wednesday in the journal Nature that described the first ever observation of a star swallowing a planet. The cosmic feast seems to have occurred in our very own Milky Way galaxy, roughly 12,000 lightyears away in the constellation Aquila. #NASA #Astronomy
Nice that @genomeresearch highlights its #MastodonScience account on its homepage https://genome.cshlp.org/
@albertcardona
Re: filtering for neuroscience #preprints/#papers, it could be done by a bot in the same way as I do it for #mechanobiology, see @mechanobio
Also, if you want to filter neuroscience papers among Drosophila ones, you can suggest your keywords for the @flypapers bot: check https://gitlab.com/jocelyn_etienne/keywords-for-flypapers-on-mastodon/-/blob/main/tag-drosophila.txt
#MastodonScience #preprint
My first conference recognition for #MastodonScience live posting 😁 :mastoblush: #biocuration2023
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.3679117/scientists-research-man-missing-90-of-his-brain-who-leads-a-normal-life-1.3679125 Scientists discover a man leading a normal life with 90% of his brain missing. A 44-year-old man from France started experiencing weakness in his leg, he went to the hospital. That's when doctors told him he was missing most of his brain. The man's skull was full of liquid, with just a thin layer of brain tissue left. #MastodonScience #Psychology #ClinicalResearch
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/europe-s-juice-mission-will-get-us-closer-to-searching-for-life-inside-other-worlds-1.6810509 JUICE, along with NASA's Europa Clipper, scheduled for launch next year, will make close observations of Jupiter's moons Calisto, Ganymede and Europa. These moons are all believed to hold oceans of liquid water, possibly more water than exists on Earth. #MastodonScience #spaceexploration #NASA
#MastodonScience : nearly 50% women scientists exposed to #sexual #harassment according to an international poll among (French-speaking, afai understand) #researchers
There's a notable difference of about 25 percentage points between the answers of male and female respondents on the prevalence of #sexism and sexual harassment in research.
Half of the cohort was based in #France
Any scientists working on how to disrupt this BIG problem? #ScienceMastodon #MastodonScience ???
Giant seaweed blob twice the width of the US takes aim at Florida | The Hill https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/seaweed-blob-visible-from-space-takes-aim-at-florida-gulf-coast/
I really should tag these 3 posts to #Lepidoptery #collecter #science #scientist #bugcollector #MastodonScience #ScienceMastodon about a famous man my brother and I used to visit in the late Sixties