#scientificknowledge — Public Fediverse posts

The increasing #globalwarming, demonstrably caused predominantly by #humans and their #greenhousegasemissions, demands a more comprehensive transition to #climateneutral #energysources.The editorial by A.Pani et al.(2022) summarizes the current state of #scientificknowledge on the relationship #renewableenergies and #climatechange.©#StefanFWirth

Please support my sciencewriting https://ko-fi.com/sfwirth

Reference
A.Pani et al.(2022) https://doi.org/10.1080/07373937.2022.2119324

#Illustrations
©S.F.Wirth,AI-assisted

Coriolis Effect ✍️

It explains why objects moving across a rotating world seem to curve from their straight path, even when no visible force pushes them sideways. Imagine throwing a ball straight across a spinning merry-go-round. To someone standing still outside, the ball travels in a straight line. But to someone riding the spinning platform, the ball appears to bend away from its path.

The same thing happens on Earth because our planet is constantly rotating beneath everything that moves. Air currents, ocean flows, and even long-range projectiles travel over a surface that is turning while they move. This creates the illusion of a sideways force, known as the Coriolis effect.

In the Northern Hemisphere, moving objects appear to bend to the right, while in the Southern Hemisphere they bend to the left. The effect grows stronger over larger distances and faster motions, but becomes almost unnoticeable in small, everyday movements.

Scientists use this effect to understand the spinning of hurricanes, the paths of trade winds, and the circulation of oceans. It reveals that motion is not always as simple as it seems when the ground beneath us is constantly in motion itself.

#CoriolisEffect #EarthScience #Physics #ScienceFacts #Geography #Meteorology #ClimateScience #Atmosphere #OceanCurrents #WeatherScience #Hurricanes #TradeWinds #PlanetEarth #EarthRotation #ScienceEducation #STEM #LearnScience #ScientificKnowledge #ScienceExplained #NatureOfScience #PhysicalGeography #FluidDynamics #EarthSystems #ScienceLovers #DidYouKnow #EducationalContent #KnowledgeSharing #CuriousMinds #ScienceCommunication #ExploreScience

🧑‍🎓 The #subjectofknowledge is part of #observation 🔬 – #scientifictheory rethought 🤔

#NaturalScience is often regarded as an #objectiveDescription of the world. However, even great #physicists such as #WernerHeisenberg and #AlbertEinstein repeatedly emphasized that #scientificKnowledge can never be understood completely detached from the #conditions under which it came about.

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/

📺 https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik

#GerhardRoth #Consciousness #Neuroscience #Physics #Observer

CAS Future Leaders Program | Ph.D. & Postdoc Leadership

#scientificknowledge https://share.google/wvd64K1KTkYIGiLpJ

"#Safeguarding Research & Culture (#SRC) is creating an alternative infrastructure for #archiving and disseminating of #culturalheritage and #scientificknowledge. We seek to preserve cultural memory in a way that traditional archives cannot. Together, we can ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear."
V. @lavaeolus
https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/

11/
Cromer continued [4]:
"Cults and prophets arise spontaneously from the depths of the egocentric mind, whereas #ScientificKnowledge must be passed from generation to generation by a complex educational process that spans twenty years or more. [...] just as Europe once abandoned Greek #education in a wave of pious fundamentalism, America may someday turn out the light"

Today, preserving #science may need "to stop relying on scientific infrastructure provided by one nation or organization" [5]

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/
"Roughly two-thirds of the retrieved papers were found to have been produced, at least in part, through undisclosed, potentially deceptive use of GPT. The majority (57%) of these questionable papers dealt with policy-relevant subjects (i.e., environment, health, computing), susceptible to influence operations. Most were available in several copies on different domains (e.g., social media, archives, and repositories).
Two main risks arise from the increasingly common use of #GPT to (mass-)produce #fake, scientific #publications. First, the abundance of fabricated “studies” seeping into all areas of the #research infrastructure threatens to overwhelm the scholarly communication system and jeopardize the integrity of the scientific record. A second risk lies in the increased possibility that convincingly scientific-looking content was in fact deceitfully created with #AI tools and is also optimized to be retrieved by publicly available academic search engines, particularly #GoogleScholar. However small, this possibility and awareness of it risks undermining the basis for #trust in #scientificKnowledge and poses serious societal risks."
#science #AIEthics

Just met a person who thinks that Covid was probably a nasty flu.

Which is not utterly distant to respiratory disease scientists insisting for +80 years that "It's not airborne" and even this year, "Surgical masks are good enough."

Arguing from "#ScientificKnowledge is the product of inter-related communities all trying to disprove their hypotheses" now looks pretty hollow.

The harm these jokes have done to the credibility of our best source of knowledge about the physical world is immense.

2/3 Our take is first to get the lay of the epistemic land, so to speak, and derive the principles of #ScientificKnowledge #classification from the information we have about the "disciplinary matrix" of topics. The resulting interpretable geometric space provides a map of inhabitable knowledge space. Only then we take a look at where the academic tribes live and project the topic portfolios of individual researchers onto the space of the epistemic possibilities.

Another gem! Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer - this time on #Libby https://share.libbyapp.com/title/2854558
#IndigenousWisdom #ScientificKnowledge #Regenerative #TeachingOfPlants #Water #Birds #Plants #Medicine #Biophilia #Wilderness #Environment #EnvironmentalJustice
#Ancestors

@NFDI Please join this #NFDI Infratalk if you are interested to find out how we can organize #ScientificKnowledge better, than just as papers. @orkg

#epistemicjustice #ScientificKnowledge #ScienceMagazine
Epistemic justice hits the mainstream. Thanks @hholdenthorp for this great editorial in @ScienceMagazine https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adi9021

#JohnHeilbron - #Epistemology - How Do We #Know What We Know?

There isn't a whole lot of '#traditional' epistemology done in the course of this #conversation but it's interesting nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jSeQhqPc4g&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Knowledge #Science #ScientificKnowledge #ScientificProgress #Measurement #Calculation #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Accuracy #Models #Theories #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn