#uiowa — Public Fediverse posts

🐦🧩 #Pigeons rewarded for simple tasks do not settle into repetitive routines.

Instead, they constantly rotate their behavior to stay adaptable, a strategy researchers call the "edge of chaos." This built-in resistance to becoming machine-like helps the #birds adapt to changing environments.

👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-04-pigeons-tend-edge-chaos.html

#science #animals #research #biology #evolution #psychology #nature #uiowa

How #American #CivilRights Groups Defeated #HateSpeech Laws

#UIowa #LegalStudies Research Paper (forthcoming)
Journal of #FreeSpeech Law, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (2025)
41 Pages Posted: 9 Jul 2025
Samantha Barbas
University of Iowa - College of Law

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5344563

started a #wikipedia article on US #dyslexia researcher June Lyday Orton (1897-1977): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Lyday_Orton @vassar @wikiwomeninred #WakeForest #WinstonSalem #UIowa #reading @smithcollege

Our own Bill Kurth discusses ongoing #UIowa involvement with #Voyager and the, literally, far-out #SpaceAudio.
https://physics.uiowa.edu/news/2024/11/ui-still-operating-voyager-plasma-wave-instrument

University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art became the first in the nation to return looted Benin bronzes to royal ruler.
#museums #archives #specialCollections #GLAM #repatriation #uiowa https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/07/18/iowa-museum-becomes-first-in-us-to-return-looted-benin-bronzes

The shame of the Univeristy of Iowa. #UIowa #RVAP #Iowa https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2024-05-13/iowans-express-frustration-and-shock-following-closure-of-sexual-assault-survivor-service

Golden. A 3-minute greeting/introduction from our very own Professor J A Van Allen, recorded back in 2003 on my brand-new 8mm video camera. #SpacePhysics #UIowa #History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvUchSFE9DA

Ah, the smell of anti-transphobia protest in the evening, with students standing right next to police shouting loudly “All Cops Are Bastards!” Resistance is not futile. #protest #FuckChloeCole #ChloeCole #FuckYAF #YAF #IowaCity #UIowa

#Sapphirine growth at high temperatures can help define the path high pressure eclogite facies rocks take to the surface. Sapphirine forming at point "C" and below helps determine that these samples rose 30 km in the crust (16 to 6 kbar) while only cooling a bit over 100°.

NE #Greenland Caledonides work of Synnøve Elvevold (Norwegian Polar Institute, #Tromsø) and Jane Gilotti (#UIowa) #MinCup23

Happy these found a home!
My dread: What happens when the existing cultural heritage institutions don’t have room to absorb the collections from colleges that close?
#SpecialCollections #museums #glam #naturalHistory #IowaWesleyan #UIowa

https://pentacrestmuseums.uiowa.edu/news/2023/07/museums-preserve-priceless-collection-peril?fbclid=IwAR2S5DLym9LsHuIYtQqwcjVttV2GUsA-e9yRu4jnDXoQBospWkfNQrA0AJw

I'm in #Iowa for meetings yesterday at Univ of Iowa journalism school, but had a chance to join in a campus rally for the women's basketball team, runner-up national champs.

Here are more shots from the rally. ... https://technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/Travel-photos/Iowa-April-2023

#UIowa #Hawkeyes #GoHawks #WomensBasketball

#SpacePhysics #research at #UIowa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U545AyK78Jg

Migrated servers; let’s try this again. #Introduction time! I’m Sam (she/her). DH researcher, tech strategist, museum director, musician. #Music and #englishliterature at #UIowa, #medieval #musicology at #Oxford and #RHUL (PhD).

Currently manage the Zooniverse team at #AdlerPlanetarium & lead strategy for DH projects. PI/co-I on research projects in US & UK. Lots of #collaboration, lots of grant writing.

Songwriter, singer, & sometimes instrumentalist with Umbrellabirds. Very into my #dog.