
2025-10-20 17:24:40
#SMBC on how to fund your obscure #science project: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/signal-4
#SMBC on how to fund your obscure #science project: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/signal-4
#Science #ClimateChange Open letter by Scientists: #Climate Neutrality is Europe's Greatest Economic Opportunity
New scientific analysis determines there are four distinct species of giraffe #science
😞 Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate
#science
"Countries that neglect #science become dependent on those that don’t. U.S. post-WWII dominance came from basic science investments (OSRD, NSF, NIH, DOE labs). After WWII ended, the UK slashed science investment which allowed the U.S. to commercialize the British inventions made during the war.
...[USSR failed] to convert science into sustained innovation...during the same time that U.…
Barfing is their love language.♥️ A kinky male fruit fly barfs up a bit of his last meal and offers it as a nuptial meal to his intended. Discerning lady fruit flies swoon, and lap it up. #science #entomology
Anyone (academic / researcher) had recent experience with submitting to #ScienceAdvances (https://www.science.org/journal/sciadv)? Good or bad?
We submitted there about 3 months ago and hear…
“You see, that’s how modern physics works: first we deny the existence of something, then we explain where it came from.”
—Sabine Hossenfelder
She’s the best. She was explaining time. But she could have been talking about any other basis for physics or math.
#Science #Philosophy
Aufschrieb zu meiner (nicht nur) SF-Lektüre im August.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2025/08/29/science-fiction-und-fantasy-im-august-2025/
Here's my latest Human Meme podcast about memory and remembering:
#memory
Leopards eating faces party is a time-honored tradition. #science
Conference vignette 👀: #OpenScience is about much more than #OpenData. Presenting unpublished work is also Openness, as social science alumna Dr. Ros Attenborough reminded us. And if you can share that way, then...
In the Presidential symposium, another lab alumnus introduced a mouse protein that massively affected the clock ⏰ . His group found it through an ambitious phosphoproteomic 🧪 candidate selection approach on a cell line 🧫 , looking beyond the canonical idea of the clockwork (TTFL in the jargon). Canonical here means canonised by a Nobel prize.
A good friend from Japan explained in the Q&A that his group had just found the SAME gene in a genetic screen of mice 🐁with altered sleep patterns 🐁💤🛌. We know the clock controls sleep. So, independent evidence across continents.👍
Over dinner they started to coordinate how they would each publish their work. #Science working.
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
This is the phyllosoma larva of a Spiny "Rock" Lobster, which can spend as much as a year drifting in the plankton.
#MarineBiology #science
If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.
-- Robert Sapolski
#Science #Biology #Primatology
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Molly Herron & Science Ficta:
🎵 Canon no.3
#MollyHerron #ScienceFicta
https://open.spotify.com/track/16Pd3wAeJfmTZHDAJ6kA77
Good discussion of the scientific method and how Jane Goodall helped further improve how we practice #Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FzzLeA6pk
🦾 Robotic frames offer new insights into honeybee behavior and honey storage
#science
Won’t happen in my lifetime, but if the human race survives the next decade or so some of you young whippersnappers could be seeing this.
#science #spaceScience #exoPlanets
John Bell [quantum physics]…
Not to be confused with Alexander Graham Bell, who came up with the idea of people yelling “Can you hear me now?”
— Sabine Hossenfelder (one good reason for watching YouTube)
#Science #ScienceExplainer
A snippet I wrote elsewhere earlier today, thinking in particular about dentists:
What I'm acutely aware of at the moment is the chasm between "willing to accommodate what you explicitly ask for" and "understands the parameters of the risk".
If they don't make the effort to grasp the logic of it themself, if they're just humouring you to be nice or doing what someone once told them to do, then there's only one brain in the game (yours). You have to be on alert the whole time for the mistakes that their ignorance lets them make, and you can't trust in anything they do when you're not looking.
I do appreciate it when people are like "what do you need" - obviously that's better than "you weirdo" - but what I'm really looking for is someone who _already knows_ how this works, and I don't have to watch them like a hawk for where their ignorance is going to put me at risk.
#healthcare #dentists #covid #science
🧊 Atomic-level engineering enables new alloys that won't break in extreme cold
#science
In a new study, psilocybin extends life of human cells by 50% 🤯 #science
Cover of Sep-Oct 2025 American Scientist (free mag). #Science
💢 How do drivers react to partisan bumper stickers? Understanding polarization in apolitical settings
#science