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Leopards eating faces party is a time-honored tradition. #science

Early Humans Weren’t Apex Predators—They Were Eaten by Leopards
Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been prey instead of predators.

Cover of Sep-Oct 2025 American Scientist (free mag). #Science

In a new study, psilocybin extends life of human cells by 50% 🤯 #science

Psilocybin Extends Life of Human Cells by 50% in Wild New Study
Psilocybin's health benefits could extend beyond the mental realm.

"La plupart des gens savent qu'ils devraient boire plus d'eau, mais notre nouvelle étude révèle une conséquence inattendue de cette lacune : le stress quotidien pourrait devenir beaucoup plus difficile Š gérer."
#science #santé

Karl Popper in The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 1959: ‘Non-reproducible single occurrences are of no significance to science.’
XKCD in Replication Crisis, 2025: ‘Replication Crisis Solved’
#Science

Replication Crisis

Beim #ScienceDay2025 @…
"Echtzeit-Radfahrertracking mit adaptiver Lichtsteuerung
An der Werftstraße in Kiel erfassen Kameras Radfahrer und verarbeiten die Daten über Edge-Computing mit Raspberry Pis und einem NVIDIA Jetson. Ein LED…

Science Day 2025

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…

New scientific analysis determines there are four distinct species of giraffe #science

There are actually four giraffe species in Africa, scientists say
Giraffes are now classified into four distinct species in Africa. Researchers previously thought all giraffes belonged to a single species. On Thursday, a task force of the International Union for Conservation of Nature identified Northern, reticulated, Masai, and Southern giraffes as separate species. This change is based on genetic studies and anatomical differences. Each species faces unique threats and conservation needs. Northern giraffes are the most endangered, with only about 7,000 left…

🍐 When scientists share their failures, the public trusts them more
#science

When scientists share their failures, the public trusts them more
In an age where trust in science often feels like it's teetering on a fault line, new research from the University of Michigan offers a simple but powerful insight: When scientists share their struggles—especially their failures—they may actually earn more public trust.

Ah. So, they're musicians and dancers... 😉
#science

Sonic Swarms: How Tiny Robots Use Sound to Think and Move Like One - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

Advancing Science without Harming Animals #AnimalRights #science

National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) | Advancing Science
The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) is dedicated to ending the exploitation of animals used in science for research and in classrooms for education.

I just love how easy it is to code interviews and meeting notes in obsidian.md using just three community plugins #science #methods #coding

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/

Science Fiction und Fantasy im August 2025
Ich fange mit einem Buch an, das eigentlich eher ein Sachbuch ist - Mark McCaughreans "Reiseführer" 111 places in space that you must not miss (2023). Der Titel beschreibt eigentlich auch schon ganz gut, was es mit diesem Buch auf sich hat, das wohl tatsächlich in einer Reihe erschienen ist, die auc

Klimatforskare flyr till Marseille när Trump minskar anslagen #USA #science #climatechange

Klimatforskare flyr till Marseille när Trump skär i anslagen
Drastiskt neddragna forskningsanslag får hundratals klimatforskare, biologer och samhällsvetare i USA att söka sig till universitet i…

This is why massive cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service are so dangerous. You can expect more of this with the increasingly anti-science policies given climate driven intense storms and increased unpredictability.
#science #weather

Youtube doing its thing putting words in a weird order.
#youtube

“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

😞 Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate
#science

Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate
A quick reference

Jumping on the Hype Train
Every member of the board of #OpenSource #Science can flawlessly name the #IT hype's of the last 35 years, and tell the tale. In this blog we want to explain how huge and import…

Jumping on the Hype Train
misled by fake specialists

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.

Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars - NASA #science

Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars - NASA
Sixty years ago, NASA’s Mariner 4 captured groundbreaking views of the Red Planet, leading to a steady stream of advances in the cameras used to study other

"Trump order aims to politicize decisions on federal science grants" | Science | AAAS
#Science #Research #Funding #Grant #NIH

"Une étude publiée lundi bat en brèche l'idée d'une dominance des mâles largement répandue chez les primates. Cette recherche dresse un tableau bien plus nuancé des relations entre sexes opposés chez nos espèces cousines que sont les singes et lémuriens."
#science #éthologie

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

Could a unique rectangular telescope be the key to finding Earth 2.0?
"We show that this design can, in principle, find half of all existing Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars within 30 light-years in less than three years."

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
#Funding #Science #Research #NIH #NSF

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

🦾 Robotic frames offer new insights into honeybee behavior and honey storage
#science

Robotic frames offer new insights into honeybee behavior and honey storage
EPFL researchers are developing robotic beehive frames that help locate honey stores inside of beehives over time, without relying on cameras. The aim is to develop new observation tools to study honeybee behavior that better fit the bees' natural way to occupy space compared to current methods.

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

Exclusive: NIH suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns | Science | AAAS
#NIH #Funding #Science #Research

National Science Foundation Workers to Issue “Alexandria Declaration” Decrying “Catastrophic Changes” Under Trump Administration
#NSF #Science #Funding #Research #STEM