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Artes VisualesSin CategoríaStudi umanisticiInglese
Pubblicato in BLOG ATARRAYA
Autore Atarraya

Youko Marian Horiuchi Beltrán, DR © Ilustración digital Ciudad de México, Mayo 2021 Sitio de la autora Instagram Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original proporcionada por su autor o propietario. Todos los derechos están reservados por la artista.

AcademiaWritingLingue e letteraturaInglese
Pubblicato in The Ideophone
Autore Mark Dingemanse

Start your blog with an exultant tone, pompous words, and gratuitous alliterations and I know I’m not so much in for an exciting journey to a fascinating world as a rapid descent into the wastelands of utter mediocrity. I recently came across some obvious LLM-generated slop on science blogging aggregator Rogue Scholar. Here I write up why synthetic text has no place in scholarly blogging.

National SecurityBiotechnologyAltre scienze tecnicheInglese
Pubblicato in The Connected Ideas Project
Autore Alexander Titus

At first, no one noticed the grain fields dying. The war wasn't declared with a missile launch. It wasn't announced with tanks, drones, or hackers tapping on keyboards. It started in the soil. The first reports came from a logistics base near Lubbock. A strange blight on the stored wheat stocks, brown lesions on the kernels, a chemical smell no one could quite identify.

PapersBiologiaInglese
Pubblicato in Paired Ends
Autore Stephen Turner

This week’s recap highlights new methods in genetic epidemiology, mostly centered around genomic data sharing and privacy-preserving methods: a short commentary on genomic data sharing highlighting how new challenges complicate large-scale data sharing practices, a privacy-preserving method for QTL mapping, privacy-preserving methods for federated biobank-scale GWAS analysis, a Nextflow pipeline for polygenic score QC and construction, and new

Stinkin' Every Thing That's Not A SauropodStinkin' InvertebratesStinkin' PlantsScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Autore Matt Wedel

I realize that the titular statement is open to misinterpretation so let me head that off at the pass: I’m not saying this prescriptively, like you should learn anatomy to become a better person (you should learn anatomy because it’s accessible and it rules), or that knowing anatomy makes people better. I’m also not saying this distributively, like anatomists are better people than non-anatomists.

Green Open AccessOpen AccessShiny Digital FutureScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

This seems to have gone under the radar: Accelerating Access to Research Results: New Implementation Date for the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy. It’s a memo from Jay Bhattacharya, director of the NIH (the United States’ National Institutes of Health): Well, this is tremendous news. The NIH is the biggest single funder of health research in the USA, and making all the work that it funds immediately open access is a huge win.

CommunityCrossrefMetadataSchemaScienze informatiche e dell'informazioneInglese
Pubblicato in Crossref Blog

We’ve been accelerating our metadata development efforts and recently released version 5.4 of our metadata schema, and are planning to release version 5.5 (including support for multiple contributor roles and the CRediT taxonomy) this summer. We will also extend our grants schema based on the Funders Advisory Group work, and make progress on other changes as set out on our new metadata development roadmap.