Robins as Indicators of Lead Pollution: Study Findings The world of ornithology has always been a fascinating domain, and recent research has shed light on how robins, those familiar feathered friends, can play a critical role in identifying lead pollution levels. This insightful study brings to the forefront intriguing findings that could revolutionize our understanding of environmental monitoring and conservation.

As I sit here at year’s end, I’m reminded of the ancient Swedish tradition of årsgång - the ritual winter walk taken on New Year’s Eve to divine the fortunes of the coming year.

Charles Darwin, naturalista por excelencia un británico representativo del siglo XIX, es reconocido principalmente por su teoría de la evolución a través de la selección natural. Su obra más famosa, "El origen de las especies", publicada en 1859, cambió para siempre la forma en que entendemos la vida en la Tierra.

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/bluesky-analysis-claude-llama-tidyverse.

Background Bluesky, atrrr, local LLMs I’ve written a few posts lately about Bluesky — first, Bluesky for Science, about Bluesky as a home for Science Twitter expats after the mass eXodus, another on using the atrrr package to expand your Bluesky network. I’ve also spent some time looking at R packages to provide an interface to Ollama.

Barcelona is color As is my habit my favourite photographs from the year just past can now be found on an album on Flickr . There are sixty-three in all, selected from a total of about 1800 which is quite a drop from my usual tally of around 2500. The dip in activity reflects my changed circumstances.

How far can the same data be stretched?

2024 ha sido un año convulso en temas tecnológicos, la inteligencia artificial y las redes sociales han jugado un papel definitivo en la toma de desiciones, la publicidad, la infodemia, la postverdad y la mercadotecnia hoy mas que nunca han demostrado su poder, la tecnología usada, utilizada con poca critica y falta de responsabilidad han definido el presente y el futuro.

Linkrot is real and digital preservation problematic. One reason why I have started migrating my blog to a more robust platform. That first step gave me version control. This summer my blog was accepted to Rogue Scholar. That gave me DOIs. And an idea.

A recent study published by researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Uber Technologies reveals a critical but often overlooked pattern in microservices architecture: non-fatal errors. While these errors do not cause system failures, they introduce noticeable performance overhead that can impact user experience and operational costs.

This week, over Christmas 2024, I have read two pieces about digital preservation: Ian Milligan’s Averting the Digital Dark Age ¹ and Ageh et al. ’s “The Preservation of Knowledge in the Digital Age” for Arcadia. ² It is, in truth, fairly difficult to reconcile these two accounts of the state of digital preservation.