In the Netherlands, hunter-gatherers of the Swifterbant culture start using pottery around 5000 BC and carry out crop agriculture around 4200 BC. But they also hunt, fish, and gather wild resources, and migrate seasonally 🐟🐗🌰 4/
Our biggest discovery? These people weren't just keeping cattle, they had TWO completely different herds of cattle 🐄🐄The isotopes of the cattle (and sheep!) showed that one herd had lived in the forest 🌲 while the other grazed either on salt marshes or on manured fields 💩 7/
#PPOD: The shadow is not that of Europa but a second moon (Io), which is not in this frame. Europa is slightly smaller than Earth's Moon and is tidally locked. Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) is a vast cyclonic storm system about three times the size of Earth when Voyager flew by. Since 1979, the GRS has continuously shrunk, slowly changing its shape from an oval to a circle. It is now a little over the size of the Earth only. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Kevin M. Gill
Questa boiata nucleare, dove un PROGETTO di una azienda diventa un MINIREATTORE spacciato per funzionante, illustra bene il concetto di “PATHOLOGICAL SCIENCE” (scienza patologica) usato negli studi di comunicazione per indicare finte “scoperte” nate da un finto “dibattito scientifico” che si svolge fuori dagli ambiti preposti a tale scopo (riviste scientifiche peer-reviewed) per svolgersi unicamente sui mass media. Un termine coniato dopo la bufala della FUSIONE FREDDA. #NoNuke#Scicomm
Dive into our April roundup, a collection of highlighted articles from different sources that illustrate the wide range of fields in which our scientists are excelling.
Whether teaming up with experts in whale communication or studying data from far-off moons, our scientists consistently uncover revolutionary findings.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/85XbEPjKXUc
This month, two teams of astronomers announced the potential discovery of Dyson spheres in our galaxy. But have we truly found indicators of highly advanced civilizations? Join Dr. Franck Marchis and Dr. Lauren Sgro as they delve into these groundbreaking findings and their implications for SETI research.
#PPOD: Enjoy this aesthetically stunning picture and consider the latitude at which it was captured. This is Portonovo (45N), a small town near Mount Conero in the province of Ancona in Italy. (We had it pretty good in San Francisco - 37N with purple and green). This low latitude tells you the strength of that solar storm that just hit. In fact, aurorae were observed in the Caribbean! Before May 12, only the Carrington Event reached those latitudes. Credit: Michele Elisei
The SETI Institute’s 2024 Drake Awards ceremony took place last Thursday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, honoring significant contributions to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This event brought together experts in astrobiology, astrophysics, nuclear physics, and signal processing.
New resource! 📣 Science is more than lab coats and beakers, so I've illustrated 18 science objects for you to use in your presentations and social media
Another “victim” of my sorting & clearing ahead of our move: five copies of my 1988 University of Edinburgh PhD thesis headed for recycling 😬✌️
But don’t panic: these are all water-damaged & I still have eight clean copies of the one hundred originally printed for me during my first postdoc at NASA Goddard 🚀🛰️
The rest were circulated to colleagues back in the early days of infrared arrays in astronomy 🔭
p.s. Let me know if you have a copy: I suspect that at least few people here on Mastodon do.
I’d offer to share the rest, but I think it’s fair to say that the work on infrared array detector characterisation, data simulation, & early near-IR imaging of the Orion Nebula have been rather, err, surpassed 🙀
🐚 Connaissez-vous les "laisses de mer" ? Il s'agit des débris naturellement déposés sur les plages par les vagues et le vent, dont l'accumulation constitue un véritable écosystème.
🎨 J'en ai illustré quelques-uns des éléments, dont certains sont de véritables petits trésors qu'on peut s'amuser à dénicher et répertorier !
@AdamBishop Here in the States, nurses do the bulk of our healthcare. They deserve all the honorifics that we ascribe to doctors. Indeed I occasionally call them "doctor". I hope the translation confirms that nurses take pride in wearing their uniforms.
Save but a few noble exceptions in managed healthcare & research, we should downgrade the legacy status that doctors here have benefited from for years.
@pabloniusmonk It does confirm that nurses take pride in wearing their uniforms, and that they take that pride with them when they change out of their uniforms, but also that there is a perceived lack of recognition from society. They were suddenly appreciated during the Covid peak, and then that appreciation rapidly dropped off. Here's to appreciating the work of nurses! 👏
https://www.space.com/can-alien-life-exist-planet-rings
One locale that few scientists have considered for life is the set of rings that crown Jupiter, outside the gas giant's atmosphere. These rings, like those that circle all of our solar system's gas giants, are actually belts composed mainly of water-ice particles, some as small as grains of sand, others as large as mountains. Might life exist there?
Wie viel Wissenschaft steckt in der Netflix-SciFi-Serie "3 Body Problem"? Darüber habe ich gestern Abend drei Stunden lange mit Dr. Lisa Ringena von IsoQuant Heidelberg & @nawik und Cedric Engels aka Doktor Whatson bei ARTE #Couchwissen gesprochen.
@vicgrinberg
Über die Sendung mit Interstellar bin ich auf deinen/Ihren(?) Account aufmerksam geworden und freue mich seitdem sehr über die tolle Bereicherung in meiner Timeline :blobcatflower:
@Rohrspatz ja, das mit dem wertschalätzend hat sich für mich auch so angefühlt. Toll, dass es rüber gekommen ist! Ganz ehrlich, es ist genau das, was mir bei dem Format gefällt - es ist ein miteinander reden und keine Konkurrenz oder Wettbewerb oder pushen.
https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0501-ancient-mars/
A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient lake. The results were published today in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
It covers everything from the history of scicomm to press releases, #SocialMedia, #science shows, risk communication, engaging with policy makers, language, you name it... Highly recommended!
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/scientists-speak-humpback-whale-experiment.html
Scientists on the Whale-SETI team have successfully communicated with a humpback whale named Twain, having a 20-minute “conversation” with the aquatic animal. This historic experiment involved a recorded whale call that the team played into the ocean using an underwater speaker, which led Twain to circle their boat and respond using a “greeting signal.” The exchange lasted for 20 minutes, and Twain would match the interval variations from the team’s calls.
This entire article is like a masterclass on #scicomm#SciWriting, technical writing
Clear definitions of technical terms for drug impurity, historical explanation on standards established for their limits, consequences for violating them & the difficulties in upholding them
Inside the Fight To Decide How Pure India’s Drugs Need To Be By Priyanka Pulla
"This is evidenced by the fact that most Indian state drug regulatory labs are currently not even enforcing India’s existing impurity standards, which were created keeping the challenges of the industry in mind"
Wah Wah
So the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission is finally doing it's job well, ICH is becoming more transparent and reforming including middle income countries, generics associations but the regulatory body is still stuck to it's old ways
"In 2021, the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission published two draft general chapters on impurities on its website, representing baby steps by India towards meeting ICH impurity standards"
"Against this backdrop, for India to adopt stringent international standards like those of the ICH, and to successfully enforce them, may be a long shot"
