Why we need smaller cars to make streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/12/18/magazine/instead-of-rewarding-pedestrians-and-cyclists-we-treat-them-as-second-class-travelers/

The plan for Obsidian is to never grow beyond 10-12 people, never take VC funding, never collect personal data or analytics.

Continue building with the assumption that software is ephemeral, files matter more than apps. Use formats that are open and durable.

See our manifesto:
https://obsidian.md/about

Root hydraulic properties: an exploration of their variability across scales https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.06.570353v1?med=mas

Bless Ed Yong:

"Covering long Covid solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force it is often misconstrued as. It is instead a human endeavor, relentlessly buffeted by our culture, values and politics. As energy-depleting illnesses that disproportionately affect women, long Covid and M.E./C.F.S. are easily belittled by a sexist society that trivializes women’s pain, and a capitalist one that values people according to their productivity."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opinion/long-covid-reporting-lessons.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.2XkN.KUlg0YJKb-s5&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share

@christian_zerfass

For the topics, its seems to be covering quite a broad range of topics

Yes, it does have peer review, with a system identical to F1000 Research . In short :

- open peer review
- reviewer give a "yes", "maybe" or "no" assessement
- if you get 2 "yes" or 1 "yes" and 2 "maybe", your article get indexed on scopus, pubmed, etc

So it looks a lot like a @biorxivpreprint + @PeerCommunityIn combo, in a single platform

@alxsim apropos? https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/11/30/the-fediverse-is-an-opportunity-learned-societies-cant-ignore/

Just (re-)discovered the Open Research Europe publishing platform https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/

OA, open review, free for EU-funded research, etc

Anyone have experience with it ?

Exploring the Influence of Phloem Resistance on Root System Architecture
@botanyone post: https://ift.tt/Q2l6RNw
Original article: https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diad012 from Xiao-Ran Zhou, Andrea Schnepf, Jan Vanderborght, Daniel Leitner, Harry Vereecken, @guillaume

Check our latest preprint, by Juan Baca Cabrera .

Juan collected root hydraulic data from the literature & compiled it into a shared database (https://roothydraulic-properties.shinyapps.io/database).

Juan then analysed the main factors driving changes in root system scale hydraulic conductivity, across different plant functional types. The main ones?

Age, drought, aquaporins & measurement techniques.

Find out more in the preprint @biorxivpreprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.06.570353v1

(pst, there also some modelling in it ;) )

Request your next #PREreview directly from @biorxivpreprint and @redescielo Preprints! Learn more about our new, collaborative efforts using the #COAR Notify Protocol to deliver timely, open feedback to preprint authors: https://content.prereview.org/request-a-review/ 🎉

#peerreview #openreview #openresearch #openscholarship

Thanks @kaisakajala ! And yes, hard not to be well in these situations ;)

I am over the moon to learned my #ERC-CoG project, DROOGHT, is financed !

Many thanks 🙏 to the European Research Council for enabling me to spend the next 5-years looking at #wheat 🌾 #roots, their #hydraulics and their contribution to more resilient #agroecosystems 🚜 !

Want to know more about the project? We will share all our finding, codes , data with the community (#openscience rules!) as soon as possible! Stay tuned at http://www.drooght.science (nothing there yet, but it will come soon ;))

This is an excellent collection of first-person accounts about research culture from eLIFE, called "Sparks of Change".

They are "keen to hear from people with unique stories about their experiences of research culture" so get in touch with them if you want to contribute

https://elifesciences.org/collections/1926c529/sparks-of-change

NEW!
#Phloem anatomy restricts #root system architecture development: theoretical clues from in silico experiments

https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diad012 from Xiao-Ran Zhou, Andrea Schnepf, Jan Vanderborght, Daniel Leitner, Harry Vereecken, @guillaume

🌿 🌧️ Exploring the Dynamics of #Water and #Carbon Flows in Plants Under #Drought: Insights from the #FSPM #CPlantBox

from Mona Giraud, Samuel Le Gall, Moritz Harings, Mathieu Javaux, Daniel Leitner, Félicien Meunier, Youri Rothfuss, Dagmar van Dusschoten, Jan Vanderborght, Harry Vereecken, @guillaume Andrea Schnepf

https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diad009

🎉👋 Willkommen auf der Mastodon-Instanz für #Wissenschaftskommunikation des Forschungszentrums Jülich! 👩‍🔬📢

Wir freuen uns, dich auf unserem Server begrüßen zu dürfen, der der Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Austauschs und der institutionellen Forschungskommunikation gewidmet ist. Es geht um Themen aus den Bereichen:

#Energie ⚡🔋🌞
#Information 📡💻📚
Nachhaltige #Bioökonomie 🌱🌾🌍

Bald findet ihr hier Jülicher Instituts- sowie Projekt-Accounts, die Einblicke in ihre Forschung gewähren.
Stay tuned!

Given the current hoopla surrounding "AI" #LLM capabilities and impact on society, this is one of the most timely, and useful, contributions to the study of bullshit since the late Harry Frankfurt's 2005 book. Thanks, @pluralistic !
#AI #LLM #ChatGPT #bullshit
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/07/govern-yourself-accordingly/#robolawyers

Biodiversity in residential gardens: a review of the evidence base

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-023-02694-9

A new review confirms that residential gardens significantly contribute to urban biodiversity worldwide. The study also notes that intensive gardening practices, like excessive mowing and pesticide use, can decrease biodiversity. Increasing connectivity between gardens and other green spaces is vital for maintaining diverse ecosystems. 🌳

#Botany #BotanyAI

This suggestion about author order really made me laugh "Every author as first author" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01393

NEW!
Five leading #root architecture #models go head-to-head in a groundbreaking study on water flow in soil and roots

https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diad005 from @guillaume @Valentin

#FSPM featuring #DuMux #CPlantBox #RSWMS #OpenSimRoot #SRI