RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/115967607765332592
A very impressive #scientific paper by W. Binder et al. (2026) shows that #cougars and #wolves in #Yellowstone National Park #influence each other's life #strategies. It's about #apex- apex #carnivore dynamics and #kleptoparasitism. The risk of wolves stealing pumas' prey has led pumas to #specialize in #smallanimals that can be caught quickly, thus reducing the likelihood of encountering wolves.
© text #StefanFWirth Berlin 2026
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/27/trump-world-health-organization-security-risk/. "Key to the security of any country is the #scientific information needed to prepare for, prevent & respond to #pandemics & other global threats. Simply stated, the WHO possesses an enormous amount of such data that the US cannot replicate on its own." But #Trump & #JFKJr. aren't in the least bit interested in #science, are they?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/24/childrens-play-sand-hobbycraft-asbestos-removed-recall. "The... 'precautionary principle', abolished when #product #safety legislation was redrafted after #Brexit, allowed the government to restrict products thought to pose a serious threat to #health, without having to acquire #scientific #evidence." Yet another Brexit benefit, it seems - so #Hobbycraft can refuse to withdraw this #asbestos laden product from sale quite legally!
Hello #Scientific #Mastodon ,
it's time for your video vulgarisation.
Please welcome Steve Mould with his liquid hammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWbCC6f_k1c
What are the previous month's most significant #scientific developments? https://buff.ly/qddQYYz
RE: https://biologists.social/@jekely/115926352021625708
#Tooluse in #bovids so far was underestimated until a recent #scientific #study highlighted Austrian #cow #Veronika and her #flexible #purposeful self-#scrarching tool handling. Indicating that further studies might show similar potentials also in other #Bovidae taxa.
The authors A. J. Osuna-Mascaró & Alice M.I. Auersperg (2026) published their findings in #CurrentBiology.
© This text #StefanFWirth Berlin 2026
Reference:
A. J. Osuna-Mascaró & Alice M.I. Auersperg (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.059
🎧 New #OpenScience Bites #podcast episode on #reproducibility!
Felipe Romero, #philosopher of #science at @facultyofphilosophygroningen, shares why he thinks reproducibility is undervalued, how reproducibility has advanced in recent years, and what needs to change for reproducibility to become part of everyday #scientific practice.
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/research/openscience/podcast/#Romero
#academicChatter #AcademicMastodon #philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #MetaScience
Milaan. Binnenkort geven @Marloestenkate en ik daar een workshop #scientific #storytelling.
Een hoogleraar van de Politecnico di Milano (de technische universiteit van Milaan) volgde onze workshop bij de TU Delft.
Hij dacht: dat wil ik ook voor mijn PhD-studenten!
Wil jij ook meedoen met een workshop, maar ben je geen PhD-student in Milaan?
Dan heb je geluk.
Op vrijdagmiddag 13 maart organiseren we zelf een workshop in Utrecht
Meld je aan via onze website:
https://www.scientificstorytelling.nl/open-workshop/
Foto: slide uit de presentatie met thumbnails van filmpjes die we als voorbeeld gebruiken. Zie je een bekend filmpje?
Join me this Saturday at 9 am Eastern for Today's HyperCard Stack. We'll examine The #Scientific and #Graphical #Toolkit for #HyperCard.
Join me this Saturday at 9 am Eastern for Today's HyperCard Stack. We'll examine The #Scientific and #Graphical #Toolkit for #HyperCard.
youtube.com/live/1nF7h17...
Eric's Edge - Today's HyperCar...
#Congress is quietly rejecting almost all of the deepest #cuts to federal programs that #Trump requested for this year, turning back his efforts to slash #funding for #ForeignAid, #GlobalHealth programs, #scientific #research, the #arts & more in a bipartisan repudiation of his #spending plans.
A Retraction Watch post titled “Technobabble Papers by Professor and Editor Under Scrutiny” tells the story of an #academic apparently using #generative #artificial #intelligence to crank out #research #reviews for publication that make little #scientific sense. https://retractionwatch.com/2026/01/15/technobabble-papers-by-professor-and-editor-under-scrutiny/
Ancient Star Map Revealed Asteroid Impact ==> Köfels Paleo-Landslide, Austria = Scientific Detective Work!
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https://360onhistory.com/blog-posts/ancient-star-map-reveals-asteroid-impact/ <-- shared technical article, tablet
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https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/212017945233.html <-- shared technical article, tablet
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/history-of-geology/the-strange-medical-case-of-the-radioactive-landslide/ <-- shared technical article, Köfels landslide/asteroid
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.05.001 <-- shared paper, Köfels landslide
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2461-2021 <-- shared paper, Köfels landslide
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H/T #ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch
#spatial #mapping #ancientmap #starmap #ArchaeoHistories #K8538 #Planisphere #RoyalLibrary #Ashurbanipal #Nenveh #Sumeria #Assyrian #scribe #sumerian #astronomer #astrolab #asteroid #impact #astronomy #KÁ¶fel’ #Köfels #Austria #Tyrol #radioactive #landslide #massmovement #model #modeling #trajectory #clay #tablet #engineeringgeology #paleolandslide #scientific #detectivework
@histories_arch | #BritishMuseum | #UniversityofBristol
Archaeologists open cave sealed for 40,000 years and what they find changes history
RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/115865079842879526
It is a complex #scientific #study in which C. J. Glasby et al. (2025) deal with the #Marphysa #mossambica #speciesgroup (#Polychaeta: #Eunicidae). Species complexes always indicate very closely related and #similar #species and #taxonomic uncertainty about where species boundaries have been crossed and where they have not. The authors redescribed the species Marphysa mossambica and described two #newspecies.
I visited beautiful Cornish village with stunning views and pretty pub
European country with over 2,000 islands under 3 hours from UK - not Greece
#ESA budget 💰 2026
• € 2.44B Earth #observation 🛰️ activities, including #Copernicus and #ERS
• € 1.21B #navigation 🧭 program, including #Galileo, #Celeste, #NAVISP and #FutureNAV
• € 996M #connectivity 📶 and secure comms, including #ARTES
• € 818M for human 🧑🚀 and #robotic 🤖 exploration
• € 698M space transportation 📦 - increasing the flight cadence of #Ariane 6 and Avio’s #VegaC - as well as the European Launcher Challenge 🚀
• € 692M for the #scientific program 🧑🔬
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/07/trump-rubio-united-nations-withdrawal/. "Among the notable organizations that the United States will leave is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a #scientific body for global #climate #research & policy guidance. It will also withdraw from the Global Forum on Migration & Development, an organization that helped develop a 2018 United Nations compact on migration that #Trump administration officials rejected as an infringement on #sovereignty during his first term."
