Football Euro: Study shows the impact on Covid-19 infections The impact of the European Soccer (Football) Championship 2020 on the incidence of the Corona pandemic across Europe. Ancient DNA Charts Native Americans’ Journeys to Asia Thousands of Years Ago Native Americans traveled back and forth to Asia thousands of years ago, well before Europeans discovered America.
You are invited to a seminar with Jonathan W. Gray (CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College, United States).
Oyster mushroom fungus uses nerve gas to paralyse and eat tiny worms Oyster mushroom fungus uses nerve gas to paralyse and eat tiny worms More detailed understanding of how oyster mushrooms, a carnivorous fungus, kill their prey to use them as nitrogen source. Hard of Hearing Henry Gee talks about the fascinating evolution of mammalian hearing and the revelation of starting to use a hearing aid himself.
Infrastructure: what’s at stake Infrastructure often is perceived as a “given”, as something that was always there, as “natural”. In the digital age, infrastructure seems more “natural” than ever (it's hard to imagine there was a time without internet connectivity in our mobile phones or even a time when phone lines were a luxury item) and the social and economic dimension of infrastructure tend to be invisibilized and are left out of
Guinea worm disease reaches all-time low: only 13* human cases reported in 2022 Only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide in 2022. This Neglected Tropical Disease is on the WHO 2030 roadmap to become only the second human disease in history to be eradicated, after smallpox.
Digital object identifiers (DOIs) and relevant metadata have been used for 20 years to help preserve the scholarly record by maintaining stable links to scholarly publications and other important scholarly resources, combined with long-term archiving by publishers and libraries. Lots and tools and services have been built around this infrastructure to make it easier for scholars to consume and contribute to this scholarly record.
Since its release towards the end of 2022, ChatGPT has been dominating the majority of AI-related conversations on social media. One could almost say it has made AI more mainstream and accessible than ever. AI is quickly revolutionizing the modern-day research landscape. According to a CSIRO report, nearly 98% of scientific fields use AI in some way.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year! I made this ‘card’ reusing a British Library Public Domain digitised image from 1868.
