Taking a break from other stuff to read this article on the deep roots of certain folktales. 2016 study published by The Royal Society, downloaded over 200K times.
#folklore #research
Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales
by:
Sara Graça da Silva and Jamshid J. Tehrani
"The #internet is a living, breathing space - constantly growing, changing, and, unfortunately, disappearing. Important #articles get taken down. #Research papers become inaccessible. Historical records vanish. When content disappears, we lose pieces of our shared #knowledge. That’s where the Wayback Machine comes in. With the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool, you have the power to help preserve the web in real time."
https://blog.archive.org/2025/03/13/want-to-help-preserve-the-web-save-page-now/
I'm proud to share a research article our research team recently published. It examines health insurance and non-medical challenges Vietnamese Americans faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Disaggregating data unmasks disparities within different populations. We wouldn't see this if we included this group within the broader Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander umbrella.
How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations
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When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.
https://www.propublica.org/article/using-ai-responsibly-for-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
RobinLive - a realtime search tool for Bluesky and the Fediverse
This New Yorker cartoon neatly sums up the problems researchers face in 2025! #cartoons #research #NewYorkerMagazine
Cause of post-#COVID inflammatory shock in children identified: Reactivation of the Epstein-Barr virus appears to cause the rare condition #MISC. The findings, uncovered by a team from #CharitéBerlin & the DRFZ, have now been published in #Nature.
These insights open the door to new treatment methods, potentially not limited to MIS-C.
#CharitéPaper #Science #Research #Medicine #EBV #PIMS #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #corona
@nature.portfolio
"Rezepte" der Sternentstehung
Ein internationales Forschungsteam hat Daten von über 1.000 Sternentstehungsgebieten ausgewertet, um den Ursprung und die Entstehung neuer Sterne besser zu verstehen. 
Mehr dazu 
https://uni.koeln/5VBTL
The "recipes" of star formation
An international research team has analyzed data from over 1,000 star-forming regions to better understand the origin and formation of new stars.
Read more https://uni.koeln/U6JJZ
"...a $600,000 grant to Southern University in Louisiana was being revoked for studying 'menstrual cycles in transgender men,'...The grant was actually intended for research on the potential health risks posed by synthetic feminine hygiene products and for developing alternatives using natural fibers and fabrics, according to the project's documentation, which was publicly filed on the USDA website."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-mischaracterizes-study-as-transgender-usda-cancels-it/
Tip of the day: #DEVONthink is a good place to build a digital book collection. Users of the Pro or Server edition of #DEVONthink can add custom metadata to their books from the millions of books available in Google Books with a script. Here is, how to do that. #academics #automation #paperless #pkm #productivity #research #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230328-google-books-metadata
I'm not having a lot of luck with contacting people in Italy to research my next book. A post to a local Facebook group was rejected.
Now my letter to Italy has arrived in the US 
Does anyone know if it's likely to get to its destination in Italy?
**Analyzing wealth distribution effects of artificial intelligence: A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium approach**
_"Our findings highlight a temporal dichotomy in AI's effects on wealth inequality: in the short term, AI exacerbates disparities in wealth distribution, while the long-term outcomes depend on the extent of AI's influence across different technological domains. The nuanced nature of AI-driven technological progress leads to distinct consequences for the rate of return on capital—showing short-term increases across all forms of technological progress, but with varying long-term effects."_
Liu, F. and Liang, C. (2025) 'Analyzing Wealth Distribution Effects of Artificial Intelligence: A Dynamic Stochastic general Equilibrium approach,' Heliyon, 11(2), p. e41943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e41943.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Economics #Finance #Academia #Academics @ai @economics
Zoomposium with Dimitri Coelho Mollo (Assistant Professor in #Philosophy of #Artificial #Intelligence):
"How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence?"
His #research focuses on #fundamental and #epistemological #questions within artificial intelligence and #cognitive #science, and seeks ways to improve our understanding of #mind, #cognition, and intelligence in #biological and #artificial #systems
More on: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/07/04/wie-intelligent-ist-die-kuenstliche-intelligenz/
lol at the David Baker quote here. You will note he is the only person quoted who is not associated with the company.
“More power to them, if they can do it. It seems beyond anything I’m familiar with in scientific discovery,” the Nobel laureate said, noting that he views AI as more of a tool.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/technology/ai-science-lab-lila.html
The Importance of Girls' Day for the Future of Science!
Girls' Day is a valuable opportunity to inspire girls to explore #science and technology. As a #research institute, we show them that women play a vital role in science. Through hands-on experiences and interaction with female researchers, we break down stereotypes and spark curiosity—because diversity in research drives innovation!
MPL, Susanne Viezens
Hi 
, need advice! #help /H
Python or ... 
I'm looking for a customizable #tool for "massive" #linguistic #searches on the #Internet capable of #generating #lexical #associations. 
eg:
#INPUT (me): Musk
#OUTPUT (tool): Elon, Tesla, DOGE, Space X, X, Swasticar, Fellony, ...
in #trees #DB and giving the #frequency / #Stats of #use for #web #publication and future #referencing.
#Python you might say... but I'm not a #computer #scientist.
