Are there any scientists on Tildes?
I knew a number of my science people are on, but who else is? I'm a PhD Organic Chemist (2002, I'm old), and I run the new product R&D group at Sigma-Aldrich.
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The Australian government has formally recognised the extinction of a tiny island rodent, the Bramble Cay melomys - the first known demise of a mammal because of human-induced climate change.
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species The news report from...
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction
The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species
The news report from 2016: First Mammal Species Goes Extinct Due to Climate Change
The scientific report from 2016: Confirmation of the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys Melomys rubicola on Bramble Cay, Torres Strait (PDF)
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Our first interstellar visitor, 'Oumuamua, is still a mystery. Despite some speculation, it's not a spaceship... but it might be a three-dimensional fractal snowflake.
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When adventurers crave “untouched” places and “authentic” peoples, it’s the locals who ultimately pay
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Links between gut microbes and depression strengthened
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How the body and mind talk to one another to understand the world
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The lizard and the egg: lizards break golden rule of biology
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Did capital punishment create morality?
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NASA Selects New Mission to Explore Origins of Universe
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Are negative ions good for you?
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How the brain creates a timeline of the past
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Almost all polynomials are irreducible
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Scientists are totally rethinking animal cognition
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The case for transmissible Alzheimer's grows
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Memetics—A growth industry in US Military operations
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Liberals and Conservatives React in Wildly Different Ways to Repulsive Pictures
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New pill can deliver insulin
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Becoming - Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse
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Visualization of quantum physics (quantum mechanics)
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White-tailed spiders may be Australia's most misunderstood animals, caught in a tangled web of myth and hysteria. We take a closer look.
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What does any of this have to do with physics?
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Where do kangaroos come from, why do they hop, and should we kill them?
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Climate, conflict, and forced migration - an empirical study of the causal path from climate change to violent conflict and asylum-seeking across 157 countries from 2006-2015
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Earth's magnetic pole is wandering, lurching toward Siberia
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Biopunk Manifesto - Meredith Patterson
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How to rapidly image entire brains at nanoscale resolution
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Physicists stimulate Hawking radiation from optical analogue of a black hole
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Finally, a personality quiz backed by science
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Twins get some 'mystifying' results when they put five DNA ancestry kits to the test
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When leaders are bullies
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CERN reveals plans for the Future Circular Collider (FCC) - almost four times longer than the current Large Hadron Collider
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Fundamentals of Data Visualisation
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Sleepers track informative speech in a multitalker environment
A report published in Nature Human Behaviour (hard paywall): Sleepers track informative speech in a multitalker environment An article published in the Sydney Morning Herald (soft paywall): Your...
A report published in Nature Human Behaviour (hard paywall): Sleepers track informative speech in a multitalker environment
An article published in the Sydney Morning Herald (soft paywall): Your brain is listening and processing while you sleep
A press release published in Mirage News (no paywall): Active sleep is more than just counting sheep
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Fact: Calling out political furphies works, in Australia at least
An article from the Sydney Morning Herald: Fact: Calling out political furphies works, in Australia at least (with some local flavour) An article from New Scientist: Australians care if...
An article from the Sydney Morning Herald: Fact: Calling out political furphies works, in Australia at least (with some local flavour)
An article from New Scientist: Australians care if politicians tell lies, but people in the US don’t (from a non-Australian point of view)
The study itself in Royal Society Open Science: Does truth matter to voters? The effects of correcting political misinformation in an Australian sample.
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The world's oldest person: Guinness, 122-year-old Jeanne Calment and a Russian conspiracy theory
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All models are wrong
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Some plants “hear” through flowers. A study found petals vibrated in response to recordings of a bee’s wingbeats, leading plants to sweeten their nectar.
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It's the end of the gene as we know it
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The world’s oldest woman was 122 when she died. A researcher believes that her daughter assumed her identity in the 1930s to avoid inheritance taxes.
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Brain scans show social exclusion creates jihadists, say researchers
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'Sonic attack' or just crickets? New analysis shows recording of 'attack' on US embassy was Caribbean wildlife
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Computational chemists welcome ‘living’ journal
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How one couple's adventure has uncovered secrets of humpback whales' survival
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The science stories likely to make headlines in 2019
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Thirty-five years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote.
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Amoeba finds approximate solutions to NP-hard problem in linear time
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The voice inside your head: The origin of “you”
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Amoeba finds approximate solutions to NP-hard problem in linear time
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AIDS – An approach for targeting HIV reservoirs
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Researchers Show Parachutes Don't Work, But There's A Catch
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