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Science Summary for Q1 2024

Sources, a few more items and relevant Wikipedia articles are in 2024 in science.

Now making these quarterly instead of monthly (posted most of the previous ones only to reddit). I’m making these summaries so you can stay up to date with the latest science even if you only have little time. Also updating Wikipedia articles sooner or later.

You can get a quarterly email notification here. Non-included items and criteria can be found here.

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Month in Science
  • If you don't understand the study itself or in general if you're interested in it, it's always a good idea to also read a good news report on it; see this and also this. They found carrot intake rather than beta-carotene, the focus of prior studies, has this association and figure 6 was just to show that they don't have much data on daily intake of a carrot or more.

  • Month in Science
  • Higher accuracy was achieved in an earlier study where another team used large fMRI machines (it was featured in the version for May). There participants listened to audiobooks / speech while being in the large machine; I guess long training would be easier here but it's more limited since it's EEG. However, they claim they have exceeded 60% by now.

  • Month in Science
  • The study is here.

    In 30 prospective studies with 9331 cases reporting plasma α-carotene levels, summary [relative risk] was 0.80.

    10% reduction of less frequent intake of carrots seems more robustly backed by the data. Hopefully, some new study provides more info how big of an effect daily carrots have; see Figure 6.

  • Monat in der Wissenschaft
  • Die Nachrichtenartikel-Quellen musste ich auskommentieren. Die Studien selbst sollten aber normal angezeigt werden. Liegt an dem aktuellem "post-expand include size"-Limit. Habe einige anscheinend überfällige technische Änderungen vorgeschlagen, vermutlich könnte aber auch ohne diese der Wert einfach geändert werden was das Problem lösen würde und wodurch wieder zwei Quellen pro Item angezeigt werden würden.

  • Month in Science

    Sources and relevant Wikipedia articles are in 2023 in science.

    This is the latest summary and last one for 2023. I'm making these summaries so you can stay up to date even if you only have little time while updating Wikipedia articles. Monthly mail notification here. A few more items are in the Wiki article. Non-included items and criteria can be found here.

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    Monat in der Wissenschaft

    Quellen sind im WP Artikel 2023 in science zu finden. Mache diese monatlichen Zusammenfassungen seit einigen Jahren gemäß dieser Kriterien, damit man auch mit wenig Zeit mehr oder weniger auf dem aktuellen Stand der Forschung sein kann.

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    Science Summary – Monthly overview of major scientific studies
  • No, they just added lots of data for one of the multiple things that current emulation efforts (just like neural networks / brain-inspired AI software) so far didn't even include (neuropeptides).

    There's no reason for why it would now be possible to simulate complex nervous system processes, but maybe this could enable getting closer to that. I don't know what you mean with "outside behavior" though. Maybe you're referring to the behavior in some simulation like this?

  • Science Summary – Monthly overview of major scientific studies

    Sources + relevant Wikipedia articles are in 2023 in science.

    Making the summaries so you can get up to date fast. Cut the number of tiles down from 10 to 8 (only 2 main items this time). Monthly notification. More items are in the WP article and non-included items with criteria are here.

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    2023 in science

    For reflection on science and its results and reviews of the year in science. I'm interested in how to integrate these results into Wikipedia and society. Criteria for inclusion and non-included are here.

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    Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds
  • There are tons of options for that, mainly energy storage such as batteries, hydro, and green hydrogen. Nuclear is not needed and too expensive among other things.

  • Scientists show how ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies — This effect arises because of the quality of information churned out by Google’s search engine
  • It's because the education system is utterly outdated across the world. No digital literacy, media literacy, or health literacy in the curriculum but lots of things you'll never need and forget to never be useful again within a few months. Studies should investigate things relating to this subject.

    It's also because of the quality of search engine results but both are directly linked, people need to learn how to use search engines etc.

  • ‘Biocomputer’ combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware
  • See wetware computer for more info about this. Some studies in "2023 in science" will get integrated there soon, there have been similar recent studies.

  • Wissenschaft in Kürze (monatlich)

    Die Quellen sind hier zu finden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_in_science

    Wem es zu viel Text ist: einfach das farbige lesen und dann überspringen falls es uninteressant ist.

    Kann übrigens die Seite Kialo empfehlen – dort gibt es interaktive Argumentbäume zu allen möglichen Themen, auch viele wissenschaftliche. Habe dort diese zwei strukturierte Debatten erstellt:

    Übrigens sehr schade, wie willkürlich die Mods von rDe bannen und zensieren. Einen Link zu diesem Subreddit hier findet man dort auch nicht. Der englischsprachige Post ist in /r/sciences

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    Quellen der oberen Hauptitems:

    Die restlichen Quellen diesmal nur im Wikipedia-Artikel. Da es diesmal weniger Hauptitems gab, wären es sowieso zu viele. Falls eine Studie hinter einer Paywall ist, kann "Anna's Archive" oft aushelfen.

    Im Wikiartikel findet ihr auch entsprechende, weiterführende Wikipedia Artikel zu allen Einträgen. Voraussetzung für ein Feature ist, dass der Eintrag in dieser Liste enthalten ist – andere Studien/Ereignisse werden hier nicht berücksichtigt. Weitere Kriterien sind in der Liste unten verlinkt.

    Ich nutze Scientometrics (Altmetrics) und einige Webseiten um entsprechende Studien für die weitere kriterienbasierte Auswahl ausfindig zu machen.

    Hier eine lange Liste von Studien bei denen es nicht ganz gereicht hat, um in den WiK gefeatured zu werden (teils mit Erklärung). Falls eine sehr signifikante Studie fehlen sollte, hinterlasst bitte einen Kommentar.

    Wikipedia braucht mehr Editoren, die wissenschaftsbezogene Artikel erweitern, verbessern und erstellen (fast alle Einträge dieser monatlichen Zusammenfassungen integriere dort immer noch ich in den relevanten Artikeln). Entwickler könnten bei der MediaWiki-Software mithelfen; Einsteiger-Issues; Community-Wünsche

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    Month in Science

    Sources + relevant Wikipedia articles are in 2023 in science. Making these summaries so you can stay up to date with the latest major studies in short time.

    I also integrate most of the studies into Wikipedia; finding, editing & selection take most of the time, not the image. Monthly newsletter is here (I don't know if it still sends the mails properly sth happened to the upvotes a few months ago). This one is a bit late again since I get absolutely no benefit of doing this as a volunteer. Links to the criteria and list of nonincluded items; I've been making these summaries for >3 years for free. Check out the website Kialo for structured argument debates on topics like 'How did our universe begin'. More Wikipedia editors & devs and Wikimedia Commons science images contributors are needed.

    Here's the sources for only the four main items:

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    Organspender-Zahl in Bayern stagniert – Ministerin: "Bedrückend"
  • Danke für die ausführliche Argumentation. Bis dato ist mir unklar wieso man rational gegen diese Widerspruchslösung sein könnte, von daher ist das sehr interessant. Halte dein Hauptargument aber für falsch:

    es würde die Zahl der Spender nicht nur minimal sondern fast maximal erhöhen. Die 13 Fälle, die du hier nennst, beziehen sich ja auf die Fälle, die bei der aktuellen Opt-In-Lösung in Betracht gezogen wurden. Wenn man die Zahlen aktueller frühzeitiger Todesfälle anschaut sind die Zahlen möglicher Spender deutlich höher. Man kann dann beispielsweise direkt die Transplantationsprozesse einleiten (sofern nicht im Opt-Out Register gefunden): entnehmen, konservieren, Empfänger kontaktieren, etc. Die weiteren Probleme die es sicher auch gibt, benötigen zur Lösung dennoch erst mal die Einführung des Opt-In-Systems.

    Wenn die Widerspruchslösung so populär ist, dann kann man sie doch einfach einführen. Dann kann man sich danach um die verbleibenden Probleme kümmern, da dieses Problem dann wegfällt und die verbleibenden Probleme einfacher zu lösen sind (d.h. bei Opt-In Systemen kann der Prozentsatz der Fälle "Bis die Entnahmeteams in der richtigen Klinik und die Organe entnommen sind, sind sie längst nicht mehr zu gebrauchen" schnell substanziell reduziert werden).

  • Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”
  • It's more or less only (that is mainly) useful for building components that you then use in your man-made tracks. It's a tool, just like AI image generators are tools albeit there the replacement use-case is substantial. AI-generated voice also needs to be considered in this context I think.

  • Organspender-Zahl in Bayern stagniert – Ministerin: "Bedrückend"
  • Es ist absolut verantwortungslos und unethisch dass es in Deutschland kein Organspende-by-Default System gibt. Das würde das Problem lösen und jeder der nicht spenden möchte schickt einfach einen Brief oder macht online einen Haken. Ich denke es bedarf nur einer politischen Entscheidung um diese vielen Leben zu retten.

  • What happened in science (per month)
  • Thank you! You can get notified via a monthly email. Let me know if they land in the spam-folder, I don't know if they do or did.

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  • Glad you liked it and ask about it: you can get notified via the monthly email, see the newsletter link above.

  • What happened in science (per month)
  • They are sorted by order of appearance; it's just 4 links and the two additional ones are the short items of the tile's image.

  • What happened in science (per month)

    Sources & relevant Wikipedia articles: 2023 in science. Stay up to date with the latest major studies.

    I also integrate most of the studies into Wikipedia; finding, editing & selection take most of the time, not the image. Monthly newsletter is here (I don't know if it still sends the mails properly).

    I used to put all the sources here; here's the sources for only the six main items:

    • https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/6/3/46
    • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01793-3
    • https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000181
    • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06557-9
    • https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00174-2/fulltext
    • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458
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    Monthly Science Summary
  • Yes (200k–300.000), that's why it says pre-humans...we didn't arise out of nowhere, it was a continuous evolution and it seems like if those had died out we wouldn't be here. (However, that's not settled, there are substantial reasonable doubts over these results as hinted at with "While alternative explanations are possible" and elaborated in the other comments here.)

    Good question, it wasn't a warming and even if it was, I don't think it can easily be translated to today's climate change. They refer to the Early-to-Middle Pleistocene Transition (not much info at that page though). If it's linked, that doesn't mean it caused it – I think people in that regard far too often think of (especially singular) causes instead of contributors within a complex interconnected set of causal factors. Maybe you're interested in this non-included paper from the same month which projects an upcoming large sudden population decline – it's just not substantiated and one can't just compare modern humans with other animal populations.

  • Monthly Science Summary
  • See the papers linked here

  • Monthly Science Summary
  • Thank you, will look into this. I had my doubts when I first heard about this but even with these sources I still think the study is significant beyond the large attention (and that itself is also a factor). I don't think there's much doubt that "The precision of the findings, though, may be a stretch" is true which doesn't invalidate the study and like a critic said "The conclusions, she says, “though intriguing, should probably be taken with some caution and explored further."

    Also consider that I usually have 8 main tiles and two brief ones, the only other alternative main tiles this month were the dogxim, Y chromosome and astrocytes ones which could get summarized nicely very briefly at the bottom while this one should be included but was hard to summarize that briefly.

  • Monthly Science Summary
  • I don't think they were narrowing this down to one species of ancient pre-humans rather than all species thereof. The number is surely wrong, the question of the scale of magnitude is roughly accurate. Would be nice if you send it/them my way if you find them, thanks for your elaborations.

  • Monthly Science Summary
  • Here is the study (it both reduced workload and increased effectiveness), I don't think you understood what this was about but that's nothing to criticize with the brevity of text

  • Monthly Science Summary

    🔔 Monthly Science Summary Brief overview of major studies - stay up-to-date

    🔭 Sources & Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_in_science

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    Science of the Month

    Monthly Science Summary OC to reduce the time needed to get up-to-date with the latest major studies. Sources & related Wikipedia articles

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    Monthly Science Summary

    Sources & wikilinks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_in_science#June

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