RDN

Retired environmental scientist (biology/oceanography), data analyst, data manager.

Mostly posting links related to #Environment, #Nature, #DataAnalysis, #DataVisualization, #FLOSS, #Health, #Fitness, #Psychology, #USPolitics

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2026-05-24 19:47:05 GMT

Melting ice sheets, and redistribution of water to lower latitudes, is slowing Earth's rotation at an unprecedented rate.
Summary: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/unprecedented-earths-rotation
Original paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JB032161
#Science #ClimateChange

2026-05-03 12:32:11 GMT

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Here's a recent summary of non-designed flaws in the human body: https://theconversation.com/the-human-body-isnt-a-masterpiece-of-design-its-a-patchwork-of-evolutionary-compromise-279343
The knee, the epiglottis, and the sinuses are also often described as examples of the absence of intelligent design.

2026-04-25 16:48:09 GMT

Two studies in the U.S. and one in the U.K. examined the relationship between political affiliation and factual knowledge on climate related issues. Consistently, left-leaning participants showed greater factual knowledge than conservatives.
Summary: https://www.psypost.org/research-links-environmental-policy-support-to-factual-knowledge/
Original paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494425001239
#Science #Psychology #Politics #Climate

2025-12-02 21:51:43 GMT

A new study that takes advantage of a change in availability of the shingles (*Herpes zoster*) vaccine in Wales finds that vaccination reduces dementia symptoms in those already diagnosed with the disease, and reduced deaths from dementia by approximately 30% over the following nine years.
Summary: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/shingles-vaccine-dementia
Original paper: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01256-5?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867425012565%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
#Science #Health #Dementia #Alzheimers #Shingles #HerpesZoster

2025-11-08 15:37:08 GMT

The swallow-tailed gull, a nocturnal gull that flies as much as 100 km at night from the Galapagos to the Humboldt Current to feed on squid:
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/swallow-tailed-gull-hunting
#Nature #Birds

2025-09-24 01:32:43 GMT

Mouse studies indicate that the dental-plaque-forming bacterium *Streptococcus mutans* can colonize the gut, where it produces a metabolite (imidazone proprionate) that can cross the blood-brain barrier and induce symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
Summary: https://scienceblog.com/your-mouth-bacteria-could-be-rewiring-your-brain/
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63473-4
#Science #Health #Parkinsons #DentalHealth

2025-09-05 22:05:59 GMT

States that enacted abortion restrictions after the 2022 *Dobbs v. Jackson* ruling had, on average, a 7.3% increase in the death rates for infants up to 1 year old. The mechanism(s) causing these excess deaths is (are) unknown.
Summary: https://theconversation.com/infant-mortality-rises-in-states-with-restrictive-abortion-laws-new-research-263707
Original paper (not open access): https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308228
#Abortion #InfantMortality #USPol #USPolitics

2025-08-28 23:49:53 GMT

LinkedIn has recently changed their policy to allow harassment by deadnaming transgender people (https://www.advocate.com/news/linkedin-transgender-deadnaming-misgendering-policy), and as a consequence I have just deleted my LinkedIn account.
#TransRights #LBGTQIA

2025-06-26 01:02:32 GMT

Examination of 412 U.S. infants (1-3 months old) found low levels of the Bifidobacterium in the intestines of most, with 25% of them lacking the bacterium entirely. Low levels of Bifidobacterium in infants were associated with greater incidences of allergies, eczema, and dermatitis in 210 individuals who were assessed at age 2.
Summary: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/babies-gut-bacteria-allergies-asthma
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08274-7
#Science #Microbiome #Allergies #Eczema #Bifidobacterium

2025-06-06 15:57:02 GMT

A new coating that cools solar panels by absorbing moisture during the night and releasing it during the day results in greater power output and lifespan.
Summary: https://scitechdaily.com/new-material-supercharges-solar-panel-power-lifespan/
Original paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927796X25000932
#Science #Energy #Environment #SolarPower

2025-05-22 20:56:08 GMT

Interviews with 98 tech workers in the U.S. and China identified three strategies that the workers use to deal with conflicts between their own ethics and their employer's practices. U.S. and Chinese tech workers cite different factors for guiding their navigation through this conflict.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20539517251340626?af=R
#Ethics

2025-03-31 11:56:04 GMT

Narcissists are more honest after being exposed to explanations of different rationalizations of unethical behavior (assuming everybody does it, blaming others, minimizing harm, or using euphemistic language) and how using these rationalizations can adversely affect one's standing.
Summary: https://www.psypost.org/scientists-discover-how-to-psychologically-inoculate-narcissists-against-dishonesty/
Original paper (not open access): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672241276562
#Science #Psychology #Ethics #Honesty #Narcissism

2025-02-11 16:18:36 GMT

Mary Midgley, the historical predominance of unmarried male philosophers, and the shift from abstract philosophy to the incorporation of a human perspective.
https://aeon.co/essays/for-mary-midgley-philosophy-must-be-entangled-in-daily-life
#Philosophy

2025-01-24 00:32:24 GMT

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You can do this per-user via the web interface. On the user's profile page, click the 3-dot menu and select "Hide boosts from..."

2024-10-16 15:54:56 GMT

Social media posts containing numbers are shared more widely than those without, and stimulate more interest.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/numbers-are-persuasive-if-used-in-moderation/
Some numbers from the article: 8,000,000; 17,000; 9; 27; 16.9; 31.7; and 212.
#Science #SciComm #Communication

2024-10-14 13:17:39 GMT

Brain activity in sleeping birds suggests that they are 'rehearsing' or dreaming about singing.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/birds-practice-singing-in-their-sleep/
#Science #Birds

2024-09-25 14:11:58 GMT

Soil warming leads to release of stored carbon, and nitrogen enrichment leads to increased carbon storage. New research that looks at the combined effect of these factors finds an increase in respiratory loss of carbon from soils, but no change to the stock of soil carbon.
Original paper (not open access): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02546-x
#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #SoilCarbon #CO2

2024-08-21 17:10:06 GMT

Creative people process unusual or surprising stimuli in the same way as ordinary stimuli. Unconventional details are given attention equivalent to typical details.
Summary: https://www.psypost.org/scientists-reveal-a-fascinating-neurocognitive-trait-linked-to-heightened-creativity/
Original paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278262624000551
It's not thinking outside the box if you don't recognize the box's existence.
#Science #Cognition #Psychology #Creativity #Attention

2024-08-16 22:53:09 GMT

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I have a great idea for a villain called The Rearranger.
My wife is the model.

2024-06-25 23:15:25 GMT

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...there is a new tool ('Table/Add coordinate key') that will add a column to the data table with a unique identifier for each location.
Also new:
* Distances can be calculated between all pairs of selected locations.
* Data aggregation functions include a count of rows.
* The correlation matrix and cosine similarity dialogs produce an additional table of all of the calculated values.

2024-06-25 23:15:18 GMT

Many of the plotting and statistical tools in the data explorer mapdata.py (https://pypi.org/project/mapdata/) allow or require a grouping variable. Locations are identified by two variables, latitude and longitude, so to group by location a variable with a unique identifier for each location is needed. The 'Table/Counts by location' tool will identify such a variable if it exists. Now...
1/2
#MapData #DataAnalysis #DataExploration #Mapping #Statistics #Python #FOSS #FLOSS

2024-05-29 16:12:58 GMT

@npub13tt…4cy2
Every time your Arizona Night wallpaper comes up (which is just once or twice a week) I have to minimize all applications and just marvel at it for a minute.

2024-05-01 19:33:51 GMT

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Were you testing because of today's post on itsfoss.org saying "Please don't boost this on Mastodon"?