“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”
Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.
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The policies mirror the directives laid out in HB 580, which doesn’t take effect until October and doesn’t apply to the institution.
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Great new work by @evangiangrande.bsky.social tracking how race scientists exploit preprint servers to legitimize and spread their work
“a dystopian move that would destroy what remains of merit-based review”
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Amazing. No notes. @evoroseman.bsky.social talk about race science for Ghent University.
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Preprint servers and open science platforms have revolutionized the scientific process. A fundamental feature of these platforms is a lack of peer review—virtually anyone with an internet connection c...
Early life circumstances can affect an individual’s phenotype into later life. In some polytocous altricial mammals, individuals’ occupancy of micro n…
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How do social networks become adaptive? From self-organisation and phase transitions to cultural learning, social networks are shaped by feedback between individual interactions and collective dynamics. Check my new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Model makers often find themselves in the following situation: in order for the model to be able to represent the dynamics of the target system, they have to make certain assumptions that pertain to t...
