The #fallacy of #global #comparisons based on #PerCapita measures
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#RoyalSocietyOpenScience
"It turns out that the per capita measures in 3 global datasets (#GrossDomesticProduct, #COVID19 related mortality and #CO2 production) systematically overestimate values in #countries with small populations, while countries with large populations tend to have misleadingly low per capita ratios owing to the large denominators"
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.230832
What you have, not who you know: #food-enhanced #social #capital and changes in social #behavioural #relationships in a non-human #primate
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#RoyalSocietyOpenScience
"Gaining control over a preferential food resource had far-reaching social consequences:
- increase in both #submission & #aggression #centrality
- changes in the socio-demographic characteristics of her agonistic interaction partners
- her #grooming balance shifted in her favour"
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.231460
#Mastodon over #Mammon: towards #publicly owned #scholarly #knowledge
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#OpenAccess
"Scholarly organizations are now facing a golden opportunity to rethink their hesitations towards alternatives to #Twitter and support the migration of the scholarly community from Twitter to Mastodon by hosting Mastodon instances"
Christophe Bousquet