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@deuxcvsix

Aber wenigstens sind wir in Deutschland jetzt wieder noch ein bisschen mehr Mainstream, so EU-weit betrachtet 😉

Ergebnisse der letzten EU-Wahl nach Fraktionen im EP + #BTW25

Bildquelle: What Europe's electorate wants: full speed towards the abyss
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2024/08/what-europes-electorate-wants-full.html
#OldPosts #NotScience

What Europe's electorate wants: full speed towards the abyss

Annotated comment to the results of the election to the European parliament 2024, pie charting the parliamentary groups

#FightTheFog #AcademicChatter

Rigorous #PeerReview @ PLoS ONE: reject a paper because the editor cannot manage to get (any) reviews in time.

Related #FunFact: as long as reviews are quick, a paper's and the reviewer's reports quality doesn't matter so much. And not only in PLoS ONE.

Related 2017 post:
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2017/09/one-date-that-is-missing-in-many.html
#OldPosts

One date that is missing in many scientific publications

Why scientific publications should give the date when the authors handed in their revision, or, better, the journals should directly change to transparent peer-review

@chasewnelson

Have one like that, too, on stock. Only funny on the surface. Haunting when one has to deal with it. Intrinsic problem of #evolution: appearances (phenotypes) change over time. The cause of pheno-geno-incongruence is just an expected, not uncommon legacy of how #species originate.

Pics from Monophyletic species 12/2021
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2021/12/monophyletic-species.html
Disclaimer: #LongRead contains #PhyloNetworks
#OldPosts

Monophyletic species

About the monophyly of species, conceptualisation and real-world application

The real beauty of #democracy is that every people may get the government they truly deserve 😌 #us2024

Two pics from #OldPosts

Visualising U.S. #GunLegislation and mapping politics, economics, and population (Res.I.P. 2018)
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2018/03/visualising-us-gun-legislation-and.html

Part 4: Gehst schaißen! If it is the will of the sovereign, the voters (Res.I.P. 2017)
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2017/12/part-4-gehst-schaien-if-it-is-will-of.html

And in contrast to certain European countries (and SCOTUS), it'll be over in 2, latest 4 years. Na dann, prost. For another 2/4 years.

Visualising U.S. gun legislation, and mapping politics, economics, and population

Some graphs placing the differences in U.S. state gun legislation into a larger context (2nd Amendment to the U.S. constitution; U.S. civil war and Confederacy; "blue" vs. "red" states; European perspective)

#Peerreviewed: "We interpret this #paleoclimate as summer dry and winter wet—a climate analogous to modern day warm #Mediterranean climates in the Köppen‐
Geiger climate classification system" https://doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004874

That'd be Csa. Pic: fig. 4, modern analogs 🤨

Well, thanks to #ClimateChange, they all turn Csa eventually: #OldPosts
Wladimir Köppen – a climate-vegetation genius, and what this has to do with wine
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2018/02/wladimir-koppen-climate-vegetation.html

#palaeoclimate #PeerReview #FightTheFog

@russell

Just wondering...has anyone ever tried a network-thinker approach?

Whenever I ran into people getting stuck with unsolvable phylogenies, I showed them there's more than the usual 1-dimensional stick graphs in phylogenetics and "can't" became a "let's" and, ultimately, "done".

Also great to explore only ambiguous signals.

E.g. #OldPosts
Summarizing non-trivial Bayesian tree samples for dating? Just use support consensus networks
https://phylonetworks.blogspot.com/2018/01/summarizing-non-trivial-bayesian-tree.html

Summarizing non-trivial Bayesian tree samples for dating? Just use support consensus networks

In a recent paper published in Systematic Biology , Joseph O’Reilly and Philip Donoghue (2017) shed some light on an issue concerning Bayes...

@yassie_j

The longevity of #OldPosts is one of the loveliest features of Fedi culture. On twitter, there was not even a notification if someone replied after 24 hours (or was it 48?). The whole system was set up for moving from hype to hype. Here we can let #conversations develop over long periods, re-enforced by #notifications and #hashtags.

Eight months in, I am still stunned by the beauty of the system.

#MastodonCulture

@dezene

Can't help it, sorry.

The Indo-part of Indomalaya was at the time even further away from Malaya but naturally closer to Australia although not really next to it.

Sophisticated top-down reconstructions look nice and make great graphics.

But whether they make sense might require a bit of a palaeo-perspective, too.

And, thanks to Rob Scotese, really everyone can dive into Earth's past.
#OldPosts https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-easter-egg-everyone-can-visually.html

The Easter Egg – everyone can (visually) dive into Earth's past

Introducing Robert Scotese's wonderful world of palaeoglobes, available also a GoogleEarth layers (kmz files) for selected time periods such as Miocene, K-T-boundary.

@lzvolk @andrewlhipp

If you fancy references, more artwork and prose, some #OldPosts

All solved a decade ago: the asterisk branch in the Fagales phylogeny—https://phylonetworks.blogspot.com/2018/02/all-solved-decade-ago-asterisk-branch.html

The challenging and puzzling ordinary beech – a (hi)story—https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-challenging-and-puzzling-ordinary.html

Can we depict the evolution of highly conserved genes, such as the ribosomal RNA genes?—https://phylonetworks.blogspot.com/2019/02/can-we-depict-evolution-of-highly.html

Just a single, easily overlooked tip—https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2022/07/just-single-easily-overlooked-tip.html

All solved a decade ago: the asterisk branch in the Fagales phylogeny

Application of networks should long have been standard in molecular phylogenetics, to get the most out of the available data. However, you ...