cyrilpedia

cyrilpedia , 9 days ago to random

Kalymera!

If you make it to Crete, dont miss Heraklion's Archeological Museum

https://www.heraklionmuseum.gr/en/

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cyrilpedia , 12 days ago to random

'Recent years have seen a stream of articles reporting fluorescence, ranging from frogs, platypus, to even fully terrestrial organisms such as flying squirrels, often explicitly or implicitly linking the presence of fluorescence with sexual selection and communication. However, many of these studies fail to consider the physiological requirements of evolutionary stable signaling systems, the environmental dependence of perception, or the possible adaptive role of fluorescent coloration in a noncommunicative context.'
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2318189121

cyrilpedia , 2 months ago to random

Just finished reading & recommend "How I won a Nobel Prize", a novel about a STEM graduate student struggling with a difficult research problem at a very peculiar institution.
Julius Taranto, a law school graduate (according to the book jacket bio), evidently did his research:

"Scientists are constantly disserving one another in this way. Everyone declines to publish their bland failures – there is no professional angle in it – which thereby ensures that many other scientists will experience the same bland failures first hand."

cyrilpedia , 4 months ago to random

The Mole & Velazquez

"And, of course, who gets to judge? Who would we want to judge? Well, the little five-year-old girl in Las Meninas is giving us the most mischievous and heart-felt smile. A smile that speaks of respect and love, but also self-confidence born of the strength that emanates from the center of her attention (the royal couple, perhaps, or we, who stand in their place). Maybe it would all be worth it if our scientific `children', our students and trainees, were to look at us that way. Maybe that would be something worth striving for."

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/117/9/1615/28076/Eyes-on-the-prize