Studying schizophrenia in plants? Researchers are giving it a shot
Jun 2022, phys.org
"Schizophrenic-like plant"
via Yale: Alexandra Ralevski et al, Plant mitochondrial FMT and its mammalian homolog CLUH controls development and behavior in Arabidopsis and locomotion in mice, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s00018-022-04382-3
New laser breakthrough to help understanding of gravitational waves
Jun 2022, phys.org
"Metasurfaces" and "Eigenmodes"
via University of Western Australia Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery: Metasurface Enhanced Spatial Mode Decomposition, arXiv:2109.04663v2 [physics.optics] arxiv.org/abs/2109.04663
Also: Aaron W. Jones et al, Metasurface-enhanced spatial mode decomposition, Physical Review A (2022). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.105.053523
Amazon employees say the company cracked down on union organizing following Amazon Labor Union victory
Jun 14 2022, The Washington Post [soft paywall]
"Aggressively avoiding"
Amazon fired warehouse worker Rakyle Johnson, a member of Amazonians United who alleged in a labor board filing earlier this month that Amazon fired him because he “joined or supported a labor organization.” Amazon’s Nantel disputed those allegations, saying Desatnik was terminated for aggressively avoiding a security screening...
Study finds toxicity in the open-source community varies from other internet forums
Jul 2022, phys.org
"Politeness Detector"
via Institute for Software Research in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, and Wesleyan: "Did You Miss My Comment or What?" Understanding Toxicity in Open Source Discussions, Courtney Miller et al, International Conference on Software Engineering, May 2022.
World's first self-calibrated photonic chip: An interchange for optical data superhighways
Jul 2022, phys.org
Some things aren't exactly new or novel I just like the way they sound together:
"self-calibrating optical microcomb chip"
via Monash University: Xingyuan Xu et al, Self-calibrating programmable photonic integrated circuits, Nature Photonics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-022-01020-z
Overconfidence bolsters anti-scientific views, study finds
Jul 2022, phys.org
"Anti-consensus"
via Portland State University: Nicholas Light et al, Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views on controversial scientific issues, Science Advances (2022). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo0038
Neural networks and 'ghost' electrons accurately reconstruct behavior of quantum systems
Aug 2022, phys.org
Just here for the ghost electrons.
via Simons Foundation: Javier Robledo Moreno et al, Fermionic wave functions from neural-network constrained hidden states, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2122059119
Public database of standardized linguistic features
Jun 2022, phys.org
Words in general:
It's called Lexibank, like GenBank for sequenced genomes, but for languages; it's a standardized wordlist for more than 2,000 languages. "We decided to create our own standards, called Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, which have now been used successfully in a multitude of projects in which our department is involved.""Thanks to our standardized representation of language data, it is now easy to check how many languages use words like 'mama' and 'papa' for 'mother' and 'father,'" reports List. "It turns out that this pattern can indeed be found in many languages of the world and in very different regions," adds Simon J. Greenhill, one of the founders of the Lexibank project. "Since all the languages with this pattern are not closely related to each other, it reflects independent parallel evolution, just as the great linguist Roman Jakobson suggested in 1968.""When investigating which languages use the same word for 'arm' and 'hand,' we found that these languages typically also use the same word for 'leg' and 'foot,'" List reports. "While this may seem to be a silly coincidence, it shows that the lexicon of human languages is often much more structured than one might assume when investigating one language in isolation."
via Max Planck Society: Lexibank, A public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features, Scientific Data (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01432-0
Post Script:
One of the silver linings of the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine happened when listening to the news describe the Snake Island Go Fuck Yourself story -- since the news can't say things like "go fuck yourself", even if they are quoting someone else, they say instead that the Snake Island soldiers "...told them what to do with themselves...".
There's something special about listening to people talk about something you're explicitly not allowed to talk about, a premium exercise in syntactical engineering. And possibly similar to the Don't Say Gay law, which makes it illegal to say the name of the law that makes it illegal to say the law. ... Golden Braids for Days!
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