konstantina
@konstantinnna
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Always curious. Fueled by coffee. Working at the VUW Research Office.
Wellington City, New Zealand
Joined January 2010
So excited about the NYCMidnight 250-word Microfiction Challenge on December 9th! Join and/or learn more at
nycmidnight.com
The 250-word Microfiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create very short stories based on genre, action, and word assignments in 48 hours.
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The last of us is deservedly making a splash ❤️🎬 My first instinct was to search Cordyceps, of course. The second: to check the data to what extent others had the same idea :D #GoogleTrends #SearchBehavior
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My beginner/intermediate #Rstats friends often ask me for tips. ➡️Here is the 'dream pipeline' I use for my data analysis, ending with a clean, interactive, online report: 🧵..
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Fascinating research at the intersection of art, history and science ❤️ #Renaissance #science #NZscience #research
rnz.co.nz
Rosemary flowers in white wine is one of the Renaissance-era skincare recipes that art historian Erin Griffey is recreating with a team of scientists for the groundbreaking Beautiful Chemistry...
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Excellent analysis by Pulsar friend & power user @Audiosilver on the social conversation around "green metals" like lithium, copper and cobalt, and the audiences talking about them 🔋📊 https://t.co/ppmvQoKCbX
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin walk the walk of research integrity and retract 2 papers after discovering an error in their preprocessing pipeline❤️🧠 Respect! #research #integrity #cogsci
most difficult tweet ever, but here we go: MANUSCRIPT RETRACTION ALERT! We discovered a serious error in our preprocessing pipeline that affected our results presented in two recent papers: https://t.co/kaafglLZxx and
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By using the same software that’s used to track mutations in genes, researchers have mapped out the sorts of changes that shape the evolution of songs #dataviz #research #ethnomusicology #ArtAndScience
https://t.co/b3grilrsJf
scientificamerican.com
Using software designed to align DNA sequences, scientists cataloged the mutations that arose as folk songs evolved
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First and foremost, be wary of the difference between MISinformation and DISinformation. While they can seem interchangeable, the difference lies in the intent. Precise language is important e.g. propaganda can fall under the umbrella of disinformation
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Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and I mapped the % of female researchers in Europe, according to UNESCO data. #women #science #womenintech #rstats #maps #dataviz #DataScience #WomenInScience
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It’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science! We honor all who have pushed the boundaries of innovation, and celebrate those who continue their legacies. Get to know some of their stories with @WomenNASA: https://t.co/8upYnZC35R
#WomenInScience
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"Journalists are increasingly using the tools of science journalism and scientific inquiry to carry out investigative reporting" #investigateivejournalism #bestpractices #datamining #science ❤️📰
gijn.org
Journalists are increasingly using the tools of science journalism and scientific inquiry to carry out in-depth data and investigative reporting, and even to shine a spotlight on questionable...
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"A Cambrian explosion of start-up science experiments will, if nothing else, give us plenty of data" #FoodForThought
#scifunding
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Thread! Everyone's talking about this new study showing cash transfers "speed up brain activity" in babies ( https://t.co/KzSkvuovBF). It must be a big deal, because it was announced with a "Breaking News" tweet by no less than the New York Times:
Breaking News: Cash payments for low-income mothers increased brain function in babies, a study found, with potential implications for U.S. safety net policy.
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When someone tells me they "did their own research" I just look at them directly and respond, "Oh? In which lab?"
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"Local brain regions go offline one after another. The mind, whose substrate is whichever neurons remain intact, then does what it always does: it tells a story shaped by a person’s experience, memory and cultural expectations." https://t.co/Xja7q68jWF
#NDEs #Brain #science
scientificamerican.com
A close brush can leave a lasting mental legacy—and may tell us about how the mind functions under extreme conditions
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"That dedication shows Mr Colin Peacock is always watching, always listening, always looking for content that could be turned into a @MediawatchNZ segment #media #mediastandards #NZmedia #RNZ
thespinoff.co.nz
Journalists avoid his calls, editors loathe it when he highlights mistakes. But Colin Peacock reckons he's not scary at all.
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"Research is messy and full of failed attempts. Trying to protect students from that reality does them a disservice" #science #research
https://t.co/FuIpyzOQkh
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The push to remove journal paywalls officially started this year. Here’s how it works. #OpenAccess #Science #Research
https://t.co/ZeT5Q6rFv8
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How #aging rewires our #brain "older adults demonstrated a rush of alpha oscillatory power (relatively faster brain waves) that was not observed in younger adults" https://t.co/SzXztMm8hC.
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