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Grass functional traits reflect the long history of fire and grazers in the savannas of Texas

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, Volume 112, Issue 10, October 2025.
Abstract Premise Understanding relationships among grass traits, fire, and herbivores may help improve conservation strategies for savannas that are threatened by novel disturbance regimes. Emerging theory, developed in Africa, emphasizes that functional traits of savanna grasses reflect the distinct ways that fire and grazers consume biomass ...
Ashish N. Nerlekar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The “Tambla” (Humuya) Gomphothere (Honduras): The first report of fossil vertebrates in Central America El Gonfoterio de “Tambla” (Humuya , Honduras): El primer registro de un vertebrado fósil en América Central

open access: yesRevista Geológica de América Central, 2011
In 1858, American geologist Joseph LeConte published the first scientific report of vertebrate fossils (mastodon, bison and horse) from Central America a brief record of a “mastodon bed” near the old village of Tamblain Honduras.
Spencer G Lucas   +3 more
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Content moderation and the digital transformations of gatekeeping

open access: yesPolicy &Internet, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2025.
Abstract This essay provides an overview of the current state of content moderation on social media platforms. The question the essay addresses is why there are a number of unresolved issues in tackling dysfunctional content. The argument is that there are two intersecting new phenomena which make effective content moderation difficult: one is that ...
Ralph Schroeder
wiley   +1 more source

De la « rurbanisation » du héros américain : The Rise of Silas Lapham

open access: yesE-REA, 2010
The bipolar representation of the city (the celestial city vs. Babylon the great) is a distinguishing feature of the American psyche. A similar ambivalence can be traced in the ideological conflict between two types of discourse, one pastoral and one ...
Guillaume TANGUY
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A Guide to Designing Experiments to Test Statistical Graphics

open access: yesWIREs Computational Statistics, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2025.
Graphical experiments require considerable forethought and planning, and can still go awry when participants notice features that the experimenters do not. ABSTRACT In this paper, we discuss considerations and methods for experimentally testing visualizations.
Emily Robinson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

SURF's Mastodon Pilot

open access: yes, 2023
This presentation outlines the pilot that the Dutch NREN, SURF, has been running on Mastodon. It was first presented during the meeting of the Special Interest Group on Marketing and Communications at TNC23.
Mutfy, Wladimir, Walk, Lonneke
openaire   +1 more source

Shark Tooth Forensics: A Participatory Science Initiative to Unravel Ancient Shark Ecology

open access: yesThe Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Volume 106, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract Studying the ecology of ancient organisms requires a tremendous amount of data, as in the case of prehistoric sharks where our knowledge is based mostly on teeth. Shark Tooth Forensics is a participatory science project tackling the problem of deciphering the ecology of ancient sharks with assistance from public school students. Traditionally,
Terry A. Gates   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

To vegetable: Seasons that require us

open access: yesCrop Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, March/April 2025.
Abstract Domestication of cereals tracks with the natural life cycle of plants in the Poaceae family, but vegetables represent a different modality and often possess a truncated life cycle. The evolution of vegetable biodiversity required curatorial work each growing season that differed in important ways from curation of grains or perennial crops ...
I. L. Goldman
wiley   +1 more source

Transparency as an empty signifier? Assessing transparency in EU and platform initiatives on online political advertising and actors

open access: yesPolicy &Internet, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2025.
Abstract This paper investigates how the European Union (EU) and online platforms operationalise ‘political advertising’ and ‘transparency’ in a context of ongoing political and policy debates on regulating online platforms. We compare ongoing EU policy initiatives (revised Code of Practice on Disinformation and Regulation on the Transparency and ...
Trisha Meyer   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mr. Mastodon Farm: analysing a mastodon ActivityPub outbox.json file

open access: yes, 2023
I migrated my personal Mastodon account from mastodon.social to biologists.social recently. If you’d like to do the same, I found this guide very useful. Note that, once you move, all your previous posts are left behind on the old instance. Before I migrated, I downloaded all of my data from the old instance.
openaire   +1 more source

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