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transastronautistic · 2 months
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I can't handle how cute this is. i want a slime pet too
Link to the Tweets. And here's a link to the study. ID in alt text and below the readmore.
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tweet by e. @MelytraMithra reading "oh my goddddd
researchers built a smartwatch heart beat monitor that uses a slime mold for its operation. the slime mold has to be fed and cared for, so the users in the trial… developed an emotional attachment to it [two sobbing emojis]"
The Tweet includes a screenshot from the paper, described in next image.
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The tweet's screenshot, which reads:
Developing a connection.
All participants expressed various feelings of connection with our device. P1, P2, P4, and P5 all described it as a little friend and/or pet. P2 expressed, “it’s always good to be accompanied by some living creature, I really like different, animals or plants. (. . .) carrying this little friend also made me feel happy and peaceful”. P4 noted that she would be reminded by the slime mold’s presence by its smell, even stating that it felt endearing, “my cat’s kind of have a smell, dogs have a smell, the physarum, I recognize the smell and it smells kind of, organic, it’s kind of yeasty but not like decaying, it smells alive”. In recalling an experience where she had to take a long drive, P4 explained, “oh, I gotta bring my little pet mold friend, during the drive, I was also thinking about how I used to be really into Tamagotchis (. . .) with the physarum, (. . .) it has this smell to it which your Tamagotchis don’t have, it has a sense of physicality, (. . .) they’re definitely different”. P1 stated that their personal care routine ended up linked to the device’s care routine “I think every time I fed myself is when I would remember to at least check it, I think that was actually quite linked”. While she was sick, P5’s partner helped take care of her as well as helped to take care of her device. P5 recounts, “I was taking care of the slime and feeding it oats and stuff, my partner was also feeding me oatmeal because I was sick and so she was like you’re my little slime and I was like yeah, I am (. . .) then she started calling me her slime because I mean me and the slime, like, we were eating the same stuff, (. . .) we were both being fed and watered”. P2 & P4 also stated that the visual appearance of their device affected their mood. P2 explained that growth made them feel refreshed. P4 associated the bright yellow of the physarum with happy feelings, noting this affective quality several times in her diary entries and in her interview.
Image 3: A reply tweet from the original tweeter reading "well nourished. in my lane. lively. growing." There's a photoset from the study described as "a slime mold oscillating between living and dormant stages." There are four images of the slime mold, which is a yellow color. The first shows it "dried / dormant / not growing." Second shows it "water added / resuscitated / growing." Third shows the slime "well nourished / lively / growing." The fourth shows it once again "dried / dormant / not growing."
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jstor · 1 year
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You're pretty good at searching here and there, but there's a lot more to academic research. This is why we put together this free, self-guided course!
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Because three is the magic number (look it up!), the course is made up of three modules of three short lessons and three sets of practice quizzes. Try it try it try it!
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legendarytragedynacho · 2 months
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Rossy Mendoza
Showgirl, singer, actress, model, muse... But also researcher, writer, and metaphysicist
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adambibliophile · 5 months
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History speaks for itself.
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Which search engine is best for academic research? Hint: It's not Wikipedia
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PubMed
PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally.
The PubMed database contains more than 34 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full-text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).
Available to the public online since 1996, PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other websites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
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Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar provides free, AI-driven search and discovery tools, and open resources for the global research community. With Semantic Scholar, researchers can understand a paper at a glance. Our system extracts meaning and identifies connections from within papers, then surfaces these insights to help Scholars discover and understand research.
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Connected Papers
Connected Papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.
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Research Rabbit
Research Rabbit is starting with our Discovery app which unlocks a completely novel way to search for papers and authors, monitor new literature, visualize research landscapes, and collaborate with colleagues.
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grad-premed-suffering · 3 months
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I’m coming back from winter break and I realized just how far behind I am with my research. I regret everything right now.
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archivegeo · 4 months
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library on the weekend depictions uuuh unpictured is the jar of peanut butter i was eating with a fork and near kilo of grapes i ate in an afternoon lmao but guess what 2nd paper that i was told was publishable so call that brain food
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chillsncharms · 8 months
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What’s a cryptid from where you are?
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tenth-sentence · 6 months
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More recently, the tendency to conflate science and fictional agendas has been more actively resisted by researchers.
"Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture" - Jon Turney
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23 March 2024
(6/100 days of productivity)
Today was just a relaxing Saturday with a friend, nice lunch and dessert and a walk by the beach 🥰
We all need these days to recharge after the working week!
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sakuraswordly · 3 months
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zal-cryptid · 2 years
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jstor · 11 months
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Ah, so this is what they mean by "infinite scroll"!
Zephorene L. Stickney (left), college archivist, and others holding the Sesquicentennial Scroll in the Wheaton College library stair tower in 1984. From Marion B. Gebbie Archives Image Collection, an open collection on JSTOR!
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legendarytragedynacho · 8 months
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French Oceanographer & Filmmaker Jacques Cousteau
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hyperitystudios · 5 months
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The brains and arguably the most important part of the whole foundation.
Our goal with the active-wear was to make the attire of researchers look more practical and suitable for their work within the facilities. We also decided to display their internal rank hierachy with different coloured stripes, to bring some more variety and diversity into it and to make everything feel a bit more alive.
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Unfortunately, many researchers don't know how to read a scientific article effectively.
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How to read a scientific paper in 5 steps
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