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For the scientific domain there is https://elicit.org/
You could sign up at https://www.clojuriststogether.org/ They do a pretty good job sponsoring both new-ish and critical projects within the clojure ecosystem
I can imagine that a dominant hypothesis could play a role in the predictions of future trajectories of climate on earth, but not so much for things like measuring past temperature / sea level rise. To twist the analogy…
Depending on the complexity of the model it would take me at least a month for a single paper. What makes it fully unbelievable to me is the claim of detecting p-value hacking in many of these 130 papers while doing 3…
Still using Light Table as my favorite light-weight IDE. I hope things like https://clojuriststogether.org/ or possibly patreon will make clojure open source projects more sustainable for developers.
Depends on how you mean the question. ancient DNA analysis has settled that the first two plague pandemics were Yersinia pestis, so if your question was on what kind of bacterium caused the Black Death - that is…
Potentially, but I am a bit sceptical. Plague reached a lot of new territory during the third pandemic (for example, australia and the americas), while still having a low mortality. One could check whether native…
Thanks! You might be able to postpone the panicking. Although I haven't looked into head lice (we specifically looked at body lice), this redditor had some links in that head lice apparently are less likely to carry…
Not a bad first impulse :-). It often pays in science to wait a few years/follow-up studies before fully accepting something. What is thought to be true in plague is especially fluid now with ancient DNA studies on…
You are right that there have been people speculating about it for a long time, going back more than a hundred years. Some of the earliest reports are from the time of the Indian Plague Commission, and there have been…
That indeed could be. We didn't test mixed models of transmission, but we took the first step here by testing all three models independently. Xavier Didelot did some work on testing mixed models for two cities, 17th…
The 2017 madagascar one might actually have been a combination of rats and pneumonic plague. But yeah, it is good to pay attention to all possible routes of transmission and see where you can intervene.
There are some studies that looked at the ectoparasites found during plague outbreaks, but just finding an ectoparasite with plague-infected blood in it doesn't tell you much yet on the importance of the transmission…
Last author here. The paper itself comes out this week on PNAS, but the press embargo is lifted already. When it comes out, you can find it here: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1715640115 What we have done is…
I think right now for clojure, Anglican is the one furthest along. It took me some effort to get into it, with the documentation being a little bit all over the place, but I got it working for me. Do remember that…
Looks nice! I would suggest to enable import from ORCID. Seems to be the best initiative around to give a unique identifier to scientists. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-623X
Must be for a strange value of "free", when you see http://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html From January 2 to September 10, 2016, 54 people from 16 states (Alabama, Arizona,California, Colorado, Connecticut,…
Most infectious diseases in humans are known to have originated from wildlife, so eradicating all current diseases will still leave us with new diseases entering the human population. Current rate at which new diseases…
The average length of intact Y. pestis DNA that researchers are capable of extracting from medieval teeth is something in the order of 55 basepairs. To put that into perspective - Y. pestis' main chromosome is a little…
Samuel Pepys was another diary writer at that time. Pretty interesting read, and you can get a quick overview of how much he was occupied by the plague from the following site: https://goldin.shinyapps.io/Search_Pepys/…
I am happy with every new ancient DNA sequence of plague that becomes available. Combined, they can be used to figure out the way the disease spread across Eurasia and persisted in Europe. That said, I would like these…
For those interested, below is the lecture of Krause on that topic, discussing the results in more detail. http://eccmidlive.org/#resources/ancient-pathogen-genomics-w... A big challenge is how to translate the genetic…
Authors can be wrong in interpreting the available (or lack of available) information. According to Ole Benedictow, there is little or no surviving records of plague in Sweden, but I would be curious to know why Larsson…
It basically comes down to data availability, and some historian digging through the available archives. For example, Givry is a tiny place somewhere in France, but for which by happenstance the parish registers at the…
The Black Death was followed by about 400 years of plague outbreaks in Europe. It also struck the Middle East, Africa, the Caucausus and Russia. It is bloody hard to make a total tally of how many people died by plague.…