Congratulations, Class of 2016.
Congratulations, Class of 2016. Wishing each of you the best in your future endeavors! -The Institute for Society and Genetics
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Using big data, scientists discover biomarkers that could help give cancer patients better survival estimates
People with cancer are often told by their doctors approximately how long they have to live, and how well they will respond to treatments, but what if there were a…
We Know Where You Live – From Location Data Alone, Even Low-Tech Snoopers Can Identify Twitter Users’ Homes, Workplaces.
Researchers at MIT and Oxford University have shown that the location stamps on just a handful of Twitter posts — as few as eight over the course of a single…
2016 | Emmanuel Didier – Conventions and Quantification – Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Statistics and Classifications
EPIDAPO’s, Emmanuel Didier, has co-edited the Historical Social Research Volume 41, 2016 No.2 “Conventions and Quantification – Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Statistics and Classifications.“
Where You Are is Who You Are: How Enclosed and Open Spaces Affect Cognition
A recent study suggests that who we are might be more integrated with where we are than previously thought. “The built environment can restrict or promote spatial cognition, which can…
How Did Birds Get Their Wings? Bacteria May Provide a Clue, Say Scientists
New research from an international team of evolutionary biologists, led by the University of Oxford, has used bacteria to show that acquiring duplicate copies of genes can provide a ‘template’…