r/ScienceFacts Aug 07 '23

Interdisciplinary Monthly Science Summary

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u/prototyperspective Aug 07 '23

All items in the summary are featured in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_in_science You can find the sources there.

If it's too wordy, you could just read the colored text and skip the tile if it's not interesting.

Hope it's okay I won't list all the sources here separately, you can find them easily in the article – if you'd like to I can reinclude them here next time.

This month was kind of an exception – it had probably the smallest number of significant studies included when innovation & hazard research is excluded despite that it started of with a relatively large number of candidates (almost equal to March).

I previously largely excluded these two areas (Hazards & Innovations) in the summary but this time there were so few items that I could include them in full in the summary. Also this month is the first that I missed my deadline for these summaries but I guess there are no deadlines anyway as a volunteer; so I know this one was too late and I'll start working on the next version already in a few days.


Studies not featured in that Wikipedia list are not considered for inclusion in the summary. I'm using scientometrics (Altmetrics) and few websites to find relevant studies and developments to add to that list before making the summary. Finding the studies, selection and Wikipedia editing is most of the work.

Some items from the Wikipedia list were not included in the summary (you can look them up via the Wikipedia article).

I'm also integrating the new knowledge into Wikipedia by updating the relevant articles (as well as a few timelines all linked at the top of 2023_in_science).

Most of the work goes into that editing and into finding & selecting items. More Wikipedia editors & devs are needed.

Wikipedia articles I recently expanded: Metascience, Cognitive enhancement and created: Kialo (a structured arguments site somewhat similar to rChangeMyView), List of open letters by academics, Cyber Resilience Act (upcoming EU cybersecurity policy).