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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…

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 m…

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 sustaina…

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 c…

Paper is online now :-). I also put a popular science summary of the paper online here: https://medium.com/@boris.schmid/human-ectoparasites-and-the...

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…

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 …

There were indeed hundreds of outbreaks during those centuries. The outbreaks we selected were the ones for which we could find daily or weekly mortality records, as that gives you…

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 flu…

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 P…

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 testin…

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 wh…

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 o…

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/10.107…

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…

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…

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 populati…

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 - …

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: htt…

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…

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 cha…