We're a week into teaching term here at Maynooth University and I'm taking a short break from the task of preparing notes and problem sets for the modules  I'm teaching this term.  Yesterday I came across a paper with the title Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis. I always cringe when I see the word "Meta-Analysis", as this is a very problematic statistical approach.

Suppose we have two cosmological theories: A, which describes a very large universe in only a tiny part of which low-energy physics turns out like ours; and B in which we have a possibly much smaller universe in which low-energy physics is like ours with a high probability. Can we determine whether A or B is the "better" theory, and if so how?

By Thomas Bakx, Henrique Rubira & 2 more. The study uses the COBRA method to compute the two-loop effective field theory power spectrum of dark matter density fluctuations, providing more precise cosm...

By Samantha Sneha Paul, Abhik Ghosh. The study analyzes the depolarization of radio galaxy ILTJ012215.21+254334.8 using LOFAR's Sky Survey data, revealing a preferred three-component model and highlig...

Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed, writes Clare O'Donoghue Velikic

The visit of my former PhD student Mateja Gosenca to Maynooth last year reminded me that she was co-author of the very first paper published by the Open Journal of Astrophysics. The date of publication for that paper was 8th February 2016, i.e. excactly10 years ago today. Here is the overlay: In those days OJAp was very much an experiment, and we used a protoptype platform which I had paid a developer to set up but it never really progressed beyond a "beta" version owing to stability and other issues.

We're a week into teaching term here at Maynooth University and I'm taking a short break from the task of preparing notes and problem sets for the modules  I'm teaching this term.  Yesterday I came across a paper with the title Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis. I always cringe when I see the word "Meta-Analysis", as this is a very problematic statistical approach.

The implication that Brexit has been a setback for unity runs counter to received wisdom, but it makes sense

The Quickening of the Year Rain Warnings MU Library Cat Peter Mandelson (as seen by Spitting Image) Bad News at STFC P.S. The pink flowers in the first picture in front of the daffodils are examples of Lenten Rose (Helleborus Orientalis), all parts of which plant are poisonous...

The visit of my former PhD student Mateja Gosenca to Maynooth last year reminded me that she was co-author of the very first paper published by the Open Journal of Astrophysics. The date of publication for that paper was 8th February 2016, i.e. excactly10 years ago today. Here is the overlay: In those days OJAp was very much an experiment, and we used a protoptype platform which I had paid a developer to set up but it never really progressed beyond a "beta" version owing to stability and other issues.