«Growing old is a natural process. It is simply another stage in the cycle of life. Or is it?» Already available in the Open Journal System platform: «Everlasting», with five texts on different perspectives related to the challenge of #ageing. turia.uv.es/index.php/Me...

Last summer, William DeGrado was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Valencia. During this event, we discussed his career and outstanding chemistry challenges.🔬 ✍️ Interview by @ismaelmingarro.bsky.social metode.org/issues/entre...

📊 Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 7 (2025): «AI think... therefore AI am» «Explainable artificial intelligence and its key role in education Promoting critical thinking and autonomy in the classroom» By Francisco Bellas (@udc.gal) DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto... #AI #education

Very soon, in Metode SSJ, the first volume of 2026: "Everlasting" What will life be like beyond our eighties or nineties? What is the limit of human life? ⌛️ Check more about the monograph here: metode.org/news/the-cha...

📊 Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 7 (2025): «AI think... therefore AI am» «Machine conviction: Can we control what AI make us believe?» By Manuel Cebrián (Centre for Automation and Robotics) DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto... #AI #politics #persuasion @csicdivulga.bsky.social

📊 Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 7 (2025): «AI think... therefore AI am» «Artificial intelligence in biomedicine: Applications and challenges» By Ignasi Belda (Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence) DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto... #AI #biomedicine

«I am extremely sad to have lost orangutan expert Biruté Galdikas. We corresponded often about many things, most recently regarding my questions for an interview for Mètode. We shall miss her deeply.» 🕊️ ✍️ Obituary by Paula Casal metode.org/news/birute-...

📣Open call for papers: Monograph on the scientific essay genre Deadline for submission: 25 September 2026. More information in the OJS platform: turia.uv.es/index.php/Me...

📊 Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 7 (2025): «AI think... therefore AI am» «Machines that think: The obsolescence of the concept of 'strong AI'» By Carles Fenollosa (@upc.edu) DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto... #AI #neuralnetworks

📣Open call for papers: Exceptional plants. What they are and how they can be conserved Deadline for submission: 27 March 2026. More information in the OJS platform: turia.uv.es/index.php/Me...

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 8 (2025): «Science without a conscience. Technology at war’s service» «Science, new technologies and armed conflict: Current situation and prospects» By Pere Brunet (@centredelas.org) DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto... #technology #warfare #drones #ethics

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 8 (2025): «Science without a conscience. Technology at war’s service» «Medicine on the battlefield: The Great War and the impulse to international public health» By Josep Lluís Barona (López Piñero Institute, @uv.es) DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto... #medicine #history #warfare

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 8 (2025): «Science without a conscience. Technology at war’s service» «Physicists at war: Nuclear bombs in World War II and the Cold War» By Jesús Navarro (Institute for Corpuscular Physics, @uv.es) DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto... #physics #nuclear #history #warfare

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 8 (2025): «Science without a conscience. Technology at war’s service» «The British sciences and the Great War: Myths and histories» By @davidedgerton.bsky.social (@kingschostm.bsky.social) DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto...

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 8 (2025): «Science without a conscience. Technology at war’s service» «Technology and warfare: Agents of change» By Alex Roland, Professor of History Emeritus at Duke University. DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto... @duke-university.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

I enjoyed writing about British science in the Great War and late and how scientific intellectuals and historians of science systematically misrepresented the relations of science and war. @kingschostm.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social turia.uv.es/index.php/Me...

«The relationship between science and war has remained constant, reflecting the dual nature of human knowledge, which is capable of generating both progress and destruction.» Introduction to Vol. 15 (8), by coordinator @martidominguez.bsky.social. DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto...

The new monograph for Metode Science Studies Journal is here! Volume 15 (8): «Science without a conscience. Technology at war's service» 🪖💥 A reflection on the ambivalent and directional relationship between science and war 🔥 turia.uv.es/index.php/Me...

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 6 (2025): Melting point. The voice of the mountains «Bridging worlds: The power of knowledge coproduction in mountain glaciology» By Marcela Brugnach and Sérgio Henrique Faria (#BC3research #Ikerbasque). DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto...

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 6 (2025): Melting point «Records of past flood in caves of the Central Pyrenees» By Miguel Bartolomé et al. (@mncn-csic.bsky.social, @ipe-csic.bsky.social, @unizar.es, Swiss Institute for Speleology and Karst Studies, @ucm.es) DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto...

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 6 (2025): Melting point. The voice of the mountains «Ice caves in the Pyrenees: Past, present, and future» By Maria Leunda et al. (@ehugeografia.bsky.social, @ipe-csic.bsky.social, @mncn-csic.bsky.social) DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto...

While AI undoubtedly has the potential to improve our lives, from applications in biomedicine and data analysis to military uses, it also poses significant risks and uncertainties. ✍️ Editorial by our editor-in-chief @martidominguez.bsky.social metode.org/issues/edito...

«Today, we are witnessing a new structural transformation: the incorporation of intelligence into production and service processes at minimal cost, made possible by the deployment and consolidation of artificial intelligence» ✍️ Ignasi Belda (AESIA) DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto...

Vol. 15 No. 7 of Metode SSJ is now available: «AI think... therefore AI am»🤖🧠🖥️ An overview of the challenges and opportunities of Artificial Intelligence ⚙️🦾 turia.uv.es/index.php/Me...

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 6 (2025): Melting point. The voice of the mountains «Ice caves in the face of climate change: Patterns of change in Picos de Europa» By Manuel Gómez Lende (@univcantabria.bsky.social) and Enrique Serrano (@uva-es.bsky.social) DOI: doi.org/10.7203/meto...

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 6 (2025): Melting point. The voice of the mountains «Acting local, targeting global: The NeverRest Project initiatives towards a sustainable Everest base camp» By João Pompeu (The NeverRest Project) doi.org/10.7203/meto...

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 6 (2025): Melting point. The voice of the mountains «Acting local, targeting global: The NeverRest Project initiatives towards a sustainable Everest base camp» By João Pompeu (The NeverRest Project)

VERY SOON, ON THE OJS PLATFORM: «AI think... therefore AI am» 🤖🧠🖥️Una overview of the challenges and opportunities of Artificial Intelligence ⚙️🦾

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 6 (2025): Melting point. The voice of the mountains «Aerosols and global change in the Pyrenees: A dustier atmosphere in the warmest scenario?» By Jorge Pey et al. (@ipe-csic.bsky.social) doi.org/10.7203/meto...

Remember we have an open 📣Call for papers! «Science and mythology: a fruitful relationship» turia.uv.es/index.php/Me... References to mythology are common in art, which is often inspired by them. However, myths also feature in many scientific disciplines. Deadline for submission: 16/01/2026.

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 6 (2025): Melting point. The voice of the mountains «The Pyrenees without glaciers?» By Enrique Serrano et al. doi.org/10.7203/meto... @uva-es.bsky.social, @univcantabria.bsky.social, @cenieh.bsky.social, @ehugeografia.bsky.social, @ipe-csic.bsky.social

📊Metode SSJ, Vol. 15 No. 6 (2025): Melting point. The voice of the mountains «From snow to ice, a hidden metamorphosis» By Nicolás González Santacruz and Sérgio Henrique Faria, from the Basque Centre for Climate Change doi.org/10.7203/meto...

A few years ago, the company that makes Jaffa Cakes claimed that its product is a cake and not a biscuit. 🍪 ✍️ @xurxomar.bsky.social for «Dark Matter» in Metode SSJ metode.org/issues/secci...

The 'völkisch' movement had only a limited range of key topics. These included race as well as historiography, the fusion of which became inevitable. ✍️ An article by Othmar Plöckinger for the monograph «Science, race and Nazism» metode.org/issues/monog...

Everything points to the probability of life appearing being relatively high. Complex life is another matter entirely.🎰👽🪐 ✍️ Fernando Ballesteros, for “Mètode” Spacecraft metode.org/issues/secci...

One of the most common misconceptions was that bees were virgin animals because no one had ever seen them mate. It was not until the 18th century that the way they reproduce was discovered. 🐝 metode.org/issues/secci...

Guess who's back! www.instagram.com/reel/DOVX1At...

Conversational bots such as ChatGPT have great potential to improve doctor-patient communication, especially in the reinterpretation of medical reports. ✍️ Adéla Kotátkova and Manuel Miralles Hernández metode.org/issues/docum...

🐍 «Red and black, venom lacks, red and yellow, kill the fellow». This type of rhyme is common in Latin American folklore and is used to quickly and easily determine whether a snake belongs to the genus Micrurus (coral snakes). ✍️ & 📷 by Roberto García-Roa metode.org/issues/secci...

Research on cartoons related to the pandemic has emphasised the global politicisation of the issue. 💭🖍️ @marinajoubert discusses the role of cartoons in the context of the pandemic 😷🦠 metode.org/issues/artic...

The end of May is synonymous with the end of the academic year and with that, the time to say farewell 😢 🎥 LAST EPISODE of #ScienceSpaces season 2 We close the season with Mario Culebras, researcher at the Institute of Materials Science of the @uv.es metode.org/science-spac...

🎥 Episode 7 of #ScienceSpaces We're getting closer to the end of the season😢 Leticia Mora works in the Protein Foods group at @iatacsic.bsky.social Currently, one of her main lines of research involves the use of food by-products. metode.org/science-spac...

Among 'Mein Kampf''s theses is the idea that history results from a struggle that favours the best-prepared races and that this struggle must be supported politically and culturally. metode.org/issues/monog...

📝 Open call for a new Metode SSJ monograph: papers on the challenges posed by the development of critical thinking. ⁉️ 📤 Deadline for submission: 15 September 2025. turia.uv.es/index.php/Me...

📹Episode 6 of #ScienceSpaces Juan Nácher (@neuronacher.bsky.social) works at the Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine leading the Neuroplasticity Unit. His research focuses on the effects of adverse childhood experiences on the brain 🧠 metode.org/science-spac...

📹 #ScienceSpaces episode 5 Ana Rosa Ballester is an agricultural engineer at CSIC's Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA, @iatacsic.bsky.social) and her lab work focuses on reducing the use of fungicides against post-harvest pathogens.

📹 #ScienceSpaces episode 4 Gianni Gallello is a distinguished researcher at the University of Valencia, working in the Department of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History. He specialises in the chemical analysis of ancient remains.

The 3rd episode of #ScienceSpaces is now available in English. Marina Pinto is a nurse with a Master's degree in Public Health and Health Management from the University of Valencia. She is about to finish her doctoral thesis and works in the area of cancer and public health at Fisabio.

The University of Valencia has been awarded the Europa Nostra Grand Prix for the Silknow Intelligent Computer System research project, directed by the Vice-Rector for Culture and Society, Ester Alba. Congratulations! Keep an eye on our networks because SILKNOW is here to stay 🫣

Silk played an essential role in driving Europe's progress, but is now under threat. We present SILKNOW, a project funded by the EU H2020 programme to promote the silk weaving heritage. ✍️ Cristina Portalés, Mar Gaitán, Jorge S., Ester Alba and Marcos F.