Call for Abstracts by the Royal Society for the Natural Sciences

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

On behalf of the Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge in the Natural Sciences ("Royal Society" for short), I would like to announce that starting today, August 2, we will begin accepting abstracts for a proposed upcoming in-world publication.

My colleague, Adso Krogstad, a fellow of the society in SL, and a RL scientist, suggested that the Royal Society should be able to act in-game as a clearinghouse for scientific advances, perhaps even amusing ones.

So in that spirit, starting today and lasting at least until the start of September, I will accept abstracts detailing your SL scientific activities.

You might discuss:
serious* simulations (e.g. Ms. Ordinal Malaprop's toxic-waste-eating slugs)
developments (e.g. steam-powered aircraft),
phenomena (duplication of 17th century tulip mania)
or even the not-so-serious (effect of Personal Ban Lines on griefing, bling-to-prim ratios in your favourite clubs, and so on).

(* serious is in the eye of the beholder)

The abstracts will be collected into the first edition of the Proceedings of the Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge in the Natural Sciences (Proc Royal Soc Adv Knowl Nat Sci, for short). The entries will be (minimally) peer-reviewed, to weed out the tasteless entries which are bound to occur, which could be published in a later supplement.

I look forward to being able to help announce your in-game endeavours to a no-doubt anxious public.

Please IM me in-game, or visit the offices of the Society in Caledon Tamrannoch (138,30,22) to leave a message, should you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Kate Nicholas, F.R.S.

Cumulative effects of spontaneous bling from clit rings on male alts in Second Life sims with inherent lag issues: role of genotype, environment and stress. Doowangle, K;
University of Linden.

It is often assumed that the mutation rate is an evolutionarily optimized property of a prim. The relevant mutation rate is for mutations that affect fitness, L, but the strength of selection on the mutation rate depends on the average effect of a mutation (packet drops, etc.). Determination of L is complicated by the possibility that mutational effects of clit ring lag depend on the particular environmental context in which the bling exists. It has been suggested that the effects of deleterious mutations are typically magnified in stressful environments, but most studies confound genotype with environment, so it is unclear to what extent environmental specificity of mutations is specific to a particular starting genotype. We report a study designed to separate effects of species, genotype, and environment on the degradation of stability resulting from new mutations (ie, flexi clit rings). Mutations accumulated for >500 generations at 70 masculine in two strains of two species of genitalia hardware that differ in thermal sensitivity. Male alts and Primary avies have similar demography at 20 masculine, but Primary avies suffer markedly reduced fitness at 25 masculine. We find little evidence that mutational properties of clit ring bling (hereafter known as CRB) differ depending on environmental conditions and mutational correlations between environments are close to those expected if effects were identical in both environments.

PMID: 32918720 [SLPubSLEX - as supplied by publisher]
<----- is knowingly and faceciously plagiarizing and hopes it is taken in the proper SL light

That, sir (or madam), is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while, and will definitely secure a place in the inaugural issue of Proc Royal Soc Adv Knowl Nat Sci !

One of my colleagues in the Society had RL evolutionary biology experience, so I'm sure he will be enthralled.

Best wishes on your future research endeavours!

Regards,

Kate Nicholas, F.R.S.

That would be madam, ma'am, and I am simply thrilled at the opportunity to be published in the auspicious Proc Royal Soc Adv Knowl Nat Sci.

I look forward to the issuance of said publication. Do let us know when it will be coming out.

Sincerely,
KaffeBean Doowangle L.I.B.