Rasmus Nielsen

Oxford, Southern Region

Contributor and Researcher at Freelance

Media/news/journalism researcher, empiricist, occasional contrarian. Professor, Dep. of Communication, U of Copenhagen, Senior Research Associate @risj_oxford

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Digital News Report 2025

1 week ago | buff.ly | Rasmus Nielsen |Richard Fletcher |Amy Ross Arguedas |Craig Robertson

Join our free newsletter on the future of journalism In every email we send you'll find original reporting, evidence-based insights, online seminars and readings curated from 100s of sources - all in 5 minutes.
Digital News Report 2025

1 week ago | reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk | Rasmus Nielsen |Richard Fletcher |Amy Ross Arguedas |Craig Robertson

Join our free newsletter on the future of journalism In every email we send you'll find original reporting, evidence-based insights, online seminars and readings curated from 100s of sources - all in 5 minutes.
Genetic and training adaptations in the Haenyeo divers of Jeju, Korea

1 month ago | cell.com | Diana Aguilar-Gómez |Jacob Bejder |Jonathan Graae |Yelin Ko |Andrew Vaughn |Kendell Clement | +5 more

Keywordsevolutionary adaptationnatural selectioncardiovascular physiologybreath-hold divingResearch topic(s)CP: GenomicsIntroductionExtraordinary human populations have inhabited nearly every environment on the planet, adopting unique lifestyles and strategies to survive. The extreme conditions faced by these populations have imposed natural selection, introducing heritable adaptive variation.
Who Wants Impartial News? Investigating Determinants of Preferences for Impartiality in 40 Countries

Mar 29, 2025 | ijoc.org | Sumitra Badrinathan |Benjamin Toff |Richard Fletcher |Rasmus Nielsen

Who Wants Impartial News? Investigating Determinants of Preferences for Impartiality in 40 Countries Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross A. Arguedas, Sumitra Badrinathan, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Abstract Despite the centrality of impartiality for many journalistic cultures, and widespread support across audiences, there is still limited research about which aspects influence people’s preferences for impartial news.
Assessing the combined performance of supervised learning and spike-in constructs for bias correction in eDNA metabarcoding

Mar 28, 2025 | biorxiv.org | Jason Chang |Rasmus Nielsen

AbstractBackground:Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has become increasingly popular as an approach to efficiently document biodiversity within an environment characterized by relative uncertainty. Compared to the traditional stereomicroscopic approaches, eDNA metabarcoding is simpler and less costly.
Kvinder bør skabe it-løsninger for kvinder

Mar 8, 2025 | version2.dk | Rasmus Nielsen

Kun 22,9 procent af Danmarks it-specialister er kvinder. Så selv om teknik og digitale løsninger gennemsyrer de flestes dagligliv, udvikles løsningerne i stor udstrækning af mænd. Det gælder også, når det handler om apps og it-løsninger, som er henvendt til kvinder. Resultatet? Mange digitale produkter imødekommer ikke de faktiske behov eller mangler vigtige perspektiver set fra en brugersynsvinkel.
Irrelevant and unloved: how the press lost its touch

Mar 4, 2025 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Rasmus Nielsen

Given how central journalists like to say their profession is to keeping the public informed, you might think that relentless retrenchment in the industry over the past decade would leave people feeling adrift, struggling to make sense of the world, and lacking access to the information they need. You would be wrong.
A General Framework for Branch Length Estimation in Ancestral Recombination Graphs

Feb 15, 2025 | biorxiv.org | Yun Deng |Yun S. Song |Rasmus Nielsen

AbstractInference of Ancestral Recombination Graphs (ARGs) is of central interest in the analysis of genomic variation. ARGs can be specified in terms of topologies and coalescence times.
Trying to wrap my head around what some take-aways are from the AI Action…

Feb 13, 2025 | linkedin.com | Rasmus Nielsen

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Professor of Communication, University of Copenhagen and Senior Research Associate, Reuters Institute, University of Oxford 10m Report this post Trying to wrap my head around what some take-aways are from the AI Action Summit in Paris earlier this week.
WASTER: Practical de novo phylogenomics from low-coverage short reads

Jan 24, 2025 | biorxiv.org | Chao Zhang |Rasmus Nielsen

AbstractThe advent of affordable whole-genome sequencing has spurred numerous large-scale projects aimed at inferring the tree of life, yet achieving a complete species-level phylogeny remains a distant goal due to significant costs and computational demands. Traditional species tree inference methods, though effective, are hampered by the need for high-coverage sequencing, high-quality genomic alignments, and extensive computational resources.