My mom emails me so much fake news and conspiracy theory nonsense everyday that I made a mail rule to automatically move any of her email to a folder. I’ve asked her to stop but she doesn’t. 🙄
This rule has been running for a couple of years. I have hundreds if not thousands of these by now. I never open any of it but as you can see there’s a lot of wild stuff. This is just from this week. #fakenews#psuedoscience#skeptic
A little community #sciArt#scicomm - I made a version of my leadcutter bees print with two #linocut wild bees (Megachile relativa and Megachile brevis) and leaf prints for the Coxwell Pollinator Gardens! These prints are both about, and a sort of collaboration with leafcutter bees! These small, but multifarious native bees are important pollinators,
I truly feel there is a need for a standardized calibration system to produce color images from satellites that are true to human color perception. This is absolute standard behavior for a DSLR or even your phone camera, but too often neglected in scientific imaging.
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If we take a look at how this is done with digital still cameras (standardized in ISO 17321-1) we see that after basic (e.g.: noise, vignetting) calibration and whitebalancing, the image is in a scene referred color encoding.
This color space is unique to every sensor and wouldn't look the part if we don't take that into consideration. So in a next step tone and gamut mapping is applied to transfer the data into a display color space (like sRGB).
The calibration is documented in this hefty document: https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/dscovr/DSCOVR_EPIC_Geolocation_V03.pdf
There are considerable challenges with this kind of calibration, which is why I think it's not widely adopted.
Or maybe just no one thinks beyond radiometric calibration for their sensors, because that's way more important for quantitative analysis than pretty colors...
Has there been some work in the literature on what is the ethical way of communicating results of technosignature research to the community and public? I imagine the key SETI folks have written some documents/thoughts on this, but have these suggested protocols and thinking been updated with the rise of social media and internet? #SETI#scicomm#astrodon
Here the key slides - not art-sy, but hopefully useful for some folks!
And unsurprisingly it feels super vulnerable to talk very subjectively about my art practice and about my insecurities (but also so important in order to encourage others!).
@vicgrinberg first two tips are really good and applicable to things like writing or making music. Or even doing science. Finding the overlap between the circles 'things I like' and 'things I can do' is really important. This might be surprising and completely unexpected!
Doctoral candidate Saeed A. Khan shared research today on the nuances of #migration as a #climateChange adaptation strategy in Pakistan's eastern Hindu Kush mountain communities
This is Amerila astreus, found in India, Sri Lanka and New Guinea, and those yellow spheres next to its head are made up of tiny bubbles. Some species in this "frother" genus release bubbly secretions from glands near their eyes, to warn off predators.
OK I give up - friends, what are the best no-code frameworks for creating interactive content that can be easily embedded on a web page? What would you recommend?