The supreme court decision is yet another step in the wrong direction. While not a systemic fix, there is a fellowship for Black under/grads interested in genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and related fields. Deadline Monday. Please share widely.
A quick cycle over to the Sterrewacht, the astronomy department in Leiden, to see the masters thesis presentation by Merel Reitsma, who has been working on VLT & JWST imaging data for the protostellar jets HH211 & HH212.
Some audible gasps when the students saw the JWST data – I hope you’ll feel the same way when we have them finalised & published in the coming months 👍
18-24 June 2023. This week in science: new findings on how a parasite infection can lead to a pampered lifestyle for ants, a super rare star, and the cause of morning sickness in pregnancy.
🐜💪🌊⭐🤢💠 #TWIS
Just got the #PROOF copy of #journal I designed. The art will be used on other things as well but I really wanted to have a useful item for #PRIDE related reasons. Has taken much longer than expected to get proof and such. Better late than never I suppose.
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You #STEM kids should love the series as I finish them.
:flag_nonbinary: #monotile#hat#nailsthatglow#art
Good morning, happy Friday and happy weekend Mastodon!
For the #MorningMoments today, talk to me about your plans for the day, what you hope to accomplish, what you have planned for today and the weekend ahead, or just anything you wish to talk about!
For me, I have absolutely no plans outside of a bit of work. Will likely make it a video game day today and then catch up on some TV shows.
Good Morning! On this day, (Sunday) June 18 in 1913 Sylvia Field Porter was born. She was an American economist, journalist and author. At the height of her career, her readership was greater than 40 million people.
I was forced to make the full time switch to Linux last year by Microsoft's dull policies around hardware requirements for Windows 11 (Windows 10 was also no longer an option). I had dipped my feet into trying linux over the years, but I guess I wasn't ready until MSFT pushed me. Now I can say that I will never look back and I'm super happy to see some of my friends and coworkers in physics/astronomy talking about making the switch with me after seeing how it's going for me.
I want to contribute to other #FOSS projects in my spare time as well, and of course make some friends along the way.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Because I am prone to forgetting and losing things, I thought I’d build a small journal of materials and tasks involved in the creation of a home radio telescope. This is a work in progress...
Lee Berger, Keneiloe Molopyane, Agustín Fuentes, & John Hawks have detonated a nuclear weapon in the study of human evolution. The small-brained Homo naledi had culture, stone tools, and cave drawings. Bonus: More mortuary practices evidence
Math teachers who believe women no longer face discrimination tend to be biased against girls’ ability in math. And effects of bias like this can snowball over time.
Muriel Hind 1st woman motorcyclist in England starting c.1901. Competed in speed trials on 2, 3 & 4 wheels wearing Edwardian hat, veil, boots laced to knee, long coat & skirt. Test rider for Rex, 1910 they created Blue Devil bike for her b #OTD 27 May 1882 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Hind
This was a fascinating, illuminating, and enraging conversation with Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director of The Australia Institute, and Professor Margaret Hellard, Deputy Director of the Burnet Institute, about why we're not collecting covid data, and why it matters. This one is really important, so please listen, and share.
RD:"Why aren't we collecting the data? Because they don't want to admit failure. They don't want to make it easy for me to tell you what the cost to GDP of this heroic approach to covid has been."