In B&M, just seen a home sausage roll maker. I'm not sure the people of #Scotland are ready for such a responsibility. Yet another case of #scientists thinking if they could, and not pausing to ask if they should...
The Gulf of Mexico is home to Rice's whales, one of the world's most endangered whale species. Fewer than 50 of these magnificent mammals remain — yet they have no federally protected critical #habitat.
In fact, in a letter sent to the #Biden administration, 100 #scientists warned #NOAAFisheries and its partners that "the United States is likely to cause the first anthropogenic extinction of a great whale species" if they're not fully protected where they live.
NOAA Fisheries protected Rice's whales under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct in 2019 but still hasn't set aside critical habitat, as the law requires.
Thinking about how #mastodon is great for #academia / #scientists, because not only do science deniers have less reach on this site without their #BlueChecks, but we have servers dedicated to various scientific fields, moderated by members of that community. This gives them an easy way to talk to each other, as a small community, which simultaneously functions as a way for them to talk in public in front of all of us, so we can see what they're working on, and chime in.
That's what's great about #Fediverse: every group can find a space that's uniquely tailored to them, but still connected to the whole world.
'Concerns about the decline of X as a source of reliable information extends beyond the scientific and academic communities. During the apparent coup attempt in Russia in June, journalists noticed its relative uselessness at helping them find real-time, breaking information from the ground and sifting fact from fakery, due in part to Musk’s trashing of its account verification system.'
More on #RishiSunak's prevarication about (re)joining the EU's #horizon research funding programme:
no surprise that the continued delay to conluding the deal (already mostly finalised) is leading #scientists & research staff to either decamp to new jobs in the EU or not apply to come to the UK to join research projects....
My guess is by now the damage is irreversible, become yet one more cost of #Brexit & the #Tories political myopia.
Good Morning #Canada
James Hillier was born Aug. 22, 1915, in Brantford, Ontario. As a kid he was interested in spotting barnstorming aircraft and his father bought him a telescope so he could read the numbers on the planes. He converted the eyepiece into his first microscope, an experience that helped him perfect the electron microscope. In retirement he made deliveries for his wife's flower shop. Read more in this great obituary.
Why is it that #scientists hang on to #twitter? Why don't they move to #mastodon? @hildabast do you have contacts in the science community who could answer such questions?
"It is on fire on both sides of the road ... it's a very surreal experience," said Brent Saulnier, who had been visiting.
By Friday evening, some 19,000 of the city's 20,000 inhabitants had evacuated, the territories' environment and communities minister Shane Thompson told reporters.
Let's reach out to all our scientist (and non-scientist) friends and acquaintances and encourage them to join the Fediverse. If you still have an a/c on twitter, post some messages there with links to the Mastodon signup site. Let's welcome them here and provide some gentle hints on how to be productive here.
We have ascertained that multifold #scientists and polymaths are nomadizing anew to the Mastadon community network.
By absorbing our dispatches you will comprehend that we are not dolts. We are your bookish similars. If we were not, how could we fathom millions of frequentative bigwigged and seldom met with words.
Interesting article about scientists leaving Twitter.
"The most popular alternative social-media site that respondents mentioned opening accounts with was the free, open-source software platform Mastodon."
Nature survey among #scientists who were, or still are, users of #Twitter/X:
"More than half reported that they have reduced the time they spend on the platform in the past 6 months. Just under 7% have stopped using it altogether. Roughly 46% have joined other #SocialMedia platforms, such as Mastodon, #Bluesky, #Threads & #TikTok.
"The most popular alternative social-media site that respondents mentioned opening accounts with was #Mastodon."
On that story about scientists leaving X and coming here. Please, please lean into the feature of hashtag following and tag your stuff. A lot of us would love to find you and hashtag discovery is the easiest way here.
Corrupt #Republicans want to plant 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) trees—their answer to #climateChange, one which conveniently doesn't rely on cutting emissions or doing anything else that would inconvenience their corporate puppeteers.
Actual #scientists say that would hardly scratch the surface of the problem, even if it were done perfectly, which, of course, it won't be.
You guys want a trillion trees? Great. Attach it as an amendment to a #capAndTrade bill that slashes emissions and reduces America's dangerous dependence on #fossilFuels. After that you can plant as many trees as you'd like.
PS: Because the petatree plan will require enormous amounts of land, I recommend starting with space currently occupied by refineries and statues of Confederate soldiers.
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
How Is Science Twitter's "Mastodon Migration" Panning Out? - Absolutely Maybe (absolutelymaybe.plos.org)
“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty.” And Mastodon was the most common destination if they opened…