yetiinabox

glynmoody, 9 days ago to random

How faith drives bidder for Telegraph who wields growing influence on Tories - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/14/paul-marshall-religion-bidder-for-telegraph-influence-tories strange how these so-called christians have no problem promoting a message based almost entirely on hatred; not sure that jesus bloke would have agreed...

yetiinabox, 12 days ago to random

We often complain that the future we have is not what we imagined.

I definitely did not imagine handheld "aurora enhance and share with folk worldwide" devices.

Much better than flying cars.

Thanks all. You and this place are indeed beautiful.

We'll all keep struggling to save it then, shall we?

#aurora

yetiinabox, 14 days ago to random

In the USA, you can see junkyards from the train. Here, I see people's allotment gardens.

yetiinabox, 16 days ago to medical

Tomasz Poprawka: « la recherche est aujourd’hui l’un des piliers politiques essentiels de l’Union européenne ».

Usually science administrators prefer to hide behind a Popperian curtain of political neutrality - even where actual scientists <@ScientistRebellion > get arrested - but the actual disconnect between the scientific consensus and the miasma exhaled by certain political agendas is now so obvious that even the conservative academies of science are accepting that they are, indeed, political actors with moral responsibilities.

«Les élections de juin ne seront pas normales, elles seront cruciales dans un contexte de très fortes incertitudes.» ( Patrizio Bianchi)

https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/05/06/les-vingt-sept-academies-des-sciences-s-unissent-pour-interpeller-les-candidats-aux-elections-europeennes_6231928_1650684.html

#STS #policy

yetiinabox, 17 days ago to random

One small positive result in the survey of aviation emissions <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3a7d> is that they find a negative relationship at a global scale, comparing per-country using linear regression, between air traffic emissions and number of railway passengers. Otherwise grim, if very useful, research.

yetiinabox, 21 days ago to random

Earlier today, I was in a meeting where one person called for co-production of governance structures together with a disempowered community that would be affected by these structures. Another person picked up on their point and said, yes, what we want is for them to "challenge, engage and inform our decisions". (My emphasis).

And I thought to myself: that is a textbook example of why consultation is not co-production.

yetiinabox, 24 days ago to Scotland

Hey ho. If anyone happens to have a connection to channels through which folks might organise collectively to resist imminent deport-to-Rwanda raids on asylum seekers across Scotland, or indeed elsewhere in the UK, that might be useful information to post.

#Scotland #NewScots #solidarity

yetiinabox, 25 days ago to random

Twelve hours yesterday hanging wallpaper in a room with all the challenges - old plaster walls that I had patched and primed, complex ceiling angles, almost nothing true or square, random electrical fixtures. Weirdly, the indicator of success at the end is a total lack of salient features; all the wobbles and skew lines vanish in an anodyne haze of textured wallpaper blandness.

It's some sort of anti-Daoist triumph: enormous effort, no natural quirks remain. I would far rather live among the roots and branches of a vast, gnarled tree on a sunny mountain, but Northeast Scotland is too harsh for such impractical thoughts, and the sun is too weak to sustain them.

pvonhellermannn, 5 months ago to random

Half thinking of starting an #AcademicVenting hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail. #Universities #AcademicChatter #neoliberalism