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yetiinabox

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mostly ex-professor and activist, now doing some consulting and working on refugee integration for local government. Saguaro Buddhist: empty, green, and prickly, but plenty of flowers for the bats. #ActuallyAutistic parent to diverse family. Eco-anarcho-syndicalist who blocks tankies. Born when C02 and population values had the same value. (318 ppm, 3.18 billion)
Research areas: #anthropology #sanskrit #Himalayas #Buddhism #mountains #EnvironmentalJustice #disabilty #ecology #autism #governance #SacredSites #bicycles #migration

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petersuber, to academia
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"Following the controlled demolition of Al-Israa University, Israeli army footage of which was widely shared on social media, every single higher education institution in is believed to have either been destroyed or severely damaged since the invasion began."
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academia-gaza-has-been-destroyed-israeli-educide
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yetiinabox,
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@petersuber @academicchatter

Given how important Palestine and Palestinian academics have been to the development and flourishing of universities across Asia, this is a particularly nasty aspect of the genocide.

peterdutoit, to climate
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    yetiinabox,
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    @jackofalltrades @pvonhellermannn @urlyman @peterdutoit

    Morning all.
    There are already locally-led, bottom-up responses. Here's Bude, in Cornwall: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/14/cornish-town-faces-climate-threat-head-on-bude .

    If we keep "calling on government to...", nothing will change. We know government has become a mechanism for distraction and delay by corporations and oligarchs. If we organise ourselves, using socio-political tools and strategies that are hard to capture/commodify, we can build a future starting now. This approach doesn't offer a direct solution to the worst systemic threats (e.g., successful regulation at the state or international level) , but it does offer an actually possible path forward which may well lead to systemic change more quickly than struggling against petrostates on the battlefield they choose and control (e.g. COP28). It is possible to do both - advocacy and activism seeking systemic change, and locally-led creation of eco-social adaptive communities.

    The movement, ...it is vital that we not give up hope.

    yetiinabox, to random
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    I am reading _ Eichman in Jerusalem_ , and this time through, as an older person confronted by the systematic failure of ordinary people to recognise or act against the environmental crisis, for decades, it has un-wished-for explanatory force.

    My children don't understand why anyone would use a car, all those cars driving by every day, or buy water in a plastic bottle, why Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are used as examples of "good" entrepreneurs in their curriculum. I can see the corrupt business practices that meant we were offered a new gas boiler rather than a ground source heat pump in the government-backed scheme...but I don't understand it.

    did. She understood evil. What a terrible gift.

    yetiinabox, to random
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    Does anyone know if costs are coming down, or if booking/planning is improving, for travel as a passenger with a cargo vessel? I'm looking at longer-term research/employment opportunities and "how to get there without flying" is a tough question. Travel by sea has until now been prohibitively expensive.

    In fact, is the for travelling as a passenger on a cargo vessel from, say, Europe to South Asia much better than the longhaul flight? Overland is not a practical option.

    RadicalAnthro, to languagelearning
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    Next Tues Dec 5, 18:30 GMT London time we have and speaking on their forthcoming book
    'When Eve Laughed'
    on the evolutionary emergence of .

    Everybody is welcome to come LIVE to (please get there on time to avoid the doors closing!)
    Or join us on ZOOM

    Sign into Eventbrite for ZOOM links (sent Mon/Tues)
    https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-anthropology-talks-tickets-707087105567

    yetiinabox,
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    @NatureMC @RadicalAnthro

    Burghart, Gordon The Genesis of Animal Play MIT 2006 might be relevant - not laughter as such, but cross-species play, including rule-setting and mutual enjoyment.

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    @RadicalAnthro @NatureMC

    Yes, Bateson's discussion of play with dogs is (as ever) simple and deeply illuminating.

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    @RadicalAnthro @NatureMC

    While we're in this rather tricky field - and I will admit up front that I find claims of human exceptionalism both scientifically and morally dubious - what do you make of research on symbolic thought in parrots and corvids (Pepperberg for parrots, and Fitch for corvids)?

    yetiinabox, to HikingPics
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    Diary entry, of sorts. Three weeks out from and it hasn't left me. The fever and cough are long gone but cycling is harder than it was, and what were unnoticeable undulations in the road are suddenly hills that need gears. It's also dark, still, as the Aberdeen->Glasgow train turns inland and heads up the Tay. Although I have lived in Scotland for 20 years now, my bodymind still expects to wake up in the with a hot sun right overhead.

    slothrop, to random
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    @slothrop @skinnylatte

    Absolutely key food in our household. Backstop and treat. Try it raw with chopped onions, peppers, cucmbers, and tomatoes - great Himalayan snack.

    yetiinabox, to random
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    Just out of curiosity, are there any geeks here? any geeks??? My brain has decided it wants to understand this, and I'm now trying to learn interlocking and routes, but the sparse documentation is making it hard.

    Yes, I know I'm supposed to be writing research articles.

    yetiinabox, to random
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    Unsurprisingly, Science published an attack on academic unions. It portrays successful struggles to improve pay and conditions for PhD and postdocs as anti-individualist (!) and an attack on innocent research group leaders.

    https://www.science.org/content/article/student-and-postdoc-unions-proliferate-academia-scrambling-adapt

    Among other gems:

    'Individual faculty members, who support grad student researchers and postdocs out of their own grants, are having to take a careful look at their budgets as well. “Every lab is in many ways its own little microbusiness,” says Lisa García Bedolla, vice provost for graduate studies and dean of the graduate division at UC Berkeley. '

    and

    '“less research is going to be produced per dollar of [grant] money,” Nestler says. "This is the way the … research enterprise will have to change.”'

    cydonian, to random
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    (The first day of) Diwali is also Kukkar Tihar- Festival of Dogs - in Nepal. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46111525

    yetiinabox,
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    @cydonian
    It's the second day. The first is क्व पूजा , the offering to crows. But that doesn't suit the "aren't Nepalese customs cute/horrific" news cycle in the Englush press. Oh, and Diwali isn't Hindu. Many communities celebrate it, including ours, and I was nearly thrown out of a car on a motorway in Bangalore by a Brahim for pointing out that Buddhists composed key Sanskrit texts and Newar Buddhist pandits still exist.

    end of rant. May Lakṣmī grant us all improbable good luck this year!

    yetiinabox, to climate
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    This seems like a good place to ask this question.

    Are there any mature open-source emissions databases that can account for area-based emissions? I'm looking for something that would allow for inputting data at the municipality level, pull data from relevant sources, and allow for measuring and managing change over time. This is not my specialism, but For Reasons I need to understand what's out there. Warnings about unreliable, greedy, or insecure vendors also welcome.

    madelineostrander, to climate

    Hey, it's a cover story in @thenation by that Madeline Ostrander person. This story began months ago--really years ago when I started following conversations about the future of Richmond's oil refinery. It has implications for the oil economy everywhere. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/refinery-richmond-climate-change/

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    @madelineostrander

    and indeed and other Scottish communities shackled to oil could learn a lot from this example. Everyone in Aberdeen knows oil is dead, but how do we agree on a just transition to ?

    yetiinabox, to random
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    which IPCC pathway had "massive emissions from multiple wars, IPCC process captured by petrostates, nonstate and state actors all act without regard for common good."?

    hugo, to random
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    serious question: does anyone out there have recommendations for a favourite, independent, open-access publisher in the art-research-critique-design-practitioner space, who might be interested in an experimental anthology of short transdisciplinary texts on broadly environmental themes?

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    @hugo
    COPIM @copim just put out a call for experimental book projects - they might be able to help with this.

    pvonhellermannn, to random
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    There is no question that will be the most important yet. The will be the “biggest accountability moment in history”, and on its basis leaders will need to make crucial key decisions about fiscal and policy commitments. With less than two months to go, we need to all be as well informed as possible and put pressure on leaders as much as we can. I thought I would start a 🧵that I will keep going in the run up 1/n

    https://www.wri.org/un-climate-change-conference-resource-hub/key-issues-watch-cop28

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    @pvonhellermannn

    I do hope there is the political will to do better than this. A walkout without agreement would be more valuable at this point than agreeing a petrostate-approved text.

    yetiinabox, to random
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    A bit heavy on the branding, but this article discusses efforts to develop community support for biodiversity conservation in the Humla region of Nepal: https://elpais.com/eps/preservar-el-planeta/2023-10-05/el-cientifico-que-se-ha-propuesto-conservar-la-biodiversidad-del-himalaya.html

    yetiinabox, to random
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    Heck of a job for the right person: Director, China, Human Rights Watch. https://reliefweb.int/job/4003119/china-director

    peterbrown, to random
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    It would seem that Glasgow has some way to go before placing pedestrians at the top of the hierarchy of road users.
    Basically what this sign says is cyclists should ping their bells or shout and pedestrians should get out their way “politely”. 

    It even says make yourself visible!
    Are pedestrians expected to wear dayglo yellow?

    yetiinabox,
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    @CloudyMrs @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @allypally @pedestrians1st @simon_brooke @peterbrown @strathearnrose

    Right to roam?

    yetiinabox, to random
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    @jon and other border-crossers - what's the present situation for taking a folding bike on EuroStar? Bag it? I'm going from to by rail next week for a conference and would like to bring the Tern.


    yetiinabox, to random
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    A quick note on planned obsolescence - turns out quite a few steel electric kettles of a generally upright shape have the spout glued on. Of course, the glue fails, and I don't fancy trying to find a glue which is (1) heat-resistant to >100° (2) binds steel to steel and (3) nontoxic. Neither did the manufacturer.

    DrEvanGowan, to random
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    Since I am planning to delete my Twitter account soon, I am slowly deleting every post I made manually, so I can see what I posted (I also do not trust that they will delete the posts if I delete the account). A large portion of my replies are congratulating people on things like their newly published paper, graduating, getting a grant, etc. These kind of posts are what I miss about Twitter, and I hope more people come and post their successes on Mastodon.

    yetiinabox,
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    @DrEvanGowan
    ...and congratulations on your decision to let go of Twitter!

    The Fedi is patchy --some parts do already have a warmer sense of solidarity, and I certainly see "I finally published that article" posts followed by "yaay!" on a daily basis. That kind of trust builds up slowly.

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    @gpollara @DrEvanGowan @academicchatter

    Live tooting from conferences, celebrating publications, circulating calls, putting out the word on jobs...all the stuff we used to do over there! And also, the more difficult bits - calling out abusive profs happened in significant part on Twitter, as did the formation of alternative informal networks.

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    @gpollara @SamCrawley @DrEvanGowan @prachisrivas @academicchatter

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