ProPublica, Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies.
Her bosses halted her work.
As the #EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking #water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
#News #Science #Chemistry #Safety #Environment #Minnesota #PFAS #ForeverChemicals
nando161, On this day 16 years ago #RonaldReagan made his greatest contribution to #society. He #died.
alyx, @nando161 ?????
he died in June 2004, though???
WorkWithKirk,
nhoizey, French “Towards a quieter, friendlier web” by @cory
🔗 https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/towards-a-quieter-friendlier-web/
> Be kind, be honest and engage on your own terms. Walk away from anything that doesn't serve you and don't be afraid to craft a browsing experience that best suits you. A healthier web is one that's slower, friendly and serves you. Eschew things that make demands of you, insist or impose upon your time and attention.
⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2024/05/11/towards-a-quieter-friendlier-web/
ai6yr, Remembering today that if I find something very useful online that I need to use again, to save it locally (even if it's bookmarked). Especially in the age of AI slop. #Research
armerpunkt, @ai6yr I use a program called linkding. It’s a bookmark manager, and it lets you save an archive as a local html file or submit it to the archive.org wayback machine. https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
ALTAnlp, In the lead up to #ALTA2024, we're highlighting #research papers from previous #workshops.
Here, Yu-Kai Lee, Chia-Hui Chang from #NationalCentralUniversity in #Taiwan 🇹🇼 develop a #dialogue module for story co-telling for #ESL students using open domain information extraction techniques and the construction of a #KnowledgeGraph.
Interesting for anyone working in #LanguageAcquisition or #ComputerAidedLanguageLearning #CALL #NLP
mikepop,
nando161, :anarchist_flag: :antifa:
pvonhellermannn, Brixham, a Devon harbour town, has been struck by an illness caused by a microscopic parasite - cryptosporidium - in the water!
About 16,000 households and businesses in the Brixham area have been told by South West Water (SWW) not to use their tap water for drinking without boiling and cooling it first.
Not an expert but it does strike me as symptomatic of the state of our water companies and water system. #Water #Sewage #ukpolitics
spytfyre, @pvonhellermannn
The State of "English" water companies, Scotland water is still publicly owned.
I'm not saying it's prefect but there has been no shareholder dividend meaning maintenance and safety have been forsaken to boost profit.
alx, @pvonhellermannn I'm always amazed by the capacity of shifting the focus in our economic system that gets its priority completely wrong: a possible healthcare emergency due to a broken private water management and to contamination of rivers, but sure, let's focus on the lack of tourists.
tness16, French À cause de la sécheresse au Panama, le transport maritime mondial au ralenti • FRANCE 24
Le Forum mondial de l'eau #commence aujourd'hui et se tient jusqu'au 25 mai à #bali À cette occasion, nous partons au Panama, et plus précisément au bord de son canal. Cet axe majeur du commerce maritime mondial subit depuis l’année dernière une baisse de ses ressources en eau à cause de la sécheresse qui frappe le pays.
t_l_wood, So this question is part #personal and part story #research-related and asks you to be very honest, but here goes:
— What do you, personally, think is/are the value(s)/benefit(s) of interacting socially with other humans?
- Also—if you’re happy to disclose—are you neurodiverse or neurotypical?
#Boost for reach appreciated.
CelloMomOnCars, When the #water runs dry: Why #France is freaking out over a tiny Swiss dam
"Water-rich #Switzerland controls Western Europe’s taps — and wants it to stay that way. Its drought-ridden neighbors are getting nervous."
Reminders:
- Switzerland is not part of the EU.
- Switzerland will have serious water problems once the glaciers have melted.
justafrog, @CelloMomOnCars Spain actually does use it for agriculture already.
For example, there's a plant in Torrevieja producing 240'000 cubic meters a day, half of which goes into irrigation.
There are many smaller plants in operation in Spain, as well as more planned, with varying levels of irrigation use.
CelloMomOnCars, Wow, things have progressed, that's good to hear.
A total of 5 million m3 per day in Spain now, impressive.
https://www.aquatechtrade.com/news/desalination/desalination-in-spain
spacemagick,
drq, @spacemagick Fucking... Exactly.
Why? WHYYYYYY? Do we really need this shit in Unicode? Or did we fucking run out of things to do as far as writing systems are concerned? Somebody over at Unicode Consortium has too much free time, g-sus.
ChrisMayLA6, Having learnt nothing from the previous disasters around PFI projects in the health service, OFWAT is pushing the model for getting investment in water infrastructure restarted....
So, the model to shift us from being exploited by renter firms who have taken our money & used it pay dividends rather than maintain the system, is to replicate that model in special purpose vehicles, running infrastructure projects on contract...
It will not go well, as history has already shown!
h/t FT
researchbuzz, #water #WaterPollution #lead #yeast
'When they initially studied this process, [Patricia] Stathatou and [Christos] Athanasiou found that yeast can effectively and rapidly remove trace lead — at challenging initial concentrations below one part per million — from drinking water. Conventional water treatment methods either fail to eliminate lead at these low levels or result in high financial and environmental costs to do so.'
junesim63, In the Financial Times today:
"Britain’s debt-laden water utilities are being encouraged by the regulator Ofwat to set up new privately financed companies to deliver billions of pounds worth of critical infrastructure such as reservoirs, treatment works and pipelines, which will be paid for through customer bills"
Outrageous. Nationalise them without compensation and abolish Ofwat, which is totally compromised.
#Water #Privatisation #Ofwat #PFI
#UKPolitics
https://archive.is/K408y
BelfastRoadster, Umm… what the..? 🤔😳🤷♂️
#transport #diy #bike #bicycle #tall #dashcam #oddities #victoriapark #belfast #NorthernIreland #whatthe
nivrig, @BelfastRoadster Ha, I passed him on my (normal) bike in east Belfast a couple of weeks ago!
I wondered how he stopped at lights and things. I guess that must be a stand on the bottom he can trigger from where he sits.
kellogh, @BelfastRoadster @bentomn whaaaat?? that’s a face on the dashboard!!
byteseu, Researchers at the University of Washington developed deep-learning algorithms that allow users to pick which sounds to filter through their headphones in real-time https://www.byteseu.com/113217/ #FutureStudies #FuturesStudies #Futurology
bourgwick, does anyone happen to have access to the wall street journal archives from the '70s? i'm looking for one specific article that should be pretty easy to find (and, really, just the date of that article) & would very much appreciate some #research assistance.
luis_in_brief, Cool combination of #remotesensing and field work to do #water #archaeology.
https://press.coop/@Nature/112451626209475743
Wen, School closed amid outbreak of parasitic disease in south Devon
South West Water said: “We are working with public health partners to urgently investigate the source. We apologise for the inconvenience caused and will continue to keep customers and businesses updated.”
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-uk-cryptosporidium-cases-ongoing.html
Not only do they directly pollute water, they don’t even treat it properly before it is presented as drinkable.
#water #pollution #UkWater #environment
Stormwitch, @Wen ahem "inconvenience" ahem
Wen, @Stormwitch death might be included as well as disability and. Just a week on the crapper!
scottmatter, Looking for examples of qualitative, ethnographic work on experiences and experiments with #degrowth
I’m scoping a new #research project and hoping to find examples to help set context for the proposed project.
#academic #ecology #anthropology #ethnography #politicalEcology #activism #climateCrisis
OskarImKeller, @scottmatter Would this be close enough to what you're looking for?
https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/outreach/third-party-projects/project_saxer/index.htmlI know that Sina Weber https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/staff_fellows/programs-and-projects/sina_weber/index.html at #RachelCarsonCenter is doing a research/film project on some aspects of degrowth, if I understood the team's proposal correctly.
There might be other research groups at #RCC that might be closer to what you're looking for.
shiftphones, German So langsam tauchen wir in eine spannende Phase ein.💦
Das ist der erste Wasserdichtigkeitstest! Das sieht schon mal gut aus.🙂
#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #shiftphone8 #wasser #water #test
Das ist der erste Wasserdichtigkeitstest für das SHIFTphone 8! Das sieht schon mal gut aus.🙂
jcoigdanes, Hi everyone! I am currently writing a term paper, titled Examining Filipino family heritage expression in family tree mapping. This study is a term paper to be submitted in my PS 215: Special Course on Filipino Heritage course at the Asian Center.
My paper hopes to answer the question "How is family heritage expressed in the work of Filipinos who conduct family tree mapping?"
jcoigdanes, If you are someone who's done family tree mapping or any sort of genealogical research on your ancestors, then be part of a mini FGD for my study. This will be done remotely, via Zoom. I am looking for 3-4 more participants.
If you are interested in the study and would like to participate, feel free to send me a message here, Facebook (Jericho Daniel Igdanes), or through email (jdigdanes@up.edu.ph).
wrldbhindmiror, Cologne Atlantis Stonehenge
This is the river Rhine in cologne. It's the biggest and longest river in Germany.
The drought shows us structures and things that are usually under the water.#drought #rhein #river #cologne #köln #water #bridge #hohenzollernbrücke #stones #rocks #climatechange #lowwater #dream #surreal #sureal #IR #infrared #infrated #700nm #infrarot #photography #Fotografie #art #MastoArt
alatitude77, Associations of dietary patterns with #brain health from behavioral, neuroimaging, biochemical and genetic analyses | #diet #cognition #mentalhealth #neuroscience https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-024-00226-0