🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@social.cleverlibre.org
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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niche genomic question 🧬
Hey #biology people ! I'm just reading a paper about some ant mitochondrial #genome being described, and they mention a AT #nucleotide bias. I can't for the life of me remember what that might indicate, and they don't address it in the paper at all.
Anybody to refresh my memory ?
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/04/28/nasas-webb-in-full-focus-ready-for-instrument-commissioning/
I guess I missed this yesterday. #jwst is moving on to the instrument commissioning phase
#astronomy #space #science #engineering
@Pat in my own stream, fairly few do I have no point of reference. the federated stream is a sea of confusion with islands of comprehension
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So, I just learned something new. The #fediverse is not just connected #mastodon instances, but actually consists of several different software platforms, all connecting via the same federating protocol! I had seen references to things like #peertube and #nextcloud, but assumed they were different platforms running on different protocols, but it turns out they're all part of the same fediverse, unified by #ActivityPub. Amazing!
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Probably no science thread today - I need to actually spend that time doing science! (i.e. my day job 😂 )
I also plan to figure out exactly how I want to use this platform! I might do "Thread Tuesdays" or something where I pick an astronomy/science topic and talk about it in detail on one day of the week, and spend other days just sharing life as a scientist and other things I'm interested in!
And I'm looking forward to going through all the cat pictures you all shared with me over night! 😻
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@schokopflaster thanks. yep, I tried again earlier today and looks like I'm following now. 👌
@rysiek@mastodon.technology hmm. you're saying my follow request may not even have been seen? that's rather annoying... I'll have to think more about that
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Hi everyone! 👋
Today I'm going to talk a little bit about black holes and what I do as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford. I can't cover all black hole physics, or all of my work, but I'll try my best to highlight some of the most interesting things! Join me for a wild ride through spacetime!
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@milofultz
Some of them are hedges and some of them are speech disfluency and a small handful are both, though usually there's not a big overlap. Your examples make me think it's more of the former.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_(linguistics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_disfluency
Trivia re the latter.
Older Swedish men, often rich ones, often use a sort of gnnnnrrrr sound to fill their gaps and keep their claim on the proverbial mic. "Knarra" it's called. A power move that they do. Most people don't noticed it but once you've learned to recognize it, it sounds ridiculous.
Some of them are hedges and some of them are speech disfluency and a small handful are both, though usually there's not a big overlap. Your examples make me think it's more of the former.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_(linguistics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_disfluency
Trivia re the latter.
Older Swedish men, often rich ones, often use a sort of gnnnnrrrr sound to fill their gaps and keep their claim on the proverbial mic. "Knarra" it's called. A power move that they do. Most people don't noticed it but once you've learned to recognize it, it sounds ridiculous.
Lex Fridman Podcast: #279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
Starting from: 01:57:07
Episode webpage: https://lexfridman.com/alien-debate/
Media file: https://media.blubrry.com/takeituneasy/content.blubrry.com/takeituneasy/lex_ai_lee_cronin_sara_walker.mp3#t=7027
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this one wrinkled my brain. it takes me back to the idea from Don Hoffman (https://www.ted.com/speakers/donald_hoffman) that we generate our own reality.
As much as I've tried to acknowledge that I'm situated in the universe, so can't really observe objectively, at my core, I still cling to the idea of a Cartesian space that the objects of the universe are arranged within, where my body is a sort of avatar in the space, with my mind controlling it from "over here". Walker's conjecture on the nature of the big bang was very effective in pushing me outside that notion. I'll have to read more on their work (and, always, need to see more experimental results), but while I'm still clinging, I may have let a finger slip...
...which makes this sound rather dire😁 actually it's very exciting since I've been fascinated with questions about the nature of reality since I was a kid, but it's been some time since I've heard something that really changes how I think about it this deeply.
@AdiFoord what I've found with Mastodon (and the wider fediverse) is that you just have to start following folks who seem kinda interested in what you're doing or who are doing interesting things. they boost "toots" from folks they follow, so you find their accounts too.
because of how ActivityPub (the protocol Mastodon uses to federate = share posts across instances) works, you don't really have a global view to the fediverse (network of all federationed servers). I think that makes hashtags less effective of a discovery tool, but it works as a filter for the posts you would already be receiving
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I don’t know what this is or what I’m doing but: Hi! 👋🏼 I’m Adi Foord. I study the activity supermassive black holes and focus mostly on systems that are in the process of merging 😮. I love X-ray astrophysics and created the *very* popular hashtag #XraysAreTheBestRays. I love my two cats more than most humans and I enjoy making hiking, making hot sauce and stickers!
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How do I find more #astronomers and #womeninSTEM to follow? Help this millennial out with effective hashtags!
@mairin
you should also be able to enter the account name on your mastodon instance's website in the search bar which should pull up the account so you can subscribe there
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@mairin Not sure if you got a reply, but you're meant to be able to type in your account with a subscribe button. You have to subscribe to a specific account, but some accounts may be "trunks" that deliver posts from multiple accounts
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@rysiek@mastodon.technology you say that, but I think I got an error when I tried to subscribe to @blender from their site.
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Hi there! I'm Lena 👋 I'm an astrobiologist, NASA Fellow, and science communicator! I create educational content about #astrobiology, the #science dedicated to studying how life got started on Earth the potential for life on other worlds! I mostly post on TikTok, but I plan on starting to use Mastodon, too. Excited to connect with you all! 😀
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"Mom, can I have a 6502 computer?"
"No, we have a 6502 at home."
The 6502 at home... #retrocomputing #mos6502
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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