Fluffy Dog Pic
@hester rotating dog toys?! Why didn’t I think of that?
I periodically toss them all in a basket and she gets them out one by one until they are all out. I keep planning on making a treatable game putting them back into the basket, but I never get around to it. 😅
Fluffy Dog Pic
Feeling a little down today, but Ari is always here to warm my heart. Here’s a pic of her with her favorite rainbow toy:
#dogsofmastodon #dailydog #petsofmastodon #sundog
@JulieNye, I also have a thing about sunset photos. 🙂
These were taken near #RogersCity #Michigan last summer.
Colorado club shooting, sadness
What purpose for this violence? Why do people have to be targets to be who they are and love who they want?
My heart goes out for the people in Club Q, the people killed and wounded, their friends and family, and the community.
Shooting at Club Q in Colorado leaves at least 5 dead - https://www.npr.org/2022/11/20/1138045219/colorado-springs-shooting-lgbtq-club-q-5-dead
I’m feeling concerned that many of us have recently joined #Mastodon and that the long term visually impaired community are now inundated with beautiful photos with no #alttext to describe the photo. Only about 1 in 5 Toots describe photos on my timeline. We all need to curb our enthusiasm to share undescribed photos and embrace our descriptive writing. I’m not on my high horse just concerned that we’ve arrived en masse and need to do our very best to embrace #MastodonCulture.
What a stunning week of sunrises it has been, but this #sunrise is my favourite. Such mood, much rawr!
Most people on Twitter enjoyed my 'challenges', where I post a figure from a scientific paper with a duplication.
* The duplication can be within a photo or across photos (overlaps).
* The papers are usually in the biomedical field, almost always peer-reviewed.
* I usually do not list the DOI or author name. It is about the challenge, not about pointing fingers.
* First to post the correct answer with and without an illustration win emoji awards.
#ImageForensics
Three Emoji Awards have been handed out!
Here is the correct answer to this #ImageForensics puzzle.
* I mark the areas that look 'unexpectedly similar' with boxes of the same color.
* I usually post my findings on PubPeer.com around the same time that I post them on Twitter or Mastodon.
* Install the PubPeer plugin to know which papers have been flagged.
Thinking about the adaptability of #trees today. How ancient junipers like these have flowed so differently in their centuries of growth because of pressures faced long ago, from lightning strikes and buckling winds to storms lifting them partially out of the earth. The resilience needed to remake the arrangement, counterbalancing a suddenly altered centre of gravity or reshooting from a shattered, fire-scorched crown. The stories of endurance held by the heartwood.
So i tried posting an ad on twitter for QOTO just for shits and giggles and see what sort of conversion we get... Astonishingly we have a 11% engagement rate... that is absolutely unheard of in advertising. Normally its <1%... Not sure if ill continue advertising or not but it was an interesting experience to say the least.
Evolution doesn’t look how it’s depicted in pop culture. We often picture the famous “March of Progress” illustration where a series of apes stand in line leading to a modern human.
But evolution is not linear. It branches and branches. Divides in some places and recombines in others. #science
Image: @keesey
There are 16 cameras on the #NASA Orion Capsule including one on each of the four solar panel wings.
Some can record in 4K quality and will give us an amazing view of the upcoming flyby of the Moon on November 21st.
After coming within 100 km of the Moon, #Orion will go farther than any human-rated spacecraft has gone, then do another flyby of the Moon.
Then it'll return to Earth on December 11th, landing in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-artemis-i-cameras-to-offer-new-views-of-orion-earth-moon
I baked some biscuits since I did such a bad-ass hike today. A girl needs carbs with soup!
#BakingTip: Never twist when cutting biscuits — cut straight down & out; Square biscuits are easier to do well.
Never touch the sides or they flop over because you seal the layers.
Baking them on a pizza stone creates incredible caramelized crust.
I added cheese, but don’t add too much or it seals the sides/flops over or prevents max height.
Yuzu koshou is done: fresh yuzu was zested, juiced and all the peel was pulped in blender. Green chilli from our garden in Fukushima: deseeded and pulped. Salt added. In the fridge now to ferment for a few days. However, it tastes awesome now. Which is a problem. Cos it's addictive:-) #cooking #food #japan
The #fediverse is my happy place. I post and boost #science, #animals, #photography, #poetry and #art. I may add a little about politics and the real world, but I want to keep my happy place happy and will use #ContentWarnings if possible. I’m one of many #WomenInSTEM who love #myco and #astronomy and #coding and #philosophy and #comics and #books and #MetalMusic I #bike, play #bassguitar, and care for my #dogsandcatsofmastodon models when not working. Ich lese Deutsch. Schreiben ist schwieriger. Manchmal werde ich es versuchen.