lobster @Lobster@social.cleverlibre.org

@DaywalkingRedhead

For all its flaws, social media is one of the only forums in America where a rich white billionaire can tell an obvious lie, and get dragged by a poor Black woman for it.

There are practically no other forums in US society where this happens. It's the closest thing to "checks and balances" that exist.

Which is probably why some billionaires hate it so much, and want to either control it or destroy it. 🤷🏿‍♂️

ATTN: People interested in #wetlands and #soilscience

I am seeking a graduate research assistant interested in pursuing a #PhD or #MS in Agronomy with a focus in Soil Science. We will be exploring the presence of field indicators of hydric soils in interdunal wetlands in central Kansas, and investigating the expression of redox features as a function of time-since-exposure to oxygen in soils across the North Central region of the US. The prospective student will sample, describe, and characterize soils and use the Hydric Soil Technical Standard to document the presence of field indicators of hydric soils, hydrophytic plants, and wetland hydrology. More details are in the attached JPG of the position description.

#GRA #Assistantship #HydricSoils #Hydropedology

NASA stated that the Ingenuity helicopter has officially taken its last flight. 72 out of 5 planned flights is pretty darn good.

I reach out my hand
I reach out my heart

I speak in hope
I speak in love

I open my arms
I open my soul

I give protection
I give support

Try
to flood everything with warmth
to illuminate everything with brightness

Yet
I feel
so alone in this world

❤️ si_irini

#youWinAgainSi
#love #world #humanity #betterworld #writing #poem

Can I find a buddy in Scotland that also loves rocks and geology and we can exchange rocks and talk about rocks and and and? I would love that.

Sometimes a "healthy debate" is really a malignant diversion.

Getting home is now more like a sport to me.

Every day since working, I'm actively trying my best to get home as soon as possible.

In general, the map said I need precisely an hour to get home. But today, I only used 57 minutes. And it's not a fluke.

With what I got: no bike (too cold), public transportation only, with some luck, if there is a sharing bike, I can shorten the walking time by 5 minutes, and with carefully calculated the time and try not late, I can catch the first available subway after 1730, wasting no time on waiting.

That's the daily sports to keep me healthy

Tip of the Day!

Here is a reminder to everyone [rightly] pissed at the incredibly high cost of peer-reviewed journal articles behind paywalls:

If you send an email to the lead/corresponding author (whose contact is almost always provided in the article, or easily found with google) and ask for a copy of the article, the author will almost universally be delighted to send a copy [legally] to you, free.

We authors LOVE it when someone asks for a copy of our articles!!!

The Edible Garden Trail is a celebration of the myriad ways Blue Mountains residents are creating food security, saving money and the environment while enjoying the health benefits of homegrown fruit and veg.

Over the weekend of 2nd & 3rd March 2024, backyard growers, large and small, from right across the Blue Mountains will open their gardens to the public to share their passion and knowledge and inspire environmental sustainability.

https://www.permacultureday.org/listing/edible-garden-trail-blue-mountains/

It is through well-developed tacit knowledge that humans understand which problems to solve and how to apply the capacity of technology to solve problems and how to interpret ambiguous results.

If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.

*old guy takes long hit on the bong*

“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”

My company (Overleaf) is looking for several senior software engineers (tech stack: JavaScript, React, node.js, MongoDB, Google Cloud) and we are explicitly looking for more diverse candidates. So I would love to hear from you, if you are interested in joining a pretty diverse (but we can always do better!) team working in the scientific publishing sector. We have separate posts for the UK and Europe (Germany, Spain, Romania, the Netherlands or Denmark):

UK post: https://digitalscience.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/4c8a31e4-8a86-4bb3-bb68-868e6d32c0b0

EU post: https://digitalscience.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/c9b9210f-1f8c-44e9-a73b-14d07ede3bcb

#FediHire #Jobs

Seeing a lot of people saying things like "why don't Americans protest more." I'm not exactly sure how to respond because:

1. In 2020 America had the largest sustained series of protests in world history. Americans protest plenty.

2. American activists are shot by police at a very high rate. Don't forget this.

Americans protest at a very high rate already. We don't protest more because so many of us have been murdered and our police are very dangerous. Hope this helps.