Pedro @PedroMiguel@social.cleverlibre.org
Scientist, Spectroscopist, 341 ppm He/Him(en)- Ele(pt) - Il(fr)
Joined Nov 2022
@i_jayas @seis_matters YES! Those seats on trains in Sydney are awesome.
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RT @FairVoteCanada@twitter.com
If you wonder why we often have to live with decisions that most people don't like, it's because most of our "majority" governments were elected by a minority of voters. 40% of the vote gives one party 100% of the power.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FairVoteCanada/status/1593307513776386048
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It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association (#DVBIA), who were originally AGAINST downtown bike-lanes, later became one of their most vigourous supporters, because of EVIDENCE that bike-lanes are BETTER for downtown business than any street parking they replace. #cities #downtown #cityplanning #urbanplanning #mainstreets #bikes #bikelanes #parking
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@aspuru +1 One way I have survived in academia is a policy of "no meeting Wednesdays". Time to focus on reading, writing, or learning something new... we at least deserve that!
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RT @Stepnstop@twitter.com
One of the teachers at my daughter’s school started wearing a mask today. Can you guess what happened next? More than half the kids in her class asked for a mask, too.
Adults, our actions matter. #MaskUp
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Stepnstop/status/1592641117367205889
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Did you know? When Bill Clinton banned assault weapons in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. After George W. Bush and the GOP let the assault weapons ban expire in 2004, mass shootings increased by 245%. — These numbers tell a story.
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Never thought Elon Musk would do so much for the adoption of a decentralised infrastructure…
Please Elon, can you buy Elsevier ?
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Buying a blue tick on twitter is like having a personalised number plate - it says a lot about you but none of it is complimentary
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Just a reminder about Mastodon.
Try not to directly upload videos here.
You have to remember that these videos have to be stored on the server that you're hosted on.
This would also eat up on available bandwidth, storage and memory resources of said servers and slow them down. Which would force server hosts to upgrade at a substantial cost.
Suggested idea...
Upload to YouTube, Vimeo or other video streaming services and share the link to the video here instead.
@j_bertolotti great gif! is your animation taking into account that the human eye does not detect the whole visible range with equal sensitivity? I thought greatest sensitivity is around 550nm (greenish) and significantly lower around 450nm.
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Meta-don, culture clash
@davehb @Amandatron89 @jby putting a CW is not a huge effort many instances enforce it strongly. I don't think it would be unreasonable to put them up on most photos and off-topic (politics) just to be safe. Cynics can go back to the bridsite or an instance that doesn't care. Same with alt text.
Part of the draw of the fediverse is the focus on accessibility. We shouldn't sacrifice that for the sake of convenience or cynics who'll complain no matter what.
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Did you know that if you capitalize each word in a multi-word hashtag, #ScreenReaders can read them as words, but if you leave them lowercase, they can't? Well, now you know! So, for #accessibility, please capitalize words when there's more than one in a hashtag.
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Hey science journalists, we've got two 12-month (parental cover) reporter positions open with Nature in London - more info & application at https://careers.springernature.com/job/London-Reporter-or-Senior-Reporter,-Nature/866455301/
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Hello #TwitterMigration people. If you encounter a racist/discriminatory/hate toot, tag it with #fediblock. That makes it easier for administrators to find troublesome identities and/or undesirable servers and block them. #Twitter #Mastodon #TwitterTakeover #racism #hate #bigotry
@rafael_rdguez @realtimechem “my countries” are accidents of circumstance. They occasionally do something worthy of praise. They also do (have done) some terrible things. looking at historical events I see nationalism as a net negative.
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(From a 2018 tweet of mine):
November 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner and Marie Curie. Of the 14 chemical elements named after real people (not mythological figures), only 2 are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is in honour of both Marie & her husband).
#WomenInScience #Chemistry #Physics #ChemiVerse #OnThisDay #Curie #Meitner #PeriodicTable
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My new article in Slate: https://slate.com/business/2022/11/suv-size-truck-bloat-pedestrian-deaths.html
More and more Americans assume “safe car” means “bigger SUV than the other guy.”
That trend is a big reason US streets have grown more deadly. And road safety groups are enabling it.
@gcluley perhaps his firing workers (paying severance) and the rehiring (paying signing bonus) is his way of pushing up worker pay?
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Who’d have guessed Elon Musk would pay $44 billion to promote Mastodon.
Scientist, Spectroscopist, 341 ppm He/Him(en)- Ele(pt) - Il(fr)
Joined Nov 2022
