Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@social.cleverlibre.org

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Just the fact that we need such day is a sad evidence of the dire state of our society.
At the dawn of another murder of a young woman in Italy, my head has been reflecting a lot about ‘monsters’ and ‘patriarchy’. I’ll be posting it during the weekend. For a little glimpse on what to expect, here my yesterday’s thread
https://mastodon.design/@alx/111464704564936230

#25novembre #25n23 #women #NiUnaMenos #feminism #patriarchy

I wrote a little "bio" for each of the six songs in my new "maxi-EP"

You can find the bios on my blog

https://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/genre-fluid.html

The songs themselves are on BandCamp. I used to to write a song almost monthly, it's taken well over a year to get to six...many of them are collaborations, which I think makes them stronger musically and lyrically.

https://davebradley.bandcamp.com/album/genre-fluid-maxi-ep

Some thoughts to brighten your outlook on next year’s presidential election. Today’s piece expands upon my earlier piece on why I remain cautiously optimistic over Joe Biden’s chances. https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/some-bright-thoughts-on-black-friday?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

First evidence of radioactivity with Becquerel's notes.

Becquerel, Henri, 1852-1908

From AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, William G. Myers Collection

Held by: Niels Bohr Library & Archives.

via American Institute of Physics

@science #physics #radioactivity

GDPR trainings for researchers in the post-AI world: 'uploading research data to an AI system is part of processing and they become part of the training dataset, becoming then a permanent record. Therefore do not upload personal data to public AI systems such as ChatGPT"

#AI #research #AIHype #AcademicFedi #AcademicMastodon

Clear warning by health professionals in the leading medical journal The Lancet:
Further delays in tackling greenhouse gas emissions at COP28 will be an act of negligence.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02584-9/fulltext#%20

Reminder that only having your stuff in one place online is not a backup.

@SteelFolk Thank you! I finally figured out something important about the autofocus with this new camera...makes things sooooo much easier than the way I had it set up previously for this kind of shot

Thing I was saying about how owls always look startled but "hawk" type raptors, kites, harriers, eagles, falconslook menacing?

Here's a Red Kite, one of a couple of dozen quartering over farmland near our local dump.

t 1/5000s
f/6.3
ISO 800
Lens at 600mm on 2/3 sensor

Dutch theoretical physicist & thermodynamicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals was born #OTD in 1837.

His name is primarily associated with the Van der Waals equation of state that describes the behavior of gases & their condensation to the liquid phase. His name is also associated with Van der Waals forces, with Van der Waals molecules, & with Van der Waals radii. He won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases & liquids. via @wikipedia

#science #physics

Confirmed by Sir Patrick Vallance at the
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23CovidInquiry
today - Rishi Sunak's grossly irresponsible Eat Out To Help Out scheme drove a second wave of Covid. He is to blame for the damage caused. He needs to be held accountable.
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https://nitter.cz/janemerrick23/status/1726595772232429860#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1726636392854548961#m

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