Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

QED workshop: How to Read a Scientific Paper, with Dr Anja Harrison

Being able to read scientific papers is a valuable skill for a skeptic, to figure out whether the latest ground-breaking treatment really is as wondrous as the headlines suggest.
At QED, our workshop will teach exactly those skills.
Hosted by Dr Anja Harrison, we will pick their way through academic publications to learn what to look out for, and how to spot potential issues and red flags.

https://qedcon.org/news/2023/how-to-read-a-scientific-paper-anja-harrison?utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=papers

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The FCC is accepting applications for new, low-power, community radio stations the first week of November.

This is huge, you guys, this window rarely opens (the last time was 2013), and as you know, KUZU shows one way LPFM can be a foundation to build valuable community information resources.

The Grassroots Radio folks are holding a conference in West Virginia to help folks out with this.

Please boost and share.

#radio
#community
#local
#journalism

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm

Back when Windows 95 came out you could drag "The Internet" icon to the bin and it'd pop up a message that said "Are you sure you want to delete The Internet?" and we thought it was hilarious but in hindsight maybe one of us should have said "yes".

With a new #Twitter exodus seemingly underway, time to plug my introductory talk for #Mastodon again... https://youtu.be/xfilz2RUrmQ

Welcome back to all my Twitter friends. Stay here instead. It's not perfect but there's no Elon, and it generally works.

Looks like we all might be spending a heck of a lot more time here then.

Reminder that if people come here from Twitter right now, they want to join a community, not get lectured on their posting style. Let’s be as welcoming as we can be.

Breaking: US Coast Guard detects “banging” noises from hermetically-sealed Twitter.

@StillIRise1963 May I say another thing Stilllrise?

As a white liberal, I think it might help us white liberals to know what black Mastodon and the greater black community need from us to help dispell distrust and anger.

I just came back to Vancouver from Chicago last night. People are pissed. Rightly so. But that anger is also used by conservatives to divide us as a voting block and create pessimism and despair.

How do I be the ally your community wants and needs?

Tell us!

A nice interactive about fireflies -- and their current declines :( https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/firefly-summer-extinction/

Fabulous, fascinating! Discovery of active octopus nursery in deep-sea ocean off Costa Rica. If you put up with 30-second ad, the video is remarkable. It shows the octopuses and the scientists observing them. https://abcnews.go.com/International/deep-sea-octopus-nursery-discovered-off-costa-rica/story?id=100539349 #octopus #ocean #deepsea #science #animals #nature