Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Through incredible diligence, @yilinwriter
has finally wrestled an agreement from the British Museum. Very much overdue. It's confusing that they had no policy to obtain translations. It does make you wonder about previous installations.

https://yilinwang.com/qiu-jin-british-museum/

#BritishMuseum #QiuJin #Translations #NameTheTranslator #Translator

Ce que Gérald Darmanin avait de bien trop petit

A lire sur le blog @affordance

Interdire un livre n’est pas chose courante. Interdire un livre au 21ème siècle, en France, n’est pas chose courante. Interdire à la vente aux mineurs un livre jeunesse au 21ème siècle en France n’est pas une chose courante. On se réveille un peu groggy lorsque l’on apprend la nouvelle.

https://affordance.framasoft.org/2023/08/gerald-darmanin-a-un-truc-bien-trop-petit/

One researcher "imagines a standard that puts all menstrual products on a scale similar to peppers, hot sauces and salsas being rated by the Scoville scale."

I'm shook that no one has measured the capacity of these period products before

by @STAT's new Begley fellow, Deborah Balthazar

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/07/period-products-menstrual-disc-new-study/

#health #healthcare #reproductive #medicine

July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, the European Union's climate observatory has confirmed.

Marked by heatwaves and fires all around the world, July 2023 was 0.33 degrees Celsius higher than the record set in July 2019 when the average temperature was 16.63C, it said.

"The month was 0.72C warmer than the 1991-2020 average for July," it said.

https://www.rte.ie/news/weather/2023/0808/1398636-july-temperatures/

#EU #Copernicus #ClimateChange #Heatwave

#iNaturalist on the news:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-amateur-entomologists-insects-quebec/

And a letter to the editor emphasises:

"Such tools can impart a sense of wonder at the beauty, complexity and ubiquity of life, revealing unseen worlds in our midst. I have used iNaturalist to document more than 80 species of insects, including many important pollinators, in my modest fifth-floor container garden."

"Even as we depend on such insects for our survival, we also share our urban spaces with them, life finding a way in the most inhospitable places. It is a reminder that our built environment is also theirs, and that we are forever caught in their web of life."–Ryan Whyte

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/great-article-and-my-letter-to-the-editor-promoting-inaturalist/44007

If you care about limiting Type 1 errors (or maybe even p-hacking) by using a controlled alpha level, and if you compute statistical power for your tests, you are using the Neyman-Pearson approach to statistical inferences. It differs from the Fisherian approach - for more details: https://lakens.github.io/statistical_inferences/01-pvalue.html#philosophical-approaches-to-p-values

This is HUGE.

"The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages. Doing so, the federal agency determined, would be a violation of the laid-off employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules

#Musk is not only suing the Center for Countering Digital Hate (#CCDH), but also the European #Climate Foundation.

#ToxicMusk

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/08/x-corp-accuses-climate-group-of-helping-anti-hate-researchers-target-twitter-elon-musk

@gpollara I cleaned Bing from my laptop. Never thought I’d be a Luddite, but this surge in AI and lack of concern for controlling it gives me chills.

New blog post! I talk about some recent articles I've read about the frontal theta beta ratio (TBR) in EEG, and how it relates to attention.

@psychologician@fediscience.org@a.gup.pe
@neuroscience

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202308/can-we-develop-a-brain-test-for-adhd

#PsychologyToday #Neuroscience #ADHD #Attention #EEG #ERP

The other point is a more generic one: 🧵

2) that universities should begin to take into account the amount of peer review that academics do as part of their performance evaluation / assessment for promotion, etc...
#academicchatter #PeerReview @academicchatter #academia (2/2)
https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(23)00364-6/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

An interesting Letter to the Editor in CMI. It actually makes 2 separate but related points: 🧵

1) States the benefits of authors re-using peer review performed by other journals, even in the case of paper rejects. It points out the importance of honesty by the authors (though presumably journals can talk to each and also share that information).
#academicchatter #PeerReview @academicchatter (1/2)
https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(23)00364-6/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email