Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

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🧠🔬 To cure brain diseases, neuroscientists must collaborate: That’s why I’m giving my data away

https://theconversation.com/to-cure-brain-diseases-neuroscientists-must-collaborate-thats-why-im-giving-my-data-away-118672

8 weeks, 9 blog entries, 10 online protocols..........over 500 protocol downloads — fantastic response. Catch up on why I am doing the blog (http://bit.ly/2U9aTRY ), and read previous posts from summer (http://bit.ly/2TN0vND ). @SGClabNotebooks @TheNeuro_MNI

#science #openscience #data #opendata #openaccess #brain #disease #neuroscience #parkinson

#JairBolsonaro claims #NGOs behind #Amazon #ForestFire surge – but provides no evidence | World news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/21/jair-bolsonaro-accuses-ngos-setting-fire-amazon-rainforest

#Brazil

#Cuadrilla halts #fracking after biggest #tremor yet at #Lancashire site | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/22/cuadrilla-halts-fracking-after-biggest-tremor-yet-at-lancashire-site-preston-new-road

#England #UK #FossiFuels

#UK should cut #vehicle use to hit #zero-carbon target, say MPs | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/22/uk-must-reduce-personal-vehicle-ownership-meet-zero-carbon-target-mps-report

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #GreenhouseGases #FossilFuels #Health #Pollution

Site etiquette indicates my first toot should be by way of an introduction. Seldom comfortable tooting my own horn (pun intended)* I'll keep this brief(ish).

I am a philosopher and historian based in Sydney and currently a doctoral candidate at the #Macquarie Business School; researching Edmund #Burke and his implications for executive leadership.

I chose to undertake my study in a business school, grubby though commercial ends may seem to elevated minds, because Burke was an intensely practical thinker. As he noted:

'‘The End of learning is not knowledge but virtue; as the End of all speculation should be practice of one sort or another… [for] Knowledge is the Culture** of the mind; and he who rested there, would be just as wise as he who should plough his field without any intention of sowing or reaping.'***

In this context, it seems fitting to attempt to apply Burkean research to practical ends.

I am also a passionate advocate for technology reform, which drew me to Mastodon, as I do not think unrestricted access to an individual's data is necessary for the provision of services. #ProtonMail, #Signal, #Threema, #NextCloud, #Mastodon and co. are all demonstrating that FAANG methods are not the only viable way of providing digital connections.

N.B.:
*Thinking intended puns, I am always reminded of the joke about a man who entered a local newspaper's pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

**Culture in the original sense of ploughing for sowing later.

***Burke, A Note-Book of Edmund Burke, 82-83.

#introductions

I dunno seems a bit drastic to me...

#meme #joke #jokes #humor