Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

#Introduction #noxp

I'm a straight white CIS middle-aged grey-bearded male from Sydney who works as a SysAdmin / BOFH. Shy. Introvert. Hate crowds with a passion.

I'm very left-leaning in my political and societal views. Support equality in gender identity, sexuality, etc. Support doing more to protect the environment and climate. Trickle down economics doesn't. You get the idea.

I enjoy long drives for the sake of the travel rather than the destination. I don't spend anywhere near enough time in the water. I suck at but enjoy photography. And I watch way too many movies & tv-shows. Mostly sci-fi & fantasy.

Also a very avid sportsball supporter. Mostly Rugby Union (Northern Suburbs, Waratahs, Wallabies, mens & womens comps), Ice Hockey (Sydney Bears, Sydney Sirens, Seattle Kraken), to a lesser extent NRL (Norths Bears, Rabbitohs, Eels), MotoGP, and cricket (Sydney Sixers, Australia).

You can find me on various platforms outlined here - https://sheepie-au.carrd.co/

Just a reminder to support your local mastodon instance. There is no venture capital nor advertising backing it. It's all out of the admin's pocket.

aus.social's can be found here https://patreon.com/shleeau?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan #noxp

You know what else is cool about #mastodon? People here thank each other when they learn something new, or they get helped out with questions.

Ever see that happen with regularity on the other place? No. No you did not.

Save the National Concert Hall of Wales - Sign the Petition! https://chng.it/7czCqzvV via @UKChange

I read somewhere just now that it's useful to post additional information about oneself. So, I'm:

the daughter of one of the early nuclear engineers. He specialized in materials research for shielding suitability;
70 years old;
retired from a healthcare system after 40 years of employment with them, the last 20 years were in IT;
The proud mother of a mathematics in a Denver university who is also invilved with the LGBTQ community;
fond of #sci fi;
also watch extended versions of #lotr every year;
former mother of a bushbaby, who passed in 1971;
definitely left of center;
a voter;
getting solar panels in February;
a fugitive from Texas currently in Albuquerque, NM;
fond of all animals, used to be the neighborhood snake wrangler;
the daughter of a natural history devotee;
a voracious reader;
the wife of a fine arts scholar, who has read me to sleep every night for 24 years - all of the major classics and many of the minor ones (I got the liberal arts education that I had missed as a science student);
a terrible housekeeper, with an even worse house husband;
glad to be alive even though that might change any day with the current political disaster.

Thanks to @Romaq for inviting me to qoto. I hope to find a home here. Twitter is evil; Facebook is cluttered and confusing. So here I am.

"We call upon the Government to hold a Public Inquiry into the impact of Brexit"

The benefits that were promised if the #UK exited the #EuropeanUnion have not been delivered, so we call upon the Government to hold a Public Inquiry to assess the impact that #Brexit has had on this country and its citizens.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/628226

BREAKING: Web browser Firefox can be used to access "sickening" illegal content online, prominent information security professionals demand its removal from app stores until Mozilla is willing to moderate "the WWW".

I don’t understand why people think Mastodon is difficult. It seems pretty straightforward, and the separate servers are no biggie. I’m enjoying this fresh start here, like moving to a new apartment!

Hi #introduction from me..!
I'm a Prof of Operational Research at UCL & member of Independent SAGE.
As such, I've been tweeting about Covid for 2.5 yrs now so expect more of that here!
Plus occasional forays into politics, women in science, general science & stuff about London.
Hope I get the hang of it soon!

@freemo I wouldn't support the abolition of rights, but I would prefer to live in that situation over one where we still have rights but live under a dictator. Mainly because I believe that a free and equal democracy provides the best chance for the restoration of rights when they are taken away.

In other words, I believe a true democracy lacking rights has a tendency to mend its attitude towards rights to appease voters.
Whereas in the flip side, an authoritarian regime with rights, those rights are likely on their way out.

So, that's why I see democracy as a foundation for equal rights: We the people demand them.

#Introductions
I like and care about:
#Microglia
#Microbiota
#Neurodevelopment
#Neuroimmunology
#GutBrainMicrobeAxis
#GutBrainAxis
#SciencePolicy
#RegulatoryScience
#RegulatoryPolicy
#TeaAndBiscotti
I am concerned about:
#COVID
#LongCovid

@freemo Thank you! And thank you for standing up for LGBTQ users!

The #UK's a strange parody of #democracy that the only reason #RishiSunak is #PrimeMinister at all is that #DominicCummings didn’t like (dismissed) one of #SavidJavid's #PoliticalAdvisers during #BorisJohnson's joke reign as #PM. Not even an inkling of an election anywhere. It reads like something out of badly written soap opera.

#Politics #Tories

Which countries have contributed the most to global CO2 emissions historically?

Share of cumulative CO₂ since 1750:
🇺🇸 US: 25%
🇨🇳 China: 14%
🇷🇺 Russia: 7%
🇩🇪 Germany: 5.5%
🇬🇧 UK: 4.6%
🇯🇵 Japan: 4%
🇮🇳 India: 3%
🇫🇷 France: 2.3%
🇨🇦 Canada: 2%
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 1.8%

You’re not going to believe what Elon is doing now. Strange days.

@pwgtennant It may also be the first flush of a new thing, everyone being enthused and enthusiastic. I'm seeing far more interest, interaction, and engagement here than anywhere else pretty much ever—but also much more here-now than here-before.

Hello!

I've been here for a full week now, almost to the minute, so it's time for an updated #Introduction post!

My name is Chris, I'm a freelance #Writer from #Cardiff, #Wales

I cover a variety of things on my blog (link in bio), but mostly my #Writing is about #VideoGames.

I have quite a few interests that I'd be looking to follow others on too! Namely:

#StarTrek
#DiscWorld
#RetroGaming
#Gaming
#GameDev
#Books
#Jazz
#Synthwave
#Reading
#CityPop

Diolch yn fawr!

Incentives for academics have become increasingly perverse over the last 50 years, according to this 2017 article by Edwards and Roy

The table below neatly summarizes their key findings ⬇️

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ees.2016.0223

#academia, #metrics, #incentives