Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

https://science.nasa.gov/learners/back-to-school#highschool
Attention high school educators!

Explore NASA Science lessons and activities to help make your curriculum out-of-this-world!

This Electromagnetic Spectrum & Infrared Astronomy unit from NASA's Astronomy Activation Ambassadors supplements physical science curricula with hands-on activities and lessons comparing and contrasting visible light with infrared ("invisible") light for existing grades 6-14. Some student materials are available in Spanish.

#science #education

Some positive news: Some New York hospitals are starting to reinstate their mask mandates due to rising COVID cases.

Auburn Community Hospital and Upstate University Hospital reinstated their mask mandate this week, while NYC Health + Hospitals continued their mask mandate through the summer.

http://bit.ly/NYHealthMaskGuide

#KeepMasksInHealthcare

Masto admins this week

I wonder if threads with listed head and unlisted tail promote less discussion in mastodon than threads with everything listed.

Haven't boosted this in a while. Perhaps there's someone/something new? Please boost for reach.

Please find in this thread a collection of #philosophy resources on Mastodon. Please let me know if there's anything missing!

Boosts welcome!

@philosophy

Many people don't understand what a high level of community spread means, so it's very helpful to translate wastewater data into estimated infections like this. 1 in 55 works out to roughly 2-4 people with an active #COVID infection in every crowded subway car. Wear a mask.

Oh.

Oh no.
#foraging

@tao I find it funny that “countless” tends to be used by the public for discrete things which very much can be counted, there are just a lot to count.

Lay use of “periodically” means the opposite of being regular and is closer to meaning sporadic.

And I’d claim on a technicality that when people say “sphere” they mean all of the interval volume which is the ‘opposite’ to just the surface.

Your Cosmic Microwave Background for your Zoom calls.

#CMB #Background #Astrodon #AstroPhysics

Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0 #yup #twitter #xodus #mastodon #threads #bluesky

#Papertime! 🌌 💫 📡 (From Monday, but I totally did not have the time to post this before ...)

"The first mm detection of a neutron star high-mass X-ray binary" led by the amazing J. van den Eijnden, including @fuerst, @pkretsch, yours truly et al.
MNRAS submitted (not yet refereed).

▶️ https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230806021V/abstract

What is this about and why is this important? Follow along for a science 🧵

#Astrodon #astronomy #XraysAreTheBestRays #astrophysics
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“A ground-up rewrite is coming in a way that simplifies the X codebase…”

Um, I don’t think I trust you with that. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1692132278720434514?s=12

Btw., thread written with https://rstockm.github.io/mastothread/ - which is a bit buggy but still HIGHLY recommended!

There is no website in the world which needs ONE THOUSAND cookies!
How did we get into this mess?

I had a great conversation with @ethanz which you can read/listen to here.

https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/85-timnit-gebru/

What I don’t understand about Mastodon and similar sites is: why is there a “Posts and replies” tab but not a “Only posts (without reposts)” one on people’s profiles?
Personally, I would make much more use of the latter.

NASA’s buildings are even older than its graying workforce

The space agency says its facilities are in an "increasing state of decline."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/nasas-buildings-are-even-older-than-its-graying-workforce/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Impressive that Darij Grinberg posted the whole textbook made for the course “Introduction to graph theory” at Drexel Univ on arXiv.

Moreover, the textbook itself is under CC0 1.0 Universal license.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04512

Because you all seem interested in this I wrote a longer blogpost for you with a few of the papers that have been impacting me. I hope it's helpful. There is a lot I think we can learn from sense of belonging on software teams.

https://www.drcathicks.com/post/sense-of-belonging-and-software-teams

LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery
#LK99 #Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7