szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Are you feeling lonely during the festive season? Have you tried the hashtag #JoinIn?

It works like this:

- During Xmas period, or any time, write about what you're doing and include the tag #JoinIn. It doesn't have to be anything elaborate or impressive!

- Search for (or follow) the tag #JoinIn, reply to other people's posts with that tag.

I know it sounds kind of simple, but it's worth trying!

I'm going to be on my own this year due to ongoing pandemic, but will see you at #JoinIn ☕

To celebrate my calculator app PCalc turning 30 today, I've written up all the history I can still remember:

http://pcalc.com/thirty

There's also a rare 30%-off sale, which runs until midnight tonight, PST:

Mac:
https://pcalc.com/store/pcalcmac

iOS:
https://pcalc.com/store/pcalc

A big thanks to everybody who has used PCalc during the last three decades!

Auf die Frage „Wie nass und dreckig kann ein kleiner #Hund sich machen?“ antwortet der #dackel souverän mit „Ja“. ✊👍🏼🥰
#dachshund #dogs #dogsofmastodon #hunde

The activists behind
@atlasnienawisci (Atlas of Hate), which maps places in Poland that have passed anti-LGBT resolutions, have won in court against a local authority that sued them over being included in the atlas, saying it had "damaged their good name".

https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/12/22/activists-mapping-polands-anti-lgbt-zones-win-in-court-against-county-that-sued-over-atlas-of-hate/

Studio Apartment Available:
- Pet-friendly
- Located next to bridge
- No strings attached

Looking for a candidate to do PhD research in computational mechanobiology. The project is a new collaboration between Massimo Vassalli, Lukasz Kaczmarczyk and myself. It aims to increase the detail and reliability of the mechanical data extracted from AFM experiments on single cells using advanced finite-element simulations underpinned by MoFEM. We encourage all interested candidates to contact us and apply. Please boost!
#science #PhD #FEA #biology #cell #research

if 6.5 million people had been eaten by tigers and there was suddenly a new wave of super-tigers that could evade all existing anti-tiger precautions, people would think you'd lost the plot if you declared that the tiger problem was basically over

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa - Common name: Coral slime #slimemould

EU wants to require "easily" replaceable batteries:

> Three and a half years after the entry into force of the legislation, portable batteries in appliances must be designed so that consumers can easily remove and replace them themselves.

This is fundamentally pointed at Apple, but will apply to the whole range of overly-disposable gadgets.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20221205IPR60614/batteries-deal-on-new-eu-rules-for-design-production-and-waste-treatment

@JamesGleick
Who else owned and loved the book Chaos (1987)? 🙋​

Here is my #Introduction, with hashtags. I’m an #author and essayist, part of, and hopeful about, the #TwitterMigration.

I write about #science and #technology and their cultural effects. My books include #Chaos, The #Information, and #TimeTravel, as well as biographies of Richard #Feynman and Isaac #Newton.

@NicoleCRust @albertcardona @matthewcobb
One of the things I've been struggling with recently is how the vast majority of papers (including most or arguably all of mine) don't propose an idea that could in principle get us closer to understanding how the brain does what it does. I have the feeling that there was this moment in time when people were coming up with tons of crazy theories. They were all wrong (probably) but it was exciting. Now we're just talking about how many dimensions a 'neural manifold' has and I just can't get excited about that (sorry manifold people). In my case, I think I've had a small handful of ideas that went in the direction I'd like neuroscience to be going in of proposing ideas that could scale to part of a full explanation of the brain, but I haven't pursued them because they were hard to define or get funding for. My resolution for 2023 is to focus more on those interesting questions and less on things that I think are easy to get published or get funding. For what it's worth, the biggest challenge to neuroscience I reckon is how it can operate in a stable way based on what seems to be a surprisingly unstable substrate (e.g. synaptic turnover). If I had a good idea about how to solve that problem, that's what I'd be working on.

Good morning and happy #Friday everyone! Continuing with a theme of camouflage for a #bird #photo today. A gorgeous Snow Bunting - one of my favourite #winter visitors
#birds #naturephotography #nature #birdwatching

One of my favorite big cats happens to live in Alaska, among other places. This Lynx was photographed by Richard Bennett in Eagle River, Alaska this morning.
#AlaskaCats #AlaskaWildlife

Moss atop roots of a fallen tree

#Mosstodon