szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Okay so maybe the results aren't that novel, or significant, or impactful but hey 🙄

#academia #PhD #phdlife #science #xp @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter

Welcome to America

#Receptiogate summarized:

"I repeat: do not fuck with medievalists."

😂

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1608146988511690753.html

This is a great story of how Barnes & Noble’s new CEO who was hired in 2019 has turned around the company. Sales are up, it opened 16 stores this year and plans to open more next year.

The secret is the CEO really likes books and readers. So he stopped doing deals with publishers to promote their latest books & NYT best sellers and encouraged individual stores to promote books they found most interesting.

So simple yet…

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and

The remarkable origin and purpose of the shiny cobalt leaves on the Malaysian tropical plant #Begonia #pavonina

#Plants #Jungle #QuantumMechanics #Photosynthesis #SlowLight
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a23514/quantum-mechanics-turns-leaves-blue/

1,600 bats fell to the ground during Houston's cold snap. Here's how they were saved - After hundreds of Mexican free-tailed bats went into hypothermic shock during the city's recent cold snap, they lost their grip and fell. But they found a temporary home: the attic of Mary Warwick. #npr

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/28/1145923340/1-600-bats-fell-to-the-ground-during-houstons-cold-snap-heres-how-they-were-save

This is the future #Republicans want: Russian philosophy journal retracts paper citing law banning “#LGBT propaganda." #Russia https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/28/russian-philosophy-journal-cites-law-banning-lgbt-propaganda-in-retraction/?w3tc_note=flush_all

"Soxytocin" is the hormone your body produces when you slip on a pair of soft fuzzy socks warm from the dryer.

There's a post going around about the .org TLD being sold to a private equity firm and linking to a years-old story. ICANN put a stop to it back in 2020. No need to panic <3

A climate-controlled vault at the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) holds the reference critical security bug for calibrating the CVE severity 10.0 score

Questioning of science is done through rigorous peer review by experts, if possible aided by open science principles. Not by twitter trolls.

i have a google doc of introductory physics youtube videos that i could share and meet weekly to discuss in any order. is anyone interested in such a thing?

Fun fact: A couple of high-profile #anti-vax liars and frauds I blocked years ago reappeared in my #Twitter timeline today. That's not "free speech," it's "flood the Zone with bullshit," with potentially fatal consequences.

@bethsawin Very fond of the rake and the snow shovel. I hand-raked my yard while my neighbor used a leaf blower on his. Same size yards. I was done first.

Still a shame he can't run for President

We know that we push #animals out when we move in. But we don't really think about where they GO, and what that means.

What do we need? Camera traps!

New camera trap study shows animals living near us are a bit more jammed in than those living far away https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/where-humans-live-animals-get-crowded

Sadly the amazing photo of a deer kicking a possum in the face never made it to print. #science #sciencejournalism By me for Sierra

$TSLA crashing because the company is on autopilot is the most fitting end to 2022 possible