szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Students respond better to feedback when it's depersonalized.

Personal: Your wording here is unclear
Impersonal: The wording here is unclear.

Personal: Your organization is confusing.
Impersonal: The organization is confusing.

Personal: You made the opposite claim in the previous paragraph.
Impersonal: The previous paragraph made the opposite claim.

I've found that this makes a massive difference, giving students the detachment they need to focus on their writing.

#AcademicMastodon

Hello #writingcommunity

I'm excited, humbled, and super shy to share my latest published piece.
It's a nonfiction story of a Ukrainian refugee I became close with – Natalia, intertwined with plants & stories of migration that are close to my heart.
This is the most vulnerable I've ever been in writing and it feels strange to open up so much, but it's probably my favorite text to date.
It'd mean a lot to me if you gave it a read💙
https://www.triangle.house/migrating-gardens
#nonfiction
#creativenonfiction
#writing

Ein wenig Farbe, hier ist heute alles grau.

Rosa Rettichhelmling

#fotomontag #kazispilze #natur #pilze #herbst #kazisfotos

In order to accommodate nearly a million people escaping violence in Myammar back in 2017, Bangladesh cut down a big area of forest, but now the young people who live in the camp are now planting trees and encouraging their parents to look after the local environment. They have already reforested 600 hectares!

#trees #reforestation #refugees #climate #green #goodnews

https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2022/11/63720e304/young-rohingya-refugees-helping-turn-worlds-largest-camp-green.html

On the whole #selfhosting thing

This article is required reading.

As a result of my post about an hour ago, I'm now getting a lot of follows and links, so I'm about to learn something about how Mastodon scales!

https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/

Why is permafrost critical to human rights? When permafrost thaws, it can disrupt travel, food systems, and infrastructure. Trails (pictured below) and lakes used for generations can experience sudden flooding or drainage. Permafrost thaw will change almost every aspect of northern living and many communities will need to relocate to thaw stable ground. With permafrost thaw, northerns lose independence, culture, and security. Permafrost & northerners deserve the right to be cold.

Expensive Taste.

Another amazing encounter with an otter, from a couple of years ago on Mull.

I had been watching two otters fishing in the loch for over an hour when one of them caught something large, and started swimming towards the shore.

I got into a location to watch from, and saw her splash through the waves and out on to the shore with a huge lobster in her jaws.

She spent half an hour eating almost all of it.

#otter #Mull #lobster #WildlifePhotography #wildlife

All you need is a little gaslighting, and ChatGPT will try to trick the user into creating chloroform

Today I’m remembering how hard we fought to protect #DuffinsCreek #CoastalMarsh on #LakeOntario.

I’m thinking about all the other #WorkhorseWetlands people take for granted in our urban and rural areas. They are working hard to purify #water and prevent #floods, but do we adequately value them?

Today, why not tidy up your local #wetland? Stop 🛑 that litter from becoming #Microplastics or harming #waterfowl. Bring some garbage bags and some friends and do a clean-up. It will feel amazing to actually make something better with your own hands.
https://www.thestar.com/amp/opinion/contributors/2020/11/13/gtas-workhorse-wetlands-are-under-threat.html

Cartwright

A recurrent neural network paired with heuristic methods that automatically infer geospatial, temporal and feature columns

https://github.com/jataware/cartwright

Mastodon which is incredibly hot, supports RSS beautifully.

Just add .rss to any account to get the feed. Amazing!

https://mastodon.social/@davew.rss

Open that in your favorite feed reader. It’ll work.

Post a screenshot, say what the reader app is.

And pass this on to everyone who uses a feed reader.

Spread the word!

This is a huge deal for the open web.

Microglossum griseoviridis #earthtongue #fungi #fungiphotography #naturephotography #Perthshire #Scotland

HIV/AIDS went from being unknown to a global pandemic in my lifetime.

But this scourge may come to an end, sooner rather than later.

Thank you to every scientist who gave their talents, skills and expertise to this effort.

And thank you to every AIDS activist who relentlessly demanded that this research get done.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add6502?cookieSet=1