Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

#neuhier #introduction
Hi everyone, we are just moving from openbiblio.social and would like to introduce us briefly: As the largest European infrastructure institute for the social sciences GESIS offers advice, expertise and services at all stages of scientists' research projects. With this support socially relevant questions can be answered based on the latest scientific methods, and with high quality research data. #surveymethodology #researchdata #socialscience #infrastructure

Lori Nelson, Overbite

#popsurrealism https://artvee.com/dl/overbite/

#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.

Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's using it to set up a foundation to improve diversity in STEM.

#WomenInSTEM #Histodons #ScienceHistory

Inspired by @darnell & having ranted about the need to #FundTheFediverse I am joining him and @atomicpoet and others - in taking the 💵 #2dollarChallenge, and so should you. 💵

Summary:

☑️ Donate $1/month to your server admin. As I run my own, I am donating it to #ChinaProtest admins.

And also:

☑️ Donate $1/month to software development for the #Fediverse:

#Mastodon > https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
#Pixelfed > https://patreon.com/dansup
#WriteFreely > https://opencollective.com/writefreely

Percy J. Billinghurst, A hundred anecdotes of animals pl 063 (1901)

#illustration https://artvee.com/dl/a-hundred-anecdotes-of-animals-pl-063/

Darth Thesis 😅

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

The first is [a reflection](https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/11/seduced-by-story-peter-brooks-book-review/672135/) on _Seduced by Story: the Use and Abuse of Narrative_ by Peter Brooks. Brooks argues, in short:

"[W]e’ve relied too heavily on storytelling conventions to understand the world around us, which has resulted in a “narrative takeover of reality” that affects nearly every form of communication—including the way doctors interact with patients, how financial reports are written, and the branding that corporations use to present themselves to consumers. Meanwhile, other modes of expression, interpretation, and comprehension, such as analysis and argument, have fallen to the wayside."

The second, [Don’t Treat Your Life as a Project](https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/11/seduced-by-story-peter-brooks-book-review/672135/), challenges the value of compressing your life (and self-concept) into a story:

"Projects fail and people fail in them. But we have come to speak as if a person can be a failure—as though failure were an identity, not an event. When you define your life by way of a single enterprise, a narrative arc, its outcome will come to define you.... What makes the narrator’s life worth living is not some grand narrative, running from conception or birth to inevitable death; it is the countless little thoughts and deeds and gentle, joking interactions that occupy day after day after day. If you pay attention... there’s enough in a single lunch hour to fill a book."

#Books, #Criticism, #Internet. #Narrative, #Philosophy, #Self, #Story

[ I've done a quick graph to show what's happening with Danish hospital admissions for RSV.

Each bar is a cohort, defined by the RSV season when they were 0-12 months old. So the left-hand bar shows hospital admissions for <1s in 2015/16 (blue), 1-2s in 16/17 (orange), etc. ]

https://twitter.com/BarclayBenedict/status/1597172291447971840

trying out some variations…
#art #artist #artistsonmastodon #isometric #isometricart #freehand #sketch #drawing

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The Penn Neuroscience Public Lecture committee is excited to announce our fall public lecture: NeuroSciFi. Join us on Thursday, December 8th from 6-8p for a fun evening of TED-style neuroscience talks as three Philadelphia-based neuroscientists talk about some things the brain does that are so amazing you might think it's science fiction.

For those of you in Philadelphia, please join us in person! For those who can’t be in Philadelphia or are more comfortable online, we will be live-streaming the event on Crowdcast. Register at the link below to get the link or put your name on the list to attend in-person.
https://tinyurl.com/PLS-NeuroSciFi

We’re looking forward to seeing you all there!

#neuroscience #neuro #sciComm #scienceCommunication #public #lecture #philadelphia #science #brain

But it’s about more than just the static numbers — it’s also about the rise in far-right extremist violence, which is shown below in yellow. Far-left extremist violence is shown in dark grey, and extremist violence categorized as “other” is shown in light grey. As you can see, far-right extremist violence accounts for nearly all of the rise of domestic extremism over the past two decades.

Hey #chemiverse ⚗️ ! Since twitter hasn't died (yet), we're having the #LatinXChem conference over there. So here's a link to my #compchem poster! Go check it out and feel free to ask any questions here or on the bird app 😀

boosts appreciated

https://twitter.com/natilabadie/status/1597198100019707904?s=20&t=HDJAPyPI-QSWdHq894KrFw

While I am trying to use Mastodon (and LinkedIn) a lot more given the situation on Twitter, there are a lot of previously organised initiatives still happening which are of high importance to the communities involved.

In this regard, if you still have a Twitter account, please do check out #LatinXChem22 which is happening today and should be a great showcase of different research across a range of chemsitry topics!

#chemiverse #chemtoots #chemistry #LatinXChem

CatEarth Theory