Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Some people believe there's no purpose to "liking" something on Mastodon since it doesn't affect any algorithm.

Not the case.

It does something incredibly valuable: it acknowledges people.

Which is incredibly powerful, and is all the more important *because* it's not connected to gaming any algorithm.

By liking something on Mastodon, you are doing it honestly -- without any agenda at play other than that you like it.

So go ahead. Click that like button for its own sake.

Sadly, our world has an uptick in antisemitism. We must all denounce the hate, discrimination & violence. 📘 https://www.globalissues.org/news/2022/12/12/32628

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. ~ Simon Wiesenthal

#NeverAgain
#NeverForget
#HolocaustRemembrance

@futurebird We have a nest of these girls in our garden Mymecia Pyriformia or the Inch Ant. They can spot you and come at you from a metre away. We just leave them alone and by and large we get on fine.

Check out our latest work on the #photophysics of a #supramolecular cube!🧊
Great collaboration with the Nitschke Group and others, now out in @angew_chem ! #science # chemiverse Read it here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.202216729

Today I learned that @GIMP on Fedora Rawhide depends on Python 2.7 (which has been EOL for 3 years). Ubuntu ships a stripped down version of GIMP without python plugins to avoid this.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1737933

Hopefully GIMP 3 will be released soon.

Seven years ago, my group launched the Pale Red Dot observing campaign whose purpose was very simple: to confirm the existence of #Proximab, the nearest candidate habitable #exoplanet.

Evidence for its existence had been found three years earlier by myself, but such extraordinary discoveriy require stronger support than most scientific results.

And it gained support, as of today, from as many as three different telescopes and instruments.

#astronomy #ProximaCentauri
https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann16002/

@BarrenPlanet @whvholst @rysiek And that comes, in part, from being an actual scientist with a PhD in CS actually working with actual AI stuff.

🌵 #CactusCon starts today! If you’re attending, be sure to check out EFF’s booth and learn more about our work defending your rights online.

NASA Announces Successful Test Of Its Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine.

#science #news #space #NASA #Rocket

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/feature/nasa-validates-revolutionary-propulsion-design-for-deep-space-missions

#CallForPapers: @PLOSONE@twitter.com is calling for submissions for a new Collection on Early Detection, Screening and Diagnosis of Cancer. This Call for Papers aims to explore recent advances in the early detection of cancer.

📅 Deadline: April 1, 2023
🔎 Details: https://plos.io/3ZD1gwf

The dangers of loyalty in the workplace:

New research finds that, “instead of protecting or rewarding them, loyal employees are selectively and ironically targeted by managers for exploitative practices.”

🔏 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104442

Two quotes follow: 🧵👉

#Science
#Psychology
@psychology
#SocialPsychology
#SocialScience
@socialpsych
#OrgBehavior
@orgbehavior
#Loyalty
#Exploitation
#WorkplaceRelations
#Ethics

Science has finally cracked the mystery of why so many people believe in conspiracy theories
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-people-believe-conspiracy-theory-overconfidence-2023-1?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Good morning 🍂🍂🍂

I just took my first sip of coffee. But my fingers still aren't coordinated this morning, typing this is slow going. I woke up, at the urging of my wife, to let the dogs out.

When I finished getting around to leave the bedroom, Ben crawled out from underneath the bed. We usually don't let the dogs in our bedroom while we sleep, so I was surprised. He must have sneaked in last night when my wife got up for something.

I actually asked Ben "how did you get in here?", but he just did the ear flapping thing and stoically stared up at me.

NOTE: The one exception to the dogs sleeping in the bedroom is during bad storms. If there is a lot of thunder and lightning, they get scared.

“I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.” - Lewis Black

#photo #photography #photographer #foliage #morning

Hard pass on this right now, but interesting...

"I Edited Human DNA at Home With a DIY CRISPR Kit
Genetic engineering using CRISPR from the comfort of home might seem futuristic, but you can do it right now. "

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkykx/diy-crispr-gene-editing-kit-human-dna

#CRISPR #Science #Future

Microsoft, you are lying

🇺🇦🇪🇺EU announces launch of Donor Coordination Platform to support Ukraine's recovery (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/3660160-eu-announces-launch-of-donor-coordination-platform-to-support-ukraines-recovery.html #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

Ten mummified #crocodiles were unearthed from an Ancient Egyptian tomb, and are described by Bea de Cupere of @RBINSmuseum@twitter.com and colleagues.
🔎 @PLOSONE@twitter.com paper: https://plos.io/3WkRWu1
📰 @nytimes@twitter.com article: https://plos.io/3iSQ1it
📰 @Newsweek@twitter.com article: https://plos.io/3HjamHf

Really excellent paper by Chip Berlet from 2009 covering the conspiracy landscape and the overlap between left/right. Report argues that many of the stories on the left are effectively the same as their right counterparts, but have been laundered to remove overt anti-Semitism. Also, lots of familiar names for contemporary students of this terrain.
https://politicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/2018-10/Toxic-2D-all-rev-04.pdf