Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Tiny Meteorite Collected in 2021 Contains the Building Blocks of Life
https://mymodernmet.com/winchcombe-meteorite-life/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Is It Forensics or Is It Junk Science?
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The public’s growing awareness of forensic techniques obscures a far more complex field that’s chock full of bogus science — and the people who champion it, often for profit.

For years, ProPublica has reported on these dubious techniques as they’ve wormed their way into every corner of our real-life criminal justice system.

So, what’s legitimate forensic science and what’s junk?

#Crime #Police #CriminalJustice #Science

https://www.propublica.org/article/understanding-junk-science-forensics-criminal-justice?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Incredible Footage Shows Planets Circling a Star Light-Years Away
https://www.sciencealert.com/incredible-footage-shows-planets-circling-a-star-light-years-away?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Apollo 14 lifted off from Pad 39A at @NASAKennedy at 4:03 pm ET #OTD in 1971. Commander Alan Shepard returned to space with Command Module Pilot Stu Roosa and Lunar Module Pilot Ed Mitchell.

Read more about the launch: https://go.nasa.gov/3WOFR0c
#NASAhistory

@zleap @EPPGroup Collaborators get what they deserve. The French were much more homicidal to the quislings when they regained control of their Nation. The Taliban have been relatively humane comparatively.

Folks who vote for Republicans don't think harm will come back onto themselves.

In Florida, firearm deaths went up 18.8% from 2015 to 2020 - the 32nd largest increase among states, per the CDC.

And states that have weakened their firearm permitting system have experienced a 13-15 percent increase in violent crime rates. - https://www.everytown.org/solutions/strong-standards-for-carrying-concealed-guns-in-public/

As for Republicans, they’re not pro-life.
Nor fiscally conservative.
Nor small government. (Control freaks.)
Nor concerned about their constituents.

Everything centers on making people die faster and in worse ways.

Florida leaders push to allow concealed guns without permits, training-
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-florida-guns-without-permits-bill-20230130-dz4medr675hrvngya6ukvac7wy-story.html

⚠️🇷🇺‘Putin Demonizing LGBT+ Community to Distract From Failures in Ukraine’ Says Gay Rights Advocate Peter Tatchell | (more) https://www.kyivpost.com/post/11703 #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

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My question: why are we expected suddenly to educate Americans about this basic presuppostion of all scientific research only as a pandemic breaks out?

How is it that American schools are not inculcating this kind of critical thinking and awareness of what science is all about, throughout students' educational process?

How can so many Americans be so lamentably uneducated?

#COVID #science #education

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I often get the sense that quite a few people do not actually know what I write about and instead make assumptions about what I must write about based on another set of assumptions about who I must be.

But, if you ask me, I write about democracy, and this column — about the near-total absence of accountability for American police departments — is very much about democracy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/opinion/tyre-nichols-police-accountability-democracy.html

❗ Europe is sleepwalking into next migration crisis!

Existing European migration policies have failed.

We urgently need a new Migration Policy that is:
✅ fair with those in need
✅ firm with those who are not eligible
✅ harsh with the cynical human smugglers

#EUMigration

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1620361440879157248

Data stored in #ice #cores dating back 55 years brings new insight into #atmospheric levels of a molecule that can significantly affect #weather and #climate.
#EarthScience #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/01/en01312301.html

@zleap @theweaselking The thing is, the Bible probably doesn't say anything about homosexuality at all. The "clobber passages" that conservatives cite are pretty ambiguous in the original languages. The word "homosexuality" and the concept of sexual orientation as we understand it now didn't even exist when these texts were written.

Any scientists in aerospace engineering here who can comment on a study about a new kind of “space skin”?
#science #scientist #research #space #spacecraft #engineering #spaceTech

We have to overthrow capitalism before we invent time travel because we can't ever let the rich be more in control of the past than they already are

The response from the DDoS hasn't been, "Grr! Mastodon sucks!"

It's been, "Wow! It's so cool how Mastodon works!"

😆

Postdoctoral scholar in multiplexed imaging of cancer tissues

https://jobrxiv.org/job/center-for-molecular-medicine-cologne-and-charite-university-hospital-berlin-27778-postdoctoral-scholar-in-multiplexed-imaging-of-cancer-tissues/?feed_id=35993

#ScienceJobs #job
Cologne and Berlin #Germany #PostdoctoralFellow
https://jobrxiv.org/job/center-for-molecular-medicine-cologne-and-charite-university-hospital-berlin-27778-postdoctoral-scholar-in-multiplexed-imaging-of-cancer-tissues/?feed_id=35993

A number of folks have reached out to us over the past few months asking how they could help Mastodon out. Unfortunately, we haven't had the capacity to accept those kind offers at the time.

If you're interested in getting involved as a volunteer, please fill out this form (and share it around!) so we know who could help with what. (There is plenty that needs doing!)

https://joinmastodon.typeform.com/to/PdqUZCAg

RT @RoyEntSoc: Interested in taking a #course in #entomology?

We have compiled a list of institutions in the UK and in Ireland offering full and part time #entomologically-related courses to help you build a #career in #InsectScience:

https://t.co/kuLJUrodso

#Education #Research #Science

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Plants_EFSA/status/1620099310137528321