Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@mustapipa #astronomy So this is a direct observation of an accretion disk? Wow.
The distance between stars will shrink the moment we discard the subjective constraint of an individual's life span. Everything is relative. In this case it means that maybe our relatives will reach the stars. :awesomeface:

Happy birthday to me 🎉
So... My Russian fedi friends already know my sad situation - my husband (14 years of relationship) suddenly left me for no apparent reason (he's tired of me, I'm a bad person, he hates our cats, yeah), he told me about that just before new year and moved to another city.
I'm kinda disabled, I'm studying and I can't work at the moment. He made me pay for an apartment which he owns where we lived together (I spent all of the money I inherited from my mom on buying stuff for this apartment - that was stupid of me, I know). I need money to pay rent and buy meds and food for me and my cats (he doesn't want to feed cats too lol).
Russian fedi people raised enough money for one month. I have to ask for help you, my English-speaking friends, too.
There is a way for you to donate money for russians through boosty - Russian Patreon. You can subscribe or donate any amount for a monthly goal. If you want, of course. Thank you in advance.
https://boosty.to/kotikmemer
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Can you get cyclopropanes from 1,2-diketones. You can! Chun-Xiang Zhou and co-workers from the Xiamen University (#China) demonstrated this in the journal #JACS. A salen-type #catalyst with Mo as the active metal centre mediates this reductive reaction.

A truly powerful method with the potential of follow-up work for a more general substrate scope.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.2c12225

#chemistry #orgchem #synthesis @chemistry

Researchers have confirmed the presence of #exoplanet LHS 475 b.

It is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth. The planet whips around its #star in just two days, far faster than any planet in the Solar System.

These first observational results from an Earth-sized, rocky planet open the door to many future possibilities for studying rocky planet atmospheres with #JWST.

#exoplanets #astronomy
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_confirms_its_first_exoplanet

In case you missed it
📢New episode

We go over the latest science that made the news including robot turtles, 1st "Virovore", and Papers are becoming less disruptive

🔗https://open.spotify.com/episode/2szNALCyNkE4Pq7fOUX5Bz?si=6cf8d28643544bed

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

Join me online on 9 February for an unmissable free evening to celebrate Salman Rushdie: Salman's new book, Victory City, will be celebrated and discussed by Margaret Atwood and me. Details are at: https://www.fane.co.uk/victory-city

One day around 32,000 years ago, an arctic ground squirrel ate parts of a plant, silene stenophylla, including its seed. The squirrel was digesting it when its life ended.

Its body was recovered from permafrost and examined. Scientists germinated this plant seed. This silene stenophylla just bloomed.

It is 32,000 years old.

The strength, the vitality and stamina of living things — of life itself — is incredible.

Maybe some people are tired here of me posting about #fairphone and #framework but I'm just tired of saying "I hope for the future to begin soon" without actually taking action myself!

We're here to make a difference,- let's start!

We don't need a 100MP triple camera with a 16core CPU+GPU inside our phones. We need a responsible way of living.

2/ What I've learned is that sexual coercion is NOT about sex in and of itself. It's an attempt to exercise control over another person. Sex is a tool -- and it's used for coercion because it's socially understood to be an intimate affair.

Astronomers using the near-infrared vision of #NASAWebb found a lot of dust surrounding still-forming stars in NGC 346. Previously, researchers thought the Small Magellanic Cloud had very little.

Unwind the discovery: https://webbtelescope.pub/3ioD7st #AAS241

Finland ranked No. 1 of 41 European countries on resilience against misinformation for the fifth time in a row in a survey published in October by the Open Society Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Officials say Finland’s success is not just the result of its strong education system, which is one of the best in the world, but also because of a concerted effort to teach students about fake news. Media literacy is part of the national core curriculum starting in preschool.
#Misinformation #Disinfo

If you're collecting reasons why facial recognition tech is dangerous.
https://www.wired.com/story/iran-says-face-recognition-will-id-women-breaking-hijab-laws/

#Iran #FacialRecognition

"Self-Hosting Is the Ultimate Privacy Power Move"

When you use a third-party service for your needs, whatever those needs may be, you’re always taking on a certain degree of privacy risk.

https://www.howtogeek.com/846979/heres-why-self-hosting-a-server-is-worth-the-effort/

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are finding too many early galaxies, raising questions about our assumptions re: the origins and formation of our universe. Intriguing!

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-finding-too-many-early-galaxies/

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#astronomy #science #jwst

What was star formation like in the early universe? One way to study conditions in the distant past is to find parallels close by. That's why Webb took a look at star-forming region NGC 346 within our neighboring dwarf galaxy: https://go.nasa.gov/3CFXiJo #AAS241
#JamesWebb

Of course, disaster management in Germany relies on #OpenStreetMap. Quite a lot of occasions in this video, actually.