Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Fastmail is seeking an experienced system engineer to help us build the future of email.

If you love working with open-source software, enjoy collaborative teamwork, and focus on the small details: this is the perfect position for you.

Learn more and apply to join our Melbourne office today! 

https://apply.workable.com/fastmail-1/j/3DC81DABD3/

4 YEAR OLD: I can't sleep, Daddy. I'm afraid of Frankenstein.
ME: Don't you mean Frankenstein's monster?
4 YEAR OLD: I do not. Personally, I find unethical and irresponsible scientific practice far more terrifying than any monster and so should you.

Culross in Fife, on the north shore of the Firth of Forth. The village has been beautifully restored over many years and is the nearest thing to a 16th century time capsule that Scotland has to offer. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/culross/culross/index.html

#Scotland #Fife #Culross #UndiscoveredScotland

For me, Twitter became "enshittified" when the service became about passive consumption.

And I get it. Some people just want to turn off their brains and zone out.

But not me.

I'm here to talk to people, have a conversation, and test out new ideas that could change the world.

::: Okular - your THE document viewer from KDE 📝

PDF documents, comics & EPub books... Browse images, visualize markdown documents... Even edit right there...

Annotate PDFs - easily add inline / popup notes, highlight, underline text, or add your own!

Okular is right there to click 'n' install on the software center of any established Linux OS - such as Ubuntu & Linux Mint.

Flatpak in any case => https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kde.okular

#PDF #Okular #KDE #software #document #viewer #EPub #markdown #LinuxMint #Ubuntu

#Papertime! I've been so busy last week, that I am late posting about my PhD candidate's latest (& last for her PhD!) paper:

"Observing the onset of the accretion wake in Vela X-1" by C. Diez et al., including me, @fuerst & @pkretsch

Vela X-1 is an X-ray binary that consists of a neutron star and a massive stellar companion. Here, we focus on using the X-rays produced close to the neutron star to study the accretion structure. 1/

#astrodon #astromomy #astrophysics #XraysAreTheBestRays

It's become increasingly clear that the big book publishers will not stop until libraries are dead. They claim they love libraries, but their actions speak much louder:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/22/book-publishers-wont-stop-until-libraries-are-dead/

GNOME 44 is here, it's time to party 🥳! Are you holding a release party? Let us know! Share your event with the community: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-44-release-parties/14611

Don't forget to tag us in your posts! #GNOME44 #GNOMERelease #GNOME

Stream at Burrator in the low cloud a couple of weeks ago #Dartmoor #Devon #mosstodon #photography

Cough them up, you fucking mutt!

#ArrestTrumpNow

An appeals court has ordered Trump’s attorney to turn over documents in connection with an investigation into whether classified information was mishandled after he left the White House https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-22/trump-attorney-ordered-to-turn-over-documents-to-special-counsel

Circa-Mid-1850s. One of the earliest photos of a Native American, this one showing a pet wolf. Unlike the many fearsome myths created about wolves by settlers, Native Americans maintained a close and respectful relationship with wolves and had domesticated them to become pet and working animals for hunting and carrying packs.
Source : Indians and Thier Dogs.#nativeamerican #Indigenous

U.S. President Joe Biden has proclaimed the establishment of Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in southern #Nevada. An excerpt from his proclamation reads: "the area’s exceptional dark skies, rare in highly populated Clark County, have been noted for the excellent stargazing opportunities they offer."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/03/21/a-proclamation-on-establishment-of-the-avi-kwa-ame-national-monument/

#DarkSkies

The next episode will be extremely disturbing. With ALL the trigger warnings, and for a good reason. I went through previous UN reports and the most recent Italian government findings about Russian atrocities in Ukraine, just published by La Repubblica.

Seriously, though, I'm not joking about the trigger warnings. Working with this, is giving ME nightmares, and you know how jaded I've become.

https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2023/03/20/news/ucraina_prove_laia_crimini_russi-392883965/

A fully-funded, three-year postdoctoral position in theoretical neuroscience is now available at Bocconi University's Department of Computing Sciences in Milan, Italy. The postdoctoral researcher will have the chance to explore various research topics, such as movement modulation of visual responses in mice, integrating connectomes in mechanistic models of brain functions, and building normative models of neural representations, among others. The research will utilize cutting-edge approaches from statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, and machine learning, and will be informed by the latest electrophysiological and connectomic data. Prior experience with computational neuroscience is a plus, but it is not required.

The postdoc will have the opportunity to become a part of the thriving neuroscience, machine learning, and computer science communities at Bocconi University. To learn more about these communities, please visit https://cs.unibocconi.eu/ and https://bidsa.unibocconi.eu/. The postdoc will be a member of the NSF-funded Accelnet consortium "International network for brain-inspired computation," facilitating international collaborations between a large network of computational neuroscience/AI labs. At Bocconi University, we are committed to fostering a diverse intellectual community and encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to apply for these positions.

Applicants should apply via our on-line application system, which can be found at "www.unibocconi.eu/post-doc" (Publication nr. 65633) by 23:59 of April 17th, 2023 (Italian time).

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at alessandro.sanzeni@unibocconi.it

#ScienceJobs #job #neuroscience #connectomics #academia #compneuro #computationalneuroscience #ComplexSystems #physics

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In the 1960s, when scientists began studying neutrinos streaming out of the sun, they measured only about a third of the output predicted by theory. Oscillation explained why: the missing two thirds were morphing from electron neutrinos into muon and tau neutrinos as they traveled to Earth, but the instruments were set up to see only electron neutrinos. Although the discovery put to bed the so-called solar neutrino problem, it exposed another mystery: according to theory, the only way for neutrinos to switch flavors is for them to have mass—and that is something that the Standard Model did not predict.
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i also encourage you to read this part
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But the Higgs mechanism works only on particles that come in both right-handed and left-handed versions, a fundamental difference related to the orientation of their spin relative to their direction of motion. So far neutrinos have been seen only in left-handed form. If they got mass from the Higgs field, then right-handed neutrinos must also exist. But right-handed neutrinos have never been observed, which suggests that if they are real they do not interact at all with any other forces or particles in nature
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-neutrino-puzzle/

Alternatives to the Standard Model of Education – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.net/2018/01/03/alternatives-to-the-standard-model-of-education/

DeSantis will bar all public school teachers from providing classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity next month

They’re expanding the “don’t say gay” law—a move conservatives and moderates said wouldn’t happen

File this under “this will only apply to grades 3 and under” and “Social security is safe with us” and “Any politician breaking classified records laws should go to jail”

Anything a republican says? The truth is the opposite.

Check out our #DataDetoxKit workshop outline "Smart Phone, smart habits" for educators & facilitators🧑‍🏫.

This workshop allows participants to understand what the external influences & internal stressors are & how to form balanced digital habits📱. More: https://datadetoxkit.org/en/trainings/smart-habits/

Let's be clear: America's “moral crisis” isn't about pregnancies, contraceptives, or which bathroom people use.

It's obscene CEO pay, wage theft from workers, Wall Street gambling, money corrupting our politics, and the failure of those with power to serve the common good.