#Scientists
#glymphatic system
#Scientists Discover Previously Unknown #Cleansing System in #Brain (2012)
"Recycling dead #solarpanels isn’t easy. These #Australian #scientists might have found a solution"
#Solarenergie #energiewende #photovoltaik #Solarzellen #Solarkraftwerk #Solarmodule #solarspeicher
*I hope the environmentalists win in court!*
Despite #scientists’ #warnings that #drought and #unsustainable #water use could make the lake disappear in five years, #extraction and #pollution continue. On Sept. 6, five #environmental groups, including the #UtahRiversCouncil and the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, #sued #Utah for failing to protect the #GreatSaltLake. If they win, Utah may have to reconsider its motto.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.12/energy-industry-take-a-toxic-tour-of-the-great-salt-lake
It's great to follow #scientists - geologists, biologists, climatologists and the rest, but as many of them post so rarely I'm just not seeing what they're adding here unless I go to their actual timeline and check it out. I realise there's no way around this given how it's all set up here, and that the alternative is to look under hashtags...but, if those scientists don't dot their posts with useful hashtags then I'm still missing out. It's time-consuming but often worth it to look at people's timelines for specifically interesting things.
Le Quoc Tuan, 59, has spent nearly 30 years looking for & protecting the #PhuQuocRidgeback & now runs a #ConservationCenter with over 400 of the #dogs.
He collaborated with #scientists to #research into & #ConserveGenes from #PhuQuoc #Ridgebacks on the island.
His farm has now grown to 6,000 m2 & Tuan also leases 4.8 ha of #ForestLands for what is the largest #conservation center for the dogs in the country.
#Scientists raise alarm as #bacteria are linked to #massdeath of #seasponges weakened by #warming #Mediterranean
#Scientists Have Figured Out How To Use #RiceHusks & #Newspapers for #EcoFriendly #Insulation
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/eco-friendly-thermal-insulation-rice-husks
The Leeuwin Group of #scientists slams #Alcoa for #mining in #WesternAustralia 's jarrah forests - #deforestation https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-27/the-leeuwin-group-scientists-stop-alcoa-mining-wa-jarrah-forests/103155496
What prevents scientists from engaging in #climate #activism? In a new preprint, Dablander et al. investigated the barriers holding #scientists back from participating in protests, incl. #CivilDisobedience. They distinguish intellectual & practical barriers, and give recommendations for overcoming them.
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/73w4s
The authors found that around 10% of scientists already participate in civil disobedience, and that more than half were willing to do so!
#Scientists call on #Canada to adopt ecologically minded forest degradation definition
Canada must address forest degradation: scientists
U.S. moves to protect #wolverines as climate change melts their mountain refuges https://www.wglt.org/2023-11-29/u-s-moves-to-protect-wolverines-as-climate-change-melts-their-mountain-refuges
"The North American #wolverine will receive long-delayed threatened species protections under a #Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to #scientists warning that #ClimateChange will likely melt away the rare species' snowy mountain refuges and push them toward #extinction."
#Conservation #ConservationOptimism #JoeBiden #Democrats #ClimateCrisis
Hey, hey! Episode 3 is up! Check out my conversation with evolutionary biologist Zack Blount, who lets us know why #scientists need to read widely—and tells us what makes for good #horror and a good #bookstore .
https://plainreading.libsyn.com/reading-for-the-sake-of-science-zachary-blount
"What I like particularly is that this is not a book of facts, but a book of questions. The idea that #science is simply the regurgitation of facts robs the field of its wonder, and the different explanations for the extraordinarily long necks of #plesiosaurs show how science is looking for answers. Children are natural #scientists and anything which encourages them to ask questions and look for answers is valuable."
From a review of #ThePlesiosaursNeck on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3GlEWhW
What JUST #EMERGED At #Iceland TERRIFIES #scientists
Funeral in Berlin
Good time for all those #scientists saying there is no hard evidence for #UAP / #UFOs to ask their elected officials why they don't want government transparency on this topic.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/david-grusch-on-joe-rogan-experience/
I’m trying to imagine what it would look like if #academic #publishing followed the same rules as #online #arguments.
Paper: “#Harvard did a #study …”
Reviewer 1: “I am unaware of that study. Please provide a #citation.”
Author’s response: “LOL #Google it!”
Paper: “#Mathematical #calculations show …”
Reviewer 2: “There is an error in this #proof.”
Author’s response: “Don’t fall for #BigMath’s #woke lies!”
Paper: “#Scientists now believe …”
Reviewer 3: “The current #consensus strongly disagrees with this statement.”
Author’s response: “Think for yourself! Do your own #research!”
Ah, well, back to the real world, where I actually have to support my #claims.
The #Sun Just Shocked #Scientists With First #Aurora Ever Seen
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/astronomers-spot-aurora-on-the-sun-for-the-1st-time
As #scientists we will never get #evangelicals & #dominionists to accept they have input into our planets #environmental destiny. As long as they believe some #deity created earth & humans, and there is some grand #plan known only by their deity, they will continue to roll down the road doing nothing bc they believe the plan is concrete and #preordained by their deity. Their inherent fear of challenging the plan is predicated on their perfect deity sending them to burn which jeopardizes us all.
Team takes first-ever photos of the Vangunu giant rat
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-team-first-ever-photos-vangunu-giant.html
#VangunuGiantRat (Uromys vika) survives in the Zaira Community Resource Management Area, Solomon Islands https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.10703
"For many years, locals living in the #SolomonIslands have reported stories of large #rats that climb trees and crack open #coconuts with their teeth. Because the rats went unstudied by #scientists, it was unknown whether the rats were a unique species"
This is totally neat. A game to #teach how to better spot #FakeNews. I played — had fun and learned!
"#Scientists who worked with us on the development of this #game found that playing Bad News improves people’s ability to spot #manipulation techniques in #SocialMedia posts, increases their #confidence in spotting such techniques, and reduces their willingness to share manipulative content with #people in their #network."
https://www.getbadnews.com/books/english/
Bad News — Play the fake news game!
This sea #worm's posterior swims away, and now #scientists know how https://phys.org/news/2023-11-sea-worm-posterior-scientists.html
Morphological, Histological and Gene-Expression Analyses on #Stolonization in the Japanese Green Syllid, Megasyllis nipponica (#Annelida, Syllidae) https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3229453/v1
"the posterior body part with gonads of the syllid worm detaches from its original body. The detached part is full of #gametes...The #stolon swims around by itself and spawns when it meets the opposite sex."
#Scientists achieve major leap forward to potential #hairlosscure
The successful printing of #hairfollicles with the prospect of #3Dprinted #skingrafts capable of growing hair is set to shape the future of #medicalprocedures concerning #artificialhairtransplant.
https://www.wionews.com/science/scientists-achieve-major-leap-forward-to-potential-hair-loss-cure-660474
#Scientists have #filmed what appear to be the first known instances of #nonPenetrative #reproductiveSex in #mammals, in #bats living in a church attic in the #Netherlands and at a #Ukrainian bat-rehabilitation centre. They wrote about their discovery this week in Current Biology1.
#Scientists have discovered a new #hydrothermal vent field in the #Galápagos — with the help of #crabs.
While the team used an array of sensitive equipment to zero in on the possible location, the sight of increasingly dense populations of #GalatheidCrabs (genus #Munidoposis), also called #SquatLobsters, ultimately led them to the new field. It is located in the #GalápagosSpreadingCenter..
#Seal #Scientists Wearing Funky Hats Discover 2-Kilometer-Deep Canyon Under #Antarctica
The canyon has been named the Mirounga-Nuyina Canyon in honor of the seals that discovered it. https://www.iflscience.com/seal-scientists-wearing-funky-hats-discover-2-kilometer-deep-canyon-under-antarctica-71547
Lovely Peeps! 👋
Came across this today: "Five Questions To Ask A Prospective Bishop"
This stood out: 'What is the nature of their vision? True vision does three things: it sees things as they are, both the sorryness & grandeur; it connects people to each other in both curiosity & solidarity...'
It made me think of #Mastodon; not perfect, but filled with #artists, #activists, #scientists, #philosophers, & #geeks, all trying their best to connect & uplift.
💛 you all.
https://simonparke.com/five-questions-to-ask-the-prospective-bishop
How #Scientists Revived #Dead #pigs Organs, and What the Feat Means for #Transplants
A whole-body perfusion system restored cellular activity in #pigs an hour #postmortem
Covid strain that killed 8k cats found in UK
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/covid-strain-cats-cyprus-sypmtoms-fcov23-b2446492.html
#ycombinator #Cats #COVID_19 #Scientists #Coronavirus #Cyprus #Internal
Trust in #science down; trends worst in minorities, Republicans
Pew Research Center showed drop is most pronounced for self-identified #Republicans and those without #college education. Despite decline, however, #scientists rank among most trusted #occupations in #US. From 2016-2021, portion of US residents who felt science had a mostly positive effect on society hovered within three points of 70%. As of 2023, it dropped to 57%. 8% say science has mostly negative impact!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/americans-trust-in-science-continues-declining-from-its-pandemic-peak/
Listen to #Scientists (Except for #Nuclear #Power)
https://www.okdoomer.io/listen-to-scientists-except-for-nuclear-power/
Number of #species at risk of #extinction doubles to 2 million, UN estimates, new analysis has found
While #scientists have long documented the decline of species of plants and vertebrates, there has always been significant uncertainty over #insects, with the UN making a "tentative estimate" of 10% threatened with extinction in 2019. Since then, more data has been collected on insects, showing the proportion at risk of extinction is much higher than previously estimated
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/species-at-risk-extinction-doubles-to-2-million-aoe
Scientists discover ‘hidden’ reason why certain people suffer from UTIs | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/signs-of-a-uti-causes-how-to-prevent-b2444307.html
#Scientists
#UTIs
#Women
#Pathogens
#BladderWall
#ScienceAdvances
#ChronicUrinaryTractInfectionCampaign
#CUTIC
#ProfessorRohn
While famous for his telescopes, William Herschel made a significant discovery using a microscope, too - he established that Coral was not, as many scientists then believed, a plant, because it didn't have plant-like cell walls.
10 things you might not know about William Herschel:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/11/15-november-sir-william-herschel.html
-- Creation Myths w/ Erika (Gutsick Gibbon) & Daniel Stern Cardinale | SkepTalk 11.12.23 --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQS2odvqKIY
#BerkeleyLab #Scientists have elected to #Unionize under the #UAW joining thousands of post doctorate and grad students . This is the first known #national laboratory site, home to 16 previous #NobelPrizes , where top #researchers have entered a #union.
https://dailycal.org/2023/11/06/berkeley-lab-scientists-voted-unanimously-to-join-uaw-5810/ #HealthCareIsARight
The #scientists are one (correct) side, the other side, the ones with the scam, are here in #Germany #Aiwanger #CDU #Merz #CSU #Soeder #FDP #Buschmann #Lindner #Wissing and in the #USA it's #BlackStone (The Blackstone Group Inc.).
It's as simple as that.
@terrygrundy @breadandcircuses
Great to see science news recognizing the manipulation of a global #ClimateChange political conference as being "science news".
Easy to forget that most of the globe's scientists want climate change stopped.
How might a #GeneralStrike of #Scientists and #Technologists steer government action on climate change?
I see scientists numbered at ~9 million globally.
A far higher number of technologists?
Technologists are essential to climate change continuing.
#Scientists only want to destroy #mystery!
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/science-4
When Marie Curie was a young woman, it was almost impossible for a woman to receive a university education. However, in Poland, there was a clandestine "Flying University," where she and her older sister were able to study.
10 things you might not know about Marie Curie:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2014/11/7th-november-marie-curie.html
@marcrr Here are so many #scientists!
Unfortunately, the media are too much oriented to quote only Shitter. But hey, there are so many scientists, science instances and even #preprint bots to discover here! Try this list: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon and try science hashtags! #science #ScienceMastodon #ScienceTalk
who are #scientists, #historians, #theologians, #psychologists, #doctors, and generally thought leaders (past and present) who are known for significant meaningful work and also believed / acted / experienced strange lives?
Some that come to my mind include Nikola Tesla, Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, John von Neumann, Carl Jung.
http://bit.ly/3MvJxBX
Today any judicial action by the Prosecutor's Office in #México against a group of 31 Mexican crooked #Scientists accused of diverting public money from the public body "National Council for Science and Technology" #Conacyt to the private organization "Scientific and Technological Consultative Forum" #FCCyT has been closed
Some uS$ 28 million that should have been used in research in #Science were embezzled in luxurious villas, high-end cars and feasts
Seals Show #Scientists an Unknown Antarctic Canyon https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/seals-show-scientists-an-unknown-antarctic-canyon/
#SouthernOcean #pinnipeds provide bathymetric insights on the East #Antarctic continental shelf https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00928-w
"They spotted places where the #seals dove deeper than should have been possible according to the maps—meaning the existing depth estimates were inaccurate."
@Jezebelley #Education is, unfortunately, the responsibility of institutionally superstitious self-aggrandising politicians rather than #scientists .
#Scientists discover additional healthy #DeepSea #CoralReefs and new #seamounts in the #Galápagos https://phys.org/news/2023-11-scientists-additional-healthy-deep-sea-coral.html
"The larger of the #reefs spans over 800 meters in length. The second measures 250 meters in length. They exhibit a rich diversity of stony #coral species, suggesting that they have likely been forming and. supporting marine biodiversity for thousands of years. This discovery follows the April 2023 finding of the first deep coral reefs in the #GalápagosMarineReserve"
@davidho @davidho the part under the headline that worries me in all caps:“#globalwarming is so rampant that some scientists say we should begin altering the stratosphere to block incoming sunlight, EVEN IF IT JEOPARDIZES RAIN AND CROPS.” In short, #scientists want to slow down #globalwarming with SRM even if (when) they know it can (will) cause the dehydration and starvation of so many living beings. :blobangery: It’s #linearThinking instead of #SystemsThinking.
#Scientists Accidentally Created Material for Superfast #ComputerChips
https://www.inverse.com/science/new-semiconductor-material-rhenium-fast-computer-chips
Scientists Discover Healthy #DeepSea #Coral Reef and New #Seamounts in the Galápagos https://schmidtocean.org/healthy-deep-sea-coral-reef-and-new-seamounts-in-the-galapagos/
"#Scientists examining underwater cliff ecosystems onboard #ResearchVessel #Falkor (too) using #ROV #SuBastian, have discovered 2 pristine #CoralReefs in the waters surrounding the #Galápagos. These newly identified #ColdWaterReefs are situated at depths ranging from 370 to 420 meters. The discovery expands our understanding of #DeepReefs within the #GalápagosIslandsMarineReserve"
#Mouse #Mummies Show Life Persists in #Mars-like Environment https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mouse-mummies-show-life-persists-in-mars-like-environment1/
#Genomic insights into the mystery of #MouseMummies on the summits of #Atacama #volcanoes https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)01161-2
"#Scientists had expected life at the summits to be limited to #microbes... Instead a new analysis suggests that #mice found living on the peaks aren’t outliers but representatives of a fairly persistent population."
#genomics #extremophiles #mammals #animals #astrobiology #AtacamaDesert
In 2020, #scientists decided just to rework the alphanumeric symbols they used to represent #genes rather than try to deal with an #Excel feature that was interpreting their names as dates and (un)helpfully reformatting them automatically.
#Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking #scientific data
A new setting in Excel gives users control over the automatic data conversion feature that forced scientists to rework symbols representing human genes. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/21/23926585/microsoft-excel-misreading-dates-human-genes-conversion-fixed
Study found #injured #plants #emit certain #chemicalcompounds which can infiltrate a healthy plant’s inner tissues and activate #defenses from within its cells. A better understanding of this mechanism could allow #scientists and #farmers to help fortify plants against #insect attacks or #drought long before they happen. study marks 1st x researchers have been able to visualize plant-to-plant communication https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41589-9 #ClimateCrisis #farming #agriculture
#Scientists in 2019 warned that worldwide, 1M species of #plants & #animals were at risk of #extinction. There are more than 1,300 species listed as either #endangered or threatened in the United States under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct. The 21 species being removed include one #mammal, 10 types of #birds, two species of fish and eight types of #mussels. Eight of the 21 species were found in # Hawaii. Endangered Species Act has no teeth and the loses are accelerating https://www.cbsnews.com/news/21-species-removed-from-endangered-list-due-to-extinction-us-wildlife-officials-say/
Someone came up with the idea that with a powerful laser you can make roads and paved landing pads on the moon 🤯 I must be admitted that it would solve many problems caused by the ubiquitous dust there. I just hope that no Pole will work when doing these roads, because after a while they would be hollow and uneven 😂
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#Scientists could use #lasers and mirrors to melt the #moon's surface into roads | #TechSpot #TDBNews
https://www.techspot.com/news/100487-scientists-could-use-lasers-mirrors-melt-moon-surface.html
#Kew report: Five key #extinction risks facing the world’s #plants and #fungi https://www.carbonbrief.org/kew-report-five-key-extinction-risks-facing-the-worlds-plants-and-fungi/
"#Scientists’ understanding of how #ClimateChange and #HabitatLoss could drive plant and fungi #extinctions is being hamstrung by knowledge gaps in how many species currently exist, a new report warns."
#ClimateCrisis #Climate #Biodiversity #mushrooms #conservation #ecology
@davidzipper +9001%
We need #SmallerVehicles everywhere incentives like #WalkableNeighbourhoods, #BikingInfrastructure and useable and #accessible #PublicTransport ain't gonna cut it.
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/PLV
And #scientists have already said so in a study:
https://www.transportenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Battery-metals-demand-from-electrifying-passenger-transport-2.pdf
#TLDR: #PersonalLightVehicles instead of #SuperUselessVehicles must be normalized!
Anti-Science - not just ignorant #misinformation
The #AntiScience Movement is well-funded, it’s deadly, and it’s coming to a political race near you
#Covid
#COVIDisAirborne - #RespiratorUp
#Scientists targeted
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccine-scientist-warns-antiscience-conspiracies-have-become-a-deadly-organized-movement/
#Scientists find oxygen levels increased during boom in ancient #MarineLife https://phys.org/news/2023-10-scientists-oxygen-boom-ancient-marine.html
Oxygenation of the Baltoscandian shelf linked to Ordovician biodiversification https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01287-z
"The study's findings revealed a gradual increase in #oxygen levels within the #Ordovician oceans, particularly during the early to middle stages of this period. These well-oxygenated waters were traced back to the ancient Iapetus #Ocean, near the equator."
14-year-old named America's Top Young Scientist for Development of Skin Cancer Treatment. https://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-14-year-old-named-americas-top-young-scientist-/2023/10/11/9896732.htm
#Scientists #SkinCancer
History of black #corals rewritten https://phys.org/news/2023-10-history-black-corals-rewritten.html
Bathymetric #evolution of black corals through #DeepTime https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.1107
"#Scientists have rewritten the history of #BlackCorals, revealing their origin on the #ContinentalSlopes (250–3,000 meters deep) 437 million years ago."
The #animalkingdom is even #gayer than we thought, says new #study
You call it a #zoo. We call it a #Pride #parade. A new study from #scientists at #Spanish #research #institute #EstaciónExperimentalDeZonasÁridas reveals that #samesex #sexualactivity has been identified in more than 1,500 #species across the #animalkingdom.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Science #Nature #Representation #Culture
https://www.intomore.com/culture/the-animal-kingdom-is-even-gayer-than-we-thought-says-new-study/
Since #Twitter is not a safe place anymore for #scientists / #researchers : Do you guys have examples of great #scicomm channels (ideally managed by individual researchers) here on #mastodon or on other social media platforms (#LinkedIn, #bluesky #Instagram ) 🤔
They can be in #German or English. Thanks so much 😘
@theteapixie Here's a small list of at least of the #scienceWriters https://truesciphi.org/psw_mas.html
Try also the hashtags #Scientists #STEM #fediScience #ScienceMastodon #academia and the hashtags for the different disciplines to discover people. Mastodon has several instances for science only and Mastodon's new search also works well now. @dangillmor
And while some of the methods for #FogHarvesting …have been around for generations, #scientists & #entrepreneurs have been innovating new ways, including #technology that can pull #water from the #air in practically any #environment.
…
Jacob Murungi & his wife… spend their nights in the local #forest high in the #mountains of central #Kenya collecting water — from the #trees.
Open letter from #UK #scientists to the UK #government opposing their nonsensical "kicking #woke ideology out of #science" - please read and consider signing. #astrodon https://hull.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/edi_in_science
When #scientists use terms like “Gobsmackingly bananas” maybe we should pay attention?
#ClimateCrisis
How #Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis https://www.wired.com/story/how-insect-brains-melt-and-rewire-during-metamorphosis/
"Do #FruitFlies remember their larval lives? To find out, #scientists made the #neurons inside #larvae glow, then tracked how they reshuffled as they formed adult #brains."
Clouds now contain microscopic pieces of #plastic that in turn are causing “plastic rainfall”, according to a new study.
#Scientists fear that these particles of less than 5mm - known as #microplastics - could be contaminating “nearly everything we eat and drink”.
#Academics & #government #scientists say the campaign also is successfully throttling the years-long effort to #study #online #falsehoods, which grew after #Russian attempts to #interfere in the 2016 #election caught both #SocialMedia sites & politicians unawares.
Interviews w/ >2 dozen professors, government officials, #physicians, #nonprofits & #research funders… describe an escalating campaign emerging as #online #propaganda is rising.
#Misinformation research by #academics, #universities, #scientists is buckling under GOP legal attacks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-misinformation-jim-jordan/
#RishiSunak urged to stop attacking #ClimateChange Committee
#Scientists ask PM to cease ‘politicising’ government’s independent advisers after his remarks and #Tory letter to journalists https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/22/rishi-sunak-urged-to-stop-attacking-climate-change-committee
There is the #science (that on average refers to the evidence) & there are the people that for varying personal reasons, attack that #science on social media.
Sunak’s family firm signed a billion-dollar deal with BP before PM opened new North Sea licences https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sunaks-family-firm-signed-a-billion-dollar-deal-with-bp-before-pm-opened-new-north-sea-licences-353690/
#Scientists Make Breakthrough in Undoing #Spine Injuries
While we are figuring out new #socialmedia landscapes, this new preprint might be of interest to #scientists:
“tweeted articles were downloaded more often immediately after tweeting, and retained significantly higher Altmetric scores and number of tweets 3 years after tweeting. However, the overall increase in citation counts after three years (+7% for Web of Science and +12% for Google Scholar) was not statistically significant”
It drove them batty... BlahBlah. Bats in the bellfray... BlahBlah. They're in a flap... Etc. Dead parents... Zzzzz.
"The Race to Save the Pekapeka-Tou-Poto, #NewZealand’s Unique #Bat
"For #Scientists, monitoring the feisty, #Endangered burrowing bat includes moments of 'actual madness..."
#News #Nature #Bats #Zoology #Conservation #PekapekaTouPoto
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-zealand-bat-pekapeka-tou-poto
I signed this group letter, together with @valmasdel, @cassouman40 and 300 other scientists in #France.
The #oil megaproject #EACOP, emblematic of #climate-harming projects, is being criticized by #scientists. It's the tree that hides the forest. We must adopt a global #FossilFuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Such projet will transform the #Earth in an uninhabitable #planet.
#StopEACOP #FossilFuelTreaty #EndFossilFuels #FastFairForever
#ClimateChange
@academicchatter
#Plastic #Pollution everywhere... Including our bloodstreams. But there may be a suitably buggy solution.
"...#Scientists are scouring #Garbage sites around the world for #Bacteria, #Fungi and even #Insects that harbor #Enzymes that could be harnessed for breaking down various #Polymers. It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such #Biological #Recycling could put a dent in the #PlasticWaste problem..."
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2023/how-to-recycle-plastic-with-enzymes
In B&M, just seen a home sausage roll maker. I'm not sure the people of #Scotland are ready for such a responsibility. Yet another case of #scientists thinking if they could, and not pausing to ask if they should...
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange solutions require as much varied and relevant information as possible.
This story is of a daunting, dangerous, and unique #scientific effort to help determine just how dire our extremely dire situation may be.
"#Scientists have less material from under the #IceSheet [covering #Greenland] than they do from the surface of the #moon."
Thinking about how #mastodon is great for #academia / #scientists, because not only do science deniers have less reach on this site without their #BlueChecks, but we have servers dedicated to various scientific fields, moderated by members of that community. This gives them an easy way to talk to each other, as a small community, which simultaneously functions as a way for them to talk in public in front of all of us, so we can see what they're working on, and chime in.
That's what's great about #Fediverse: every group can find a space that's uniquely tailored to them, but still connected to the whole world.
@natematias SUCH a great thread 🧵
Thank you so much for inspiring it. #science #bravery #scientists
This one was found at the website of #KenHam (ol’ Hambo) — the ayatollah of Appalachia, the world’s #holiest man who knows more about #religion and #science than everyone else. It’s titled #Scientists Discover Hundreds of Frog #Species “Glow”, and it was written by ol’ Hambo himself.
https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2023/08/24/hambos-inspiring-post-about-frog-sex/
More on #RishiSunak's prevarication about (re)joining the EU's #horizon research funding programme:
no surprise that the continued delay to conluding the deal (already mostly finalised) is leading #scientists & research staff to either decamp to new jobs in the EU or not apply to come to the UK to join research projects....
My guess is by now the damage is irreversible, become yet one more cost of #Brexit & the #Tories political myopia.
once again #headinmyhands
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/25/uk-facing-brain-drain-of-cancer-researchers-after-failure-to-join-eu-scheme
I have the feeling that this #Nature paper is motivating even more #scientists to quit #X than all #Musk's decisions over one year.
So many of my colleagues are now joining other social networks... 🤣
R.I.P. #X
"Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty"
#academicchatter #academicmastodon @academicchatter #academic #SocialNetwork #Twitter #twittermigration #AcademicLife
The Esquire, August 2015
By John H. Richardson,
Jason Box: "I think most #scientists must be burying overt recognition of the awful truths of climate change in a protective layer of denial."
Laymen too
Jeffrey Kiehl concluded that #consumption and #growth have become so central to our sense of personal identity, we literally cannot imagine making the necessary changes. It threatens us with a loss of faith in the fundamental order of the universe
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a36228/ballad-of-the-sad-climatologists-0815/
#capitalism #climate
"Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty."
The #1 choice is Mastodon!
Let's reach out to all our scientist (and non-scientist) friends and acquaintances and encourage them to join the Fediverse. If you still have an account on twitter, post some messages there with links to the Mastodon signup site. Let's welcome them here and provide some gentle hints on how to be productive here.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
#Scientists #twitter