“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.”
@openscience It's true. Scientific education is lacking in public education. It isn't always taught with the curious excitement that drives creatives to make discoveries.
@openscience there are too many companies involved in science for all sorts of malicious reasons. Shaming people for choosing (or not) to believe a certain issue is seriously problematic.
Nuovo record assoluto per la temperatura globale. Il 21 luglio è salita fino a 17.09°C, il valore più alto da quando si hanno dati a disposizione https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/
An important discovery in the past quarter century or so of extragalactic astronomy is the existence of scaling relations which very simply relate different properties of those galaxies.
One of the most intriguing relations connects the total stellar mass of a galaxy to the mass of its black hole. Virtually every evolved galaxy in the sky has a supermassive black hole in its center, and the mass of each of those black holes is about 0.2% the mass of the stars in its galaxy.
At first glance, this relation is pretty simple -- big galaxies have big black holes. But more profoundly this relation suggests that supermassive black holes co-evolve with the galaxies they live in.
This winds up begin a really useful tool: If you know the mass of all the stars in a galaxy, you can reasonably estimate the mass of its black hole! So if we want to build a census of black holes, we can start out with a census of galaxy stellar masses!
Did you know that all #Hubble and #JWST images (and most things produced by @spacetelescope) are in the public domain?
That means you can do whatever you want with them (as long as it's legal), including charging admission to see your exhibit of T-shirts with JWST images printed on them, to help fund your Hubble-inspired tattoo.
The rise of ChatGPT-style "AI tools" is a climate change issue. Advertising them is, by extension, an attempt at disengaging our sense of alarm.
Therefore, "you need to adapt and learn these 'tools'" is an anti-climate stance. Companies that engage in marketing these tools *are* engaging in the politics of climate change, even if they don't know it yet.
Them: "Could you record this session?" Me: "Sure!"
Me, 1 h later, converting and listening to the session: "Aaaaugh my Swedish accent!!!" The recording: "... so this catalog is defined by the user support team in eash location ..."
I haven't listened to myself speak for years, I forgot how much it can hurt. 😅
The recording is only my microphone and screen. Half of the recording is silence and nothing happening on the screen, because someone else on the call is talking and I'm listening.
I'm using VLC to convert the video. Is there a way within VLC to skip silent parts when converting? I cannot download arbitrary software on this machine, VLC is what I have.