Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Apr-2023 11:20:18 UTC
Stephen SekulaFrom evan@cosocial.ca on Mastodon: The difference between here and other places is that you're a participant here. All of us are building this network together, right now. Is it perfect? Not yet. Not by a long shot! But we can keep fixing it and making it what we want. Together, collectively, every day. This social web we're building isn't a product on a supermarket shelf. It's a society. It's a whole world. I'm here for the long run. I'm going to keep doing what I can. Thanks for doing what you're doing. I see you. Thanks.
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 08:40:37 UTC
Stephen SekulaFrom Sheril@mastodon.social on Mastodon: Had the pleasure of speaking with students at the University of Guelph about science communication today. Back in the olden days when I was in grad school (the first round), # scicomm wasn’t usually considered a viable career path. Many scientists blogged under pseudonyms so they wouldn’t be penalized before tenure. 20yrs later, I’m delighted as new generations of young scientists embrace the constantly changing media environment, including on # Mastodon . Who are your favorite # science follows?
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 08:30:16 UTC
Stephen SekulaGorgeous: “When I sit at my typewriter, I don’t get notifications. I don’t see things pop up on a screen telling me what time my next meeting is or sharing bad news happening somewhere in the world. The only ping I hear is the bell ringing at the end of a line indicating that I need to return the carriage.” TYPEWRITERS HAVE KICKSTARTED MY IMAGINATION (The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition)), Apr 27, 2023 https:// globe2go.pressreader.com/artic le/281754158636872
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 15:25:16 UTC
Stephen SekulaFrom mcnees@mastodon.social on Mastodon: Astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held their "Great Debate" over the scale of the Universe # OTD in 1920. Curtis argued that our Milky Way was one of many galaxies. Shapley, on the other hand, claimed the Universe was just one galaxy, with our sun far from its center. https:// archive.org/details/scaleofuni verse00shap/page/172/mode/2up
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 23:05:16 UTC
Stephen SekulaFrom jeffjarvis@mastodon.social on Mastodon: Confession: I have been on that Other Site for the last few hours talking about Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon because ... well, this is a good example of why I do miss search here. I want to see what people are saying; I want to know the latest reporting; and, yes, I want to quote-tweet NYTimes Pitchbot. Now it's OK if the community of Mastodon decides it doesn't want to be a key place for news but I'd regret that. And I'm not speaking so much as a journalist but as news user.
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 11:20:16 UTC
Stephen Sekula“Academic bullying slows the evolution of science” (Nature Commentary) https://www. nature.com/articles/s41578-023 -00549-x Provides especially a helpful list of negative behaviors to help especially students and post-docs identify and avoid persons who use this as normal practice in their groups. Also helpful for leaders so they can stay ahead of these behaviors in their teams.
@clacke Yeah I get that, here it's a file on my desktop that gets filtered by a script, there's stuff from nearly 10 years ago in there so I quite trust it. Meanwhile I don't trust a phone for even keeping contacts.
@clacke Medical science here is paid for with tax dollars and then the treatments and care are sold back to the taxpayer at high prices through a private system. AND states have sold the information to various entities—Texas sold theirs to the Pentagon, for some reason. So, it's a hellscape herre.
@brianstorms@clacke@countcol the pornographers are always at the forefront of any viable new technology. Which is why their lack of interest in crypto currency is telling.
@eliasr det var en händelse som fördes på Twitter när KD tog upp ämnet om SD:s rasistiska & nazistiska "förflutna". Åkesson blev rasande & påminde Busch att "självgoda finborgare" i KD styr landet under hans nåder. Buschs uttryckte att: "De [SD] har den bakgrund de har. Kom över det nu. Vi har uppenbarligen kunnat göra det. Hon erkände att hon & KD inte har några problem att ge inflytande åt SD & deras uppenbart levande rötter.