Hubble’s Pillars of Creation continue to inspire on #WorldEmbroideryDay! 🪡 🧵
Fiber artist Melissa Cole has always been taken by the beauty and vastness of the universe. It’s what motivated their piece after Hubble’s iconic capturing of this star-forming region. #Hubble
And in the spirit of #InternationalFriendshipDay, just think how much broader of an understanding we get when Hubble is used alongside complementary observatories like @NASAWebb! go.nasa.gov/454rdGU #Hubble
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Did evolution create a tradeoff between walking upright and childbirth? For my new column I wrote about a new debate about an old ideas. nytimes.com/2023/07/30/science…
@Sheril Great to hear! Doug Emlen and I are just wrapping up the last chapter for the next edition. Got a chance to slip in the latest Homo naledi stuff before the deadline.
It’s so well done. I’m taking an evolution course to get up to speed & flying through 3 chapters a week. Thoroughly enjoying it. The examples are excellent.
Boost your 3D modeling skills with these Mammoth Blender 3D modeling courses! Get 68+ hours of step-by-step online tutorials and support Children's Miracle Network!
if anyone cares looks to be distributed thought a website. I’m guessing it’s streamed. No idea if you can download the videos yourself. Lifetime access is nice though. I’m always worried about these courses being limited time access.
NASA communicator Katy Mersmann gets inspiration from the science she works with.
Her piece is based on a data visualization of @NASAGISS GISTEMP's 2020 global surface temperature anomalies. 2020 is currently tied for the warmest year on record. go.nasa.gov/2XDI6rh #NASAEarth
Artist Danielle Currie titled her piece 46.69, 50.43 after the coordinates of an image caught by #Landsat 8 of the Caspian Sea. go.nasa.gov/3Y8TI3E 🌊 #NASAEarth
It’s amazing what you can do with a little needle and thread! For #WorldEmbroideryDay, we asked what NASA imagery inspired you. You responded with a variety of embroidered creations, highlighting our...
It’s amazing what you can do with a little needle and thread! For #WorldEmbroideryDay, we asked what NASA imagery inspired you. You responded with a variety of embroidered creations, highlighting our...
Astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin landed the Apollo 15 lunar module "Falcon" at the Hadley-Appenine site on the Moon #OTD in 1971. After landing, Scott performed the only stand-up EVA from the top hatch of the LM ever done.
Van Allen radiation belts. Put much skepticism into any human lunar landings. Won’t dispute any claims. Won’t rule out propaganda. Truth is serious. Deadly radiation belts that no one addresses, except NASA.
Pre-order + Pre-save the new album ‘War of Being’: https://tesseractkscope.lnk.to/warofbeingThe Official Music Video for TesseracT’s ‘War Of Being’ from the ...
Back in Feb, when Grammarly said they were going to think about incorporating AI, I immediately canceled my account and uninstalled. And now they've actually done it.
I'm sharing because with everything going on, writers might not realize this is happening.
Whenever I need cheering up about the climate, things like this really help:
"During the 2010s the levelised cost (that is the average lifetime cost of equipment, per megawatt hour of electricity generated) of solar, offshore wind and onshore wind fell by 87%, 62% and 56%, respectively"
And that dramatic fall in costs isn't stopping.
Even the most short-term thinkers must be convinced by that!
Today I'm taking you on a science fiction journey to Jupiter's mysterious ocean worlds. Three of Jupiter's moons - Europa, Callisto and Ganymede - will be ex...
They all fascinate me. So many different minerals tightly packed together is not at all what I imagined the interiors would look like. I expected more homogeneity. This one is a bit unusual. What's with the 2 metallic-looking bits at about 2 o'clock? They look like sheets of copper were cut; it's probably iron. Perhaps this is the homogeneity I anticipated, lol.
@stevesplace they fascinate me too, the ones you are referring to could be inclusions of a different class as happens in chondrites. right why no homogeneity... perhaps the official theory is incorrect and a better theory is needed that can explain it.
-- the worm was revived in 2018, the paper is new -- we learned more about cryptobiosis (how things remain viable for so long) from it -- an unrelated study in PLoS Computational Biology has warned that as permafrist warms, about 1% of the species that thaw & are released into our environment -NATURALLY & NOT BC OF SCIENTISTS - may be a 'black swan' event -- i'm not super supportive of this type of research. but we prolly should learn whats in the thawing sht
The counterpoint to "scarry bug from dawn of life kills us all", that is just as likely, is that life is a constant arms race, everything from microbes to megafauna are constantly one-upping each other, trying to murder the shit out of one another, and anything that thaws out from the permafrost is likely to be hopelessly behind, and much more at risk from us that we are of them. At least, I hope so, it sounds plausible enough.
It’s one of those news stories playing in the background as the main character goes off to their day job, not knowing what’s about to go down and all the trials and tribulations they’ll have to go through to reunite with their love ones.
@RadikAlice lol, I didn't even notice. Although it was her initialization sequence — "Yes, Master. Sexual Service. Chikou(?). Gachi-gachi(?). Linux. Hey Siri. Welcome."
I have never felt so vindicated. I battled to call them "reposts" instead of "respins", "boosts", or whatever other dumb thing. Simplicity has won. The RETWEET IS DEAD! ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ 🐦
I have no idea how nobody is talking about this situation but a while back GNU developers forked Libreboot as GNU Boot and due to some hilarious circumstance...
I mean I'm not sure the FSF wants anyone to take them seriously anymore. Given what they stand for, giving a cease and desist order without any communication to a FOSS project seems very hypocritical.
@SuperDicq I've spoken to neox since and he doesn't disagree with any major points only with the framing and that I didn't include why they wanted to make GNU Boot
I really hope all the people who name their software to start with "yet another" / "ya..." will start cease and desist letters to each other and they will start giving their stuff real names.
This is such a dumb thing to be hostile over... It was trivially simple to just say "Libreboot is good, but we wanna know how far we can push the libre-only ideal and help them 100% embody the name", but no, had to make it salty.
New resource: a set of miscellaneous general-purpose R functions. I created most of these functions for my own personal use over the past 13 years, but I have also shared them informally with many students, friends, and colleagues. I have decided to publish them for anyone else who may be interested. They address a variety of tasks that sometimes come up in psychological data analysis.
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I have really come to love Mastodon. So much so, I have followed everyone I found interesting, and everyone who has followed me.
Now I am following 7,500 people, and while I really enjoy that, Mastodon now prevents me from following anyone else.
I do not understand, why Mastodon would have such a rule. To me it seems very counterproductive to the whole concept of connecting with people from all over the world.
It's a universal limit, you can follow up to 7,500 and then a a ratio of 1.1x of your own followers (so if you have 7,500 followers, you can follow more people). We implemented it very long ago as an anti-abuse mechanism; similar limits exist on other social media platforms.
@Gargron Gargron, it is not the best idea, but if there was a button to trim my follows down to only the people who followed me back, I might use it occasionally. Also, trimming out accounts that I followed but they haven't posted in 100 days. That kind of housekeeping ought to be standard, right?
Thanks for letting me know about the limit Randahl. I follow 2k people, but only about half have followed me back. I love the diversity, but manually trimming would be a huge task.
@Gargron This makes sense. I wonder, however: in addition to the global limits set by these variables, would it be possible to implement an allowlist of accounts exempt from this limit? This would allow individual exceptions (perhaps through manual validation with the instance admins) without affecting everyone else and risking more spam. It would make sense in "legit" cases such as the one here!
@Gargron thank you Eugen. That makes a lot of sense. I remember how the follow function on Twitter was abused by pornographic accounts to get attention. That was quite annoying.
However, the current error message is not accurate then. Could a solution be to add a "Read more" link to the message?
Alternatively, I believe updating the error message to explain the exact rule would be helpful.
a user has asked you _why_ such a limit exists, but instead of answering the question you…
a) confirm that it does then b) go on to give some details on how exactly it works, then c) state that the limitation has been introduced «very long ago» and d) excuse its existance by refering to other social networks limiting their users…
I'm a committed #Mastodon user. But I sympathize with the complaints she has gathered and understand why they drove many users away.
All of us who are here and committed to stay should take them seriously, especially if we want more people from our networks to give Mastodon a try (not deterred by its reputation), like what they find (not deterred by their experience), and decide to join us.
Paul Kessler, lead designer for @nasa's future lunar surface habitat, develops living quarters for future astronauts on the Moon.
Designing around the advantages and constraints of space travel are all aspects of his work at @NASA_Marshall. go.nasa.gov/3Qn996N #NASAArtemis #Artemis
Are Sun-like stars the best place to find livable worlds? Two rocket teams traveled to Australia for a better view of a pair of stars that may hold the answer. In Episode 5 of High Above Down Under, it’s finally time to launch. Follow the series: go.nasa.gov/3PHtenQ
There are likely billions of planets in our galaxy. With over 5,000 already confirmed, how do we know which ones might hold life? Two NASA sounding rockets a...
(Reader's Note: Gravity waves aren't the same as gravitational waves, this isn't an argument against spending lots of money on LIGO and pulsar timing arrays 😉 )
Researchers from @BoiseState and @USUAggies are using data from @nasa’s Earth satellites to measure beaver restoration impacts across Idaho and Utah – and help ranchers reintroduce beavers to their land. 🦫: go.nasa.gov/3XXfDuE
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