Many congressional staffers I interview in my research say they wish that the same science groups visiting the other party's offices would also reach out to them.
When some staff feel ignored by scientists, they may not seek out their guidance on legislation.
The result is two different policy conversations happening on single issues by each party across Capitol Hill. That’s bad for democracy & chips away at the ability to compromise.
New post: sheril.substack.com/p/we-need-… #politics
Kottke.org Hypertext Tee by Jason Kottke
A t-shirt for kottke.org, a fine hypertext product for your body.Cotton Bureau
"Andrew Gough in 2013 at the ruins of Pessinus in Turkey, pointing to the altar where the incarnation of the goddess, Cybele (a meteorite that was later acquired and moved to Rome), was worshipped."
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For Wasp Wednesday, a Megischus crown-of-thorns wasp drills deep into a redbud tree with her ovipositor, aiming to lay an egg on a wood-feeding grub inside. Illinois.
#WaspWednesday #WaspLove #Stephanidae #Hymenoptera #Photography #Nature
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So much traffic, huh 😂
【Pokemon】All Journeys Must Come To An End
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‘Heroic' Space Telescopes See Skies Packed With Planets
A superhero team of space telescopes has been working tirelessly to discover exoplanets and unveil their secrets. Now, a new superhero joins the team—the James Webb Space Telescope. What will it find?Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Today we've released a new update to our iOS app! It brings an improved sign-up flow, home screen widgets, and many accessibility improvements.
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Mastodon for iPhone and iPad
Mastodon is the largest decentralized social network on the internet. Instead of a single website, it’s a network of millions of users in independent communities that can all interact with one another, seamlessly.App Store
@Gargron @neave fair enough, but it seems like a lot of servers are gonna get caught off guard by this.
i was given this server for Jewish folks, which i am not. worries me that people with anti-semitic views could be pushed onto such a server by default and create problems for the users and admins there. even if they wouldn’t seek out the server to join, it is now presented to them as the default here. a bit of an issue i think.
@Gargron @MikeBeas maybe the UX should involve some helpers like, “This doesn’t seem like my cup of tea, try again”
Probably should have a tighter, more curated, selection of servers to randomly pick from, vs just a use-the-general-category situation. At least to start or until you can verify data cleanliness
System Shock (2023) NEW demo on Steam Deck
System Shock (2023) NEW demo on Steam Deck
What’s up hackers? Here’s some footage of Nightdive’s remake of #SystemShock on #SteamDeck. This is from the Steam Next Fest updated demo.Buy from Humble Sto...YouTube
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Man, I don't know. I loved Fawlty Towers, but the way he's been lately? I'm worried it'll deliberately make fun of progressive politics (in a not particularly funny way), or be homophobic or transphobic.
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Look At All That Damage #shorts
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#NASAMars
NASA's Curiosity Finds Surprise Clues to Mars' Watery Past
Among other discoveries made by the rover, rippled rock textures suggest lakes existed in a region of ancient Mars that scientists expected to be drier.NASA Mars Exploration
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NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.NASA
#154 The Golden Age Of Gaming On Linux | Liam Dawe
Right now is the best time it's ever been for Linux gaming, sure things aren't 100% perfect but gaming it's never been easier and we've even got the Steam De...YouTube
Watch a Progress cargo ship, loaded with nearly three tons of food, supplies, and fuel, launch to the @Space_Station on Feb. 9: go.nasa.gov/3I6aslI
Live NASA TV coverage begins at 1am ET (0600 UTC): nasa.gov/live
#NASA
Fedora Linux Actually Fixed FlatHub
Since Fedora 35 it's had the option to enable a filtered version of Flathub with a toggle called the Fedora Flathub Selection but this has never been the exp...YouTube
This sonification of the @NASAHubble Ultra Deep Field (2014) plays a note for each galaxy when it emitted the light seen in the image. In under a minute, we can hear back nearly 13 billion years to the farthest galaxies. go.nasa.gov/3xr2EVT
#NASAExoplanets
Explore - From Space to Sound
NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.NASA
“The uncrewed flight test that we conducted in late 2022 told us that we are absolutely on the right path for our Moon to Mars Program.”
Mission Manager Mike Sarafin discusses #Artemis I on the latest episode of the Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast: go.nasa.gov/3YhP1nq
#NASAArtemis #Artemis
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 101: Artemis Missions
Artemis Mission Manager Mike Sarafin discusses Artemis I and NASA's increasingly complex Moon to Mars missions.Maria Berger (NASA)
We are all too familiar with the all-too-often catastrophic impacts of #COVID19 #infection on human #health.
This fascinating new #metagenomics research in mBio explores a potentially important and intriguing link between the presence and relative abundance of different functional guilds present in the human gut #microbiome (including short chain fatty acid biosynthesis and virulence functions) and disease severity and outcomes resulting from the virus. Clearly a subject for future extended studies to explore potential increases in severity due to infection and exacerbated or mitigated by differences in gut microbiomes.
Explore the research on:
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Space Oddities: NASA Sorts Fact From Fantasy | Multimedia Section – NASA Mars Exploration
This page explains the phenomenon of pareidolia, and provides images as examples of how humans on Earth have a natural tendency to interpret some objects on Mars and elsewhere in the cosmos as familiar items seen on Earth.NASA Mars Exploration
Hatching a Teeny Tiny Zebra Finch
Leave it to The Kid Should See This for finding this gem of a video, featuring the hatching, early life, and This is the smallkottke.org
A taste of what is in progress. Table 19: Figure 2 in Gustav Tschermak's "Die Mikroskopische Beschaffenheit der Meteoriten." Compare with this image: Saratov Meteorite Thin Section - Image 11 (flic.kr/p/2jebowU)
A translated version in English can be found in Volume 4, Number 6 (1964) of "Smithsonian Contributions to Astrophysics." (repository.si.edu/handle/10088…)
Saratov Meteorite Thin Section - Image 11
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#ISS
Resupply Rocket Ready for Launch, Crew Works Science and Plumbing
A new cargo mission stands ready to launch early Thursday and dock to the International Space Station two days later.blogs.nasa.gov
#NASAMars
NASA's Curiosity Finds Surprise Clues to Mars' Watery Past
Among other discoveries made by the rover, rippled rock textures suggest lakes existed in a region of ancient Mars that scientists expected to be drier.NASA Mars Exploration
"Nextcloud Hub returns control of the online office to you and your staff from the big cloud powers."
#Nextcloud #NextcloudHub #dataprivacy
Nextcloud Hub takes on Google Docs and Office 365
Best known as a do-it-yourself cloud storage service, Nextcloud challenges SaaS vendors with launch of Hub.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
The Boy wha lived from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stane - Scottish Dialect
Part of chapter one in Scottish DialectSoundCloud
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Earthquake disaster in Syria: Give what you can to help the White Helmets save liveswhitehelmets.org
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Project HOPE is responding to a series of major earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. Learn more about this emergency and how you can help.Meg Landis (Project HOPE)
Donkey Kong cheating case rocked by photos of illicit joystick modification
Tall, red-topped stick could prove crucial in Mitchell's defamation suit.Ars Technica
Godot Engine 4.0 gets a first Release Candidate
Game developers might want to begin to look closer at this one! The free and open source Godot Engine is about to have the biggest update ever with 4.0 that now has a first Release Candidate.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Where the Elements Came From
From Wikipedia contributor Cmglee and Astronomy Picture of the Day, a color-coded periodic table that displays which cosmic evenkottke.org
After 2 years of study, NASA announced the selection of 5 possible Apollo landing sites on the Moon #OTD in 1968. The Sea of Tranquility (Site 2) was where Apollo 11 ultimately landed.
Read about the criteria that NASA used to choose the landing sites: go.nasa.gov/3Yjj3r1
#NASAhistory
50 Years Ago: Lunar Landing Sites Selected
On February 8, 1968, after two years of study NASA’s Apollo Site Selection Board announced five potential landing sites for the first human lunar landing.Mark Garcia (NASA)
#NASAhistory
NASA Identifies Candidate Regions for Landing Next Americans on Moon
As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the Moon under Artemis, the agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar South Pole.Sean Potter (NASA)
For the maximum convenience for the lander crew, might I suggest somewhere near here?
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MCDONALD'S OPENS ON THE MOON - Weekly World News
SAN BERNARDINO – The McDonald’s Corporation announced its plans to expand the franchise into unchartered territory. They're building a Mickey D’s on the moon!J.B. Smitts (Weekly World News)
NASA is committed to #OpenScience – making our data, tools, and resources free and accessible.
At 10:45 ET, Chelle Gentemann, project scientist for @nasa TOPS, is speaking about open science at the @un @unlibrary Open Science Conference.
Stream here: bit.ly/3YvAMeA
#NASAEarth
1st Day: 3rd Open Science Conference: Accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals, Democratizing the Record of Science
The record of science is not yet as open to researchers and the public as it ought to be. In the era of new digital and data infrastructures, scientific and scholarly publishing remains aligned with the Gutenbergian model of the scholarly communicati…UN Web TV
NASA, along with the @WhiteHouse and other federal agencies, has declared 2023 a #YearOfOpenScience to celebrate the benefits and successes created through the open sharing of data, information, and knowledge.
Learn more: bit.ly/3jFWAoW
#NASAEarth
Welcome to A Year of Open Science!
The federal government has declared 2023 the Year of Open ScienceJosh Blumenfeld (Earthdata)
The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time
We rank lasting favorites for young readers, from "Madeline" to "The Lorax"TIME.com
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Unknown parent • • •@donaldball What I find, over & over, is that the groups who take the time & have the resources to make the rounds to congressional offices have more influence for all sorts of reasons.
And yes, there are certainly very visible attacks on science by some, but there are 535 members & thousands of staff. We tend to focus on the most outrageous & extreme, but they're not representative of everyone. Plus, a staffer's party affiliation doesn't always reflect that of their office.
Sheril Kirshenbaum
Unknown parent • • •@jkbecker if only it were that simple. Staff are super busy juggling a lot of policy issues at once while being bombarded with multiple meetings on the same issue each day by all sorts of groups. If the science community - especially scientists already engaged in & focused on policy - hope to have greater influence, we need to learn more about the culture of the Hill.
I write this as a scientist & former Senate staffer who studies where staffers get scientific information.
Ben Pierce
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •* New friends on Mastodon - The link above is to Unelected Representative, a newsletter solely focused on my current research/dissertation about scientific decision making in the U.S. Congress.
I started writing on substack last December & so far it’s been quite helpful & interesting to explore & unpack ideas there. Thanks to those reading along! /2
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