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This is the radio telescope at the McDonald Observatory located west of Fort Davis Texas. There's 4-20 sec shots stacked to make the image.
in reply to Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ)

What I love about these images is the depth. It’s unfathomable distance but somehow my brain can start to put things in front of one another with images like this.


New #ISEPpapers #preprint! Comprehensive analysis of the microbial consortium in the culture of flagellate #Monocercomonoides exilis biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20… #protists #microbes #mitochondria #bacteria #biorxiv @biorxivpreprint

"Monocercomonoides exilis is the only known amitochondriate eukaryote, making it an excellent model for studying the implications of mitochondrial reduction from a cellular and evolutionary point of view."




A little photo shoot around the Northern Quarter.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Manchester

in reply to Eugen Rochko

I’m sure you meant to use this
Emoji to represent your darling wife:💝 meant in good humour.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Nice ones! Esp. love the last colourful shot - the reflection in the sunglasses is such a perfect detail.



Over at @sciencemagazine I reviewed @9brandon's marvelous MEET THE NEIGHBORS, about animal lives, animal minds, and ethics of animal-human relating. It's a brilliant book and I hope you'll check it out. #books #bookreview #bookstodon #animals #animalwelfare #animalrights #anthropology #biology science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc…


Thrilled that this short animation based around my work on animal grief is now live. The animation division of TED, at TED-Ed, invited me to collaborate with their team in bringing out some of the animal-grief science and my ideas on why knowing this information matters for treatment of animals. I worked with a brilliant animator, Denis Chapon! Have a look: youtube.com/watch?v=9sNpMb4M7X… #animals #anthropology #grief #animalwelfare #animalrights #animation #TED


DYK the #palmoil in #junkfood like #Doritos 🤒🤮 and #Gatorade 🫗 is linked to #indigenous #landgrabbing and violence in #Peru? 🇵🇪 It's what the ads leave out that's most important. Learn more about how you can #BoycottPalmOil 🧐 via @palmoildetectives wp.me/pcFhgU-8EG


youtube.com/watch?v=XORui0wFKn…

Gaia: Here Comes the Sun

Credit: Galaxy Illustration: N. Risinger (skysurvey.org); Star Data: Gaia Mission, ESA, A. S. Sellés (U. Heidelberg) et al.

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240804.ht… #APOD

#APOD
in reply to (moving) APOD

This helped me visualize the density of stars in the Milky Way better than anything I've seen before.
Question: is there a way of knowing how fast the camera is moving in the video? I'm guessing it starts at tens of c.


PSA: You might need to dust your computer every once in a while. I just learned this the hard way, since the exozyme server's fans have been unusually loud lately. I took a peak inside and some of the vents were just ridiculous walls of three years of accumulated dust! After cleaning those out, the fans started chilling again and the idle CPU temp dropped a few degrees. Now I need to remember to do this once a year!



The "Art" of Tea Blowing


"So you are a Brit and you love your national drink, and at Tea Time you stand around waiting for the kettle to boil... what do you do with the spare three or four minutes that this takes?. What you do is revive the Lost Art of Tea-Pot Blowing. You fill the pot full of liquid, press your mouth and cheeks firmly over the lidless hole in the top, creating a vacuum seal, and blow."



We seem to have a spate (2) of articles about Hurstbridge recently!


ICYMI: Grab some cheap Resident Evil games from this Fanatical Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/grab…

#ResidentEvil #SteamDeck



Global infrastructure's resilience is in digital sovereignty 💪

Following the recent global outage of Microsoft systems caused by CrowdStrike, multiple crucial services around the world were disrupted, affecting airlines, hospitals, banking, and much more.

The world needs digital resilience, especially in the public sector, which can be achieved by decentralization and diversity in infrastructure and technology.

Read our article for more.

nextcloud.com/blog/global-outa…



ICYMI: The LEGO Worlds Collide Humble Bundle is a shockingly good deal gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/the-…

#LEGO #SteamDeck

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Are the games any good? I'm sceptical because there are so many. The last Lego game I played was Lego Stunt Rally. Loved it as a kid, but also found it to be kind of cringe.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

it is a good bundle, just sad several of the games never got Cloud saves or Lego Dimensions was never brought over to PC.
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View from around Old Dungeon Ghyll.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria

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in reply to Eugen Rochko

The bus stop thats in the lane so it has to reverse in. 😆
Heres some photos I took around that area.

#Landscape #photography



les traemos nuestras recomendaciones de #SábadoDeComunes. Reflexiones, noticias, materiales, iniciativas y más… sobre temas tecnopolíticos.

#softwarelibre #culturalibre

sursiendo.org/2024/08/hay-un-s…



Glory and Fog Bow apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240803.ht… #APOD
#APOD


'Many politicians, pundits, and the general public now favor the lab leak idea. Most scientists, particularly virologists, do not. This schism threatens their legitimate and ultimately socially important work, as outlined in a peer-reviewed publication published on August 1 in the Journal of Virology that was written by 41 virologists. I am one of them.'

statnews.com/2024/08/02/corona…



Tools
"Here, we engineered tobacco rattle virus to carry the compact RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and its guide RNA. This innovation allowed transgene-free editing of #Arabidopsis thaliana in a single step, with edits inherited in the subsequent generation. "
#Preprint
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…


FoldMason progressively aligns thousands of protein structures in seconds, enabling remote MSA for distant phylogeny. Highlights: structural flexible MSA, LDDT conservation score, friendly webserver.
💾 github.com/steineggerlab/foldm…
🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason
📄 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…


Glory and Fog Bow

Image and Video Credit & Copyright: Cem Özkeser and Yasin İlcebay

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240803.ht… #APOD

#APOD
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Go Juice Media!

youtu.be/n6O7gHI5YKA?si=0I3DvA…



Muse's musings for the day:

It's much easier to be for something than to be against something.
Being against something can be disspiriting and cause burnout.
It can mess with your mental and emotional well-being, and be self eroding.

There is absolutely something to the concept of toxic positivity, but trust me, negativity is often toxic as well.

Like all things we need balance and nuance. We need to recognise when things are going wrong. We need to be able to say "no" and "stop". However, we cannot be consumed by only fighting wrongness. We must see a way to build functionality into our lives and our society. Be for a better world.

in reply to Muse

@Bob Lai Finding the real ikigai, not the manufactured Western perversion.

youtu.be/AuIs43Piz-E?si=w3Bc6Z…

in reply to Muse

Being self-taught, I had a bit of impostor syndrome. A colleague (who had been formally trained) reminded me that I'd auditioned for the job against formally trained chefs who had experience at high end restaurants, and that I got the job.

The audition was 'demonstrate how to part a chicken and cook something with the chicken within 30 minutes.' What made the difference is that I was comfortable teaching/speaking, as well as cooking. (I made pan-seared chicken thighs, lemon-parsley rice, and glazed carrots. The review panel - the head chef, assistant head chef, and store manager - cleaned their plates. And I know that wasn't true of one of the other candidates.)



The serious side of ‘mansplaining’ has been lost. That’s where the harm begins
Rebecca Solnit

Correcting women who are experts in their field, talking over women who are experts in their field, expecting to be the only voice that is heard in a room when others know better: these are the tip of the iceberg and should be addressed. Not allowing others to speak simply for not being culturally privileged: that's the full problem.



Today we had @FineWolf on the podcast who wrote a blog post explainer on the recent Firefox Privacy Preserving Attribution that provided a way for regular people to understand what was going on.

Video Release: youtube.com/watch?v=rol5uGshVC…

Audio Release: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…

in reply to Brodie Robertson

hm. haven’t listened, but I’ll go out on a limb and guess that he still missed the point, as he did in said blog post?
in reply to Jonah Aragon

@jonah We clarified a couple of things and our opinions aren't as different as initially thought
in reply to Brodie Robertson

well I listened to the show now, and you discussed a lot of interesting topics, but I have to say I still think the discussion of the real issues with Mozilla/PPA is a bit lacking... Mastodon is not a great platform to get thoughts across though, so I'll just let it go 😆
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Thank you for the (to my ears) sober perspective on the matter of MozPPA. It has been incredibly reactive and naïve on this here mastodon.




Metagov, the laboratory for digital governance that whose board I chair, is looking for a new executive director. It's a chance to help build a young, growing nonprofit. Learn more here: metagov.org/join/jobs/executiv…


NASA Johnson Dedicates Dorothy Vaughan Center to Women of Apollo nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #JohnsonSpaceCenter #Events #General #NASACentersFacilities


Las tecnologías que soñamos son feministas

Fanzine y Podcast «Tejiendo significados comunes. Tejiendo acompañadas desde la escucha profunda»

Infraestructura Digital Feminista #Hackfeminismo

sursiendo.org/2024/05/las-tecn…



Israel, Gaza y la Inteligencia Artificial: un inquietante precedente

#Palestina

Las consecuencias sobre la población civil del uso de la Inteligencia Artificial por el Ejército de Israel en Gaza evidencian la urgente necesidad de su regulación en base a principios éticos

elsaltodiario.com/analisis/isr…

in reply to Sursiendo

los principios éticos deberían primar ante todo. Lo que también me preocupa es el uso que le está dando el ejército israelí. En este caso la IA se está usando como soporte avanzado de monitorización con cribado de ubicaciones y objetivos. Esa selección parte de unos parámetros introducidos que establecen cómo matar al objetivo en la forma y el momento. El qué y el cómo son la mano del ejecutor, y su "juguetito" recibiendo confirmaciones a niveles obscenos de deshumanización


There Are No Imaginary Boundaries for Dr. Ariadna Farrés-Basiana nasa.gov/people-of-nasa/goddar… #NASA #PeopleOfGoddard #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #NASAEnEspañol #PeopleOfNASA


Artemis II Core Stage Arrives at Kennedy nasa.gov/image-article/artemis… #NASA #Artemis #Artemis2 #KennedySpaceCenter #SpaceLaunchSystemSLS


Looking forward to starting [[Governable Spaces]] over the weekend!

Thanks @edumerco for the reminder about @ntnsndr's book, I had it on my to-read list but now it's actually on my Kobo reader 😁



Celebrating NASA’s Coast Guard Astronauts on Coast Guard Day nasa.gov/history/celebrating-n… #NASA #NASAHistory



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