youtube.com/watch?v=PBL1RBj-P1…
A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO
Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO AIA Team
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"Comet 12/P Pons-Brooks 2024-06-09."
Ma Ma Creek Astro, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2q2xegS
Comet 12/P Pons-Brooks 2024-06-09
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks 2024-06-09 LRGB 3 x 120" per channel FSQ106N + STXL-16200 Heaven's Mirror Observatory Yass, Australia.Flickr
"IC405 IC410 - Tadpoles and Flaming Star."
Sebastian Goralik, Public domain via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2pAnqpP
IC405 IC410 - Tadpoles and Flaming Star
First light with my new Starizona 0.65x reducer on my trusted Esprit 100 15 * 180s per filter (SHO)Flickr
"The Devil's Tower (RCW 85)."
Ma Ma Creek Astro, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2p51AXh
The Devil's Tower (RCW 85)
The Devil's Tower (RCW 85): an emission nebula in Centaurus. RCW 85 sits roughly halfway between the pointers of the Southern Cross: Alpha and Beta Centauri. Imaged from Heaven's Mirror Observatory, Yass, NSW Australia.Flickr
"Stairway to the Stars."
Jim Vajda from Oxford, Ohio, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
"Unexplored Seamounts of the Salas y Gómez Ridge | 4K ROV Highlights."
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"'Galaxy' of Radiolarians."
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"Perseid Meteor Shower at Mojave National Preserve."
Jim Vajda from Oxford, Ohio, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Lesser known: Before NASA and the Apollo program, Margaret Hamilton worked with mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz.
From 1959-1961 she programmed weather simulations on his LGP-30 computer. Those projects were the precursors to his famous 1963 paper that marked the birth of chaos theory.
quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-…
mastodon.social/@mcnees/110907…
The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.Quanta Magazine
U.S. friends, today is a great day to check if you are registered to vote.
I just did it, and it took less than two minutes. Super easy!
Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.www.vote.org
#Copepod #zooplankton are the most numerous metazoans on the planet, and some have evolved into fantastical forms. Take Calocalanus pavo, the beautiful "peacock copepod", which has amazingly plumed antenna and caudal rami. It is small, ~1mm long, and uses the plumes to slow its sinking for feeding in the upper #ocean. It is famous for being very prominent in Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904) plate 54 #watercolour paintings of copepoda.
#science #art
Happy Caturday 🤫
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Photography #BengalCat #BlackAndWhite #CatLife #Cats #BlackAndWhitePhotography
Last spring, Washington State passed a bill banning commercial octopus farming.
Today, we (myself and 99 others, led by Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Walter Sanchez-Suarez) have a letter in Science supporting the US OCTOPUS Act, which would do the same nationwide.
Octopuses cannot be farmed humanely.
They are highly intelligent, extremely curious creatures that fare poorly in monotonous environment without natural stimulation. They are naturally solitary and experience intense stress in crowded environments.
Farming conditions are horrible for them.
(It's also highly inefficient, ecologically, to farm carnivores.)
Here's the full PDF: carlbergstrom.com/publications…
APOD: 2024 August 17 - Sky Full of SARs
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Asher Perlman
Asher is an Emmy-nominated, WGA award-winning, Peabody-award winning comedian, writer, actor, cartoonist, and hyphen-hunting multi-hyphenate.ashermaxperlman.com
Good morning everyone @Friendica Support
I would like to try to understand why from Friendica I can't connect to the Wordpress blog of @.mau. :friendfeed: already federated with @Matthias Pfefferle plugin, which is instead displayed correctly by Mastodon.
The blog is xmau.com/ while the user who publishes is @Notiziole di .mau.
If I paste the address of this post xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2024/08/…
in the Friendica toolbar, I get an error, while if I paste it on mastodon, I can view the post (here is an example: mastodon.social/@
Furthermore, if I try to search on Friendica for the user @Notiziole di .mau. I can see it, but if I try to follow it, I still get an error.
NB: I also have federation problems with Lemmy and not just with Friendica
Have any of you figured out what the problem might be that prevents Friendica and Lemmy from federating with that blog (but not Mastodon)?
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Hunt: Showdown 1896 broke on Linux / Steam Deck, article updated to note Valve's new fix gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/hunt…
#SteamDeck #Linux #HuntShowdown
Hunt: Showdown 1896 broke on Linux / Steam Deck, here's the quick fix for now
Hunt: Showdown had a huge update and rebranded to Hunt: Showdown 1896, but the update came with breakage on Linux Desktop and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Sky Full of Arcs
Image Credit & Copyright: Rory Gannaway
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APOD: 2024 August 17 - Sky Full of SARs
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
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Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out in PLOS Biology about how the ubiquitous incentive structures that motivate hard work also discourage scientists from taking on high-risk, high-return research projects.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/…
Rationalizing risk aversion in science: Why incentives to work hard clash with incentives to take risks
Scientific research requires taking risks, so why does much funded scientific research play it safe? This study uses an economic contracting model to argue that this can be explained in part by the non-observability of scientists’ effort and their ri…journals.plos.org
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MIT dropped its contract with Elsevier, the huge scientific journal company. Their library instead arranged alternate access to journals and tools for researchers to get them. They’re saving $2 million/year:
sparcopen.org/our-work/big-dea…
#academicpublishing #OpenAccess #science #scientificpublishing
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I like this meme! I like even more the fact that the image was created by Louis Wain. I remember seeing some of his work when I was a child. It had some how made it's way from Britain to small town USA. Netflix has in its collection a movie about Wain's life: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
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NASA-Designed Greenhouse Gas-Detection Instrument Launches - NASA
Developed by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the imaging spectrometer will provide actionable data to help reduce emissions that contribute to globalNaomi Hartono (NASA)
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Draupnir is now being supported with a grant from NLnet NGI Zero. I've written up a post with some context, and to describe the goals for the project marewolf.me/posts/draupnir/24-…
If you do have feedback or questions you can reach out to me here or in our matrix room matrix.to/#/#draupnir:matrix.o… (which is preferred).
Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversationmatrix.to
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>The second is to protect your community by applying policies from community curated policy lists, for example the community moderation effort, to your rooms around the clock. This means that communities can warn and protect each other of known threats
Sounds like fediblock with all the bad that entails. What online moderation really needs is a mechanism for due process. Cc: @ntnsndr
GitHub - the-draupnir-project/Draupnir: A Matrix moderation bot
A Matrix moderation bot. Contribute to the-draupnir-project/Draupnir development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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