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‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’

'We focus on metrics to evaluate a scientist’s career: how many articles they have published, how many times they were cited, what was the impact factor of all these articles. '

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-04-26/elisabeth-bik-expert-in-scientific-integrity-we-need-to-slow-down-scientific-publishing.html

#publishing #science #stem #academicchatter


Most members of my lab are international, and I'm often surprised at the expansive bureaucracy they have to work with just to attend some meetings or visit home.

"Citizenship privilege harms science"

"Researchers from the global south face often-distressing immigration bureaucracy that most from the global north do not"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01080-x

#science #stem


We're excited to share our latest project with you! We used a Raspberry Pi Pico W to build a custom vibration generator for a physics experiment. Watch the video where we walk you through the build process & share the code: https://youtu.be/vqJnNsngvJQ
@Raspberry_Pi @RaspberryPi #STEMeducation #stem #maker #raspberrypi #electronic #project #coding #python #micropython #physics #school #science


In this paper we look at the benefits and drawbacks of peer/self assessment when used by university engineering students. We examine the benefits and drawbacks of this strategy, as well as ways to optimise its use.

#edutoot #education #eduresearch #stem # engineeringeducation @OtwartaNauka @openscience @edutooters


Want to build a door alarm using a @Raspberry_Pi Pico? You'll probably want to use a magnetic switch. Learn how to write #CircuitPython code to tell if a door switch (also called a reed switch) is open or closed. We'll end with a "door alarm" challenge that turns on an LED & plays an alarm sound when the door switch is open. Get at that Big Learning & stay safe 🚨 https://youtu.be/0XNt2bBGI0s #Pico #PiPico #RaspberryPi #STEM #STEMEducation #RaspberryPiPico


How can #Guatemala climb from the 134th spot and into the top 10 on a list countries rated for the quality of their #STEM education?

With Juan Jose Asensio’s 1bot initiative, that's how.

Learn more about it here:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/transforming-guatemalas-stem-education-with-the-1bot-initiative/


#introduction content continued! as a follow on to nematoduino, I made nematode.farm, which is a (very) simple browser based game where the “opponent” is many instances of the emulated C. elegans nematode. I think this may be the first game ever where enemy AI is based on an emulated organism.
written in C, SDL2, and compiled in webassembly 
can play here (need arrow keys)
https://nematode.farm/
#stem #biology #gamedev #science #programming #robotics #introductions


More #introduction content!
I’m also somewhat known porting a C. elegans nervous system model (connectome) to the Arduino Uno, so it could be used in very low cost or resource constrained platforms.
Yes, this is a robot that thinks it’s a worm, lol
Hackaday article:
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/13/nematoduino-a-roundworm-neural-model-on-an-arduino/
#introductions #stem #eduction #robotics #arduino #maker #biology #science


Next in my #introduction posts featuring Stuff I’ve Made:

This is the Chernobyl Dice: a Cold War era themed quantum RNG. It uses the clicks of a Geiger counter nestled next to an array of uranium glass marbles to generate random bits displayed on Nixie tubes.

This is a *disgustingly fair* dice and I’ve run the tests to prove it, lol

Hackaday article:
https://hackaday.com/2020/01/02/roll-the-bones-chernobyl-style/

#intrductions #arduino #maker #stem #ttrpg #nuclear #physics


Join me at 7pm GMT today as we build a Galactic Guitar Hero-like game using the
@pimoroni
Galactic Unicorn and some #micropython

https://youtu.be/OBAn3GVU4v0

#STEM #electronics #robotics #raspberrypi #picow #guitarhero #circuitpython


Here are some student created art spirals using the #Python turtle module using @Raspberry_Pi 400's #stem #steam #python


This is a picture of the first moments of a nuclear explosion taken in 1952. The blast radius at this moment is less than 20 meters wide.

There are so many extraordinary things about this photo. First off the fact that they had a camera in the 1950's capable of such insanely high speed frame rates (they created a movie from this) that it was capable of 1,000,000 frames per second. In many ways that is more impressive than the nuclear bomb itself.

Second the fact that you can see, in real time, a nuclear explosion as it happens. Those spikes at the bottom are called the "rope trick effect" which is caused by the support cables inside or holding up the bomb. The light radiation is so intense it vaporizes anything nearby causing things to explode just from the intensity of the light itself (before radiation has any effect at all). So those spikes are literally just the support cables exploding in the extraordinarily bright light from the bomb.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science


This list of the earliest know use of maths terms is an amazing way to loose time finding old (but super interesting) papers to read thru! Stuff you may likely never come across otherwise!

For someone like myself who loves, but is less than proficient at, maths.... this is a treasure trove of older and more approachable technical papers! And if you are a maths wizard, well I'm sure you can appreciate it for the history and maybe add some obscure older papers to your offline archive! ;)

Link: Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics

#maths #math #mathematics #science #stem #numbers #smartereveryday #history

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