Reading desert sands: Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project https://theconversation.com/reading-desert-sands-indigenous-wildlife-tracking-skills-underpin-vast-monitoring-project-238978 paper: https://www.publish.csiro.au/wr/WR24070

"The Arid Zone Monitoring Project combines Traditional ecological knowledge & scientific analysis. #Indigenous rangers, Traditional Owners from 33 Indigenous groups are involved, along with government agencies, NGOs and independent #scientists. It’s one of #Australia’s largest #wildlife monitoring endeavours, spanning nearly half of the country"

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This Nature article paints a terrifying picture of the dangers for anyone performing any kind of #research.

“#Harassment of #scientists is surging — institutions aren’t sure how to help”

In the US “the aggression against science and scientists is coming from one political party, and the extreme element of one political party” but the article talks about harassment in other countries as well.

#Science #scholcomm #WillfulIgnorance #attacks #scholarship #freedom

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01468-9

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Allow #myself to #introduction #myself.

I am a #basic neuroscientist and Associate Professor at the University of Washington, where my lab studies how the brain senses and moves the body (#proprioception #motorcontrol).

I will mainly be tooting about the #research and accomplishments of the scientists in my lab, new and old #neuroscience papers that incite me, and efforts to improve the rigor and equity of science. I may slip in the occasional #snowfly pic.

I hope to use #ScienceMastodon for discovering new scientific #manna and for unexpected interactions with #Scientists and #PseudoScientists alike.

What prevents scientists from engaging in #climate #activism? In a new preprint, Dablander et al. investigated the barriers holding #scientists back from participating in protests, incl. #CivilDisobedience. They distinguish intellectual & practical barriers, and give recommendations for overcoming them.

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/73w4s

The authors found that around 10% of scientists already participate in civil disobedience, and that more than half were willing to do so!

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#BerkeleyLab #Scientists have elected to #Unionize under the #UAW joining thousands of post doctorate and grad students . This is the first known #national laboratory site, home to 16 previous #NobelPrizes , where top #researchers have entered a #union.

https://dailycal.org/2023/11/06/berkeley-lab-scientists-voted-unanimously-to-join-uaw-5810/ #HealthCareIsARight

been on mastodon since 2018. I noticed all the #OpenSourceSoftware sites I was checking out had mastodon icons.

here's an #introduction for all those checking #twittermigration for people to follow

I am a #writer of #FlashFiction #horror and #haiku #poetry I am an #artist and sometimes I make #music

I'm looking to follow #journalists #historians #scientists #artists #writers and #musicians and people who post about #bikes #PublicTransit and #LitMags

j'apprends le #français

I really have to make a proper #introduction post, and I’m putting it off because I don’t want to blow it. I have one of those hungry minds, curious about nearly everything (typical librarian profile), and I want to know what the #histodons, #scientists, #legalacademics, #writers, #educators, #journalists, #librarians, #informationliteracy, #nypolitics, #books, #psychologists and others are talking about at all times.

#introduction post! Slowly migrating over from the birdverse. I'm a #CAD professional by day and an #aquarium #volunteer on Saturday mornings. Other interests include #SciFi #sciencefiction both books and tv/ movies, #science and #Scientists, #marinebiology and #Space. Currently #wildswimming #coldwaters weekly in the #SalishSea #pugetsound #Tacoma. Also dabbling with a #hydroponic #kitchengarden. My interests are varied and constantly evolving!

Here is a nice clean interface to read the first five installments of my serial pandemic climate techno-thriller.
An Iceland village wiped out by a plague in 1348 thaws out, and with it, a unique virus.

It falls into the hands of sinister forces: a criminal syndicate; a religious cult; the Russian police; fascist militias in Ukraine. Joanna Smythe, PhD, is a microbiologist and an FBI agent...

http://geofbard.neocities.org

#hackers, evil #scientists...mature themes.
#actionthriller #serialnovel #authors #sciencefiction #historicalfiction #medievalism #climatechange #myth and #women

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